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Films, lectures, presentations, discussions, exhibitions, videoteque, RiB and music
Johnny Moffat Print & Design
90 films from 35 countries over five days
document 26–31 October 2010 International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival The Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law
Tickets are available from CCA Box Office: 0141 352 4900 5-Day Festival Pass: £35.00 £15.00 Unwaged Day Pass: £10.00 £5.00 Unwaged Single Screenings: £4.00 £2.00 Unwaged All screenings and events are free to asylum seekers.
info@documentfilmfestival.org | tel 0141 332 9311| www.documentfilmfestival.org
Centre For Contemporary Art (CCA) 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow Box Office: 0141 352 4900
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Document 8 • Timetable Here we are, Document 8…
Tuesday 26th October
Bringing you a selection of inspiring, provocative and at times shocking documentaries from every corner of the globe.
Reception
7.00 pm Free
Document 8 Launch:
sponsored by The Cooperative Membership
4.45 pm – 6.15 pm Clubroom • Free
8.00 pm – 9.45 pm CCA 5
Aisheen— Still Alive in Gaza Nicolas Wadimoff
Student Forum Creating a Human Rights Culture Vikki Turbine & Elaine Webster
10.00 pm – Late CCA Bar
6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CCA 5
Document 8 provides a vital opportunity to come together, watch films, discuss, share our experiences and reflect on what human rights actually means.
Lebanon | 2009 | 56 minutes
Tickets are available from CCA Box Office:
0141 352 4900
Music
Wednesday 27th October
2.00 noon – 3.45 pm CCA 4
10.00 am – 11.30 am CCA 5 • Free
JCC Schools Screening Aisheen: Still Alive in Gaza Nicolas Wadimoff Switzerland | 2009 | 1 hour 25 minutes 12.00 noon – 1.00 pm CCA 5
La Plein Pays Antoine Boutet France | 2009 | 58 minutes
12 noon – 1.00 pm Clubroom • Free
Student Forum Photography, Documentary Film & Human Rights Chris Leslie 12.00 noon – 2.30 pm CCA 4 • Free
Student Forum Thinking about Images of Trafficking Dr Leshu Torchin
Day Pass: £10.00 £2.00 Unwaged
All screenings and events are free to asylum seekers.
Denmark | 2009 | 16 minutes
Thursday 28 October
Writing Workshop Mental Health Writing Workshop – PEN
Single Screenings: £4.00
Denied Aage Rais-Nordentoft
JCC Schools Screening I See Heroes Mahmoud Hojeij
Screening and Discussion 1.15 pm – 2.15 pm Clubroom • Free
£5.00 Unwaged
Germany | 2009 | 49 minutes
10.00 am – 11.30 am CCA 4 • Free
5-Day Festival Pass: £35.00 £15.00 Unwaged
Britain | 2009 | 23 minutes 20 seconds
Facing The World Gerd Samland
Switzerland | 2009 | 1 hour 25 minutes
Document Festival
Sari Stories Sue Sudbury
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm CCA Bar
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow
Human rights are constantly in the rhetoric of the political classes both here and abroad.Yet in Scotland, the UK and across the globe, individuals and communities continue to suffer human rights abuses on an ongoing basis.
Welcome.
4.45 pm – 6.15 pm CCA 4
1.15 pm – 2.30 pm CCA 5 • Free
Student Forum You don’t have to go far to find a subject... Holger Mohaupt Screening and Discussion
2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Clubroom • Free
Student Forum Community Film and Human Rights Kirsten McLeod Screening & Workshop
2.45pm – 3.45 pm CCA 5 • Free
Student Forum: Accidental Media Fistful of Roses Leo Bruges Scotland | 2010 | 15 minutes 2.45 pm – 4.30 pm CCA 4
Nowhere In Europe Kerstin Nickig Germany/Poland | 2009 | 1 hour 38 minutes 3.40 pm – 4.35 pm Clubroom • Free
Student Forum Representations of the Sex Industry in the New Europe Dr Katarzyna Kosmala 4.00pm – 6.00 pm CCA 5 • Free
Student Forum Aisheen: Still Alive in Gaza Nicolas Wadimoff Switzerland | 2009 | 1 hour 25 minutes
Feminism & Human Rights 12.00 noon – 1.15 am
Salam Rugby Faramarz Beheshti Iran | 2010 | 1 hour 10 minutes 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm
Rights Not Rescue Open Society Institute USA | 2010 | 9 minutes
The Sex Worker’s World Cup 2006 Tanja Chawla, Christina Schäfer, Doro Wiese Germany/Spain | 2010 | 28 minutes 2.45 pm – 3.45 pm CCA 4
Honour Me Alex Tweedle UK | 2009 | 15 minutes 2.45 pm – 3.45 pm Clubroom Free
Women’s Writing Workshop 4.00 pm – 5.45 pm CCA 4
When You Die As A Cat Zoran Maslic Canada | 2009 | 1 hour 25 minutes 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm Clubroom free
Asylum Seeker/Refugee Writing Workshop – PEN 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm CCA 4
Miss Sunshine Beatriz Osorno Mexico | 2009 | 1 hour 16 minutes 6.00 pm – 9.30 pm CCA 5
Feminism & Human Rights 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm
Forbidden Sun Dance Lila Ghobady Canada | 2008 | 34 minutes
Back and Forth Performance by the Maryhill Integration Network (MIN). 8.00 pm – 9.30 pm free
Women’s Rights in the context of the ‘War on Terror’ Gita Saghal Lecture 8.00 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 4
Fataki Serge Kayumbi, David Dempster, Leona Buchanan DRC/UK | 2010 | 9 minutes 3 seconds
Sombras – Letters from the Shadows Oriol Canals Spain | 2009 | 1 hour 34 minutes
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Friday 29 October
8.45 pm – 10.15 pm CCA 4
8.30 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 4
12 noon – 6.00 pm CCA 5
Gyula Nemes Hungary | 2008 | 20 minutes 16 seconds
Latvia | 2009 | 1 hour 20 minutes 21 seconds
Poverty Awareness Day 12 noon – 2.00 pm
Making A Difference: Stories from the Fight Against Poverty in Scotland The Templehall Project Harry Brown, Jamie Clunie, Leigh Clunie, Chevonne Leggat Scotland | 2010 |
Tae Sail On Them Is No Their Fate Pat Adams, Eamon Boyle, Lisa Garnham, Betty MacLean, Alex Scullion, Ann Vance Scotland | 2010 | 17 minutes 12 seconds
You Always Think There’s Nothing There The Damned Rebel Bitches / Chris Bowman Scotland | 2010 | 20 minutes 10 seconds 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm | CCA 5
Left Behind Fabian Daub & Andreas Gräfenstein Germany | 2009 | 13 minutes
Peking 2008 Dagmara Drazazga
Poland | 2009 | 39 minutes 4.30 pm – 6.00 pm CCA 5
The Poet of Poverty? Sean Dougherty, Tana Ross and Freke Vujist USA | 2008 | 52 minutes 12 noon – 1.15 pm CCA 4
Shatila Camp Valentina Lombardo
Italy | 2009 | 20 minutes 40 seconds
Visible Human Beings Fatima Helow
Scotland | 2010 | 19 minutes 23 seconds
Lost World
Freedom is Frightening Stefano Bisulli and Roberto Naccari Italy | 2009 | 58 minutes
Saturday 30th October 12.00 noon – 2.00 pm CCA 5 • Free
Young People’s Programme Part of Inspiration Festival JCC present: Baghdad’s Angel Rashid Masharawi
Sunday 31th October 12.30 pm – 1.15pm CCA 4
Scrap Lads Johnny White Ireland | 2006 | 25 minutes
The Bristol Bike Project Alistair Oldham UK | 2009 | 18 minutes 20 seconds
Mixed Shorts Walk with a guide Maciej Cendrowski
Hurriya and Her Sisters Paula Abood
50 years Vicki Lesley
Africa | 2010 | 3 minutes
Australia | 2009 | 12 minutes 25 seconds 12 noon – 1.00 pm CCA 4
The Fear Factory Joanna Natasegara & Richard Symons
Poland | 2009 | 11 minutes
UK | 2010 | 3 minutes 36 seconds
Family Digital Desperadoes
Pakistan | 2009 | 7 minutes 20 seconds Psychic Capital
UK | 2010 | 58 minutes 48 seconds
Jessica MacCormack, Rae Spoon
1.15 pm – 2.45 pm CCA 4
We Are Winning Don’t Forget Jean-Gabriel Périot
The Immediate Broth Presents… Palimpsest Neil Gray UK | 2010 | 15 minutes
The Process Sacha Kahir / Nick e Melville UK | 2010 | 23 minutes
Vaguing in Oppidanus Neil Gray / Sacha Kahir UK | 2010 | 20 minutes 2.15 pm – 4.45 pm CCA 5
3.00 pm – 4.45 pm CCA 4
With Sandra Raúl Cuevas
Spain | 2009 | 1 hour 52 minutes
12.45 pm – 1.45 pm CCA 5
Spain | 2009 | 18 minutes
Spain | 2009 | 53 minutes
To Shoot an Elephant Alberto Arce, Mohammad Rujailah
A Fish Out of Water Ruth Tekleasmelash, Mary Gabrmichael, Rediat Abayneh
2.45 pm – 3.45 pm CCA 4
The Voice Because Of You Antonio Girón Serrano
8.30 pm – 10.15 pm CCA 5
Palastine | 2009 | 52 minutes
Scottish Documentary Institute Masterclass Presumed Guilty Roberto Hernández & Geoffrey Smith
1.30 pm – 2.30 pm CCA 4
Tide Ivars Zviedris
Mexico/UK | 2009 | 86 minutes
Canada | 2009 | 15 minutes 49 seconds
France | 2003 | 7 minutes
Border Eni Brandner
Austria | 2009 | 5 minutes 10 seconds 1.30 pm – 3.00 pm CCA 4
Pravo Ljudski Exchange
What Do I Know Sejla Kameric Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2007 | 15 minutes
Mum’n’Dad Faruk Loncarevic
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2006 | 65 minutes 2.00 pm – 4.30 pm CCA 5 • Free
Suddenly Last Winter Gustav Hofer & Luca Ragazzi Italy | 2008 | 1 hour 20 minutes 3.15 pm – 4.30pm CCA 4
Mona Agnes Rossa
Austria | 2008 | 29 minutes 34 seconds
Absent Present Angelika Levi
Little Straw Ryan Xiayang Wu
USA | 2008 | 26 minutes
Germany | 2010 | 1 hour 25 minutes
P.R. China | 2009 | 38 minutes 41 seconds
4.00 pm – 5.15 pm CCA 4
5.00 pm – 6.00 pm CCA 5
4.45 pm – 6.00 pm CCA 5
Offense Taken Jerry Smith Rwanda Again Lawrence Blankenbyl
Paquita and Everything Else David Moncasi
The Road To Drumleman Jan Nimmo
New Zealand | 2009 | 52 minutes
Spain | 2010 | 54 minutes
Scotland | 2010 | 51 minutes
5.30 pm – 6.30 pm CCA 4
5.00 pm – 6.30 pm CCA 4
4.45 pm – 6.00 pm CCA 4
Salaam Isfahan Sanaz Azari Belgium | 2009 | 59 minutes
6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CCA 5 Pravo Ljudski Exchange What Remains Clarissa Thieme Germany | 2009 | 30 minutes
Tragovi Guillermo Carreras-Candi Spain | 2009 | 92 minutes
6.45 pm – 7.15 pm CCA 4
Confessions of a Sex Tourist Puja Khoschsorur Austria | 2009 | 29 minutes 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm CCA 4
Weapon Of War Ilse and Femke van Velzen
Netherlands | 2009 | 59 minutes 20 seconds 8.30 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 5
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away Jez Lewis UK | 2009 | 1 hour 28 minutes
Camcorder Guerillas present Petrol in my Food Last Supper for Malthus The Permanent Food Crisis Klaus Pas UK Premiere | Switzerland | 2009 | 52 minutes
Petrol in my Food Camcorder Guerillas Scotland | 2010 | 3 minutes
Skipping Dinner Camcorder Guerillas
Scotland | 2010 | 10 minutes 6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CCA 5
Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary Margo Harkin Northern Ireland | 2007 | 1 hour 30 minutes 7.00 pm – 8.15 pm CCA 4
My Beloved Sulukule Nejla Osseiran
Turkey | 2010 | 9 minutes 57 seconds The Romany King
Viliam Poltikoviˇc
Czech Republic | 2009 | 60 minutes
Her Way To Go Katrin Mackowski
Germany | 2009 | 45 minutes 6.15 pm – 7.30 pm CCA 5
Making Waves Nathan Akhtar & Micheal Diver, Diversity Films (Brand New) Scotland | 2010 | 17 minutes 42 seconds
Sighthill Stories Darren Hercher UK | 2008 | 58 minutes
6.15 pm – 7.45 pm CCA 4
Beauty & Brains Catherine Donaldson
UK | 2010 | 1 hour 24 minutes 8.00 pm – 9.30 pm CCA 4
Shout Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Ester Gould Netherlands | 2010 | 74 minutes 8.00 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 5
The Indlovu Project Jak Milroy Scotland | 2010 | 15 minutes
The Silver Fez Lloyd Ross
South Africa | 2009 | 1 hour 27 minutes
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Events & Collaborations 11.00 am Friday 22 October GFT, 12 Rose St.
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Eamonn McCann Sofa Event
Student Forums
School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
Document brings together students from across the UK to take part in our festival forum to explore the representation and witness of human rights abuses.
The Legacy Issue: Putting the wrongs of the Northern Ireland conflict to rights Eamonn McCann will trace the way a local campaign against injustice and inequality in Derry sparked a more generalised revolt against the State and led on to 30 years of Trouble. He will assess the extent to which the events which detonated the Troubles can be seen as part of the global upsurge of ‘60s radicalism and whether, if at all, the subsequent course of the Northern Ireland conflict fitted into any wider pattern. Was “the struggle” always a matter of communal rivalry and hostilities? If the Good Friday Agreement is now seen as the answer, what was the question? One of the early organisers of the NI civil rights movement, Eamonn McCann has been active in radical politics for more than 40 years. He currently contributes political columns to the Belfast Telegraph, the Derry Journal, the music magazine Hot Press and Socialist Worker. He is chairman of the Bloody Sunday Trust, a member of the National Executive of the NUJ and of the Northern Committee of the Irish Congress of Trades Unions.
Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) Since its launch, Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) has strived to provide its audience with a wide array of documentary and fiction films specifically made for them. In 2007, a series of documentaries and feature films were commissioned to wellknown Arab and international directors in an attempt to create a dynamism in production in the Arabic children TV industry. JCC documentary and fiction productions abide by the international standards for Television production while creating content that is relevant to Arab children and youth around the world; content that is inspired by them and made to tackle their problems, to answer their questions, and most importantly to provide them with a platform to express their thoughts and tell their stories. JCC is dedicated to producing films and documentaries that support and promote its mission to continue providing children and youth with the opportunity to learn, understand and respect the cultural diversity of the world, stimulate their creative thinking, create a forum for constructive dialogue and ultimately contribute to edifying the rights and responsibilities of citizenship which frame civic life in the Arab world.
Students from Glasgow, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, St. Andrews, West of Scotland and Bolton Universities, City of Glasgow College and Glasgow School of Art. will attend sessions delivered by academics, artists, photographers and more. Open to all.
Student Forums 12.00 noon – 2.30pm
Thinking about Images of Trafficking
1.15 pm – 2.30 pm
Holger Mohaupt – “you don’t have to go far to find a subject”
2.45 pm – 3.45 pm
Accidental Media – A Fistful of Roses
4.00 pm – 6.00 pm
JCC – Aisheen – Still Alive in Gaza
12.00 noon – 1.00 pm
Chris Leslie - Photography, Documentary Film & Human Rights.
2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Kirsten McLeod - Community Film & Human Rights
3.40 pm – 4.35 pm
Representations of the Sex Industry in the New Europe
4.45 pm – 6.15 pm
Creating a Human Rights Culture
6.15 pm GSA Macintosh Museum
Drinks Reception Glasgow School of Art reception is open to all attendees of the Student Forum. The reception with be held in the Museum space of the Macintosh Building, GSA, 167 Renfrew St.
6.00pm – 7.30pm | Thursday 28th October CCA 5
Dance House & Maryhill Integration Network:
Forbidden Sun Dance Lila Ghobady
Canada | 2008 | 34 minutes
School Screening
Forbidden Sun Dance is a film about Aram Bayat, a choreographer and teacher of Persian folk dance living in exile in Montreal, Canada. After the 1979 revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, along with other restricted areas of art, dancing was banned. Many of the artists who had helped shape the revolution resisted the censorship and rules of the Islamic regime and were executed, put in prison or forced into exile.
10.00 am – 11.30 am
Aisheen – Still Alive in Gaza, workshop for 16 – 18 year olds
Aram Bayat is one of those artists – in exile, she has kept Persian folk dancing alive for the last two
10.00 am – 11.30 am
I See Heroes, workshop for 12 – 16 year olds
Back and Forth
Tues 26 October 8.00 pm – 10.00 pm
Wed 27 October
Sat 30 October 12.00 noon – 2.00 pm
Opening Film Aisheen – Still Alive in Gaza
Young People’s Programme Baghdad’s Angel, workshop 12 – 16 year olds, buffet lunch
Performance by the Maryhill Integration Network (MIN) An exciting and moving piece of dance, music and poetry exploring the pain and sorrow of the forced and unexpected journeys of Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Panel discussion Aram Bayat, MIN and Dance House
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Events & Collaborations Pravo Ljudski Exchange
Glasgow University PEN
Projecting Bosnia and Herzegovina
Writing Workshops Glasgow University PEN is a collection of current and ex-students of creative writing. We are a subsidiary of Scottish PEN and International PEN, a dynamic worldwide association of writers pledged to protect freedom of expression and promote literature across frontiers throughout the world. www.scottishpen.org Wed 27 October 1.15 pm – 2.15 pm CCA Clubroom
Mental Health Writing Workshop Thurs 28 October 2.45pm – 3.45pm CCA Clubroom
Women’s Writing Workshop
Thurs 28 October 6.00pm – 7.00pm CCA Clubroom
Asylum Seeker/Refugee Writing Workshop Sunday 31 October 8.00 pm CCA Bar
PEN Showcase
Allison Miller, Tom Leonard Readings from Document 8 PEN writing workshops Introduction by Drew Campbell, President, Scottish PEN
ICGWS
Women’s Rights in the Context of the “War on Terror” Gita Sahgal Lecture
Gita Sahgal will use clips of her films on secular spaces, and war crimes – made during the Rushdie affair – to show how British domestic politics have shaped anti-terrorism strategies. She will discuss how apparently opposing political forces converged to embrace Fundamentalists and attack the universality of human rights. Clips from ‘Struggle or Submission’ Bandung File , Channel 4 and Hullaballoo over Satanic Verses. In association with International Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies (ICGWS), University of Glasgow.
12.00 noon – 6.00 pm | Friday 29th October CCA5
Poverty Awareness Day 2010 has been declared the European Year for Combating Poverty & Social Exclusion. As part of the year, The Poverty Alliance and Document Festival commissioned three films – Making A Difference, Stories from the fight against Poverty in Scotland. The films are showcased as part of Poverty Awareness Day along with films from our international call for submissions with a series of discussions. Making A Difference Panel discussion: Where does Action on Poverty go now? 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Left Behind Peking 2008 Panel Discussion: Media Representation of Poverty
4.30 pm – 6.00pm
How to encompass the beauty of diversity both in terms of aesthetics as well as narratives? How to open the doors, and warmly welcome everyone in a country and a festival still living between past and present, and not be insolent, sad, intrusive... We took this journey as an exchange between two cities, two festivals, two vigorous platforms that can not only share, but also build on each other, reflect on each other, open questions for each other. And breed, and grow, and mature on the way through… Like in a glance, warm and touching, Projecting Bosnia and Herzegovina and Projecting Scotland are spaces where we can experience each other. Experience moments of happiness, compassion, pain, sadness, commonality, love... experience life… We really hope that Projecting Bosnia and Herzegovina and Projecting Scotland will inspire our, hopefully large festival audiences to open their homes for each other and to hold on to their faith that sharing and understanding is not only vital and essential, but also possible and achievable.
8.00 pm – 9.30 pm
12.00 noon – 2.00 pm
Programming Projecting Bosnia and Herzegovina was, first of all professionally, but then more so emotionally, a search, an exploration.
The Poet of Poverty? Panel Discussion: Poverty & Human Rights
Kumjana Novakova, Creative Director and Festival Programmer Human Rights Film Festival Pravo Ljudski
5th Human Rights Film Festival Pravo Ljudski Sarajevo 15 November, 2010
http://www.pravoljudski.org Pravo Ljudski has established itself as a public forum for alternative, critical, and engaged enquiry, by encouraging discussion through sharing and exchange, and supporting the human rights values and democratic culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina. By providing a platform for socially engaged creative documentary and other art forms, in an informal setting, Pravo Ljudski’s annual Human Rights Film Festival, art projects and other initiatives, aim to facilitate the development of critical spectatorship in Bosnia and Herzegovina and South East Europe. CCA 5 6.15pm - 8.15pm
Fri 29th October 2010 What Remains Tragovi
CCA 5 1.30pm - 3.00pm
Sunday 31st October 2010 What Do I Know Mum’n’Dad
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Tuesday 26 October
Wednesday 27th October
Document 8 Launch 7.00 pm – 8.00 pm CCA Bar
Reception sponsored by The Cooperative Membership
8.00 pm – 9.45 pm CCA 5
Aisheen
10.00 am – 11.30 am CCA 4
symbols he can – maybe – forestall the expected planetary disaster.
I See Heroes
A film that explores the borderline between mysticism and mental illness.
JCC Schools Screening
Mahmo ud Hojeij Lebanon | 2009 | 56 minutes
Still Alive in Gaza
Nicolas Wadimoff Switzerland | 2009 | 1 hour 25 minutes
“Where is the ghost town?” inquires the little boy. “It’s there, right there….but it has been bombed. Do you want to see it?” asks the theme park attendant. It is with these words that Aisheen Still Alive in Gaza begins its impressionist journey through a devastated Gaza. The film tells the story about the wait after the invasion. The wait for a better future inside the biggest prison in the world, where planes still prowl overhead, where bombings don’t stop, men and women wandering through the ruins and fishermen savour the few fish caught by their nets in this now forbidden sea. Through encounters in ordinary places, Aisheen portrays a different Gaza from the one we see on television news; a Gaza in which everything takes on a different meaning. Poetic and surreal, at times, the film questions the meaning of life and the reality that the men, women and children of Gaza face on a daily basis while simply trying to survive. Condemned to living under atrocious conditions where basic human rights are denied and death lurks round every corner, the residents of Gaza begin to rebuild, brick by brick. Aisheen – Still Alive in Gaza is a tribute to life – to freedom and against injustice International Berlin Film Festival 2010, Ecumenical prize of the jury.
I See Heroes is a film about Arab children and their heroes. In the form of a game, they are asked to play more than one hundred different roles in front of the camera. In the process, the children from different backgrounds and countries take us on a journey into their homes and playgrounds and introduce us to their friends and parents. The film delves into the minds and hearts of these children who are invited to play, sing and act to celebrate what they consider as the heroic acts of their favourite idols. Workshop for 12–16 year olds
10.00 am – 11.30 am CCA 5
JCC Schools Screening
Aisheen Still Alive in Gaza
Nicolas Wadimoff Switzerland | 2009 | 1 hour 25 minutes
See Tuesday for details. Workshop for 16-18 year olds
12.00 noon – 1.00 pm CCA 5
International Nyon Documentary Film Festival 2010, Award Buyens/Chagoll and a special mention of the Youth Jury. Screened at HotDocs (2010)
10.00 pm – Late CCA Bar
Music La Plein Pays
Antoine Boutet France | 2009 | 58 minutes
A man has been living for 30 years as a recluse in a forest in France. Alone, he hews out deep underground tunnels and galleries, which he decorates with enigmatic carvings. With the help of these
12 noon – 1.00 pm Clubroom
Student Forum Photography, Documentary Film & Human Rights
Chris Leslie Chris is a Documentary Filmaker and Photographer. He has worked with many oversees charities in countries such as Rwanda, Sierra Leone and The Baltic States documenting various Human Rights abuses and the aftermath of war and genocide. He has also documented the regeneration of the East End of Glasgow and in particular followed the eviction of many tenants to make way for the Commonwealth Games.
12.00 noon – 2.30 pm CCA 4
Student Forum Thinking about Images of Trafficking
Dr Leshu Torchin Screening and Discussion
In this session, we open up a complex overview of human trafficking and modern day slavery through a viewing of the rare and stunning documentary, When Mother Comes Home for Christmas (Nilita Vachani, 1995) — once described by Observer (NY) critic Stuart Klawans as ‘the best film you’ll never see’.The film tells the story of Josephine Perera, a Sri Lankan domestic worker in Greece, who has managed to secure a rare visa home to visit the family she has not seen in eight years. Not strictly a case of trafficking in terms of modern slavery and certainly atypical for its focus on domestic as opposed to sexual labour, Perera’s story allows us to explore a grey zone where national practices of exporting labour and conditions of extreme poverty lead to different ways of understanding coercion, exploitation, and mobility. It is a powerful and heart-breaking story set in the context of economic globalisation.
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Wednesday 27th October Dr Leshu Torchin is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. She is the co-author of Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe (St Andrews Film Studies, 2010) with William Brown and Dina Iordanova and she looks forward to the publication of her monograph, Creating the Witness: Genocide in the Age of Film, Video, and the Internet (University of Minnesota Press) in 2012. Followed by discussion
1.15 pm – 2.15 pm Clubroom
Writing Workshop Mental Health Writing Workshop – PEN
Etta Dunn will lead a writing workshop on the issues raised in the film Le Plein Pays. The results of the workshop can be read at the PEN event in the CCA Bar on the closing night 8.00 pm, Sun 31st October.
1.15 pm – 2.30 pm CCA 5
Student Forum You don’t have to go far to find a subject
Holger Mohaupt Screening and Discussion
Holger Mohaupt (senior lecturer in Media Practice at School of Arts, Media & Education) presents a screening of his film ‘Lower Left’ followed by a discussion around the theme ‘you don’t have to go far to find a subject’ Holger uses ‘Lower Left’ as a case study in how to source free music with no copyright, incorporate animation, stills and found footage.With creative ingenuity, how do you find, recognize and use what is there to be discovered. The talk will give a brief insight into multi-platform research and provide the audience with some of the essential ingredients for home-made filmmaking. “It is our home that most greatly shapes our identities and it is the backdrop of the most intimate memories and events of our lives.”
2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Clubroom
Student Forum
Community Film and Human Rights Kirsten McLeod
Screening & Workshop
Kirsten McLeod (University of West of Scotland) will lead a session on community film based around the film, The Govan Banners.
2.45pm – 3.45 pm CCA 5
Student Forum Accidental Media
Fistful of Roses
contact to the protagonists, the author documents their attempts to find a new place to live in Europe over the course of year, and with that, their hopes, fears and longing for a return to normality.
Leo Bruges
Scotland | 2010 | 15 minutes
Despite Edinburgh’s reputation as one of the safest cities in Britain, Innes Wood takes the dangers of the night very seriously. Armed for conflict with a stabproof vest and everyday objects that serve as weapons, Innes is the last Scot on Edinburgh’s rose-selling beat. He has a righteous anger reminiscent of Travis Bickle from Scorses’s Taxi Driver.Yet due to his fear of violence, Innes is planning to quit the job. Fistful of Roses follows Innes from his well-secured council flat to the street marketplace and back home. As the story unfolds, Innes reveals a complex set of clashing values. He is a saint and a sinner, Christian and misogynist, violent yet meek. Through the night, Innes’s negative attitude becomes a beacon for the violence that spirals out of control. Discussion: Documentary Ethics
Director, Leo Bruges & Producer, Peter Gerard
2.45 pm – 4.30 pm CCA 4
Nowhere In Europe Kerstin Nickig
Germany/Poland | 2009 | 1 hour 38 minutes
A film on the effects European refugee policies have on four refugees of the conflict in Chechnya and their families: “AsSalamu Alaykum, Europe” is how the diary of the journalist, Ali (39), begins as he waits in Poland for a decision to be made on his asylum request. In his smoke-filled room at the refugee home he has more than enough time to record his observations and thoughts on both Europe and his own crisis of identity in exile. Wacha (50) has been granted asylum as a political activist in Austria, but his son is being persecuted in Russia. He tries everything in his power to get him to Europe.Tamara (55) lives with her husband and daughter in Vienna. Her handicapped daughter needs urgent medical attention, but the family is facing the threat of deportation. Ruslan (33) is stuck in the Ukraine. He has neither a residence permit nor money. He hopes to be able to take his family to Western Europe soon. Each of the protagonists has fled from Chechnya as their lives there were in danger. As asylum-seekers in Europe they now face new problems: man vs. state machine. How do I prove that I am who I say I am? That what happened to me really did happen to me? And does anyone really care? While keeping close
3.40 pm – 4.35 pm Clubroom
Student Forum Representations of the Sex Industry in the New Europe
Dr Katarzyna Kosmala Lecture and Discussion
Dr Katarzyna Kosmala is a reader at the Creative Practice/Research group and Centre of Contemporary European Studies, University of the West of Scotland and a freelance art writer and curator, and a visiting research fellow at the GEXcel Centre of Gender Excellence, University of Linkoping, Sweden. She has just published in Third Text ‘Expanded cities in expanded Europe: Resisting identities, feminist politics and their utopias’ (2010). She is currently working on edited collection: Precarious Spaces: Art & Social/ Organisational Change. She will discuss her on-going project on representation of sex as labour in the New Europe. She will use the examples of video installation projects in order to discuss the problematic of labour circulation in the New Europe, in particular in the sex industry. Artistic strategies, enveloped in feminist relational aesthetics, raise questions over a notion of free movement of citizens across the border, and render visible the complexities of gender
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Wednesday 27th October hierarchies in the region, engaging with inequalities via the politics of labour and the politics of representation.
4.00pm – 6.00 pm CCA 5
Student Forum
Aisheen Still Alive in Gaza
Nicolas Wadimoff Switzerland | 2009 | 1 hour 25 minutes
See Tuesday for details. Discussion
4.45 pm – 6.15 pm CCA 4
organisational problems. We follow media trainee Tyson as he visits the Garma Festival in the Northern Territory, an important indigenous cultural exchange event. We visit Neil Turner the head of the PAKAM network in Broome, helping JTV out with technical support. The world-renowned travesty artist Mary G invites us to his garage radio show. The famous pop singer duo Stiff Gins give us a private concert at the Cooks River in Sydney.
seekers sought refuge in Brorson’s church in Copenhagen to avoid being expelled. Several of the Iraqis have been in Denmark for up to ten years. Their children were born here, speak Danish and went to Danish schools. On August 13th 2009, at midnight, the Danish government sends the police into the church.
Like a Man on Earth
Andrea Segre, Dagmawi
They all have one thing in common: they fight against prejudice and for recognition in Australian society. They use film and radio to preserve their cultural knowledge, to reach out to the young generation and give them pride in their own culture. It’s a film for indigenous and non-indigenous people who are ready to cross the bridge to the other side.
4.45 pm – 6.15 pm Clubroom
Sari Stories Sue Sudbury
Britain | 2009 | 23 minutes 20 seconds
Sari Stories is about a unique project in Southern India where a group of rural women are being trained to be video reporters – a local government initiative to alleviate rural poverty. The women, being child brides themselves, choose to make their first film about the problems of child marriage; Sari Stories is about this project, but I also asked four of the women to film their everyday lives. The film tells the remarkable story of how some women are able to use video cameras to help them challenge traditional ways of life and get their voices heard for the first time.
Facing The World Gerd Samland
Germany | 2009 | 49 minutes
In Facing the World we follow Joog, Tyson, Michael and Lorraine starting JTV, their own indigenous TV Station in Roebourne, Western Australia. We plunge into a diverse network of indigenous artists and media workers. With great commitment they are facing the daily challenges of media production. We accompany the team, producing films and solving various technical and
Student Forum Creating a Human Rights Culture
Vikki Turbine, Glasgow University & Elaine Webster, Strathclyde University
This workshop will aim to generate critical discussion around students’ human rights awareness/activism using the concept of ‘human rights culture’ as the starting point.What do we mean by a human rights culture? Where, when, how are human rights relevant? A panel of invited speakers will respond to questions and participate in discussion, offering multiple perspectives on how human rights are promoted and protected. In addition to a roundtable discussion, the workshop will include small breakout groups: Studying rights, living rights: What are the tensions? Inclusion/exclusion: who participates in a human rights culture? Human rights talk: How significant is the express use of human rights language? The role of the media: How important is the media in creating/sustaining/damaging such a culture?
6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CCA 5
Denied
Aage Rais-Nordentoft Denmark | 2009 | 16 minutes
In May 2009, around 80 Iraqi asylum
Yimer, Riccardo Biadene Italy | 2008 | 60 minutes
Giving voice to the Ethiopian refugees living in Rome, the film provides a direct insight into the brutal way in which Libya, aided also by Italian and European funds, is operating to control the immigration movements of people from Africa. Dag used to study Law in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Prompted by the strong political repression that he faced in Ethiopia, he decides to leave the country. In the winter of 2005, he embarks on a tough land journey, crossing the desert between Sudan and Libya. On his arrival in Libya, he is soon caught in a web of violence and criminal activities run by the rackets group controlling the routes through the Mediterranean Sea. His situation goes from bad to worse. This film is screened in association with GRAMNet.
6.30 pm – 7.45 pm CCA 4
Faces of the Frontier
Thomas Marschall, Nikolaus Braunshör Austria | 1 hour 10 minutes
The State of Mato Grosso (“the luxuriant forest”) is Brazil’s biggest exporter of agricultural produce. The main products exported are soy for rearing livestock, and cotton for the clothing industry. Big
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Wednesday 27th October landowners in possession of large areas of land and agro-companies lay claim to progress and the future. In the service of an agro-industry now supplying world markets, they are slowly eradicating every other form of work and production in the region. Settlers, smallholders and squatters are nonetheless defying the laws of the market in an attempt to retain land and economic independence. Between these two fronts, bewildered by the consequences of the “white man’s” economic policy, stands Brazil’s indigenous population. Forced into reservations or driven from their land, these people have become mute witnesses to the destruction of their home and culture.
8.00 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 4
The Shutdown Adam Stafford
UK | 2009 | 10 minutes
Alan Bissett recalls the intense experience of growing up next to one of Europe’s largest petrochemical plants and the harrowing experience of an explosion that temporarily deformed his father.
Strange Homeland Jens Schanze
Germany | 2007 | 1 hour 21 minutes
Otzenrath, a little 700 year old village near Cologne, is the first among 13 other villages that are resettled due to “Garzweiler II”, Europe’s largest opencast lignite pit. Despite the harmful effects of CO2, the exploitation of lignite for the production of electric power will continue until at least the middle of the 21st century.
Algeria Images of a Fight
The 2600 inhabitants of Otzenrath started their collective resettlement in 2000. That was the year we made our first film with them (“Waste Land”). Seven years later we visit them again in their new homes in “Neu-Otzenrath”. “Strange Homeland” documents the impact of the gigantic industrial lignite project on the lives of people in a country that – like any other industrialized nation – is addicted to electric power in order to maintain the living standard of its people.
Jérôme Laffont
France | 2009 | 52 minutes
8.30 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 5
Amanar Tamasheq Lluis Escartin
Spain/Catalonia | 2010 | 14 minutes 61 seconds
The extremes of observational cinema are explored in Amanar Tamasheq. A poetic montage of images and sounds showing the Sahara and its nomadic inhabitants in all its harsh beauty, Amanar Tamasheq focuses on the encounter between the filmmaker and some of the Tuareg people in open rebellion to an unnamed govern-
ment. He is asked to record their story, even if he does not understand what he is documenting. A powerful statement of cinema as an art with an expressive intelligence of its own.
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.
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Thursday 28 October 2.00 noon – 3.45 pm CCA 4
Feminism & Human Rights
ination. A report published by the Open Society Institute, “Rights Not Rescue“, is based on a series of interviews and focus groups with sex workers and advocates throughout the three countries. In this animated short film, sex workers who participated in the research tell their personal stories and collectively call for hope and change.
2.45 pm – 3.45 pm Clubroom
Women’s Writing Workshop – PEN Helen Sedgwick will lead a writing workshop based on themes taken from the films of the day, focusing on women’s rights throughout the world. Discussions about women’s rights and the power of writing will be followed by writing individually or in groups.The results of the workshop can be read at the PEN event in the CCA Bar on the closing night: 8.00 pm, Sunday 31st October.
4.00 pm – 5.45 pm CCA 4
The Sex Worker’s World Cup 2006
Tanja Chawla, Christina Schäfer, Doro Wiese Germany/Spain | 2010 | 28 minutes
12.00 noon – 1.15 am
Salam Rugby
Faramarz Beheshti Iran | 2010 | 1 hour 10 minutes
The introduction of women’s rugby in Iran, coincided with the election of Ahmadinejad as president. A 7000 kilometere journey across Iran, meeting some of the young women who have picked up the sport, often called American Football. Salaam Rugby is not just a rugby film…
1.30 pm – 2.30 pm
Rights Not Rescue
Open Society Institute USA | 2010 | 9 minutes
Sex workers are subjected to widespread human rights abuses including: police violence and unequal access to health care in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Despite enormous challenges, they are organizing to protect their rights and demand an end to violence and discrim-
Just before the World Cup 2006, Germany was overrun by the rumour that 40,000 women were going to be trafficked into Germany for forced prostitution. This short film tries to grasp how the discourse came about, and what the realities were for sex workers during the games. Discussion: Sex Workers’ Human Rights
Christina Schäfer, Director Representative from Scottish Prostitutes Education Project: Promoting Health and Dignity in Prostitution
2.45 pm – 3.45 pm CCA 4
Honour Me
Alex Tweedle UK | 2009 | 15 minutes
Abused by her family, forced into marriage, raped, pregnant at 13 then hunted down for violating her family’s honour. “Honour Me” is the shocking, compelling true story of Sameem Ali’s struggle to break free from her past and fight back against her upbringing. Discussion
Amina – The Muslim Women’s Resource Centre
When You Die As A Cat Zoran Maslic
Canada | 2009 | 1 hour 25 minutes
After the war in Bosnia, poet Goran Simic immigrates to Canada hoping that he could be what he was before.The road is bumpy, not only because of a different language and culture or because of an industry of importing people. Even in his new life, the war keeps walking beside him.
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm Clubroom
Asylum Seeker/Refugee Writing Workshop – PEN Sue Reid Sexton will lead the workshop around issues raised by the film When you Die as a Cat. Open to all, including anyone interested in the collaborative process of putting their own or someone else’s work into English.The results of the workshop can be read at the PEN event in the CCA Bar on the closing night: 8.00 pm, Sunday 31st October.
6.00 pm – 7.30 pm CCA 4
Miss Sunshine Beatriz Osorno
Mexico | 2009 | 1 hour 16 minutes
Opinions, experiences and life stories come together in this documentary that reveals the duality of the characters’ personalities. Miss Sunshine is the story of all those women who make possible the impossible, who challenge society’s rejection and disapproval each day. It shows the life of women who walk firmly in a world that blocks their way. No matter how hard their ancestral blue paths are, they break through the social wall which seeks to keep them as sick pink dolls.
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Thursday 28 October 6.00 pm – 9.30 pm CCA 5
Feminism & Human Rights 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm
other restricted areas of art, dancing was banned. Many of the artists, who had helped shape the revolution, resisted the censorship and rules of the Islamic regime and were executed, put in prison or were forced into exile.
Forbidden Sun Dance
Aram Bayat is one of those artists – in exile, she has kept Persian folk dancing alive for the last two decades.
Canada | 2008 | 34 minutes
Back and Forth
Lila Ghobady
Performance by the Maryhill Integration Network (MIN).
Forbidden Sun Dance is a film about Aram Bayat, a choreographer and teacher of Persian folk dance living in exile in Montreal, Canada. After the 1979 revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, along with
An exciting and moving piece of dance, music and poetry: exploring the pain and sorrow of the forced and unexpected journeys of Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Panel discussion
Aram Bayat, MIN and Dance House.
8.00 pm – 9.30 pm
Women’s Rights in the context of the ‘War on Terror’ Gita Saghal Lecture
Gita Sahgal will use clips of her films on secular spaces, and war crimes – made during the Rushdie affair &ndashl to show how British domestic politics have shaped anti-terrorism strategies. She will discuss how apparently opposing political forces converged to embrace Fundamentalists and attack the universality of human rights. With clips from ‘Struggle or Submission’ Bandung File, Channel 4 and Hullaballoo over Satanic Verses. In association with International Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies (ICGWS), University of Glasgow
8.00 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 4
Fataki
Serge Kayumbi, David Dempster, Leona Buchanan DRC/UK | 2010 | 9 minutes 3 seconds
Fataki tells us why he wants to work and belong to Glasgow rather than return to a country where he faces persecution.
Sombras – Letters from the Shadows Oriol Canals
Spain | 2009 | 1 hour 34 minutes
Every year, immigrants inexorably beach on the Spanish coasts. At times it’s like they’ve always been there, as if they were part of some strange rites of spring, irrevocably doomed to be washed up on the shores of my land. Nameless faces haunting my thoughts… How to film people who are afraid to be seen? How to tell their stories, when all they want is to forget?
Black History Month (BHM) 2010 BHM is a month long celebration of the achievements and the contributions made by Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people in Scotland. Please look out for the full progamme of events in libraries, museums, community centres and other public places or online at
www.gara.org.uk
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Friday 29th October 12 noon – 6.00 pm CCA 5
Poverty Awareness Day 12 noon – 2.00 pm
Making A Difference Stories from the Fight Against Poverty in Scotland 2010 has been declared the European Year for Combating Poverty & Social Exclusion. As part of the year, three films have been made to raise awareness of poverty in Scotland from the perspectives of young, adult, and older people. Filmmakers worked with students from Kirkcaldy High School, adults from the Clydebank Independent Resource Centre, and The Damned Rebel Bitches from Tollcross Community Centre (Edinburgh) to produce 3 short documentaries. Each film speaks for itself:
tion, they gained a deeper understanding of poverty, what it means to them and their peers and began to re-understand and challenge received stereotypes of those living in poverty. In their investigation the young people interviewed a wide range of people from the local area including councilors, community campaigners, residents of a homeless hostel, members of the public and their local Member of Parliament, ex-prime minister Gordon Brown. They found as many opinions of what poverty is as people they interviewed, and that everyone has different ideas about how to tackle it.
sists in the collective psyche is marked by sadness, regret, pride and anger but also resilience, inspired by experience and an understanding that the struggle for selfdetermination or “a decent living” for the working classes is ongoing. We hope this film endures as a document, a small remnant of this struggle. “Tae Sail On Them Is No Their Fate” is a quotation from the song The Broo Queue by Leo Coyle Lynne Flaherty, Jean Gray and Mark McKenzie made contributions to this film.
For more details: makingadifferencescotland.co.uk
Tae Sail On Them Is No Their Fate
Pat Adams, Eamon Boyle, Lisa Garnham, Betty MacLean, Alex Scullion, Ann Vance Scotland | 2010 | 17 minutes 12 seconds
The Templehall Project
Harry Brown, Jamie Clunie, Leigh Clunie, Chevonne Leggat with Cat Aitken, Neill Patton, Jane McInally Scotland | 2010 | 21 minutes
Film makers Jane McInally and Neill Patton, worked with a group of young people from Kirkcaldy High School using their day-to-day environment, to challenge their understandings of poverty and encourage them to think about it more critically. Through an investigation of and re-acquaintance with Templehall, an area of Kirkcaldy with high levels of depriva-
This film is the result of a series of workshops with a group of individuals from Clydebank Independent Resource Centre. Drawing on the innate creative talents of the group in the fields of poetry and song, we used dialogue and memory to explore themes surrounding poverty. Employment, or rather the lack of it, became a key focus for the group and a catalyst to explore our own experiences and beliefs on a personal and political level. Originally a town born out of industry, Clydebank’s population expanded as a result of the development of shipbuilding as well as being home to Singers Sewing Machine factory, the largest in Europe. The town provided employment for many thousands of people. Whilst deploring the erosion of these industries, we question the legacy of their eventual destruction and the harsh realities that exist as a result. What per-
You Always Think There’s Nothing There
The Damned Rebel Bitches / Chris Bowman Scotland | 2010 | 20 minutes 10 seconds
The Damned Rebel Bitches – an independent social history group of mature women based at Tollcross Community Centre- meet some Edinburgh folk with a long tradition of community action behind them to explore what poverty means today for older people across Scotland’s capital from Oxgangs to Granton, and how some at least have refused to let it define them. A story about the city behind the glamorous façades of tourism and culture and sanctioned history, built as much on the lives of those who strive daily against the stacked cards of the poverty trap for their own communities. A story about self respect. Panel discussion: Where does Action on Poverty go now?
David Martin, MEP, Derek Thompson, PCS, Liz Campbell, Castlemilk Credit Union, Gerry Hassan (tbc). Chair: Peter Kelly, Director, The Poverty Alliance.
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Friday 29th October 12 noon – 6.00 pm CCA 5
12 noon – 1.15 pm CCA 4
Poverty Awareness Day
Shatila Camp
Valentina Lombardo Italy | 2009 | 20 minutes 40 seconds
Panel discussion: Media Representation of Poverty
Ewan Angus, Commissioning Editor, Television, BBC Scotland, Stephen Naysmith, Editor, The Society (The Herald), Dagmara Drzazga, Director, Peking 2008. Chair: Theresa Hanley, Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
4.30 pm – 6.00 pm CCA 5 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm CCA 5
Left Behind
Fabian Daub & Andreas Gräfenstein Germany | 2009 | 13 minutes
In Waldenburg, situated in the Lower Silesian Coalfield, all mines are closed down. Lukasz and his elder friend Jacek have been digging coal at their own risk for several years now. Like hundreds of other former miners, they are illegally digging for the black gold on the outskirts of their city. The local police are constantly after them. The miners have also been trapped in the tunnels several times. But they keep going.
Peking 2008
Dagmara Drazazga Poland | 2009 | 39 minutes
Just turn off one of the major streets in Katowice to find yourself in another world: in the “district of wonders” called “Peking”. Old, rotten industrial blocks accommodate people sinking in addictions and despair. Most of them are out of jobs and live on small benefits received from the social care centre. They call themselves the “condemned ones”, sent here for their overdue rent debts. Poverty is shared here by the Silesians and the Gipsies. Last spring Peking was all abuzz; the film crew appeared to shoot some scenes for the feature film “Sleepiness” directed by Magdalena Piekorz, a young Polish filmmaker. First from the windows, then in front of their doors, the anxious inhabitants watched the crew reorganise the gear and film the doubles.
The Poet of Poverty?
Sean Dougherty, Tana Ross and Freke Vujist
Shatila refugee camp, Beirut: residents complain about the continuing lack of electricity and clean water after decades of existence. Yet despite the bad conditions, some Palestinians love and feel safe in Shatila as they are estranged from Lebanese society as a whole. This film attempts to understand the countless problems of the Palestinian refugees in the camp. Young people talk about their own experience of this complex yet neglected problem – the Palestinian refugee diaspora across many lands.
USA | 2008 | 52 minutes
This is a film about one man’s words. These are the words of an Irish priest who came to Camden, New Jersey, forty years ago and never left. They are the extraordinary words of a natural-born poet, Father Michael Doyle, the Poet of Poverty. Father Doyle’s words bear witness to a horrendous crime: the total neglect of America’s poorest city, Camden, New Jersey. They began as words written for monthly letters that serve as a lifeline to those who support his church. But, as a friend once told Doyle, these prose-poem letters are really his ministry. Using Michael Doyle’s letters as its subject, the film is a record of his parish and city – a month after month, year after year documentation of the consequences of poverty. Camden, already poor when Doyle arrived, now resembles nothing more than a bombed-out urban landscape. “Yet we have to live in the meantime,” writes Doyle. And his letters are a testimony to the lives lived amidst urban decay, drug trade, murders, and prostitution. As well as to lives lived in a dumping ground, filled with everything that the surrounding wealthy communities don’t want in their own back yards: sewage, trash, scrap metal, and prisons.
Visible Human Beings Fatima Helow
Scotland | 2010 | 19 minutes 23 seconds
Visible Human Beings is a documentary film about two asylum seekers living in Glasgow. Rashida is a single mother with four children from Pakistan, and Hamlawi is an Algerian single man who has been living in Glasgow for years. This film captures the way the two characters face the difficulties of their lives, how they deal with their daily lives, and their immigration asylum cases. Discussion: AlaaIddin Helou and Fatima Helou.
1.30 pm – 2.30 pm CCA 4
Panel Discussion: Poverty & Human Rights
Carol Ewart, Scottish Human Rights Consortium, Duncan Wilson, Scottish Humans Rights Commission, Nick Higgins, Filmmaker. Chair: Irene Graham, Save The Children
The Voice Because Of You
Antonio Girón Serrano Spain | 2009 | 53 minutes
An attempt to delve into the origins and consequences of the Spanish Civil War and the long shadow it has left over subsequent generations of Spanish people. Through a series of testimonies and eyewitness accounts, the film outlines the fight for a fair and equal society sustained
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Friday 29th October by an entire generation still hidden behind the official history.
2.45 pm – 3.45 pm CCA 4
With Sandra Raúl Cuevas
Spain | 2009 | 18 minutes
With Sandra is a documentary by Raúl Cuevas where, with his mother, he explores the life of his sister Sandra, who has Downs Syndrome. Raw and emotional at the same time, the film shows how Sandra’s birth changed the family’s life forever in ways often difficult to deal with.
Offense Taken Jerry Smith
USA | 2008 | 26 minutes
A documentary about a group of activists with developmental disabilities who fought against the public use of the word “retarded”
4.00 pm – 5.15 pm CCA 4
Rwanda Again
Lawrence Blankenbyl New Zealand | 2009 | 52 minutes
Rwanda Again tells the story of survival and remembrance as a means for healing the wounds of Genocide. This film focuses on life in five key locations where these atrocities were perpetrated- an ore mine, sugarcane field, fishing lake, a cattle slaughterhouse and farms where life continues over grounds stained by violence and brutality. A story of work and healing, of a people who have survived the ruins of genocide and must rebuild what they once had and what they must have; food, shelter, liberty and trust for fellow human beings.
5.30 pm – 6.30 pm CCA 4
Salaam Isfahan Sanaz Azari
Belgium | 2009 | 59 minutes
Under the pretext of taking pictures of passers-by, the director takes the pulse of Iran on the eve of the June 2009 elections that will ultimately maintain Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power. The film draws the portrait of a society before, during and after the elections – a short period of dreams where changes were taking shape…
6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CCA 5
Pravo Ljudski Exchange
What Remains Clarissa Thieme
Germany | 2009 | 30 minutes
What Remains is about the empty spaces
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Friday 29th October left behind in the wake of war and violence.The film is composed of long static wide shots of places and landscapes in present day Bosnia Herzegovina.
disillusionment. As people continue to kill themselves during the making of the film, a maelstrom of conflicting values throws up unexpected truths about the human condition.
This is a filmic memorial beyond the ordinary limits of representation and understanding. The places in the film are present for their own sake. They do not explain themselves to us. They throw back the answers we ask of them.
8.45 pm – 10.15 pm CCA 4
Tragovi
Guillermo Carreras-Candi Spain | 2009 | 92 minutes
In a land which is struggling with great difficulty to rebuild itself from its tragic past, the younger generation is attempting to live its present far from the despair that lurks around every corner.
6.45 pm – 7.15 pm CCA 4
Lost World 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm CCA 4
Gyula Nemes
Weapon Of War
Hungary | 2008 | 20 minutes 16 seconds
Ilse and Femke van Velzen Netherlands | 2009 | 59 minutes 20 seconds
Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. Nowhere else in the world did sexual violence reach the scale and level of brutality that it did in the Democratic Republic of Congo. During the decades of conflict, possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were systematically raped and the figure still rises.
This film is about the life, demolition and reconstruction of the Kopaszi dam. Shot over ten years in a long forgotten landscape in the centre of Budapest, it depicts local residents living in houseboats and wooden houses struggling against floods, snow and the investors who wanted to evict them. Winner of the best short documentary award in Karlovy Vary in 2008.
In Weapon of War, some of the former perpetrators unveil what lies behind this brutal behavior and the strategies of rape as a war crime. The film tells the story of a soldier and a former rebel who both look at rape in different ways.
8.30 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 5
Confessions of a Sex Tourist
Freedom is Frightening
Stefano Bisulli and Roberto Naccari
Puja Khoschsorur
Austria | 2009 | 29 minutes
A café terrace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: unaware of the hidden camera, a German-speaking business man in his forties boasts about his activities as a sex tourist in assorted corners of the developing world and offers his companion handy tips on staying out of trouble with the law. A truly shocking film that sheds light on the murky world of those first-world men who have interpreted globalisation as a green light for living out their darkest fantasies, and the services which have arisen to cater for them. Please note that while this film has chosen to depict these themes without resorting to overly graphic imagery, it does contain ideas – and some scenes – that many viewers will find extremely disturbing.
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away Jez Lewis
UK | 2009 | 1 hour 28 minutes
Real-life drama about why, in a beautiful and quirky rural town, film-maker Jez Lewis’ childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a personal quest for understanding, the film moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption as principal character Cass comes to terms with his own mortality and attempts to lift himself out of his cycle of self-destruction. This core narrative carves an upward arc through an intimate study of a place often described as paradise, but which harbours an undertow of lethal hedonism and
Italy | 2009 | 58 minutes
It is the summer of 1968. In the open sea, off the coast of Rimini, an engineer proclaims the independence of a nation raised on a platform that he built. It is the birth certificate of the “Libera teritorio de la Insulo de la Rozoj”, Esperanto translation of “Free territory of Rose Island”. This structure in the middle of the Adriatic Sea becomes an International case stirring up both fears and hopes.The movie brings to light the history of a utopia, following the life of a man who was brave enough to dream.
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Saturday 30th October 12.00 noon – 2.00 pm CCA 5
Young People’s Programme Part of Inspiration Festival
JCC present:
Baghdad’s Angel Rashid Masharawi
Palastine | 2009 | 52 minutes
In January 2009, while Israel was attacking Gaza, Mohamed Masharawi was in Baghdad shooting a film about the life of Iraqi children in war-torn Iraq. As a Palestinian and Gazan, Masharawi’s deep sense of understanding of the effects of post-war trauma on children, led him to explore the local situation drawing parallels between the future of Iraq’s children and the present of Gaza’s. Workshop 12–16 year olds Buffet Lunch
12 noon – 1.00 pm CCA 4
Joanna Natasegara & Richard Symons UK | 2010 | 58 minutes 48 seconds
The Fear Factory, a timely new documentary exposes the history, mechanics and extent of fear mongering that has led to the UK’s criminal justice crisis.
1.15 pm – 2.45 pm CCA 4
The Immediate Broth Presents… Three films interrogating the juncture between the subject, and an urban environment ever more subordinate to the marketplace:
Palimpsest UK | 2010 | 15 minutes
An interrogative essay on the “constructed ‘public’” face of urban erasure.
A Fish Out of Water
Ruth Tekleasmelash, Mary Gabrmichael, Rediat Abayneh Three girls from Eritrea seeking asylum in the UK have always wanted to swim, but have never learned. The girls talk about their first swimming lesson and animate their thoughts using paint on glass.
Scottish Documentary Institute Masterclass
The Fear Factory
Neil Gray
Africa | 2010 | 3 minutes
2.15 pm – 4.45 pm CCA 5
The Process
Sacha Kahir / Nick e Melville UK | 2010 | 23 minutes
A ghost story where dead industry and the new industries of ‘rehabilitation’ and ‘the black economy’ loom large.
Presumed Guilty
Roberto Hernández & Geoffrey Smith Mexico/UK | 2009 | 86 minutes
“A nightmarish journey into Mexico’s legal system that seems lifted from the pages of Franz Kafka.” —David Lunhow, Wall Street Journal What is it like to be picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about, and find yourself behind bars for 20 years? In December 2005 this happened to Tono Zuniga in Mexico City, and like thousands of other innocent young men he was condemned for a crime he had never committed. Presumed Guilty is the story of two young lawyers and their incredible struggle to free Tono. With no background in film, they set about recording his story as they realized that only a camera could reveal the institutionalized injustice they were witnessing. Shot over 3 years with unprecedented camera access to the Mexican court and prison systems, this observational film is highly dramatic and full of real suspense, yet also, a searing indictment of a system where the police do not have to investigate because the system presumes guilt. SDI is delighted to welcome Director Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon) who will discuss the tricky process of editing this highly observational “court room drama” and his approach to documentary storytelling. www.presumedguiltythemovie.com (You can support the cause and donate here)
Hurriya and Her Sisters Paula Abood
Australia | 2009 | 12 minutes 25 seconds
A short animation film created by young Muslim women that explores their experiences in the world.
Vaguing in Oppidanus Neil Gray / Sacha Kahir UK | 2010 | 20 minutes
A low rent version of the works of Patrick Keiller or Chris Petit: a “drift” around the atomised spaces of Edinburgh.
3.00 pm – 4.45 pm CCA 4
Absent Present Angelika Levi
Germany | 2010 | 1 hour 25 minutes
Senegalese travellers say “Either you make it to Barcelona or you end up in Barsaak.”– which means realm of the dead in Wolof, the place of no return.
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Saturday 30th October world’s leading experts on the topic. The film goes beyond focusing on some of the most controversial issues today including changing diets, climate change and the use of food for fuel, and considers the effects of the worst global economic crisis seen in over 80 years.
7.00 pm – 8.15 pm CCA 4
This is a documentary about different forms of travelling in a globalized world: holidays and migration; forced returns and voluntary coming backs. Absent Present reflects post-colonial, economic and bio-political strategies. The title of the film relates to the situation of people who have to construct or to give up their national identities. The film shows the way of organization against deportation and for entrance into the fortress of Europe.
5.00 pm – 6.00 pm CCA 5
Petrol in my Food
Camcorder Guerillas Scotland | 2010 | 3 minutes
A short and sweet origami animation that examines the link between our food and its dependency on oil.
Skipping Dinner
Camcorder Guerillas Scotland | 2010 | 10 minutes
A tasteful documentary on the connections between industrialised food production, supermarket-based shopping and consumer waste.
Paquita and Everything Else David Moncasi
Spain | 2010 | 54 minutes
“He suffers because he sees that he’s not like the others. He has never worked, he has never had girlfriend… his life impoverishes and feels unfortunate. I would prefer seeing him dead than living like that ”. A mother. A grey life. One camera.
5.00 pm – 6.30 pm CCA 4
Camcorder Guerillas present
Petrol in my Food Three films interrogating the juncture between the subject, and an urban environment ever more subordinate to the marketplace:
Last Supper for Malthus The Permanent Food Crisis
Klaus Pas UK Premiere Switzerland | 2009 | 52 minutes
With 1 billion of the world’s population going to bed hungry at night, Last Supper For Malthus sheds light on one of the most prevalent and alarming issues of our time- the global food crisis. The film brings to life political-economists Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo, intertwining their theories with gripping images and interviews from some of the
Followed by a debate / discussion on the food crisis and local sustainable solutions www.camcorderguerillas.net www.lastsupperfilm.com
6.15 pm – 8.15 pm CCA 5
My Beloved Sulukule Nejla Osseiran
Turkey | 2010 | 9 minutes 57 seconds
A photo-reportage witnessing the last years of Sulukule, a Gypsy neighborhood in Istanbul now completely demolished as part of an urban transformation project carried out by the Fatih municipality, during the years 2005–2010. The people of Sulukule pose for the camera desiring one last memento of their home. We hear the voice of Gulsum Abla, whose house in Sulukule was under the threat of demolition at the time. She tells us her feelings about being a Gypsy, living in poverty and discrimination. She talks about the old happy days of her childhood in her beloved Sulukule. Her song at the end sums it up – “I’m All Alone”.
Bloody Sunday A Derry Diary
Margo Harkin Northern Ireland | 2007 | 1 hour 30 minutes
On 30th January 1972 the British Army shot dead thirteen unarmed civilians on a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland. Confidence in British justice evaporated among the victims’ families when Lord Widgery exonerated the soldiers and blighted the reputation of those killed and wounded.The film follows the families’ long search for the truth at the new Tribunal of Inquiry into “Bloody Sunday” held in Derry and London over a six-year period until its momentous conclusion on 15 June 2010 when the Inquiry report was finally published.
The Romany King Viliam Poltikoviˇc
Czech Republic | 2009 | 60 minutes
A film about the transformations of a Romany settlement within the village of Žehra in the Spišská Nová Ves District of the Košice Region in Slovakia. Director Viliam Poltikoviˇc took his crew here in 1991 to shoot the film The Resettlement (Stˇehování osady), about the resettlement of Romanies from the slums they inhabited to newly-constructed three-storey prefabricated housing blocks. In 2002 he returned to Žehra to pick up the story.
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Saturday 30th
Sunday 31st October
8.30 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 4
12.30 pm – 1.15pm CCA 4
Tide
Ivars Zviedris Latvia | 2009 | 1 hour 20 minutes 21 seconds
In the year 2007, 300,000 passengers took the flight from Riga to Dublin.Valdis and his cockleshell pickers are just a few of the many Latvians living in Ireland now. They lead a temporary life between different worlds. The shell-pickers’ daily routine is set by the tide. During low tide they pick the shells, during high tide they sleep. The Irish Sea is 4 times saltier than the Baltic sea. Also life here seems saltier than at home. Almost everybody suffers nervous tension. For some it’s more acute, for others it’s washed over by the salty water.
Scrap Lads
Johnny White Ireland | 2006 | 25 minutes
“No mon, no fun” says Dolly, as he mounts his bike and heads off to look for more scrap. A small group of Galway Travellers show great entrepreneurship and scour the city for scrap to turn into cash. Scrap Lads is an intimate portrait of their lives and work.
8.30 pm – 10.15 pm CCA 5
tographic slideshow taking the audience on a journey through 50 years of incidents and accidents as reported at just one nuclear site – Sellafield in Cumbria, England.
Family
Digital Desperadoes
The Bristol Bike Project Alistair Oldham
UK | 2009 | 18 minutes 20 seconds
To Shoot an Elephant
Alberto Arce, Mohammad Rujailah Spain | 2009 | 1 hour 52 minutes
“...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 it’s 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 shooting elephants. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians. George Orwell: “Shooting an Elephant” was originally published in New Writing in 1936.
Over 400 people are registered as asylum seekers in the English city of Bristol. The £25 per week they receive for living costs barely covers food, so they are forced to walk everywhere. The Bristol Bike Project was set up by locals and provides recycled bikes to asylum seekers and teaches them to maintain them.
Pakistan | 2009 | 7 minutes 20 seconds
Family was made as an immediate response to the most masterful of acts of propaganda – the Oscars. As bombs are dropped on Pakistan, Bollywood comes to Hollywood in a reflection of the 2003 oscars aka ‘the black oscars’ when Iraq was being invaded
12.45 pm – 1.45 pm CCA 5
Mixed Shorts
Psychic Capital
Jessica MacCormack, Rae Spoon Canada | 2009 | 15 minutes 49 seconds
Walk with a guide Maciej Cendrowski
Poland | 2009 | 11 minutes
Remy is a masseur with passion. His passion is the sound. Walking through Lodz on his way to work Remy is preparing a sound map of the city.
50 years
Vicki Lesley UK | 2010 | 3 minutes 36 seconds
An intense audio experience and pho-
Psychic Capital is a video collaboration between artist Jessica MacCormack and musician/sound artist Rae Spoon. This project combines experimental animation and sound to explore how identity development is informed (and sometimes controlled) by psychiatry’s relationship with capitalism and it’s broader political objectives. The video focuses on three themes, the history of psychiatry and its relationship to capitalism/consumerism in North America, the MKULTRA experiments in Montreal during the Cold War, and how the self-help movement depoliticized leftist movements after 1960’s.
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Sunday 31th October The animation uses innovative combinations of stop-motion, graphic animation, cutout and hand-drawn processes. The soundtrack produces a non-linear narrative by mixing songs, samples of recordings (such as interviews, music, or sound tracks off of stock footage) as well as by generating electronic sound and noise by manipulating sound waves or acoustic signals on computer programs.
We Are Winning Don’t Forget
Panel Discussion: Equality
Luca Ragazzi, Director, Tom Lusk, Gay Men’s Health, Patrick Harvey, Green Party, Tim Hopkins, Equality Network, Stephanie Rose, Strathclyde Police, David Binghan, Terence Higgins Trust
Jean-Gabriel Périot France | 2003 | 7 minutes
We are many, we are uniforms, we smile in the pictures, but we are not happy. A short film that honors work and workers, where we speak about class struggle.
Border
Eni Brandner Austria | 2009 | 5 minutes 10 seconds
Border was filmed around the temporary border of the ‘Republic of Serbian Krajina’ (1991–95), one of the focal points in the Yugoslavian/Croatian war. Twelve years after the end of the conflict, dilapidated, destroyed houses act as unintentional memorials, warding off oblivion.
1.30 pm – 3.00 pm CCA 4
Pravo Ljudski Exchange
What Do I Know Sejla Kameric
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2007 | 15 minutes
In and around a house, love stories intertwine. One love story leads to another. The ghosts of love are left behind to seek the answers to the same question: ‘What do I know about love?’
Mum’n’Dad
Faruk Loncarevic Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2006 | 65 minutes
The year is two thousand and something. An elderly couple live alone in a flat in
3.15 pm – 4.30pm CCA 4
Sarajevo, with their own rituals: drinking coffee, playing cards, watching TV. The husband (Dad) has had a stroke and although he is still physically strong, he has difficulties in communication. The wife (Mum) is a lively, elderly lady who is, after 50 years, now using the husband’s disability to change the things around in this old-fashioned, patriarchal family. Dad must not allow that and he opposes it in the only way he can, with physical force.
2.00 pm – 4.30 pm CCA 5
Mona
Agnes Rossa Austria | 2008 | 29 minutes 34 seconds
Suddenly Last Winter Gustav Hofer & Luca Ragazzi
Italy | 2008 | 1 hour 20 minutes
Suddenly Last Winter is the story of Gustav and Luca. Their life changes when the Italian government presents a draft law that would give rights to unmarried and gay couples, prompting a wave of homophobia in Italy. The Vatican and conservatives fight against it, preaching that the end of morality and the family are nigh if the legalisation on civil unions is not blocked. Together for over eight years, Luca and Gustav want to understand the different positions and undertake a journey into a country they did not know before and did not expect to find: their own.
Mona lives with her four daughters Maria, Marcell, Monika and Morgina in a five square metre apartment in Cairo. To support her family after the death of her husband, Mona sorts the city’s garbage every day. In contrast to many other children in the neighbourhood, Mona’s daughters attend school. Mona dreams of seeing her children graduate from school and lead a better life than her one day. Her whole life revolves around her daughters whom she brings up with much love and pride. The film does not only provide insight into the family’s living conditions, hopes, dreams, problematic and joyful experiences but also informs about the waste system and its supporting infrastructure in one of the largest metropolises of the world.
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Sunday 31th October 2010 Little Straw
Ryan Xiayang Wu P.R. China | 2009 | 38 minutes 41 seconds
Little Straw tells the story of Fang, a 15year old boy living in rural China, who gave up his middle school education to seek a job in the city in 2009 when the global financial crisis hit the world. China suffered a dramatic and considerable decrease in exports as well as direct inward foreign investment. It led to notable closedowns and redundancies, which pushed massive numbers of Chinese families below the poverty line.
4.45 pm – 6.00 pm CCA 5
became Muslim. Between Sanaa, Aden, Salzburg and New York she is leading a life between worlds, and reinvents herself anew.
The Road to Drumleman Jan Nimmo
Scotland | 2010 | 51 minutes
The Road to Drumleman tells the story of Kintyre’s last coal mine, The Argyll Colliery (1947–1967). Almost no physical traces of the mine remain and now it hard to imagine that the well run mine thrived just behind spectacular Machrihanish Bay. When artist, Jan Nimmo’s father and former Argyll Colliery shot firer, Neil Nimmo, died, Jan realised that there was an urgency to gather the stories of the remaining miners and so through their personal narrative the film gives an insight into working life; its hardships and camaraderie. The stories span the life of the mine and pay tribute to all of the men who worked invisibly beneath the wild and unspoilt shores of western Kintyre.
She is a woman who has exchanged art for religion, who marries for the first time in her life and for whom feminism and Islam are no contradictions. A woman who loves a man from Yemen 22 years her junior, whom she met when he was her jeep driver. She shares him with his first wife Fosia and their six children. Breaking taboos, crossing borders and being a “traitor to her kind”. The film provides a glimpse of everyday life in Sanaa where tribal tradition, patriarchy and the strictly separate lives of men and women are the order of the day. Barbara and her husband Alkhadher set up a travel agency for Yemeni tourism, and, in the harbour city of Aden, we meet her husband’s family and his first wife Fosia.
4.45 pm – 6.00 pm CCA 4
Fosia can neither read nor write. Fosia shall not be filmed, only heard.What role does the man play in this relationship between two women? Can the Yemeni reality of a triangular relationship be unveiled at all?
Her Way To Go
6.15 pm – 7.30 pm CCA 5
Katrin Mackowski Germany | 2009 | 45 minutes
61 years of age, a militant feminist, an important critical voice in the international art world: Barbara Wally, for almost three decades director of the Salzburg Summer Academy, which was funded by Oskar Kokoschka under the name of Schule des Sehens (literally, “school for seeing”),
Making Waves
Nathan Akhtar & Micheal Diver, Diversity Films (Brand New) Scotland | 2010 | 17 minutes 42 seconds
Nathan and Michael give us the tour and
tell us why the Govanhill Baths are so important not only to them but to all the members of their local community. Why is the potential reopening of this swimming pool such a vital cause? Our guides talk us through the history, present and future of the baths.
Sighthill Stories Darren Hercher
UK | 2008 | 58 minutes
Sighthill Primary School in Glasgow stands in the shadow of high-rise apartments that house most of the chool’s pupils. The flats are about to be demolished leaving hundreds of families, many of them migrant families, feeling all the more insecure and anxious about what tomorrow will bring. Grierson award winning filmmaker Darren Hercher takes an alternate look at the harmony that exists in Glasgow’s communities that is optimistic and powerful as he follows some of the students in the lead up to the demolition. The sensitivity to their stories and arresting visual style is both relaxed and probing to reveal links in their everyday experiences that transcend politics.
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Sunday 31th October 2010 Document 8 26th–31st October 2010 Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD
Tickets are available from CCA Box Office:
0141 352 4900 5-Day Festival Pass: £35.00 £15.00 Unwaged
Day Pass: £10.00 £5.00 Unwaged 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm CCA 4
Beauty & Brains
Catherine Donaldson UK | 2010 | 1 hour 24 minutes
Would you enter a talent contest to stop rape and abuse being an everyday part of your existence? To be third-gender in Nepal means a choice of three careers; giving blessings at weddings, begging or prostitution. They are excluded from family and school, are prey to security forces, blackmail and sexual abuse. However, as Nepal attempts to write a new constitution there is a chance of change. In order to be heard above the clamour and civil unrest, the third-genders with Sunil Pant and the Blue Diamond Society embarked on the Beauty and Brains Talent Contest. This is the story of a community gaining the confidence to confront prejudice and tell society they are natural human beings.
knowing they won’t be able to return for the next year. What started out as an adventure to an unknown homeland leads to a dilemma that forces them to choose sides. Shout is a film about being young and growing up in a forgotten part of the Middle East conflict.
8.00 pm – 10.00 pm CCA 5
The Indlovu Project Jak Milroy
Scotland | 2010 | 15 minutes
In a squatters camp in the Monwabisi Park near Cape Town one woman is working with the residents to create a permaculture that will change their lives and help them to build ecological sustainable houses for the future of the community.
Netherlands | 2010 | 74 minutes
Best friends Ezat and Bayan are about to make the journey they have been planning since they were children. Born on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, they have lived all of their lives right next to the closed border with their homeland Syria. Now eighteen, they are given the opportunity to cross the UN-monitored no man’s land to study in the capital Damascus. Feeling young, invincible and one hundred percent Syrian, they say goodbye to their village and families,
All screenings and events are free to asylum seekers. Document 8 Team
Paula Larkin Festival Co-ordinator Neill Patton Programme Co-ordinator Chris Bowman Technical Co-ordinator Christina Schäfer Ass. Programme Co-ordinator Gaylie Runciman Audience Development Kevin Hobbs Media Design rm*star Ident
Selection Panel: James Alcock, Ciara Barry, Chris Bowman, Charlotte Cornic,Vicky Fleck, Neill Patton, Diane Prayle, Mona Rai, Gaylie Runciman, Christina Schäfer. Kara Brown, Caitlin Coyle, Louise Devlin, Sarah Donaldson, Christine Hamilton, Hannah Miller, Amy MacGregor, Andrew Ramsay, Elizabeth Riddell, Lucinda Stallard, Kate Temple, Jemma Tracey, Ann McColgan, Kate Temple.
The Silver Fez Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Ester Gould
£2.00 Unwaged
Volunteers:
8.00 pm – 9.30 pm CCA 4
Shout
Single Screenings: £4.00
Document Festival Ltd
Lloyd Ross
Registered in Scotland SC157797.
South Africa | 2009 | 1 hour 27 minutes
Document Board:
The Silver Fez is the much-revered prize for the Cape Malay choirs of Cape Town, South Africa. Each year, hundreds of choirs compete to be crowned the undisputed champions of Cape Malay music – a form of music that first arrived in the Cape on slave ships. In the film we see the wealthy, ultra-competitive Hadji Bucks face off against Kaatji Davids, a struggling house painter. The two choirmasters assemble their troops and prepare for a musical war in which treachery and pain are endured in the hope of glory
Kate Henderson, Nick Higgins, Dr Mo Hume, Geraldine O’Neill, Mhairi Owens
For more information www.documentfilmfestival.org
Thanks to:
The filmmakers Selection Panel All staff at the CCA Jenny Kumar, JK Consultancy Michael Larkin Euan Sutherland Leigh French Will Adams GMAC Paul Cameron Pauline Law Peter Stanton Ann Vance Jane McInally Peter Kelly Poe McHugh Kathryn McTurk Marlies Pfeifer Malcolm Dickson Noelle Mansfield Tara Beale Cecilia Boccorh Tommy, Curtis & Frida John McLaughlin rm*star Jennifer McColgan Leo Thomas McColgan Patton John Patton Kumjana Novakova Margo Harkin Margaret & Frank Vance Becky Duncan Adrienne Hannah Criz McCormick Margo Harkin John McLaughlin Peter Gerard Kirsten MacLeod Steven McCluskey Darren Hercher Jennifer Armitage Sheena MacDougall Rachel McAdams Akwugo Emejulu Paul Dale Derek Kennedy All the projectionists, front of house volunteers, everyone involved in discussions, those hosting filmmakers and everyone else who has helped throughout the year.
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…circulating radical reading materials and information…
…supporting small press publishers and independent producers…
Exhibitions & Music Wed 27th – Sun 31st October CCA1
Wednesday 27th – Sunday 31 October CCA1
Radical Independent Book-fair
Et Dieu Crea . . .
Glasgow’s Radical Independent Book-fair project (RiB) has been running stalls and collaborating on events since its inception at Document 4 in 2006.
picture, postcard and video work by ann vance a dedicated event as part of Document 8
Envisaged as a long term project to assist others through the ideas of mutual aid and solidarity the RIB is helping to fill the gap left by the lack of alternative bookshops and independent events in Glasgow. 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; the project stalls also include a mini library of CD’s, DVD’s and news-sheets, book and badge swap boxes, and a multitude of free items.
viewable 10.00 am – 10.00 pm approx | free entry
Each evening there will be a short talk / discussion led event in the bookstall space.
Launch: 7.00 pm,Tuesday 26 October, CCA Bar
Wednesday 27 October: Bob Hamilton gives an introduction to the Common Good and its potential for revolutionising our communities. Thursday 28th October: Hilary Horrocks, translator of the forthcoming AK Press title ‘In The Crossfire’, discusses the revolutionary struggle to free Vietnam from French colonial rule.
Friday 15th – Sunday 31 October CCA Bar
Representation and Reality
City of Glasgow College (formerly Glasgow Metropolitan College) Exhibition Introduction: Stephen Mather, Head of Photography & Printing, City of Glasgow College (formerly Glasgow Metropolitan College) As part of their study into the subject of Photojournalism, City of Glasgow Final Year HND Photography students are presenting an exhibition which examines the representation of minorities in Scottish society, such as Women, Ethnic minorities, Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
Friday 29th October: Michael Albert talks about “Life after Capitalism ” vision and strategy for a participatory economy; and “Organising – strategy for the anti-capitalist movement.”
The photographers will be present to discuss their work.
Saturday 30th October: AlaaIddin Ahmad Helou, a filmmaker from the Document festival, will discuss his work which deals with issues within the Shatila refugee camp.
Unravel:
A dedicated event as part of Document 8.
Sun 31 October 2010 Clubroom 12.00 noon – 10.00 pm
The Longest Hand Painted Film in Britain Creative Workshop | Open to all ages | Free
stalls open from 10.00am-10.00pm approx | free entry “Teatime Talks” 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm each evening www.ribproject.org
Wednesday 27th – Sunday 31 October CCA1
the other side of HISTORY — part v a new artwork by Euan Sutherland
The other side of HISTORY is an ongoing series of diptych works which take the form of ‘spot the difference’ pictures as a starting point and use these differences (or similarities) to comment on various ignored, forgotten, suppressed, unknown, revised or rarely discussed events in recent history. OSH part v focusses on a report by IWW construction workers and whistle-blowers on the 2012 Olympic site in London – a damning indictment on working conditions, tame-cat unionism, blacklists, and corporate manslaughter. Euan Sutherland is a visual artist living and working in Glasgow who works on various approaches to creating and exhibiting artwork which is socially and politically engaging. He is also a co-ordinator of Glasgow’s Radical Independent book-fair project (RIB) and a wobbly (a member of the IWW — the Industrial Workers of the World union). www.agitcollage.org
Five artist film and video makers from the Royal College of Art, London, will present an entertaining, informative and empowering introduction to ways of material film-making. Unravel: The Longest Hand Painted Film in Britain will produce a hand-painted film that correlates in length with the 874 miles between the two extreme edges of Britain: John O’Groats and Land’s End. An epic 16 hour long film will be amassed, linking together and being created by local communities throughout England, Scotland and Wales. Unravel: Chris, Maria, Kelvin, Mar and Jo. Winner of 2010 Deutsche Bank Award in Art
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CCA Bar Events Tuesday 26 October 2010 10.00 pm – 12.30 am
Sat 30 October 2010 9.00 pm – 12.30 pm
Sunday 31 October 2010 8.00 pm
Live Music
BERK!
PEN Showcase
Thursday 28 October 2010 9.00 pm – 12.30 pm
In the city of Glasgow, where electronic music beats at its core, BERK! is a night which aims to redress the gender imbalance. Demanda and Janneke have made the decks spin like no washing machine ever did, cooking up some fat bass with a mixture of techno, house and dubstep, whilst knitting the disco beats together along with visuals courtesy of visual artist and designer Florence To. Since residing at the CCA Bar last year, BERK! continues to create a nostalgic yet fresh party atmosphere. Berk! has an open-door and open-deck policy, encouraging other girls to come up and spin a tune or few.
Readings from Document 8 PEN writing workshops
Night of Agit Pop a frivolously refreshing night of ‘political’ pop, in the spirit of:
“An agit disco would distill the politics out from the weak solution of popular musics. By counterpointing themes and problemmatising genres and bringing the more repressed and uncommon examples to the surface we might respark this potentially inflammatory material. So political song sometimes bursts through into the charts but more often is flowering in more local or underground contexts. The more I look at my life the more the music sounds ‘political’ in some way or other.�
For Document 8 film festival BERK! will be featuring some specially produced, bespoke visuals from Flo To and special guest DJ Nasterlie (Monox, Numbers).
–Agit Disco a proposal, http://www.agitdisco.com
Introduction by Drew Campbell, President, Scottish PEN
Allison Miller Born and brought up in Orkney Alison Miller has lived in Glasgow for many years. Her first novel, Demo, was set in Glasgow in the run up to the Iraq war. She is now working on her second, set in Orkney.
Tom Leonard Tom Leonard is one of Scotland’s foremost poets and literary scholars, renowned for his vigorous engagement with language. Unashamedly political and often deeply personal, his poems are by turns angry, moving and spectacularly funny, but always relevant and necessary. A reading not to be missed by a true Glasgow favourite.
Sunday 31 October 2010 10.00 pm – 12.30 am
Closing Night Live Music
Scottish League of Credit Unions PO Box 2305, Glasgow, G33 9BN
The Scottish League of Credit Unions represents 31 Credit Unions across Scotland. Our role is to promote the Credit Union experience in Scotland, and support our member Credit Unions in achieving their specific goals and objectives. PHOTOGRAPHY PARTICIPATION PRODUCTION www.streetlevelphotoworks.org
Supported by:
Films, lectures, presentations, discussions, exhibitions, videoteque, RiB and music
Johnny Moffat Print & Design
90 films from 35 countries over five days
document 26–31 October 2010 International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival The Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law
Tickets are available from CCA Box Office: 0141 352 4900 5-Day Festival Pass: £35.00 £15.00 Unwaged Day Pass: £10.00 £5.00 Unwaged Single Screenings: £4.00 £2.00 Unwaged All screenings and events are free to asylum seekers.
info@documentfilmfestival.org | tel 0141 332 9311| www.documentfilmfestival.org
Centre For Contemporary Art (CCA) 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow Box Office: 0141 352 4900