WIEDERGEBOREN IN WESTFALENMelanie Liebheit / 2008 / Germania / 88min 25 sec.In 2002, Europe’s greatest Hindu Tamil Temple was inaugurated at Hamm-Uentrop in Westalia. The film accompanies Sri Paskaran, the tireless priest and the temple’s promoter, in his daily engagements and in the planning for the annual feast where 20,000 people are expected.
JääVUOREN VARJOONAntti Seppänen / 2009 / Finlandese / 57minThe director finds a box full of 8mm film with pictures coming from all over the world. The surprising discovery opens a door to a lost world and guides the spectator in a trip around the world, even further, with a forgotten adventurer, an old sailor.
IL GIORNO DEL CIELOAndrea Parente / 2010 / Italia / 47min The Festa dei Gigli (Nola, Italy) is a place of rational contradictions and visual contrast. Seen with a modern eye, this event appears to be an extreme expression of madness e of non-sense; and yet “under the Giglio” there are thousands of individuals with normal lives, participating at a celebration that like few stirs up the collective consciousness and strengthens the identity of the participants.
CHAIQIAN (DEMOLITION) J. P. Sniadecki / 2008 / Stati Uniti, Cina / 62min The depiction of an ever changing urban area, of the work of 30 men and women coming from the country and of their ephemeral relationship in Chengdu’s centre, the capital of Sichuan province in West China.
BABBLEDaniel Stedman / 2010 / Stati Uniti / 3min, 36 sec.This short film explores on the way people perceive languages they do not understand, and focuses on how they identify and mimic them.
ARAB ESSARAFA - AU BAS DE L'ECHELLETarek Ben Ghzaïel / 2010 / Tunisia / 33minThe documentary describes the daily life of a family in the region of Sfax whose subsistence depends on the seasonal olive harvest.
CANCELLI DI FUMOFrancesco Bussalai / 2009 / Italia / 40min A former employee’s night-time visit of the now vacant buildings of the ex manifuttura Tabacchi ( tobacco factory ), in the centre of Cagliari, reactivates memories made of people, work, strikes…
CEUX DE LA COLLINE / THE HILLSIDE CROWDBerni Goldblat / 2009 / Svizzera, Francia, Burkina Faso / 72minAn improvised gold mine in the far fetched hilly area of Diosso in Burkina Faso has attracted gold diggers, explosives experts, healers, merchants, sellers, prostitutes, children, religious figures and barbers. All engaged in the desperate attempt to change lives.
S'ANIMUMarina Anedda / 2009 / Italia / 30min Women and outsiders have never ridden in this race . Until one day, a young sedilese woman shows up at the vicarage and asks the parish to put her name down on the list, as a potential “Prima Pandela”. The people is the community are asking themselves whether “females” should now be admitted.
Marina Anedda / 2009 / Italia / 30min
Women and outsiders have never ridden in this race . Until one day, a young sedilese woman shows up at the vicarage and asks the parish to put her name down on the list, as a potential “Prima Pandela”. The people is the community are asking themselves whether “females” should now be admitted.