Festival Brochure 15 –19 October 2008 CCA 4 & 5
The Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow
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Film Programme Wednesday 15 October 7.00–8.00 pm 8.00–9.15 pm
Reception Opening Film: Between Heaven and Earth
72 mins
Thursday 16 October CCA5 12.00–01.40 pm Flowers of Rwanda Lumo 1.45–2.45 pm Stone Silence 3.00–4.00 pm Sasha Djurkovic Profile: Alex Last Men Standing Sons And Soldiers 4.15–5.15 pm Daughters Destiny 5.30–6.30 pm Lakshmi And Me 6.45–8.45 pm It Was My Dream: The Soviet Pilots of the Spanish Civil War Followed by a one-hour discussion 9.00–10.00 pm Trumpets Republic
24 mins 72 mins 51 mins 18 mins 18 mins 16 mins 52 mins 59 mins 66 mins
CCA 4 12.00–1.40 pm Tears of Wayronco 2.00–3.15 pm From Russia With Hate Nazi Pop Twins 3.30–4.45 pm Between Heaven and Earth 4.45–5.46 pm La Terre Parle Arabe 6.00–7.30 pm The Life and Other Building Yards La Ciudad Invisible 7.45–9.00 pm Intimidad 9.15–10.00 pm The Operation
96 mins 20 mins 48 mins 72 mins 61 mins 38 mins 52 mins 73 mins 37 mins
48 mins
Friday 17 October CCA 5 12.00–1.30 pm 1.45–3.05 pm 3.20–4.30 pm 4.45–6.00 pm 6.15–7.45 pm 8.00–9.45 pm
Argentina in Therapy Hope Dies Last in War Made in LA The Pain with Being Thirsty Recycling the Newsreel with Paul McIsaac The New World The New Ten Commandments.
79 mins 80 mins 70 mins 7 mins 65 mins 93 mins 105 mins
CCA 4 12.00–1.30 pm 1.45–2.45 pm 3.00–4.30 pm 4.45–6.00 pm
Nisipuri Sands My Husband Andrei Sakharov One Day From a Hangmans Life Golden Kitchen The Rising Wave 6.15–7.15 pm Begging For It Living On The Landing 7.30–9.15 pm Roma Of Govanhill I Have Dreamt of Working as a Hairdresser 9.30–10.00 pm Father Ivans Doors Trial Of A Child Denied
77 mins 52 mins 83 mins 5 mins 65 mins 22 mins 31 mins 20 mins 85 mins 5 mins 25 mins.
Saturday 18 October CCA 5 12.00–2.00 pm Sectarianism Discussion 3.00–5.00 pm Diversity Films Showcase 5.15–6.30 pm Growing Up In The Streets My Promised Land 6.45–7.45 pm Forgotten Fools 8–15–9.45 pm The Baluty Ghetto
13 mins 58 mins 59 mins 87 mins
CCA 4 12.00–1.00 pm The Mseyas Object/Subject: Lives in the Footnotes And Margins
27 mins 24 mins
1.15–2.45 pm
Pachamama Politics La Trinchera Luminosa Del Presidente Gonzalo
25 mins 60 mins
3.00–4.00 pm 4.15–5.15 pm 5.30–6.45 pm 7.00–8.00 pm 8.20–10.00 pm
A Massacre Foretold Fairytale Of Kathmandu Blue My Friends Lanzo’s Box
58 mins 60 mins 73 mins 60 mins 100 mins
Sunday 19 October CCA 5 12.00–2.00 pm 2.00–4.00 pm 4.15–5.15 pm 5.30–6.45 pm 7.00–8.00 pm 8.30–9.30 pm
Camcorder Guerrillas Programme Roundtable Discussion On Human Rights The Scorpions Democracy In Dakar Journey Of A Red Fridge Promised Paradise
52 mins 69 mins 52 mins 52 mins
CCA 4 12.00–1.01 pm 6 Degrees Of Seperation 1.15–2.45 pm The Tailor Spanish For Adults 3.00–4.30 pm Half Me Stella 4.45–6.15 pm Old Man Peter Last Yoik in Saami Forests 6.30–7.30 pm The Edge Of Hope 7.45–9.45 pm The Difficult One Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children
61 mins 30 mins 53 mins 12 mins 77 mins 26 mins 58 mins 50 mins 20 mins 89 mins
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Introduction Document was Scotland’s first ever independent international film festival dedicated to screening documentaries that reflect on a wide range of international human rights concerns. It is a festival that has come out of community and reflects the concerns of community. The festival brings films from around the world to inform, challenge and inspire a local audience, and to support filmmakers whose work has international resonance as an act of witness. Entering its sixth year with a continued remit of screening innovative and often under-represented work, Document will showcase culturally significant human rights content as a means of promoting critical debate on some of the major issues of our times. In its programming, associated events and discussions, Document aims to challenge preconcieved assumptions of cultural and individual identity by offering the viewer a broader perspective on human rights issues than is common in the established broadcast and print media.
In providing a platform for an inclusive range of ideas and individuals, Document also wishes to maintain a historically Scottish tradition of open democratic debate within the wider context of the contemporary global arena. We live in a world where some local effect in a distant continent can be linked causally to a larger political or economic decision made in the centres of power, a decision which impacts on us in a different way. In this sense we see Document as a key forum and information exchange for all those who are concerned with these questions. As such, Document 6 welcomes visitors old and new back to the CCA to share in a celebration of Human Rights and a dynamic programme of related documentaries- good films, some heartbreaking, some uplifting, some both, many of which you are unlikely to see on any TV channel or in any other cinema in the UK any time soon. The Document Team
CCA 5 Wednesday 15th October Opening Film Reception 7.00-8.00 pm 8.00 pm – 9.15 pm Free to all (but ticketed)
Between Heaven and Earth
Frank van den Engel Masha Novikova Netherlands | 2006 | 72 mins
There is a long tradition of travelling circus performers in Uzbekistan. The circus is still one of the only forms of professional entertainment available in the small communities that dot the main roads. Achat Nabiev and Tursun Ali Mamadzhonov are two such performers who have devoted themselves to keeping this heritage alive. Both men were also political activists working with underground groups to win freedom for Uzbekistan from Soviet control - but with the fall of the USSR, Uzbekistan became a dictatorship. Mamadzhonov left activism behind after the death of his son, something which he suspects
may have been instigated by the State. Nabiev continues to fight for a free Uzbekistan while travelling the country with his family circus. Frank van den Engel and Masja Novikova explore the personal, pro-
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fessional and political lives of these two men, following Uzbek circus troupes on the road as Nabiev and Mamadzhonov share the stories of their lives.
Festival Pass holders: pick up your tickets
Day Passes
Waged £15
Unwaged £5
4 x Day Festival Passes
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Single Screenings
Waged £4
Unwaged £2
All programmes free to asylum seekers/refugees
Passholders please note: though you are entitled to entry to all Document 6 screenings, a ticket is still required for any individual programme – these are FREE on presentation of your pass at the box office. It is advisable to pick up tickets for individual screenings well in advance of screening time, as programmes often sell out.
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CCA 5 Thursday 16th October was left with a fistula- a condition that has rendered her incontinent and threatens her ability to give birth in the future. Rejected by her fiancé and cast aside by her family, Lumo found her way to the one place that may save her: a hospital for rape survivors set on the border with Rwanda.
the village out of fear of revenge. Karim gets beaten and escapes into the mountains. Will Karim’s parents have the courage to say what really happened? Will their son be found?
3.00-4.00 pm
Sasha Djurkovic Profile Alex
UK | 2004 | 18 mins
12.00-01.40 pm
Alex is a homeless man. An extraordinary homeless man – a man of vision, who wants to change the world...
Flowers of Rwanda David Munoz
Spain | 2008 | 24 mins
Last Men Standing
Rwanda, 13 years after the genocide that took away the lives of more than 800,000 people. What is the current situation in the country, and what feelings prevail in the hearts of the survivors? Can victims and killers live together – or could it happen again? What is the importance of education in a society which has lived through genocide? Can a film festival make a difference? And who should act when such atrocities occur – do we, as individuals, have any responsibility?
UK | 2005 | 18 mins
Ten years after the mass pit closure of 1984 the miners of the Tower Colliery pooled their severance pay and bought their own pit. They believed they were securing the future of their community. So what happened to the children and grandchildren of the “last men standing”?
1.45-2.45 pm
Stone Silence
Krzysztof Kopczynski Poland | 2007 | 51 mins
In April 2005 the world heard the news that in the village of Spingul in Northern Afghanistan, a 29 year-old woman had been publicly stoned for adultery. Her name was Amina.
Lumo
Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt Nelson Walker III Louis Abelman co-director, Lynn True co-director USA | 2007 | 72 mins
Lumo is a feature-length documentary about a young Congolese woman on an uncertain path to recovery at a unique hospital for rape survivors. The agonies of war-torn Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of these women as, in Eastern Congo, vying militias, armies and bandits use rape as a weapon of terror. Recently engaged to a young man from her village, 20 year-old Lumo Sinai couldn’t wait to have children and start a family. But when she crossed paths with marauding soldiers who brutally attacked her, she
The story of this powerful documentary begins five years before the event, when Amina was given away by her family to be married to Muhammad. In Afghanistan arranged marriages are common. Fortunately Amina and Muhammad had been neighbours growing up and knew one another well. After the wedding, Muhammad left his new bride to find work in Iran. Amina lived alone. Then Karim appeared in her life. Drawn to each other, they started meeting in secret - but in the clay houses of Spingul there is no room for clandestine activities. The two were eventually caught together and accused of violating the law. This engrossing film chronicles their affair, trial and punishment with piercing candour. Amina dies, though no one pleads guilty. Despite being sentenced, her mother and father are set free. They live as if nothing has happened. The family of Karim leaves
Sons and Soldiers UK | 2006 | 16 mins
Sons and Soldiers, a series of four 3-minute films, captures poignant moments from the real lives of those caught up in the life and death dramas of modem soldiering: Sign Me Up is filmed in a Miners Club in a South Welsh village the night before a young man starts basic training.
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Never Coming Back is a film about a mother who lost her only son in Iraq. Amidst grief and anger, her pride is undiminished. End of the Dream, filmed at a posttraumatic stress disorder clinic, records the experiences of two men coming to terms with the legacy of their time at the front line. You’re In the Army Now features the spectacle of the Passing Out Parade at a UK Army camp; the moment when boys become soldiers.
4.15-5.15 pm
Daughters Destiny May Gauffin
Sweden | 2008 | 52 mins
In Nepal daughters are married off at a very young age and left to be dependent on their men, giving birth and taking care of parents-inlaws. Women from different parts of Nepal tell their stories, through which they show the vast force of tradition on their life situation. In the far west, we meet with Fofo, who was married off when she was 10 years old. The groom was 20. She was raped and had a daughter before she managed to leave her husband. Thuli Maya, in the hilly area, was 15 when she got married. At 40 she became a widow after giving birth to ten children. But not only poor and illiterate women are suffering. Savitri is not poor, but she tells how she had to throw her dolls away and was then carried for nine days over the hills to Kathmandu to get married to someone whom she had never seen, and did not even know the name of.
5.30-6.30 pm
Lakshmi and Me
Nishtha films Lakshmi at home, and at work in various houses. Lakshmi’s is a precarious existence to begin with; illness and romantic entanglements compound her problems in unexpected ways. As the filmmaker is drawn deeper into Lakshmi’s life, she is forced to question many of the things she takes for granted. During a year and a half of dramatic changes, the process of filming has its own impact on unfolding events and on the relationship between the two women.
6.45-8.45 pm
Spanish Civil War
On his return to Moscow, he is honoured by Stalin... then later executed on Stalin’s orders following the German attack on the USSR – a fate shared by several of his comrades-in-arms Followed by discussion with Daniel Künzi, Filmmaker, Chaired by Dr Willy Maley (University of Glasgow).
9.00-10.00 pm
Trumpets Republic Stefano Missio Alessandro Gori
Italy | 2006 | 48 mins
It Was My Dream: the Soviet Pilots of the Spanish Civil War C’était Mon Rêve Daniel Künzi
Nishtha Jain
Switzerland | 2008 | 66 mins
India | 2007 | 59 mins
On 7 November 1936, Madrid is about to fall into General Franco’s hands. Suddenly, a Russian squadron appears above the city. Supported by the International Brigades, they manage to rebuff the attack.
“What sin did I commit to be born a woman?” Lakshmi wonders aloud. A 21-year-old housemaid in Mumbai, she works ten hours a day, seven days a week. One of her employers is Nishtha Jain, who begins to make a documentary that explores their relationship.
of Soviet pilots sent to fight in the Spanish civil war. It centres on the Swiss aviator Ernst Schacht, commander of a bomber squadron.
This film, based on personal testimonies – some of them never before made public – tells the secret story
In Serbia trumpets are played when children are born. They are played when they are baptised, when boys leave to do their military service, when they come back, when couples get married and when they move to their new house. They are played at festivals and at funerals. The trumpet is an important instrument in the emotional life of the Serbs. In Guca, a village of 5,000 inhabitants some 150 kilometres from Belgrade, every August for the last 46 years a festival has been held: the Sabor Trubaca, the biggest competition for Brass Orchestras in the world. Trumpets’ Republic is also a portrait of the Serbia of today. The festival proceeds against the backdrop of the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Dindic: two months after the murder, a silent procession of citizens still flows to his grave.
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CCA 4 Thursday 16th October Ali Mamadzhonov are two such performers who have devoted themselves to keeping this heritage alive.
12.00-1.40 pm
Tears of Wayronco Jorge Meyer
Spain | 2007 | 96 mins
Over 70,000 dead or disappeared that is the tragic result of the internal armed conflict that Peru has suffered for over two decades. A corrupt political class, armed forces that act with impunity, and bloodthirsty guerrilla groups comprise the background to Tears of Wayronco, which gives voice, above all, to the victims of such barbarity. The story follows the trail of pain and suffering left behind in the wake of this struggle for power.
Nazi Pop Twins James Quinn
UK | 2007 | 48 mins
Meet pop-sensation Prussian Blue. They’re fourteen years old, have long blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes, luminous smiles and have even been compared to the Olsen twins. So what’s the problem? Well, it might have something to do with the fact that they’re better known as the poster girls of neo-Nazism and have been hailed by White nationalists across the world as the future of the Aryan race. Since their arrival on the pop scene, Lamb and Lynx have gained thousands of column inches and ignited global outrage with their very own brand of White nationalist pop in which they sing the praises of Rudolph Hess, promote Holocaust denial and dream of a White America.
2.00-3.15 pm
From Russia with Hate Christof Putzel
USA | 2007 | 20 mins
From Russia with Hate investigates the rise of racist violence in Russia.
As they allow the cameras into their lives, this intimate portrait profiles the notorious band and their mother/manager April as it goes behind the headlines to understand the nature of their appeal and the motivations behind the controversial music they produce.
Documentary filmmaker Christof Putzel travelled to Moscow to track down the source of viral videos on the Internet showing neo-Nazi skinheads kicking and beating immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia. He learned that the videos are posted across the Internet as propaganda for the ultra-right activists who appear to operate largely unhindered by Russia’s increasingly authoritarian government. Despite their ability to launch almost daily attacks, leaders of the movement operate in the shadows and rarely reveal themselves to outsiders. By persuading them of his determination to show them as they are, Christof Putzel was able to gain their confidence and get an exclusive look inside their operations.
3.30-4.45
Both men were also political activists working with underground groups to win freedom for Uzbekistan from Soviet control - but with the fall of the USSR, Uzbekistan became a dictatorship. Mamadzhonov left activism behind after the death of his son, something which he suspects may have been instigated by the State. Nabiev continues to fight for a free Uzbekistan while travelling the country with his family circus. Frank van den Engel and Masja Novikova explore the personal, professional and political lives of these two men, following Uzbek circus troupes on the road as Nabiev and Mamadzhonov share the stories of their lives.
4.45-5.46 pm
La Terre Parle Arabe The Land Speaks Arabic Maryse Gargour
France | 2007 | 61 mins
Appearing on the international scene in the late nineteenth century, the programme of the Zionist movement was to create a Jewish state anywhere in the world, but preferably in Palestine. Palestine, as part of the Ottoman Empire, was inhabited by a mainly Arab population, the community divided between Muslims, Christians and Jews.
Between Heaven and Earth
Then In 1917, the Balfour Declaration promised the Zionist leaders a “Jewish national home”, whose creation would however require the transfer of the Palestinian population out of their land.
Netherlands | 2006 | 72 mins
Using the writings of Zionist ideologues, audiovisual archives, and the testimonies of Palestinians expelled in 1948, Maryse Gargour combines the roles of historian and filmmaker to return to the origins of the conflict.
Frank van den Engel Masha Novikova There is a long tradition of travelling circus performers in Uzbekistan. The circus is still one of the only forms of professional entertainment available in the small communities that dot the main roads. Achat Nabiev and Tursun
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9.15-10.00 pm
The Operation Kerstin Nickig
Germany | 2007 | 37 mins
6.00-7.30 pm
The Life and Other Building Yards Giuseppe Schettino Italy | 2007 | 38 mins
This film will never answer all the questions which, since time immemorial, have arisen out of stereotypical attitudes to Gypsies. It does not set out to anthropologically investigate the culture of the Sinti people – a culture so similar to, yet so different from our own, both in terms of everyday life and ancient tradition: The Life And Other Building Yards, a short slice of Sinti life narrated almost as a “novella”; is a story about the conflict between generations and cultures, between fathers and sons...
La Ciudad Invisible The Invisible City
Lucia Asue Mbomio Rubio Spain | 2008 | 52 mins
Flying stones, screams, rubber balls - riot police on one side, Maghrebians and Spaniards on the other. Abdul’s house is demolished. He is a Moroccan mason living on the Canada Real Galiana, an ancient cattle track. Forty years of history are thrown into question. Four decades of occupation of public land, 40,000 neighbours from four different communities: Spaniards, Muslims, Spanish gypsies and Romanians. Luxury dwellings, shacks, pushers, drug addicts, and over 10,000 children. No hospitals, no schools.
Forty years after the arrival of the first settlers to the Canada Real Galiana, this is the scenario in a 16 km linear city located on the outskirts of Madrid: the largest illegal settlement in Europe. The peaceful and lawless city of yesteryear has lately become “a settlement of injustice” which is daily haunted by two dramas: poverty on the one hand – its inhabitants forgotten by a society which intends to rehouse them close to an incinerator, and crime and drug dependency on the other – the direct consequences of such misery. Through the testimonies of the inhabitants, La Ciudad Invisible tries to get closer to the everyday contrasting realities that coexist on this 16 km-long strip.
7.45-9.00 pm
Intimidad
Ashley Sabin David Redmon USA | 2008 | 73 mins
Cecy and Camilo – both aged 21 – recently migrated to Reynosa, Mexico from Santa Maria, Puebla with the dream of buying land and building a home. A year later they return to their rural hometown to be reunited with their daughter. What should be a happy reunion creates a dilemma that transforms the course of their marriage.
A small town in Siberia becomes the subject of a brutal police raid. Nobody knows why. The Operation traces the background to the event. When Alyosh went to have a smoke outside a club in December 2004, he could not have imagined that he would be beaten up and taken away to spend the night in a police cell. He was not alone – the night ended in a similar manner for at least 347 other inhabitants of Blagoveshensk, a city in Bashkortostan, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. They were victims of a preventive raid ordered by the Ministry of the Interior. The official reason was to reduce crime in the city. But Ludmila Alexeyeva, from Moscow’s Helsinki Committee, sees it differently: at the time of the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine, the authorities in Russia were allegedly afraid of unrest in its autonomous republics. Consequently, they attempted to nip any possible civil disobedience in the bud. What happened in Blagoveshensk was not an isolated incident: at least five other cities in different parts of Russia got the same treatment. Director Kerstin Nickig focuses on one Russian province where people have had to fight for their basic rights.
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CCA 5 Friday 17th October 12.00-1.30 pm
Argentina in Therapy Adam Barnett Simon Deeley
UK | 2008 | 79 mins
Buenos Aires is the psychoanalytic capital of the world, boasting twice the number of therapists per head as New York. Through years of state terror and economic disaster, millions of Argentinians have sought refuge on the analyst’s couch. Such a demand for an expensive and time-consuming exercise suggests neurosis on a national scale. Like the analyst, this film puts Argentina on the couch to find the roots causes of this unique obsession.
1.45-3.05 pm
Hope Dies Last in War Supriyo Sen
India | 2007 | 80 mins
54 Indan soldiers taken as Prisoners of War during the Indo-Pakistani conflict of 1971 are yet to return home. While waiting for them, some of the parents died, some of the wives remarried, and some of the children committed suicide. But the real ordeal has been for those who did not give up. For them life has become a tightrope walk between hope and despair. They have fought the mental battle of attrition for almost four decades and are still not willing to resign themselves. This film is a saga of these families’ struggle, spanning three generations, to get their men back. It records the tragedy of political stalemate, the sufferings of loved ones, and true moments of humanity, courage and hope.
3.20-4.30 pm
Made in LA Hecho en Los Angeles Almudena Carracedo Spain | 2007 | 70 mins
Maria, Lupe and Maura are three Latina immigrants struggling to survive in Los Angeles sweatshops. But one day, determined to win basic
labour protection, they embark on a three-year odyssey that will transform their lives forever. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in LA is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice.
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4.45-6.00 pm
The Pain with Being Thirsty David Yun
USA | 2007 | 7 mins
The Pain with Being Thirsty juxtaposes found footage of Japanese Internment camps in Arizona with a found letter written by Babar Ahmad, a Muslim prisoner accused of running AlQaeda websites in the UK and awaiting extradition to Guantanamo Bay. In linking the two, the film traces a connection between the way Japanese Americans were perceived during World War II and how individuals in the Arab diaspora are being treated in a post–9/11 world, whilst raising larger questions about the fragility of our own freedoms.
contemporary filmmakers and activists about the importance of stories, collaboration and art in building and sustaining movements for radical social change.
8.00-9.45 pm
The New Ten Commandments
Kenny Glenaan Douglas Gordon Nick Higgins Irvine Welsh Mark Cousins Tilda Swinton Sana Bilgrami Alice Nelson Doug Aubrey David Graham Scott Anna Jones Scotland | 2008 | 105 mins
6.15-7.45 pm
The New World Recycling the Newsreel with Paul Mcisaac Ivora Cusack James June Schneider
France/USA | 2007 | 65 mins
Through the archive footage of the ‘60s radical film collective, The Newsreel – and engaging interviews with member Paul Mclsaac – Recycling the Newsreel... explores the history of radical social movements in North America and the key role of independent media in resistance. With both rare and familiar clips featuring everyone from the Black Panther Party to the Yippies, and images of resistance to the war in Vietnam, the film offers a unique glimpse into the ‘60s, a time of incredible defiance and creativity. Recycling the Newsreel... is more than a retrospective - it is a challenge to
Donovan Pennant UK | 2008 | 93 mins
On the 13th of January 2008, Gary Pennant, father of Liverpool football player Jermaine Pennant, was depicted in the Sunday News of the World as being the “vile boss of a seedy crack den”, and “one of Nottingham’s biggest pushers”. The article was on the front page and on pages 4 and 5. Gary and his partner Nikki were photographed injecting Heroin and smoking Crack Cocaine. Stunned by the intrusive and insensitive portrayal of his brother’s addiction, Donovan Pennant sought to discover the truth behind the story. The New World follows the events surrounding the article’s publication and the subsequent police arrests of Gary and Nikki in connection with allegations made by the newspaper that Gary supplied a Class-A substance to an undercover reporter.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Lansdowne Productions and the Scottish Documentary Institute have gathered together some of the most talented filmmakers and visual artists based in Scotland today. United by a single theme–- Human Rights in Scotland – the film communicates a variety of artistic visions whilst exploring the real life stories of those for whom the Universal Declaration has intimate meaning. With testimony of human rights abuses sitting alongside tales of human rights recognition, The New Ten Commandments is both an emotionally powerful journey and an exercise in passionate filmmaking of the highest calibre.
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CCA 4 Friday 17th October
12.00-1.30 pm
Nisipuri Sands Claudiu Mitcu
Romania | 2008 | 77 mins
Every year on August 29th in a village called Nisipuri Sands, somewhere in the South of Romania, there is a fair...
1.45-2.45 pm
My Husband Andrei Sakharov Inara Kolmane
3.00-4.30 pm
4.45-6.00 pm
One Day from a Hangman’s Life
Golden Kitchen
Joshy Joseph
Latvia 2006 | 52 mins
India | 2005 | 83 mins
How did the “brains” of the Soviet regime - an academician, the father of the hydrogen bomb, an outstanding intellectual for whom even in the Kremlin all doors were open – become a champion of human rights, a prisoner of conscience and an internationally renowned enemy of the system?
In 2004 in Kolkata, India, for the first time in many years, an execution took place. The intense media focus round the hangman brought to mind the public-attended executions of medieval Europe.
Belgium/Netherlands 2005 | 5 mins
Every day, the kitchen Sri Guru Ram Dass Sahib II serves 30,000 free meals in The Golden Temple of Amritsar, India.
The Rising Wave Yask Desai Shweta Kishore
Australia/India | 2008 | 65 mins
My Husband Andrei Sakharov attempts to answer this question by confronting Sakharov’s former colleagues and others who lived through those times – among them, his widow Yelena Bonner, and the last secretary general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. By presenting the facts and through the impact of the archive footage itself, the film raises issues of power versus guarantees of human freedom – issues relevant not only in the Russia of today.
Valerie Berteau / Philippe Witjes
In India water has a deep spiritual and functional significance. While worshiped as sacred, it is also essential for generating livelihood.
As they had no direct access to the convict at the Alipore Central Jail, the media had to invent stories instead. The hangman, a gifted story-teller himself, came to their rescue. For a couple of months prior to the hanging, newspapers and news channels carried more fiction than the best thrillers, with the debate on capital punishment coming to the fore. In One Day from a Hangman’s Life, director Joshy Joseph tries to defictionalise the non-fiction by retreating into the dingy cell-like room of the hangman for a whole day before the hanging.
Filmed in three different states of India, The Rising Wave eloquently presents a culture built on water being shared, used and managed in ways unchanged for centuries, featuring communities who have been dependent on their local natural water resource for generations as they fish and farm for their livelihood. In the rapidly transforming economy of India, corporations now lay claim to control and determine access to this natural resource. A contrasting picture emerges: water as a billion dollar industry against water as a sacred natural gift for all humankind. This spells conflict for the future. Granted access to these tiny communities through a network of field workers, The Rising Wave is a thoughtprovoking documentary that captures the feeling of loss experienced by them, and offers a glimpse into the compelling stories of the individuals themselves.
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6.15-7.15 pm
Begging For It
Douglas Fenwick Barry Lansdon UK | 2008 | 22 mins
In response to New Labour’s ASBO legislation, this film was made as part of a London-based social exclusion project devised to enable participants to have ownership of their own stories.
A frank insight into the reality of begging on the streets of London, Begging For It portrays the stories of Peter, Paul and Mark, three men of different ages and backgrounds, juxtaposing their common experience on the streets. This film insightfully veers between the tragic reality of begging and the heart and humour that against all odds still beats within each man.
Living on the Landing Sabine Zimmer Sandra Budesheim
Germany | 2008 | 31 mins
For twelve years, Monika, a woman who would “officially” be considered homeless, has been living on the top landing of a Berlin residential building. This is where she sleeps, spends her time and has furnished a little home for herself. To her, the landing is a place that provides security, a place she has chosen for herself and a place she knows inside out – in a nutshell, a proper home.
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7.30-9.15 pm
Roma of Govanhill Janos Kovacs Janos Joka Daroczi
Hungary | 2008 | 20 mins
Since the industrial revolution, Glasgow, like Liverpool or London, is a city whose identity has largely been forged by successive waves of immigration, from the Gaels of the 19th Century fleeing the Clearances to the Polish visitors of the present day. The neighbourhood of Govanhill on the South Side of Glasgow has historically played host to many new cultures arriving in the city, from the Irish to the Jewish communities, and later to Asian families from India and Pakistan. Post-EU Accession, the most recent of these have been Slovakian citizens of the Romani people. Made by Roma Magazine for Magyar TV in Hungary, this film sets out to show life in Govanhill today as experienced by the Roma and others in this mixed neighbourhood.
I Have Dreamt of Working as a Hairdresser Lidija Mirkovic
Serbia | 2007 | 85 mins
School children become victims of violent rightwing criminals. The young Roma go to work as street musicians, beggars or prostitutes. There is little hope for better.
9.30-10.00 pm
Father Ivan’s Doors Kristina Nikolova
Bulgaria | 2008 | 5 mins
A glimpse into the life of Father Ivan – an Orthodox priest who gives shelter to pregnant and homeless Romani Gypsy women in his monastery.
Iva, a young Roma hairdresser from Serbia, wishes to remain in Germany with her family. They stay on illegally. They get caught and deported back to Belgrade.
Trial of a Child Denied
From now on they must live by exploiting the waste on the landfill, collecting paper, scavenging in the streets, polishing shoes or selling in the flea market. Living in the slums on the margins of society is unhealthy and often dangerous.
Helena has chosen legal action, and became the first Roma woman to win a case in Central Europe against the hospital that sterilized her in 2001. Elena addresses international audiences to ensure this never happens again.
Michelle Coomber
England/Czech Republic 2008 | 25 mins
When Helena Ferenciková was 19 years old and in the throes of labour with her first child, she was told to sign a document. Only afterwards did she realize she had authorized her own sterilization. Eleven years previously, the same happened to Elena Gorolová. Both women are fighting for justice.
Recently, Elena found out that Helena Ferenciková was her cousin. Now she has to contend with the thought that if she’d have spoken out when it happened, her cousin might have been spared the same fate. Helena and Elena’s situations are a microcosm for the multiple sources of social injustice facing today’s Roma. Through their poignant and unnerving stories, this film unearths the shocking anachronism of the practice of forced sterilization that continued long after the Communist mandate.
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Glasgow’s Radical Independent Book-fair project
...supporting small press publishers and independent producers... ...circulating radical reading materials and information...
RIB at Document 6
Thurs 16th – Sun 19th October 2008 10.00 am – 10.00pm stalls | resources | videotheque | events free entry Glasgow’s Radical Independent Bookfair project (RIB) has been co-ordinating events since October 2006... helping to fill the gap left by the lack of alternative bookshops, radical events and platforms for imaginative and independent voices in our city. Feral Trade Coffee from El Salvador will be available. Feral Trade is trading goods over social networks. For more info on RIB, and a full set of links go to: http://www.ribproject.org
Videotheque
Events
Electron Club Open Day Sat 18 October The Electron Club is a voluntary run space where people interested in things like free open source software, circuit bending, hardware hacking, computer recycling, streaming, audio and video editing, green technologies, and amateur radio can meet, use equipment, and share and disseminate their skills and ideas. Every so often we have a free public Open Day where people can come along and see what goes on there, get involved if they wish, or just chat with people and eat some of the homemade baking that will be on offer. This year’s Open Day will include presentations, talks, workshops, and displays from Electron Club projects and people including: Glasgow Green Map, B.R.I.D.G.E, and Dorkbot Alba and others. Live improvised performance from the (subtle) Noise Orchestra For details see the Electron Club website: http://www.electronclub.org
Due to popular demand, the Videotheque will hold copies of all of the films screening at Document 6 for you to select from and freely watch. If you should need any assistance, please ask at the book fair and they’ll be happy to help.
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CCA 5 Saturday 18th October 12.00-2.00 pm
Sectarianism Discussion Led by Tom Devine (University of Aberdeen) this discussion will explore the particular nature of sectarianism in Scotland, the rights of those involved in marches, territories and organisations to hold their beliefs and faiths, the rights of those affected, and examine the responsibilites of organisations to challenge their members or supporters who abuse the human rights of others. The discussion will be introduced by a series of short films:
Hacked Off
Hacked Off is the result of a six month collaboration and conversation between artists Jane McInally and Anne Elliot and a group of Glasgow cab drivers in which they discuss Old Firm games, march days and the changing nature of sectarianism in the city.
Rebelland
Over a six month period GoMA artist in residence, Anthony Schrag and writer in residence, Magi Gibson encouraged young people to explore the issues of sectarianism, territory and neighbourhood. The young people talked of a violent youth gang culture where, rather than stemming from sectarianism or football affiliation, violence was territory-based, or simply directed against someone identifiably different.
Perfectly Wholesome
In January 2006 City Councillors involved in Blind Faith identified those they thought could provide an insight into sectarianism in Glasgow. They began as a series of research interviews, with key figures such as Ian Wilson (Grand Master of the Orange Order in Scotland), Jim Slaven (National Organiser for Cairde Na h’Eireann) and Kevin Smith (Assistant Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police). (Free entry with complementary ticket from box office)
3.00-5.00 pm
Diversity Films Showcase Come and enjoy an eclectic mix of some of the outstanding work produced by Diversity new filmmakers this year. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, and a reception from 5.15 to 6.30pm in the downstairs café space. (Free entry with complementary ticket from box office)
5.15-6.30 pm
Growing Up in the Streets Burbuqe Berisha
Albania | 2005 | 13 mins
This is the story of Rrezarta, Drenusha, Kosovar and Fisnik: children whose health and even lives are endangered growing up on the streets of Kosovo as they try to earn a living...
My Promised Land Kosovodrömmar Jonas Söderqvist Oskar Sjödin
Sweden | 2008 | 58 mins
In Kosovo, Dafi and Teuta are planning their wedding. Teuta works in an American army kitchen in Iraq and Dafi is doing various jobs, trying to make ends meet. In the vacuum the US-led invasion left behind, unemployment is sky-high and almost all parts of the civil infrastructure have crumbled. Life in Kosovo offers small or no possibilities to create a safe haven for a young family. But Dafi and Teuta struggle on, trying to make their life as good as possible. How do you build a future and start a family in a country torn by war? Even though Kosovo has now declared independence, it will be a long way to a normal life for the citizens of the newborn state. The only career opportunities in Kosovo are those with the UNMIK organization, the KFOR-forces or with some of the multitude of
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American army contractors providing the US army bases with stores, restaurants and supply work. So what happens when the armies move on to the next conflict?
The filmmakers present their families back home with evidence of the patients’ wishes; but nobody wants to know. Since Bosnia lacks both doctors and medicines, the families. like the director of a new medical institute, believe it would be best for the “forgotten fools” to remain in Hungary.
8-15-9.45 pm
The Baluty Ghetto Ghetto Jménem Baluty 6.45-7.45 pm
Pavel Stingl
Forgotten Fools Vergeten Dwazen
Czech Republic | 2008 | 87 mins
Netherlands | 2006 | 59 mins
today, the houses in which 200,000 people died during the war are occupied by new inhabitants...
Frans van Erkel
In July 1992, a group of patients from a psychiatric clinic in Jakes, Bosnia were driven from their country by war. Since 1996 they have been living in clean, if not exactly homely, rooms in part of a refugee centre in Debrecen, Hungary. The patients want nothing more than to return home. The doctors are surprised that a place can’t be found for them anywhere in their own country. Later in Bosnia, the filmmakers meet a psychiatrist from the former institute; old video recordings show the building, ravaged by war, and patients rambling about, unable to escape.
A place in the middle of Europe, marked by the horror of the Nazi’s racial hatred:
Before World War II, Baluty was a feared criminal district of Lodz. Following their occupation of Poland, the Nazis turned the neighbourhood into a Jewish ghetto for 160,000 inhabitants. In the autumn of 1941, five transports of Czech Jews arrived. These assimilated Central Europeans found themselves amidst the highly traditional local Hasidic population, who spoke Yiddish- for them, a foreign language. They were made to suffer not only by the Nazi regulations, but by the Jewish ghetto council, which hated them for being
different. Of 5,000 deportees, only 240 individuals survived the war. Today, the dilapidated houses of the Baluty district are inhabited by a highly unusual social group which differs distinctly from the remaining population of Lodz... as if the borders of the ghetto still existed. The link which brings together these apparently disparate images are pictures from Henrik Ross’ unique collection of ghetto photographs, which were only rediscovered posthumously several years ago. The Baluty Ghetto is a timeless essay on a stigmatised place.
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CCA 4 Saturday 18th October 12.00-1.00 pm
The Mseyas
Gustavo Vizoso Spain | 2007 | 27 mins
AIDS kills more than two million people every year in Africa. As a result of this epidimic, there are more than 11 million orphans. This is the story of the Mseyas, orphans from Iringa in Tanzania. Alberina, Maria, Amos and Orsolina live on their own and face a life of struggle without resources.
Object/Subject: Lives in the Footnotes and Margins
affected by and involved in Morales’ political experiment, tracing and analysing the way in which the country’s indigenous majority has come together to defend his new breed of Latin American socialism.
Sacha Kahir
Scotland | 2007 | 24 mins
Object / Subject is a whirlwind study of hidden histories and stories centering on Edinburgh, the overdeveloped world’s first city of the split personality – home of Jekyll and Hyde, the Scottish Enlightenment and the world’s biggest producer of pharmaceutical Heroin. The film features interviews with survivors of events now pushed to the margins of recent history, including the first woman diagnosed with HIV at Cornton Vale Women’s Prison – whose refusal to remain silent led to fellow inmates taking a stand against involuntary testing, the Aids explosion – which nearly wiped out a generation in Edinburgh’s housing estates, and the miner’s strike – which decimated communities around Edinburgh. Using stock footage and animation as well as interviews, Object/Subject... examines how the fragments of people’s lives connect to dramatic global events and gives a voice to those whose voices are seldom heard.
1.15-2.45 pm
Pachamama Politics Mark Shenkin
Scotland | 2007 | 25 mins
Bolivia’s 2005 presidential election marked a bad day for neo-liberalism. On the cards since late 2003, when a popular uprising succeeded in unseating the previous administration from power, the Bolivian people now turned to a man whose party, Movimiento al Socialismo, promised to reject the laissez-faire development model which, since the eariy 90s, had dominated international geopolitical agendas. In the period following his election, Evo Morales, a former coca farmer now hailed as Latin America’s first ever indigenous leader, put into effect a program of radical reform designed to lift his country out of poverty, taking control of its rich oil and gas reserves and setting in place the long process of land redistribution and constitutional reform. Filmed in Bolivia the year following the election, the documentary gives a voice to some of the people most
La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo Jim Finn
USA | 2007 | 60 mins
La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo is a recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas of the Maoist Shining Path movement from their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that they were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People’s War: “shining trenches of combat”. This film explores the belief systems and intense indoctrination of the brutal Latin American insurgency.
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helped, has healed a heart wounded by the loss of his first lover in Ireland. Boy after boy speaks warmly of Cathal, of his generosity and affection.
3.00-4.00 pm
A Massacre Foretold Nick Higgins
Scotland | 2007 | 58 mins
On 22 December 1997, forty-five indigenous residents of the small Southern Mexican village of Acteal were attending a prayer meeting in their village church when they were slaughtered by unknown paramilitary forces. They were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas (The Bees), who were supporters of the revolutionary Zapatistas but renounced their violent methods. The investigation into their deaths quickly went suspiciously cold... Scottish documentary maker Nick Higgins attains unprecedented access to the place, the people, and the story behind a barely-reported atrocity.
4.15-5.15 pm
Fairytale of Kathmandu Neasa Ni Chianain
But all is not what it seems. First a hotel manager, and then some Nepalese youths come forward to tell a different tale: the picture of the kind benefactor falls apart. Unable to believe the allegations about the poet she idolized, the filmmaker is forced to enter the action and confront him.
5.30-6.45 pm
Blue
Lidija: “It is great to believe in something. I used to believe in Tito and Yugoslavia. It was a kind of religion, with a different kind of a God, though. Oh yes, I was good at it. I even believed that everyone I knew believed the same: we were all proud Tito pioneers who would grow up to become communists like our parents. The path was simple and beautiful. My life and that of my friends was alike. Then it all fell apart and each of us became unhappy in our own way.” Lidija is preparing her wedding and hopes it will be the occasion to see her friends again after a long time.
Israel | 2007 | 73 mins
Blue focuses on the lives of 3 Israeli porn actresses as they work on a new movie. In closely documenting the uncensored stages of an adult film production, director Maya Ne’emani attempts to understand whether the porn industry is a world which merely takes advantage of an individual’s unhappiness or poverty till they sell their body for money, or one which, by its own account, offers liberation and even pleasure to those who participate in it.
It was as a student that director Neasa Ni Chianain first encountered celebrated Irish poet Cathal O Searcaigh. Writing in Ni Chianain’s native Irish, the charismatic figure of O Searcaigh cast a spell on her: his poetry spoke of the land, of the deep pain of lost love, and of loneliness.
Through the camera lens, the fairytale shines: it seems as if Nepal, and the love of the boys Cathal has
What has happened to them in the past 13 years? How did they get through the war? How do they live now? How do they relate to their former life, to Sarajevo and to their old friends? What did they actually believe in back then – and what do they believe in now?
Maya Ne’emani
Ireland | 2007 | 60 mins
Years later, and by then a friend, Cathal invites the director to accompany him to film his spiritual home – Nepal. For a decade the poet has made annual trips there, basking in its gentle generous culture. In return, he has contributed liberally, sponsoring many young boys in their studies.
live in different countries around the world.
7.00-8.00 pm
My Friends Lidija Zelovic
Netherlands | 2007 | 60 mins
A intimate and powerful documentary about four friends who grew up together in Sarajevo. Olja, Emina, Jasna and the director of this film, Lidija, are now in their thirties and
8.20-10.00 pm
Lanzo’s Box Sami Mermer
Canada | 2007 | 100 mins
Director Sami Mermer struggles to make a film about the homeless people that litter the streets of Grand Rapids – a city that thousands of Kurds were taken to following the Gulf War in 1991. A stateless and displaced Kurdish refugee himself, Mermer fled from Turkey to North America in fear of persecution for his involvement in Kurdish cultural activities. After September 11, his hopes of being granted political asylum were crushed. However, gaining refugee status would not be his only challenge. Paranoid citizens call the police saying that “an Arab-looking man with crazy hair is filming a bridge and airplanes”, and the FBI begins monitoring his movements as he tries to make his film...
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CCA 5 Sunday 19th October 12.00-2.00 pm
Camcorder Guerrillas Programme The Camcorder Guerillas are a community-based, voluntary collective of film-makers, artists and activists who donate their time and skills to produce, screen and distribute films and video toolkits for campaigning groups and those concerned with human rights, welfare and social justice initiatives. Their films are designed to enable individuals and communities to come together, get informed and take action in solidarity with those who are disadvantaged or face discrimination. Camcorder Guerillas will be screening their new film Deadly Cargo, alongside a programme of other films and speakers looking at Nuclear Weapons and their impact on our society.
2.00-4.00 pm
Roundtable Discussion on Human Rights In the year of the 60th Anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration, this discussion will set out to examine the effects UK government laws are having on the rights to freedom of expression, life and liberty. Chaired by Daniel Jewesbury, speakers include: Arun Kundnani, Neil Davidson,Yassamine Mather, Aamar Anwar, and Asif Siddique. (Free entry with complementary ticket available from the box office)
4.15-5.15 pm
The Scorpions Skorpioni-spomenar Lazar Stojanovic
Serbia | 2007 | 52 mins
Produced by the Humanitarian Law Centre, The Scorpions – a Home Movie is an unrelenting portrait of the daily life of the Scorpions, a unit of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, and the crimes they committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Deadly Cargo
Scotland | 2008 | 18mins
Fully assembled nuclear convoys are regularly transported in secret convoys on ordinary roads, day and night right across Britain. Find out the chilling truth about these lethal convoys, and how they are tracked by the people in the Nukewatch network. The authorities are asking us to keep an eye out for suspicious-looking bags at train stations; Nukewatch is asking us to keep an eye out for suspicious-looking trucks carrying weapons of mass destruction on our motorways...
War Crimes trials have been conducted in Serbia for the murder of six Srebrenica Bosniaks in July 1995 in Trnovo, Bosnia, and for the killing of 14 and wounding of 5 Albanians in 1999 in Podujevo, Kosovo- both committed by members of the Scorpions. The film includes the infamous footage of the execution of the six Bosniaks, taken by the unit’s cameraman, and footage of the trial conducted before the War Crimes Trial Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, as well as interviews with former members of the Scorpions themselves.
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8.30-9.30 pm
Promised Paradise
Leonard Retel Helmrich Netherlands/Indonesia | 2006 | 52 mins
Jakarta-based Indonesian puppeteer and troubadour Agus Nur Amal travels to Bali to call to account the people who were responsible for the bomb attack on a nightclub there on 12 October 2002.
5.30-6.45 pm
Democracy in Dakar Ben Herson Magee McIlvaine Chris Moore
USA | 2008 | 69 mins
African Underground: Democracy in Dakar explores the transformative role of hip-hop on politics in Senegal, West Africa during the February 2007 presidential election campaign. Looking at the election through the eyes of hip-hop artists around Dakar, Senegal’s capital, this documentary mixes interviews, freestyles, and commentary from journalists, artists and politicians. Senegalese society is seen on the brink of democratic change, where hip-hop artists are one of the few groups not afraid to speak out, despite real attempts at intimidation. Originally shot as a series of shorts distributed via the internet, African Underground: Democracy In Dakar explores the boundaries of guerrillastyle film production & distribution.
7.00-8.00 pm
Journey of a Red Fridge Lucean Muntean Natasa Stankovic
Serbia | 2007 | 52 mins
17-year-old Hari Rai lives in a small village in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal. Though a student at the local school, Hari must work as a porter to pay for his tuition and living expenses. He already has 3 years experience carrying loads up and down the mountain – mostly tourists’ backpacks. One day he gets the job of carrying a huge red fridge from the mountaintop to the nearest town. Out of 60,000 child porters in Nepal, Hari is one of the few lucky ones to have the chance of going to school. Journey Of A Red Fridge shows what it takes for him to get an education.
As in his theatre shows, humour is his main weapon. Before an audience of children, we see him enact the attack on the Word Trade Center inside a gigantic “TV set.” The doll of Osama Bin Laden swaying his hips gets his audience roaring with laughter. But people stop laughing when his shadowplay about the WTC disaster changes into images of new bomb attacks in Indonesia – first on the Australian Embassy in September 2004, and later in Bali in October 2005. And while Agus is still in Bali, his friend Endang in Jakarta falls prey to intolerance and violence.
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CCA 4 Sunday 19th October What remains are the angry exchanges as Mohamed, who has to fish every piece of clothing out of a big pile of plastic bags, chases his customers away.
3.00-4.30 pm
Half Me
Justyna Tafel
12.00-1.00 pm
Poland | 2007 | 12 mins
6 Degrees of Separation Donovan Pennant UK | 2008 | 61 mins
Six Degrees of Separation, the sequel to Pennant’s The New World (CCA5 Friday 17 October 8.00pm), derives from the idea that each person on the planet is connected by at least six links or degrees of seperation. With this in mind we are brought much closer to a world that has more often been characterised as a marginalised subculture, seperated and adrift from the rest of mainstream society. Six Degrees demonstrates that our separate communities touch closer than we might imagine, and that the apparent boundaries between them are formed out of old ideas of difference and otherness. In contrast to the harsh realities depicted in The New World, the film takes a more introspective look at the psyche of addiction and substance use, and the vulnerabities of those involved. The lives of Gary, Nikki, Alana, H, Tammie and Tanya form the thread that ties this disturbing and poetic story together.
1.15-2.45 pm
The Tailor El Sastre Oscar Perez
Spain | 2007 | 30 mins
Somewhere on a Barcelona street, there is a tiny tailor shop. Mohamed, the Pakistani owner, is an intensely private man; his reticence keeps him from revealing much more than the difficult relationships he has with his sole employee and successive, dissatisfied customers. Despite the departure of his assistant, who is replaced by an even younger and inexperienced Bengali, everything stays the same.
The Tailor opens a window on a deeply human tragedy.
Spanish for Adults Tomas Tamosaitis
Aza’s life has come to a standstill. For years she has been staying with her family in a refugee camp awaiting the decision of the Polish authorities on their future. Living from day to day, will she ever recover the person she was in Chechnya?
Lithuania | 2007 | 53 mins
A tiny classroom in the Spanish heartlands is a meeting point and a shelter for adult immigrants who came to Spain driven by the “European Dream” to start a new life. Brought together by fate in a small town, alienated and homesick, these people indulge in a playful and enthusiastic language-learning process, guided by extraordinary teacher Maria Antonia. 48 year-old Maria Antonia gets her inspiration from her lifelong dream of becoming an actress. At times it seems as if the classroom transforms into a stage, with Antonia as the lead performer. Film director Tomas Tamosaitis himself tried to learn Spanish Antonia’s way as one of the students in her class. The result is a nostalgic, warm, funny and serene portrait of people who still believe that whatever happens, it is necessary to keep on dreaming.
Stella
Vanina Vignal France | 2006 | 77 mins
Stella, her husband and sister live in a shantytown under the motorway in Plaine Saint-Denis just north of Paris. Stella begs in the metro, and the hospital where she goes for treatment is her only contact with society. One of the invisible, illegal immigrants of our cities, she was once a factory worker in the Romania of the Ceausescu regime. Leaving everything behind, she chose to live
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illegally in France for love of her seriously ill husband Marcel, convinced she would find a doctor able to treat him. Though she succeeds, Stella in turn, falls ill. Jobless, penniless and with no legal status, she has to finish her course of medical treatment before returning to Romania. While the film renders her anguish and suffering palpable, it also shows a woman who never gives up, who is determined to solve her problems one after the other with the means she has available. Within her exhausted frame, there lies an iron will.
the old-growth forests, was steadily losing resources, but no complaint or protest had managed to stop the process. In spring 2005, Saami reindeer herders made an alliance with Greenpeace which established a Forest Rescue Station in the wilderness of Inari. The international pressure mobilized by Greenpeace forced multinational Finnish forest company Stora Enso to stop buying wood from the disputed areas. As a result, state-owned Finnish company Metsähallitus had to cease its logging activities. Then loggers built their own “Antiterror Infocamp” near the Forest Rescue Station. The threats and disturbances began...
4.45-6.15 pm
Old Man Peter Ivan Golovnev
Last Yoik in Saami Forests outlines the history of this conflict and suggests that, given the durable quality of Lappish wood, it might be possible to find more profitable uses for several hundred-year-old timber than pulping, burning or processing for railway sleepers.
7.45-9.45 pm
The Difficult One Dmitriy Tyazhlov Mykola Bondarchuk
Ukraine | 2007 | 20 mins
A childrens home: a refuge for young people in flight from family problems, even violence. But soon the intial sense of freedom turns into a new form of dependency. Despite this, can they learn in time to be the masters of their own destinies?
Russia | 2008 | 26 mins
A dialogue between people, nature and gods via sacred knowledge - in the modern era, only a few cultures based on myth survive... This film takes us into the world of old man Peter Sengepov, the last surviving Shaman of the Kazym River, who lives alone in the depths of the Siberian taiga.
6.30-7.30 pm
The Edge of Hope Gerd Schneider
Germany | 2006 | 50 mins
In August 2005, after almost thirty years of occupation, the Israeli Army withdraws from the Gaza Strip. While the world has its eyes fixed on Gaza, in the West Bank life goes on in its own absurd way.
Last Yoik in Saami Forests Hannu Hyvonen
Finland | 2008 | 58 mins
Intensive tree-felling in the forests of Finnish Lapland, even in the home area of the indigenous Saami peoples, has continued for the last fifty years. The conflict between forestry interests and nature conservation has been constant for the last twenty, as this invasion reaches more and more of the remaining wildernesses. The traditional practise of free-grazing reindeer herding, dependent on
35-year-old Ramadan Affanah knows this life far away from normality all too well: he is a cameraman for the Arabic news channel AI-Jazeera. The Edge Of Hope accompanies him in his daily routine. It is a story of hope and despair, helplessness and confidence, violence and anger. Much happens; nothing changes.
Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children Kate Blewett
UK | 2007 | 89 mins
Bulgaria has more institutionalised mentally and physically disabled children than anywhere else in Europe. Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children looks at life in Mogilino - an institute with 75 abandoned children suffering from a variety of disabilities. Milan is mute and lives each day helping out around the place and just watching. Didi arrived recently because her mother no longer wants her - she is 18 years old, autistic and talks a great deal.Vassy is blind and suffers with cerebral palsy. Stoyan too is blind and silent. Abandoned into the hands of the director and carers of Mogilino, we watch the daily lives of these children and their fellow inmates. When their time is up here, they will graduate to similar warehouses for unwanted adults. A disturbing portrait of life in a Bulgrarian Children’s Institute.
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Alphabetical Index of Films 6 Degrees Of Seperation 61 mins Sunday 12.00–1.01 pm CCA4
Intimidad 73 mins Thursday 7.45–9.00 pm CCA4
Sasha Djurkovic Profile: Thursday 3.00–4.00 pm CCA5
A Massacre Foretold 58 mins Saturday 3.00–4.00 pm CCA4
It Was My Dream: The Soviet Pilots of the Spanish Civil War 66 mins Thursday 6.45–8.45 pm CCA5
Sectarianism Discussion Saturday 12.00–2.00 pm CCA5
Journey Of A Red Fridge 52 mins Sunday 7.00–8.00 pm CCA5
Spanish For Adults 53 mins Sunday 1.15–2.45 pm CCA4
Alex 18 mins Thursday 3.00–4.00 pm CCA5 Argentina in Therapy 79 mins Friday 12.00–1.30 pm CCA5 Begging For It 22 mins Friday 6.15–7.15 pm CCA4 Between Heaven and Earth 72 mins Wednesday 8.00–9.15 pm CCA5 Between Heaven and Earth 72 mins Thursday 3. 30–4.45 pm CCA4 Blue 73 mins Saturday 5.30–6.45 pm CCA4 Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children 89 mins Sunday 7.45–9.45 pm CCA4 Camcorder Guerrillas Programme Sunday 12.00–2.00 pm CCA5
Lakshmi And Me 59 mins Thursday 5.30–6.30 pm CCA5 Lanzo’s Box 100 mins Saturday 8.20–10.00 pm CCA4 Last Men Standing 18 mins Thursday 3.00–4.00 pm CCA5 Last Yoik in Saami Forests 58 mins Sunday 4.45–6.15 pm CCA4 Living On The Landing 31 mins Friday 6.15–7.15 pm CCA4 Lumo 72 mins Thursday 12.00–01.40 pm CCA5 Made in LA 70 mins Friday 3.20–4.30 pm CCA5
La Ciudad Invisible 52 mins Thursday 6.00–7.30 pm CCA4
My Friends 60 mins Saturday 7.00–8.00 pm CCA4
Daughters Destiny 52 mins Thursday 4.15–5.15 pm CCA5
My Husband Andrei Sakharov 52 mins Friday 1.45–2.45 pm CCA4
Democracy In Dakar 69 mins Sunday 5.30–6.45 pm CCA5 Diversity Films Showcase Saturday 3.00–5.00 pm CCA5 The Edge Of Hope 50 Mins Sunday 6.30-7.30 pm CCA4 Fairytale Of Kathmandu 60 mins Saturday 4.15–5.15 pm CCA4 Father Ivans Doors 5 mins Friday 9.30–10.00 pm CCA4 Flowers of Rwanda 24 mins Thursday 12.00–01.40 pm CCA5 Forgotten Fools 59 mins Saturday 6.45–7.45 pm CCA5 From Russia With Hate 20 mins Thursday 2.00–3.15 pm CCA4 Golden Kitchen 5 mins Friday 4.45–6.00 pm CCA4 Growing Up In The Streets 13 mins Saturday 5.15–6.30 pm CCA5 Half Me 12 mins Sunday 3.00–4.30 pm CCA4 Hope Dies Last in War 80 mins Friday 1.45–3.05 pm CCA5 I Have Dreamt of Working as a Hairdresser 85 mins Friday 7.30–9.15 pm CCA4
My Promised Land 58 mins Saturday 5.15–6.30 pm CCA5 Nazi Pop Twins 48 mins Thursday 2.00–3.15 pm CCA4 Nisipuri Sands 77 mins Friday 12.00–1.30 pm CCA4 Object/Subject: Lives inthe Footnotes And Margins 24 mins Saturday 12.00–1.00 pm CCA4
Sons And Soldiers 16 mins Thursday 3.00–4.00 pm CCA5
Stella 77 mins Sunday 3.00–4.30 pm CCA4 Stone Silence 51 mins Thursday 1.45–2.45 pm CCA5 Tears of Wayronco 96 mins Thursday 12.00–1.40 pm CCA4 La Terre Parle Arabe 61 mins Thursday 4.45–5.46 pm CCA4 The Baluty Ghetto 87 mins Saturday 8–15–9.45 pm CCA5 The Difficult One 20 mins Sunday 7.45–9.45 pm CCA4 The Life and Other Building Yads 38 mins Thursday 6.00–7.30 pm CCA4 The Mseyas 27 mins Saturday 12.00–1.00 pm CCA4 The New Ten Commandments 105 mins Friday 8.00–9.45 pm CCA5 The New World 93 mins Friday 6.15–7.45 pm CCA5 The Operation 37 mins Thursday 9.15–10.00 pm CCA4 The Pain with Being Thirsty 7 mins Friday 4.45–6.00 pm CCA5 The Rising Wave 65 mins Friday 4.45–6.00 pm CCA4 The Scorpions 52 mins Sunday 4.15–5.15 pm CCA5
Old Man Peter 26 mins Sunday 4.45–6.15 pm CCA4
The Tailor 30 mins Sunday 1.15–2.45 pm CCA4
One Day From a Hangmans Life 83 mins Friday 3.00–4.30 pm CCA4
Trial Of A Child Denied 25 mins. Friday 9.30–10.00 pm CCA4
Pachamama Politics 25 mins Saturday 1.15–2.45 pm CCA4
La Trinchera Luminosa Del Presidente Gonzalo 60 mins Saturday 1.15–2.45 pm CCA4
Promised Paradise 52 mins Sunday 8.30–9.30 pm CCA5 Recycling the Newsreel with Paul McIsaac 65 mins Friday 4.45–6.00 pm CCA5 Roma Of Govanhill 20 mins Friday 7.30–9.15 pm CCA4 Roundtable Discussion On Human Rights Sunday 2.00–4.00 pm CCA5
Trumpets Republic 48 mins Thursday 9.00–10.00 pm CCA5
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