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Marriages Are Made in Heaven

Marriages Are Made in Heaven
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Karthik, a young Indian student at Harvard in the USA, suddenly returns to India for a traditionally arranged marriage. We meet his new bride and his family. What is it like to suddenly live with a partner whom you have only seen five times before? Will love arise from this partnership? The film evokes universal feelings arising from the search for a partner for love and the effort to make sense of life.„In the West you try to marry the person you love. In India you love the person you marry."

Minor Apocalypse

Minor Apocalypse
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The film is neither a documentary nor a fiction. Paradoxically, it could be defined as a "science-fiction documentary", for it is based on a true story - the death of a village. Cisgne is (was) a small settlement in the Nadiža / Natisone Valleys which, similarly to many other mountain or remote settlements, was left to abandonment and ruin by the economic reasoning of our modern lifestyle. The last inhabitants left Cisgne after the earthquake in 1976. The story is a patchwork of testimonies and memories of the village's daily life and its destiny, with deeply involving and even painful memories awoken by images as persistent as nightmares and almost corroded by the very substance of the memory itself, combined with intuitive reflections on the meaning of time in a village in ruin which may arise in an "outsider", uninfluenced by the life stories of those involved.

Mostar united

Mostar united
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Mensud fought in the Bosnian war, defending his hometown Mostar and the Old Bridge. Now that peace has returned and the Old Bridge has been rebuilt, Mensud is fighting once again, this time against the new nationalist mentality.Torn apart and enraged by ethnical conflict, Mostar is more like two ghettos divided by a big boulevard, than the joyful Montmartre of the Balkans that it was before the war. From the pitch of the Velez football school, the legendary team of Mostar, Mensud teaches an army of kids the value of friendship and unity. His son, Dzenan, one of his players, cannot stand this struggle any longer. He dreams of playing for a major European team and living in a safe environment.

Old Man Peter

Old Man Peter
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This film takes us into the world of old man Peter Sengepov, the last surviving Shaman of the Kazym River, who lives alone in the depths of the Siberian taiga. The region of the Khanty people is the basic source of oil recovery in Russia. About 70 percent of all Russian oil is extracted here. The oil companies actively buy huge territories in the North of Siberia. Indigenous people are compelled to leave these places, their own patrimonial territories, and so a modern civilization gradually absorbs an ancient culture.

See You at the Eiffel Tower

See You at the Eiffel Tower
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Post-World War II Europe. The filmmakers Joris Ivens and Marion Michelle travelthrough Eastern Europe making a film about people, new life and hope. The present.Bulgarian filmmaker Valentin Valchev and his crew set out on a journey through post- Communist Eastern Europe. Valentin promised the 93-year-old Marion Michelle thathe would revisit the places she had filmed 60 years earlier and make a film aboutit. She promised to live to see his film. He brings her what he has found. Throughthe camera she reconnects with people from all those places. The modern filmmakers'search for what it means to make films in Europe now and what it meant then turnsMarion and Valentin's quest into an exploration of the general purpose of filmmaking. They both agree that a film is a way to engage with people rather than ideas.

Sevdah

Sevdah
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Sevdah is a feeling about life imbued with melancholy, yearning and beautiful sorrow. In Bosnia it is expressed through their traditional sad song - sevdalinka. The death of their mutual friend and lover of sevdalinka, Farah, has brought musician Damir and director Marina together. Trying to deal with their own loss and grief, they decide to create a film about sevdah. They create it as an emotional, musical, lyrical and visual journey through the soul of Bosnia, through their own emotions and memories. Sevdah Pictionary is film that aspires to capture and transfer “sevdah”, feeling of life, which is expressed in most precise manner and in its purest form through sevdalinka. It is unique song, which was born and has been living for 400 years only in one, really small place in the world – Bosnia. In Bosnia, sevdah is as important as life, love, death, happiness, sorrow… and probably because it is so familiar and close to everyone. Sevdah expresses feeling of live, imbued with melancholy, yearning, beautiful sorrow. And sevdalinka is song expressing that emotion. After the war, Damir Imamovic, musician from Sarajevo, and Farah Tahirbegovic, writer, started their journey of researching and performing sevdalinka. Last year Farah passed away. Damir decided to continue the journey. As she was one of my best friends, I felt I have to follow him, making this film, as emotional, musical, lyrical and visual journey through souls of Bosnian people, dedicated to Farah. Instead of sevdah definition, this film is going to offer sevdah vizual dictionary - pictionary. Terms trying to “capture” sevdah will be brought to film by different people and their stories. We visit sevdalinka singers, today forgotten, but huge stars during the fifties’, discuss the old times with them, meet some of the new interpreters. We meet "ordinary" people: a woman in the grocery shop, a man in the barbery shop, taxist... and listen to them singing sevdalinka songs. We try to find out how has that musical form evolved over time, how come that it remained so alive and present among people, what does it say about Bosnia, which way of life and feeling of life is expressed in sevdalinka in the best possible way. Whether we call it Bosnian fado, or Bosnian blues, the fact remains that sevdalinka is truly Bosnian only; it was born and it spread within borders of a small country. However, its beauty, what it sings about, and emotion it conveys, exceeds those borders; they belong to human spirit.

Run for Life

Run for Life
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Run for Life tells the story of three Ethiopian athletes who participated in the Podgorica half-marathon in November 2007 and afterwards decided to stay in Serbia and applied for political asylum. When Zoran Molović, a former Yugoslav athletic champion found out about their situation, he took them from the refugee camp, found them accommodation in the village of Pambukovica and became their coach. There the athlets train, wait for Serbian citizenship and hope that one day they will run for Serbia at world competitions. Should they return to Ethiopia, they would face poverty, war, and even jail. This is a film about their expectations, hopes, and about their struggle with the situation, sorrow for their families but also about whether Serbia is ready to accept them.

Recycling

Recycling
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Recycling tries to find a solution to the problems caused by the extreme amount of rubbish flooding our world. We follow the way of the consumer products from the origins through the using, until the destruction or storing of the non-recyclable ones. Recycling represents the industrial production as a huge organism in continuous circulation. We show how we can be in connection through the production and the consumption without noticing each other. The way of the consumer goods, produced in shocking quantity from day to day, come to light through expressive pictures and industrial poetry.

Milltown, Montana

Milltown, Montana
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Time inscribes itself into Rainer Komers' meticulously composed images and impressive sound collages of MILLTOWN, MONTANA. Each picture tells a story of a place that once belonged to the largest mining area in the United States that was contaminated by toxic substances and heavy metals. But the film does not only show the devastated landscape. Without dialogue, it sensitively portraits the people living and working there: cowboys branding their calves, Blackfeet Indians laying down the foundation stone for a new educational center, trappers and golfers, workers in a silicium plant, old miners, and young scholars competing in a mining contest.MILLTOWN, MONTANA is visibly scarred by man and trapped in a postindustrial phase of standstill. By alluding to its former wealth but showing the area's actual lack ofprospects, the film dramatically undermines the image of the American Dream.

Shitcredit

Shitcredit
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You take out a loan and then have to pay several times over the loaned sum or you lose your house for a few thousand or you find yourself in debt for the rest of your life. Chang the rapper talks about "Shitcredit". Taking a glimpse into the workings of the system, this film follows the stories of people who are in debt owing to their own bad decision making but also those who are the victims of loan sharks in the poorly regulated loan market.

 

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