documentaries
VOYAGES, VOYAGES: “ROBINSON CRUSOE’S ISLAND
CHILE a movie by PATRICIO GUZMAN Patricio Guzman was 13 years old and a resident of Valparaiso, Chile, when he discovered Daniel Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe. In 1999, he shot this film on Robinson Island, which he had long thought fictitious. This film examines the Crusoe legend and retraces the hero’s odyssey. It also recounts the[…]
VOYAGES, VOYAGES: “SCOTLAND”
GREAT-BRITAIN a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON “Voyages” in the Highlands. Jean-Loïc Portron’s travelogue describes the highlands of Sutherland, the harshness of the soil and the Lord’s violence. In the moors, people hunt grouse; in the villages they play football; on the Isle of Mull, there’s a theater. In the Highlands, people love stories so much[…]
YASSER ARAFAT, ITINERARY
PALESTINE/TUNISIA a movie by YVES LOISEAU If Arafat’s public image is familiar around the world, his personality remains largely unknown. At a turning point in his political career, a film crew was authorised to enter the small circle of his close collaborators. Using exclusive filmed archives belonging to the P.L.O., this is a funda mental, durably[…]
PERMANENT ADDRESS
FRANCE a movie by VALERIE DENESLE, ANNE PEYREGNE The “Brasserie de la Gare”, is a permanent address for its customers: there you can find the home you no longer have. Paulette, the owner lends money to one, helps find the family of another, explains to a third how to obtain his living allowance. Whether Paulette offers[…]
REMEMBERING ROMERO
EL SALVADOR a movie by PETER CHAPPELL A photo of Monseigneur Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, taken eleven months before his assassination in 1980. What has become of these people linked in this photo to the tragic destiny of Mgr Romero? A movement from face to face, from account to account, from the past to the[…]
SOWETO, TIMES OF WRATH
SOUTH AFRICA/FRANCE • 60′ a movie by SIPHAMANDLA BONGWANA / JERRY OBAKENG GAEGANE / STANFORD GIBSON / NDUDUZO SHANDU I was born in a shack in Kliptown, at the end of apartheid. I’ve grown up with hope for a better life, for a real house. With three other young filmakers from Soweto, we have tracked[…]
THE NEAR AND THE FAR
MALI a movie by MICHAEL HOARE In France over the last ten years immigrant workers from the Sahel region have founded hundreds of associations to fund and promote development projects in their home villages. The film recounts three of these experiences, showing how simple guest workers have become actors in the development of their home countries.[…]
VOYAGES, VOYAGES: LAKE GENEVA
SWITZERLAND a film by PIERRE-YVES MOULIN Lake Geneva is Switzerland, its banks and palaces. Jean-Jacques Rousseau has made of this body of water a shrine of romanticism. But Lake Geneva also has a shore in the shadows, its French shore, with many hidden faces. From Fifi the fisherman to border inhabitants, from Lorna the pianist to[…]
GIPSY FAIR WITH THE PININI
SPAIN a movie by CAROLE FIERZ The Guadalquivir delta has been the scene of many musical cultures. Flamenco appeared 150 years ago as a particular syncretism of oriental and occidental elements. An art of song, guitar and dance, it is above all and quintessentially the work of a few gypsy families who long ago settled in[…]