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[…]
SPAIN • 41′ a film by PATRICIO GUZMAN Patricio Guzman takes us on an intimate and sentimental stroll to discover the secrets of the Spanish capital. The magic of shadows and sky, storefronts andsweets, delicious ‘tapas’ and hidden gems awaits us above the hubbub, in the out-of-the-way places of the city. This is a real treasure hunt![…]
CZECH REPUBLIC • 93′ a movie by CATHERINE ZINS After the”Velvet Revolution”, the heirs of a Czech family pharmaceutical dynasty are reunited. The factory and the pharmacy were nationalized first in 1945, and again in 1948 at the time of the Communist takeover. The family members try to recover their property. FESTIVALS ÉTATS GENERAUX DU FILM[…]
RAJASTHAN • 40′ a film by MICHEL MARRE I traveled the road to Rajasthan to find Gassi Khan, a friend and master of “crotala”, blades of wood, the ancestors of castanets. After Jaipur, the capital, and its brass bands, I went south into the Jaisalmer Desert to live and play music with the itinerant musicians of Khan’s community,[…]
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[…]