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film id<br />
2484<br />
section<br />
Dok international programme<br />
arBeit HeiMat opel<br />
by ulrike franke, Michael loeken<br />
Arbeit Heimat Opel profiles six young people, aged<br />
16 to 19, who began their apprenticeships as industrial<br />
mechanics at the Opel plant in Bochum, Germany<br />
in 2009. While they must learn to cope with a new phase<br />
in their lives, the start of their professional careers and<br />
approaching departure from the security of their<br />
parental homes, Opel itself is being sucked deeper and<br />
deeper into the maelstrom of the international financial<br />
crisis and facing ever-increasing economic pressure.<br />
We follow Jerome, André, Sinan, Tim, Marius and Marcel,<br />
with all their hopes and fears, through this period<br />
of radical change; we are introduced to their dreams for<br />
the future as well as their worries. They stand at the<br />
threshold of a professional life whose future is already<br />
uncertain. At the same time, Arbeit Heimat Opel contrasts<br />
the everyday lives of the Plant II apprentices with<br />
GM and Opel’s fortunes on the world stage on two seem-<br />
ingly unrelated levels. Despite their distance both in<br />
physical and in media terms, the two levels repeatedly<br />
intersect and come into contact with one another,<br />
connecting global strategies with local and personal life<br />
plans – and vice versa.<br />
genre<br />
History / politics / current affairs<br />
Human interest<br />
facts<br />
germany, 2012<br />
colour, HDcam<br />
90 min<br />
original title<br />
arbeit Heimat opel<br />
original language<br />
german<br />
Produced by<br />
ulrike franke, Michael loeken<br />
filmproduktion loeken franke,<br />
germany<br />
www.loekenfranke.de<br />
involved broadcasters<br />
WDr, germany<br />
sales contact<br />
ulrike franke<br />
filmproduktion loeken franke<br />
alvenslebenstraße 10<br />
50668 köln, germany<br />
franke@loekenfranke.de<br />
www.loekenfranke.de<br />
section<br />
Dok international<br />
competition<br />
are You listening !<br />
by kamar ahmad simon<br />
When rain comes to dyke, village women rush to collect<br />
rainwater … but with the fresh breeze coming in, Rakhi<br />
(27) takes her refuge in rain ! By the coastal belts of<br />
Bangladesh, in a small village named ‘Sutarkhali’, Rakhi<br />
lives with her man Soumen (32) and their son Rahul<br />
(6). Fighting against all the odds of the woods, along with<br />
around a 100 families, they cultivated the land for gen-<br />
erations. On May 27, 2009 … when Rahul was only 4 years<br />
old, a tidal surge hit the coastal belts of Bangladesh.<br />
Saline water flooded the land, ruining the harvest, home<br />
and everything and forced almost a million to take re-<br />
fuge in an age-old dyke. For Rakhi, Soumen and Rahul …<br />
life was not the same anymore. Are You Listening ! is<br />
about Rakhi’s hope to ensure a dignified future for her<br />
son Rahul. It’s about her jobless husband Soumen’s<br />
frustration for failing to provide for his family, and about<br />
a community’s struggle to get back the land they have<br />
lost. Seasons change topography, even relations … Yet after<br />
the rain … They go out with spades and shovels to re-<br />
claim the life again, Are You Listening !<br />
genre<br />
History / politics / current affairs<br />
Human interest<br />
facts<br />
Bangladesh, 2012<br />
colour, HDcam<br />
90 min<br />
original title<br />
shunte ki pao !<br />
original language<br />
Bengali<br />
Produced by<br />
sara afreen<br />
Beginning production,<br />
Bangladesh<br />
www.beginningproduction.com<br />
sales contact<br />
sara afreen<br />
Beginning production<br />
flat 4a (old), House-tobu, plot 1,<br />
road 4, Banani DoHs<br />
1206 Dhaka, Bangladesh<br />
info@beginningproduction.com<br />
www.beginningproduction.com<br />
42 43<br />
film id<br />
2410
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