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BETWEEN THE SEAS Competition for best documentary film of 2011 from Central and Eastern Europe
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BETWEEN THE SEASCompetition for best documentary film of 2011 from Central and Eastern EuropeBakhmaro (dir. Salomé Jashi, Germany/Georgia 2011) – The story of a three-story building in the small Georgian town of Chokhatauri. The building resembles Noah’s ark, a kind of microcosm of the country. Politics is a part of daily life, constantly affecting even the disconnected lives of the people who live and work here. Cesta na onen svět (Crulic – drumul spre dincolo / Crulic – The Path to Beyond; dir. Anca Damian, Romania/Poland 2011) – Using drawings, cutout animation, and pixilation, the film tells the story of a Romanian man who died in a Polish prison after a hunger strike. In this politically engaged documentary, the dead man describes his absurd tale: although no guilt was proven, he was imprisoned anyway. Evoluce násilí (Die Evolution der Gewalt / Evolution of Violence; dir. Fritz Ofner, Austria 2011) – Although the war ended long ago, violence remains a natural way of resolving conflicts and disputes in Guatemala. Every day, journalists wait to see whose death they will write about this time. And government is powerless to effect change. How do people live in a society of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth? Filmový almanach: Požáry v Rusku, léto 2010 (Almanac: Fires in Russia, Summer 2010; dir. Elena Deminova, Andrey Kartavtsev, Timofey Usikov, Anna Shmeleva, Russia 2011) – Five films shot by students from Marina Razbezhkina’s Documentary Film Studio, showing the 2010 forest and peat bog fires in central Russia. The filmmakers travel with firefighters and volunteers to the afflicted areas, reporting on the struggle with the fire and painting a socially important portrait of contemporary Russian. Film z mobilu (A Cell Phone Movie; dir. Nedzad Begovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina 2011) – Scenes the length of YouTube videos are edited together to create a humorous autobiographical diary of the artist as a middle-aged man with an absurd way of seeing. All shot on a cellular telephone.
Nový svět (Uus Maailm / The New World; dir. Jaan Tootsen, Estonia 2011) – A long-term documentary look at a group of environmental activists in Tallinn, Estonia. But does their group have any chance of success? The film follows various crises among this group of activists, presenting examples of personal transformation. Potřebujeme štěstí (We Need Happiness; dir. Alexandre Sokurov, Alexei Jankowski, France 2011) – The story of a Russian woman who went to live with her love in Iraq’s Kurdish region, where she must come to terms with pain, wartime violence, and the death of loved ones. Pravidla svobodného života (Rules of Single Life; dir. Tonislav Hristov, Finland/Bulgaria 2011) – The director is one of the protagonists of this rousing comedy about four single men looking for love in Helsinki. This year’s festival hit in Bulgaria. Procitnutí (Budenje / Awakening; dir. Irena Fabri, Serbia 2011) – Three personal video diaries by students who feel that contemporary Serbian society, which continues to drown in chaos 10 years after the fall of Milošević, has nothing to offer them, and so they choose to create their own micro-societies. Ramin (dir. Audrius Stonys, Georgia/Latvia 2010) – 75-year-old former Georgian wrestler Ramin Lomsadze, who once beat seven opponents in 55 seconds, prepares for the toughest fight of his career – the fight with loneliness. He boards a train and heads for a remote Georgian village where he hopes to find the girl who he loved and lost 50 years ago. Stát jsem já (Der Staat bin ich! / Empire Me!; dir. Paul Poet, Austria/Germany 2011) – A look at the anarchists, self-styled dukes, and isolated madmen who have declared war on the state by founding their own. They delineate their space, thus proving that at the beginning is individual freedom, and at the end is the state. Ukolébavka z Phnompenhu (Kołysanka z Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Lullaby; dir. Pawel Kloc, Poland 2011) – An intimate portrait of the relationship between an alcoholic Cambodian woman and her chronically broke Israeli boyfriend, and their attempts at raising a child even though they can’t take care of themselves. CZECH JOYCompetition for best Czech documentary film of 201131 konců/31 začátků (31 Endings/31 Beginnings; dir. Rafani art group, Czech Republic 2011) – This collective effort attempts to create a record of Prague’s alternative culture. The film’s 21 disparate sections each focus on a particular subject and group of people from contemporary art, literature, or political activism. Epochální výlet pana Třísky do Ruska (Mr. Tříska’s Epochal Trip to Russia; dir. Filip Remunda, Czech Republic 2011) – An ironic look at contemporary Czech-Russian relations through the eyes of a Czech teacher who sets out in the footsteps of his grandfather (a Czechoslovak legionnaire) from Prague via Moscow and Novosibirsk to Chita. Film jako Brno (Big as Brno; dir. Andran Abramjan, Kristýna Bartošová, Natálie Císařovská, Robin Kvapil, Lukáš Senft, Jan Strejcovský, and Vít Klusák, Czech Republic 2011) – This documentary collage of seven views of the May Day blockade of a neo-Nazi march in Brno uncovers the roots of today’s social tensions. Generace singles (Generation Singles; dir. Jana Počtová, Czech Republic 2011) – A collective portrait of six men and women living without a partner even though most of them say that they would like one. Over the course of one year, the film looks at the protagonists’ personalities and way of life, trying to find the causes for their lack of success. Mrtvá trať (Into Oblivion; dir. Šimon Špidla, Czech Republic 2011) – Today, the inhospitable Russian taiga has almost completely swallowed all traces of the railway built under Stalin’s orders at great loss of life (80,000 dead). A look at what today strikes us as an absurd project, which was halted almost immediately after Stalin’s death. Paroubkové (The Paroubeks; dir. Jan Látal, Czech Republic 2011) – The myth of former Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek, and Jiří Paroubek the person. The media’s image of the man and his true essence. The director reflects upon the interrelationships between these two extremes. Pod sluncem tma (Solar Eclipse; dir. Martin Mareček, Czech Republic 2011) – Two Czech development experts travel to a Zambian village where they installed solar panels several years earlier. As we watch them fixing the equipment, we discover different mentalities and attitudes towards work, reflecting different relationships to time and to things. Povídky malostranské po 130 letech (Tales of the Lesser Quarter 130 Years Later; dir. Jakub Wagner, Czech Republic 2011) – Jan Neruda’s classic short stories are transformed into a visually stylized documentary that looks at today’s inhabitants of the Lesser Quarter through the famous stories. Things have changed, and yet we find something basic that has been preserved through time. Rock života (A Catapult of Fate; dir. Jan Gogola, Czech Republic 2011) – A portrait of Olda Říha, the frontman for the band Katapult, at a time when he had to overcome the death of his bass guitarist Jiří “Grampa” Šindelář and start to perform again. We see him at concerts, during moments of exhaustion, in the idyll of his mountain cottage, and ruminating on death. The Making Of (dir. Jan Foukal, Czech Republic 2011) – A personal meditation on the transformation of the revolutionary spirit 20 years after 1989. This reconstruction of revolutionary moments climaxes with the clash between demonstrators and the police on the anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain, becoming an empty “pretend” revolution and a welcome attraction for extras. Tmář a jeho rod (The Obscurantist and His Lineage; dir. Karel Vachek, Czech Republic 2011) – Karel Vachek’s new film novel takes us into a monastery, theater, and barracks, exploring the boundaries between a real inner belief in God and institutionalized religion, mysticism and magic, science and myth. Ultimum Refugium (dir. Ondřej Vařečka, Czech Republic 2011) – This film collage on the subject of the final refuge tries to bring together intimate and more distant situations, images, speeches, ideas, and emotions in order to achieve a multi-layered meditation on our individual understanding of the world and our place in it. Venku (On the Outside; dir. Veronika Sobková, Czech Republic 2011) – A long-term documentary look at three prisoners who dream of starting over on the outside. The film is also a metaphor for how we deal with freedom, time, and our own fate, and about the decisions we make at important crossroads in life that affect us all. Vymezený prostor (Defining Space; dir. Hana Železná, Czech Republic 2011) – This visual documentary essay inspired by the 2011 Prague Quadrennial and its “Intersection” project focuses on scenography as a performance space with its own story, a space that inspires theater. The film presents the scenographic and architectural designs from the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, as well as public, private, and theater spaces as possible stages for theatrical performances and everyday events. Závod ke dnu (Race to the Bottom; dir. Vít Janeček, Czech Republic 2011) – The world premiere of a film on closed factories, cancelled trains, and what to do with “redundant” people. Featuring sociologist Jan Keller, philosopher Václav Bělohradský, development expert Tomáš Tožička, and economist Ilona Švihlíková. Directory: press -> 2011 press -> Draft I film Screening press -> The milk carton kids press -> Embargoed until 15 december 2005 15H00 gmt press -> Press Release world meteorological organization press -> Introductory Text press -> The project is part of the wider cooperation between Eni and Rosneft sanctioned under the Strategic Cooperation Agreement entered into by the parties on 25th April 2012 press -> El Niño’s Effects May Be Limited This Winter press -> I am particularly pleased that my last year at Kunsthaus Bregenz was so successful. There are very few institutions in which the architecture, the staff, and the art encounter each other so productively Download 167.4 Kb. Share with your friends:
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