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[…]
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.[…]
HAÏTI • 57′ a film by RAOUL PECK Who said the economy serves mankind? What is this world where a third of the population, i.e., the richest countries, or to be more exact, the decision-makers and those who live well in these countries, which lowers the figure, have taken over? A world where the economy is law,[…]
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[…]
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[…]