DOKUBAZAAR 2012
1_2_3_october_2012
Klub Gromka_metelkova_LJU_slo
43 documentary films from more than 20 different countries!
DAY1
01_october_2012
16_00 >>> 18_00
MUD
Dainis Klava_2010_latvia_52min
Latvians think through the mud and view the world through a ”muddy” filter.
HOMO@LV
Kaspars Goba_2010_latvia_72min
Portrait of a post-Soviet country in Europe whose society is torn apart by the struggle to accept Gay Pride Parade tradition. The unearthing of Pride in Riga from 2005 to 2010 shows the different perceptions of the concept of democracy in the 21st century.
18_00 >>> 20_00
TIYABOU GARMI
Octavi Royo_2010_spain/mali_24min
Garmi is a small community of Mali which is 1200 km from Bamako, in the commune of Hombori. It has 600 inhabitants who have always lived without electricity.
ZULMIRO DE CARVALHO
Gustavo Dos Santos&Jose Magro_2011_portugal_17min
”My objective is to incorporate the piece into the public surroundings” – Zulmiro de Carvalho, the sculptor.
HAITI IS ALIVE!
Virginia Manchado_2012_haiti/spain_18min
Film shows the daily work of a health worker group, that goes to Haiti a year and a half after the fateful earthquake.
POLITICAL DRESS
Judyta Fibiger_2011_poland_60min
The film explores various stages of the socialist republic and changes in its approach to fashion. From hard-headed Stalinist times, when colorful socks could get you reprimanded by the militia, through a fascination with Parisian style of the '60s, the progressive propaganda and flower children of the '70s up to the martial law period and the punk-rock of the '80s. The documentary presents the stories and opinions of stylish personalities of the day, including photographer Tadeusz Rolke, designer Barbara Hoff, the writer Janusz Głowacki, "Biba" fashion founder Barbara Hulanicki, musician Tomek Lipiński and painter Wilhelm Sasnal.
20_00 >>> 22_00
LETTER TO SASHA
Andoni Jaen&Javier Reverte_2012_spain_15min
Fatma, who lives in Asuerds´ refugee camp in the Hamada of the Algerian desert, gets while listening to the news on TV, a great idea…to contact a girl from another side of the Atlantic Ocean – Sasha, one of the daughters of the US president Obama.
PIT HOLE
Jiri Stejskal_2011_czech republic/estonia/ukraine_23min
"Pit-Hole" or "Яма" is a story about unusual Kiev Ukraine
BACK AND FORTH
Uri Rosenwaks_2010_israel_55min
Under the guidance of filmaker Uri Rosenwaks, four promissing Bedouin directors from the Negev Desert point a camera at themselves and their society to record a ”self-portrait” of their own community and its hardships.
22_00 >>> 24_00
THE DEVIL
Jean Gabriel Periot_2012_france_7min
”You don´t know what we are.”
DEAR MANDELA
Dara Kell&Christopher Nizza_2011_south africa_93min
Destroyed homes, threats at gunpoint and high-court action, this battle by three young
people to stand up for their rights is a testimony to people power. When the South African
government promises to ”eradicate the slums” and begins to evict shack dwellers far
outside the city, three friends who live in Durban's vast shantytowns refuse to be moved.
Dear Mandela follows their journey from their shacks to the highest court in the land as they invoke Nelson Mandela's example and become leaders in a growing social movement. By turns inspiring, devastating and funny, the film offers a new perspective on the role that young people can play in political change and is a fascinating portrait of South Africa coming of age.
DAY2
02_october_2012
16_00 >>> 18_00
MOOD FOR NOSTALGIA
Robi Uppin&Maria Kivirand_2012_estonia_30min
Short documentary "Mood for Nostalgia" is about friendship between neighbours who have known each other for entire life. A cold winter, silence, loneliness and thoughts of nostalgia are surrounding their every day life. Their sincerity opens up a world of unusual friendship in isolated countryside of Estonia.
WORLD ACCORDING TO HANA AND STAS
Tomasz Jurkiewicz_2011_poland_28min
A year in the life of Hania and Stas, a married couple in their 50s, who have had their ups and downs, but now live in a village near Krakow, in harmony with nature, despite the fast changes around them. A story of an older face of love and a struggle to keep one´s dignity in the face of dynamic changes in the countryside in the 21st century Poland.
FRESH WATER, SALT WATER
Aya Tanaka_2012_belgium/japan_51min
”In the summer of 2010 as in many of previous years I stay at my parents´ place in Tsukishima at the bank of the river that joins the Tokyo Bay. It is just one of those customary visits apart of the fact that I have decided to visit my brother and to really listen to him the first time since he practically locked himself up in the twilight of his narrow room.”
18_00 >>> 20_00
THE GIRL FROM THE READING PRIMER
Edyta Wroblewska_2010_poland_28min
Marek Edelman was a widely recognized leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. But how many people have heard of his wife, Ala? Ala’s life was extraordinary from the very beginning. Before the war, as a little girl, she became a major character in the most popular reading primer in Poland. She was a ghetto survivor, afterwards she devoted all her attention to children of the world – in Asia, in Africa and in Europe. She helped to save lives and heal hundreds of kids. The film, enriched with some animated footage, tells the fascinating story of Ala from the Polish reading primer.
NIGHT BUTTERFLIES
Sebastien Marziniak_2011_france_30min
Film displays cross portraits of DJ Fred and gogo dancer Elodie, through their daily life, movements and light.
MOTHERS 15 CENTS A MINUTE
Marina Seresesky_2011_spain_52min
Is it possible to be a mother in the distance? Is it possible to educate from a booth? Women who travel thousands of miles to give a better future to their children, tell us how they live through the reality of being mothers across a telephone or a computer, making the booth their second home and transforming their voices into their most valuable resource.
20_00 >>> 22_00
THE NECTAR OF STONES
Sattar Chamani Gol_2011_iran_25min
This documentary is about the hardworking people of Oraman village in East Kurdistan who take great risks on impassable mountains to obtain the finest products of nature.
HANAII
Maryam Pirband_2012_iran_19min
Haj Hossein is the only native worker in Yazd who works in the only traditional Henna factory. During a day with him, traditional Henna making and his private wishes are shown.
I AM WHITE MERCENARY
Taha Karimi_2012_iran/iraq_63min
Saeid Jaf, a mercenary commander of the Iraqi Baath Party, is on trial in the new Iraqi court. He is accused of involvement in the Anfal genocide campaign against the country's Kurds, when 182,000 Kurds were buried in mass graves.
22_00 >>> 24_00
HERMENEUTICS
Alexei Dmitriev_2012_russia_3min
This piece is a visual illustration of what hermeneutics is. With the cunning
use of WWII footage it makes you believe that you are watching a proper war film. When
you already expect the usual archive movie routine – everything changes. And you find
yourself watching a completely different film.
GYPAETUS HELVETICUS
Marcel Barelli_2011_switzerland_7min
Because of some false reputation, the greatest bird of prey in Europe was completely anihilated in Switzerland. This short movie though, tells us another story…
THE LITTLE TEAM
Roger Gomes&Dani Resines_2011_spain_9min
Fourteen little kids go over an unsolved football mystery, and they end up teaching an unexpected life lesson to grown-ups.
CANNING PARADISE
Olivier Pollet_2012_australia/papua new guinea/france_90min
Decades of overfishing by the global tuna industry have now pushed the final frontiers to the waters of Papua New Guinea. The film follows the struggle of indigenous tribes to protect their sacred way of life, guarded by traditions dating back thousands of years. They see their ancestral land taken away to make way for multinational corporations, in their quest to create the new tuna capital of the world. The question remains: is this type of development in the Pacific bringing prosperity or poverty?
DAY3
03_october_2012
16_00 >>> 18_00
OLD FOLKS’ TALES
Marcelo Dematei&Carlos Smith_2012_spain_6min
Bilbao, 1937. During the Spanish Civil War air raids, a six-years-old girl watched how a German plane was hit, while she was walking around in a park with her father.
Now, Ysabel is about 80 and remembers how life was during bombings. The vision of a child is built with animation as a plastic recreation of her memories.
Now, Ysabel is about 80 and remembers how life was during bombings. The vision of a child is built with animation as a plastic recreation of her memories.
JOURNEY THROUGH AN ENDLESS WAR
Volha Nikolaichyk_2011_belorussia_47min
The businessman Nikolay Avtuhovich declared war to the local corrupted officials. This struggle brought him to the very top and the authorities arranged an indicative process against a civil society in Belorussia. They have fabricated a criminal case against the fair businessman…
DOLL – WHY DID YOU DANCE NAKED?
Zohar Wagner_2012_israel_58min
Video tapes filmed years ago in New York reappear one day in a couples’ home. The content undermines the mans’ trust in his wife to be. The dispute around the video footage leads the woman on a quest seeking out those who were her companions in a hectic experience and with their help she uncovers the ways in which her repression mechanism has led her astray. Dissociated, she unravels her past and one painful memory she has repressed for years, when as a teenager, she entered a room where her innocence was stripped of her.
18_00 >>> 20_00
DAY BY DAY AND FROM MONTH TO MONTH
Laszlo Kabai_2009_hungary_22min
”I like this world of farms because it guarantees a calming way of life for human…calmness…in fact it is much more primitive than usual…but much more balanced because the man is not forced to rush that can be experienced at present…”
AND I FOUND YOU!
Lev Grishin&Marta Antonicheva_2012_russia_15min
Short film about a long human life. The starting point of it was the death of an old lady`s husband, whom she knew from the very childhood. Her memories reversing hold the viewer through their long family life to the main event – their wedding. Thus, the picture begins with the death (a formal final) and ends with a heroes dating story. A film is built on the process of memory. This process is a gradual reunification of lost happiness and return to it.
TONS OF PASSION
Corina Schwingruber Ilic_2011_switzerland_12min
”For this job you have to have some diesel fuel or hydraulic oil in your blood, otherwise you can´t do it.” Dust in their eyes, noise in their ears and passion in the heart! That´s the job of a digger driver working in the demolition business.
IT IS MY LAND
Lucio De Candia_2011_italy_23min
Through interviews to a writer and poet, a farmer, a children and other people from l'Aquila (Italy), the documentary underlines the passion that ties them to their native land and the desire not to abandon it after the devastating earthquake of the april 2009. Moreover the construction of an ecological and self-made village shows the importance of the bio-architecture regarding the necessity to respect nature.
SCRAP ODYSSEY
Pawel Ferdek&Lukasz Gutt_2010_poland/kyrgyzstan_48min
Almost all metal scrap was sold from Kyrgyzstan to China Tien Shan Mountains
20_00 >>> 22_00
INVISIBLE BORDER
Hrafnsson Haukur Margeir_2010_poland_10min
No formal barrier on “Gypsy Street” separates the “haves” from “have nots” but the division is tangible. Visually compelling, with frank interviews from locals, this film proves that class systems do little more than engender prejudice and fundamentally divide human beings who live mere steps apart.
DAGARAMA
Boguslaw Hynek_2010_poland_20min
Jan Głuszak, better known by his artistic nickname Dagarama. He was a visionary, a creator of unique architectonical designs, a philosopher, a poet. The film oscillates between the visible and the invisible. It raises an eternal theme of existence and faith. It is a story about vulnerability, anguish and forced adaptation to ‘narrow' reality. The turning point in the film is self-burning of Głuszak's hand. This act has its mystical significance – it's a kind of sacrifice.
LIES ABOUT SPORTSCARS
Julia Kullmer_2011_germany_11min
Headlong in lying position the vehicle called .Exe offers sensual driving experiences. You can feel the roughness of the street, emissions are channeled in the direction of the driver and engine sounds reach the ear without a sound absorber. In the film inspection and oldtimer friends are confronted with this vehicle.
ONE WAY TICKET TO BUSSUM
Renee Wilna Span_2011_the netherlands_17min
Rajeev is a 12-year-old boy who lives in a small town of Bussum in The Netherlands. He was adopted as a small boy. Not wanting to forget his background, he longs to return to his home country. But will he be able to persuade his parents to grant him his wish?
ESPERANZA
Maider Oleaga_2012_bolivia/spain_8min
A day in the life of Esperanza, a girl living in a remote community in the mountains of South – Eastern Bolivia.
OILMAN
Seyran Mahmudoglu_2012_azerbaijan_26min
He makes living by oil, but he is not a tycoon. He is taking an oil bath not for pleasure, but to get over an illness. Oil flows down his hands. He is creating pieces of art from oil. Oil streams into his life from everywhere. He is the ”Oilman”, Sabir Chopuroglu, the painter.
OUR DAYS ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO BE ENLIGHTENED
Jean Gabriel Periot_2012_france_22min
May the 28th, 2011, Orleans. Inmates gave a concert inside the prison. The sound was broadcasted outside for the audiences.
22_00 >>> 24_00
DECLARATION OF IMMORTALITY
Marcin Koszalka_2010_poland_30min
The film focuses on the decline of the career of the great climbing master, provoking his reflection on his future life, when he will no longer be able to climb mountains. It’s a moving story about inability to come to terms with old age and about desire of immortality.
BLUE SHEEP
Noel Galvez_2011_spain_30min
A magical story between a documentary and a fictional plot that take us to Villamayor de Campos in Zamora (Spain) where many neighbours are affected by cancer, caused by an energy tower.
MACHINE MAN
Alfonso Moral&Roser Corella_2011_spain/bangladesh_14min
The film takes place in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where the ”machine men” execute different physical works and where a mass of millions of people become the driving force behind the city.
ANOTHER NIGHT ON EARTH
David Munoz_2012_spain/egypt_52min
Egypt, a country in revolution. Cairo, a city with the worst traffic in the world. In the taxis that cross all over the city, dozens of people discuss about their present and future, while we the audience discover all the detail that make up their lives in the midst of one of the most important periods in the recent history of the African nation.
DOKUBAZAAR 2012
1_2_3_october_2012
Klub Gromka_metelkova_LJU_slo
43 documentary films from more than 20 different countries!
DOKUBAZAAR is a transnational independent documentary film festival devoted to presentation and promotion of contemporary documentary films to wide Slovenian and European audiences. Its 4th edition will introduce colorful and diverse programming including 43 creative documentary films from more than 20 different countries. Entrance to all screenings is free…