FRANCE • 51′ a film by ROBERT BOZZI In March 2001, Robert Bozzi enrolled in the school of Parisian taxi drivers. In July he obtained his license and became a taxi driver among many others. His difference? Three little cameras inside his car. For four months his backseat becomes a little theatre of Parisian life. The theatre[…]
UGANDA/USA • 84′ a film by PETER CHAPPELL The future of many developing countries is largely dependent on an institution which is already fifty years old, the World Bank. Criticized and questioned as to its utility, and confronted with numerous setbacks, the Bank is going through a perplexing time in regard to deciding what new strategies[…]
ARGENTINA • 83′ a movie by NOEL BURCH, NADINE FISCHER, NELSON SCARTACCINI “One way ticket” evokes the story of six million Europeans who, between 1830 and 1930 went to populate the lands of Latin America. Basing their scenario on letters, essays, texts and documents, the authors have chosen to recount this saga by creating three entirely[…]
FRANCE a movie by NICOLE M.ANDRE Oana has Down syndrom. She is what is commonly called a “mongolian”. Living in a world of love and care since her birth, she fights all the difficulties of her condition and tries to know her way steadily to independance… An insight into a different adolescence. HOW TO GET THE[…]
SOUTH AFRICA • 95′ & 54′ a movie by JULIA HENDERSON, THULANI MOKOENA, DONNE RUNDLE 1991: Nelson Mandela is released and apartheid abolished. On April 27 th are organised the first free elections for all South-African people. Three filmmakers follow the event in ex-Bophutatswana, inside a hostel which is an Inkhata party base, in a garment[…]
USA • 57′ a film by ROBERT BOZZI Crossing the desert, I think about Ebby. After ten years of being separated by an ocean and a continent, I’m going back, back to my wife’s home to shoot the film I promised her mother I’d make. It all started with a head-over-heels love-at-first-sight encounter. Margarey-Ethel and Ray-Gene were 16[…]
MEXICO • 51′ a movie by ERNESTO RIMOCH, EVA SARAGA Mexico City, September 19, 1985. During 3 endless minutes it’s the storm under the city. This extremely violent earthquake triggers social and political changes. The most oppressed women, seize the direction of a movement for reconstruction. This struggle, nourished by elements of a strong popular culture[…]
NORWAY • 28′ a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON Tromsø is one of the northernmost cities in the world. Only a few Siberian territories, and the outermost point of Alaska, lie farther to the north. The proximity of the Pole produces abrupt changes: in November, the sun no longer appears above the horizon; it will[…]
GERMANY • 26′ a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON The twin villages of Treis and Karden (800 inhabitants) lie opposite each other, joined by a bridge across the Moselle River. This countryside is remarkable because it embodies a meeting between two contradictory forces: movement and inertia. Movement because the villages are situated in the base of[…]
FRANCE • 24′ a movie by RADHA JAGANATHEN For a long time, sugar cane was the island’s principal resource, it was at the heart of the countryside. Today, everything has shifted. The centre has become peripheral. The beautiful, the useful is no longer the plantation, the fields of cane but the beach or the mountain summits[…]