Wednesday 17 September 2008
9,00 a.m.
Rituals religions
India
Under The Ahmedabad Sky /Sotto il cielo di Ahmedabad
Francesca Lignola, Stefano Rebechi | Italia | 2007 | 35 min
Every year millions of fighting kites fill
Ahmedabad's sky.They mark the beginning of
Makar Sankranti, the Hindu religious festival,
which with the passage of time has become one of
the world's most extraordinary mass competitions.
Etiopia
Morokapel’s Feast. The Story of a Kara Hunting Ritual
Steffen Köhn, Felix Girke | Germania | 2007 | 26 min
Following the killing of a leopard, Morokapel a
young man from a village in the Lower Orno
valley, in Ethiopia, acquires a new social status
which becomes celebrated in a ritual ceremony.
Papua Nuova Guinea
Ngat Is Dead: Studying Mortuary Traditions
Christian Suhr Nielsen, Ton Otto, Steffen Dalsgaard |
Danimarca | 2007 | 59 min
Problems of anthropological field work as seen
through the participation in a funeral rite in the
island of Baluan (The Southern Pacific).
Indonesia
When The Sun Rises: a Toraja Priest of The Ancestral Way
Roxana Waterson | Regno Unito | 2007 | 66 min
Portrait of a priest of the indigenous religion of the
people of Sa'dan Toraja in Indonesia, whose
survival is threatened by the rapid conversion of
his flock to Christianity.
4,00 p.m.
After the war conflicts hostilities
Israele
Yoel, Yisrael V'ha Pashkavilim / Yoel, Israel and the Pashkavils
Lina Chaplin | Israele | 2006 | 54 min
Portrait of two eccentric characters from the
Haredi society of Jerusalem: Isreal Krause is writer
and printer of thousands of pashkavil, protest
posters and Yoel Krause has collected more than
twenty thousand.
Cambogia
Å Leve i et Minefelt / Living in a Mine Field
Marit Gjertsen | Norvegia | 2006 | 56 min
AnVi lives in Somloth, a small village in
Cambodia. In order to feed herself and her eight
children she cultivates a piece of land she knows to
be full of mines, she risks death daily.
Israele/India
Flipping Out
Yoav Shamir | Israele | 2007 | 87 min
Every year about 30 000 young Israelis (over a
total of 50 000) after the military service go to
India to use drugs. About 2 000 of them have to
face psychic problems and must undergo specialist
treatment.
9,00 p.m.
After the war conflicts hostilities
Afghanistan
Cabale à Kaboul / Cabal in Kabul
Dan Alexe | Belgio | 2007 | 87 min
A film about Zabulon and Isaac, the last two Jews
in Afghanistan, who though sharing the courtyard
of Kabul's old synagogue for more than ten years,
hate each other.
Lives
Albania, Polonia, Russia
Razvod po Albanski/ Divorce Albanian Style
Adela Peeva | Bulgaria | 2007 | 66 min
In communist Albania in the 1960's many
Albanians married to foreign women were forced
by the state to separate from their wives who were
expelled. This film relates the stories of these
couples.
Rituals religions
India
Under The Ahmedabad Sky /Sotto il cielo di Ahmedabad
Francesca Lignola, Stefano Rebechi | Italia | 2007 | 35 min
Every year millions of fighting kites fill
Ahmedabad's sky.They mark the beginning of
Makar Sankranti, the Hindu religious festival,
which with the passage of time has become one of
the world's most extraordinary mass competitions.
Etiopia
Morokapel’s Feast. The Story of a Kara Hunting Ritual
Steffen Köhn, Felix Girke | Germania | 2007 | 26 min
Following the killing of a leopard, Morokapel a
young man from a village in the Lower Orno
valley, in Ethiopia, acquires a new social status
which becomes celebrated in a ritual ceremony.
Papua Nuova Guinea
Ngat Is Dead: Studying Mortuary Traditions
Christian Suhr Nielsen, Ton Otto, Steffen Dalsgaard |
Danimarca | 2007 | 59 min
Problems of anthropological field work as seen
through the participation in a funeral rite in the
island of Baluan (The Southern Pacific).
Indonesia
When The Sun Rises: a Toraja Priest of The Ancestral Way
Roxana Waterson | Regno Unito | 2007 | 66 min
Portrait of a priest of the indigenous religion of the
people of Sa'dan Toraja in Indonesia, whose
survival is threatened by the rapid conversion of
his flock to Christianity.
4,00 p.m.
After the war conflicts hostilities
Israele
Yoel, Yisrael V'ha Pashkavilim / Yoel, Israel and the Pashkavils
Lina Chaplin | Israele | 2006 | 54 min
Portrait of two eccentric characters from the
Haredi society of Jerusalem: Isreal Krause is writer
and printer of thousands of pashkavil, protest
posters and Yoel Krause has collected more than
twenty thousand.
Cambogia
Å Leve i et Minefelt / Living in a Mine Field
Marit Gjertsen | Norvegia | 2006 | 56 min
AnVi lives in Somloth, a small village in
Cambodia. In order to feed herself and her eight
children she cultivates a piece of land she knows to
be full of mines, she risks death daily.
Israele/India
Flipping Out
Yoav Shamir | Israele | 2007 | 87 min
Every year about 30 000 young Israelis (over a
total of 50 000) after the military service go to
India to use drugs. About 2 000 of them have to
face psychic problems and must undergo specialist
treatment.
9,00 p.m.
After the war conflicts hostilities
Afghanistan
Cabale à Kaboul / Cabal in Kabul
Dan Alexe | Belgio | 2007 | 87 min
A film about Zabulon and Isaac, the last two Jews
in Afghanistan, who though sharing the courtyard
of Kabul's old synagogue for more than ten years,
hate each other.
Lives
Albania, Polonia, Russia
Razvod po Albanski/ Divorce Albanian Style
Adela Peeva | Bulgaria | 2007 | 66 min
In communist Albania in the 1960's many
Albanians married to foreign women were forced
by the state to separate from their wives who were
expelled. This film relates the stories of these
couples.
