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International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
19–28 October 2012 | CCA & Gilmorehill | Glasgow
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Document 10 Programme
Introduction
19–28 October 2012 Back in 2003, the Document Festival was started in response to what seemed then the challenges of the new millennium and how these were being represented, misrepresented or unrepresented in contemporary filmmaking. With the convenience of hindsight we can maybe read one big cause into many of these scattered effects as the locking of financial systems into a world network ever more interdependent till, like some chaos theory of market values across scale, the movement of a butterfly’s wing in the new economic zones of China could crash wheat futures on Wall St.
Document 10 Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall St Glasgow G2 3JD CCA Tickets & Festival Passes Festival Pass: all events: £30.00 (£15.00 Unwaged) Day Pass: £12.00 (£6.00 unwaged) Single Screenings: £5.00 (£2.50 unwaged) All screenings and events are free to OAPS, Asylum Seekers/ Refugees and Festival Pass holders. Box Office: 0141 352 4900 Festival Pass holders: pick up your tickets! Passholders please note: though you are entitled to entry to all Document 10 screenings, a ticket is still required for any individual programme – these are FREE on presentation of your pass at the box office. It is advisable to pick up tickets for individual screenings well in advance of screening time, as programmes often sell out.
Document 10 Venues: CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Gilmorehill Centre 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
The truly global consequences that followed included the opening of the East from Poland to Shanghai as both market and brave new consumer territory, the great migrations of peoples that became characteristics of the age, the exploitation of natural resources with an urgency calculated to meet the demand of future shortages they were helping to create, and the search for new demons to replace the old Cold War ones culminating in the ongoing, though no longer so-called, War on Terror. Ten years on, what’s changed? The champions of financial liberalisation have swamped the system they created in a tsunami of imaginary credit. Migrants and refugees still hover in a borderland between tolerance and rejection trying to second-guess the caprices of host nations for whom they can play cheap workforce one day and alien scapegoat the next. The oil-stained waters of the Gulf Stream flow past Guantanamo, still open for business at the far end of Obama’s first – maybe only – term of office, an ambivalent after-effect heading for us… and people are still making films about it all. Document 10 will show some of these records of the history we are still making, while casting an eye back over the previous decade in screening some of the standout films from the Document archive. We welcome the return of our International Jury to award Best Film at our closing gala, and announce the presentation of the Document Lifetime Achievement Award to Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh. And we welcome you back again. Watch the films. Go to the events. Join in the debates. Check out the bookstall. If community – local, global – is a dialogue of voices choosing every second between contention and consensus, this is as good a place as any to make your choice. Join us. Sit down and have your say.
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Document 10 International Jury Award Following on from the success of the 2011 event, Document again asks its international jury of film professionals to chose their winner from the Films In Competition (right) which have been screened throughout the festival, to be announced on the night. Following the award ceremony, the winning film will be screened as the closing event of Document 10.
Films in Competition The Collaborator and his Family CCA4 Saturday 20 October Winner of the Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize (The Grand Prize)
International Jury
Love in the Grave
Andrea Kühn
Finále Plzenˇ – Festival of Czech Films (April 22–28) Golden Kingfisher Award for Best Documentary Film
Festival Director, Nuremberg International Human Rights Festival
The Forgotten
Hanna Polak
CCA5 Sunday 21 October
Oscar-nominated Director, Children of Leningradsky
Karen O’Hare Filmmaker / Educator, Screen Academy Scotland
CCA4 Saturday 20 October
The Redemption of General Butt Naked CCA5 Sunday 21 October
Maciek Nowicki
Excellence In Cinematograaphy Award: Documentary 2011 Sundance Film Festival
Festival Director, WATCH DOCS International Human Rights in Film Festival
Family Portrait in Black and White
Ian Good
CCA5 Wednesday 24 October
Lecturer in Documentary Film & TV, Glasgow University
Hot Docs International Documentary Festival 2011 (Best Canadian Documentary)
Jamie Dunn
Katka
Film Editor, The Skinny Magazine
CCA5 Wednesday 24 October
Inernational Jury Award glass sculpture by Roz McKenzie unicornskin.blogspot.co.uk
Czech Film Critics Awards Best Documentary Film 2011
Justice For Sale CCA4 Thursday 25 October
The Carrier CCA5 Thursday 25 October Winner Best Documentary Film Lone Star Film Festival 2011
Desert Riders CCA5 Friday 26 October
Tears of the Afghan Lord CCA5 Friday 26 October
Another Night On Earth CCA4 Saturday 27 October Diva 2012 Festival De Cine Diversidad De Valparaiso (Chile) Best Documentary Award
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SCHEDULE
Friday 19 October
Sunday 21 October
CCA Restaurant
CCA5
7.00pm–8.00pm
Festival Launch
12.00–1.00pm
The Last Street
Reception
1.15pm–3.15pm
The Golden Temple
plus Directors Q & A
CCA5 8.00pm–10.00pm
Festival Launch Film: Special Flight Document Lifetime Achievement Award: Rithy Panh
SATUrday 20 October CCA5
3.30pm–5.00pm
Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy
5.15pm–6.3pm
The Guantanamo Trap
6.45pm–8.15pm
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
8.30pm–10.00pm The Forgotten
CCA4 12.00–1.30pm
Shed Your Tears And Walk Away
1.45pm–3.15pm
Vakha & Magomed The Eye Of The Needle
3.30pm–4.30pm
Lone Samaritan
12.00–1.00 pm
Ceiling Man The Wireburners
1.15pm–2.45pm
Hope Dies Last In War
4.45pm–5.45pm
I Shot My Love
3.00pm–4.15pm
I Have Dreamt Of Working As A Hairdresser
6.00pm–7.45pm
A Blind Spot Of The Republic
5.00pm–7.00pm
Blood, Sweat And BananasBonita: Ugly Bananas Portraits From Cameroon plus Panel Discussion
7.15pm–10.00 pm This Is My Land... Hebron plus Directors Q & A
CCA4 12.00–2.00pm
To Shoot An Elephant
2.15pm–3.15pm
Goudougoudou
3.30pm–5.30pm
Just Do It
8.00pm–10.00pm Arna’s Children
CCA Club Room 1.00pm–2.00pm
Blank Screen Cinema (free)
3.00pm–5.00pm
Platform: The Oil Road
Screening / Readings / Panel Discussion (free)
MOnday 22 October CCA4
plus Directors Q & A
6.00pm–7.00pm
Belarusian Dream
4.45pm–6.45pm
Ameer Got His Gun
7.15pm–8.30pm
7.00pm–8.30pm
The Collaborator And His Family
Days of Hope Enough… To Freedom!
8.45pm-10.00pm
Love in the Grave
CCA Club Room 5.00pm–6.30pm
Journalism Is A Human Right
NUJ Event • Screening / Panel Discussion • free
CCA Bar 3.00pm–6.00pm
8.45pm–10.00pm Sweet Smoke Of The Fatherland
Tuesday 23 October CCA4 6.00pm–8.00pm
Radiius Expo Opening
Exhibitions FriDAY 19 – SunDAY 28 October CCA Bar Exhibition
Radiius
Exhibition
Woodcuts Jan Nimmo
Roma Of Govanhill Pretty Dyana
8.15pm–10.00pm After The War
Letter To Dad
Wednesday 24 October CCA5 6.00pm–8.00pm
Do You Really Love Me? Family Portrait In Black and White
8.15pm–10.00pm Katka
SCHEDULE
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THuRsday 25 October CCA5 6.00pm–8.00pm
Maryhill Integration Network: Lullaby Spirit Music/Dance Performance
8.30pm–10.00pm The Carrier
CCA4 6.30pm–8.00pm
Justice For Sale
8.15pm–9.30pm
The Reluctant Revolutionary
Friday 26 October CCA5 6.00pm–7.00pm
Into Thin Air Blames and Flames
7.15pm–8.30pm
Tears of the Afghan Lord
8.30pm–10.00pm Desert Riders plus Directors Q & A
Saturday 27 October
Sunday 28 October
CCA5
CCA5
12.00–1.20pm
The Liberace of Baghdad
12.00–1.30pm
Kamp Katrina
1.30pm–2.3pm
Between Heaven and Earth
1.45pm–3.15pm
My Freedom, Your Freedom?
2.45pm–4.15pm
Children of Gaza
3.30pm–5.00pm
Inside El Porvenir
4.40pm–6.00pm
Water Rising
6.15pm–7.45pm
The Children of Leningradsky
5.15pm–6.00pm
My Friend Diego
6.15pm–7.45pm
O Dia Que Durou 21 Anos
8.00pm–10.00pm Three Rooms of Melancholia
8.00pm–1.00pm
Document 10 Jury Award Screening
plus Directors Q & A
CCA4
plus Directors Q & A
Film TBC: Winner of Jury Award
Harry Horseplay: Year of the Horse
CCA4
Tam Dean Burn: Screening / Performance
12.00–1.00pm
Algeria: Images Of A Fight
1.15pm–2.00pm
Jean-Gabriel Periot Selected Shorts
1.15pm–2.30 pm
Inshallah Kashmir
2.15pm–3.15 pm
Trieste On Basaglia
2.45pm–4.30 pm
Framing The Other The Sisterhood
3.30pm–4.50pm
Waking The Green Tiger
4.45pm–6.45 pm
Bruxelles-Kigali
5.00pm–6.45pm
Cartonera Field of Magic
7.00pm–8.35pm
Protect Me Evolution Of Violence
7.00pm–8.00pm
People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am
8.45pm–10.00pm War Versus Peace
8.15pm–9.45pm
Karama Has No Walls Another Night on Earth
CCA Club Room
12.00–1.00pm
plus Directors Q & A
The Invisible Policeman
CCA Club Room 5.00pm–7.00pm
Camcorder Guerillas
Screening / Panel Discussion • free
Document Archive Screenings • free 1.00pm–2.00pm
6 Degrees Of Separation
2.15pm–3.10pm
Walking With Cecilia
3.30pm–4.35pm
Tijn Tino
4.50pm–6.20pm
The Baluty Ghetto
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Radiius As part of Document 10, Radiius will be showcasing a selection of works taken from the current and previous printed editions of their Zine. The exhibition brings together artists who through the use of painting, collage and illustration explore the themes of division and inequality. Radiius is a non-profit organisation that aims to provide a platform for artists and writers from all disciplines to freely communicate their ideas within a political and philosophical context. Our intention is to bring artists and writers together through encouraging constructive dialogue. The exhibition will run from Saturday 20–Sunday 28 October at the CCA Saramago Terrace Café Bar.
Exhibitions CCA RESTAURANT FOYER 19pm–28 October 2012
“not by the book” ...the RiB project
Bookstall
The RiB Project
Exhibition Opening Event: 3-6pm on Saturday 20 October.
the RiB project – Agitate, Educate, Inspire, Organise, Uncover ...
Woodcuts
Glasgow’s Radical Independent Book-fair project (RiB) has been running stalls and collaborating on events since 2006 when it first started at Document 4.
An exhibition of woodcuts by artist and filmmaker Jan Nimmo to accompany her event Blood, Sweat and Bananas in support of FAWU (FAKO AGRICULTRAL WORKERS’ UNION) and the banana plantation workers of Cameroon.
RiB acts as a support structure for a number of individuals and groups who produce publications, information and materials for sale, view and free distribution – as well as stocking various books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, dvd’s, cd’s, badges, cards, t-shirts and coffee from a number of publishers and presses in an eclectic mix.
Jan Nimmo
Blood, Sweat and Bananas (screening and discussion) will take place in CCA5 from 5-7PM on Saturday 20 October . The exhibition will run from Friday 19–Sunday 28 October at the CCA Saramago Terrace Café Bar.
This longterm project plays an important part in helping to fill the gap left by the lack of alternative bookshops and independent events in Glasgow. The project is self-financed – no corporate or public funding is involved, no one takes a wage, it is not party politically aligned and is autonomous from other organisations. The project is more than just an occasional bookshop and travelling bookstall: it is also a temporary library and a meeting point for discussion, distribution and ideas. The scale of the RiB has varied from a popup box in a pub to ten trestles in a small hall. Want a self contained bookstall at your next (free entry) Glasgow based event? Then do get in touch ... contact Euan at rib@angryartworks.com www.ribproject.org http://www.facebook.com/pages/Glasgows-RadicalIndependent-Bookfair-Project/250139438423326 OPENING TIMES run with Document 10 events – that’s almost 70 hours of potential browsing, reading, swapping, buying and general banter …
Events
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Journalism is a Human Right Saturday October 20 n 5.00pm–6.30pm n Club Room Screening and debate sponsored by the NUJ. Journalists as asylum seekers: wherever freedom of speech becomes an ambivalent territory – challenged, mediated, withheld, or otherwise policed – those who report too accurately on events can find themselves in danger. See Club Room Saturday 20 October for details.
Blank Screen Cinema Sunday October 21 n 1.00pm–2.00pm n Club Room ‘Sound Communities’ – short pieces of audio work from local Glasgow community groups and individuals talking about their lives. See Club Room Sunday 21 October for details.
Platform: The Oil Road Sunday October 21 n 3.00pm–5.00pm n Club Room A multimedia event exploring the social, environmental and political impacts of the oil industry through a journey down the BP BTC oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Europe. Screenings of archive footage and readings from Platform’s book, The Oil Road, exploring the wider issues surrounding the oil trade and its consequences. See Club Room Sunday 21 October for details.
Lullaby Spirit mIN/AlbScott
Thursday October 25 n 6.00pm–8.00pm n CCA5 Maryhill Integration Network/AlbScott/Barrowland Ballet return once more to Document to present a live performance of Lullaby Spirit: Through dance, music and song an international cast create a dynamic new piece inspired by the lullaby songs sung by mothers to their children from all around the world.
Palestine and Israel in Peace a debate about the future
Friday October 26 n 3-5PM n Gilmorehill Centre Preceded by a screening of short films made by young Arabs and Israelis about life under the occupation. The films were made in cooperation with B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, in association with The Guardian. The following debate will include representatives of the Scottish Palestinian Forum, Glasgow University Palestinian Society and the National Union of Journalists.
Harry Horseplay
A Resonance Radio broadcast with visuals
Tam Dean Burn Saturday 27 October n 12.00–1.00pm n CCA4 Acclaimed actor Tam Dean Burn celebrates the work of the late Harry Horse, political cartoonist, social commentator and musician, in a total sensory experience involving live performance, readings, music, film and pre-recorded audio. A visual scoring and extension of his earlier audio montage broadcast for London art radio station Resonance 104.4FM, the event will include the world premiere screening of Year Of The Horse, a film created by Tam from the original images of Harry Horse. Audience members please note that the event will be filmed, and scenes may be included in a documentary by Tam currently in production.
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Friday 19 October 2012
Friday19 OCT
Reception CCA Bar/Restaurant 7.00pm–8.00pm Presentation:
Document Lifetime Achievement Award: Rithy Panh CCA5 8.00pm–10.00pm To mark our tenth anniversary, Document is presenting its first Lifetime Achievement Award in honour of the Human Rights Film Network, a worldwide association of film festivals dedicated to the representation of human rights through the moving image. The recipient of this year’s award is Rithy Panh – who, in his films about Cambodia, explores the state of the nation in the aftermath of the years of genocide. His work at once attempts to focus on what is in danger of being lost – the unique cultural heritage of his homeland – whilst commenting on the Cambodia of today, beset by the nightmares of the recent past and the challenges of a nation reinventing itself in the context of a changed world. Rithy Panh is director of films such as: S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a powerful return to the labour camps for an encounter between former prisoners and their oppressors; Burnt Theatre, a film which becomes a stage on which fiction and reality meet in order to reconcile past with present; and Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers, a journey into the world of prostitution in contemporary Cambodia.
Opening Film
Special Flight
Fernand Melgar Switzerland 2011 n 103 Mins After The Fortress, which portrayed reception conditions for asylum seekers in Switzerland, Fernand Melgar takes a look at the other end of the migrants’ journey: those men awaiting deportation from the administrative detention centre of Frambois. Some have spent several years in Switzerland – worked, paid taxes, started families. But their requests for asylum have finally been denied. Although incarceration may last up to 24 months, the deportation order is always effected without notice.
Behind the locked doors, tension builds. Attempts at friendship between warden and inmate are mocked by the certainty that the moment deportation is announced, it will unravel in a moment, as those who refuse to leave are handcuffed, tied up and forcibly put on a plane. In this situation, even despair has an administrative title: special flight. Lifetime Achievement Award sculpture by Karen-Ann Dicken karen-anndicken.co.uk
Saturday 20 October 2012
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David Graham Scott Scotland 2003 n 29 Mins They’re a familiar sight on Glasgow’s streets: a man with a wheelbarrow or shopping trolley filled with scraps of wire and metal, rescued from skips and building sites. WireBurners follows three such midgie-rakers in the process of salvaging their lives, trying to shake off their addictions and make something better of themselves. A journey into a partly-hidden world of spirit and resourcefulness in the face of adversity.
1.15pm–2.45pm CCA5
Document Archive Screening
Hope Dies Last In War 12.00noon–2.00pm CCA4
Document Archive Screening
To Shoot An Elephant Alberto Arce & Mohammad Rujailah Spain 2009 n 113 mins “...afterwards, of course, there were endless discussions about the shooting of the elephant. The owner was furious, but he was only an Indian and could do nothing. Besides, legally I had done the right thing, for a mad elephant has to be killed, like a mad dog, if its owner fails to control it”. George Orwell defined a way of witnessing Asia that still remains valid. To Shoot An Elephant is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip: December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead – 21 days of shooting elephants. A cascade of urgent, insomniac, graphic, hardcore images from the only foreigners who decided to stay embedded inside Gaza Strip ambulances with the Palestinian crews as the Israeli army launched their assault.
12.00noon–1.00pm CCA5
Supriyo Sen
Document Archive Screening
India 2007 n 80 mins
Two outstanding shorts from the Document archive by Glasgowbased filmmakers:
Ceiling Man
James Alcock Scotland 2001 n 31Mins Sandy is a heroin addict with mental health issues who has poisoned his bloodstream with a shared needle. He is also a born optimist, a philosopher, a busker, a street artist, an ex-public schoolboy and rock singer with a complex past and a zest for living. This warm and sad film charts the relationship between the filmmaker and his subject over a six month period. Winner BAFTA New Talent Award 2002 – Best Documentary.
54 Indian soldiers taken as Prisoners of War during the IndoPakistani war of 1971 are yet to return home. While waiting for them, some of the parents died, some of the wives remarried and some of the children lost hope and committed suicide. But the real ordeal has been for those who did not give up. For them life has become a tightrope strung between hope and despair. This film is a saga of the families’ struggle, spanning three generations, to get their men back – victims of a tragic stalemate in recent history.
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Saturday 20 October 2012
2.15pm–3.15pm CCA4
Goudougoudou
Fabrizio Scapin & Pieter Van Eecke Italy✚Belgium 2011 n 55 mins Afer the earthquake: ten Haitians, having picked up the thread of their lives in a setting like one of the circles of Dante’s hell, provide insights into an existence turned upside down by death and chaos. In the aftermath of the unthinkable, they struggle to regain a semblance of everyday normality. This documentary revisits their memories, dreams and nightmares in a world where the dead seem still alive and the living doubt their own survival.
3.00pm–4.15pm CCA5
Document Archive Screening:
I Have Dreamt of Working as a Hairdresser Lidija Mirkovic
Serbia 2007 n 85 Mins Iva, a young Roma hairdresser from Serbia, hopes to remain in Germany with her family. They stay on illegally. They get caught and deported back to Belgrade. From now on they must live by exploiting the waste on the landfill, collecting paper, scavenging in the streets, polishing shoes or selling in the flea market. Living in the slums on the margins of society is unhealthy and often dangerous. School children become victims of violent rightwing criminals. The young Roma go to work as street musicians, beggars or prostitutes. The realities of life back home…
3.30pm–5.30pm CCA4
Just Do It: A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws Emily James
UK 2011 n 90 mins The world of environmental direct action has remained a secretive one – until now. Emily James spent over a year embedded in activist groups such as Climate Camp and Plane Stupid to document their clandestine activities. With unprecedented access, Just Do It takes you on an astonishing journey behind the scenes of a community of people who refuse to sit back and allow the destruction of their world. Torpedoing the tired clichés of the environmental movement, Just Do It introduces you to a powerful cast of mischievous and inspiring characters who put their bodies in the way; they super-glue themselves to bank trading floors, blockade factories and attack coal power stations en-masse, despite the very real threat of arrest. Their adventures will entertain, illuminate and inspire. Followed by a Q & A with the director.
4.45pm–6.45pm CCA4
Ameer Got His Gun Naomi Levari
Israel 2011 n 58 mins Ameer Abu Ria is about to go into to the army. As opposed to the majority of 18 year old boys in Israel, for whom army service is mandatory, Ameer is exempt from military service under the assumption that his enlistment might endanger Israel’s security. That is because Ameer, an Israeli citizen, is a Moslem Arab. And yet, Ameer decided to volunteer. He believes that his induction is the way to equality;
he believes this is the way to belong He is considered an enemy, a fifth columnist in the eyes of Israeli Jews, and a traitor of the worst kind in the eyes of Arab citizens; the kind who turns against his brothers. Alone, Ameer sets out on a voyage to civic and self definition, whilst carefully negotiating the thin line between Jewish and Arab societies. Ameer, an eternal optimist, wishes to be both a proud Arab and an enthusiastic Israeli: his only enemy is reality.
5.00pm–7.00pm CCA5
Blood, Sweat and Bananas Banana workers in Cameroon are paid wages that do not meet basic household needs, suffer the negative impact of poor housing and sanitation provision, and a lack of safe drinking water – as well as the basic workplace risks incurred by long hours and exposure to toxic agrochemicals. The bananas produced by workers organised by FAWU (Fako Agricultral Workers’ Union) are all exported to the EU, including supermarkets in the UK. These bananas are marketed by Del Monte, one of the largest fruit multinationals in the world. This event, hosted by filmmaker/ artist Jan Nimmo, compares the struggles of banana workers in Cameroon and Ecuador to achieve fair conditions. It will be followed by a panel discussion.
Bonita: Ugly Bananas Jan Nimmo
Scotland✚Ecuador 2004 n 23 mins When Scottish artist, Jan Nimmo, travels to Ecuador – the world’s largest exporter of bananas – to gather workers’ testimonies, she observes the formation of the first trade unions in the banana sector for 30 years. The Los Alamos banana workers decide to go on strike
Saturday 20 October 2012 for the most basic of rights. But the company which runs the plantation, Bonita Brands, is owned by Alvaro Noboa, Ecuador’s richest man and serial presidential candidate. Alvaro Noboa doesn’t like unions. Bonita is the world’s fourth largest banana company yet the workers earn a pittance, are exposed to a cocktail of toxic agro-chemicals and their living conditions are appalling. Bonita is a powerful eyewitness account of what happens to workers who dare to stand against a powerful oligarch...
Portraits From Cameroon Jan Nimmo
Scotland✚Cameroon 2012 n 18 mins A series of 6 short banana workers’ testimonies from the plantations of Cameroon, Central Africa.These portraits reveal the harsh working conditions and over exposure to toxic agrochemicals endured by the people who work to produce cheap bananas for the European market, and their struggle to provide the basics for their families. The films were made to raise awareness amongst consumers in the UK but to also enable Latin American and African Banana workers to be able to share their experiences. Panel Mbide Charles Kude FAWU, Cameroon Jan Nimmo Filmmaker Jacqui MacKay National Coordinator, Banana Link
7.00pm–8.30pm CCA4
The Collaborator and his Family Ruthie Shatz & Adi Barash USA✚Israel✚France 2011 n 84 Mins The Collaborator And His Family is a chronicle of assimilation and espionage that follows the El-Akels, a Palestinian family whose father, Ibrahim, has been a collaborator out of ideology with the Israeli security services for 20 years. Branded as traitors by Palestinians, the entire family fled to Israel seeking asylum as promised by Ibrahim’s Israeli ‘operator.’ Over a two-and-a-half-year period, as each day passes with no progress towards citizenship, tension builds within the family. Alienated and humiliated, Ibrahim’s wife Yusra, three teenage sons and two daughters bear the consequences of Ibrahim’s decision while struggling to assimilate into Israeli society. Co-directors Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz gain intimate access to the hardest moments the family face, observing as each connecting thread between family members unravels. This unflinching documentary highlights the experience of those who risk their lives to collaborate with an enemy. Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
7.15pm–10.00pm CCA5
An exhibition of Jan Nimmo’s woodcuts wil be on display in the CCA bar throughout Document 10.
Journalism Is A Human Right Scotland 2012 n 12 mins n Free A short film about Alieu Ceesay (from Gambia) and Charles Atagana (from Cameroon), two asylum seeking journalists in Glasgow who each experienced arrest and torture in their own countries. The film explores the concept of human rights in relation to journalism both internationally and locally. The screening will be followed by a debate hosted by Paul Holleran from the National Union of Journalists. The panel will include the filmmaker, the featured journalists and representatives of the profession. The event is free.
In 1967, after the Six-Day War and Israel’s dramatic military victory, 30 Israelis decided to settle in the city to reclaim what they considered an important part of the Promised Land – the first Israeli settlement and the only one right in the heart of a Palestinian city. Hebron is now home to 160,000 Palestinians, 600 Israeli settlers, and a garrison of 2,000 Israeli soldiers who are there to defend them. Today, Hebron is a city of violence and hate. Followed by Q & A with directors Stephen Nathanson and Guilia Amati.
8.45pm–10.00pm CCA4
Love in the Grave David Vondrácek ˇ
Czech Republic 2011 n 74 mins Jan and Jana have found a home in an abandoned graveyard in the Prague suburb of Strašnice. They are a close couple. The cemetery’s walls and overgrown trees seem to form a protective border against the world of the streets. For Jana, though living in a crypt represents safety, it is also a trap from which she is unable to escape. One day the administrators announce their intention to begin renovation work on the graveyard – but instead of finding a new place to stay, Jan and Jana just keep drinking. Then the police arrive…
5.00pm–6.30pm CCA Club Room
Frederik Subei
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This Is My Land… Hebron
Stephen Nathanson & Guilia Amati Italy 2010 n 72 mins Hebron is the largest city in the middle of the occupied West Bank, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. It was famous throughout the Middle East as a holy city, a place of pilgrimage for the Jews, Christians and Muslims because Abraham, the forefather of the three most important monotheistic religions, is buried there.
Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
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Sunday 21 October 2012
12.00noon–1.30pm CCA4
Document Archive Screening
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away Jez Lewis
England 2009 n 88 mins It’s a beautiful rural town with apparently everything going for it. So why do filmmaker Jez Lewis’ childhood friends keep killing themselves? Lewis’ personal quest for understanding moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption as his friend Cass comes to terms with his own mortality and attempts to lift himself out of this cycle of self-destruction. An intimate study of a place often described as an ideal town which harbours an undertow of lethal hedonism and disillusionment. As people continue to kill themselves during the making of the film, a maelstrom of conflicting values throws up unexpected truths...
12.00noon–1.00pm CCA5
The Last Street
Rasmus Sievers & Marina Monsonís Germany 2011 n 60 mins In Barcelona, a part of the old city thrusts like a wedge out into the Mediterranean between the city beach and the new port, resisting the attacks of re-development – so far... The streets of La Barceloneta lie beneath the shadow cast by apartments where clothes still hang from balconies in an old community of seafarers and their families. With the quiet spirit of people who are aware they’ll probably lose to the developers in the end, the people of La Barceloneta tell their life stories and prepare for the annual fiesta. This film attempts to capture the essence of a vanishing world before it disappears in the city’s lockstep march towards urban renewal.
1.00pm–2.00pm CCA Club Room
Blank Screen Cinema Free with charitable donation A new take on going to the pictures presented by Blank Screen Cinema. You are invited to participate in a shared auditorium listening experience of stories, personal and constructed, on the human condition in the 21st century.
‘Sound Communities’ features short pieces of audio work from local Glasgow community groups which document stories of individual life experiences and collective thoughts about the world in which we live.
Consumption and Worship in strange alliance…
An informal discussion will follow on the observations and feelings evoked by the stories through the channel of sound and imagination. The discussion will take place in the Saramago Café.
Followed by a Q & A with director Enrico Masi /panel discussion
An investigation into the real legacy of the 2012 Oympics on East London.
1.45pm–3.15pm CCA4
Entry by charity donation.
1.15pm–3.15pm CCA5
The Golden Temple Enrico Masi
UK✚Italy 2012 n 70 mins In the face of stiff competition from Paris and other world cities, London had won the bid for the 2012 Olympics because it proclaimed engagement with the host community and the concept of leaving behind a constructive legacy as key aims. And because the Olympics would favour the process of social regeneration in the area. In the event, regeneration became a stadium for leisure pastimes, the biggest mall in Europe for shopping, and a church for spiritual needs – a bizarre alignment of temples in a single locus like an aggregate of energies, Amusement,
Vakha & Magomed Marta Prus
Poland 2010 n 12 mins A father teaches his son to box. He sees that the boy eats well, makes sure he brushes his teeth. He takes him to a bike shop to try out the bikes. Vakha is a solicitous father; maybe over-solicitous. He has reason to be, having already lost his older son. Vakha and Magomed are Chechens living in a refugee center in Warsaw. They fill their days as best they can as they await news of their asylum status.
Sunday 21 October 2012
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Document Archive Screening
The Eye of the Needle Jonas Soderqvist Sweden 2005 n 57 mins A young Macedonian awaits the outcome of his asylum application; an official at the Swedish Migration Board tries to decide who gets to stay and who doesn’t; a man hides asylum seekers from the authorities; a Bosnian woman goes underground to avoid deportation. The Eye of the Needle captures the daily lives of four people variously defined by the legislative regulation of the New Europe, in a close look at Swedish migration policies and the living situation for refugees coming from troubled areas all over the world. Two and a half years in the making, the film tries to understand the system by looking at how it marks administrative officials as well as refugees seeking help.
3.00pm–5.00pm CCA Club Room
The Oil Road Platform Free A multimedia event exploring the social, environmental and political impacts of the oil industry through a journey tracing the flow of oil from the Caspian Sea to Europe, along tanker routes and pipelines including the controversial BakuTbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Pieces of documentary film from 1898-2010 will be interspersed with readings from Platform’s book, The Oil Road – an account of that journey, including interviews with people who were involved with, whose lives had been affected by, or who campaigned against the pipeline. The clips include some of the first footage ever shot in Azerbaijan – an 1898 film of an oil gusher – and a little-seen Bernardo Bertolucci film, La Via de Petrolio, commissioned by an oil company as a promotional video. Platform is a London-based organisation who campaign for social and ecological justice in innovative and creative ways. http://platformlondon.org
3.30pm–4.30pm CCA4
Presenting the Heymann brothers Lone Samaritan
Barak Heymann
3.30pm–5.00pm CCA5
Beer is Cheaper Than Therapy Simone De Vries
Netherlands 2011 n 78 mins
Israel 2010 n 50 mins The Samaritans, a tiny religious sect, are dying out. But they still maintain harsh rules against assimilation: if you leave the fold, you and your family are as good as dead. Israeli actress Sophie Tzedaka is one such woman. One by one, she and her three sisters became “Jews” and were excommunicated by their 700-strong community. As was their father… Lone Samaritan, a moving account of a father-daughter bond that transcends all beliefs, explores issues of faith and modernity, the role of women in religious tradition, and the challenge of forging an independent identity when that means violating the very tradition you still hold dear. Lone Samaritan was winner of the Golden Magnolia Award at Shanghai International TV Festival 2011.
A 911 call from a Subway sandwich shop, where a young man has just shot himself in the head in the bathroom. A guy who explains that he had himself committed because he was on the verge of beating people to death on the street. A young woman who is in tears because she has to coax her depressed husband out of bed each morning. Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy paints a grim picture of war veterans in psychological distress, something there is little room for in the macho culture of the army, and looks for answers as to why the number of suicides among young American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is so frighteningly high. The filmmakers travel to Fort Hood, Texas, home of the the largest Army base in the United States, to interview soldiers and family members. Last year, 19 soldiers committed suicide there.
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Sunday 21 October 2012
4.45pm–5.45pm CCA4
Presenting the Heymann brothers
5.15pm–6.30pm CCA5
Thomas Selim Wallner
A Blind Spot of the Republic
Canada✚Germany✚Switzerland 2011 n 92mins
Stephane Mercurio France 2011 n 100 mins
The Guantanamo Trap tells the stories of four people whose lives have been irrevocably changed by the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre.
In 2007, the French legislator formed a special service to visit and inspect places where individuals are deprived of their liberty – jails, prisons, psychiatric wards.
The Guantanamo Trap
I Shot My Love
Tomer Heymann Israel✚Germany 2010 n 56 mins Seventy years after his grandfather escaped from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Israeli director Tomer Heymann returns to the country of his ancestors to present his film Paper Dolls at the Berlin International Film Festival. He meets a man there who will change his life. This 48-hour love affair develops into a significant relationship between Tomer and Andreas Merk, a German dancer. When Andreas decides to move to Tel-Aviv, he not only has to cope with a new partner, but to manage the complex realities of life in Israel and his personal connection to it as a German citizen. Tomer’s mother, descendant of German immigrants, was born and lived all her life in a small Israeli village, where she raised five sons. One by one, she watches her children leave the country she and her family helped to build. She can’t help trying to influence Tomer, the one son who remains. I Shot My Love tells a personal but universal love story and follows the triangular relationship between Tomer, his German boyfriend, and his intensely Israeli mother.
6.00pm–7.45pm CCA4
In August 2006, Murat Kurnaz was released from the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He had been detained for five years, without trial. In the same year, Matthew Diaz, Judge Advocate for the Navy was sentenced to six months of imprisonment for passing on the names of the detainees to a human rights organisation. Four years earlier, in 2002, Judge Advocate Diane Beaver had also been deployed in Guantanamo, where she became the author of a legal memorandum later nicknamed ‘The Torture Memo.’ Seven years on in March 2009, Spanish lawyer Gonzalo Boye leads a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials for allegedly covering up the torture of inmates in Guantanamo Bay. In the free-fall of a lawless space beyond the Geneva Convention, beyond international jurisdiction, notions of good and evil, right and wrong, lose their meaning. Unable to let go of the past and forge a gratifying future, Kurnaz, Beaver, Diaz and Boye are immobilized by the weight of history. This documentary questions the ethics of decisions made swiftly and sometimes arbitrarily that have consequences which may last a lifetime. No one escapes Guantanamo unscathed. This is the story of people in search of a life after Guantanamo.
The Service for the Control of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL) has an entirely independent administrative authority. It is under the supervision of a main inspector who can, with his team, enter any of these institutions at any time and meet with whoever they wish. Director Stephane Mercurio follows fifteen of these inspectors on their visits to unveil some truths about life under confinement and the real facts concerning human rights in such places. A Blind Spot of the Republic leads us into one of the hidden corners of Democracy…
Sunday 21 October 2012
6.45pm–8.15pm CCA5
The Redemption of General Butt Naked Eric Strauss & Daniele Anastasion USA 2011 n 83 mins Joshua Milton Blahyi – aka General Butt Naked, formerly a brutal African warlord – has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist. Today, Blahyi travels the nation of Liberia as a preacher, seeking out those he once victimized in search of an uncertain forgiveness. Filmmakers Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion track his often troubling path close up, finding both the genuine and the disconcerting in Blahyi’s efforts, as questions are raised about the limits of faith and forgiveness in the absence of justice. Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
8.00pm–10.00pm CCA4
Document Archive Screening
Arna’s Children
Juliano Mer Khamis & Danniel Danniel Israel✚Palestine✚Netherlands 2004 n 84 mins Arna’s Children tells the story of a
theatre group that was established by Arna Mer Khamis. Arna comes from a Zionist family, and in the 1950s, married a Palestinian Arab, Saliba Khamis. On the West Bank, she opened an alternative education system for children whose regular life was disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theatre group she started engaged with children from Jenin, helping them to express their everyday frustrations, anger, bitterness and fear. Arna’s son Juliano, director of this film, was also one of the directors of Jenin’s theatre. With his camera, he filmed the children during rehearsal periods from 1989 to 1996. Now, he goes back to see what happened to them. Yussef committed a suicide attack; Ashraf was killed in the battle of Jenin; Alla leads a resistance group. Juliano, today one of the leading actors in the region, looks back and tries to understand the choices made by the children he loved and worked with. Eight years ago, the theatre was closed and life became static and paralysed. Shifting back and forth in time, the film reveals the tragedy and horror of lives trapped by the circumstances of the Israeli occupation. Entry free by charitable donation to the Freedom Theatre.
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8.30pm–10.00pm CCA5
The Forgotten
Carles Caparrós Spain 2010 n 88 mins “There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” Many cultures tend to reject what seems different, incomprehensible or strange as a threat to the norms of their society. In the West, mental illnesses are considered diseases; in a number of African countries, they are often read as a sign of possession by the devil. The traditional “treatment” for such illness includes binding the sufferer with chains and excluding them from mainstream society. In the best-case scenario, the devil is exorcised by the power of prayer; in the worst, by stoning. No-one knows this better than the charismatic Gregoire, who runs a network of centres that care for the homeless mentally ill in the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. In an environment where medical care is only available to those who can pay, his centres are the only hope for these individuals. The Forgotten is about the importance of human dignity amid poverty and ruin. Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
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Monday 22 October 2012
6.00pm–7.00pm CCA4
Belarusian Dream
Ekaterina Kibalchich Russia 2011 n 55 Mins The first independent film about Belarus’ 2010 presidential elections. Directed by Belarusian-born Ekaterina Kibalchich, Belarusian Dream is the story of a young person from Minsk who has lived the last 18 years in a country ruled by a dictator; and how, against the background of falsified elections, brutal repression and a severe economic crisis, people in the most ‘stable’ post-Soviet country are starting to demand change. Belarusian Dream won the World Organization Against Torture Award at the 2012 International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva, and the Audience Award at the 2011 Watch Docs International Human Rights Festival, Warsaw.
7.15pm–8.30pm CCA4
Days of Hope
whilst drawing attention to the apparent limits of international justice. Zulay Magazieva (born 1974) is a Chechen journalist. Several of Magazieva’s close relatives are among the disappeared.
Enough… To Freedom!
A Chechen Film About Disappearances
Andrei Kutsila & Viachaslaw Rakitski
Zulay Magazieva
Belarus 2012 n 51 mins
Chechnya 2011 n 29 mins
Minsk, 19 December 2010: After the ruling party blatantly hijacked the results of the presidential election, tens of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets in peaceful protest. Tired of a ubiquitous system of lies, these demonstrators set their sights on truth and freedom; instead, what many of them got were beatings, arrests and prison sentences.
This film tells the story of six of the 5,000-plus people who have “disappeared” in Chechnya since the beginning of the second Chechen War in 1999. Working in a hostile environment, Zulay Magazieva interviewed relatives of the disappeared, filmed the opening of mass graves, then left the country with her footage in order to finish the film. Although it took ten years to complete, the issue of the disappeared remains tragically unresolved. Days Of Hope attempts to examine the worldwide experience of political “disappearance” and its catastrophic impact on loved ones,
Enough… To Freedom! depicts the fates of freedom fighters who not only lost their jobs and their right to an education but also endured tortures of a physical and psychological nature. Through their eyes we see the investigative, judicial and penal systems of the last dictatorship in Europe.
8.45pm–10.00pm CCA4
Sweet Smoke of the Fatherland Masha Novikova
Netherlands 2011 n 80 mins Against a backdrop of haunting archive footage, Masha Novikova tells the stories of three people from different parts of Europe whose lives were affected by the wars of the 20th century: Seventy-nine-yearold Victorino lives in a mountain village in the Pyrenees. As a child, he witnessed the Spanish Civil War; later in life, he came to terms with Franco’s cruel dictatorship. Agota, an elderly Lithuanian, remembers the German occupation, the subsequent “liberation” by Soviet troops and the post-war period, when her father was sent to the gulag. When Aivaz – an Armenian now approaching 90 – was a boy, his family fled Turkey for Abkhazia. His story overlaps with the fate of a country whose desire for independence was resolutely quashed by Russia and Georgia. Despite age, solitude and poverty, the three subjects have rich memories and the wisdom that is rooted in close ties to and respect for the places in which they live.
Tuesday 23 October 2012 6.00pm–8.00pm CCA4
Document Archive Screening
Roma of Govanhill
Janos Kovacs & Janos Joka Daroczi Hungary 2008 n 20 mins Glasgow, like Liverpool or London, is a city whose identity has been constantly renewed by successive waves of immigration, from the Gaels of the 19th Century fleeing the Clearances to the Polish residents of the present day. The neighbourhood of Govanhill on the south side of Glasgow has historically played host to many arriving cultures, from Jewish to Irish communities, and later to Asian families from India and Pakistan. Post-EU accession, the most recent have been Slovakian nationals of the Romani people.
as one without an enclosing structure. The Dyana is a favourite with the Roma since you can remove the entire top and salvage almost all the parts, impossible with any other car. And you can use the car battery to charge a mobile phone or run the lights to watch TV at night. Unfortunately, the disapproval of the Belgrade police regularly complicates matters… That rare thing, an upbeat human rights film, Pretty Dyana is an affectionately humourous tribute to a resilient and resourceful people, and the cars they love.
8.15pm–10.00pm
Srdan Keca programme Document Archive Screening
Made by Roma Magazine for Magyar TV in Hungary, this film sets out to show life for better and worse in Govanhill today as experienced by the Roma and others in this diverse neighbourhood.
Boris Mitic
Serbia 2003 n 45 mins
A loophole in the law means you don’t pay road tax on a farm vehicle. And a farm vehicle is defined
Letter To Dad Srdan Keca
Serbia✚UK 2011 n 48 mins Director Srdan Keca is halfway around the world when his dad, Marinko, dies suddenly and alone. Grief-stricken, confused and angry, he rushes home to try to make sense of his dad’s death – and his life. Once there, Keca begins assembling the compelling narrative of how his parents met, fell in love, served their country, and began their family: “Your mum led the girl’s troop. Your dad carried the baton . . . .” Keca is aided by an impressive legacy of letters, photos, and video footage taken and saved by his father – though things get a little murky surrounding his father’s later participation in the war. Candid interviews with Keca’s mother, his alcoholic uncle, and two of his dad’s oldest friends compliment Marinko’s footage and propel the gripping narrative towards unexpected discoveries. A poetic and profoundly personal essay about making sense of loss and the summing up of a life that inevitably goes with it: “Hey Dad, Mum still believes or wants to believe that you had to go. . . .”
Pretty Dyana On the outskirts of Belgrade, a group of Roma live in rundown shacks. Most don’t have papers or offical ID. They support themselves by collecting garbage – and transport it in wire trailers attached to the strangest cars you’ve ever seen: a dazzling collection of aged Citroen Dianes (a.k.a Dyanas), stripped back till all that’s left is a chassis, an engine and a driving seat, like post-apocalyptic jalopies from some Mad Max movie not yet made…
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After the War Srdan Keca
Serbia 2006 n 47 mins High up in the mountains of Southern Kosovo, between the present borders of Serbia, Macedonia and Albania, live the Gorani – a small Islamized people of Slavic origin, with no country of their own. The Kosovo war of 1999 brought unrest into this beautiful region and the lives of the people, pushing them out in search of a new life. The ones that remain tell their stories before the winds carry them away too.
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6.00pm–8.00pm CCA5
Do You Really Love Me? Alastair Cole
UK 2011 n 11 mins A short, light hearted insight into the lives of multi-lingual couples in Europe. Shot in 12 languages across Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary and Turkey, the film follows six couples into their own worlds of language and love, told in their own words and in those of Scottish psychiatrist and sometime poet, R.D Laing. The film gives a unique insight into the challenges, humour and reality of relationships in modern Europe.
Family Portrait In Black and White Boris Ivanov
Canada 2011 n 99 mins “When the kids grow up, at least they will have a mother to blame for all the failures that will happen in their lives.” Family Portrait in Black and White follows a passionate Supermum, Olga Nenya, during the three turbulent years that see her brood of 17 foster children grow into rambunc-
Wednesday 24 October 2012
tious teenagers. Olga is a loving mother but she is no Mother Teresa. Raised by the Soviet regime, she believes in communal responsibility over individual freedom and runs the family with a Stalinist determination. Questions of race and colour may be an issue in wider Ukrainian society, but not for Olga: 16 of her foster children are bi-racial, offspring of relationships between local Ukrainian girls and African students. As a single mother, Olga fights tooth and nail to keep her family together and to give it strength and support – though at times with a control that may seem overbearing to some. Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
8.15pm–10pm CCA5
Katka
Helena Trestikova Czech Republic 2010 n 90 mins “You bet on someone at the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them.” This is how Czech director Helena Trestikova describes her long form documentaries
shot over sustained time periods. Following on from the European Film Academy Award winning Rene (2008), Trestikova brings us Katka – 14 years in the life of a drug addict. Katka is an extraordinarily raw and uncensored character portrait of a troubled young woman living on the edge of human existence, desperately searching for love and salvation. Will she find it in the rehab? Will she find it in the arms of the man she loves? Or in the first cry of her long-desired baby? Tagging along with her through the squalid back streets of Prague, Trestikova gets deep under the skin of a person most of us would cross the road to avoid, and shows us Katka’s profoundly human side. You might be angry with Katka, or your heart may go out to her. One thing is certain – you will never forget her. Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
Thursday 25 October 2012
DOCUMENT 10 19 A revolution in the making through the eyes of an ordinary Yemeni citizen. The Liberace of Baghdad, also by Sean McAllister, is screening at Document 10 on Saturday 27 Oct in CCA5.
8.30pm–10.00pm CCA5
The Carrier
Maggie Betts USA 2011 n 88 mins
6.00pm–8.00pm CCA5
Lullaby Spirit
Maryhill Integration Network /AlbScott Maryhill Integration Network / AlbScott / Barrowland Ballet return to Document to present their new live performance entitled Lullaby Spirit. Passed from generation to generation, lullaby songs are the musical gemstones nurtured and personified by each mother who sings them.
Questions are raised about the role of the international community and non-governmental organisations within the Congolese judicial system – does their financial support mean justice is for sale? And if so, who pays the price? Justice For Sale is the third documentary in Ilse and Femke van Velzen’s trilogy about the DRC. Earlier they made Fighting The Silence and Weapon Of War. Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
8.15-9.30pm CCA4
Through music, dance and song an international cast explore what it takes to have a good night’s sleep. Inspired by and featuring lullabies from Tiny Songbirds, a collection of lullaby songs sung from Kosova to Venezuela, Scotland to China, and gathered from family and friends of the Albanian-Scottish Association. This hypnotic piece reflects issues of struggle and safety, family, love and peace...
The Reluctant Revolutionary
Choreographer: Natasha Gilmore
Kais is a 35 year-old tour guide from Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, struggling to make ends meet and working in his father’s travel agency. Philosophical, articulate and reflective by nature, he is cynical about the undercurrents of dissent in his country and supportive of the President. When one of his tours has to be cut short due to the social instability and increased danger for tourists, Kais returns to Sana’a to find two camps in the city centre: one for the President and one against. After the protest camp grows from ‘Change Square’ to take over the surrounding streets, Kais slowly embraces the revolution as each Friday protest gets bigger, and bloodier. Meanwhile, foreign journalists are being tracked down and sent out of the country – soon, director Sean McAllister is the only remaining foreigner in his hotel…
Producer: Remzije Sherifi
6.30pm–8.00pm CCA4
Justice For Sale
Femke & Ilse Van Velzen Netherlands 2011 n 83 Mins Justice For Sale follows Claudine, a young and courageous human rights lawyer in the Democratic Republic of Congo who, in her struggle against injustice and lawlessness, investigates the case of a soldier who was convicted of rape without any concrete evidence. In her journey to obtain justice, she uncovers a system where the basic principles of law are virtually ignored.
Sean McAllister UK 2012 n 70 mins An intimate portrait of Yemen as the revolution unfolds, seen through the eyes of Kais, an intelligent commentator on the changing times and the unknowable road to revolution.
As a young girl, Zambian Mutina Mweemba dreams of marrying a loving man. She imagines them raising their children together, giving them the best life possible. When Mutina meets Abarcon, a man from a distant village, her dream seems to have come true. But the image of a perfect marriage is shattered after the wedding, when Mutina discovers that Abarcon is a polygamist. Before she is able to catch her breath, the family has to deal with another blow: AIDS, a disease they know nothing about. The illness disrupts the family’s relationships, and the situation is further complicated when Mutina gets pregnant. Director Maggie Betts presents an intimate portrait of a family and community blindsided by an incurable disease, desperate to protect the next generation from the same fate. Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
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Friday 26 October 2012
6.00pm–7.00pm CCA5
Mohammadreza Farzad Programme:
Document Archive Screening
Into Thin Air
Mohammadreza Farzad Iran 2010 n 30 mins This short documentary exposes the events of September 20, 1979 in which soldiers opened fire on people gathered in Jaleh Square, Tehran, who were unaware of a curfew in place. With less than a minute of horrifying footage captured on camera, the documentary sets out to reveal the identity of the victims. Into Thin Air is a moving image account of a political massacre of innocents.
Blames & Flames (Falgoosh)
Mohammadreza Farzad Iran 2011 n 28 mins
in the area. Some even support the Taliban. How, in this stronghold of anti-Taliban resistance, did it get to this ? This reflective essay revisits the eve of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, when more than 130 cinemas burned down. With the closure of television stations as well, the people turned their cameras onto each other, taking centre stage in a rapidly unfolding drama.
Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
8.30pm–10.00pm CCA5
along the Persian Gulf are willing to do anything to win camel races, including forcing small children to ride– lighter saddle equals faster camel. In Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sudan, rich merchants look for parents of little boys willing to give them up for financial remuneration. In conditions tantamount to slavery, the children are forced to tend to the camels and race, regardless of their own health.
Tears of the Afghan Lord
This film introduces viewers to the desperate environment of camel racing which, thanks to child trafficking and state complacency, has been allowed to thrive.
France 2011 n 58 mins
Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
7.15-8.30pm CCA5
Pascale Bourgaux
Filmed over ten years, the story of Mamour Hasan, his family and his village. Hasan is a Northern Afghan warlord. In 2001, he used his personal army to serve the famous Commander Massoud in his battle against the Taliban. Ten years later, the village is about to fall completely into their hands. Many of the old soldiers, as well as some of Mamour Hasan’s family – and even his oldest son – resist the idea of a western miltary presence
Desert Riders Vic Sarin
Canada 2011 n 80 mins Their giant bodies colliding, the camels struggle to overtake each other at high speed on the narrow racetrack. Along the route, several honking cars follow the animals, urging them on. Riders desperately cling to the backs of these “arks of the desert,” as a fall could be deadly. Wealthy sheikhs from countries
Saturday 27 October 2012
DOCUMENT 10 21 tion of Iraq by the Americans was my dream. Now it is a nightmare,” says Samir. He, like approximately 600,000 Iraqis, is a Christian. Because of safety concerns, he would rather stay after work in the hotel basement than drive his car to his luxury apartment. Though he has the possibility of travelling to the USA at the invitation of his daughter, he does not want to leave his country – even after a woman is gunned down in his presence. Featuring the piano melodies of Mr Samir Peter…
12.00noon–1.00pm CCA4
Harry Horseplay
A Resonance Radio Broadcast with visuals
Tam Dean Burn Featuring and celebrating the work of the late Harry Horse On Wednesday January 10 2007 the artist Harry Horse, his wife Mandy and their pets were found dead in their home on the remote Shetland Island of Burra. Mandy had been suffering from advanced, chronic Multiple Sclerosis. Upon reading of this tragedy in next day’s newspaper, Tam Dean Burn set about producing a memorial radio programme for London Art Radio station, Resonance 104.4FM. This live hour-long broadcast was aired three nights later. And so began a relationship between Burn and Horse’s work which continues to this day.
shown for the first time. The resulting film receives its world premiere at Document 10. This is the latest development in Burn’s celebration of Horse’s work which has included Year Of The Horse, an award-winning show featuring all fifty-two of Horse’s Sunday Herald political cartoons, and earlier this year appearing in a theatre adaptation of The Last Polar Bears for the National Theatre of Scotland. Burn is also currently producing a documentary film of his relationship with Horse’s work (they never met) and with his family. He is looking to record and include audience reaction to the work at Document 10 in the film. Along with Harry Horseplay, Burn will perform the twenty minute version of Year Of The Horse he produced for the Scottish cabaret night Neue! Reekie! earlier this year to a soundtrack by JD Twitch.
The broadcast featured Burn reading text from Horse’s political cartoons for the Sunday Herald ( the last of which had appeared the previous Sunday ), his celebrated children’s book The Last Polar Bears, read by Alison Peebles ( also suffering from MS ) on live link from Glasgow, and four songs by Swamptrash, the Cajun-inspired Edinburgh band which Horse led in the 1980s. The show was coproduced and engineered by Johny Brown and Alisdair McGregor to a soundtrack by Yellow 6.
Visual edit/original broadcast produced by Tam Dean Burn with Johny Brown and Alisdair McGregor Soundtrack by Yellow 6 Readings by Tam Dean Burn and Alison Peebles
Now, for the first time, Burn has added the visuals to the radio broadcast. The original Sunday Herald cartoon images – devastating political art critiques of the Bush/Blair era – are spliced with Horse’s illustrations from the children’s environmentally conscious The Last Polar Bears, photographs of Swamptrash performing live and a number of self portraits by Horse,
England 2004 n 74 mins
12.00noon–1.20pm CCA5
Document Archive Screening
The Liberace of Baghdad
Sean McAllister In his time, Samir Peter was the most well-known Iraqi pianist and enjoyed a very sizable income. Nine months after the fall of the Saddam regime, only a handful of visitors to the luxury hotel restaurant in the center of post-war Baghdad come to see him play. “There was a time when the libera-
Sean McAllister’s most recent film The Reluctant Revolutionary will screen at Document 10 on Thurs 25 Oct in CCA4.
1.15pm–2.05pm CCA4
Selected Short Films Jean-Gabriel Periot
France 2006-2012 n 49 mins The works of Jean-Gabriel Periot offer a highly individual take on representing filmed reality in often radical alternative structures that forego conventional narrative technique in favour of loops, recurring elements, montages, unexpected configurations, archive recut and replayed in new ways and at different speeds till alternate readings suggest themselves, or the orthodox readings become nuanced and underscored, usually to a sound design that itself partakes of sampling and repetition to build complex moods. To some extent all of his work sets out to interrogate the artifice in filmmaking itself, the “trick” played on the viewer when the ultimate artifice of social realist narrative is employed – the pretence of real time chronological structure in a medium actually constructed in the edit room from time jumps and excisions and inferred points of view that no-one actually saw through their own eyes… It’s not documentary as we typically understand the term. But it is an interrogation of the honesty of the documentary form in itself, a suggestion that there are more ways than one to represent recorded reality, or to understand the implications in the telling, the bias of the witness to the historical event.
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Even If She Had Been a Criminal (2006) employs disturbing archive footage from the period of the liberation of France from Nazi occupation, in which an apparently joyous crowd are gradually revealed as a vengeful, triumphalist mob shaving the heads of Frenchwomen suspected of collaborration. Played out in agonising slow motion to a sombre electronic score, we are somehow invited to relive every witch hunt, every act of bad faith and mysoginy. 200000 Phantoms (2007) is a subtly crafted collage of thousands of photographs depicting the changing aspects of the city of Hiroshima from the year 1914 till 2006: Hiroshima, city of The Bomb. In Our days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened (2011) a concert takes place in a prison in Orléans. The concealed performers are inmates. The audience is outside the high walls, hearing their voices only through projecting speakers. The Devil (2012) once more employs archive footage to re-examine the Black Panther Party – or more precisely the fear which it evoked implicit in almost every frame recorded by the media of the day… By definition, these films are difficult to describe – avoiding lazy definitions. In a way the works of Jean-Gabriel Periot are polemics, acts of provocation as well as poetry. What is refreshing is that they don’t pretend to be anything else.
1.30pm–2.30pm CCA5
Document Archive Screening
Between Heaven and Earth
Frank van den Engel & Masja Novikova Netherlands 2006 n 57 mins There is a long tradition of travelling circus performers in Uzbekistan. The circus is still one of the only forms of professional entertainment available in the small communities that dot the main roads. Achat Nabiev and Tursun Ali Mamadzhonov are two such performers who have devoted themselves to keeping this heritage alive.
Saturday 27 October 2012 Both men were also political activists working with underground groups to win freedom for Uzbekistan from Soviet control – but with the fall of the USSR, Uzbekistan became a dictatorship. Mamadzhonov left activism behind after the death of his son, something which he suspects may have been instigated by the State. Nabiev continues to fight for a free Uzbekistan while travelling the country with his family circus. Frank van den Engel and Masja Novikova explore the personal, professional and political lives of these two men, following Uzbek circus troupes on the road as Nabiev and Mamadzhonov share the stories of their lives.
2.15pm–3.15pm CCA4
Trieste On Basaglia Erika Rossi
Italy 2011 n 55 mins Between 1971 and 1978, Trieste was the setting for an unprecedented scientific and cultural revolution. The charismatic leader was a Venetian psychiatrist, Franco Basaglia. Around him was a city that watched incredulously as a group of young doctors transformed it into an open-air experiment in living – unlocking the doors of the pychiatric hospital, setting the inmates free, guided by Basaglia’s conviction that the best therapy for them was to “tackle life, because health and sickness are life, and if a person lived life without living health and sickness, then that person is always totally within the grips of death. There is no freedom without responsibility, no health without sickness, no normality without madness, no true relationship without confrontation.” The film attempts to offer an overview of the hardest task Franco Basaglia faced: changing the mindset of the people. Offering a different way of ‘being in the world’… a radical alternative that seems from this distance to belong to a lost universe. Followed by Q & A with director Erika Rossi.
2.45pm–4.15pm CCA5
Children of Gaza Jezza Neumann
England 2010 n 78 mins During the assault on Gaza by the Israeli Armed Forces in January 2009, over 1300 Palestinians were killed, around 300 of them children.
When the ceasefire was declared, filmmaker Jezza Neumann arrived to follow the lives of 4 children over a year. Through their eyes, and in their words, Children of Gaza offers a unique insight into the impact of war on vulnerable young minds. Despite witnessing numerous horrors, Mahmoud (12) and his sister Amal, Ibraheem and Omsyate (both 11) preserve hope and humour whilst living in the ruins of the Gaza strip. Increasingly isolated by the blockade that prevents anyone rebuilding their homes and lives, Children of Gaza is a shocking, touching and intimate reflection on extraordinary courage in the face of great adversity.
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3.30pm–4.50pm CCA4
Waking The Green Tiger A Green Movement Rises In China
Gary Marcuse Canada 2011 n 78 mins Seen through the eyes of activists, farmers, and journalists, Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a massive dam project that would displace 100,000 people on the upper Yangtze river at Tiger Leaping Gorge in southwestern China. Featuring archive footage never seen outside China and interviews with a government insider and witnesses, the documentary also tells the history of Chairman Mao’s campaigns to conquer nature in the name of progress. A green movement takes root when a new environmental law is passed. For the first time in China’s history ordinary citizens have the democratic right to participate in government decisions. Activists and the former director of China’s Environmental Protection Agency, Qu Geping, believe that environmental law and green democracy offer a model for the evolution of democracy in China.
4.40pm–6.00pm CCA5
Water Rising
Muireann de Barra & Aisling Crudden Ireland 2011 n 50 mins In the wake of mass protests against water privatization in Bolivia, Water Rising documents a community in crisis when private
control over water fails to meet basic needs. Told through the personal stories of those working and living in the teeming city of El Alto, the film offers a portrait of a vast city where chaos and poverty meet community resilience on the fringes of Bolivian society. Followed by a Q & A with the directors.
5.00pm–6.45pm CCA4
Cartonera
Maria Goinda Germany 2010 n 35 mins The Cartoneros (“cardboard people”) have long been part of the daily landscape in Buenos Aires. Every day, they stream in from the poorer outskirts of Argentina’s capital to scrape a living. They collect what others have thrown away, pushing their carts through the streets, rummaging through waste and scrap, looking for anything that can be recycled. At the end of the day, they sell it by the kilo to recycling factories. Men and women, youths and children, sometimes entire families poke around the rubbish bags put in front of buildings at night. More than half of Argentina’s population slipped below the poverty line in 2001 – the worst year of the country’s financial crisis. Many had no alternative but to live from rubbish. Maria Goindas’ sensitive documentary looks at the fate of one eightyear-old girl. Every day, Marlen and her siblings make their way from the slums to the city to collect recyclables until well after midnight. They have no other means of making a living for their family.
Field of Magic
Mindaugas Survila Lithuania 2011 n 62 mins Field of Magic is a docu-poem about a group of people who have
lived for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiškės dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year’s work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a different kind of community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, everyday joys and sorrows.
5.00pm–7.00pm CCA Club Room
Networking Event for Activist-made online films
Camcorder Guerillas Free A showcase of video campaign clips produced by local activists involved in Camcorder Guerillas’ film video training – a series of training workshops targeted at grassroots campaigners with no previous video experience. The event will consist of a viewing of activistmade campaign films, followed by a discussion about the issues portrayed in the clips, the benefits of being in control of the media and the distribution of campaign films online.
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Document Archive Screening
The Children Of Leningradsky
Hanna Pollak & Andrzej Celinski Poland 2004 n 35 mins
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there were over 30,000 surviving in this manner when the film was made. The filmmakers concentrate on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station of Leningradsky: Sasha (8), Andrej (10), Kristina (11) and Misha (13) all dream of sharing a home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and their days begging and trying to avoid the police. In a life of dangers and fleeting hopes, glue-sniffing gives them an escape for a little while from the unforgiving world around them. Follwed by a Q & A with director . Hanna Pollak
7.00pm–8.00pm CCA4
People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am Boris Gerrets
Netherlands 2010 n 53 mins What would it be like to enter into the life of a complete stranger? That’s the premise of this docufiction, which was shot entirely on a cell phone. In order to break through the wall of urban anonymity, the filmmaker talks to various people on the streets of London, out of whom three main characters emerge: a Brazilian beauty named Sandrine, who’s looking for a hus-
Saturday 27 October 2012 band; a drug addict named Steve; and Precious, a singer and poetess. There is no script: what begins as a vague idea gradually metamorphoses into a confusing project, and filmmaker Boris Gerrets begins to have grave doubts about his own role in all of this. When he ends up having an affair with Sandrine, he goes from observer to participant in his own film. The camera would seem to be an aphrodisiac, but the closer he gets to his subject, the more it gets in his way. At the same time, things happen that would never have been possible without the camera. Filming creates one moment while simultaneously destroying another. According to Gerrets, this is the paradox that defines cinema’s relationship to reality. Meanwhile, Steve drinks to numb the pain of loneliness. He wants life so badly that he botches it all up.
8.00pm–10.00pm CCA5
Document Archive Screening
The Three Rooms Of Melancholia Kolme Huonetta & Pirjo Honkasalo Finland 2004 n 106 mins The 3 Rooms Of Melancholia takes viewers deep inside the Chechnyan conflict, looking at the devastation it has wrought on the children of both sides. A mesmerising portrait of war in three chapters: In a Russian military school for young boys life is regimented and bleak as the students are trained to continue to fight Russia’s ethnic conflicts; amongst the rubble of the Chechen capital Grozny, abandoned children are looked after by a good Samaritan; just inside the Chechen border, carers tend to traumatised children at an orphanage. The cumulative impact of the episodes, together with a haunting score and stunningly beautiful cinematography, make The 3 Rooms Of Melancholia a truly gripping cinematic experience. ‘Evokes the psychic devastation of war with an immediacy that couldn’t be any more unsettling if the film maker had shot all of her footage through the gun barrel of an army tank.’ Jan Stuart, Newsday. Human Rights Film Network Award & Lina Mangiacapre Award, Venice International Film Festival; Amnesty International doen Award, idfa; Big Stamp Award, ZagrebDox.
8.15pm–9.45pm CCA4
Karama Has No Walls Sara Ishaq
UK✚Yemen 2012 n 26 mins Change Square in Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, early 2011: members of a heavily armed population set aside their weapons and peacefully assemble to demand the end of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33 year autocratic rule. The turning point had been the Friday of Dignity (Juma’at El-Karama): as pro-government snipers shot dead 53 protesters and injured a thousand more, the Yemeni nation was shaken to its core and the masses flocked to the square in solidarity with their fellow citizens. Military officials defected and joined the protests; members of parliament resigned and announced their support for the revolution; entire tribes made amends with rival tribes and pitched up tents in the square in support of one cause – the liberation of Yemen from the shackles of a barbaric, oppressive regime. Through the lenses of two cameramen and the accounts of two fathers, the film tells the story of the real people behind the statistics and news reports, encapsulating the tragic events of the day as they unfolded, from a prayer gathering to a barrage of bullets.
Another Night On Earth David Munoz
Spain 2011 n 52 mins Egypt, a country under revolution. Cairo, a mega-city with the worst traffic in the world. In endless traffic jams, passengers and taxi drivers talk and debate about their present and future. And we discover the concerns that sketch their lives for us. Document 10 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film
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12.00noon–1.00pm CCA4
12.00noon–1.30pm CCA5
Document Archive Screening
Document Archive Screening
Algeria: Images of a Fight
Kamp Katrina
Jerome Laffont
Ashley Sabin & David Redmond
France 2009 n 52 mins
USA 2007 n 73 mins
As with all later conflicts, the Algerian War Of Independence from France in the early 1960’s became a high-stakes target in the battle of competing images. Behind the war itself was a media war which was almost as crucial in contesting the sympathy of the world for each opposing point of view. As a counter to the propaganda movies made in support of the French military campaign, a few directors such as René Vautier devoted themselves to documenting the struggle from behind the lines with the independence fighters. Much of this footage – at times moving and at times harrowing, often very beautiful – was banned in France. Much of it has been lost and some even destroyed. A compelling film which raises important questions about the power of filmmaking and the purposes it serves in documenting – or manipulating – reality.
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleanians Ms Pearl and David turn their backyard into a tent village and give their new tenants construction jobs. Among those they help is Kelley, who was a month pregnant when the hurricane hit. In the sanitized version, David and Ms. Pearl would be neighborhood saints presented for our edification, and the birth of Kelley’s baby would give a nice, hopeful ending to the story. This isn’t the sanitised version. No matter what you’ve been through, life just keeps on happening… A story about the struggle of individuals to rebuild their lives and face new responsibilities.
1.15pm–2.30pm CCA4
Inshallah Kashmir Asvin Kumar
Kashmir 2012 n 80 mins Once the home of a syncretic, mystical culture, a deep heritage of learning, the crucible of Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufi-Islam; but today Kashmir is all about army crackdowns, curfews, widows, orphans, rape, enforced disappearances, fake encounters, mass graves, sadistic torture, and new categories of people like ‘half-widows’. Twenty years of atrocities have altered the average Kashmiri’s perception of ‘normalcy’. This film is the story of the conflict recounted as personal history: the coming-of-age of a people brutalized by two decades of militancy and its terrible response. It is also the story of Indian democracy, the grand experiment that was founded with Indian independence from the British, and how it has been tested in Kashmir, and found wanting.
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1.45-3.15pm CCA5
My Freedom, Your Freedom? Diana Näcke
Germany 2011 n 84 mins Lichtenberg Prison, Berlin. Two inmates. Kübra, a German of Kurdish descent, dreamed of being a gangster. It’s difficult to imagine the crimes this pretty 22-year-old has committed since adolescence, and yet there she is, acknowledging them impassively to the camera. Salema, an Ethiopian of 41, has known nothing since childhood but drugs, violence and the streets, and they have sent her straight to jail.
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The women are known for placing large plates in their lower lips and wearing enormous, richly decorated earrings. Every year hundreds of Western tourists come to see the unusually adorned natives; posing for camera-toting visitors has become the main source of income for the Mursi. To make more money, they embellish their “costumes” and finery in such a manner that less of their original authentic culture remains. The film contrasts the views of Mursi women and those of Dutch tourists preparing for a meeting. This humorous and at the same time chilling film shows the destructive impact tourism has on traditional communities.
Without judgement, Diana Näcke listens to their stories and follows them when they leave prison – but for what freedom? The prison warden himself doesn’t believe in the prison system. It doesn’t reform or reinsert and offers no way out of the misery. A difficult film, but a necessary one, which attempts to grasp the profound social and human significance of incarceration.
2.45pm–4.30pm CCA4
Framing the Other
Willem Timmers & Ilja Kok Netherlands✚Ethiopia 2011 n 25 mins The Mursi tribe lives in the basin of the Omo River in the south of the east African state of Ethiopia.
retaining the local drag queen crown, and Pietie struggles with his religious upbringing while obsessing over his roses, chickens, and pigeons. These transgender wine workers confront prejudice at every turn – from their own farming communities, city transgenders and the world at large. Together they manage to find the fabulous in the fraught and offer a portrait of triumph in togetherness rather than loneliness in victimization.
3.30pm–5.00pm CCA5
Inside El Porvenir
Erika Harzer & Rainer Hoffmann
The Sisterhood Roger Horne
South Africa n 74 mins Hazendal Wine Estate farmhands Hope, Rollie, and Pietie are not your typical South African vineyard workers. Hope aspires to winning the local drag queen pageant, Rollie dreams of a husband and
Germany✚Switzerland 2011 n 84 mins Christian Arzu was a child when he joined the gang Mara 18: killing was his mission. Jose Antonio Flores was thrown off track by drugs and alcohol: he became a feared gang lord. Rosny Castellanos was a high school student: the wrong friends and an affinity for guns sent him to prison for 22
SuNday 28 October 2012 years. Julio Bolton grew up on the street: the Mara 18 became his surrogate family. All four are today inmates of the penal institution of La Ceiba in Honduras, called El Porvenir. There, the Swiss Coni Lustenberger works as a volunteer. Follwed by a Q & A with directors Erika Harzer and Rainer Hoffmann.
4.45pm–6.45pm CCA4
Bruxelles–Kigali
Marie-France Collard Belgium✚France 2011 n 118 mins A Brussels courtroom: the trial in absentia of Ephrem Nkezabera, banker and director of extremist Hutu militias. For the victims, describing the absolute horror they lived through, and actually being heard, is a fundamental step in their personal recovery. Marie-France Collard continues her exploration of the history and legacy of the Rwandan genocide.
5.15pm–6.00pm CCA5
My Friend Diego Rob Brouwer & Pablo Eppelin
Netherlands✚Chile 2011 n 45 mins 35 years after the military coup in Chile, Luis Alberto Alarcón, an ex-member of President Allende’s security corps (GAP), starts a journey back home to confront his former tormentor before a judge: Manuel Vásquez Chahuán, an army official who tortured Luis Alberto at the beginning of the coup of September 11 1973. On his trip from Amsterdam to Temuco seven days prior to the hearing, Luis Alberto relives the past as he describes the man who has haunted him in nightmares for most of his life.
6.15pm–7.45pm CCA5
O Dia Que Durou 21 Anos Camilo Tavares Brazil 2012 n 77 Mins The day that lasted 21 years is a riveting documentary on the U.S. conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état. Original White House tapes of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and top secret CIA documents reveal how the US government planned to overthrow Brazilian elected president João Goulart. From 1964 to 1985 the Brazilian military dictatorship tortured and imprisoned thousands of civilians, while insuring the economic
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7.00pm–8.35pm CCA4
Protect Me
Aude Chevalier Beaumel France 2012 n 15 mins Every day, about 800 people from Central America are smuggled into Mexican territory. Travelling on the roofs of freight trains that cross Mexico from south to north, their illegal status makes them more vulnerable to the risks of falling, plus abuse from the police and organized crime, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder. They flee poverty, insecurity and violence in their countries of origin – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua – and they take with them only the hope of a new but uncertain life in the United States.
Evolution Of Violence Fritz Ofner
Austria 2011 n 77 mins Guatemala. The war ended long ago. Though the people want to forget it, the violence continues, and has spread like a cancer. Each day, journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, and social workers help the relatives of those who have been killed. The global hunger for cheap resources has been another cause of violence, and a war over bananas has taken on a life of its own. The country is still suffering from the trauma of the 36-year civil war: mass graves are found in the mountains, former rebels mourn their comrades, and
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a war criminal has nightmares about all the things he’s done. The war may have ended long ago, but peace continues to elude Guatemala. Fritz Ofner’s earlier film Walking With Cecilia will show as part of the Document Archive screenings in the Club Room on Sat 20 October.
8.00pm–10.00pm CCA5
Closing Gala: Document 10 International Jury Award Following on from the success of the 2011 event, Document again asks its international jury of film professionals to chose their winner from the Films In Competition (see list P. ???) which have been screened throughout the festival, to be announced on the night. Following the award ceremony, the winning film will be screened as the closing event of Document 10.
SuNday 28 October 2012
8.45-10.00pm CCA4
Laith Al-Juneidi Programme Document Archive Screening
War Versus Peace Laith Al-Juneidi UK 2003 n 13mins War vs Peace is a short essay on the portrayal of war, in particular its representation in the media. This film criticises the media censorship which allows us variations on a theme whilst smothering the harsh realities of war from public view. War Versus Peace attempts to raise the debate about what the viewer should/should not be allowed to see.
The Invisible Policeman Laith Al-Juneidi
UK✚Palestine 2011 n 59 mins Abu Sa’ed, a policeman at the Palestinian National Authority Police Department in Hebron, tries to live a normal life under absurd and paradoxical conditions in a divided city: “Uptown,” in the Palestinian-administered zone where he works, he wields some nominal authority as a policeman; “downtown,” where his is one of the few Palestinian families remaining in an area controlled and under lockdown by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers, he must remove his uniform and accept invisibility and powerlessness. His family is incessantly harassed by the soldiers and settlers all around them who wish to drive them out. Despite the harsh reality, Abu Sa’ed still has hopes and dreams. The paradox of Israel / Palestine embodied in one man.
SuNday 28 October 2012 1.00pm–6.30pm CCA Club Room
Document Archive Screenings Free Over ten years, Document has built up a considerable archive of powerful and relevant films covering almost every theme related to human rights, addressing the concerns of people from all backgrounds and cultures and the challenges of living where they did in their time. The comparison between them was essential in reminding us that where basic values are concerned, the local is always the universal in disguise. In this sense, the archive has become a record of how recent times have been portrayed by the filmmakers in their own contrasting ways, a record of what concerned them – and by association, what probably should have concerned the rest of us. At some point we hope to make it accessible as an educational resource. Several of the best films screened since the festival began are showing again as part of the main programme in Document 10. Inevitably there was only room for a small selection. Document invites you to attend a brief taster of free archive screenings as an extra programme taking place in the Club Room.
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Tijn Tino
Carina Ellemers Holland 2007 n 65 mins When Tijn van Dijk started his first photography project after graduating with distinction in 2002, Carina Ellemers began filming him. What interested her most was his desire to return to Indonesia, the country of his birth, to take family portraits. Carina never suspected that over the course of the project, Tijn van Dijk would revert to calling himself Tino Djumini (his birth name), move back full time, convert to Islam, get married in a Kampong, and father a child.
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The Baluty Ghetto
6 Degrees of Seperation
Czech Republic 2008 n 87 Minutes
Donovan Pennant UK 2008 n 61 mins
6 Degrees of Separation starts from the much-publicised idea that each person on the planet is connected by at most six links or degrees of association. Through this principle we are brought closer to a world often characterised as a marginalised subculture, seperated and adrift from the rest of society. An introspective look into the psyche of addiction, and the vulnerabities of those involved: through the connecting stories of Gary, Nikki, Alana, H, Tammie and Tanya, we see that our reflex conceptions of Them versus Us don’t fit; that our different lives touch closer than we might imagine, and that the apparent borders between are formed as much from our mutual fears.
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Walking With Cecilia
Fritz Ofner & Michaela Krimmer Austria 2007 n 55 mins A young shop owner from a small-town in Colombia returns to confront a painful chapter of her past: a descendent of the Arhuaco, the indigenous population of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Cecilia was forced to flee when civil war came to her doorstep three years ago. Accused of being a paramilitary informer, her only hope for survival was to escape to the city, where she opened a small store selling handicrafts. The region of Cecilia’s village has since fallen under the control of a FARC Guerilla group, known for stealing the harvests and tormenting the locals. Before Cecilia returns she must first ask permission
Pavel Stingl
A rundown neighbourhood in a town in in the middle of Europe, historically stigmatised by the Nazi’s racial hatred: today, the houses in which 200,000 people died are occupied by new inhabitants. Before World War II, Baluty was a feared criminal district of Lodz. Following their occupation of Poland, the Nazis turned it into into a Jewish ghetto. A year later in the autumn of 1941, five transports of Czech Jews arrived: these assimilated Central Europeans found themselves among the highly orthodox Hasidic locals, who spoke Yiddish – for them, a foreign language. They were made to suffer not only by the Nazi regulations, but by the Jewish ghetto council, who hated them for being different. Of 5,000 deportees, only 240 survived the war. Today, the dilapidated houses of Baluty are home to another uneasy mix of people – as if the borders of the ghetto still exist… With pictures from Henrik Ross’s unique collection of ghetto photographs, only rediscovered posthumously, The Baluty Ghetto is a timeless essay on a pariah neighbourhood.
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