Cape Winelands Film Festival Program 2012

MESSAGE FROM MINISTER ALAN WINDE Minister, Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Western Cape Government

The Western Cape Government fully supports the Cape Winelands Film Festival and all its efforts. This festival is key to attracting film stakeholders to the province, and also to developing local audiences. These efforts all contribute to growing the Western Cape economy and creating jobs.

The Cape Winelands Film Festival has an extensive global reach and is one of the most effective ways to expose the natural culture and talent of the Western Cape, and indeed, South African film sector. The festival affords local and international film producers an opportunity to integrate talents and experiences on a global platform.

We trust that all those who participate in the Cape Winelands Film Festival will have a positive experience, and we congratulate the organisers for hosting a world-class event.

MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE MAYOR OF CAPE TOWN: ALDERMAN PATRICIA DE LILLE

The Cape Winelands Film Festival is an extraordinary celebration of talent, performance art and the rich cultural diversity that this country and this city in particular possess. Set to run for 10 days as of the 14th of March 2012, the festival highlights the need to promote arts and culture as an integral part of our growth as a nation and to support and nurture that talent. The Cape Winelands Film Festival is yet another show of the many expressive forms of art that are found all over South Africa.

This Festival is testament to the rich and varied cultures that are celebrated within the City of Cape Town. The more than 140 films that will be presented during the festival bear evidence of, and support the City’s commitment to building an opportunity city in which talent is celebrated and supported and an inclusive city in which different cultures share in the rich heritage of this country.

The quality local talent that is to be showcased is supported by the City of Cape Town as a means of individuals using not only their talents, but also the opportunities presented to them. It therefore gives the City of Cape Town great pleasure to support this initiative in partnership with Films for Africa.

Message from CEO Wesgro Nils Flaatten Festival, that in this short time of their existence is quickly becoming one of the top International film festivals in the world.

Over the past seven years the industry has grown from an exotic location for the well-informed producer looking for the “new� to a flourishing industry attracting big budget features, commercials and stills production.

Being one of the biggest commercial and stills production destinations in the world, the city and the province have seen major attention from advertising agencies and big brands putting their vision in the hands of internationally experienced production crews with the facilities to back it all up.

With Cape Town considered one of the top ten film production centres in the world as a result of its landscape, environment and heritage, infrastructure and the diverse range of skills and talents the City offers, we are very excited to be associated with the Cape Winelands Film

In 2008 it was estimated that global market value for the fast growing creative industries was USD1,3 trillion, with the main sectors within this industry including graphic design, advertising, film, video & animation, performing arts and theatre to name a few. This exciting sector in Cape Town is a melting pot of creativity, attracting foreign and local investors and merging international trends with local creative culture.

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MESSAGE FROM THE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR shorts from more than 48 countries. The festival remains an important forum for South African cinema and include the work by 37 South African film-makers. Highlights that will feature at the festival are : Otelo Burning, Anderkant die Stilte and Casting Me, powerful documentaries such as Forerunners, TAC: Taking HAART and The Cradock Four, as well as two sensitive films about the South African Border War, Bokser and Pro Patria.

Another local highlight is the special screening of the pilot episode of Johan Cronje’s vibrant Afrikaans TV series Strikfontein.

The 2012 Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF) is proud to again present an unparalleled window on quality films from around the globe. The rich selection of world cinema includes more than 150 features, documentaries and shorts, all which have won more than 320 international awards.

This year marks our 5th anniversary of the film festival. The CWFF has succeeded so far because it celebrates and champions the best of South African and International cinema, its business, art, talent and history.

And in this context the CWFF have a special obligation, to champion and to invest in South African cinema – the business, the culture, the talent and history – locally and internationally.

South Africa is a fairly big country with a fairly large population. A large number of this population is anxious to tell their own stories and by communicating our own cultural stories that define our identity at home and around the world, it will shape and distinguish us from the worlds’ other tribes – After all culture today is what sets one nation apart from another and gives people their unique identity. This so far has not been an easy task. Our film industry has always been stifled not because of any shortage of creativity but because of a few egocentric gate-keepers in funding and other agencies, who impose their blinkered vision that our film culture only becomes legitimised when it is endorsed by their short-sighted agendas which ignores the power of individuality of the film director (or other creative role players) and the power of the audience to grow and sustain an inclusive film culture.

With gatekeepers and funders trying to push our film industry towards a certain mode of production resembling that of one of the world’s biggest tribes with ten times the population of South Africa and which is possibly the world’s largest supplier of entertainment product, it becomes vital to expose our local audiences and local story tellers to the sheer diversity of narrative structures found in world cinema.

Film can challenge our stereotypes about gender and open our minds to the variety of individual expressions of gender. Challenging and changing biased attitudes is an essential part of our human rights efforts. Changing attitudes is rarely easy, but always possible. The rich selection of our outstanding features, documentaries and shorts, includes many films, which attempt to create a better understanding between human beings, to enhance respect for different ideological and religious viewpoints, as well as the deconstruction of stereotypes about people, which we consider to be different from us. Films such as Out in the Silence, Insects in the Backyard, Family Portrait in Black and White, Cherkess (from Jordan) , It’s Getting Better, Captor and Captive – the story of Danger Ashipala and Johan van der Mescht, Our School, Salam Rugby (about Iranian female rugby players) and Colors are some of the brilliant examples.

The majority of films will have their South African premieres at the CWFF. The programme includes outstanding features, documentaries and

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Once again great achievements from cinema’s long, rich history will be celebrated in the form of a focus on the work by Spanish auteur Carlos Saura and a tribute to Theo Angelopoulos, who died on 24 January 2012.

Ranked among Europe’s elite filmmakers, Carlos Saura had his greatest impact in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s when his often politically charged films revitalized Spanish cinema. Like his mentor Luis Buñuel, Saura freely blends reality with the macabre and an often grotesque surrealism to create worlds in which reality is subjective. Saura’s most powerful films came during the last years of Franco’s regime; while he still made important films after the dictator’s death in 1975 and a highlight at the festival is he screening of Goya in Bordeaux about one of Spain’s greatest artists, the painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Goya In Bordeaux was a project that Saura had dreamed of filming for years, and he was ably assisted in recreating the look of Goya’s paintings by master cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.

The Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos, who has died aged 76 in a road accident, was an epic poet of the cinema, creating allegories of 20th-century Greek history and politics. Well known in South Africa for his compelling film Landscape in the Mist (1988), the first of his films to feature children. In the film a 14-year-old girl and her little brother embark on a journey to find their father, whom they believe to be in Germany.

In fact, it is an existential odyssey, a voyage towards the unattainable.

His film Eternity and a Day (1998) won Cannes film festival’s top prize.

The film is a philosophical meditation about a dying writer, played by Bruno Ganz, and his thoughts on family, art and mortality. Angelopoulos executes the transition between present and past brilliantly, gliding easily between uncertain reality and nostalgia.

This year’s festival will also include a special tribute to Koos Roets, probably the greatest South African cinematographer of his generation.

Since the 1970s Roets had received numerous awards and universal praise for his cinematography for many features including Somer (1975). Based on a novel by C. M. van den Heever the film focuses on a love triangle against the glorious pastoral beauty of the Eastern Free State highlands.

Roets perfectly captures the lush landscapes during the magic hour and especially achieves brilliance in the sequence when the wheat fields are destroyed by a hailstorm. Other features such as Pappa Lap, Eendag op ‘n Reëndag, Paljas and Die Storie van Klara Viljee benefited from brilliant cinematography by Koos Roets. A exhibition of photos from his work will be seen at The Fugard theatre for the duration of the Festival.

Once again the festival includes a strong focus on the environment and highlights include the documentary Raising Resistance. The ground in Paraguay is perfect for the cultivation of soy. In recent years, countless acres of forest have been chopped down to make room for the growing of this protein-rich bean. The land of a farmer named Geronimo is now completely surrounded by soy plantations. These are generously sprayed with pesticides – poison that only the genetically modified soy plants are immune to. Unfortunately, the pesticides spread farther than the boundaries of the soy fields. So not only is there less and less land for the campesinos, or local farmers like Geronimo, but it also becomes impossible for them to cultivate healthy crops themselves. In Raising Resistance, codirectors Bettina Borgfeld and David Bernet capture the campesinos as they revolt against the enormous soy business in their country. Led by

the ever-friendly Geronimo, they squat a section of farmland, try to stop the spraying of pesticides, and make their voices heard in the media. The filmmakers also give the floor to the large landowners.

Several documentaries also celebrate and explore the rich cultural expressions by a diversity of artists from Jordan (Hip Hop Nafitha), South Africa (Mama Africa, Mama Goema), Brazil (Samba Beats), the DRC (Kinshasa Symphony), the former Yugoslavia (Cinema Komunisto), Iran (Pearls on the Ocean Floor) and Poland (Komeda, a fascinating documentary about Krzysztof Komeda, who wrote the music for Polanski’s films including Rosemary’s Baby.)

Once again various sponsors, media partners and individuals ensured the continuation of the festival and we thank the following partners of their invaluable contributions and commitment to the CWFF: Distell and Oude Libertas; The City of Cape Town; The Office of the Executive Mayor of Cape Town, Western Cape Investment and Trade Promotion Agency (WESGRO), the Department of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Western Cape Government, the Protea Hotel Fire and Ice - Cape Town; Mandela Rhodes Place, Nu Metro Theatres, The Fugard Theatre,

ARTSCAPE, CityVarsity, Consul General of Brazil in Cape Town, The Embassy of Spain, The Embassy of Belgium and The Flemish Government Representative, Prof. Martin Botha from the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, SAGE and The Callsheet.

To the many Volunteers that will be working at the Festival for long hours: The CWFF is a better festival thanks to the tireless efforts of all of you working at the festival. It is with sincere appreciation that we say “thank you” to the volunteers who assist us and make The Cape Winelands Film Festival a success.

I wish you all a pleasant viewing experience at the Cape Winelands Film Festival.

Leon van der Merwe Festival Director

FESTIVAL PARTNERS:

KOOS ROETS – TRIBUTE

Born in 1943, Koos Roets started his career in the film industry in 1962, working as an assistant cameraman for the South African filmmaker, Jamie Uys. Roets has been regarded by film academics and writers such as Prof Martin Botha (South African Cinema 1896 – 2010, Intellect Publishers, 2012) to be one of South Africa’s leading directors of photography. He also received accreditation from the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS).

His impressive achievements as a director of photography include Freddie’s in Love, Jannie Totsiens, Pappa Lap, Somer, Eendag op ‘n Reëndag, Paljas, Die Storie van Klara Viljee and The Feast of the Uninvited. The brilliance of Jannie Totsiens can be attributed to Jans Rautenbach’s directing, the performance of the acting ensemble and the cinematography by David Dunn-Yarber and Koos Roets. Both Pappa Lap and Eendag op ‘n Reëndag benefited from brilliant cinematography by Koos Roets.

Roets, probably the greatest South African cinematographer of his generation, received an award and universal praise for his cinematography for Somer. Based on a novel by C. M. van den Heever the film focuses on a love triangle against the glorious pastoral beauty of the Eastern Free State highlands. Roets perfectly captures the lush landscapes during the magic hour and especially achieves brilliance in the sequence when the wheat fields are destroyed by a hailstorm.

Director Manie van Rensburg’s Freddie’s In Love, portrayed life in Johannesburg’s metropolitan Hillbrow in the early 1970s. In the depiction

of a relationship between two lonely young people, Van Rensburg portrayed individual loneliness and communication problems between people within a contemporary urban context. The film’s opening montage of Freddie’s mundane lifestyle, brilliantly shot by Roets, vividly captures the main character’s solitude and alienation.

In Die Storie van Klara Viljee Koos Roets does wonders with the South African light in his hauntingly beautiful pastoral images of the coastal milieu.

Since the 1970s Roets has also focused on directing and worked in both South Africa and Australia. He directed numerous feature films including Vlug van die Seemeeu, Die Sersant en die Tiger Moth, Babbelkous en Bruidegom , Brutal Glory, Sandgrass People, Die Nag van die 19de, as well as the delightful satires Kootjie Emmer and Die Groen Faktor. Roets also directed more than a dozen television drama series, as well as the sensitive Laat Vrugte, a television drama based on the novel by C. M. van den Heever. He has been nominated for and won a number of top awards including the Artes, South African Academy for Arts and Science Awards, Rapport Oscars, ATKV Awards, Star Tonight Awards and numerous photographic awards including the Stephen Farrell Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Cinematography.

It is a great honour for us to present this special Life Time Achievement Award to Koos Roets.

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FOCUS ON : CARLOS SAURA

Born January 4, 1932 in Huesca, Aragón, Spain

In a career spanning more than half a century, Carlos Saura, has always taken cinema to newer and more exciting heights. He is one filmmaker who refused to get tied down to a particular school of filmmaking and created cinema that bears the stamp of his “auteurship”.

In 1960, the year of unparalleled significance for cinema, when Jean Luc Godard made Breathless and Michelangelo Antonioni showed the world glimpses of industrialized world’s disillusionment with modernity through his L’ Avventura, Carlos Saura began his career.

Essentially a poet at heart and perturbed by Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, he set off on a journey that would later become one of the most memorable one in the history of cinema. Saura recalls the spirit of the times “there was a need for change. The French cinema probably needed more of a revolution in terms of film technique, while in Spain we felt the need from a political point of view.”

Saura feels that it was Italian post-war neorealism that set the filmmakers thinking all over the Europe (in India, for example, Satyajit Ray also got inspired by it) and that the movement influenced everyone from Godard to him, “Antonioni, Visconti, Fellini; it was an extraordinary explosion of new cinema that had never been seen in Europe.”

Saura’s first feature film Los Golfos (The Delinquents, 1960) marks the beginning of Spanish New Wave but later he disassociated himself from the movement. He gradually emerged as a filmmaker with his own distinctive style noted for his poetic vision of reality. “I don’t believe in schools as such in cinema. My aim was to reflect life as it was, Spanish reality as it was and to express the reality of Spanish society.”

However, under the rule of dictator Francisco Franco, it wasn’t an easy task, hence Saura had to often take recourse of metaphors and allegories.

Despite that a number of his films were cut and edited. Some films even got banned. “Well obviously, I tried to make political films but not directly political for obvious reasons. It was important to be imaginative (in criticizing the state) but after the demise of Franco I felt liberated from the duty to make political cinema.”

Born to a pianist mother, Saura grew up with his painter brother Antonio. A keen interest in photography that he developed as a child later became the reason for quitting his industrial education and joining Cinematographic Study and Research Institute. “Cinema brings together all the artistic elements I like ranging from (literary) interpretation, colour, music and storytelling. So the more you know of these elements the better (filmmaker you can become).”

Though Saura “feels more like a filmmaker”, he still nurtures a keen interest in photography and his camera accompanies him everywhere.

“The camera for me is my memory. It’s the way of doing visual jogging.”

Even his films always play around with the memory that he has of Spanish civil war as a child . The memory, that almost attains a life of its own in his cinema. “Each person is an entity made of memories. Even if one doesn’t want to, we’re made by the past.”

Saura shared a special relationship with great Spanish surrealist filmmaker

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Luis Bunuel so much so that he made a film Bunuel and the Table of King Solomon (2001) to pay tribute to the master. The film wasn’t received very well probably because it’s deeply rooted in the works of Bunuel, his surrealist painter friend Salvador Dali and poet Federico Garcia Lorca. It keeps referring back to their works and eccentricities that makes it little incomprehensible for people who are not a Bunuel (and Dali and Lorca) aficionado. “That’s the greatest film I’ve ever made. I like the film but nobody else seems to like it. I’m sure Bunuel would have loved this film.

But perhaps only he would have loved it. Everything you see in the film is actually based on conversations I had with him.”

Talking about Bunuel, Saura gets nostalgic, “When I showed La Prima Angelica (Cousin Angelica) at Cannes (1974, where it won the jury prize), it was an honour for me to hear him saying that it’s a film that he would have loved to make himself. He also said about his film The Milky Way that the only other person who could have made such a film is me. Bunuel even acted in one of my films. (Llanto por un bandido (1964))” Saura visited India in 2008 to receive a global lifetime achievement award of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) and it’s just a coincidence that for the first time his films are set for a commercial release there. UTV World Movies has acquired rights of his 2007 film Fados and 2005 film Iberia. Fados is a musical documentary on Portuguese music of Fado.

To date Saura has made 40 feature films, won 46 international awards and one of his latest films is based on the life of eighteenth century lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte who collaborated with Mozart on his “Io, Don Giovanni” opera. - Bikas Mishra The following films by Saura will be screened: Goya in Bordeaux (1999), a visually stunning drama about the last days of Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill. He lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He’s living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life, particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Velázquez’s work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination. Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings. Magnificent cinematography by Vittorio Storaro.

Ay, Carmela! (1990), Saura’s film about Paulino and Carmela, husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. A gentle stirring story of Carmela’s political awakening once she, Paulino and Gustavete, the mute boy who is their third wheel, fall into enemy hands.

Carmela’s matronly loyalty to her husband does not mean she will stop short of much in trying to advance their cause.

The award-winning drama Elisa, Vida Mía (1977), starring Fernando Rey, follows on the heels of his prizewinning Cria cuevos (Raise Ravens).

Geraldine Chaplin stars as Elisa, who after an absence of 20 years is reunited with her father, (Fernando Rey) in a superb performance, which won him the Cannes Film Festival “Best Actor” prize . Having just divested herself of an unhappy marriage, Elisa hopes to heal old, long-standing

family wounds. Inasmuch as Saura thrives on exploring “unspeakable” subjects in his films, one can gather that the relationship between Elisa and her father may be far more complex than it seems at first. Elisa, Vida Mia was released in English-speaking countries as Elisa, My Love.

Screenings : Goya in Bordeaux 17/03 @ 20:15 The Fugard 18/03 @ 20:00 Oude Libertas Amphitheatre 22/03 @ 20:15 Nu Metro 8 V&A Waterfront

Ay, Carmela!

17/03 @ 12:45 23/03 @ 12:45

The Fugard Oude Libertas Auditorium

Elisa, Vida Mía 18/03 @ 20:15 22/03 @ 20:00

Nu Metro V& A Waterfront Oude Libertas Auditorium

TRIBUTE TO THEO ANGELOPOULOS Born 27 April 1935; died 24 January 2012

The Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos, who has died aged 76 in a road accident, was an epic poet of the cinema, creating allegories of 20thcentury Greek history and politics. He redefined the slow pan, the long take and tracking shots, of which he was a master. His stately, magisterial style and languidly unfolding narratives require some (ultimately rewarding) effort on the part of the spectator. “The sequence shot offers, as far as I’m concerned, much more freedom,” Angelopoulos explained. “By refusing to cut in the middle, I invite the spectator to better analyse the image I show him, and to focus, time and again, on the elements that he feels are the most significant in it.”

Angelopoulos was born in Athens, where he studied law. After military service, he went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne but soon dropped out to study at the IDHEC film school (now known as La Fémis). Back in Greece, he worked as a film critic for the leftist daily Allagi, which was closed down by the military junta that came to power in 1967. The seven-year regime of “the colonels” was seared into his consciousness and remained a subject – overtly or subliminally – throughout his oeuvre.

His elliptical style was born partly out of the restrictive atmosphere of the epoch during which he managed to make his first feature, Reconstruction (1970). Shot in spare, high-contrast black and white, it was about a Greek migrant worker who returns from Germany and is murdered by his wife and her lover. It was immediately clear that the director was less interested in the crime story than the ideological, individual and collective implications of the murder inquiry.

Angelopoulos then emerged on the international scene with his impressive historical triptych, Days of ‘36 (1972), The Travelling Players (1975) and The Hunters (1977), the most ambitious Greek films to date. Shot by Giorgos Arvanitis, the cinematographer on almost all of Angelopoulos’s films, they are long, contemplative studies of modern Greek history.

Days of ‘36, based on actual events, tells of a man arrested for the murder of a trade unionist. Protesting his innocence, he holds a politician hostage in his cell, threatening to kill the man, and himself, unless he is released.

The film subtly undermined the military regime in its portrayal of official incompetence. Given its physical confines, and the fact that the prisoner

remains out of sight for much of the time, the high level of tension is a real achievement. In The Travelling Players, set in 1952, a troupe of actors recall Greek political history and their own personal histories since they last visited the country, in 1939. Nearly four hours long, the film consists of just 131 shots, allowing the audience time to assess the situation rationally. The Hunters follows the eponymous group across a snowy mountainside in northern Greece as they come across the body of a Greek guerrilla fighter killed in 1949. At the subsequent inquest, each member of the group, as well as various peasants and workers, speaks of his experience of the civil war and the years that followed. Shot in pastel shades, the film slowly unravels the various strands in this inquisition of the right, using dream, memory and fantasy, and the powerful symbol of the corpse as the silent accuser.

In Voyage to Cythera (1984), the first of what Angelopoulos called the “trilogy of silence”, an old man who fought with the communists during the civil war returns to Greece after more than 30 years’ exile in the Soviet Union. He attempts to come to terms with his country and his wife and family, whom he hardly knows. The second, The Beekeeper (1986), was the first of Angelopoulos’s films to use well-known actors, in this case Marcello Mastroianni as a morose, retired schoolteacher who sets off on a trip around the beehive sites of Greece, picking up an enigmatic young woman hitchhiker on the way. This compelling film could be called a metaphysical road movie, as could Landscape in the Mist (1988), the third in the sequence and the first of his films to feature children. Here, a 14-year-old girl and her little brother embark on a journey to find their father, whom they believe to be in Germany. In fact, it is an existential odyssey, a voyage towards the unattainable.

Harvey Keitel starred in Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) as another character who returns to Greece from exile. He is a film-maker, back from the US, seeking some lost reels of films made by two famous Greek film-makers during the silent era. The film won the grand jury prize at Cannes. Uncharacteristically, Angelopoulos expressed his disappointment that it did not win the Palme d’Or. He told a shocked and suddenly silent audience: “If this is what you have to give me, I have nothing to say,” before walking off the stage without even posing for pictures.

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Cannes made amends three years later when Eternity and a Day (1998) won the festival’s top prize. The film is a philosophical meditation about a dying writer, played by Bruno Ganz, and his thoughts on family, art and mortality. Angelopoulos executes the transition between present and past brilliantly, gliding easily between uncertain reality and nostalgia.

The Weeping Meadow (2004) was the first of what Angelopoulos planned as a trilogy. The mytho-poetic dimension of the film – a magical fusion of colours, sounds, music and images which expresses the deepest feelings surrounding life and death – is linked, as usual, to a strong political and social context. The film spans 30 years of Greek history, from the exodus of the Greek colony in Odessa under the threat of the Red Army in 1919 to the end of the civil war in 1949.

The Dust of Time (2008) covered the second part of the 20th century, venturing outside Greece for the first time. The Greek-German-Italian-

Russian co-production, mainly in English, had all the makings of a Europudding, albeit one made by a master chef. Not all these fears were allayed. The Dust of Time is a fin-de-siècle drama, a cry of pain derived from the wounds inflicted during the previous century.

Angelopoulos’s latest film, The Other Sea, was to be about Greece’s financial crisis. While filming in Athens’ main port, Piraeus, he was in collision with a motorcycle as he crossed a road. He died later in hospital.

He is survived by his wife, Phoebe.

Ronald Bergan guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 January 2012 Eternity and a Day, Angelopoulos’s Golden Palm Winner will have a special screening on 23 March 2012 @ 20:15 at the Fugard Theatre.

THE JURY MEMBERS

MALU DE MARTINO | BRAZIL

Malu De Martino has graduated in Communications at the Hélio Alonso University in 1979. Later in 1983 and 1984 she studied at the Global Village New School / NY (Advanced Intensive Video), in Downtown Community Television Center / NY (Editing), in Young Filmakers, Video Arts / NY (Lighting for Film and Video) and at New School TV Academy / NY (Videotape PostProduction). Since then, she directed several Award winning cultural, institutional and documentary videos. In 2006 she directed her first multi award winning feature film, Mulheres do Brasil (Women from Brazil). In 2007 she directed the film SO HARD TO FORGET that so far has won no less than 10 International awards.

Torsten Schulz | Germany

Torsten Schulz was born in Berlin (East). He is a german writer of screenplays, audio plays and prose and a director of documentary films. Some of his films their shown on national and international film festivals and won prizes. Since 2002 he is professor of dramaturgy at the film university “Konrad Wolf” in Babelsberg. He is the head of the script department of the university.

Letebele Masemola-Jones | South Africa

Ibrahim Saleh, PhD | EGYPT

Convenor of Political Communication at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa, a Fulbright affiliate, a senior media expert on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and an indexed scholar in the Media Sustainability Index (MSI). Saleh chairs the Journalism Research and Education (JRE) Section at the International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR). Saleh co-edits the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies (JAMS), Jönköping University, Sweden . Saleh is a global media partner in the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Media Literacy Clearing House and a representative of the Academic Council of the United Nations (ACUNS) in MENA and Africa. In 2009 Saleh was a main contributor to UNESCO’s recent publication entitled ‘Mapping World Media Education Policies’ and in 2010 Saleh contributed to the new UNESCO pedagogical toolkit. Saleh has published three books and his academic excellence is reflected in him being awarded several national and international prizes.

Amongst some of her most rewarding work, was her participation in the making of the program South Africa Now in New York, the only magazine program giving a day-by-day account of turbulent political and social events in South Africa in the late 1980’s. In 11 African countries, she worked on over 25 dramatic films as Supervising and Executive Producer, under the series of New Directions and Mama Africa films. She produced a documentary for Xoxa Productions, called A South African Love Story-Walter & Albertina Sisulu, based on the authorised biography, In Our Life Time-Walter and Albertina Sisulu, written by Elinor Sisulu. Letebele was one of 2 South African Executive Producers on the Project Ten series of documentaries in celebration of 10 years of democracy in South Africa.

Letebele is currently developing a documentary called Manche, the African Saint, which is a story set in Limpopo province, Letebele’s ancestral home. In addition to her film work, Letebele has worked in Corporate Communication and PR locally and internationally and recently began working in the Parliament of South Africa as the Manager: Media Management, while maintaining her love and passion for films from around the world.

Paul Weinberg | South Africa

VLADAN PETKOVIC | SERBIA

Vladan Petkovic (1978) is a Belgrade-based journalist, film critic, translator and festival programmer. He is the Balkan correspondent for Screen International and Cineuropa.org and regularly writes film reviews, industry news and festival reports for several international websites and magazines.

He is the programme director of International Film Festival Kratkofil Plus in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is also a programme advisor to various film festivals and distribution companies.

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Paul Weinberg studied Political Science and Economic History (BA UKZN) and later obtained his Masters degree in Arts Liberal Studies, Duke University (2004/5).

This South African born photographer with a strong commitment to the land and its people, was a founder member of Afrapix photographic agency.

Weinberg has a large body of work that explores people, life, culture and environment around him, beyond the news and beyond the headlines.

He was a co-editor and photographer for the book, Beyond the Barricades, Aperture 1989 and published 9 books. He has made several documentaries and he continues to work as a photographer, occasional filmmaker and

writer exploring issues, themes and telling stories about his country and continent. He is presently Senior Curator of Visual Archives, Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town.

distributed internationally. Her film Raya won the adjudicators award at the Apollo film festival and the gold award at the stone awards Cape Town. 2002 she produced and directed “Through the eyes of my daughter“ a personal account of her relationship with her teenage daughter, as part of the SABC, project 10 series. The film was successfully received at the Berlinale and Milano.

XAVIER GARCIA PUERTO | Spain

Xavier is a History of Art Graduate from the University of Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain and a Audiovisual Comunication Graduate from the University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

He did the Contemporary Culture & Storia dello Spettacolo Specialization in Università di Salerno, Italy, 1998. He also had a Fellowship in Archive and Film Preservation in The Catalonia Filmotheque in 1999 and he took an Exhibition Curating Postgraduate (URV) in 2001. During his training, he was teaching in several centers (URV, Universitat Ramon Llull, Observatorio de Cine –Film School-, and since 1999 at Official College of Doctors and Bachellors of Arts of Catalonia), in subjects regarding film and art.

Nowadays he works as a film and video curator. Some of his works have been seen at the Berliner Kunst Werke Museum (2006), Caixa Forum (Madrid, Barcelona and other Spanish cities, 2008-2010), Gaudí’s La Pedrera (Barcelona) and many film festivals in Italy and France. Xavier is co-founder of REC International Film Festival of Tarragona in 2001, and his Art Director since 2005. REC is the only Spanish film festival focused on first feature films . This makes it possible for him to keep in touch with the contemporary new wave of new Spanish filmmakers.

Jacques de Villiers | South Africa

Jacques de Villiers is a film editor, music-maker, life-long student, occasional teacher at the University of Cape Town and very occasional director, born and based in Cape Town, South Africa. His editing achievements include numerous music videos and short films, including The Tunnel, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 and played in competition at the Berlin Film Festival 2010. He has also co-directed and edited The Creators, which won best documentary at the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival and is currently touring the international festival circuit.

At present, he is at work on the completion of a long-term video installation project, In Memoriam: Eulogies to Lost Time.

Kate Hodges | South Africa

Dylan Valley | South Africa

Dylan Valley is a documentary filmmaker who sees film as a tool for social change and awareness. But he still has a sense of humour. His first (student) documentary, Lost Prophets, a UCT Honours project about South African hip hop pioneers, Prophets of da City, played at Encounters International Documentary Festival in 2007. He then directed for Headwrap (Plexus Films), an arts and culture reality show for SABC1. His film Afrikaaps (Plexus Films/ The Glasshouse), about a group of artists retracing the history of Afrikaans back to slaves in the Cape, won the Best South African Documentary award at the Cape Winelands Film Festival in 2011. He has since directed two documentary films for Al Jazeera’s Documentary Channel and he continues to dream of becoming a DJ.

Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk | South Africa

Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has written widely on Terrence Malick, South African film, and film and the environment. He teaches screenwriting, and has written for the stage and television.

Zulfah Otto Sallies | South Africa

As an accomplished playwright, author, poet, scriptwriter and filmmaker, Zulfah started her career in the theatre. She wrote and directed several plays and musicals, and toured Malaysia and Indonesia with her highly successful dance musical, Rosa. Amongst the many short stories, she also published a book, called Diekie Vannie Bo-Kaap, which is already in its 18th print-run. As scriptwriter, she made her film debut with the award winning short films called “Kap an Driver” and “Stompie and the red tide”. Soon after, she wrote and directed a short film, Raya, as part of the Mama Africa series.

As the opening film at Sithengi 2001, it has received great reviews and was

Kate Hodges completed her degree in Film and Media Studies from the University of Cape Town in 2006, followed by an honours degree in English Literature. After graduating, Kate spent three years as a sports journalist, before the call of the arts proved too strong. A year at Orms Pro Photo Warehouse reignited a passion for the visual arts, and offered her insight into the technology behind modern photography and film. She is now the editor of The Callsheet Newspaper, a monthly trade publication for the South African film industry. A growing familiarity with the business of film and production has resulted in a unique perspective and a nuanced appreciation for film.

Errol Schwartz | South Africa

Errol Schwartz is a South African actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his lead role as ‘Jaco Allemans’ in the historical drama ‘Riemvasmaak’.

His performance garnered him Best Actor-nominations at both the South African Film & Television Awards and the ATKV Media Feather Awards.

Errol also appeared in the SABC drama The Mating Game and Kyknet’s Villa Rosa. Errol holds a National Diploma in Drama from Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa.

As CEO of Nascent Films, Errol is currently developing a political thriller related to South Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, in partnership with US-based Main Man Films.

Liani Maasdorp | South Africa

Liani Maasdorp is a lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. She obtained her Masters degree in media studies from the University of Stellenbosch. She has completed a doctoral study of documentary film editing and will graduate in March 2012. Since she started working in the television industry in 1997, she has worked as editor, television director, film school lecturer, Apple Final Cut Pro trainer and consultant, advising documentary filmmakers on all aspects of production: from selecting a concept through production and post to final delivery.

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11 FLOWERS

China/France | 2011 | 110 minutes | PG13 Director: Xiaoshuai Wang Cast: Wang Jinchun, Wenqing Liu and Jinchun Wang Language: Mandarin, with English subtitles 11 Flowers may be Wang Xiaoshuai’s most personal film to date. Taking place in 1975, a year before the Mao’s death, the film follows eleven yearold Wang Han (Liu Wenqing) as he goes about his daily life in his rural town in southwest China. After displaying a strong work ethic, Han is appointed school gym leader and is told that he should get a new shirt as he will be the one that the students look up to. Reluctant at first, Han’s mother (Yan Ni) spends a year’s worth of cloth rations to get the material needed to make the shirt. After impressing his friends with new attire, Han is horrified when his shirt is stolen by a wounded fugitive, Jueqiang (Wang Ziyi), taking shelter in the woods. The film is a tale of a society repressed by its government. Han’s shirt represents a loss of innocence. Whether Han is playing hide and seek with his friends or searching for his stolen shirt, he is constantly confronted with the harsh reality of the time in which he lives.

Xiaoshuai shows how the Cultural Revolution impacted every single facet of life. 11 Flowers is a poignant film that effectively displays the Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a child.

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APARTMENT IN ATHENS

Italy/Greece | 2011 | 95 minutes | PG13 V Director: Ruggero Dipaola Cast: Laura Morante, Richard Sammel and Gerasimos Skiadaressis Language: Greek and German, with English subtitles Print source: L’Occhio e la Luna Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be welloff. They have a 10-year old son who is filled with revenge fantasies and 12-year old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. The cruel Kalter is a military god who inflicts terror. And the Helianos give in, being submissive. At night, they dread the following day’s orders; they exchange sparse, terse words.

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BABA

ANDERKANT DIE STILTE

South Africa | 2012 | 90 minutes | A Director: Desmond Denton (In Attendance) Cast: Andre Rossouw, Joeye De Koker, Hannetjie Smit, Annemari Blanckenberg, Johan and Lida Botha Language: Afrikaans Print source: Desmond Denton A group of unlikely characters come together to do the stage play of their lives. Under the lead of the faithful and dreamful Piet, this group consisting of elders from the old age home needs to find a way to not only put together and act out this play, but to get past the all controlling Sara, who runs the old age home with an iron fist. It is a classic story of the value of each individual person and how even the least expected person can truly contribute to a team. Rich in its humour and old age home story details, this story touches not only the elder of our society - but indeed all to understand and appreciate those we come from and the value they indeed do have, bringing life to what is seen as old bones. Director Desmond Denton’s films have been officially selected and screened at Festivals nationally, such as Innibos, Apollo, KKNK, Golden Lion, Durban International film festival, as well as other international screenings.

Desmond has won various awards - the latest best short film, and best director for Apollo 2008 for the film Vaderland.

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Germany/Morocco | 2010 | 63 minutes | PG13 Director: George Inci Cast: Beatrice von Moreau Language: No dialogue Print Source: George Inci Baba is an independent film made by George Inci. The film was shot in Morocco and Germany. The film attempts to look behind the faces of “strangers” in our society. Who are these people? Where do they come from? In Baba we see an old musician telling his life’s story by his music.

We see a young mother who gives birth to twins. She knows that she can only feed one of them and has to decide to which one of the children she will give the chance to survive. The film is based on the true story of the filmmaker’s father. George Inci was born in Turkey in 1965. At the age of four he moved to Germany with his parents and sisters and lived there till today. He studied acting, dancing and singing in Berlin. Before he started to direct and to produce his own movies, he acted in several film and TV productions. With Baba George Inci tells a story based on the true life of his father. With his sensual way of telling stories the filmmaker wants to touch people all over the world. Sometimes those who don’t seem to have a chance in life, develop the strength to go beyond limits. Not to be missed!

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FEATURE FILMS

BUTA

CHERKESS/AL SHARAKISSA

Buta is a story about a lonely 7 year old boy (named Buta), who lives in a mountain village with his grandmother. He is befriended by an old man, a liquid soap merchant who once loved (and lost) Buta’s grandmother. The old man’s friendship and wise advice helps Buta to overcome his difficulties in life. Buta’s grandmother, in the meantime, is weaving a special carpet in memory of Buta’s mother. The carpet features a ‘buta’ pattern, which represents love. The boy is inspired by grandmother’s work, and decides to make his own “buta” made of rocks and stones, high on the top of the mountain…

An impossible love story set in the late 19th century in the area now known as Jordan, CHERKESS historically represents the period during which many Circassians immigrated to the Arab world. The Cherkess are from the North Caucasus and have escaped the rule of the Russian Tsar in search of freedom. They find this freedom in the Ottoman desert of Transjordan and are ordered to establish their farms near the springs of Ras Al Ain. Unfortunately, the springs are also a religious site of the nearby Bedouins and tensions escalate quickly between the two cultures. Their struggle to maintain peace is augmented when they become aware of the forbidden love between Nart, a Cherkess from Istanbul, and Hind, the beautiful daughter of the Sheikh of the nearby Bedouin tribe. When Aziz, Hind’s brother, finds out about the secret affair he vows to kill Hind and Nart, possibly igniting the beginning of a war between the two civilizations. A dramatic film rich with music, dance, and culture, CHERKESS is a proverbial tale about two young people from different worlds and the miraculous power of true love. Director Quandour is a writer, film producer and businessman with more than 40 years’ experience in international arenas.

Quandour was born in Jordan and completed all his tertiary education, including a PhD in the USA. He began his creative & business career in New York at J. Walter Thompson Co. (1962) in advertising and documentary film productions. He later moved to Bristol Myers in marketing and remained until the end of 1969. In 1970 he published his first novel The Skyjack Affair and moved to Hollywood in the early seventies where he worked as a screenwriter and later producer/director for television and feature films.

In 1990 Quandour resumed his writing career with several historical novels and produced many documentary series. In recent years Quandour has been writing classical music (concerts of his works playing in Russia, Japan, Germany, Spain). He is currently commissioned to writing the musical score for the new project Lost in Chechnya, a film he is also directing.

Azerbaijan | 2011 | 98 minutes | PG Director: Ilgar Najaf (In Attendance) Cast: Rafig Guliyev, Tofig Aliyev, Elnur Kerimov, Leman Nebiyeva Language: Azerbaijani, with English subtitles Awards: Best children’s feature film, Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2011 Print source: Asif Rustamov

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CASTING ME

South Africa | 2012 | 94 minutes | 0-18 SNL Director: Quinton Lavery (In Attendance) Cast: Paul Snodgrass, Roxanne Prentice, Colin Moss, Louw Venter, Andy Lund, Claire Dante, Michael Everson Bjorn Steinbach, Jenna Saras, Jonathan Hearns Language: English Print source: Quinton Lavery Paul is a frustrated but like able casting director who has dreams of finally making his own feature film. His girlfriend Chloe has broken up with him and he is frustrated by his job, although he has great colleagues at the agency in Rueben and Janet. He lives in a flat with his friend, the computer nerd Nic. To get his life on track again and win back his girlfriend he decides to make a film about his job, love life and all the funny things that happen behind the scenes at the casting agency! Director Quinton Lavery obtained his Honours Degree at The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) in Cape Town, South Africa. During his four years there he wrote and directed eight films including his graduation film, Freedom Days and his Honours film Barren.

Both Freedom Days and Barren were selected for numerous Film Festivals, both locally and abroad, including The Prague Short Film Festival, The Bermuda International Film Festival and The Jordan International Short Film Festival. Freedom Days won a Special Mention Jury Award at the 14th Chilean International Short Film Festival while Barren went on to win Best Short Film at the 7th Sometime in October Film Festival in North Carolina.

After completing his studies Quinton started Chasing Migada Productions with his long-time collaborator and cinematographer, Darren Wertheim, where over the course of 3 years he directed and produced music videos for Lark, Unit R, Tait, The Ragdolls, Hey Mister, 7th Son and La Vuvuzela. He has also worked as a Casting Director, doing more than 60 commercials, series and feature films, which became the inspiration for Casting Me...

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Jordan | 2010 | 116 minutes | PG13 Director: Mohydeen Quandour Cast: Sahar Bishara, Azamat Bekov, Mohamad Abadi.

Language: Arabic and Cherkess (Circassian), with English subtitles Awards: Seven international awards Print source: Mohydeen Quandour

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HOW I WAS STOLEN BY THE GERMANS

Serbia | 2012 | 139 minutes | PG13 V Director: Miloš Radivojević Cast: Jelena Djokic, Douglas Henshall and Svetozar Cvetkovic (In Attendance) Language: Serbian, English and German, with English subtitles Print source: Svetozar Cvetkovic One of the highlights of this year’s film festival. ALEX (67) is a vigorous misanthropic writer who lives a solitary life on the North Sea shore, estranged from the people from his distant past (Yugoslavia) and his current environment (Germany). One day, an orphan girl called ROMI (6) is brought to Alex. The girl may or may not be Alex’s child from a random encounter with a prostitute. While driving Romi to a near-by town and Social Welfare Center, where he plans to hand her over to the authorities, Alex tells Romi in flashback form a story about his childhood, from the time of his accidental and unwanted conception in 1939 to age eight. Alex’s mother JELENA (25), a communist activist, is carried away by her grandiose ideals

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yet is incapable of loving those closest to her. The only person who offers Alex any love and warmth during his childhood is WERNER KRAUS (35), a high-ranking officer of the Wermacht, accommodated in the house of Alex’s family during the German occupation of Yugoslavia. Alex remembers the story-telling sessions, piano playing, picnics and trips to the movies, all of which were from the time he spent with Werner.

Miloš Radivojević (born November 3, 1939) is a television and movie director, and a professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. Miloš was born in 1939 in Čačak, Serbia. He started his higher education as a philosophy student but eventually graduated in 1966 from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1966, as one of the first students of Aleksandar Saša Petrović with the medium length film Adam & Eva 66. He worked as assistant director under Puriše Đorđević between 1961 to 1969. He directed 16 feature films, beginning with Bube u glavi (“This Crazy World of Ours”) which received the Golden Lion medal at the 1970 film festival.

Numerous other prizes include the following: - Silver Mermaid and Roberto Paolela (Naples, 1975) – Testament (1975) - Bronze Palm (Valencia, 1989) – Čavka (1988) - Locarno, 1979 – Kvar

Another of the stories features real-life transsexual star Bell Nuntita who rose to fame after stunning the judges of ‘Thailand’s Got Talent’ when she revealed her bass vocal singing talents. Director Tanwarin Sukkhapisit is Thailand’s most well-known if not only transgender director and makes films which explore areas of sexuality and gender identity.

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LUCKY

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INSECTS IN THE BACKYARD

Thailand | 2010 | 93 minutes | 0-13 MS Director: Thanwarin Sukhaphisit Cast: Nonpavit Dansriboon, Suchada Rojmanothum and Thanwarin Sukhaphisit Language: Thai, with English subtitles Print Source: Thanwarin Sukhaphisit In the absence of their parents, Johnny (15) and Jennifer (17) are being brought up by their “big sister” Tanya, an overdressed transvestite, who eats and smokes too much and causes both kids endless embarrassment.

It’s a situation ripe for problems and Tanwarin’s debut feature - as director, writer and star - explores those problems with unbridled determination.

Both children mess up their pursuit of romance, in the ways that teenagers do, and both look for ways to break away from the family home and become independent. For Johnny, this entails going into male prostitution, which is as much an attempt to erase his own self-esteem as a way of earning some fast bucks. Jenny makes other mistakes, but both of them wind up deeply dissatisfied. And Tanya? When Johnny catches her trying to seduce one of his buddies, things start to go downhill for her too.

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OPENING NIGHT FILM

South Africa | 2011 | 100 minutes | PG Director: Avie Luthra (In Attendance) Cast: Sihle Dlamini, Jayashree Basavaraj, James Ngcobo, Vusi Kunene Language: Zulu, Hindi and English, with English subtitles Awards: WINNER – Best Film – 2011 Bengaluru International Film Festival; WINNER – Best Actress – Jayashree Basavaraj, 2011Abu Dhabi Film Festival Print source: Indigenous Film Distribution How could a recently orphaned, 10-year old homeless South African boy ever be called Lucky? Over the grave of his dead mother, Lucky makes a promise to make something of himself. Leaving the security of his remote Zulu village for the big city with the hope of going to school, he arrives on the doorstep of an uncle who has no use for him. Lucky falls in with an elderly Indian woman with an inherent fear of Africans, who takes him in as she would a stray dog. Together, unable to speak each other’s language, they develop an unlikely bond. Through an odyssey marked by greed, violence, and ultimately, belonging, LUCKY shows how a child’s spirit can bring out decency, humility and even love in adults struggling to survive in the new South Africa. Director Avie Luthra is an award winning writer/director who has worked in short films, features, TV drama, documentaries and radio.

Avie resides in London, UK and is a 2002 graduate of the Director’s Course at the National Film and Television School in the UK. In 2003, he wrote an episode for the high-profile BBC series, Canterbury Tales and won the BBC’s Dennis Potter Award for his 60 minute BBC film, INDIAN DREAM. In 2004, he was listed in Screen International’s ‘Stars of Tomorrow’. In 2006, he was nominated for a BAFTA for his short film LUCKY, which was also short-listed for an Oscar in 2007. In 2009, he completed his first feature film MAD, SAD AND BAD, which premiered at the British Gala, Edinburgh Film Festival 2009 and was released in cinemas that year. LUCKY is Avie Luthra’s second feature length film, which he wrote and directed after overwhelming success with the short-subject film LUCKY (2006); having won 43 international film festival awards.

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IT GET’S BETTER

Thailand | 2012 | 90 minutes | PG13 M Director: Thanwarin Sukhaphisit Cast: Penpak Sirikul Language: Thai, with English subtitles Print Source: Thanwarin Sukhaphisit It Gets Better has a lighter tone than director Sukhaphisit’s previous feature Insects in the Backyard. It deals sensitively with three stories of love that crosses traditional boundaries. Penpak Sirikul, the Thai star who has appeared in over 25 movies takes on a surprising role as a transsexual who travels to Northern Thailand, only to fall in love with a local man.

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MANON

Kenneth Macmillan - Ballet in five acts | 117 minutes Manon: Tamara Rojo Monsieur G.M: Christopher Saunders Des Grieux: Carlos Acosta Artists of the Royal Ballet Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Music: Jules Massenet Conductor: Martin Yates Set/Costume Designs: Nicholas Georgiadis

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MONTEVIDEO, TASTE OF A DREAM

(Montevideo, Bog te video) Serbia | 2011 | 136 minutes | PG Director: Dragan Bjelogrlić Cast: Miloš Biković, Milutin Karadžić, Viktor Savić, Language: Serbian English subtitles

Montevideo, Taste of A Dream is a story about the extraordinary feat accomplished by young Serbian football players who will, in the years to come, turn into genuine stars, idols of their nation, and true legends. The story follows their journey from the cobblestone streets of impoverished Belgrade neighbourhoods, their local football matches and an array of challenges they face, up until their departure to the first FIFA World Cup in Uruguay,1930. Inspired by faith, hope and vision, they become a team prepared for great deeds; the initial doubt that surrounds their personal and professional lives is transformed into great friendships, promising love affairs and most importantly a united decision to prove themselves in Montevideo. The film is designed as a long-owed homage, a testimony about a time in which, among all other things, a small Serbia became great thanks to football and its football players.

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MOOZ-LUM

USA | 2011 | 99 minutes | PG Director: Qasim Basir Cast: Evan Ross, Nia Long and Roger Guenveur Smith Language: English Print source: Dana Offenbach Amid a strict Muslim rearing and a social life he’s never had, Tariq (Evan Ross) enters college confused. New peers, family and mentors help him find his place, but the 9-11 attacks force him to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.

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FEATURE FILMS

With its panoramic crowd scenes and passionate Pas De Deux, Kenneth Macmillan’s Manon is a much-loved classic of the Royal Ballet. Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta dance the principal roles Manon and Des Grieux.

The fateful passion of the two lovers leads them from the bustling opulence of nineteenth-century Paris to the swamps of Louisiana. Set to the sensuous, expressive music of Massenet, Manon is one of the greatest dramatic ballets and a wonderful showcase for the skill and dramatic power of principals, soloist and company alike.

NORTH SEA TEXAS/NOORDZEE TEXAS

Belgium | 2011 | 94 minutes | PG13 SL Director: Bavo Defurne (In Attendance) Cast: Jelle Florizoone, Mathias Vergels, Nina Marie Kortekaas, Eva Van der Gucht Language: Flemish, with English subtitles Awards: FIPRESCI Prize – Montreal Film Festival; Silver Zenith, First Films Competition Jury prize Print source: Wavelength Pictures Pim (an understated performance by ballet dancer-in-training Jelle Florizoone) is a quiet kid who enjoys spending hours drawing and keeps all his secrets, even those that are a little naughty, in a shoebox hidden in his closet. When he was a child he liked wearing his absent ex-beauty queen mother’s tiara and pretending to be a great lady from the past. His first crush was an older and handsome gypsy who was also his mother’s lover and, at 15, he’s discovering sex and is madly in love with rebellious biker Gino (punk rock singer Mathias Vergels), the boy next door. Gino has problems of his own: a very ill mother, a sister (incredibly mature 16-year-old first timer Nina Marie Kortekaas) who is growing up too fast, and the fear of being found out fooling around with another boy. When Gino decides that it’s time to grow up and start dating girls, little Pim’s whole world crumbles, at least until his old crush comes back into his and his mother’s life...but was Gino really using Pim only for sex? It will take tragedy for both of them to truly grow up, and finally realize what they feel for each other. Based on a hit young adult novel by Belgian author André Sollie, North Sea, Texas is Bavo Defurne’s feature film debut, after years of making internationally successful LGBT-themed short films. The movie was presented at the International Rome Film Festival in a section – Alice in the City – dedicated to movies targeted towards a younger audience, and ended up being one of the most talked-about films of the festival, winning the main prize in its category and immediately finding an Italian distributor after the first press screening. The success of this slow-paced, intimate little movie lies in the fine details: there’s grace and incredible love in the way Defurne builds up the small world in which his characters move, and all that grace, all that affection for each and every character, even those who are superficially “bad,” comes through the screen and affects the audience. The timeless quality of the setting – a general “past” that is not really from a specific era but is the memory of a universal childhood we all share (the screenplay calls it “Our youth, some decades ago”) – helps envelop the viewer in a surprising sensation of warmth, even when the movie deals with loneliness and unrequited feelings. Sudden bursts of bright colour have the same effect, of significant details suddenly emerging in our memory from dreams that have been long forgotten. It’s also a movie about love and, as Defurne said when accepting his award, it’s easy to like a movie about love, but there’s more than that. It’s not only delicate and it’s not only whimsical, the movie is thoroughly real. It doesn’t shy away from the most trivial aspects of puberty; it never tries to give an idyllic view of adolescence and manages to be quite mean when dealing with the difficult relationship between Pim and his mother (the best exchange of the movie is when Mom says, “Normal boys your age hang out with friends,” to which Pim replies, “Normal women your age don’t spend their nights out”). There’s truth in the whimsy, and the narrative is perfectly balanced between a grounded reality and the world seen through the eyes of a romantic (one of the film’s leit-motifs is the line “Pim is a dreamer”). There’s truth and there’s tragedy. Or rather, tragedies, of very different kinds. The tragedy of a longing that can never be fulfilled, that of Gino’s sister for Pim, which can be turned into another sort of affection. The tragedy of fear of the outside world. And real, palpable tragedy that can only be overcome through growing up. When the world of grown-ups clashes with the expectations of children and these characters enter adulthood, the movie is at its most poignant. This adulthood can only be reached through the silent acceptance of both mothers, and it’s a happy ending both touching and hopeful as it comes from loss and solitude, but never regret. What is pure and strong wins in the end. Defurne, whose filmmaking is summarized in his words, “I don’t want to show people what they see when they look out their windows, I want to show what they can see when they close their eyes,” gladly stepped out of his comfort zone of doomed gay romances to demonstrate “that the life that wasn’t possible

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for the boys from Brokeback Mountain is not beyond everybody’s reach.”

Moments of sadness, sometimes naive and sometimes bitter, and moments of innocent happiness are the winning combination of this movie. It’s no wonder that it charmed a jury of kids aged 13 to 18. The movie gives hope without sentimentality and delivers truth without grittiness. It’s something that kids can relate to and that adults will fondly remember from years gone by, years of first crushes and desires, little secrets and family conflict. Bavo Defurne stole a little from all our childhoods, and made something special and beautiful with all our memories. Not to be missed! - Ciro Di Lella 16/03 @ 20:15 The Fugard Theatre 17/03 @ 20:15 Nu Metro V&A 21/03 @ 15:15 Oude Libertas Auditorium

Director: Roman Khrushch (In Attendance) Cast: Stanislav Ryadinskyi Language: Russian, with English subtitles Print Source: Leonid Litvak Based on the Russian classic Mikhail Lermontov novel The Hero of Our Time. All events shown as they are reflected in the mind of the dying hero, as a series of irrevocable mistakes and interpreted anew: it is either reconsideration or repentance. Recollections make main hero torment himself over his own past pretences that seem ridicules now agonize and despair over his perfect indifference to everything except himself, see the horrible aspect of killing his friend, a greenhorn and a show-off. The final action of an intelligent and outstanding man is judging oneself without mercy. Roman Khrushch was born in Kharkov (Ukraine) in 1960. He graduated from VGIK (1981, All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography) and VKSR (1998, Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors).

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OTELO BURNING

South Africa | 2011 | 72 minutes | PG 13 V Director: Sara Blecher (In Attendance) Cast: Jafta Mamabolo, Thomas Gumede, Sihle Xaba, Tshepang Mohlomi, Kenneth Nkosi, Harriet Manamela Language: Zulu, with English subtitles Print Source: Sara Blecher Shot in Durban and directed by Sara Blecher (Surfing Soweto), the film tells the story of a group of township kids who discover the joy of surfing. It’s set in 1989, against a backdrop of brewing conflict between two political groups in Lamontville.When 16-year-old Otelo Buthelezi takes to the water for the first time, it’s clear that he was born to surf. But then tragedy strikes. On the day that Nelson Mandela is released from prison, Otelo is forced to choose between surfing success and justice. This is a beautifully made, insightful and entertaining film that captures a turbulent time in the history of South Africa.An award winning documentary director and producer, Sara Blecher executive produced and directed Bay of Plenty, a SAFTA (South African Film and Television award) winning 26-part drama series for SABC 1. The series chronicled the lives of a group of Zulu life guards on the Durban beach front. It was largely based on research and work she’d done over the years with the lifeguards and surfers on the Durban beach front. In 2009 she produced and directed the South African version of Who Do You Think You Are? Based on the BBC format of the same name, this 12-part series traces the ancestry of well-known South African celebrities including Vusi Mahlasela, Zapiro, and HHP. Sara is a cofounder of Cinga Productions which, together with Ochre Films, produced the international Emmy-nominated drama series Zero Tolerance for SABC 2. She co-wrote, directed and produced episodes in all three series of this production. She also free-lances as a drama and documentary producer/ director. She has extensive television and theatre experience and has worked as a researcher and production assistant for numerous major overseas film companies, including BBC, WGBH, Channel 4 and NBC. She has been an associate producer on The First Accused, an Emmynominated documentary for PBS and SABC 3. She was an assistant director and associate producer on Scientific American Frontiers, produced by PBS. In 2011 she released Surfing Soweto, a documentary following the lives (and deaths) of a group of so-called ‘train surfers’ in South Africa. Otelo Burning, shot in Durban, South Africa, in July 2010, is her first feature film.

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Russia | 2011 | 95 minutes | PG

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RISCARDO/ CRAFT

Brazil | 2011 | 84 minutes | PG Director: Gustavo Pizzi Cast: Karine Teles Language: Portuguese, with English subtitles Awards: Best Actress, Rio International Film Festival Print Source: FiGA Films Bianca (Karine Teles) is an excellent actress, but theatre doesn’t pay the bills yet. In order to make a living, she impersonates movie divas and promotes events. Bianca auditions for a big international production and gets the part. The director of the film, inspired by her work, changes the character he wrote into a version of Bianca. Is this the chance of a lifetime?

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ROEPMAN

South Africa | 2011 | 115 Minutes | 16 LPV Director: Paul Eilers Cast: Paul Loots, John Henry Opperman, Deon Lotz, Rika Sennett, Lida Botha, Desire Gardner, Beate Olwagen, Andrew Thompson, Eddie de Jager, Paul Lückhoff, Altus Theart and Ivan Botha Language: Afrikaans, with English subtitles Print Source: Ster-Kinekor Roepman tells the story of a 1966 railway community told through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy called Timus (Paul Loots). Timus and his family are trapped within the structural violence caused by the government and the church at the time. An unlikely hero, Joon (John-Henry Opperman) often appears to save Timus when he’s in trouble. These acts of kindness are seen by Timus as miracles. Timus tells the story of Joon, his own coming of age and loss of innocence, and how Joon tries to give a little of that lost innocence back to Timus. South African film critic Jean-Marie Korff described the film as a beautiful, sensitive adaptation of Jan van Tonder’s acclaimed novel about a young boy’s coming of age in a railway community during Apartheid South Africa.

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FEATURE FILMS

‘N SAAK VAN GELOOF

South Africa | 2011 | 90 minutes | PG Director: Diony Kempen (In Attendance) Cast: Robbie Wessels, Lelia Estebeth, Vanessa Lee, Michael Brunner, Niekie van den Berg, Reana Nel Language: Afrikaans, with English subtitles Print Source: Welela Set in the magical Karoo town of Prince Albert the story revolves around forgiveness, acceptance and the meaning of miracles. Marietjie Naude, an 18-year-old country girl, goes home to her parents’ farm Hoopfontein for Christmas. When she tells her parents Ella and Kallie that she is pregnant, they are shocked. But the real blow comes when she assures them she is still a virgin and that the Holy Spirit must be the father of her unborn child.

Her father Kallie, really wants to believe his daughter, but as Sanna the kitchen maid puts it, “Faith does not always come easy.”

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SO HARD TO FORGET

(Como Esquecer) Brasil | 2010 | 100 min | 0-13 N Director: Malu de Martin (In Attendance) Cast: Ana Paula Arosio, Murilo Rosa, Arieta Corrêa, Natália Lage, Bianca Comparato Language: Portuguese with English subtitles Production: EH! Filmes So Hard to Forget begins with a question—“What is the opposite of love?”— and the film addresses the question through the narrative of Julia’s life, as she attempts to work through the trauma of heartbreak from her partner of 10 years, Antonia. After the breakup Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful situation. Her life and values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her thoughts seem to be reduced to out-offocus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil complicates the readaption to a new life. But throughout this process, she finds new friends like Helena who also struggles with the experience of loss in her live. Julia immediately feels attracted to her. Sharing the same experience of pain and solicitude the two women get closer... Malu de Martino has studied at the Global Village New School / NY (Advanced Intensive Video), in Downtown Community Television Centre / NY (Editing), in Young Filmmakers, Video Arts / NY (Lighting for Film and Video) and at New School TV Academy / NY (Videotape Post-Production). Since then she has directed several films, such as So Hard to Forget, Women from Brazil, Ismael and Adalgissa.

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SEMI-SOET

South Africa | 2012 | 114 minutes | PG L Director: Joshua Rous (In Attendance) Cast: Anel Alexander , Nico Panagio, Diaan Lawrenson, Paul du Toit, Louw Venter and Sandra Vaughn Language: Afrikaans, with English subtitles Print Source: Anel Alexander, Indigenous Film Distribution Workaholic Jaci will go to any lengths to protect the boutique advertising agency she works for from being bought and dismantled by a ruthless businessman known as ‘The Jackal’. Hope exists in the form a huge contract for a prestigious wine farming family. But winning this contract won’t be simple. Jaci needs to convince the farm owner that she lives up to his company’s ideals of family values and commitment by proving that she is in a loving, long term relationship. Desperate to appear to be living the balanced life she has long discarded, Jaci decides to hire a model to pretend to be her fake fiancé for the day. At the pitch meeting the facade seems to have worked until the client insists her and her fake fiancé come away for the weekend to experience the wine farm before she pitches for the contract. Things start to get very complicated, very quickly for poor Jaci, especially since the man she has hired to be her stand-in-fiancé, is the very ‘Jackal’ himself who is trying to sink her company.Joshua Rous is an award winning writer/director who has worked and studied in both theatre and film in South Africa, Oxford, Boston and Los Angeles. Having attained his Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of Southern California he worked for a year as an editor and director in Hollywood.

Since returning to South Africa in 2005 Josh has worked constantly as a director in sitcoms and soap operas where he has won SAFTA Golden Horns for Best Director, Best Writing, Best New Sitcom, Best Ensemble Cast, and Best Short Film. He currently co-runs Rous House Productions with his brother Luke where her has written, directed and produced over a hundred episodes of sitcom. He is also one the directors at the local soap opera Scandal. In 2008 his debut feature film, Discreet, was released by SterKinekor to critical acclaim. He follows it up with the much more commercial and distinctly Afrikaans romantic comedy Semi-Soet.

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SON OF BABYLON

Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Palestine | 2010 | 100 minutes | PG 13 Director: Mohamed Al Daradji Cast: Shazada Hussein, Yasser Talib and Bashir Al Majid Language: Arabic and Kurdish, with English subtitles Awards: Four international awards including the Amnesty International Film Prize, as well as the Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival Son of Babylon, directed by Mohamed Al-Daradji, is a tough, tender, hugely moving work of mourning for all those Iraqi men and women who have disappeared since the Gulf War. Set in 2003, it follows a young boy Ahmed (Yasser Talib) and his grandmother (Shazada Hussein, also a first-time performer) as they travel through the dusty, battered roads of northern Iraq in search of their missing father/son, a jailed former soldier. This is a travel journey through a militarised nation still in the throes of unstable reconstruction. The landscapes they pass are lonely and vehicle-scarred.

The pair squabble, grieve, look after each other. They have to: they’re Kurds and few of the Iraqis they meet along the way can understand what they’re saying. When they do find a fellow speaker, he turns out to be a former member of the murderous Republican Guard. It’s at moments like these that the film evokes the challenges that would face any kind of truth-and-reconciliation commission in the country. On and on Ahmed and his grandmother travel. Some of the things they’re looking for they find.

Others they don’t. All the while we discover many things – about keening love, unfathomable despair, human endurance – that are hard to forget.

- Sukhdev Sandhu.

One of the outstanding films at this year’s film festival.

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hunt for pot and pursue harebrained schemes to make money, they find their bravado repeatedly punctured by the rigours of an adult world they cannot comprehend. The American coming of age story finds itself transplanted to the countryside of Western Europe in The Giants, the latest film from actor-turned-director Bouli Lanners. Shot with a painter’s eye for the lushly wooded Belgian landscape, and filled with Lanners’ bittersweet humour and feel for the rhythms of working class life, The Giants is a funny yet melancholic ode to the idleness, adventures and fears of adolescence.

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THE DUCK HUNTER

Italy | 2012 | 90 minutes | 0-13 V Director: Egidio Veronesi Cast: Federico Mazzoli, Francesca Botti, Giorgio Paltrinieri, Paolo Lodi Language: Italian, with English subtitles Print source: Egidio Veronesi It’s 1942. In the countryside of Modena, in northern Italy, the story of four friends are intertwined, each of them with their own dream to realize. The story is set at time of second world war and the tragic events of this period will end by sweeping away everyone and everything. Only one of them will realise his dream.

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THE LAST CHRISTEROS

Mexico | 2011 | 90 minutes | PG13 V Director: Matías Meyer Cast: Alejandro Limón Language: Spanish, with English subtitles Awards: Special Jury Mention, Paraty International Film Festival Print Source: FiGA Films At the end of the nineteen-thirties, a small band of men and their Christero colonel (Alejandro Limón) refuse to accept amnesty, instead continue their fight against religious persecution and their right to practice their faith.

Matias Meyer’s The Last Christeros tells the valiant story of these soldiers of Christ, the last men standing against the Mexican army, with diminishing food and provisions, as they continue their journey against an arid and forbidding landscape.

THE END

Morocco | 2011 | 78 minutes | PG 13 Director: Hicham Lasri Cast: Sam Kanater, Saleh Ben Saleh, Hanane Zouhi, Nadia Niazi Awards: Special Jury Prize – Tanger Film Festival, Morocco Language: Arabic, with English subtitles Print source: Hicham Lasri

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June 1999: This powerful film is a fable about Mikha, a parking guard in Casablanca, who falls in love with Rita, the psychologically fragile sister in a family of car thieves…

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THE GIANTS

Belgium/France/Luxembourg | 2011 | 84 minutes | PG13 Director: Bouli Lanners Cast: Zacharie Chasseriaud, Martin Nissen, Paul Bartel, Karim Leklou, Didier Toupy, Gwen Berrou, Marthe Keller Language: French and Russian, with English subtitles Awards: Winner of Best French Language Film and the Art Cinema prize at the Cannes Film FestivalDirectors’ Fortnight Print source: Memento “A joyous heartwarmer with an endearing Mark Twain meets Ken Loach vibe.” - Screen International Two teenage brothers and their tag-along friend navigate a summer by themselves in an abandoned country cottage. As they scavenge for food,

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THE JOY

Brazil | 2011 | 106 minutes | PG 13 LS Director: Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande (In Attendance) Cast: Tainá Medina Language: Portuguese, with English subtitles Print Source: Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande The Joy is a fairy tale about youth and courage. The Joy tells the story of 16-year old Luiza, who is tired of hearing about the end of the world.

On Christmas Eve, her cousin João is shot in a poor neighbourhood and disappears in the middle of the night. A few weeks later, while alone in her apartment in a middle class neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Luiza finds a mysterious guest waiting for her in the living room: João, as a ghost, asking her to be hidden there. Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, both 29 years old, are two young directors from the new-new generation of Brazilian filmmakers that began their careers at the beginning of the 21st Century. They have worked together since college, co-directing two awardwinning shorts (“Waterbound” and “His Name: The Clown”) that were presented in more than 50 film festivals around the world between 2003 and 2005, including Oberhausen, Tampere and Cork.

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FEATURE FILMS

THE PHANTOM FATHER

Romania | 2011 | 93 minutes | PG Director: Lucian Georgescu Cast: Marcel Lures, Mihaela Sirbu, Barry Gifford Language: Romanian, with English subtitles Print Source: Lucian Georgescu American Professor Robert Traum takes a sabbatical and turns his back on a present without surprise, to live an adventure from the past. Back in the Old World, he researches the origins of his father and uncle, the famous Traum brothers: Rudolf, a famous novelist, and Samuel – once a notorious gangster in Chicago. While traveling through Transylvania and Bucovina (former Austro Hungarian Empire provinces) Robert meets Tanya, a Government archivist. Together they find Sami, the last surviving family friend, a cinema projectionist who was chased out of his old movie theatre by a greedy local politician. While Robert helps Sami win his theatre, Sami gives Robert his identity back. A “fish out of water” story of travel through the Carpathians. Lucian Georgescu belongs to the first Romanian postrevolutionary filmmakers generation. He is a film and TV screenwriter, actor, producer, film critic, (UCIN, FIPRESCI), as well as a senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the Romanian Theatre and Film University in Bucharest.

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TOMBOY

France | 2011 | 84 minutes | PG Director: Céline Sciamma Cast: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana and Jeanne Disson Language: French, with English subtitles Awards: Four international awards Print source: Film Distribution A simple, innocent deception exponentially grows in significance as the remarkable Tomboy progresses. Moving into a new town, tall, skinny 10 year old Laure (Zoe Heran) ventures into the streets to make new friends.

With her cropped hair and startlingly fresh-faced good looks, she refers to herself as ‘Mikael’ when meeting a local girl, Lisa (Jeanne Disson), and is never assumed to be anything other than male from that point on. The first complication arises from Laure’s bond with Lisa who attracted in her naïve, pre-adolescent way. Writer and director Celine Sciamma creates tension from tiny moments – like taking her top off to assimilate with the boys in a soccer match - in which Laure edges tantalisingly close to the verge of being exposed. But her young, undeveloped body is an asset in sustaining the impression of her ‘masculinity’. Tomboy is a superbly realised drama; a deceptively immersive experience that, from a modest beginnings, manages to become something truly compelling. Its effectiveness, though relying almost entirely on the conviction of Heran’s ambiguous appearance, is further aided by the naturalistic performances of all the children, especially cheeky six year old Malon Levanna as Laure’s young sister Jeanne, whose later compliance with her siblings cause adds to the undercurrent of vague unease. As ultimately doomed as Laure’s deception was, a part of me was hoping for it to continue despite knowing full well the internal damage it had the power to exert on the entire family once flushed into the light.

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THE TREE

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Australia/France | 2010 | 100 minutes | 0-13 M Director: Julie Bertuccelli Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies and Marton Csokas.

Language: English Awards: Best Actress - Charlotte Gainsbourg - Bratislava International Film Festival Print source: Memento After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots. As the branches of the tree start to infiltrate the house, the family is forced to make an agonizing decision. But have they left it too late?

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VISIBLE WORLD

Slovakia | 2011 | 104 minutes | PG13 Director: Peter Kristúfek Cast: Ivan Trojan, Jana Hlavácová and Kristína Turjanová Language: Czech and Slovak, with English subtitles Source Print: Slovak Film Institute Oliver is a lonely forty-something working as an air traffic controller. He appears to be isolated and his personal life is empty. He fills his time by watching TV and observing the family living in the house across the street – he regards them as an ideal of happiness. At first he just watches the family, but gradually he wants to learn more about them. He finds that things often look different from a distance, that the borders of one’s private life are more fragile than one would expect. Evil is endemic and discrete; we carry violence around inside ourselves.

“VISIBLE WORLD takes as its theme the business of watching and observing, the modern phenomenon of voyeurism. In addition, it asks some important questions: Where and how fragile are the boundaries of privacy? Do we have the right to enter into other people’s lives? Is evil demonic and supernatural, or rather endemic and discrete? VISIBLE WORLD is a contemporary psychological drama. It takes place in a housing estate in the Slovak capital, Bratislava. Along with Sartre, we ask “who

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actually is Hell? Is Hell really other people, or do we all carry it around inside ourselves?” Ultimately, it seems that, given the right circumstances, everyone has the capacity to be Hell for others…” - Peter Krištufek, director 15/03 @ 20:15 The Fugard 18/03 @ 15:15 Oude Libertas Auditorium 19/03 @ 15:15 Nu Metro

WHITE, WHITE WORLD

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STRIKFONTEIN

(Beli, Beli Svet) Serbia & Montenegro | 2010 | 120 minutes Director: Oleg Novkovic Cast: Jasna Djuricic, Uliks Fehmiu, Hana Selimovic Language: Serbian with English subtitles Awards: New Vision Award at Crossing Europe 2011

South Africa | 2012 | PG Pilot episode of a TV series Director: Johan Cronje (In Attendance) Cast: Adam Heyns, Sancha Olivier, Frans van Wyk, Leané Meiring, Jakus Eloff Language: Afrikaans Print source: Johan Cronje

Rightly awarded the New Vision Award at Crossing Europe 2011, WHITE WHITE WORLD is a tour-de-force of vision and innovation. Transporting a famous Greek tragedy to Bor, a mining village in today’s Serbia, the story begins when a prisoner returns home to find her adolescent daughter is liaising with her old lover and local bar owner, “King”. Realistic and convincing performances are contrasted with music and moments when the main characters break into solitary, melancholic songs to tell of their innermost feelings. However, this never feels artificial. Rather, it lures the viewer into sympathising and understanding some of the characters’ most cruel and senseless actions. WHITE WHITE WORLD is a great example of how opera, ancient storytelling and film can meet to present a new vision of the modern world, and of cinema.

Strikfontein vertel van ‘n aantal jongmense wat terugkeer na die ongemak van hul tuisdorp. Hier moet hulle die bravade van hul nuutgevonde volwassenheid teen die magte van die dorp opmeet. Die eerste semester van universiteit is verby en ‘n vakansie by die huis ontlok oudergewoontes en vergete gevoelens. Eduan en Avianca se begrawe skoolverhouding word opnuut oopgekrap – die eerste van menigte geraamtes van hierdie groep vriende om uit die kas te ontsnap…

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DOCUMENTARIES

DOCUMENTARIES

A country for my daughter

A new world

South Africa | 2010 | 54 minutes | 0-13 Director: Lucilla Blankenberg (In Attendance) Print source: Lucilla Blankenberg

Estonia | 2011 | 86 minutes | PG Director: Jaan Tootsen Print source: East Silver

In what seems to be a hard and unwinnable battle against sexual violence in South Africa, A Country For My Daughter showcases some landmark legal victories and offers hope. Among the cases the film focuses on are Carmichele vs Minister of Safety and Security 2001 and Miss K vs Minister of Safety and Security 2004. Both cases not only have legally empowered women in South Africa but also inspired women and gender activists around the world.

Nonkosi Khumalo, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) chairperson, senior researcher at Section 27 and Nana’s mother, who herself experienced domestic violence once, revisits the stories, places, and where possible, the women, to find out how personal experiences of horrific trauma have begun to change the way the law against rape is prosecuted in South Africa. Some of the legal minds involved in pursuing the cases profiled who appear in the film, include Advocates Michelle O’Sullivan, Hayley Galgut and Wim Trengrove. Judge Edwin Cameron who pronounced judgment in the case of S vs Abrahams, involving the appeal of a sentence for a father who had raped his teenage daughter, underlines that while South Africa’s legal framework had improved, the big challenge remained in its implementation. “Our courts have a fairly poor track record on issues of gender violence. Too many white male judges with little understanding about the issues on hand,” states Cameron.

Nonkosi indeed counts merely seven women judges among the multitude of portraits of judges on display in a corridor of the Bloemfontein Supreme Court. Moving and brave camera appearances by Miss K as well as the parents of raped and slain TAC member Nandipha Makeke give insight into the grief and struggle to keep the faith, as Mrs Makeke’s statement reveals: “The law is still very weak – if you don’t push for your case, charges are dropped and they tell you the docket is missing.”

What Nonkosi discovers is that only public outrage and organised protest have the power to force the authorities to provide women with the protection and justice to which they are entitled to: “Justice does not get served on a plate… You must work for it!” In a film described by its director as the most difficult her all-woman crew have ever worked on, Nonkosi’s dynamism, anger and compassion will hopefully spur more South Africans to action rather than despair.

Director Lucilla Blankenberg is currently the co-director of Community Media Trust. CMT has proven to be the ideal environment for an aspiring filmmaker and over the past ten years Lucilla has gained experience on a number of television productions as well as the organisation’s landmark Treatment Literacy Series. She is currently the series director of CMT’s flagship Siyayinqoba Beat It! television show. Lucilla is a committed activist and feels strongly about the reduction of gender based violence in South Africa. She hopes that her latest film, A Country For My Daughter, will contribute to educating and empowering women towards achieving this goal. At CMT she has also had the space to develop and direct other projects such as Black People Don’t Swim and Don’t Shoot and has worked as an editor and producer on several documentaries including Brothers in Arms and Through My Eyes: Blanche La Guma.

The film received a rapturous reception in Estonia. Directed by Jaan Tootsen and produced by Jaak Kilmi the film follows the New World Society, a citizens’ initiative in Tallinn who is attempting to change their bit of the world. Whilst some of the settings and characters should have particular resonances amongst Estonian audiences, its charismatic lead protagonist and compelling story should see it become popular at documentary festivals across the world (especially at those with an ecological and human rights angle). At the heart of the film is Erko, a man who wants to build a new society in which bikes replace cars and people come together to share art, culture and life stories. With a group of like-minded friends, he gleefully wages a campaign of civil disobedience (such as occupying a car park and filling it with bikes and flowers) against those who would fill society full of rules. When the chance comes to receive a grant to build a literal new world – a community centre just outside the centre of Tallinn – Erko and colleagues start to enjoy recognition from the city and others. But soon the pressure of filling in forms, dealing with permits and angry neighbours, and lack of donations sees Erko becoming increasingly agitated at having to ‘work’ for a living. Soon Erko is wondering whether the new world will fall foul of age old problems.Following the group for more than five years, Toosten has managed to craft a story about dreamers and the – sometimes harsh – reality trying to realise those dreams. Erko makes for a fascinating central character managing to be both sympathetic and self-absorbed at the same time.

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Barcelona en dos Colours

Italy, Spain | 2011 | 30 minutes | PG Director: Alberto Diana Print source: Alberto Diana

Barcelona, July 2010. The Constitutional Court refuses Catalonia’s instance of autonomy: the political, linguistic and national aspirations of Catalans are drastically resized. Around the streets of Gaudì’s city explodes the euphoria of independence: on July 10th there will be a huge protest in defence of self-determination. In those same days, the Spanish national soccer team walks along its triumph in South Africa World Cup. The goal of a Catalan states the final match conquest against Holland, that will take place on July 11th. And this man is Carles Puyol. The director takes the public through a travel made of differ. Born in 1989 in Iglesias, Italy, director Alberto Diana studied History at the University of Cagliari. He began his career in 2009 as an actor in theatre and short films. At that time he started to write and to direct, winning a contest by the University of Cagliari with the short movie Unica: due o tre cose che so di lei. Then he moved to Barcelona on February

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2010, thanks to an Erasmus bursary. In July he directed the documentary Barcelona en dos colors.

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experience and include subjects such as youth culture; youth violence; the military history of the ANC and the Nationalist government and; Afrikaner culture and identity. Nominated for SA Film and Television Awards (SAFTA) 2009 for her documentary about the SA Border War, Betrayed. Winner of SA Film and Television Award (SAFTA) 2011, Best Director and Best Overall Documentary for her documentary about youth violence in a white Afrikaans high school, Jammer as ek so bitter is. Rina holds an Honours Degree in History and Diploma in Performing Arts (Music).Currently a Masters Student in History (University of Stellenbosch) and submitted the film Captor and Captive – the story of Danger Ashipala and Johan van der Mescht, alongside a written thesis to be completed.

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Cape of German Hopes

South Africa | 2011 | 42 minutes | A Director: Anna Sacco (In Attendance) Print source: Anna Sacco Cape of German Hopes is a journey into the life experiences of German families and people of German heritage settled in Cape Town. It uncovers how they seek to open up to an African culture while keeping their typical ‘Germanness’. The film explores both the distinctive differences and the surprisingly similar historical parallels between Germany and South Africa.

On a larger scale, the documentary also unpacks such complex topics as identity, transnationalism and acculturation. Treasuring one’s own cultural heritage becomes more and more important in an increasingly mobile society. Consequently, the documentary not only throws light on the local German community, but also attempts to show a blueprint of immigration cultures living all over the world. Anna Sacco, M.A. studied Philosophy, Ancient History and Economic Policy in Germany and Mexico and just completed her second Masters in Media Theory and Practice at the University of Cape Town. She worked with several newspapers, radio stations and TV channels, both in Rome and Berlin, and co-hosted a cultural Italian radio show in Freiburg, Germany. Anna has travelled extensively through Middle and South America and calls several European countries home. Due to her own migration background, her work often deals with cultural identity, transnationalism and (un)successful acculturation. Cape of German Hopes is Anna’s directing debut and has triggered her passion for documentary filmmaking.

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Cinema Komunisto

Serbia | 2011 | 100 minutes | PG Director: Mila Turajlic When history has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn’t invent a country to fool themselves? The collapsing sets of Tito’s Hollywood of the East take us on a journey through the rise and fall of the illusion called Yugoslavia. Exploring the ruins of the forgotten film sets and talking to directors, producers, policemen and Tito’s projectionist about the state run film studios and Tito’s personal love for cinema and it’s stars, Cinema Komunisto uses film clips to go back to the film when ‘His story’ became the official history.

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Captor and Captive – the story of Danger Ashipala and Johan van der Mescht

South Africa | 2010 | 52 minutes | PG Director: Rina Jooste (In Attendance) Print source: Rina Jooste

Johan van der Mescht, a South African Army conscript was stationed on the border of Namibia when he was captured in 1978. He was held as a Prisoner of War in Sao Paulo Prison, Angola for four and a half years before being exchanged for a Russian spy, Aleksei Koslov, at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin in 1982. Danger Ashipala was a young idealist when he joined the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) military wing, to help liberate his country from colonial oppression. He was responsible for Van der Mescht’s capture. The film chronicles the first meeting between Van der Mescht and Ashipala in 2009, and explores their respective experiences. CAPTOR AND CAPTIVE is both the story of a man whose capture has taken him to hell and back and of his captor who kept him alive during the attack. Ultimately it is a story of forgiveness and redemption.

Director Rina Jooste has been engaged with music, arts and social development programmes in impoverished communities since 1991. Rina’s experience as a documentary producer, director, researcher comprise several documentary films produced for South African television, many of which have screened at film festivals, contextualized in the South African

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Austria | 2011 | 52 minutes | PG Director: Cristoph Strobl Print source: Bettina Brinkmann, Florian Klinger In Climbing Elements the Austrian pro-climber Killian Fischhuber, five time winner of the overall world cup in bouldering and multiple championship medal winner, faces the biggest challenges.

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Ei voor Later/Eggs for Later

The Netherlands | 2011 | 50 minutes | PG Director: Marieke Schellart (In Attendance) Print source: Marieke Schellart

In this intimate documentary director Marieke Schellart (35) reveals how

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Portrait in Black and White is a film that will likely and justly be studied for years to come and is easily one of the biggest standouts of this year’s festival. Director Julia Ivanova was trained at Russian Film Institute (VGIK) in Moscow. After moving to Canada, she concentrated on writing, directing, filming and editing TV documentaries. She has made a number of TV projects on the topics of love, adoption, cultural differences and family.

In 2010 Julia made her first feature documentary Love Translated which premiered at the Chicago International Film festival. Family Portrait in Black and White, which premiered at Sundance in January 2011, is her second feature. She makes her films together with her producing partner and brother Boris Ivanov. Julia lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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Estradeiros/Wanderers

Brazil | 2011 | 97 minutes | PG13 Director: Sergio Oliveira, Renata Pinheiro (In Attendance) Awards: Best Film at Semana dos Realizadores, Rio de Janeiro 2011 Print source: Sergio Oliveira, Renata Pinheiro A visually stunning road movie that depicts many cities in Peru, Argentina and Brazil. Estradeiros captures the life style of those who freely moves, the nomads from Latin America. Director Sergio Oliveira lives in Recife, Brazil. He works as director and screenwriter since the 90’s. His films have been screened at the most important Brazilian festivals. His work has won numerous international awards.

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Family Portrait in Black and White

Canada/Ukraine | 2011 | 99 minutes | PG Director: Julia Ivanova Print source: Julia Ivanova

Olga Nenya is a foster mother to sixteen black orphans in Ukraine – where 99.9% of the population is white and where race does matter. Forced to constantly defend themselves from racist neighbours and skinheads, these children have to be on guard against the world that surrounds them. No one is related by blood in this family, but everyone is connected by the colour of their skin and by the woman who chose to be their foster mother. Olga is a loving mother but she is not Mother Teresa; she bears a closer resemblance to a platoon leader. Some kids have learned to manipulate her, some obey, but only one constantly battles with her. Kiril, a 16-year-old boy nicknamed ‘Mr. President’ for his intelligence and effortless aristocracy, is the one who dares to openly argue with Olga - and pays dearly for it. What Olga can’t control is how the modern world is interconnected. These kids from a tiny town in Ukraine spend summers with host families in Italy year after year. When the Italians offer to adopt her kids, Olga refuses despite being aware of what awaits a black Ukrainian beyond the protective shield of her family. For her, these children already have a family. While Olga is on a crusade to save her children from the unjust world, she is also determined to shape their future according to her own, often limited vision. Family

South Africa | 2011 | 52 minutes | A Director: Simon Wood (In Attendance) Awards: Cannes Pan African Film Festival Dikalo Special Jury award 2011 Print source: Simon Wood Winner of the Cannes Pan African Film Festival Dikalo Special Jury award 2011, Forerunners soulfully explores what it means to be black and middle class in South Africa today. At the frontier of unprecedented social change, Miranda, Mpumi, Martin and Karabo are part of the first generation of black South Africans to rise from poverty and join the country’s ‘middle class’. They delicately balance the traditional views of their childhood with the western consumerism that rules their professional lives, selecting and discarding elements from each world to forge a new legacy for their descendants. Forerunners is cinematic and experimental. The film has an ethereal feel; the slant of light signals the presence of ancestral spirits and a new dawn. The gentle motif of the wind throughout the film reminds us that the past is always carried with us. The stillness and dream-like tone allow the viewer to consider the beauty in the ordinary and the impact of each passing moment. Director Simon Wood has been working as a director for 13 years. In April 2011 Simon received recognition at the Pan African Film Festival in Cannes for his documentary Forerunners. The jury cited the film ‘for its writing quality, film mastery as well as its mature and modern outlook of a category of people that are searching for perspective’.

Since 2003 he has been working in Southern Africa producing documentary content for networks from Europe, Asia and the United States. Simon was the Development Executive on the feature film released in 2008 - Izulu Lami / My Secret Sky. The film received recognition at the Tarifa Festival in Spain and the Zanzibar International Film Festival. In 2008, Simon set up SaltPeter Productions, a company designed to focus on innovative/ challenging/reactive documentaries in an African context. Simon has lectured on filmmaking at the University of Cape Town.

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Good Planets are hard to find

South Africa | 2012 | 5 minutes | A Director: Uga Carlini (In Attendance) Print source: Uga Carlini

A warning from Beyond a light barrier. A message from above. Good planets are hard to find. We are not the only ones who think so… South Africa’s First Lady of Space and environmentalist Elizabeth Klarer’s testimony of extra-

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she struggles with her biological clock. She would like to have kids, but the right guy has not arrived yet. To give herself a bit more time she wants to extend fertility by freezing her eggs, however in the Netherlands freezing eggs for social reasons is not allowed. She openly discusses her plans and doubts with her friends and parents, meeting support and resistance along the way. She also looks for Mr. Right by asking dates for presents on her 36th birthday party. For Marieke a long journey has started which even takes her abroad, trying to find a solution to an emerging problem among modern women. Marieke Schellart (1973) worked for several years as an art director for international advertising agencies. However after a while she felt the urge to tell social stories. She went back to school to study documentary filmmaking. After she had gained experience with commissioned film projects she was ready for her debut film Eggs for Later, a personal documentary about her struggle with the ticking biological clock and her quest to extend fertility. Through this film she wants to trigger a public discussion about this emerging issue of our modern society.

terrestrial contacted events remains the most trusted version of its sort to date. The prophetic humanitarian & environmental message peppered with scientific fact and solutions that she brought back from the planet Meton, via her supposed lover Akon and his people seem more valid now than it could ever be then. Never before were our current environmental dilemmas raised with such conviction...from another planet. A message or a warning? Seems like good planets are indeed hard to find and that the sky is not the limit after all...With extensive international film experience, both in front and behind the cameras, filmmaker Uga Carlini, Director of Towerkop Creations, prides herself and her company to be excellent, creatively vibrant and inspiring at all times. Her feature documentary film, Good planets are hard to find, is greatly anticipated. She is also in development with her latest brainchild, From beyond the veil and feature screenplays The retirement and The man manual. Towerkop Creations also saw their first nomination this year for an ATKV Media Veertjie Award for the local TV channel Kyknet for the documentary series Sewe Sakke Sout (pilot script, research & production for Zyron pictures).

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Sadr City and transformed it into a makeshift home for some thirty-two boys of different ages. He appealed to like-minded volunteers to help rear the children, and raised funds wherever possible —largely donations from locals in awe of his Herculean mission. In 2009, Mohamed Al Daradji and his brother Atia had just wrapped production on their feature film Son of Babylon when they heard of Husham’s story, which seemed to embody the predicament of the country. Survivors of traumatic violence bound by the shared sorrow of facing life without a family, the orphaned boys span Iraq’s ethnic, religious and class mosaic. For nine months, the Al Daradji brothers filmed the daily life of the house, capturing the camaraderie between the children, their humble moments of playfulness, their squabbling and their efforts to cope. When the landlord raises the rent, Husham and his kids face possible eviction. To distract from that frightful prospect, the boys stage a musical performance called “In My Mother’s Arms,” giving voice to their longing for a mother’s unconditional love —that thing for which they hunger most.

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Hip Hop Nafitha

Jordan | 2011 | 42 minutes | PG Director: Suha Ayyash (In Attendance) Print source: Suha Ayyash At this stage where the world is burdened with political and economic frustrations and at the same time being Palestinian and continuing to exist with the same burdens dated to 60 years back… and being labelled by numbers, and by stereotypes. As Palestinians we are still aware of our reality and of our need to continue dreaming. And the window or the bridge for doing so is through hip-hop. Our revolutionary rap is the bridge for us to reach tomorrow… to be able to visualise tomorrow and to live it.

Rapping is the thing that will influence the positive change that will lead to achieving a better balanced life. Our youth of the third generation wants to talk and to express themselves. Hip-hop is becoming a universal language and it is helping in shaping our reality as it is and to show it to the world.

Director Suha Ayyash was born in Palestine, Beit Jala. She graduated from Huddersfield University in 2007 with a MSc Marketing Degree. She has started in documentary making since 2009.

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Kinshasa Symphony

Germany | 2010 | 95 minutes | PG Director: Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer Awards: 19 international awards Print source: WDR Kinshasa Symphony shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.

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Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life

Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Finland | 2010 | 52 minutes | PG13 Director: Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy

In My Mother’s Arms

Iraq/Netherlands/UK | 2011 | 85 minutes | PG13 Director: Atia Al Daradji, Mohamed Al Daradji Print source: Human Film Since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the poverty-stricken district of Sadr City has gained notoriety due to the bombings and clashes that have claimed so many lives there. In My Mother’s Arms is a documentary about an unlikely house in Sadr City where young victims of violence are given a new lease on life. The United States–led invasion of Iraq produced thousands of orphans, and the new Iraqi government has failed to address the issue. After learning of the abysmal horrors in governmentrun orphanages in Baghdad —where children are subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse and sent to special schools from which they systematically drop out — Husham Al Thabe decided to establish an orphanage on his own. He rented a two-room house with a courtyard in

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Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary’s Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of soundtracks. This documentary follows the life story of the composer by the means of his melodic sounds. It is a reflection on his soundtracks, which changed the common film scores forever. It is a contemporary document about the attitude to life in a time of social, political and cultural change after war, about work and exodus of Polish artists in the 50s and 60s. A story about how film music is created and how it affects people. Directors who worked with Komeda and who are also friends talk about him: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Henning Carlsen and Andrzej Wajda. His wife, Zofia Komeda, and his sister, Irena Orlowska, recollect him.

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Life in stills

Israel/Germany | 2011 | 58 minutes | PG Director: Tamar Tal Print source: Heymann Brothers Films At the age of 96, Miriam Weissenstein never imagined that she would be facing a new chapter in her life. But when “The Photo House” – her late husband Rudi’s life’s work – was destined for demolition, even this opinionated and uncompromising woman knew she needed help. Under the cloud of a family tragedy, a special relationship is forged between Miriam and her grandson, Ben, as they join forces to save the shop and its nearly one million negatives that document Israel’s defining moments.

Despite the generation gap and many conflicts, Ben and Miriam embark on a heart-wrenching journey, comprising many humorous and touching moments – a journey that requires a lot of love, courage, and compassion.

Director Tamar Tal was born 1980 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She graduated in 2005 from Camera Obscura, School of Arts, Tel Aviv. She has won numerous awards for her work.

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Mama Africa

South Africa, Germany, Finland | 2010 | 90 minutes | A Director: Mika Kaurismäki Print source: Don Edkins MAMA AFRICA is a feature length documentary about the extraordinary life and times of Miriam Makeba. She was forced into exile, after starring in the 1959 documentary COME BACK AFRICA which exposed the harsh realities of apartheid. She sang for John F. Kennedy, and Marlon Brando, performed with Harry Belafonte, Nina Simone and Dizzie Gillespie, was married to Hugh Masekela and also the radical black panther, Stokely Carmichael. Her life was tumultuous but always fascinating. She stood for truth and justice, fought for the oppressed and campaigned tirelessly against apartheid.

MAMA AFRICA, directed by Mika Kaurismäki, traces her life and music through more than fifty years of performing. Director Mika Kaurismäki’s first film THE LIAR (1980) was an overnight sensation, when first shown in Finland. It marked the beginning of the cinema of the Kaurismäki brothers and started a new era in the Finnish cinema. After the high school Mika Kaurismäki used to work as a painter of houses and apartments in a small town of Kuusankoski in the Southeastern part of Finland. In the autumn of 1976, when the winter was coming and the annual high season for painting houses was over, he thought of doing something else in life. Still wearing his painter overall, he walked into a bookstore and bought the newly published “History of Cinema” by Peter von Bagh. He started reading it from the page one and decided to become a film director. Mika Kaurismaki studied cinema in Munich, Germany, (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen) 1977-1981 and made his diploma film THE LIAR in 1980 in Finland. His younger brother Aki Kaurismäki, then a student of journalism, played the main role and also co-wrote the screenplay. After the success of THE LIAR, Mika Kaurismäki decided to stay in Finland and together with his brother and some friends he founded the production company Villealfa Filmproductions that soon became a home of vital low- or no-budget film making. By the end of the 80’s it was the third biggest film production company of all times in Finland.

The Villealfa film family consisted, besides the Kaurismäki brothers, of many colleagues and friends, including the actors Matti Pellonpää and Kari Väänänen and the cinematographer Timo Salminen.

Mama Goema: The Cape Town Beat in Five Movements

South Africa | 2011 | 55 minutes Director: Calum MacNaughton, Sara Gouveia & Angela Ramirez (In Attendance) Awards: Encounters International Documentary Film Festival 2011 – Runner-Up Audience Award Best Local Documentary; Tri-Continental Film Festival 2011 – Winner Audience Award for Feature Documentary Print source: Plexus Films If you take a pinch of Khoi-San lament, a dash of Malay spice, a measure of European orchestral, a splash of Xhosa spiritual, the clash of marching bands, a driving primal beat and a lot of humour and musical virtuosity, what do you get? Goema, Goema, Goema! Weaving together the ancient, the traditional and the classical into the distinctive sound of Cape Town, Mac MacKenzie, musical mastermind and founder of The Genuines and The Goema Captains of Cape Town, puts the final touches on the culmination of his life’s work: “Goema Symphony No. 1.” Musicians Hilton Schilder, Ernestine Deane and Kyle Shepherd add context while The Cape Town Goema Orchestra rehearses for its première. Photographer and videographer Sara Gouveia (Portugal) has an MA in photography from the University of Bolton (England) and Dalian University (China). Her photographic work has been published and exhibited internationally.

She is part of the Cape Town-based audiovisual performance-art project Darkroom Collective.

Calum MacNaughton (South Africa) studied Drama and Film Theory at the University of Cape Town and completed an MA in International Literature from the University of Madrid (Spain) and St. Louis University (USA).

Based in Cape Town, he is a researcher, creative writer and works as a new media strategist and content producer. Angela Ramirez (Colombia) is an audiovisual communicator and co-director of the short documentary Welcome a Tumaco, which won Best Documentary at CineCun Festival (2005) and a New Creators Award at the Cartagena Film Festival (2006).

She was an artist in residence at Cape Town’s Greatmore Studios from May to July 2011.

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Nannies

(Babás) Brazil | 2010 | 20 minutes | PG Director: Consuelo Lins Print source: Flávia Castro Nannies is a documentary film that combines autobiographical elements with a reflection on the presence of nannies in the daily life of countless Brazilian families, approaching a subject quite rare in contemporary audiovisual productions. The movie ponders upon a typically Brazilian situation in which affective bonds are genuine but incapable of dissolving layers of oppression — echoing some aspects of our historical past, namely the period of black slavery. With a subjective narration, the film

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In 2008 and 2009 two Mika Kaurismäki films premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival: The award winning THREE WISE MEN (2008) and the box-office hit THE HOUSE OF BRANCHING LOVE (2009).

incorporates photographs, domestic footage and newspaper adds from the 20th century, as well as contemporary images of nannies and children shot in the beaches and parks of Rio de Janeiro.

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Out in the Silence

USA | 2010 | 65 minutes | PG13 Director: Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer Awards: Eight international awards Print source: Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer

Our School

Romania, Switzerland, USA | 2011 | 93 minutes | PG Director: Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma Awards: Sterling Award, Silverdocs Documentary Festival Print source: East Silver Nearly 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education declared that school segregation was unconstitutional, the U.S. still struggles with the goal of achieving true equality in education. Given that we still haven’t figured it out, it’s impossible to have anything other than mixed feelings when watching Mona Nicoara’s Our School, a documentary about Romania’s, and specifically the town of Targu Lapus’, efforts at integrating Roma (Gypsy) children into schools with Romanian children.

On the one hand, it’s shocking that we’ve had desegregated schools for so long, when in Romania there is still a prevalent attitude that Roma children belong in separate facilities. The language that is used in the film to describe the Roma children echoes the worst arguments against desegregation.

Whether it’s the town mayor saying that if Roma children aren’t in school they’ll simply find ways to steal things or the teacher who insists that Roma children have “violence in their blood,” it feels like we’re revisiting the era of opposition and anxiety towards civil rights in our own nation.

The film’s narrative centres primarily on three children: Dana, Beni and Alin. Starting in 2006, after Romania was granted European funds to assist with integration of its schools, the children are admitted to the previously all-Romanian school in the centre of Targu Lapus. Traveling four miles from their all-Roma neighbourhood to the school, the children wake early to commute on foot or in wagons drawn by horses. The younger children, like Alin, are placed in a class with Romanian students and struggle to catch up, since they’ve had no real prior schooling. Older children, like Beni and Dana, are placed in a separate all-Roma remedial class in an attempt to bring them up to the same levels as their Romanian counterparts.

The students are optimistic, excited and pleased at the outset to be attending school. All profess a genuine anticipation for learning and, it is hoped, making their lives a little better than those of their parents through the power of education. But the bright dreams are soon mired in the reality of teachers who are convinced they can’t learn, classmates that don’t befriend them, and a school director who believes they are a drain on the system. From the main school to a failed attempt at simply building them a better segregated school to a final remedy that involves placing them in the town’s “School for Deficiencies,” the children are continually cheated of their promised educations and ultimately pushed aside much as they were before.

While the initial reaction is to be horrified at the failure of the Romanian system to make good on its promises of integration for the Roma children, it’s impossible to finish the film and escape the parallels to our own society -- we’ve been at this for half a century and still haven’t figured out how to resolve the gross inequalities in our school system, after all. One has to wonder, watching the Roma children who struggle to escape a bad neighbourhood and stereotypes that portray them as future criminals, just how far we’ve come -- and whether any society can truly progress beyond its ugliest stereotypes and achieve equal opportunities for its children.

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A gray winter sky hangs over lonely city streets, rusted oil derricks, and falling-down factories. Welcome to Oil City, Pa., a fading industrial town in the heart of the American rustbelt. Oil City is the type of town that President Obama had in mind when he made his now infamous comments about bitter small town residents clinging to their religion and prejudices. Oil City is ignited by a firestorm of controversy when Joe Wilson, filmmaker and Oil City native, announces his same-sex marriage in the local newspaper.

The announcement catches the attention of Kathy Springer, a local woman whose gay teenage son, C.J., is being brutally abused at school. With nowhere else to turn, Springer seeks help from Wilson—the only openly gay person she knows from the town.

With camera in hand, Wilson and his partner, Dean Hamer, return to Oil City to engage with traditional values activists, conservative politicians, local leadership, and townsfolk. They confront school authorities, follow the trials and tribulations of a grassroots effort to promote diversity and tolerance, and form an unlikely and transformative friendship with an Evangelical preacher. Out in the Silence takes viewers on a very personal journey through rural America as the battle over gay visibility and equality unfolds over a three-year period. The film portrays, with emotion and candour from all sides, the on-going struggle for justice and equality in rural communities across America, and it depicts the change that is possible when people search for what they have in common rather than what sets them apart. One of the highlights of the festival!

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Pearls on the Ocean Floor

USA | 2012 | 77 minutes | PG Director: Robert Adanto Print source: Robert Adanto

Robert Adanto’s new documentary Pearls on the Ocean Floor features interviews with some of the most highly regarded Iranian female artists living and working in and outside the Islamic Republic, including Shadi Ghadirian, Shirin Neshat, Parastou Forouhar, Haleh Anvari, Sara Rahbar, Leila Pazooki, Afshan Ketabchi, Malekeh Nayiny, Bahar Sabzevari, Afsoon, Gohar Dashti, and Negar Ahkami. Facing issues of identity, gender and social restrictions, the artists featured in Pearls on the Ocean Floor speak with a compelling quiet reserve and a striking boldness. Their work reveals encounters between religion and secular modernity, change and tradition, contemporary life and history. These brave women know now more than ever that their voices must be heard and their people understood. Through their words and their art, the real Iran will be discovered and this important historical moment has been documented.

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The ground in Paraguay is perfect for the cultivation of soy. In recent years, countless acres of forest have been chopped down to make room for the growing of this protein-rich bean. The land of a farmer named Geronimo is now completely surrounded by soy plantations. These are generously sprayed with pesticides - poison that only the genetically modified soy plants are immune to. Unfortunately, the pesticides spread farther than the boundaries of the soy fields. So not only is there less and less land for the campesinos, or local farmers like Geronimo, but it also becomes impossible for them to cultivate healthy crops themselves. In Raising Resistance, Bettina Borgfeld and David Bernet capture the campesinos as they revolt against the enormous soy business in their country. Led by the ever-friendly Geronimo, they squat a section of farmland, try to stop the spraying of pesticides, and make their voices heard in the media. The filmmakers also give the floor to the large landowners.

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Raising Resistance

Germany, Switzerland | 2011 | 84 minutes | PG Director: Bettina Borgfeld and David Bernet Awards: Prix SRG SSR “Best Swiss Film”, Visions du Reel 2011 Print source: WDR

Salam Rugby

New Zealand/Iran | 2011 | 62 minutes | A Director: Faramarz Beheshti (In Attendance) Print source: Faramarz Beheshti In 2004, the first women rugby class was organized in Tehran. Few months later, Ahmadinejad was elected president of Iran. Over a 7000 km journey, we meet some of the women who are trying to learn this new game, despite the Talibanization programmes, introduced by the new president.

Salam Rugby is not only about rugby.

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Samba Beats

Brazil | 2011 | 83 minutes | PG Director: Bebeto Abrantes (In Attendance) Print Source: Bebeto Abrantes

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Samba Beats shows the evolution and the great rhythmic revolutions of samba in Rio de Janeiro, using as a guide line, percussion instruments.

Essentially musical, the film is led by the samba icon and percussionist Marçalzinho, who participates in samba meetings with big names of the samba, as Monarco, Wilson das Neves, Moacyr Luz, Paulão 7 Cordas and the group Fundo de Quintal.

South Africa | 2011 | 50 minutes | 0-13L Director: Matthew Kalil (In Attendance) Print Source: Matthew Kalil

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With one week to shoot and no budget, anything can happen. Banned by the Stellenbosch University radio station, loathed by the Church and considered out-of-bounds at schools, Porselynnkas, an art movement, nevertheless executed 34 poetry Happenings, distributed 21 volumes of poetry and caused anarchic chaos in the Afrikaans theatre community between 1996 and 1999. Was Porselynnkas a groundbreaking countercultural movement within Afrikaans theatre, like Bitterkomix and Fokofpolisiekar are to art and music? Or was it just an excuse for dyslexic poets, starving actors and dirty musicians to get girls naked? Join Sjaka S. Septembir as he hunts down the old members of this group cream pies them in the face, and explores some serious questions about memory, rebellion and the vigour of youth. Director Matthew Kalil (born 1973 in Table View, a suburb near Cape Town) is a South African director, writer, video artist and very occasional actor. With an MA in Screenwriting from The Northern Film School (Leeds, UK), Matthew has spent the last few years directing and writing independent short films, feature films and television shows, as well as exploring an interest in video art. He has also been lecturing at various institutions including the University of Cape Town, AFDA Film School and TISH at New York University. His projects and collaborations have been exhibited, screened and broadcast in Denmark, Canada, France, New Zealand, America, Thailand, Sweden, Morocco and South Africa. His work often explores themes relating to political and environmental issues, as well as aspects of popular culture and identity in contemporary society.

South Africa | 2011 | 8 minutes | PG13 L Director: Andrea Bennett (In Attendance) Print source: Andrea Bennett

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Sex, Drag and Rock ‘n Roll

Sex, Drag and Rock ‘n Roll is an eye opening documentary that explores the life and times of one of Cape Town’s most entertaining figures – the man behind the drag queen performance artist, “Mary Scary”. Filled with his witty remarks and brutally honest opinions, the subject takes us on a journey into his glitzy world of glitter and performance, where we are able to take an in depth look into the gay community that lies at the heart of Cape Town. The transformation from an everyday man into a confident, extroverted rocker is one back dropped with the colourful, vibrant environment that those who may not have ventured into before can finally get a first-class look at. Providing not only great entertainment, we see how the persona of Mary Scary also aims to promote and instil a very positive message to her audience members, with a “no to fear” attitude, and a self confidence that will inspire audience members long after she leaves the stage… Andrea Bennett is a UCT student majoring in Screen Production.

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directed, produced and edited by her. Having been actively involved in some of the University of Cape Town’s other student productions; she has a passion for directing, with a special interest in editing and sound design.

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TAC: Taking HAART

South Africa | 2011 | 98 minutes | PG Director: Jack Lewis (In Attendance) Print source: Jack Lewis / Community Media Trust Between 1999, the year Thabo Mbeki became President of South Africa and 2010 over two and a half million people died of AIDS. Hundreds of thousands who died could have lived if Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment known as HAART had been made available to them. Treatment was withheld by a combination of high drug prices and government sponsored AIDS denialism. TAC – Taking HAART poses the question of the moral culpability of those responsible. It is a tribute both to those who died and to those who engaged in twelve years of remorseless activism by the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa. TAC – Taking HAART provides a fly on the wall view of how the right to universal access to treatment was won. This inside view has been painstakingly pieced together from thousands of hours of footage gathered by journalists at Community Media Trust, the producers of Beat It, a weekly AIDS television show. The TAC played a critical role in showing how the bill of rights entrenched in the South Africa constitution could be used to win social and economic rights and to change government policy. TAC- Taking HAART reveals the role of a well-educated cadre deeply versed in the issues it confronts leading a movement that not only builds coalitions and uses the courts but is also willing to resort to all levels of action from peaceful protest to civil disobedience to achieve its objectives. The documentary contains never before seen footage which take you inside one of the most extraordinary struggles in post-apartheid South Africa. Director Jack Lewis is the founder and co-Director of Community Media Trust, a Cape Town based non-profit media production company. Jack was politically active from a young age, first as an anti-apartheid activist and then in the struggle for access to treatment for AIDS patients and improving education for young people. He has also been involved in the gay and lesbian movement in South Africa.

Jack’s work has explored using the media to raise awareness of these issues at a mass audience level. As the AIDS epidemic worsened in South Africa he created the pioneering educational television show Siyayinqoba Beat It! specifically for those living with and affected by the virus. He has also produced and directed numerous documentaries including Brothers in Arms and Casa de la Musica and he co-directed (with John Greyson) the feature film Proteus.

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Taliya.Date.com

Israel | 2011 | 54 minutes | PG Director: Taliya Finkel (In Attendance) Print source: Taliya Finkel Taliya.Date.Com is a creative documentary that tells the story of Taliya Finkel’s quest for finding love in the estranged world of Internet dating.

This quest is based on a mouse, a keyboard and Photoshop tricks.

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After every date, Taliya writes a “documentary poem”. She easily transforms what most singles consider as distress into poetry and cinema. In this comictragic voyage with the guidance of her flat-mate Oded (extravagantly & cynically gay), she wanders from hope to humiliation and a few shabby Tel Aviv apartments. In addition, she drinks 45 cups of coffee (mostly soy latte) and gets involved with a few men and a single Husky puppy. This movie portrays the bizarre, as well as normal, aspects of internet dating that are well known to every single person who plays the romantic internet game in order to snatch the ultimate prize: True Love. The movie may, at first glance, seem like a romantic comedy. Still, it also contains a feminist message and uses an unusual combination of methods such as documentation, poetry and acting; as may be expected of a film that describes the modern, yet chaotic, world of Internet dating.

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The Dawn of a New Day

South Africa | 2011 | 60 minutes | PG Director: Ryley Grunenwald (In Attendance) Awards: Six International Awards Print source: Paolo Barberi A South African plastic surgeon, Dr. Tertius Venter, wants to leave his private practice to join a hospital ship providing free surgeries in Benin, West Africa - but at a personal cost his wife Trudi may not be willing to pay. She cannot bear the thought of only seeing her husband 3 months a year. Tertius must wrestle between being with the woman he has always loved and his destiny. Meanwhile a mischievous and charming ten-yearold, Hyacinthe, not only needs specialised surgery but a chance to see his mother for the first time in years.

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The Cradock Four

South Africa | 2010 | 92 minutes | PG13 V Director: David Forbes (In Attendance) Awards: Best SA Documentary Award (DIFF); Nominated for Amnesty International Human Rights Award (DIFF) Print source: David Forbes Matthew Goniwe was a popular schoolteacher in a small South African town. His inspirational community leadership in resisting Apartheid led the government to secretly order his “permanent removal from society” in 1985. As the region “went up in flames” a police death squad abducted Matthew with three colleagues and brutally murdered them in one of Apartheid’s murkiest episodes. This is their story. Within five years of their assassination, Nelson Mandela would walk free to lead the country to liberation. Despite being refused amnesty by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, the killers still walk free.

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DOCUMENTARIES

The Queen has no crown

The Well: Water Voices From Ethiopia

Israel | 2011 | 85 minutes | PG13 M Director: Tomer Heymann Print source: Heymann Brothers Films

Italy/Ethiopia | 2010 | 56 minutes | PG Director: Paolo Barberi, Riccardo Russo Print source: Paolo Barberi

The queen has no crown is Tomer Heymann’s poignant meditation on family, loss, and the mental maps of homelessness. The film navigates the intimate lives of 5 brothers and their mother, as they experience the pains of exile and the joys of familybonding. Three of the Heymann sons take their families and leave Israel, one after the other, for “better” lives in America.

They fulfil their dreams, but shatter those of their mother. A divorcee, she is left alone in Israel with her two bachelor sons—one straight, and the other, Tomer, gay. Exploring the politics of belonging, displacement, and sexuality, the film examines the hard decisions one family has to make, andthe intractable bonds that unite them in the face of difficult life choices. Throughout, Tomer frames this quest in terms of its greater social and political significance: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tensions between Israel’s Arabs and Jews, its secular and ultraorthodox citizens, and the struggle for gay/human rights. Tomer, combining 8 and 16mm footage with his own work of a decade, shows how the strength of the Heymann family depends on forces greater than the nuclear family itself. The result, The queen has no crown is a powerful and intimate portrait of one man, his family, and the world surrounding them. Not to be missed!

This is the Horn of Africa, a region of the world that is periodically shocked by a terrible drought. Here, each year, in the dry Oromia lowlands (South of Ethiopia), when the drought is coming the Borana herders gather with their livestock, after days and days of walk, around their ancient “singing” wells. With its strong photography and its epic narration, the film follows their life during a whole dry season, showing a unique traditional water management system that allows the management of the little available water as the property and right of everyone, without any money being exchanged. Riccardo Russo, 1974, is an Italian independent filmmaker working in the field of social documentary production. With a PhD in Human Geography and a specialization in Audiovisuals for Human Rights, he founded in 2004 the Esplorare la Metropoli Researchers and Filmmakers Association together with Paolo Barberi, co- director with him of the documentary film The Well, Water voices from Ethiopia. During the last years he realised several publications and documentary films on socioenvironmental themes and human rights, in Europe, South America, Africa and Oceania.

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Cine International Film Festival; Spirit of Place Award – Best Use of Traditional Music - Orlando Latin-American Film & Heritage Festival; Spirit of Place Award – Best Cultural Awareness Message - Orlando LatinAmerican Film & Heritage Festival; Spirit of Place Award – Best Human Rights Message - Orlando Latin-American Film & Heritage Festival Print source: Aaron Hosé

Tropical Amsterdam

Germany | 2011 | 52 minutes | PG Director: Alexa Oona Schulz (In Attendance) Print source: Alexa Oona Schulz Colonialism marks the beginning of globalization, and this documentary is a humorous yet critical exploration of ideas around migration, identity, and diversity. Tropical Amsterdam tells the story of a Dutch tribe left behind by colonialism in Sri Lanka and at the verge of extinction. Framed and guided

by Christmas celebrations that have been kept up by the Christian Dutch Burgher community in Buddhist Sri Lanka (Ceylon) for over 350 years, we delve into the lives of several older Burghers who grew up during colonial times in Ceylon, and later as adults, in the now independent state of Sri Lanka, were forced to come to terms with a very different reality. The film is a window into colonial life and how it played out after the white colonizers lost their power. It centers on the question of identity and investigates the paradoxes and contradictions within the community itself. Director Alexa Oona Schulz was born and raised in Germany and educated at film school in Barcelona, at NYU, Tisch School and at EICTV in Cuba. Her award winning feature-length début documentary Weekend Warriors, was theatrically released in Germany in 2006. Further credits include documentaries for German TV broadcasters ARTE, VOX and ARD, as well as fiction screenplays for ZDF. Alexa currently devotes part of her time to the production of promotional and educational films for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the other part to the development of her next documentary about art and sport.

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Voices in the clouds

Taiwan/USA | 2011 | 77 minutes | PG Director: Aaron Hosé Awards: Best of Category – Indigenous & Native Peoples Film – Montana

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Voices in the Clouds is an intimate exploration of an Asian-American man’s quest to understand his heritage. At the heart of the film lies the celebration of family and cultural preservation. Tony Coolidge was born to a Taiwanese mother and an American father he has yet to meet. Living in America, his mother always dreamed of taking her family back to Taiwan to meet their relatives. However, she loses her life prematurely to cancer. With his mother gone, Tony reunites with his relatives in Taiwan, only to discover that he and his family are descendants of a tribal culture named Atayal. The Atayal—and other tribal cultures on the island—are in danger of vanishing forever. In the process of delving deeper into the history of the Atayal, Tony gradually transforms into a passionate advocate for his people. Seeking deeper connections to his roots, Tony returns to Taiwan, and brings along his brother Steve and wife Shu-min. Encountering new tribes in Taiwan brings greater purpose to Tony’s inspiring journey. Each discovery for him, his brother and wife, opens a new window into the history, struggle, and unique beauty of Taiwan’s indigenous people.

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War Matador

Israel | 2011 | 70 minutes | PG13 Director: Avner Faingulernt, Macabit Abramson (In Attendance) Print source: J.M.T Films In January 2009, during the war in Gaza, two courageous Israeli directors grabbed their cameras to shoot material along the common border. The bombs are filmed from a distance, out of focus and at extreme focal length – the tourists’ point of view. The impact of the bombs in the distance is muffled, which is why the visual opposition between close up/long shot draws the attention to the spoken words, which are blunt, without compassion. The result of their journey is a disturbing essay about war and tourism, an absurd, surreal journey.

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SHORT FILMS One of the jewels of this year’s festival! In 1994 Roberto Baggio left for the United States to participate in the World Cup. He led his national team to the final match and a penalty stood in his way to make history, yet he didn’t know that Youssef had to wait for 40 days to switch on his TV and watch the match. Ahmed Abdelaziz graduated from the High Institute of Cinema of Egypt as part of the directing class of 2011. He directed a short documentary film called The wizard. He also worked as an assistant director on many feature films. 41 Days is his first short feature film.

1937

Russia | 2011 | 18 minutes | PG13 Director: Svetozar Golovlev (In Attendance) Language: Russian, with English subtitles Print source: Ivan Lopatin 1937. A young couple is going to a village somewhere outside Moscow to baptize their child secretly. They see a train with convicts passing by the station they just arrived at. Suddenly a letter falls out of one of the cars.

The main characters understand that it is a letter home. The follow-up boils down to a painful struggle between their conscience and fear. They are well aware that helping the letter reach the addressee will be regarded as collaborationism, for which they may be prosecuted. Director Svetozar Golovlev graduated from VGIK with 1937 as his diploma film.

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5 pounds

United Arab Emirates/Egypt | 2011 | 11 minutes | PG Director: Mohamed Adeeb Cast: Safeya El Emary, Ahmed El Feshawy Language: Arabic, with English subtitles Print source: TWOFOUR 54 Creative Lab

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1000GRAMS

Germany | 2010 | 15 minutes | PG13 Director: Tom Bewilogua Cast: Catrin Striebeck, Guntbert Warns Language: German, with English subtitles Print source: Kinematograph 24/7 1000 Grams: Is the average quantity of fat that gets lipoed to contour the abdominals of a normal weight person. A film about Flesh. Flesh in all of its meanings! A story of two tragically colliding Worlds. Poor and Rich! An unadorned view on the current circumstances and ideals of our reality. A short that makes you fly through society like a ghost. A judging mindset is up to you! Tom Bewilogua was born in 1982 in Germany.

After finishing secondary school in Braunschweig, he went to Hamburg and studied directing at the Medienakademie. Since he has finished the degree“Bachelor of Arts” in 2008, he continued studying with the subject “Visual Communication and Film” in the main category at the University of fine Arts (HfbK) in Hamburg.

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An old woman begins to worry when a mysterious man starts to follow her and corners her in the dark streets of Cairo. What he wants from her can only verge on the unthinkable. Director Mohamed Adeeb fell in love with cinema at the age of three. He always dreamed of being a director and working in Television or Cinema. He graduated from the American University in Cairo in 2009 with a BA degree in Broadcasting. Mohamed now Works in TVision, an Egyptian-based production company that produces series and films for the Arab world.

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41 Days

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Egypt | 2012 | 21 minutes | PG Director: Ahmed Abdelaziz (In Attendance) Cast: Nasr Ahmed, Tharaa Goubil Language: Arabic, with English subtitles Print source: High cinema Institute of Egypt

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A Wonderful Day

Israel | 2011 | 24 minutes | PG Director: Ariel Weisbrod and Yossi Meiri (In Attendance) Cast: Lea Koenig, Ori Yaniv, Elinor Kluger and Dvir Benedeck Language: Hebrew, with subtitles Print source: Ariel Weisbrod Before moving to Germany to become a scholar at a leading university, Shachar plans to propose marriage to his girlfriend. His grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, will stop at nothing to prevent him from going to Germany. Director Ariel Weisbrod is a Graduate of Tel-Aviv University’s (TAU) Bachelor’s program in Film and is currently enrolled in the Master’s program in Film at TAU. His final project for his Bachelor’s Degree was made in collaboration with NANA10, one of Israel’s leading Internet Portals. His short film The Road to Tel Aviv was shown in festivals worldwide and was voted as the crowd’s pick in Bulgaria. His script Holy Land from 2009 was a finalist in a number of screenplay competitions around the world, including the prestigious “Beverly Hills Film Festival”. Yossi Meiri’s recent production,

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Print source: Rohit Gupta Rohit Gupta, based in the US, originally from Mumbai, India, entered the film world with no prior film experience, in late 2008. He is the founder/CEO of RNG Films and Dot and Feather Entertainment, two US based production companies. Although Rohit had no previous experience in filmmaking, he is now honoured to be amongst the very few to have earned 58 international accolades and awards (as of June 2011) in 2 years. The talented director’s first 5-minute film, Another Day Another Life is one man’s tryst with his destiny in these tumultuous economic times. For a young man, his job, his investments, his dwelling and most importantly his love are what keep him going until the day he loses all of them. His rage and yearning to salvage his love are so conflicted that he reacts in the most unconventional fashion.

But, what if that conflict itself rescues him from the brink of disaster?

Another Day Another Life has received 33 international accolades and awards to date,including selection at the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Ambitious

Russia | 2011 | 21 minutes | PG Director: Aynur Askorov Language: Russian, with English subtitles Print source: Ivan Lopatin The main event in this village is a weekly film show at the local recreation centre. The main character is a passionate fan of Indian films. But it’s not that easy to get through to the screening of your favourite film.

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At home on Earth

South Africa | 2010 | 23 minutes | PG Director: Simon Antonelli (In Attendance) Cast: Riaz Solker Language: English Print source: CityVarsity Waking up to find himself the last person on earth, Jeromey seeks contact with another earth floating above his own.

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Anima Sola

South Africa | 2011 | 45 minutes | PG13 Director: Michel Dujardin (In Attendance) Language: English Print source: Michel Dujardin The film tells the story of a young actress, Claire, and how far she is ready to go to ignore a hurtful reality.As her relationship is coming to an end, she starts drawing her life according to a theatre play. Using fiction as a role model for the way her life should be, believing to be the main characters of a meaningful story. Ultimately, she is a very lonely character, lonely in her own reality. Her final goal will be letting go of her golden cage and her broken down relationship.

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Another day another life

USA | 2010 | 5 minutes | PG Director: Rohit Gupta Cast: Benjamin Jacobs, Amneek Sandhu Language: English Awards: 33 international awards

Battlefield

(Campo de Batalla) Spain | 2010 | 13 minutes | 0-13 V Director: Fran Casanova Cast: Jaime Menendez Language: Spanish, with English subtitles Awards: First place in the I Spanish Civil War Short Film Festival (Abánades, 2011); First place in the V International Short Film Festival Olavarría FICO (Argentina, 2011); First place in the 29th Navás Short Film Festival (Barcelona, 2010); Special Jury Prize at the 16th “Ciudad de Valls” Short Film Festival (Tarragona, 2010) Print source: Fran Casanova Antonio, a young Republican soldier, is nestled next to the rest of his partners in the assault on a National side trench during the Spanish Civil War. In the midst of this terrible conflict, he notices the presence of a child lost and scared. He decides to help him separating himself from the squad and get into a National side underground headquarters. At that moment, he begins a mysterious game in which Antonio tries to catch up with the child into the labyrinthine place. Fran Casanova was born on November 11, 1977 in Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife,Canary Islands, Spain). His films have won numerous international awards.

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cinematography and editing credits include seven short films, which were screened in such festivals as the Cannes Film Festival (2006), Locarno Film Festival (2007), Moscow Film Festival (2007) and Montreal World Film Festival (2010). He recently won the Best Cinematography award at the European Independent Film Festival (2011) for Lavan (which he also produced). He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (hon.) as well as a Bachelor of Science from Tel Aviv University (TAU). He is currently enrolled in the Master’s program in Film at TAU. He also works as a director, producer, lighting designer and VFX artist.

I grow up having my life controlled by my parents. My passive life that’s guided by my parents actions. I roll along with my fathers’s roll of the dice & in my mother’s clutches. How long can this go on? I’ve finally made the decision to cut myself loose.

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Before the rain

Italy | 2011 | 19 minutes | PG Director: Nicola Sorcinelli Cast: Andrea Bosca Language: Italian, with English subtitles Print source: Nicola Sorcinelli The journey of Marco in this story begins with an encounter with achild stranger. The setting of a terrible piece of news weaves a story of silences and unexplainable events leading Marco to a discovery that will forever change his life. Director Nicola Sorcinelli was born in Cattolica, Italy on the 26th of January, 1987. He lived in the small village of San Costanzo (PU). The director began his artistic journey during childhood between the school desks together with several friends with his first experimental short films, utilizing only the means available to him: a large camera nearby his home. So began a long series of works with his school classmates and other friends from his childhood. He won his first awards at the age of 14 years. Several years later, he began a real collaboration with industry professionals, winning many national and international awards. He worked as an assistant for different directors on various Italian film sets. His most recent projects include Snow Doesn’t Make Noise, as well as the short films, The Little Prince’s Journey and Before the Rain.

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BOKSER

South Africa | 2011 | 12 minutes | PG Director: Mike Charles (In Attendance) Cast: Gregory Kriek, Albert Maritz, Wessel Pretorius, Hannes Otto Language: Afrikaans, with English subtitles With the horrific scenes of South Africa’s border war crashing through his every thought, a once confident young soldier, Willem “Wolfman” Venter (Gregory Kriek), goes AWOL from the 14 SA Infantry Battalion. An exceptional boxer before his conscription, his fractured mind instinctually propels the haunted soldier towards one of the few spaces of serenity he has ever experienced, his old boxing gym run by the endearing father figure of “Coach” Schoeman (Albert Maritz).

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Japan | 2009 | 6 minutes | PG13 Animation Director: Miki Tanaka Language: with English subtitles

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But We Slept

South Africa | 2011 | 7 minutes | PG Director: Samantha Gray (In Attendance) Cast: Peter Gilchrist, Daniel Coetzee, Grant Flynn Language: English Print source: Samantha Gray “The year is 2070. The world as we know it, no longer exists ….who thought it would happen this fast? If only we’d listened.” Our story begins in a world that has suffered the Apocalypse. We meet our protagonists inside a shelter, littered with things collected from a bygone world. We see a Grandfather reading his Grandson a bedtime story. The book is a scrapbook of his memories, which takes us on a transcendent path to a time when life was whole, and through the Grandfather’s eyes, we pose questions about returning to simplicity, and dramatically illustrate the terrifying possibility of the future if we do not effect change now. This however, is not a hopeful story about heroes having the opportunity to save the planet. The world is destroyed, and our characters have to live with it and try to make sense of a world that is decayed. Samantha Gray is an accomplished producer, writer, actor and playwright. She graduated from City Varsity in 2003 where she completed a diploma in Acting for Film and Television and has her Associate Diploma from Trinity College London. Whilst working for Okuhle Media, Samantha previously fulfilled the roles of Content Producer, script writer and presenter performance coach on SABC 2’s daily live tween show Hectic Nine-9, as well as scripting, producing and directing on various other projects.

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Cart Boy/Caretto

Brazil | 2010 | 12 minutes | PG Director: Cláudio Marques and Marília Hughes Language: Portuguese, with English subtitles Awards: 15 International Film Festival Awards Print source: Cláudio Marques Tinho, a 12-year-old boy, provides small services for the community. His work tool is his inseparable wheelbarrow. One day, Tinho meets Stephanie.

Wanting to thank her for a present she gives him, Tinho starts thinking of a plan. Director Marília Hughes was born in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, in 1978, and has been living in Salvador, Brazil, since 1998. She has a degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Bahia, 1996 - 2002. She has a Master’s in Contemporary Culture and Communication from the Federal University of Bahia, 2007 – 2009. Partner at Coisa de Cinema – Cinema e Vídeo where she has been working since 2007 as a director, producer, and editor. She has worked on several award-winning short films. She is also Head Producer of Panorama International Coisa de Cinema since 2007, an international film festival in Salvador. Co-director Cláudio Marques was born in Campinas, São Paulo, in 1970, and has been living in Salvador, Bahia, since 1982. He was editor and film critic in Coisa de Cinema’s newspaper for

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This is Dawn’s 13th short under her Ron de Caña Prods., Inc. banner. Since 2000, she’s made 13 short films in the U.S., Portugal, Spain and France which have won 42 international awards, played in hundreds of venues around the world, and which have been translated into Polish, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, Farsi, Hindi, Spanish, Italian & French.

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Detective savant

Colors

Italy | 2010 | 4 minutes | PG Director: Gianni del Corral Language: No dialogue Awards: 7 International Film Festival Awards Print source: Gianni del Corral David, a child of three years, notice the arrival of children with chocolatecolored skin in his class for the first time. He begins a personal quest to understand the reasons for this difference, and reaches a genius and unexpected solution.

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South Africa/USA | 2011 | 21 minutes | PG Director: Richard van Schalkwyk (In Attendance) Cast: Bill Gillane, Lisa vanderhooft Spurrier, Warren van Schalkwyk, Ken Applegate, Liz Bogges-Hales, Doug Stone, Carie Wilson, Dusti Jones, Michael Solarez, Kami Coleman, Howard Hong Language: English Print source: Richard van Schalkwyk A detective’s father suffers a blow to the head, with surprising results.

Detective Savant is the first completed short movie made by Richard van Schalkwyk. Richard wrote the script, filmed it and edited it. He was born in Natal, South Africa, and attended school in Luipaardsvlei and Krugersdorp.

He recently returned from a 12 year stay in the United States of America.

A year before he left the US he started making music videos. One of his videos has received over 400,000 hits on YouTube. He has two sons living in the US, and a daughter and son in South Africa. Richard and his wife Desiree celebrated their 43 wedding anniversary this year. Richard was a TV commentator for volleyball in South Africa, and arranged the first professional beach volleyball tournament in South Africa.

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Conviction

South Africa | 2010 | 10 minutes | PG13 V Director: Sydne Japtha, Nadia Dhai (In Attendance) Language: English Print source: Sydne Japtha, Nadia Dhai Conviction follows Hester Ngcobo on her trajectory toward anti-apartheid activism, leading to her capture. Detained, tortured, the thought of her children being alone amongst all the country’s turmoil is what keeps the breath in her body. With a little help from her captor, the film re-examines apartheid relations, casting victims on both sides of the racial divide.

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Covariance

USA | 2011 | 13 minutes | A Director: Dawn Westlake (In Attendance) Cast: David Razowsky & Dawn Westlake Language: English Print source: Dawn Westlake Russell and Genevieve fall in love with each other at the racetrack, but their circuitous journey leads them further and further from home.

Dirty Laundry

South Africa | 2010 | 16 minutes | 0-13 L Director: Stephen Abbott (In Attendance) Cast: Bryan van Niekerk, James Ngcobo Language: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, with English subtitles Awards: ReelWorld Film Festival - Outstanding International Short Film 2011; Durban International Film Festival - Best South African Short Film 2011; Durban International Film Festival - Best Short Film 2011 Print source: Stephen Abbott Itʼs 1:08 AM and Roger is doing his laundry at The Wishy Washy. For Roger this is merely routine, but tonight thereʼs something strange in the laundromatʼs water. Before the night is out Roger will be abused by a middle-aged philandering businessman, subjected to severe scrotal attack by a short angry man, mistaken for a B-grade spy in a bathrobe, severely beaten, and finally scowled at by amorous teenagers. And all Roger wanted was a 40-degree rinse and a mild spin cycle.

Stephen Abbott is a writer, director, photographer and editor. He likes travel, coffee, stories, mountains, movies, music, and some other things.

He studied acting and film at Wits University, graduating in 2004. Since then he has been engaged in the South African film and television industry as a writer, director and editor. In 2005 Stephen co-launched a small film, television and video production company named Stealth Donkey Moving Pictures.

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eight years (1995-2003). He has been a film critic collaborator from A Tarde newspaper since 2005. Cláudio was responsible for film programming for the Walter da Silveira theatre (2007-2009); he has been responsible as the main coordinator for film programing in the Espaço Unibanco de Cinema – Glauber Rocha film complex since 2009.He is also the founder and the Head Producer of Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema since 2003, an international film festival in Salvador.

of 2010. They had a strong involvement in the film ‘Henley-on-Klip’ (2010), as assistant editor, camera man and special effects. They are both working as editors at a large production house in Johannesburg and recently started their own production company, Kilroy Was Here! Productions, working on a couple of visual poem adaptations.

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Dulce/Sweet

Spain | 2011 | 11 minutes | PG Director: Iván Ruiz Flores Cast: Pedro Peña, Fely Manzano, Miriam Martín, Santiago Díaz Language: Spanish, with English subtitles Awards: 26 international awards Print source: Iván Ruiz Flores Sweet is a fable about falling in love. Eighty-year-old grandparents Lily and William suffer from this temporary sickness, as do Adrian and Laura, who barely are ten-year-old grandparents. The elderly’s memories and the youngsters’ imagination are revived during dinner and with a game.

In Sweet, each word obtains imperious meaning and the greatest feelings are transformed into little gestures. Director Iván Ruiz Flores graduated in Journalism, at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2002). He expanded his studies with courses on screenwriting, direction and production at several schools in Madrid. In 2008 he created the company AniuR Creativos Audiovisuales (www.aniur.es) aimed to produce his own, independent and quality audiovisual works with a tangible identity.

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Dutch Darkness

Grandma must get dry

Italy | 2010 | 14 minutes | PG Director: Alfredo Covelli Cast: Emanuele Salce Language: Italian, with English subtitles Print source: Alfredo Covelli

An old lady, who owns a big wine factory and fought the Nazis in North Italy dies. Her sons come back home to read the testament, but find bad news: a piece of paper handwritten in 1943 in which the mother leaves everything to the village people. There’s only one way to get the heritage: trying to find the key of a Swiss deposit box that could be anywhere. In a mad search for the treasure, the sons end up destroying their birthplace. Just little Giulio, the lady’s grandson, who sincerely loved his grandma, will be able to find the real legacy the old lady is leaving to the future.

Born in 1979, he studies acting and starts working as an assistant director in cinema and television productions, and as second unit director for television programs. In 2003 he participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus with this short film Sun - A tribute to Gregory Corso. As a screenwriter he is developing new projects for Italian production companies, and as a director he is working on his first feature.

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Ireland | 2010 | 5 minutes | PG Director: Steve Woods Print source: Steve Woods An experimental film, which attempts to upset the placid and perfect setting which Dutch painting sought to achieve. It reveals the dark secret behind the Dutch Golden era.

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Help

India | 2011 | 11 minutes | PG13 M Director: R. Pandiarajan Language: English Print source: R. Pandiarajan

Giant Tin Can

South Africa | 2011 | 3 minutes | PG Director: Gideon Breytenbach & Charl Naudé (In Attendance) Animation: Print source: Gideon Breytenbach & Charl Naudé A visual manifestation of the poem ‘Giant Tin Can’ by AE Ballakisten.

A giant tin can is used by communities to store up all their hopes, however the giant tin can does not survive. Gideon Breytenbach and Charl Naudé both finished their Honours degree in Audio Visual Production, cum laude, at the University of Johannesburg. Gideon received the internal Flare Awards for best 3rd year and honours Editor. Charl received best 3rd year and honours director, art director, best student and best project at the 2009 and 2010 Flare Awards. They also had 4 of the top 5 honours projects

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This is about an ordeal of a mother who seeks help from the Law. An anxious lady passenger waits for her baggage at the Intl Airport Baggage Collection Conveyor Belt which generally comes after preliminary x-ray scanning for objectionable /banned items. The baggage containing banned items are marked immediately after the x-ray scanning by the customs for final check till the passenger declares about the content. The worried middle aged lady wipes out the chalk mark without being noticed by the officials at the airport. However she has been intercepted and taken to the cabin along with her baggage for examination. Director R. Pandiarajan started his profession in 1985 with his debut feature film in Tamil titled Kanni Rasi which ran for more than 100 days followed by his second directorial feature film Aanpavam which ran for more than 200 days. Till now he has directed 8 feature films and four short films including the latest short film Help in 2011. Till now he has acted in more than 100 feature films and scored music for his film Nethiyadi.

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Poland | 2011 | 12 minutes | 0-13 V Director: Bartosz Kruhlik (In Attendance) Cast: Karol Puciaty, Marcin Podgorski,Bartlomiej Błaszczynski, Piotr Piantoni Awards: 10 International Awards Language: Polish, with English subtitles Print source: The Polish National Film, Television and Theater School, Lodz 12-year old Michal wants to join his elder brother’s group. The brother and his pals take Michal to the woods. They record everything with a amateurish camcorder. Director Bartosz Kruhlik was born in 1985 in Lubsko (Poland). He finished Secondary Art School in Zielona Gora and Film College in Wroclaw.

Now he is study in PWSFTViT in Lodz in the Directing Department. His first documentary film Tomorrow… received nearly 40 awards.

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Human nature

Iberiana

Portugal/Georgia | 2011 | 13 minutes | PG Director: Filipe Araújo Language: Portuguese, with English subtitles Print source: Filipe Araújo Entirely filmed in Georgia, Iberiana is a short film where fictional narrative borders documentary and performance while adopting a thesis that dates back to Ancient Greece. Because some still believe the Iberian Peninsula had its genesis in the Caucasus, a basque painter tries to find its roots traveling through the other Iberia: the oriental one.Currently based in between Lisbon and Madrid, Filipe Araújo (Born 29/01/1977) is a Portuguese filmmaker, independent producer and freelance journalist. Late in 2005, he launched the production company Blablabla Media with the journalist, author and scriptwriter João Lopes Marques. From his filmography of documentaries, fiction and series, he counts already two first prices, having participate in dozens of festival’s official selections worldwide. His work is now known in 15 different countries in four continents.

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USA | 2010 | 3 minutes | A Director: Nassos Vakalis Language: No Dialogue Print source: Nassos Vakalis A lovely short animation film! An uptight elephant is enjoying a scenic train ride reading a book alone in his compartment. Soon the door opens and a happy go lucky, goofy and free-spirited bear chooses to take a seat across from the elephant and disturbs his peaceful solitude. This is war. Would the elephant tolerate this uninvited guest who seems to have the worst manners and shows little respect for anything? How long will it take for these two to get on each other’s nerves and prove that “human nature” prevails even in the animal kingdom?

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Kengere

Uganda | 2010 | 22 minutes | PG Director: Peter Tukei Muhumuza (In Attendance) Awards: International award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Print source: Peter Tukei Muhumuza Experimental, political puppet animation is a remarkable exception in African cinema. Made with patience and barely contained rage. This story, innovatively told using puppets, relates an event whereby soldiers locked 69 people in a train and set fire to it. Later on, a cyclist returns to his village to look for a cassette tape that contains the voices of the victims.

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I regret

Russia | 2011 | 15 minutes | PG Director: Tatiana Ishina (In Attendance) Language: Russian, with English subtitles Print source: Ivan Lopatin I Regret is a drama about complicated relationship of a mother and a daughter. The daughter returned home only after the dad’s death, and for the first time had a frank conversation with her mother. Director Ishina graduated from the Korneichuk Kiev University as director of theatre (1992). She staged several performances at the Russian Drama Theatre of the Soviet Army in the Prikarpatsky military district and worked as sound producer and assistant director in the Moscow Theatre Lyceum “Tsaritsyno”.

Kinetics

South Africa | 2010 | 18 minutes | PG13 V Director: Michel Dujardin Language: English Print source: CityVarsity

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SHORT FILMS

She graduated from the School on Cinema and TV “Internews” (2003, class of V. Khotinenko). Since 2004 she has been an assistant director for actors and a second director at Lenfilm.

The journey to redemption of a hit man, who turns against his contractor to save the life of a child and his mother, whom he was supposed to kill.

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cinema at the University of RomaTre. In 2007 he wrote, produced and directed his first short film, THE OTHER, with the young group production FORME DI VITA PRODUZIONI. This short film, which deals with the serious problem of xenophobia, won many national and international awards.

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Lebende Tote

Germany | 2011 | 15 minutes | PG Director: Anil Kizilbuga (In Attendance) Cast: Marc Benjamin, Markus Wentlandt, Maximilian Stangl, Genevieve Boehmer, Peter Bosch, Marc-Philipp Kochendörfer Language: German, with English subtitles Print source: Medienakademie How far would you go to fulfil your dream? The young half German half Turk, Jimmy, decides to no longer accept what life throws his way, but to rather take is fate into his own hands: Jimmy wants to rob a bank with his two best friends in order to offer his pregnant girlfriend a better life in Kusadasi. He wants to know that he did everything in his power to offer the love of his life and their unborn child a good life. What Jimmy doesn’t know is that his friend Vince is confronted with the same question and will make an undesirable decision. Anil Kizilbuga, born on the 25th of February in 1987, started filmmaking at the age of 16. He developed his skills over the years by writing and directing his own short movies. Since 2009 he’s studying film (B.A.) at the “medienakademie” in the Bavaria Filmstudios in Munich. In addition to his study he is a fashion photographer and director of Image Videos for Fashion Designer based around Munich.

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Miyuki’s Windbell

Japan | 2010 | 20 minutes | PG13 Director: Ken Ochiai Cast: Erina Mano, Takuya Ishida, and Teruko Hanahara Language: Japanese, with English subtitles Against her will, Miyuki must leave Tokyo and take her two young halfbrothers to the country home of their quirky grandmother. After they arrive, she learns that she had to leave her home in order to find it.

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My Tired Father

Bulgaria | 2011 | 14 minutes | PG Director: Maya Vitkova Cast: Daria Vitkova Language: English subtitles Print source: Maya Vitkova

Les Barbares/The Barbarians

France | 2010 | 5 minutes | PG Director: Jean-Gabriel Periot Print source: Sacrebleu Productions We are scum! We are barbarians!

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Eight year-old Daria thinks she hears a mouse in the middle of the night.

But when she wakes up her father for help, bigger family problems come to light. Maya Vitkova is a writer/director and producer who,was born in Sofia in 1978. She graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts with MA in film directing in 2001. Until 2006 Maya has worked as an assistant director and casting director for over 20 Bulgarian and International productions.

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Near Life

Massimo

Italy | 2011 | 13 minutes | PG Director: Ciro D’Emilio Cast: Tammaro Ruggiero; Ardalan Nabavinejad Language: Italian and Persian, with English subtitles Print source: Ciro D’Emilio Massimo, a soldier on a mission, lives first-hand experience of the conflict in the Middle East. Ciro D’Emilio (28 September 1986) was born in Pompeii.

After he had finished high school, he moved to Rome where he studied

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South Africa | 2010 | 21 minutes | PG Director: Michel Dujardin (In Attendance) Cast: Armand Aucamp Language: English Print source: CityVarsity A young funeral home employee fights solitude by bringing back the dead in his imagination.

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Night visit

One Spring

Poland | 2011 | 24 minutes | PG Director: Piotr Chrzan (In Attendance) Cast: Jarosław Gajewski, Łucja Żarnecka, Mateusz Rusin Language: Polish, with English subtitles Print source: Piotr Chrzan

Brazil | 2011 | 15 minutes | PG Director: Gabriela Amaral Almeida Cast: Lúcia Romano, Natália Paz Parnes Language: Portuguese, with English subtitles Print source: Gabriela Amaral Almeida

During a freezing winter night, a young man rings a doorbell of a countryside doctor’s house and delivers a message from his mother that her husband has been feeling unwell. When the doctor arrives, he’s welcomed by her into the kitchen. It is apparent that she wants to postpone the medical examination. When the doctor enters the patient’s bedroom he realises that old man has been dead for a few hours. Piotr Chrzan graduated from Andrzej Wajda’s Master Film School and has won numerous awards for his work.

At Lara’s 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park.

Everything goes well until the girl disappears. The Brazilian filmmaker Gabriela Amaral Almeida studied filmmaking at Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV), in Cuba, with specialty in screenwriting. One Spring is her third film as director. With cinematographer Matheus Rocha she codirected Castaways and The Minor Circumstance.

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Open Doors

Normal People

Poland | 2011 | 24 minutes | PG Director: Piotr Zlotorowicz (In Attendance) Cast: Piotr Glowacki, Ewa Szykulska Language: Polish, with English subtitles Print source: Polish National Film School George Orwell’s words “sanity is not statistical” fully reflect the idea of the film. Daniel, who has just been released from prison, is trying to make a new life for himself. It is not easy – he must take care of his alcoholic mother and find a job.

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India | 2010 | 15 minutes | PG13 Director: Ashish Pandey Awards: Grand Prix (Best Film) - 5th Srebrena Traka, Bosnia; Special Jury mention: 15th Thai short film & Video festival; Special Jury mention: 4th International Doc & Short film fest, Kerela Language: Hindi, with English subtitles Print source: Ashish Pandey Images from the past help ‘Tara’ cope with her present, which is devoid of any contact with the outer world. But for how long can this self-deception keep the body and soul together? Director Ashish Pandey is a graduate from the reputed Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, India. In 2007, he made his directorial debut with an independent short film The Cabin Man. The film was selected at 15 International film festivals, won 5 awards and was exhibited at Centre Pompidou this June.

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Ordinary Life

South Africa | 2010 | 22 minutes | PG Director: Colin Pegon (In Attendance) Language: English Print source: CityVarsity

On the way to a villa

Iran | 2010 | 22 minutes | PG Director: Monir Gheidi (In Attendance) Cast: Gohar Kheirandish, Azadeh Esmaeil Khani Language: Persian, with English subtitles Print source: Monir Gheidi

A man leading a boring and monotonous life finds himself in possession of a lost bag of MiniDV tapes. Curious, he sets off in search of the right owner by viewing the tapes one by one…

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The film is the story about a mother and daughter in conflict with each other. They travel to the north of Iran and something happens that changes everything.

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and writing out his story to reconstruct his memories and find closure. PRO PATRIA is written and directed by Matt Raubenheimer - a young filmmaker with a passion for telling stories set in a historical context, especially when those stories are outside the common history taught in school classrooms.

The stories of the young men who fought in the border war appeal to him primarily because it is an almost forgotten, unpopular piece of South African history. Yet army service was a major part of the lives of most white males of that generation.

Pimento

(Pepper) Brazil | 2010 | 13 minutes | A Director: Eduardo Mattos Cast: Sandra Corveloni, Gustavo Mattos, Eduardo Melo, Ricardo Bittencourt, Rogério Brito, Júlia Paladino Lobo Awards: 10ª Mostra de Cinema Infantil de Florianópolis – Honorable Mention; 34º Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo – Public’s Choice Award Language: Portuguese, with English subtitles Print source: Eduardo Mattos In the heart of Bahia. 60’s. If it wasn’t for the bottle of peppers that his father got as a gift, it would’ve been just another afternoon for Zeca. It was beautiful, but very dangerous. He had to get rid of it.

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Planet Z

France | 2011 | 10 minutes | PG Director: Momoko Seto Print source: Sacrebleu Productions Somewhere…Planet Z. Vegetation is peacefully taking root on the planet and everything seems to live in harmony. But a sticky mushroom starts taking over the place…

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Prunelle and Melodie

France | 2010 | 32 minutes | PG13 Director: Simonet Mathieu Cast: Julie Voisin, Maud Forget Awards: First Price Films of 30 mns & more - Festival of Nations, Ebensee Poland; Public Award - Les Herault du Cinema, Cap d’Agde - France Language: French, with English subtitles Print source: Simonet Mathieu Prunelle is blind, Melodie deaf and mute. These two women become friends in an education centre, which is meant to facilitate their adaption to daily life. Having created a system which permits them to communicate with each other, one day they share a common dream: to join a world where their handicap is no longer one. Determined to live this beautiful escape, they must tap into their ingenuity to realize their dream. Director Mathieu Simonet directed his first shortfilm Le Carnet Rouge (The Red Notebook) in 2004. The story is an adaptation from the eponymous novel written by Paul Auster. Prunelle et Mélodie (Prunelle and Melodie) is his second short film.

He also wrote the screenplay. Graduated in cinema at la Nouvelle Sorbonne University in 1995, Mathieu Simonet followed after a dramatic art school.

He started to work as an actor when he was 23. Claude Chabrol is the first director to hire him in a feature, with Isabelle Huppert: Merci pour le chocolat (Nightcap). Three years later, Rachid Bouchareb purposed to him to play a sergeant in Indigènes (Days of glory). The film has been greeted with enthusiasm in Cannes Film Festival. Aside, Mathieu has a passion for photography since his 17 years old. After several works in black and white about human people, Jacques Perrin gave to him the opportunity to cover as still photographer the shooting of Le Peuple Migrateur (The winged migration). They worked again together on the recent wildlife documentary Oceans, acclaimed worldwide.

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Pro Patria

South Africa | 2011 | 13 minutes | PG13 V Director: Matt Raubenheimer (In Attendance) Cast: James MacGregor, Mathew Lewis Language: English Print source: Matt Raubenheimer For young white South African men who matriculated in the 1970s and 1980s, conscription was almost a fact of life. For Private Miller (James MacGregor), it was an obstacle to be overcome – an unpleasant hurdle to be cleared before he could get on with his life. While on service in Angola, he and another soldier, Private Vorster (Mathew Lewis) were stranded in the bush after their patrol was ambushed. In the course of their long trek back to their own unit, Vorster was killed in a skirmish with SWAPO troops.

After returning home, Miller is haunted by the thought that his lax attitude toward his duty as a soldier was the cause of Vorster’s death. Suffering from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and partial memory loss which obscures his recollection of the incident, Miller tries going over the details of the events

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Red Shoes

France | 2010 | 8 minutes | PG Director: Lorenzo Recio Print source: Sacrebleu Productions A young dancer repeats the enchainment of flamenco dance, without reaching there. Disappointed, she was on the point of leaving the room of repetition when she found a strange pair of red shoes…

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SHORT FILMS

Siggil

Stanley Pickle

France | 2010 | 20 minutes | PG13 Director: Remi Mazet Cast: El Hadji Dieng Awards: Three awards including Best Short Film – Festival International Montreal Language: French, with English subtitles Print source: Sacrebleu Productions

UK | 2010 | 11 minutes | PG Director: Victoria Mather

Popular district of Dakar. An elderly man, Lamine, is getting ready for an important date. At the other side of the city, in a sumptuous villa, somebody is waiting for him anxiously.

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Stanley never goes outside. He likes to play with his clockwork toys and every night his mother kisses him goodnight. Stanley is twenty. The trouble is that Stanley thinks this is all quite normal, until an encounter with a mysterious girl turns his world upside down…

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Tête à Tête

Stanka Goes Home

Bulgaria | 2010 | 15 minutes | PG Director: Maya Vitkova Cast: Reni Yoncheva Language: Bulgarian, with English subtitles Print source: Maya Vitkova When Mrs. Stanka Atanasova, an elderly and sick woman, enters her block of flats, she discovers that the elevator is out of order. Stanka must use the stairs to get to the ninth floor, and what for most of us is a simple task, becomes a challenge for her. Maya Vitkova is a writer/director and producer born in Sofia in 1978. She graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts with MA in film directing in 2001. Until 2006 Maya has worked as an assistant director and casting director for over 20 Bulgarian and International productions. In 2008 she executive produced Kamen Kalev’s feature EASTERN PLAYS, nominated for the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Int’l Film Festival 2009. EASTERN PLAYS was among the 3 films nominated for the LUX award of the European Parliament and in the official selection of the European Film Awards 2009, currently has more than 10 international awards.

In 2009 Maya founded Viktoria Films Ltd, an independent production company focused on producing independent short and feature films.

She directed and produced the short film STANKA GOES HOME, written by the award-winning Romanian writer/director Radu Jude. The project was presented at the European Short Pitch and supported by the National Culture Fund. STANKA GOES HOME had its first public screening at the Cannes Critic’s Week in May 2010.

Maya Vitkova is currently in pre-production of her debut feature VIKTORIA (working title QUEEN VIKTORIA). The project has been selected for the Script&Pitch Workshops, the Balkan Fund, the Berlinale Talent Project Market, the NIPKOW Programm and the EKRAN Programme of Andrzej Wajda’s Master School of Film Directing and supported by the MEDIA Programme, Vienna Film Fund and the Bulgarian National Film Centre.

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France | 2011 | 18 minutes | PG Director: Virginie Boda Language: French, with English subtitles Print source: Sacrebleu Productions During the week Greg works at a garage, but also has to take care of his brothers and sisters just like a parent. This is the everyday life of Greg, 17 years old. But this Sunday he and his girlfriend spend the day at the beach…

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The Last Bullet

South Africa | 2011 | 48 minutes | PG13 V Director: Jacques Brown (In Attendance) Cast: Chai Kisuh, Inger Jansen, Billings Siwila , Gary Green Language: English, with English Subtitles The Last Bullet is based on a true story. Akon, a Cameroonian refugee lives in Khayelitsha amongst the locals. Haunted not only by his past but by xenophobic attitudes, Akon escape to the City of Cape Town in the hope of being around his own people. Living off the streets of his new and hostile home, Akon clings to a dream he holds secret from the world, which is yet to accept him, systematically sinking into a world of crime. His power grows as a pimp and drug dealer. Succumbing to his ego and ambition, Akon crosses France in a business deal that is to decide the fates of more than just one man. It is only through the firing of the last bullet that one may live and another die.

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Via Mdantsane

South Africa | 2011 | 45 minutes | PG Director: Lungisa Badli (In Attendance) Language: Xhosa, with English subtitles Print source: Lungisa Badli

The Kicking Game

South Africa | 2011 | 1 minute | PG Director: Gideon Breytenbach & Charl Naudé (In Attendance) Print source: Gideon Breytenbach & Charl Naudé A visual manifestation of the poem ‘The Kicking Game’ by AE Ballakisten.

A boy would rather be brutally abused than not be ignored.

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Via Mdantsane is a comedy about two boys from a rural area renting a house in the Mdantsane township. These two boys are very untidy, very casual and like spending time chasing after girls. Both of them are mostly unemployed and as a result are always behind on paying the rent. The landlord had enough and decided it was time for them to leave….

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Where dogs die

France, Russia | 2011 | 12 minutes | PG Director: Svetlana Filippova Print source: Sacrebleu Productions

The old lady who would not smile anymore

France | 2011 | 12 minutes | PG Director: Guillaume Levil Language: French, with English subtitles Awards: 15 international awards Print source: Guillaume Levil

Lovely short animation film about a family through the life of a dog.

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Right before retirement, a policeman gets a mission: find those who steal coloured bottles. Here is a tale tinted with humour and poetry, to remember that we should love every moment of life. Guillaume Levil is a French director, born in the south of France. He’s filming family stories or tales, always in his land. Sometimes, he teaches cinema to young people.

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Winter Frog

France | 2011 | 18 minutes | PG Director: Slony Sow Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Eriko Takeda Language: French, with English subtitles Print source: Slony Sow

The Serenity Prayer

Japan | 2011 | 25 minutes | PG Director: Masakazu Sugita Cast: Amon Kabe, Masaki Miura, Kenzo Ryu, Takayuki Tsuwa, Junko Saito Language: Japanese, with English subtitles Print source: Yoshio Kuratani A boy, Yuta, embraces a big wallet and stands in the crowd. With courage, he faces his fear and head out to town… A story from present day Japan, that remind people of the preciousness of life.

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Benjamin, winemaker, sees his wife die in his arms following a long illness.

Only one way for him: death. But a young Japanese woman, coming specially to taste his wine, will gently bring him to mourn the death of his wife by a series of symbols and exchanges between two cultures.

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Cravings

in 1983. In New York, affiliated with Sindin Galleries 1981-1984 and the Anita Shapolsky Gallery 1987-1994. Began set designing for the theater in 1986. From 1988-1999 set designed and art directed independent films, videos, industrials, and projects for television. Transition into digital art in the form of storytelling and character animation. Formed a partnership with Carl Edwards, a teacher/animator, to develop their own animation properties (BoingieWorld). They married in 2001. In 2007-08 wrote, directed, designed, animated, edited, and co-produced three short, CGI animations for children about healthy eating: Cravings, Smart Machine, and Wishful Thinking.

USA | 2008 | 2 minutes | A Director: Jane Sablow Awards: 7 International Awards Print source: Jane Sablow The short, CG animation, Cravings, chronicles the brief journey of a determined little girl to satisfy her rather surprising desire. The child manages to pluck her favourite food from an assortment of delicacies. With nutrition as the theme, the piece presents a healthy food choice to children ages 3-12, and their families, through visual storytelling and gentle humour.

Jane Sablow, a visual artist/set designer/animated filmmaker, lived, studied, and exhibited her work for twelve years in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and Spain, moving back to the USA in 1983. In New York, affiliated with Sindin Galleries 1981-1984 and the Anita Shapolsky Gallery 1987-1994.

Began set designing for the theater in 1986. From 1988-1999 set designed and art directed independent films, videos, industrials, and projects for television. Transition into digital art in the form of storytelling and character animation. Formed a partnership with Carl Edwards, a teacher/animator, to develop their own animation properties (BoingieWorld). They married in 2001. In 2007-08 wrote, directed, designed, animated, edited, and coproduced three short, CGI animations for children about healthy eating: Cravings, Smart Machine, and Wishful Thinking.

Wishful thinking

USA | 2008 | 5 minutes | A Director: Jane Sablow Awards: 8 International Awards Print source: Jane Sablow Director Jane Sablow, a visual artist/set designer/animated filmmaker, lived, studied, and exhibited her work for twelve years in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and Spain, moving back to the USA in 1983. In New York, affiliated with Sindin Galleries 1981-1984 and the Anita Shapolsky Gallery 1987-1994.

Began set designing for the theater in 1986. From 1988-1999 set designed and art directed independent films, videos, industrials, and projects for television. Transition into digital art in the form of storytelling and character animation. Formed a partnership with Carl Edwards, a teacher/animator, to develop their own animation properties (BoingieWorld). They married in 2001. In 2007-08 wrote, directed, designed, animated, edited, and coproduced three short, CGI animations for children about healthy eating: Cravings, Smart Machine, and Wishful Thinking.

Smart Machine

USA | 2008 | 4 minutes | A Director: Jane Sablow Awards: 8 International Awards Print source: Jane Sablow The short, CGI animation, Smart Machine, captures a little boy’s unusual encounter with a vending machine during a family vacation. The child discovers that the machine can talk and it has a very strong opinion on what he should eat! With nutrition as the theme, the piece presents a healthy food choice to children 5-12, and their families, through visual storytelling and gentle humour. Director Jane Sablow, a visual artist/set designer/animated filmmaker, lived, studied, and exhibited her work for twelve years in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and Spain, moving back to the USA

Who’s There?

Slovakia | 2011 | 9,5 Minutes Director: Vanda Raýmanová Animation: Gabriela Klaučová, Vanda Raýmanová, Michal Struss Language: Slovak, with English subtitles Print source: Slovak Film Institute The tale about courage and sense of friendship and also about the fact that being with somebody is the best way to be in the world.

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