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BOM - ONE DAY AHEAD OF DEMOCRACY
85 min. 2011, India
The film maker Amlan Datta visits his adoptive family in Malana, a remote Indian mountain village
near the border of Tibet. In the past, things were just fine there, thanks to divine jurisprudence and
a village council that could only make decisions unanimously. As a result, no one ever suffered at the
hands of a majority or the law of the strongest. According to one resident, “Our system was good
enough. It was perfect.” But ever since the Republic of India established democracy throughout
the country, things are changing, and many feel not for the better. The traditional cultivation of
cannabis is now illegal, and the goat pastures must make way for a dam. Outsiders suggest tourism
and pea farming as alternative sources of income, but given the village’s location and the potential
profit, this doesn’t seem all that realistic. In the words of another villager, “Now we’ve become
slaves to India.” Datta takes one of his brothers to the capital to see the parliament building, the
heart of the democratic system that is destroying the harmony in his village. Meanwhile, daily life
goes on in Malana, with covert cannabis cultivation, a wedding, elections, feasts for the gods, a
fire, a strike, but most of all an infectious sense of humor.
BOM - ÜKS PÄEV ENNE DEMOKRAATIAT
Režissöör Amlan Datta (India)
Filmi autor külastab oma kasuperet Malanas, kauges mägikülas India-Tiibeti piiril. Varasematel
aegadel langetas siin elutähtsaid otsuseid kohalik nõukoda, kes võis otsustada vaid anonüümselt.
Rahvas oli olukorraga rahul, sest enamus ei saanud oma tahet peale suruda vähemusele. Nüüd, mil
üle kogu India on sisse seatud kaasaegne euroopalik demokraatia, pole siinsed mägielanikud enam
õnnelikud. Traditsiooniline kanepikasvatus on muutunud illegaalseks ning kitsede karjamaad
peavad taanduma tammiehituse ees. Traditsiooniline kogukondlik eluviis on määratud kaduma.
Film nagu küsiks – kas võtta seda traagiliselt või huumoriga?
REFORMATION
80 min. 2011, The Netherlands
At the age of seven, director Jeanette Groenendaal moved to a deeply religious village. It was
the 1970s, and the girl’s arrival from the big city of Utrecht provoked fear in the hearts of the
inhabitants of the small hamlet in the Dutch Bible Belt. They saw her as an “alien” and a “city
whore,” and treated her accordingly. The teacher at her strict Calvinist school called her the
“Devil’s daughter” and the whole class repeated his words. Thirty-eight years later, Groenendaal
(Dutch Cocaine Factory, 2007) returns to the village to film a personal study of the scapegoat
mechanism. She sets up a complex performance/film project in the village, staging tableaux
performances based on the frozen images from her memories of this emotionally charged
location. This stylized autobiography is more than a personal therapy session or a documentary
about a fundamentalist community. It returns to the past, not out of revenge or a need to judge,
but to investigate the roots of the past that is returning to the present, with the contemporary
outpouring of religion, conservatism, xenophobia, and judgmental moral standards.
REFORMATSIOON
Režissöör Jeanette Groenendaal (Holland)
Sügavalt isiklik film autorilt, kes 7-aastaselt asus elama suurlinnast Utrechtist maale, sügavalt
religioossesse kolkakülla. Külarahvas võttis tüdruku suhtes tugevalt negatiivse hoiaku.
Kalvinistliku kooli õpetaja hakkas teda kutsuma Saatana tütreks ning teised lapsed jäid neid sõnu
kordama. Nüüd, 38 aastat hiljem läheb filmi autor tagasi lapsepõlvemaale, et oma kunstiprojektiga
tasakaalustada alateadvuses kummitavaid emotsioone. Ta lavastab oma stiliseeritud eluloo ning
jälgib, kuidas uus põlvkond külaelanikke selle vastu võtab.
WITH FIDEL WHATEVER HAPPENS
47 min. 2011, Serbia (filmed in Cuba)
Sierra Maestra, 850 km east of Havana. The day before celebrations of the 52nd anniversary of
the communist revolution in Cuba. An old man with a motorcycle, as old as him. A young dentist
on his way to a clinic amidst remote mountains. He is waited by a patient called Vladimir Ilich
(prenom of Lenin). A middle-aged married couple running a public telephone booth for those
who have no personal phone. The fate of these people and many ohter men of Sierra Maestra,
in the cradle of communist Cuba. The revolution continues. Under the slogan: With Fidel,
Whatever Happens! For how long and how far could Cuba go ahead with such a slogan?
MIS KA EI JUHTU, IKKA FIDELIGA
Režissöör Goran Radovanovic (Serbia, filmitud Kuubas)
Sierra Maestra, 850 km Havannast idas. Päev enne kommunistlikku revolutsiooni 52. aastapäeva
Kuubas. Vana mees sama vana mootorrattaga. Noor hambaarst teel mägedesse, kus teda ootab
patsient nimega Vladimir Iljitš. Keskealine abielupaar pidamas telefoniputkat nende jaoks,
kellel pole oma isiklikku telefoni. Palju erinevaid saatusi revolutsiooni hällis Sierra Maestras.
Revolutsioon jätkub loosungi “Ikka koos Fideliga!” all. Huvitav, kui kaua ja kui kaugele võib
Kuuba sellise loosungiga sammuda?
Kui parim kunstiline saavutus
Directed and photographed by Amlan Datta
Sound by Richard Kondal, Subhadeep Sengupta
Edited by Amlan Datta
Produced by Amlan Datta for Animagineer
World sales/contact: Animagineer,
3/3 Girish Ghosh Street, Kolkata, Pin - 700108, India
Phone +91 9830049924, +91 9830378903
animagineer@gmail.com
http://www.aheadofdemocracy.com/
Directed and recorded by Jeanette Groenendaal
Edited by Zoot Derks, Jeanette Groenendaal
Produced by Jeanette Groenendaal for G-netwerk
World sales/contact: G-netwerk,
Prinseneiland 321, 1013LP Amsterdam
+31 20 6207663 , +31 6 24723765
G-net@chello.nl
http://www.g-netwerk.nl/
Directed by Goran Radovanovic
Photographed by Joe Manuel Alguacil & Claudia Alves
Sound by Aleksnadar Protic and Segio Fernandez Borras
Edited by Andrija Zafranovic
Produced by Goran Radovanovic
World sales/contact: Goran Radovanovic,
Aleksinackih ruudara 39a, 11070 Beograd, Serbia
+381 63 206440
princip@eunet.rs
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