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Waltz

Waltz
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Each day, doctor sits on his bicycle and visits his patients in remote Belorussian villages. Deeply human situations and slow rhytm of the film measured by the movement of doctor's bicycle reminds us about life in its natural circle.

In Transit

In Transit
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In Transit is a travelogue of a Romanian journey across space and time, composed of subjective impressions of the present and childhood memories of the past. The video reflects on the meaning of the post-communist transition, as well as on the processes through which history and memory are re-written. Following a non-linear narrative, themes recur in a spiral movement, and the ending returns to the beginning of the film, which receives a different interpretation by questioning the status of its images.

Village Photographer

Village Photographer
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The main character of the film Nikolay Viktorovich Zykov, a village photographer, poet and philosopher, is experiencing difficult moment of his life. It is only now, when he has turned seventy and lost his wife, he understands that this frail woman who gave birth to his eight children was the spiritual light and the foundation of their family life. Zykov cannot do his favourite hobby, which is photography, anymore. For hours he listens to the music and thinks back about the past, where he left something that he is to repent for, where there is never-ending love and happiness captured at the pictures.

Transylvanian Timber

Transylvanian Timber
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The only way to reach the Water Valley stretching along the border with Ukraine in northern Romania is via a narrow-gauge railway. The line is operated by a wood processing company which uses it to transport workers and tree trunks through the hilly forests. Romanian border officials now also use the old railway line to patrol the border of the European Union. TRANSYLVANIAN TIMBER provides this information in an on-screen text at the beginning of the film. It then shows scenes shot around the railway, there is no dialogue. A mountain stream rushes through the forest, men fish by the river, a shepherd tends his flock, a car drives along a deserted country road, and again and again viewers look into the faces of men on the train. These impressions from a region on the fringes of Europe are interrupted halfway through the film: a ship crosses the screen, and a disembodied voice retells a dream...

Stuck in Stikine

Stuck in Stikine
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Five men from Latvia - 2 businessmen, an experienced traveler, a cameraman and their tough guide head out to tame the fastest flowing river in North America, Stikine, hoping to cover 150 miles of Pristine Northern wilderness in just 10 days. But winter sets in; their worst fears are realized, placing them in a survival situation that could cost them their lives.

Tell Me on Tuesday

Tell Me on Tuesday
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".... Is there in the world, Milena, as much patience as is necessary for me? Tell me on Tuesday." wrote Franz Kafka in a letter to Milena Jesenská. Kafka's longing to see Milena again, before he was able to spend four days with her in Vienna, was marked by delay, and a transition to written form in letters and diary entries. A trembling before and an drained after frame those days in July, 1920, the particulars of which remain a blank. Astrid Ofner matched Kafka's love letters to Milena with fragile images that permit the existence of that blank space, making it visible rather than filling it in.

VORGA - A Path of Two Banks

VORGA - A Path of Two Banks
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A documentary film about a dream, tundra and a nomadic nation of European Nenets. Vorga is the Nenets' sacred trail, which the herdsmen have used for centuries to move their herds across the tundra, all the way to the Barents Sea shore. Contemporary Nenets are different... they live in villages, they do not want to or cannot be nomads anymore. The traditional nomadic culture has almost merged with the Russian culture, a nomadic Nenet is disappearing... The oil refineries quickly take up the vast areas of tundra, parts of the sacred trail are damaged by trucks. Yet there still exists the original nomadic life at the end of VORGA, deep in the tundra! Silence and Peace. Rustle of the sea and noise of the wind. Slow time flows and limitless freedom! But only until the helicopter comes... A documentary about searching for the Path of two banks - for a civilization and tradition, the outer-materialist and the inner-spiritual, for what disappears and what stays forever... "VORGA - A Path of Two Banks" is the second film of the trilogy about unknown nations in the north of the European part of Russia. The first episode - "A Legend of the Bird's Egg" won the Golden Kingfisher Award at the 2006 Finále Plzeň Festival.

To live and sing

To live and sing
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Siblings František and Martina know that life was not very good to them, but they will never see what it begrudged them. They are both blind and use wheelchairs and are members of the Roma nationality, which is also a big handicap in their environment. But they both have beautiful voices, compose traditional Roma music and write lyrics for their songs. The sincerity of their words and their apparent vulnerability, along with the resoluteness and energy of their personalities, gives the film emotional energy and power.

Joe Zawinul's Earth Time

Joe Zawinul's Earth Time
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"When my wife has to leave us - and I too will have to go some time, whenever that may be - our certificates will not state that we have died, but the date of birth in earth time and the new date of birth in eternal time. Life goes on." The film was intended for Joe Zawinul's 75th birthday. Filming started in May 2006. However, his wife's illness meant that it was repeatedly postponed, and the original screening date was 7 July 2007. Now it has become a film about Joe Zawinul's earth time, a film about friendships and a great love. A film about his life with the greatest jazz artists; he was undoubtedly one of them. The film accompanies Joe Zawinul during the work on his last unpublished album with Kristjan Järvi and the Absolute Ensemble, visits Zawinul in his house in Malibu and shows him together with Wayne Shorter during their final sensational performance. The film is also a history of jazz. Cannonball Adderley, Weather Report, Zawinul's Syndicate and above all Miles Davis. In 1991 they played one more time together in Paris, In a silent way, the number Joe Zawinul composed for his friend Miles Davis. However, a Joe Zawinul who is less well known is also seen in the film.

Dike of Transience

Dike of Transience
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This experimental documentary is a three-year record of the barrage in the centre of Budapest on the peninsula Kopaszi that waits for demolition. Old film material cut right in the Admira camera breathes together with the environment and the locals. The sound is supplied by a recording of the train Dunakeszi, which is trying to play Egmont by Ludwig van Beethoven. FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (4th year)

 

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