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CCA 4 & 5 Wednesday 17th October 8.00pm-9.45pm
The Mother’s House Francois Verster
South Africa • 2006 • 76 mins
Astonishingly intimate, emotionally overwhelming and sometimes shocking, The Mother’s House is a record of four years in the life of Miche, a charming, precocious yet troubled teenage girl growing into womanhood in post-Apartheid South Africa. Living with her mother and grandmother in Bonteheuwel, a township outside Cape Town, she has to face not only life in a community troubled by gangs and drug abuse, but also what it means to break the unbearable cycle of emotional and physical violence imprisoning her own family. The Mother’s House gives the viewer a powerful insight into three generations of women striving to untie these knots and to find peace and love amongst all the hurt and anger within their community and themselves.
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Throughout Document this year, a team of young filmmakers from Diversity Films will be producing a short film about the festival. Prior to the festival, the filmmakers will be taking part in documentary film production workshops with Diversity Films and learning camera, sound and interviewing techniques.The filmmakers will be filming all aspects of the event including the panel discussions, photography and music events, the festival venue, the festival staff, volunteers and audience. You may be approached to participate in the film as an audience member, give feedback about the festival and reactions to films you have seen, or be caught on camera by attending an event. If you do not wish to be filmed, please make this known to the filmmakers and your wishes will be respected. On the other hand, if you love the opportunity to air your views, please feel free to let us know that too. The film is not for commercial use and is primarily being made for the benefit of Document as a festival and as a learning experience for the filmmakers. Your participation is much appreciated. DIVERSITY FILMS wishes you a great festival!
www.diversityfilms.org.uk
Diversity Films will launch their website with a reception in the CCA Cafe, 5.00–6.00pm, Friday 19th October.
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CCA 4 Thursday 18th October 12noon-1.00pm
No Place for You at this Workplace Slaven Zimbrek
Croatia • 2007 • 50 mins
No Place for You at this Workplace is about prejudice and discrimination against vulnerable groups (people with physical disabilities, sensory impairments and mental disorders, Romanies, homosexuals and many others) in Croatia. The film combines the personal stories of many members of these vulnerable groups with interviews with experts (lawyers, scholars, psychiatrists, NGO representatives) and the comments of passers-by, who often openly state their prejudices on camera, to provide an insight into the problems many minorities face in modern Croatia.
1.15pm-2.15pm
A Minority Report Stefano Giantin
Italy • 2007 • 52 mins
In June 1999, following the end of the three month NATO campaign against Yugoslavia, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) was established. UNMIK entered Kosovo under the banner of human rights, but in the first three months of the operations, failed to organise an of effective police service. In that vacuum, the spirit of revenge of part of the Kosovo Albanian majority remained unchecked and over 240, 000 members of minority groups - mostly Serbs, Roma and Gorani - were forced to leave Kosovo. Their houses and properties were destroyed or illegally sold and occupied, graveyards and worship
places ruined, their traces erased. Hundreds of those who stayed, were killed, kidnapped or otherwise brutally persecuted. According to UNHCR, only around 15,000 of those forced to flee have returned to Kosovo until 2007. Those who have returned live in ghettos dispersed through Kosovo, where threats, harassments and isolation are part of daily life. A Minority Report tells the story of some of those who tried to return, and presents the points of view of the international civil servants who ruled the province in the last seven years.
2.30pm-3.00pm
Blue Rose Garden Mladen Santric
Croatia • 2006 • 27 mins
In a beautiful mansion in Gornja Bistra near Zagreb (Croatia) live one hundred abandoned children with the gravest forms of deformities and malformation, who’s families are unable to look after them. Many lack the ability to speak or hear and often miss limbs or bones. Don Ermano accidentally discovered the children in the Gornja Bistra mansion, he sees in them what many others don’t see…“The Blue Rose Garden”…as blue roses are rare among roses, so are “malformed” beings rare among healthy beings.
3.15pm-4.15pm
Back to Sarajevo Alan Knight
Italy • 2006 • 52 mins
This film is a story about Sarajevo, ten years after the Bosnian conflict; a lyrical, poignant study of this unique
city, and a reflection on conflict and regeneration - seen through the eyes of those with a powerful, emotional connection to the city.
4.30pm-5.45pm Roma 1
Osada Bystrany
Marc Bader & Petra Kuncíková Czech Republic • 2006 • 32 mins
The eastern Slovak village of Bystrany has 2,500 inhabitants, two thirds of them Roma whose ancestors settled there in the 14th century. Most of them are on benefits. In 2004, though, the government cut benefits dramatically, and life in Roma communities became unbearable. Hundreds of Roma made use of Slovakia’s EU entry to leave the poverty behind forever. Jan Kandra is one of those in work - supervising the unemployed doing volunteer work that the government says will help the Roma to improve their lives.
Hopeless in Sweden Janos Kovacs
Hungary • 2006 • 27 mins
In 2006 nearly 300 Hungarian citizens were seeking political asylum in Sweden, mainly Roma families from Baranya County, they moved to Sweden in the hope of a better future. Many others from Eastern Europe also travel to Sweden in the hope of finding a way out of the unemployment and hopelessness they face in their own countries with little knowledge of what is in store for them.
6.00pm-7.15pm
Eastern Exotica Gorden Aimer
Slovak Republic • 2006 • 77 mins
Eastern Exotica reflects the exotic mosaic of the unique yet ordinary lives of London immigrants in which all must learn to ‘catch as catch can’. Newly arrived Eastern Europeans tell their stories about, escaping wagging tongues at home, sleeping in parks, finding work, finding a stolen purse in the bin, finding self-confidence and the conflict between the capitalist and communist mentality.
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Last to Know
Mark Bauder and Dorte Franke Germany • 2006 • 52 mins
It is estimated that the former East German regime took 250,00 political prisoners during its existence, ordinary people wrenched from family and friends and locked up for speaking or acting in a manner that aggravated the authorities. This deeply felt documentary looks at the lives of three German families from the former GDR that had one or more members imprisoned, and considers the still-reverberating effects that imprisonment caused. A tour guide, a writer, a priest and his wife spoke their minds and paid the price - as did their families who were watched because of their guilt by association - but today it is almost impossible for them to talk about those life-altering events with those they are closest to. The last to know about the humiliations and the physical and psychological abuse they suffered are their own parents and children - some are afraid to ask the important questions and some are afraid to answer those questions when asked. Bauder and Franke bring these families together and, gently but persistently, get the former captives to reveal their experiences and listen to how their families dealt with their imprisonment. The result is a moving film that shows how powerful honest communication can be to bring about a resolution to seemingly unsolvable situations.
8.45pm-9.45pm
Fallen Angel
Masja Novikova Netherlands • 2005 • 50 mins
Tatiana, went with her friend to the Netherlands believing promises that she would get a well-paid job. Instead, betrayal and humiliation awaited. Her boyfriend sold her to a pimp who forced her into prostitution. After some time, she found the strength to stand up to the abuse and she sought help from the police and the state authorities. Instead of salvation, however, she became part of a protracted legal process, which did not afford her or her family any protection from a criminal gang. Nevertheless, Tatiana did not give up and continued to fight for her rights.
Using interview material and a collage of images from the life of this strong and independent woman, Fallen Angel reveals her horrific experiences, exposes a mafia system that trades in easy victims and lays bare the weaknesses and deficiencies of a democratic establishment, which professes to help the weak and the oppressed.
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CCA 4 Friday 19th October 12noon-1.15pm India/Environment
The Nashipur Waters Pietro Silvestri
Italy • 2004 • 8.5 mins
Water pollution is a very big problem in India. In most areas water is contaminated with arsenic, but in Nashipur, a little village in West Bengal, the problem is caused by high levels of fluoride in the water sourced from wells built by the local government over 30 years go. The people of the village are affected by fluorosis, a disease that paralyses bones.
the villagers to return to their ancestral home.
Haibah
Sergy Komarov Russia • 2005 • 26 mins
This is the story of one of the episodes of Chechen deportation in 1944. We follow the filmmakers as they visit Chechnya and speak to survivors and the relatives of the 700 people massacred in the mountain village of Haibah.
4.00pm-5.15pm
Hint
Yindabad, Mariano Agudo and Roi Guitian, Spain, 55 mins
Mairi Paterson
For 20 years the women of the Narmada Valley have been struggling against the interests of the government and big corporations. In that time they have become more and more conscious of the dimensions of the problem and have taken on the lead role in fighting against these forces in this unequal battle.
Hint is a study of the instability of the people involved in drug and substance misuse. An anonymous account from inside the drug culture, so often ignored by society, the film focuses on the reduction of love and care which can result when families are affected by drug addictions.
1.30pm-2.30pm
The Forgotten Children of the Congo Alex Tweddle
UK • 2007 • 48 mins
Shot over four weeks, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful and harrowing documentary focuses on the plight of the children, who we find to be commonly involved in witchcraft, cannibalism and recruited as child soldiers.
2.45pm-3.45pm Chechnya 1
Crying Sun The Impact of War in the Mountains of Chechnya WITNESS and memorial Human Rights centre in Chechnya USA/Chechnya, 2007, 26 mins Crying Sun tells the story of people of Zumsoy, a village in Chechnya, and their struggle to preserve their cultural identity and traditions in the face of military raids, disappearances, attacks by guerilla fighters, and their resulting displacement. The film gives a voice to the villagers and calls on local and federal authorities to end the constant human rights violations and provide a safe environment for
Scotland • 2007 • 12 mins
The instability of the people concerned is reflected in the images and visual content. Everyday scenes of suburban and urban life echo the words of those that share their experiences. The incoherent and non-linear structure of the visuals evoke the feelings and situations that a drug user encounters everyday and aim to relate the isolation experienced by the families connected to drug misuse.
People Who Drink Alone John Traynor
England • 2007 • 3.5 mins
People Who Drink Alone is a short documentary about people’s relationships with alcohol. Made up of a series of photographs taken in the pub’s clubs, homes and streets of Liverpool set to a classical score, it questions our understandings of alcohol and the consequences of them.
Park Portrait of a small space in a big city
Justine Gordon-Smith UK • 2007 • 52 mins
Amidst the urban sprawl the local Park is a haven - Through the cycle of the four seasons Park gets close to the mix of eccentrics, degenerates, delinquents and every day
people who share it. Josephine hates the city but loves the wildlife; Gerry will forgive, but never forget; Bernie finds the courage deep inside himself to love and be loved. Told through personal vignettes, Park gives a fascinating insight into modern British metropolitan communities and the personal and collective challenges people face. Park, four years in the making, is the latest project, produced by Justine Gordon-Smith, (winner Best BBC Newcomer 2001, Performing Rights Society Award 2002) for her Documentary on Your Doorstep series, devised to reveal the compelling stories and humanity within the everyday world around us.
5.30pm-6.15pm
Maybe Buenos Aires Xavi Satorra Larriba Spain • 2006 • 45 mins
Luis Caro emigrated to Madrid in 2002, where he had to survive without his family, playing music in the underground. A year and a half later, again in Argentina, he remembered and compared this experience with the exile that he suffered with his family during the last dictatorship (1976-83). With his particular sense of humour he takes stock of the last 25 years. We travel across a country stunned by the economic crisis, undergoing many social changes, since the popular strikes of December 2001. Together with Tomas Abraham, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the selfemployed workers of Zanon and others, we observe the consequences and the expectations these people have for Argentina. Like many people, the history of Luis Caro reflects the hesitation and the loss of faith in the country, which resulted in a great exodus, mainly to Europe, and above all to Spain, as their ancestors did when they arrived in Argentina.
6.30pm-7.15pm
The Yellow Monster Vicky Lesley
UK • 2007 • 14 mins
From 1944 to 1986, nearly 4 million tons of uranium ore were extracted from the Navajo Indian Reservation to fuel America’s nuclear industry. The Yellow Monster reveals the story of 3 ordinary people whose lives have all been affected by the uranium mining - a former miner, a mill work-
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er’s daughter and a resident whose land lies next to an unprocessed waste pile. The film examines the way the Navajo’s have been treated by the uranium industry over the last 6 decades, uncovering a culture of secrecy, environmental pollution and lasting health impacts. They continue to fight for recognition of the legacy of the past, while facing a new threat. As the nuclear industry seeks to reassert itself as a clean energy source for the 21st century, the uranium stock price is rising rapidly and mining companies are once again seeking to mine on the Reservation, with one eye on a fast buck, and seemingly scant regard for the Navajo people.
The Shaman’s Oil Glenda Rome
Scotland • 2007 • 18 mins
In the heart of the Amazonian rain forest of Eastern Ecuador live the Cofan people. They speak their own language, A’ingue, and maintain a traditional hunter-gatherer way of life. In the 1960’s the missionaries arrived, some say to pave the way for the white man. Shortly after the land was found to be rich in oil, and the oil companies moved in. Many indigenous people lost their lands and saw their communities and ways of life destroyed, as oil wells sprung up and the local environment was exploited and polluted. The Cofan people however refused to sell out or be moved, believing that the oil that ran through the veins of their land was the spirit of their ancestors, the Coan-Coan, with whom the Shamans communicate during ceremonies to determine the future of their people. Over the years the Cofans have fought relentlessly to preserve their culture, environment and dignity. This is their story. An inspiring portrait of an alternative vision of nature and what can be achieved when people work together.
7.30pm-8.45pm
Who Owes Who? Teresa Martinez
Scotland • 2006 • 13 mins
In 1961, Earth could have supported its entire population to live the lifestyle of an average UK resident. Today it would take 3.1 planets to support this… This film by Teresa Martinez, Tara O’Leary, and Glenda Rome of the
“Global Communities” team at Friends of the Earth Scotland, raises awareness of the ecological debt generated by “rich-world” economies and life-styles and poses the question ‘Who Owes Who’?
In Debt We Trust Danny Schechter
USA • 2006 • 60mins
In Debt We Trust is a startling film about the debt burden that millions of Americans are struggling with and the forecast that the US faces a fiscal crisis when the ballooning national debt has to repaid. Addiction to consumption and debt as a national pastime is an issue that cuts across political racial, class, generational and international lines. This film is about fighting back.
9.00pm-10.15pm
Kamp Katrina
David Redmon & Ashley Sabin USA • 2007 • 74 mins
Kamp Katrina is a verite documentary filmed in post-Katrina New Orleans. The film follows Ms. Pearl, a 56 year old Upper 9th Ward resident and Native American. The story begins one month after Hurricane Katrina when Ms. Pearl rides her bicycle to a temporary community space in Washington Square Park. An organizer urges people to open their homes to individuals displaced by the hurricane. Ms. Pearl enthusiastically offers her backyard and ten people immediately move into Kamp Katrina, their self-made tent community. With limited resources and no governmental support, Ms Pearl and her husband attempt to create a community for the residents of Kamp Katrina while they work to rebuild their businesses, their homes and their lives.
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CCA 4 Saturday 20th October 12noon-1.30pm
1.45pm-2.15pm Forced Exile
Hercules
Letter to a Hostage
Poland • 2004 • 28 mins
Spain • 2006 • 7 mins
Bobrek is the poorest district of the Bytom in Poland, where most people are jobless. The Sawczuk family have been without work for many years, they earn what they can collecting scrap-iron or coal.
In a letter, a Saharan refugee relates his vision of conflict in the hope that the voices of thousands of people, abandoned by the international community and suffering the injustice, may be heard.
It appears, however, it is their 11 year old son Krzysiek – or Hercules as he is called by the father – who earns the money which makes ends meet.
We Are the Saharawis
Hercules Enters Into The World
This film explores the lives of a refugee community; the Saharawis. Expelled from their homeland in the 1970s, they were condemned to live as refugees in one of the harshest corners of the Algerian desert, 30 years later, they are still waiting for their fate to be decided.
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Lidia Duda
Poland • 2005 • 50 mins
Hercules Ventures into the World is the follow up to Hercules. Moved by Hercules’ story, when it was broadcast on Polish Television, a young couple from Warsaw decide to take him to Warsaw and the seaside. The film follows him there to observe as enters this new world…
Roberto Lozano
Marta Fernandez
UK • 2007 • 25 mins
2.30pm-3.30pm Homeless in Ukraine
Liza
Taras Tomenko Ukraine • 2006 • 21 mins
Hungarian Lovari gypsy community in Békés. The film revolves around the Romani Kris - a tradition believed to be extinct in present-day Hungary. The community of horse trader Lovari gypsies invite the audience to become immersed in their way of thinking and view of the world, and to witness gypsy traditions, a very important foundation of which is the Romani Kris.
They Show Them Everything That’s Beautiful Veronika Brandt
Austria • 2005 • 6 mins
Rakovica Selo is a settlement of one-family houses in the outskirts of Beograd. Where the asphalt ends, home for a community of 50 Roma-families begins. Evicted from the city nearly 25 years ago they still live in the small provisional houses they were initially provided, despite promises of new housing. The Roma are forgotten and ignored, having received no response to their requests to the mayor for new homes, they feel they have become invisible.
Liza is 10 years old. She has no family and lives in the main square in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, under the statue of the Maiden of Independence.
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This square was the very centre of Orange Revolution. So every time Liza ventured out, through the ventilation tube, she found herself in the very heart of the revolution. She saw the exalted faces, heard the cheering but realised that the show would end sooner or later, and she would remain alone.
Canada • 2006 • 47 mins
Black and White
David Gillanders, Zam Salim Scotland • 2006 • 29 mins
David Gillanders is an internationally acclaimed photojournalist. We follow him on his journey from the mean streets of Glasgow’s East End where he documents the city’s knife crime, to the Ukraine where he is on a mission to bring the hellish underground existence of the country’s street kids to the world’s attention.
3.45pm-4.45pm Roma 2
Amari Kris Kriszta Bódis
Hungary • 2005 • 37 mins
Amari Kris is a documentary about the traditional way of life in a
The Boy Inside Marianne Kaplan
An award-winning filmmaker turns the camera on her 12-year-old son Adam in this powerful documentary about growing up with autism. Adam has Asperger Syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism characterized by socially and emotionally inappropriate behaviour. Unable to socialise normally with his classmates, school is a nightmare for Adam. He is regularly excluded or bullied, and left his last school after a boy pulled a knife on him. A rare and intimate portrait of an increasingly common form of autism, The Boy Inside follows Adam’s dramatic family life as he struggles against the odds to graduate elementary school and make sense of bullies, girls and life in the real world.
6.15pm-7.15pm Homeless in India
Amidst Changing Noises Geetika Juyal
India • 2006 • 13 mins
Amidst Changing Noises explores the lives of three musicians who earn their living by playing traditional
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Rajasthani instruments on the streets of Ahmedebad city. The old men have tried to keep their art alive through the times of migration and extreme poverty, while many of the new generation drift towards more new age music.
Beggars of Lahore Sheba Saeed
UK • 2006 • 46 mins
Begging is a worldwide phenomenon. The age old proverb, beggars can’t be choosers, is clear about beggars not having a choice but is that really true of today’s begging population in Lahore, Pakistan. Beggars of Lahore is a journey into the streets of Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city and cultural hub to discover what compels the beggars to beg, what measures have been placed by the Government and Non Governmental Organisations to assist the beggars, and what solutions there are to eradicate the problem of begging.
7.30pm-8.30pm
Walking with Cecilia
Michaela Krimmer/Friedrich Ofner Austria • 2007 • 55 mins
Walking with Cecilia is the intimate portrait of an indigenous woman trying to live a self-determined life. Cecilia has left her ancestral village in Valledupar in Colombia to be ‘free’. Free from the traditions of her tribe, free from her former husband, free from the terror of the Guerrilla groups controlling the region. But her desire to return to the piece of land where she was born and raised means she must confront her own past.
8.45pm-9.45pm
Quilombo Country Leonard Abrams
USA • 2006 • 73 mins
Brazil, once the world’s largest slave colony, was a brutal and deadly place for millions of Africans. But many thousands escaped or rebelled, creating their own communities in Brazil’s untamed hinterland. Today they navigate the hazards of the modern world. Narrated by Chuck D, Quilombo Country (Quilombo is an Angolan word meaning encampment) portrays these contemporary
communities, which can be found across Brazil from the north-eastern sugar-growing regions to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, and explores their culture from hunting, fishing, construction and agriculture to rare footage of local musical performances, syncretic Umbanda and Pajelanca ceremonies, Tambor de Crioula, Carimbo and Boi Bumba drum and dance celebrations.
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CCA 4 Sunday 21st October 12noon-1.00pm Mental Health Shorts
2.15pm-4.00pm
Exploring Madness
with Diversity Films
Dr Parvez Imam
India • 2006 • 19 mins
Mental illnesses are one of the least understood problems in India. Myths and stigma add to the problems of people suffering from such illnesses in a country where a lack of infrastructure already makes it very difficult to treat mental illnesses properly. This film explores a variety of such issues related to mental illness in Indian society, ranging from peoples perceptions of mental illness to debates among professionals, and from the problems of women languishing in mental hospitals to the experiences of those who have recovered.
Terminus
Gabor Peter Nemeth Hungary • 2005 • 37 mins
Ten years have passed since the Dayton Peace Accords. Still more than one million Bosnians are waiting to go home. Among those waiting are patients who were saved from the Jakes war front-line mental hospital in 1992. “Since then my life has collapsed like a house of cards” says Pandur, the self-appointed spokesperson of the Jakes group. “My life has turned into hell since I am here. Not only mine but all of ours. We are confined the whole day and we only go out for breakfast and lunch. The inactivity and the monotonous days kill my relish for life, the left alone mentally ill patients are slowly giving up hope to get home….” Who is responsible for their fate?
1.15pm-2pm
Last in the Line
Dylan Drummond Scotland • 2006 • 13mins
At seventy, ballad singer Sheila Stewart is the last in the line of the Stewarts of Blair, a long lineage of traditional Scottish travellers and storytellers. Last in the Line is a beautiful and moving portrait of an outsider.
Media in Exile Forum 4.15pm-5.30pm
Andjan a Massacre Foretold
Michael Andersen Spain • 2007 • 52 mins
Combining stunning visual images and substantive political analysis, journalist Michael Andersen takes viewers on a journey spanning the globe to investigate the West’s share of the responsibility for the largest government massacre since Tiananmen Square: the 2005 massacre in Andijan, Uzbekistan, in which government soldiers opened fire on a crowd of 15,000 peaceful demonstrators
5.45pm-7.15pm
Those Left Behind Steven Diamond
Scotland • 2007 • 12 mins
What is it like to teach in a school where pupils simply vanish without trace? How do you feel about losing your best mate at school, something you never thought could happen? ‘Those Left Behind’ speaks of Glasgow’s ‘disappeared’. The Vucaj family lived in the Kingsway community in Glasgow for 6 years, before they were forcibly removed. This short film gives a voice to the people of Kingsway and helps us understand how deeply integrated and important Asylum Seeking families have become in the communities in which they have settled and relates how traumatic and disturbing it is when friends and neighbours disappear without trace.
Tales from the Edge 2005:The Glasgow Girls Lindsay Hill
UK • 2005 • 30 mins
Amal (from Somalia), Roza (a Kurd, from Iraq), Ewelina (a Roma gypsy from Poland) and Agnesa (a Roma gypsy from Kosovo), are four teenage friends who have been living in Glasgow for the past six years. They embody the true spirit of integration, as they reveal how well they have adapted to Scottish life, culture…and school. The girls have bonded through their common experiences of persecu-
tion and genocide in their countries of origin. But now they are united by yet another spectre: that of the British Home Office, which, in the current sensitive political climate, is engaged on a vigorous repatriation scheme to send failed asylum seeker families back “home”.
Tales from the Edge 2006:The Children Who Disappear Lindsay Hill
UK • 2006 • 30 mins
A sequel to The Glasgow Girls, The Children Who Disappear continues to follow their extraordinary story. They grieve as the sudden overnight disappearances of their school friends continue unabated. They intensify their campaign to appeal to the Home Office to stop the forced detention and deportation of asylum families whose children are well settled and integrated into Scottish life. Spurred on by strong support from the Children’s Commissioner for Scotland, who publicly decries Home Office removal tactics as “draconian….traumatising and terrorising children in their beds…picking on the innocent wee families”, the Glasgow Girls turn to the Scottish Parliament for help. The Home Office meanwhile, mired in its own scandals of alleged incompetence and corruption, continues to pursue an increasingly vigorous agenda to remove as many failed asylum seeker families as possible from the UK. First Minister Jack McConnell becomes embroiled in “the biggest row since devolution” as his promises to do more to help Scottish asylum families fall on apparently deaf ears in Westminster. Featuring their own poignant video diaries, this film follows the highs and lows in the fortunes of the Glasgow Girls, as they win award after award for their campaigning, yet find themselves continually traumatised as an intransigent Home Office continues to “pick off” their friends and neighbours one by one. The girls strive to continue normal teenage life in the country they now call “home”, and to protect their younger siblings from the terrifying spectre of the knock at the door at dawn.
7.30pm-8.30pm
Living in a Minefield Marit Gjertsen
Norway • 2006 • 56 mins
An Vi lives in Somloth, a small village
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an English supermarket - his taped thoughts and observations providing a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts. Back in India, his relatives in turn, responded with their own ‘cine-letters’ telling tales of weddings, festivals and village life. A bittersweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, “I for India” is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.
8.00pm-8.45pm
Beslan:The Right to Live Olga Stefanova
Russia • 2006 • 44 mins
in Cambodia. She has been the sole provider for her eight daughters since her husband passed away while working in the woods. In order to provide food for herself and her children, they have been forced to start cultivating land they know is covered with mines.
8.45pm-10.10pm
Mimoune
Franc Planas Spain • 11 mins
Illegal immigration is not only a problem for our society. Not only do illegal immigrants suffer from being socially uprooted but from the break up of their families. Mimoune was born of the desire to bring together a family, even if only through a camera, which had been apart for too long.
I for India
Sandhya Suri England/Italy/Germany • 2005 • 70 mins
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. The first thing he did on his arrival in England was buy two Super 8 cameras, two projectors and two reel recorders. One set of equipment he sent to his family in India, the other he kept for himself. For forty years he used it to share his new life abroad with those back home - images of snow, miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged, the first trip to
The film follows life in Beslan after the school siege in which 331 hostages died. From the investigations which followed the tragedy, people expected to find out how and why such a nightmare happened in their country. But a year passed, and still the causes and circumstances of this terror act remained unclear. The evidence of government officials, members of the armed forces and eye witnesses was contradictory. A second round of investigation took place. Witnesses and victims were interrogated again but the inhabitants of Beslan remain no nearer the truth or a clear understanding of what happened that day.
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Resistance is not Terrorism! By Heather Tait
On August 1st 2005 The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act was introduced (SOCPA), in an attempt to evict Brian Haw from his long standing peace protest opposite the gates of parliament. Section 132 of the Act created a 1km Exclusion Zone around Westminster, making spontaneous protest a criminal offence in this ‘Designated Area’. Protest can now lead to arrest, detention and criminal proceedings. If arrested you will be searched, photographed, fingerprinted and have your DNA taken. This information will be held on the central police database indefinitely. The SOCPA laws have eroded our rights to freedom of speech and expression, the very foundation upon which democracy is built. Fear of terrorism has become the justification for an array of measures, which undermine our freedoms. 48 Activists with quote from Wim Wenders is part of a larger body of work that explores the implication of this Act and aims to defy it. Covert political actions are staged and the camera used simply as a recording device of the more important actions that take place. The use of photography, by the State, is here examined and re-appropriated in act of defiance and empowerment. Each mugshot is in itself an illegal protest within the exclusion zone.
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CCA 5 Thursday 18th October 12noon-1.00pm
5.00pm-6.45pm
It’s Time...To Die in Huntsville
Three Comrades Masja Novikova
Thomas Giefer
Netherlands • 2006 • 99 mins
Germany • 2006 • 48 mins
Three friends - Ruslan, Ramzan and Islam - cruise the streets of the Chechen city of Grozny at the start of the 1990s with their car radio up full blast. A few months later, Ruslan was arrested and executed by Russian soldiers. Ramzan was next to die, killed by an air strike. The last of the three friends - Islam - only survived the war as a result of being deported to Holland. Three Comrades looks at the RussianChechen conflict from the point of view of the Muslim inhabitants. Based on interviews with survivors and archive footage found in the estate of Ramzan, who was a cameraman, the film creates a dazzling mosaic of intimate confessions and candid thoughts, and provides an invaluable insight into the lives of ordinary people in a war zone.
“It’s time”. These are the last words that the condemned hear in the death chamber at Huntsville. They are also the signal for the first of three injections. Frances Newton was found guilty of shooting dead her husband and two children for the life insurance money and was sentenced to death for her crime. Now, 18 years later, that sentence is to be carried out.…
1.30pm-2.45pm
Tijn Tino
Carina Ellemers Holland • 2007 • 65 mins
When Tijn van Dijk started his first photography project after graduating cum laude in 2002, Carina Ellemers was immediately fascinated and began filming him. What intrigued her in particular his desire to go back to the country where he was born, to take family portraits. Carina never suspected that Tijn van Dijk, over the course of the project, would return to calling himself Tino Djumini (his birth name), move to Indonesia, convert to Islam, get married in a Kampong, and father a child there.
3.00pm-4.45pm
USA vs. Al-Arian Line Halvorsen
Norway • 2007 • 99 mins
USA vs Al-Arian is an intimate portrait of an Arab-American family facing terrorism charges in a society where stigmatisation and discrimination against Muslims has become an everyday occurrence.
7.00pm-7.45pm
Holy Warriors
Marianna Yarovskaya Russia • 2005 • 35 mins
Holy Warriors follows former and contemporary soldiers of the Soviet and later Russian army. Sergi, who was captured in Afghanistan, has converted to Islam. After several years of fighting in the north Caucuses the Orthodox priest Father Nicolas returns to his religious order. The former Soviet spy Zhanna has not turned to any religion; indeed, she still firmly believes in communist ideology. Alexander has a reputation as the bravest, but also strangest, of soldiers, due to his practice of shamanism. The film chronicles the spiritual upheaval brought about by war on those involved, offering profound insight into the resilience of the human spirit during trying times. It demonstrates the traumatic effect of enlisting unwilling soldiers in war, while exploring the links between war and religion, through these direct manifestations of fear and hate, love and faith in modern-day society.
9.00pm-10.15pm
Children of Solidarinosc Rafael Lewandowski
Poland • 2006 • 74 mins
In 1980, workers from a Gdansk
shipyard began a strike against the totalitarian Polish regime. A wave of intellectuals joined this first impulse and the Solidarity movement was born. People began to fight for the chance that their children could grow up in a free country with better living conditions and a better future. After 25 years, this generation of children has grown up.Young people born in the same year as the movement that changed the history of their country give their opinions on the struggle and the ideals of their parents. Combining material from the period in question as well as the memories and reflections of the present - Children of Solidarnosc explores the ideals the solidarity movement set for itself and whether these ideals have been fulfilled.
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CCA 5 Friday 19th October 12noon-1.45pm
As It Is
Doug Aubrey Scotland, 2006, 16 mins As It Is, is a short film aimed at urging young people to consider and fully understand the dangers of being or becoming involved in gang fighting. It has been called a ‘horror movie’ (Evening Times), and accused of using shock tactics to put its message across. Featuring stories from victims, parents, surgeons, police officers, gang members and ex-gang members it investigates the many issues surrounding the causes and effects of gang fighting. The screening will be followed by a discussion where the filmmakers, using As It Is as a case study, will talk to contributors, the film’s commissioners and community members about ethics of documentary filmmaking and news gathering when the subject is of a sensitive nature. How do communities deal with the broadcasters and the media in general when access to people and their stories is required? How should do communities deal with persistent and intrusive media interest? As It Is was made for GCSS (Glasgow Community Safety Services ltd) and Strathclyde Police together with partners F.A.R.E, Innerzone and Platform. The film is packaged together with four other short films and a string of workshops on a DVD. Over 11s only.
2.00pm-3.15pm
Malcolm and Barbara: Love’s Farewell Paul Watson
UK • 2007 • 67 mins
Malcolm Pointon was a talented pianist and lecturer before developing Alzheimer’s disease. Film-maker Paul Watson spent 11 years with Malcolm and his wife and carer Barbara making a documentary which shows the devastating effects the disease has on both its sufferers and their loved ones.
3.30pm-5.00pm
Exile Family Home Arash
Austria • 2005 • 90 mins
Exile Family Home is a portrait of a typically crazy, ordinary and excep-
tional family. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and all the other relatives, close and distant, in an extended Persian family. Some of them emigrated to Europe or America, though the majority have stayed in Iran. Regardless of all the danger involved, they secretly meet after 20 years at a place which won’t raise suspicion among the Iranian authorities: Mecca. They come from America, Sweden, Austria and Iran to laugh, argue, cook and celebrate.
5.15pm-6.00pm
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Martin Coyne
Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Glasgow, Lebanon & beyond
Camcorder Guerillas present an exclusive program of short films, poetry and discussion looking at the issue of Palestinian Refugees and their living conditions in refugee camps in Lebanon and beyond. Including Glasgow Premiere of Arthur Balfour and Me, a Cineworks short directed by Camcorder Guerilla member Charlotte Cornic, poetry readings by Iyad Hayatleh and the World Premieres of short films from Scotland and Lebanon.
Poems
by Iyad Hayatleh
UK • UK2007 • 7:26 mins
from Artists in Exile (Glasgow)
The last of the clan. After the funeral, cold light, photographs and empty rooms. A space filled with questions where she was: where has the mind gone that understood their epic? Who will be the keeper, mediator, of their shared history now? Is this even the last time they will all gather in one place?
Iyad Hayatleh is a Palestinian refugee poet who was born and grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria in 1960. He now lives in Glasgow with his wife and three sons. Iyad will read from his work in English and Arabic.
A haunting, poetic meditation on family, memory and loss.
The March of Lonely Women Dominika Montean
Poland • 2006 • 35 mins
The March of Lonely Women is the story of the director (Dominika Montean) trying to find her three best friends from primary school whom she lost contact with 15 years ago. Will she manage to find the three girls? And what’s more did their friendship endure the test of time?
6.15pm-8.15pm Camcorder Guerrillas: Stories from the
Arthur Balfour and Me Directed by Charlotte Cornic Produced by Jackie Thornton
Scotland • 2007 • 11 mins
What links Arthur J Balfour, the British Politician born in 1848 on a sumptuous family estate in East Lothian and Fatima, a young Palestinian woman, born in 1971 in a refugee camp in Lebanon and now seeking asylum in Glasgow? From the beautiful farming landscape of East Lothian to the narrow alley ways of a refugee camp in Lebanon, Arthur Balfour and Me is an emotional journey through history, a hidden story about how one politician’s
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Memory is for Forgetfulness
The screening will be introduced by the filmmakers and followed by Q&A.
(working title)
8.30pm-10.30pm
A Film by Fatima Helow
A Film by Stuart Platt Scotland/Lebanon, 2.30 min, Trailer
Rain In My Heart
Scotland • 2007 • 20 mins
El Yajour village is situated in the northeast district of Haifa city in Historical Palestine. It was one of many towns and cities affected by the Israeli occupation of historical Palestine. Most of the village’s inhabitants fled in 1948 and never returned. Many of them still live in refugee camps; some of them live in diapsora.
Trailer for the forthcoming feature documentary from Scottish filmmaker Stuart Platt on the build up and the aftermath of the Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006 and the role the UK played during and after the war.
actions continue to affect the life of a young woman from the Middle East.
El Yajour
In this film, Fatima, a Palestinian student living in Glasgow explores the history of the village and its people.
Since 2003, the Camcorder Guerillas have been making hard-hitting, entertaining and award winning films on various social justice issues that are affecting our local communities. Based in Glasgow, Scotland we are a voluntary collective with a strong membership of skilled individual who are committed to making high quality video tools for groups and individuals campaigning on social justice issues. The Collective also hosts regular screenings showcasing the very best of local and international films dealing with human rights and social justice issues. Find out more on www.camcorderguerillas.net The Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts / ALJANA is a registered, non-profit Lebanese NGO involved in the promotion of active learning and creative expression, that works with low-income communities in Lebanon. Cineworks is part of the GMAC (Glasgow Media Access Centre) Shorts talent pool. Find out more on www.g-mac.co.uk
Cycle
A Film by Stuart Platt Scotland/Lebanon • 2007 • 20 mins
At the end of 2006 / start of 2007, children from various communities in Scotland helped raise money to send bicycles to children living in a crowded refugee camp in Beirut. 20 Minutes follows the bikes to Beirut and documents the motivation of the Scottish children and the impact the gifts have on the lives of the children in the camps.
Shorts from the camps Lebanon • 2007 • 8 mins
Welcome to Shatila Siege Livetv MKDrone Leaflets Smoked finger Merkava5 A series of experimental shorts films made by Palestinians Refugees from Al-Jana group in the Shatila and Bourj el Barajneh refugee camps in Beirut.
Paul Watson
UK • 2005 • 100 mins
Rain in my Heart was a difficult project for Paul Watson, it hoped to reveal on film the troubled psyches of a group of people for whom booze had become the only reliable method of medicating their ‘daily monsters’, their ‘gremlins’, that drove them to alcohol. He found it very difficult to find a hospital authority in the UK that would trust the necessary intrusions of a television production but eventually he managed to establish trust between the hospital staff, their patients and himself by revealing as much of his own life as he asked of them. Four patients volunteered to have their lives, treatment and problems intimately filmed over ten months, both on Dickens Ward, in the Gillingham hospital and their homes. Two died during filming. The resulting film is their story, sober and in wretched drunkenness, while being treated by their doctor, Gray Smith Laing.
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CCA 5 Saturday 20th October 12noon-12.45pm
“No matter how many times I see it, this video remains one of the most powerful pieces of film-making I’ve ever seen” – Libby Brooks,The Guardian
Azadnagar/Gulamnagar Pravin Mishra
India • 2007 • 30 mins
In 1976, the Indian government drew up the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act to free its huge population of bonded labourers from this unique form of slavery. How does the Act of 1976 translate into practice? Where and in what conditions do the released labourers and their families live? Shot in Madhya Pradesh, ‘Azadnagar’ attempts to capture life after release while ‘Gulamnagar’ and investigates the current conditions of those still held in bonded labour in Rajasthan.
Bound by Promises: Contemporary Slavery in Rural Brazil
WITNESS USA • 2007 • 17 mins
Every year, more than 25,000 workers are enslaved by landowners in rural Brazil, mostly in the Amazon region. Bound by Promises tells the story of men who set out in search of work and are taken to isolated ranches in the Amazon, only to find that they have been lured into debt bondage. Forced to do backbreaking work and live in overcrowded shacks with no running water, armed guards remind the workers that those who try to run away may be killed. With no way out, they toil in the hope of buying back their freedom.
Hard work never killed anyone..? For more information contact:
The Graham Meldrum Memorial Campaign, Greencity, 23 Fleming St, Dennistoun, Glasgow, G31 1PQ e-mail: gmmc@hotmail.co.uk t: 07784824491 www.myspace.com/gmmemorialcampaign Other useful contacts: F.A.C.K. (Families Against Corporate Killing)www.fack.org.uk Centre For Corporate Accountabilitywww.centreforcorporateaccountability.org Simon Jones Memorial Campaignwww.simonjones.org.uk Health & Safety Executive- www.hse.gov.uk Hazards Campaign- www.hazardscampaign.org.uk Schnews- www.schnews.org.uk Corporate Watch- www.corporatewatch.org STUC- Ian Tasker- Tasker@stuc.org.uk Don’t let employers get away with murder.
The Story of the Trike Ann Vance
Scotland • 2007 • 20 mins
trike n. informal tricycle
1.00pm-2.45pm Don’t Let Employers Get Away with Murder
Mesothelioma – The Human face of an Asbestos Epidemic Forum of Asbestos Victim Support Groups UK • 2007 • 9 mins
This film was made to mark Action Mesothelioma Day 2007. Commissioned by the Forum of Asbestos Victim Support Groups the film features mesothelioma sufferers and their families. It’s aim is to raise awareness of the asbestos-related cancer and those it affects. It includes all the facts and information needed to understand the legacy of mesothelioma and includes touching tributes from those affected most by the disease. For more information; www. ActionMeso.info
Corporate Homicide STUC
UK • 5 mins
A short film commissioned by the STUC which spells out the need for new legislation in Scotland to deal with Corporate Manslaughter.
Simon Jones – Killed by Casualisation Simon Jones Memorial Campaign England • 25 mins
Simon Jones was killed on 24th of April, on his first day as a casual worker. He was sent by Brighton employment agency Personnel Selection to work at a South Coast dock owned by Euromin to do a highly dangerous and skilled job for which he had no training or experience. Within two hours of starting work Simon was dead, his head crushed by a crane grab, another victim of our growing casual labour economy.
This film is made in tribute to Graham Meldrum, a remarkable man who single-handedly built his own trike, The Absconder. He was a poet, an artist and an anarchist and is remembered here by family and friends after his sudden death in 2005 at the hands of criminally negligent employers. Produced for the Graham Meldrum Memorial Campaign.
3.00pm-4.45pm
The Fishing Party Paul Watson
UK • 1985 • 40 mins
A group of City men head off for a fishing trip off the coast of Scotland in a chartered boat. Accompanying them and sharing their insights is director Paul Watson. The men are without exception from privileged Tory backgrounds, and their sometimes reactionary views about society, as well as their relationship with the boat’s working class crew is cause for amusement to Watson’s satirical eye.
Paul Watson One to One (NUJ & Autonomi)
chaired by Doug Aubrey 5.00pm-7.00pm
Handsworth Songs
Black Audio Film Collective UK • 1986 • 61mins
A rare opportunity to see a oneoff screening of the legendary ‘Handsworth Songs’ by Black Audio Film Collective, which Street Level will present as part of Document 5. The film will be introduced by John Akomfrah of the Collective who will lead a Q&A at the end. Inaugurated in 1982 and dissolved in 1998, the seven-person Black Audio Film Collective is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential artist groups to emerge from Britain in recent years. John
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Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, Reece Auguiste, Trevor Mathison, David Lawson and Edward George produced award winning film, photography, slide tape, video, installation, posters and interventions. The point of departure of their seminal film ‘Handsworth Songs’, is the civil disturbances of September and October 1985 in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in the urban centres of London. Running throughout ‘Handsworth Songs’ is the idea that the riots were the outcome of British society’s suppression of black presence and black desire in Britain. The Film portrays civil disorder as an opening onto a secret history of dissatisfaction, associated with industrial decline and the crisis of documentary as a mode of address. The term ‘Songs’ refers not to musicality, but instead invokes the idea of documentary as a poetic montage of associations, familiar from the British documentary cinema of John Grierson and Humphrey Jennings.
7.15pm-9.00pm Mental Health
Dispatches: Britain’s Mental Health Scandal Channel 4
UK • 2006 • 60 mins
An undercover reporter spent six months in three separate NHS Trusts that care for the acutely mentally ill in hospital. She secretly filmed conditions on adult general psychiatric wards whilst working as a healthcare assistant - having been trained in mental health nursing before going undercover. The reporter finds an overwhelming lack of resources for psychiatric care resulting in understaffed wards that are chaotic, frightening and dangerous. With women forced to mix with men in communal areas, the reporter discovers that female patients are vulnerable to sexual harassment and assault and she finds incidences of overstretched hospital staff threatening patients and illegally administering medication. Followed by discussion based on compulsory treatment orders and acute wards in UK mental health hospitals.
9.00pm-10.00pm
The Other Russians Mayram Yusupova
Russia • 2006 • 52 mins
The theme of film is one of the
hottest topics on the lips and in the minds of people today. Our film depicts the run-out of Russians from the former Soviet Union Republics. Could someone explain why German and Hebrew people returning to their historic motherland are called home-comers, where as Russian people, on the other hand are called refugees!?? “This is the problem of national humiliation”, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is deeply saddened about how the Russian government can treat 25 million Russians going back from former republics as unwelcomed emigrants! Those who were able to settle in Russia during that awful time were great specialists and highly talented people. So today we would like to talk about the history of the “non Russian” Russians and represent them in their accounts of this terrible time. It is important that we tell this story now and let the people know the true extent of what happened before the blanket if time puts many memories to sleep and nothing is learnt. There is not enough known about what happened which isn’t surprising considering the fact that the Russian government and the governments of independent central Asian states have silenced all word of their corruption. Even when they used to rely on the work produced by these people whilst they were still republics of the Soviet Union. We would like to tell everyone about this tragedy. WE are all part of this tragedy. Therefore we have to tell about it.
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CCA 5 Sunday 21st October 12noon-1.30pm
3.00pm-4.00pm
Encounter Point
Iranian Kidney Bargain Sale
Julia Bacha & Ronit Avni Israel • 2006 • 85 mins
Nima Sarvestani
Encounter Point follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded bereaved brother, who risk their lives to promote a non-violent end to the conflict. Their journeys lead them to the unlikeliest places to confront hatred within their communities. The film explores what drives them and thousands of other like-minded civilians to overcome anger and grief to work for grassroots solutions.
Sweden • 2007 • 52 mins
Mehrdad and Sohalia are have decided to sell one of their most valuable possessions: their kidneys. Mehrdad is unemployed and needs money for his wife’s illegal abortion. Sohalia provides for her two sisters and can’t make ends meet. They turn to one of the many state-sanctioned kidney agencies in Iran. There, they meet the recipients to negotiate the price - Iranian Kidney Bargain Sale provides us with a glimpse at the underbelly of Iranian society and a place where the most desperate party always loses out.
4.15pm-5.45pm
We Don’t Want to Die Like This: AIDS in Odessa
In terms of the AIDS epidemic, Odessa is one of the world’s most heavily affected regions. According to WHO, an estimated 150,000 people in this city are infected with HIV. “We don’t want to die like this AIDS in Odessa” shows the life of AIDS patients surviving often without medical supplies, against a backdrop of social discrimination and neglect.
6.00pm-7.30pm
Children of the Golden Horse Claudia Pelz
1.45pm-2.45pm
My Daughter the Terrorist Beate Arnestad
Norway • 60 mins
What makes anyone want to blow themselves up for a cause? In this intimate and personal portrait we join two young female soldiers trained for the ultimate mission. We share their childhood experiences, their dreams and their families’ loss.
records in the world. The region’s muslim Uyghurs population are systematically oppressed and at least 10,000 have been imprisoned and hundreds executed. Petr Lom’s film follows four children from a government orphanage who are learning the ancient Uyghur tradition of Dawaz, tightrope walking.
7.45pm-8.15pm
The Italian Doctor Esben Hansen
Denmark • 2006 • 28 mins
The Italian doctor, Alberto Cairo, is a man with a mission: he wants to restore the dignity of mine victims in Afghanistan. Living alone in the capital, Dr. Cairo has been head of the Red Cross Orthopaedic Centre in Kabul for the past 15 years. Through his determination, humour and empathy, he has helped more than 50,000 mine victims walk again, and helped reintegrate them into Afghan society. The film begins as he meets Mehdi and Fatima, two new patients, and we join them on their journey.
8.30pm-10.00pm
Good Cop
Doug Aubrey
Italy • 2007 • 29 mins
Scotland • 2006 • 69 mins
Ten-year old Jattae is a so-called “Hilltriber”, one of over 100,000 members of ethnic minorities currently settled in the mountains of North Thailand. Under Thai law these nomadic peoples do not have citizenship, and are prevented from farming using their traditional methods. Consequently most, like Jattae, live in poverty, with many turning to drugs and prostitution. An invitation to join a Buddhist Temple offers Jattae a chance to escape such a fate…
Filmed in Scotland since the events of 9/11, Good Cop follows a Race Relations Cop, Chief Inspector Tom Harrigan about his work with Strathclyde Police on the streets of one of Europe’s toughest cities, Glasgow.
On a Tightrope Petr Lom
Norway/Canada • 2006 • 60 mins
The Xinjiang province in China has one of the worst human right’s
With the ongoing war on terror, the G8 summit, a racist murder and the London bombings, Good Cop reveals how global issues affect our local communities on a daily basis. Doug Aubrey paints a compelling portrait of CI Harrigan in his final year before retirement after 29 years police service. “There’s only one race so how can you co-ordinate one race…” (Tom Harrigan).
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Document 5:
Jennifer McColgan
Coordinators: Paula Larkin, Mona Rai
Curtis Larkin
Programme: Mona Rai
Thomas McLaughlin
Development: Paula Larkin
Doug Aubrey
Technical Coordinator: Chris Bowman
Molly Rai
Website: Angela Murray
Kristen Neilson
Ident/poster design: Once Were Farmers
Ann Vance
Programme Design: Kevin Hobbs
Simon Yuill
Press & Pubicity: Neill Patton & Orion
Tara Beall Malcolm Dickson
Document Board:
Johnny Moffat,
Mo Hume
Euan Sutherland
Paula Larkin
Alex Wilde
Mona Rai
Bob - Citystrolls
Neill Patton
Karen Thomson Annie Wood, E-Force
Advisers to the Board: Abigail Howkins Leigh French Marie Oleson Chris Bowman
Document 5 Volunteers: Nicola Mansion Anna Nolan Blair Hamilton David Clarke Marisa Ann McNulty Alasdair Stuart Omar Kholeif Chris Gallagher Mark West Naiara Arri Helen Fitzhenry Thanks to: On her 5th birthday we would like to thank everyone who has been involved since Document 1 - THANKS!!!!!!! - and for this festival: All the filmmakers Variant magazine All the staff at the CCA GMAC
All the projectionists, front of house volunteers, everyone involved in the discussions, and those kindly hosting film makers... and anyone else who has helped us throughout the year that we forgot to mention. Logos: Johnny Moffat, Print & Design