CUBA a movie by CECILE PATINGRE Havana, May 1st, 1992 Cuba is passing through one of the most critical moments of its history. May First is a traditional indicator of the situation and gives an idea of the combativeness or weariness of a people confronted to the thousands of difficulties experienced in daily life. Views of[…]
CHILE • 100′ a film by PATRICIO GUZMAN « I recall September 11, 1973, that dark day when America instigated a coup d’état to bring down the pacifist and democratic revolution that was taking place in a faraway country, Chile, my homeland. Salvador Allende, the President of the Republic, that “son of a bitch‚” as Richard Nixon[…]
CAMBODIA 94′ a movie by RITHY PANH After having fled Pol Pot, Rithy Panh, a 15 year old Cambodian finds refuge at the Mairut camp in Thailand, in 1979. Ten years later, now a filmmaker, he returns to the camps to film the daily life of this threatened people. The peoples he meets, eaten away by[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
GREAT-BRITAIN • 80′ a movie by KIM FLITCROFT Sheffield. In the late 1980s, the steel industry closed down, the heart was torn out of the city. Ten years later, Glen the Karaoke King steals cars, Wayne, a bar owner, spots Sarah and tries to turn her into the star as “the Dirty Dancer”, and Paul, an ex-boxer,[…]
PORTUGAL • 88′ a movie by ROBERT BOZZI In 1970, I filmed the Portuguese community of the Saint-Denis shantytown. I saw it in its death throes. However, in the back of a shed, there was a mother and her new born son. Twenty five years later, I wanted to meet again these “people from the shantytowns”, in[…]
ITALY a movie by GIORGIO DI NELLA The chariot race in San Léo (Italy). Bulls harnessed to chariots from another age gallop at full speed over an 8 kilometre trail, spurred on from all sides through a whirlwind of shouts and dust. Alliances, rivalries, magicians’ tricks are the ingredients of village life that becomes ever more[…]
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[…]