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In India, Between The Light And The Dark

In India, Between The Light And The Dark
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Over two months a group of Slovak documentary film students pass through thousands of kilometers in the strange land of India to shoot a film about this specific country. But it couldn't be without their personal experiences...

Hero of Red China

Hero of Red China
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A story of an ordinary peasant Fu Xiancai living in a communist regime who is brave enough to talk freely. But now he suffers. Three Gorges - the biggest hydroelectric power plant in the world was the reason why Fu lost his house and his field. He has been protesting against it. Now he lies in a Beijing's hospital after his vertebrae was crushed in an assault. A story of peasant Fu Xiancai living in a communist regime who is brave enough to talk freely. But now he suffers. Three Gorges - the biggest hydroelectric power plant in the world was the reason why Fu lost his house. He has been protesting against it. Now he lies in a Beijing's hospital after his vertebrae was crushed in an assault. Fu symbolically represents almost two million of peasants, who were moved due to the construction of the water plant. Their land was flooded and their houses were pulled down. The government promised compensation for flooded land and houses, but villagers finally got not even tenth of the original sum. The money was mostly stolen away by local officials. Fu started to organise protests of affected villagers. Despite of threats from police and anonymous phone calls he gave an interview to the German TV channel Das Erste. Later on he was threatened, that if he talks to western journalists, something inconvenient will happen to him. On his way home unknown offenders ambushed him and he was terribly beaten. His spine was broken, but the hospital refused to perform a surgery. When few days later western media published his photo, still it wasn’t clear, if he will survive the attack. Mr. Fu was saved by the wave of solidarity, which raised in Germany. Human Rights Watch in Berlin organised a collection and the German embassy in Beijing sent a doctor to perform a surgery of the injured activist. Local police force put this case away with a conclusion, that Fu simply fell from a slope to a concrete and so that's why he himself is responsible for the injury. But the fight of the peasant Fu hasn't finish yet. He found a lawyer and he wants to continue warning of corruption and injustice, which bind to the whole project of the water plant.

Governing, Don't Disturb!

Governing, Don't Disturb!
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The world of politics has a number of typical features: expansiveness, an effort to dictate the rules of the political game, to increase the powers of all players, to politicize significant social issues, to fill all important posts according to party affiliation, and to maintain power without any glitches, ensuring one's own political influence also for the future. These became most evident during the period of so-called "opposition contract", i.e., between the years 1998 - 2002. The film explores the negative attributes through a number of basic issues: How can power be usurped in a democracy? At the end of the 1990s, the two largest parties and their leaders came to understand that they could join forces and gradually simplify the political system to suit their needs. What steps did they take?

In Search of a Legend

In Search of a Legend
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Six people on-board a small yacht sailing across the Artic. Three months in the wilderness, away from the cares of daily life. Encounters with people and ruthless nature. The feeling of a great surprise at what they find in the kingdom of ice... This film is about an outstanding challenge and making a huge turn in the history of sailing by the youngest crew in the World. This film is also about the meeting of unique people who fight for survival by their own rules and about the Innuits, whose children hunt seals and prepare the meat in the morning and play video games and send text messages to their friends in the evening.

Kings of Their Time

Kings of Their Time
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Documentary with animated sequences about 85-year-old Elbert Tuganov and 80-year-old Heino Pars - two animators and artists who, despite the changing times, became masters of their specialty. Both are the creators of the world's first and only 3-D puppet films, along with many international award-winning animated films. They laid the foundation for the so-called Estonian school of animation back in 1957.

Wedding for Dummies

Wedding for Dummies
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When the world is facing major problems, everyday joys and troubles seem to be irrelevant. We just stop taking notice of them, or admiring them. This film is a humble attempt to turn our backs on the global problems and simply have a look in the mirror.

If It Happens

If It Happens
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Tomek is now eighteen years old. Exactly twelve years ago, when he was six, we started shooting our film. What happened during this time?

Kitty, Kitty

Kitty, Kitty
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There are elegant ladies as well as poor pensioners among them. Burdened with shopping bags, day and night, regardless of the weather and time of the year, they visit parks, cemeteries and secluded places. These are ‘cat ladies’, considered as weirdos by some and angels of good by others. Maybe these women feeding homeless cats are trying to fill an empty space in their lives or satisfy their maternal instincts. Before the camera they philosophize, sing old songs and tell stories of love, fear and lost opportunities. One character argues with her husband with whom she shares nothing but a love of cats. They all speak of their pets with fondness and affection and have a name for each of them. Łoziński has managed to paint a portrait of women who have found an aim at the end of their lives.

Vertigo Rush

Vertigo Rush
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Vertigo Rush is a technically extravagant experiment consisting of a series of dolly zooms: a succession of camera movements captured in individual images of forward and backward motion, while simultaneously zooming in the opposite direction. Accelerating this pendulum movement, at first gently and later drastically, intensifies the optical illusion of the space shifting together—and smoothly hands it over to the abstract, transferred to a “dissolving” image.

Violin Knight

Violin Knight
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"The eyes of the white man see different things than I do, than we Roma people do," said Marek Balog when the filmmakers started shooting the Violin Knight. Since that moment, this brilliant violin player wanted to have absolute control over the documentary about his life. During filming, he patiently tried to assert his own vision of a "gypsy documentary" until he finally managed to move the disoriented director of the project to the very fringe of the process. Balog decided to create a real, unbiased image of the gypsy world, without the limitations of realism and any rules of plausibility. And so he did. Marek Balog's spontaneous and reckless vision fuses various genres and styles. The film quickly stumbles off any standard path of documentary filmmaking. It takes sharp turns, veering away from the limits of elementary comprehensibility, only to sudddenly reappear within the audience's sight on the horizon of the amazing gypsy imagination.

 

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