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film id<br />
2620<br />
section<br />
Dok german competition<br />
BeYonD WrieZen<br />
– a MoVie aBout<br />
life after serVing<br />
tiMe in Jail<br />
by Daniel abma<br />
A movie about life after serving time in jail. This docu-<br />
mentary tells the story about three delinquent<br />
adolescents Imo (22), Jano (17) and Marcel (25) three<br />
years after the day of their release from prison in<br />
Wriezen (Brandenburg, Germany). We see children<br />
being born, furniture torn to pieces, driving lessons<br />
on a pig-farm and drug deals on Berlin-Alexanderplatz.<br />
Beyond Wriezen (AT) observes life through the per-<br />
spective of the adolescents, and shows their hopes, pride,<br />
thoughts and fears.<br />
genre<br />
Human interest<br />
portrait<br />
facts<br />
germany, 2012<br />
colour, HDcam<br />
88 min<br />
original title<br />
nach Wriezen – ein film über das<br />
leben nach der Haft<br />
original language<br />
german<br />
Produced by<br />
Hff konrad Wolf, germany<br />
sales contact<br />
cristina Marx<br />
Hff konrad Wolf<br />
Marlene-Dietrich-allee 11<br />
14482 potsdam, germany<br />
distribution@hff-potsdam.de<br />
www.hff-potsdam.de<br />
Big BoYs gone<br />
Bananas !*<br />
by fredrik gertten<br />
section<br />
Dok international programme<br />
What is a big corporation capable of in order to protect<br />
its brand ? Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten’s<br />
experienced this recently. His previous film Bananas !*<br />
(2009) recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan<br />
plantation workers brought against the fruit giant Dole<br />
Food Company. The film was selected for competition<br />
by the Los Angeles Film Festival. Nothing wrong so<br />
far, right ? But then Gertten gets a strange message: the<br />
festival removes Bananas !* from competition. Then,<br />
a scathing article appears in the Los Angeles Business<br />
Journal about the film, and Gertten subsequently<br />
receives a letter from Dole’s attorney threatening him<br />
with legal action. What follows is an unparalleled<br />
thriller that has Gertten capturing the entire process –<br />
from DOLE attacking the producers with a defamation<br />
lawsuit, bullying scare tactics, to media-control<br />
and PR-spin. This personal film reveals precisely how<br />
a multinational will stop at nothing to get its way – freedom<br />
of speech is at stake. As Dole’s PR company puts<br />
it, ‘It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than a bad<br />
reputation.’<br />
genre<br />
author’s point of View<br />
History / politics / current affairs<br />
facts<br />
sweden, 2012<br />
colour, Dcp<br />
90 min<br />
original title<br />
Big Boys gone Bananas !*<br />
original language<br />
english, spanish, swedish<br />
Produced by<br />
Margarete Jangård<br />
Wg film, sweden<br />
www.wgfilm.com<br />
Public screenings<br />
11 / 2011 iDfa, netherlands<br />
sales contact<br />
peter Jäger<br />
autlook filmsales<br />
trappelgasse 4 / 17<br />
1040 Vienna, austria<br />
peter@autlookfilms.com<br />
www.autlookfilms.com<br />
58 59<br />
film id<br />
258
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