Couv Cat 2009 - Eurodoc

2009

EURODOC 2009 

ORGANISED WITH THE SUPPORT OF 

PROGRAMME MEDIA PLUSOFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITY 

PREPARATORY ACTION MEDIA INTERNATIONAL 

JAN VRIJMAN FUND 

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA CINÉMATOGRAPHIE, PROCIREP, FRANCE 

SESSION 1 

NOUAN LE FUZELIER, FRANCE 

WITH THE SUPPORT OF RÉGION CENTRE, CENTRE IMAGES 

SESSION 2 

ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS 

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE ROTTERDAM MEDIA FUND 

THE DUTCH FILM FUND 

SESSION 3 

GORIZIA, ITALY 

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA FILM COMMISSION

9 EURODOC 2009 

PARTICIPANTS & EXPERTS 

EURODOC EXECUTIVES WORKSHOP 

35 FILMS 

86 PRODUCTIONS 

94 EURODOC 

TEAM 

STEERING COMMITTEE 

97 INDEX 

PARTICIPANTS 

EXPERTS & GUESTS 2009

Within the past 10 years, EURODOC has established a producers’ network that is able to coproduce 

creative documentaries on an international scale. More than 525 professionals from 

42 countries are members of this network. 

With our partner Visions du Réel, we could show some of the 130 films that were produced; for 

about thirty others, the producing process is currently ongoing. 

EURODOC would not exist without the uninterrupted support of the MEDIA programme of the 

European Union, of the Centre National de la Cinématographie and of Procirep in France, as 

well as the assistance of all partners that have participated in the 40 sessions set up within the 

past 10 years in over 10 countries. 

Thanks to the preparation work of MEDIA International and to the Jan Vrijman Fund, we are 

lucky enough to be able to host non-European participants this year. 

And also this year we have finally been able to launch, thanks to these supportive 

organizations, the EURODOC Executives Workshop that aims at creating a new space for 

encounters, exchanges, transmission and for reflection about the missions of the 

Commissioning Editors of Documentary Programmes, about the changes occurring in the film 

genre, as well as in all trade-related jobs. 

Two prestigious Heads of Programmes are supervising the workshop: Erkki Astala and Thierry 

Garrel. 

This seminar is bringing together 13 participants from 8 countries: France, Finland, Portugal, 

Switzerland, the Netherlands, South Africa, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, who are either in 

charge of the programming for TV documentary units, or are project managers for 

documentary films with domestic and European support funding, or are executives in the 

organizations in charge of financing documentary projects. 

Questioning the world, with all its complexity, on TV channels that are not keen on scheduling 

uncommon films, unexpected writing styles, new ways of looking at things, points of view that 

differ: These issues, i.e. what is at stake when deciding what the programmes will be made of, 

apart from the mere repetition of forms and simplified writing styles destined to open up to the 

various publics’ new ways of consuming, these major issues are the core of the brainstorming 

that the EURODOC Executives Workshop intends to cope with. 

All these initiatives, as we hope, will contribute to defend the genre, as well as filmmakers, 

producers and financers, and to somehow reach a better understanding of the world, of its 

deep changes, and of the diversity of its cultures. 

This work could only be completed thanks to the generosity and the supporting commitment of 

the Head of Studies of the programme, Jacques Bidou, of all the tutors, experts and guests, and 

of the team working with me every day: Marie-Sophie Decout, Maija Miikkola, Véronique 

Duclos, as well as previously, Isabelle Lohier, Emilie Raimbault, Véronique Maldéra, Laurent Aït 

Benalla. 

Anne-Marie Luccioni 

This catalogue includes: 

- profile of all participants in the EURODOC 2009 programme, together with a description of their 

projects, 

- description of all the films produced by EURODOC participants from previous years and those 

currently in production. 

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En 10 ans, EURODOC a tissé un réseau de producteurs en capacité de coproduire des 

documentaires de création au niveau international. Plus de 525 professionnels de 42 pays sont 

membres de ce réseau. 

En partenariat avec Visions du Réel, nous avons programmé quelques uns des 130 films 

produits, une trentaine sont en cours de production. 

EURODOC n’existerait pas sans le soutien ininterrompu du programme MEDIA de l’Union 

Européenne, du Centre National de la Cinématographie et de la Procirep, en France, et de tous 

les partenaires qui se sont associés aux 40 sessions organisées en 10 ans dans plus de 10 pays. 

Grâce à l’action préparatoire MEDIA International et au Jan Vrijman Fund, nous avons la 

chance de pouvoir accueillir cette année des participants non-européens. 

Et nous avons enfin pu initier, grâce à ces soutiens, EURODOC Executives Workshop qui a pour 

ambition d’ouvrir un nouvel espace de rencontres, d’échanges, de transmission et de réflexions 

sur les missions de Chargé de Programme documentaire, sur l’évolution du genre et de ses 

métiers. 

Deux prestigieux responsables de programmes encadrent cet atelier, Erkki Astala et Thierry 

Garrel. 

Ce séminaire a réuni 13 participants de 8 pays : France, Finlande, Portugal, Suisse, Pays-Bas, 

Afrique du Sud, Irak, Emirats Arabes Unis, chargés de programme d’unité documentaire de 

télévision, chargés de projets documentaires dans les Fonds de soutien nationaux et 

européens, cadres d’institutions en charge du financement de projets documentaires. 

Interroger le monde, dans sa complexité, dans des télévisions qui hésitent à programmer des 

films singuliers, des écritures inattendues, des regards neufs, des points de vue différents, ces 

questions, les enjeux de programmation en dehors de la simple répétition des formes et de la 

simplification des écritures, en s’ouvrant aux nouveaux modes de consommations des publics, 

toutes ces grandes questions sont au coeur de la réflexion que l’atelier EURODOC Executives 

Workshop a l’ambition d’affronter. 

Toutes ces initiatives, nous l’espérons, contribueront à la défense du genre, des cinéastes, des 

producteurs et des financeurs, pour contribuer – un peu – à la compréhension du monde, de 

ses mutations, de la diversité de ses cultures. 

Ce travail n’a pu être mené que grâce à la générosité et à l’engagement à nos côtés, du 

directeur des études du programme, Jacques Bidou, de tous les tuteurs du programme, experts 

et invités, et de l’équipe qui travaille avec moi au quotidien, Marie Sophie Decout, Maija 

Miikkola, Véronique Duclos, mais aussi auparavant, Isabelle Lohier, Emilie Raimbault, 

Véronique Maldéra, Laurent Aït Benalla. 

Anne-Marie Luccioni 

Directrice du programme 

Vous trouverez dans ce catalogue : 

- tous les participants au cycle EURODOC 2009 et une présentation de leurs projets, 

- les films qui sont issus des formations précédentes et les productions en cours.

We will get together in Gorizia, a town located on a border, to share our common commitment 

and passion for documentary cinema, at a time when, for our industry, the scene has become 

harsher, more complex, and confronted with a deep transformation. 

We have to tackle the job of understanding and anticipating the revolution going on in our field 

of activity. All forms of usual TV, be it non-specialized or thematic, cinema and many other 

traditional media of cultural expression are being disrupted by new ways of consuming pictures, 

sound, music and, more generally, communication. The younger generation hardly ever 

watches TV, so the public is getting older, the diversity of cinema is progressively vanishing and 

we are all wondering what our jobs will be like tomorrow. 

Most expression attempts through these new media are not convincing enough, as they often 

are not sufficiently financed, and they mostly value technology over creation, but we should not 

skip attentively analyzing these emerging productions. 

It is true, though, that this film genre, produced in the traditional way, is still very much alive 

everywhere in Europe, even if the situation differs from country to country. Germany, France, 

Belgium, and the Scandinavian countries are in the lead on the market, while the United 

Kingdom has lost its leading position; Southern and Eastern European countries are slowly 

emerging after a long period of silence. 

The global phenomena have remained the same. Documentary cinema is mainly financed by 

public TV channels and by different funding systems set up by governments. “Domestic” 

productions prevail in each country, smaller countries with minority languages have a hard time 

exporting, but on the other hand their subtitling tradition enables them to import a large variety 

of films, whereas the larger countries used to dubbing tend to withdrawal: Great Britain and 

the United States now hardly import any film not directly shot in English. 

Within this scene, ARTE has kept a structuring role, not due to its real audience but due to its 

impact, its steady commitment to the genre and the influence of its creative work on the scene 

as a whole, of course with the assistance of several major public TV channels. We should not 

forget that for the past twenty years, ARTE, Channel 4 the way it was at first, the public TV 

channels in Germany and Belgium, in Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands have literally 

revived the “creative documentary”, which means a kind of cinema entrusted to genuine 

filmmakers and produced by independent producers. 

Because creative artists have continuously been granted such trust, documentary films have 

been able to regain a significant position in the programme schedules, although a less obvious 

one on theatre screens, and have experienced exceptional circulation among the European 

countries, as compared to other TV productions. New issues, generated by such success, are 

now at stake. The broadcasters have set themselves objectives related to increasing audiences, 

so that they tend to develop reproduction rather than creative products, mainly dedicated to 

their domestic markets; but this type of policy will in the long term show how contradictory it is 

to the true development of the film genre. 

To make it short, these heavy trends in the media industry jeopardize the “creative 

documentary”, a genre that might become excessively formatted and in the end deny itself, 

because it is subjected to simplified writing styles as used in in-depth coverage or magazines, 

the styles that reach the public more directly and more effectively. But filmmakers and 

producers of documentary films, as well as their remaining allies, all have so much energy, so 

much passion and often such proficiency that the situation is far from dramatic: the networks 

set up to share these virtues are pro-active, thus preventing the genre from becoming 

marginalized. But the major unknown remains the ongoing mutation. 

EURODOC should choose to be one of the observatories of such mutations, while still stating 

a firm link with the economy of documentary cinema in Europe and in the world, trying to avoid 

financing via subsidies only, developing both proficiency networks and quick adjustment devices 

that enable professionals to face the situation, work together and thus easily exchange works 

and ideas. 

Jacques Bidou 

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Nous allons nous retrouver à Gorizia, ville frontière, pour partager cet engagement, cette 

passion pour le documentaire qui nous unit, à un moment où le paysage professionnel se 

durcit, se complexifie, un paysage confronté à une profonde mutation. 

Nous devons nous atteler à comprendre et anticiper la révolution qui est en cours dans le 

secteur qui nous occupe. La télévision classique dans toutes ses formes, généraliste, 

thématique, le cinéma et bien d’autres formes traditionnelles d’expression culturelles sont 

bousculés par de nouveaux modes de consommation d’images, de son, de musique et plus 

généralement de communication. La nouvelle génération ne regarde pratiquement plus la 

télévision, le public vieillit, le cinéma perd une part de sa diversité et nous sommes tous à nous 

demander ce que sera notre métier demain. 

La plupart des tentatives d’expression issues de ces nouveaux supports ne sont pas 

convaincantes, souvent mal financées, privilégiant presque toujours la technologie à la 

création, mais il serait bien irresponsable de ne pas analyser avec attention ces productions 

émergentes. 

Certes le genre, dans ses modes de production traditionnels, reste vivant partout en Europe, 

même si l’on constate de grandes disparités de situation. L’Allemagne, la France, la Belgique, 

les pays scandinaves dans leur ensemble dominent le marché, le Royaume-Uni a perdu son 

rôle de leader, les pays du Sud et de l’Est de l’Europe émergent difficilement après un long 

silence. 

Les phénomènes globaux demeurent les mêmes. Le documentaire est financé principalement 

par la télévision publique et par les divers systèmes de soutien financier mis en place selon les 

pays. Le marché reste dominé par la production “nationale”, les petits pays de langues 

minoritaires exportent difficilement, mais en revanche leur tradition de sous-titrage permet 

l’importation d’une réelle diversité de films, les grands pays de “doublage” ont tendance au 

repli, l’Angleterre et les Etats-Unis n’importent pratiquement plus de films qui ne soient pas 

tournés en anglais. 

Dans ce paysage, ARTE conserve un rôle structurant, non par son audience réelle mais par son 

impact, son investissement constant dans le genre et l’influence de son travail créateur sur 

l’ensemble du paysage, avec la complicité bien sûr de quelques grandes chaînes de service 

public. Il est bon de rappeler que depuis une vingtaine d’années, ARTE, Channel 4 dans sa 

première époque, les chaînes publiques allemandes et belges, les finlandais, les danois, les 

hollandais ont littéralement relancé le “documentaire de création”, soit un cinéma confié à des 

cinéastes et produit par des indépendants. 

Par une confiance constante faite à des créateurs, le documentaire a reconquis une place non 

négligeable dans les grilles de programme, plus contrastée sur les écrans de cinéma et a même 

connu une circulation exceptionnelle entre les pays d’Europe en regard des autres productions 

de télévision. Ce succès a fait naître de nouveaux enjeux. Les diffuseurs se fixent des objectifs 

de fidélisation qui les incitent à une politique de reproduction plutôt que de création, toujours 

plus consacrée au national, politique qui s’avérera à terme en contradiction avec la santé du 

genre. 

En résumé, les tendances lourdes de l’industrie des médias font peser une menace sur le 

“documentaire de création”, genre qui risque de se formater de façon excessive et donc à terme 

de se nier, genre qui subit le retour à des écritures simplifiées de la tradition du grand 

reportage, du magazine, écritures qui permettent un accès plus direct et efficace au public. 

Mais les créateurs et producteurs de documentaires et les alliés qui leur restent dépensent une 

telle énergie, une telle passion et souvent une telle compétence que la situation est loin d’être 

dramatique et que la mise en réseau de ces qualités offre une force de proposition qui évite la 

marginalisation du genre. Mais la grande inconnue demeure la mutation en cours. 

EURODOC devrait proposer d’être l’un des observatoires de ces mutations, tout en gardant la 

ferme volonté de rester solidement arrimé à l’économie du cinéma documentaire en Europe et 

dans le Monde, en évitant de se laisser entraîner dans une économie de subvention et donc en 

développant le réseau de compétence et une rapidité d’adaptation qui donnent aux 

professionnels la force d’affronter la situation, de travailler ensemble et d’ainsi faire circuler les 

oeuvres et les idées. 

Jacques Bidou 

Directeur des études


NOUAN LE FUZELIER 

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Cycle 2009 

Alma ANAKIEV FDA PRODUCTION Slovenia 

Kaouther BEN HANIA FAMILIA PRODUCTION Tunisia 

Amélie BENASSAYAG CNC France 

Paolo BENZI FABER FILM Italy 

Karin BERGHAMMER AMOUR FOU FILM PRODUKTION Austria 

Aija BERZINA VIDES FILMU STUDIJA Latvia 

Debu BHATTACHARYYA THEME ENTERTAINMENT India 

Amber BORDERWIJK GODMOTHER FILMS The Netherlands 

Sarah BORN FIRST HAND FILMS Swizterland 

Paola CASTILLO ERRANTE PRODUCCIONES Chili 

Pauline DAVID LE P'TIT CINÉ Belgium 

Rehad DESAI UHURU PRODUCTIONS South Africa 

Fabrizia GALVAGNO IMMAGINARIA Italy 

Sébastien GAUTIER TGA France 

Alexandre HALLIER LA GENERALE DE PRODUCTION France 

Sinisha JURICIC NUKLEUS Croatia 

Klaudija KAIRAITYTE FILM STUDIO KOPA Lithuania 

Sandra K'BOURCH TARANTULA SUISSE Swizterland 

Gérald LEROUX MOVIALA FILMS France 

Marie-Christine MALBERT TNS PRODUCTIONS France 

Marie MAS-MOISY CNC France 

Carlotta MASTROJANNI CORNBREAD FILMS UK 

Isabelle MATHY PERSPECTIVE FILMS France 

Julia MISHKINENE SALVADOR D Russia 

Ann Carolin RENNINGER ZERO ONE FILM Germany 

Muriel SORBO LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE SOIE France 

Soren TARP DANISH FILM INSTITUTE Denmark 

Anna Louise TEEMAN END STREET PRODUCTIONS United Kingdom 

Julianna UGRIN HAVAS PRODUCTIONS Hungary 

Simone VAN DEN BROEK HOLLAND HARBOUR The Netherlands 

Gaspar Sebastian ZURITA ANCORA FILMS France 

SESSION 1 - NOUAN LE FUZELIER, France, MARCH 2009 (EXPERTS) 

Jacques BIDOU JBA PRODUCTION France 

Alexandre CORNU LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE SOIE France 

Carlo CRESTO-DINA FELTRINELLI Italy 

Heino DECKERT MA.JA.DE. FILMPRODUKTION Germany 

Michel GYORY Belgium 

Serge LALOU LES FILMS D'ICI France 

Emmanuel PORCHER CENTRE IMAGES France 

Colette QUESSON CENTRE IMAGES France 

Carl-Ludwig RETTINGER LICHTBLICK FILM Germany

Cycle 2009 Chapter 

SESSION 2 – ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, JUNE 2009 


Emmanuel COCQ EUROPEAN COMMISSION France 

DG INFORMATION SOCIETY & MEDIA 


Margje DE KONING IKON The Netherlands 

Marianne DUMOULIN JBA PRODUCTION France 

Ove Rishoj JENSEN EDN Denmark 

Nerina T.KOCJANCIC SLOVENIAN FILM FUND Slovenia 

Niek KOPPEN THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND The Netherlands 

Sergej KRESO The Netherlands 

Sibylle KURZ Germany 

Emmy OOST CASSETTE FOR TIMESCAPES Belgium 

Arnaud PASQUALI EUROPEAN COMMISSION 

MEDIA PROGRAMME - TRAINING UNIT France 

Kristiina PERVILÄ-ANDERSON MILLENNIUM FILM Finland 

SESSION 3 – GORIZIA, Italy, SEPTEMBER 2009 

Claire AGUILAR ITVS USA 

Liran ATZMOR Channel 8 - NOGA COMMUNICATIONS Israël 


Pascal BRUNIER ADAV France 

Gabriella BUSSMANN VISIONS DU RÉEL Switzerland 

Claire COLART RTBF Belgium 


Francine DUPRAZ CANAL + France 

Lorenzo HENDEL RAI 3 Italy 

Alec HERRMANN ARTE France France 

Barbara HUREL France 5 France 

Peter JAGER AUTLOOK Filmsales Austria 

Hrvoje JUVANCIC HRT Croatia 

Nerina T.KOCJANCIC SLOVENIAN FILM FUND Slovenia 

Thomas KUFUS ZERO ONE FILM Germany 

Silvia LAJ NATIXIS-COFICINÉ France 

Gaspard LAMUNIERE TSR Switzerland 

Luca MACCIOCCA RAI Sat Italy 

Anne-Laure NEGRIN ARTE G.E.I.E France 

Jean PERRET VISIONS DU RÉEL Switzerland 

Martin PIEPER ZDF-Arte Germany 

Anne ROUCAN France 2 France 

Sevda SHISHMANOVA BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION Bulgaria 

Marko SKOP ARTILERIA Slovakia 

Esther VAN MESSEL FIRST HAND FILMS Switzerland 

Paolo VIDALI Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Fund Italy 

Jenny WESTERGARD YLE TELEVISION Finland 

Ralph WIESER MISCHIEF FILMS Austria 

Peter ZAWREL VIENNA FILM FUND Austria 

Kamila ZLATUSKOVA CZECH TV Czech Rep. 

Nadine ZWICK ARTE G.E.I.E France 

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AMOUR FOU FILMPRODUKTION KARIN BERGHAMMER 

HEARTBREAKERS 

DIRECTOR : ANJA SALOMONOWITZ 

Imagine: you fall in love. You fall in love even though there are some things about him you don’t 

understand, you fall so head over heels in love that you would like to spend the whole day just 

cuddling. 

And then the immigration police appear on the scene, foreign people in foreign uniforms. They want 

to know intimate details about your relationship. In order to separate the two of you again. 

Heartbreakers is a documentary about binational couples, about people married to someone from a 

“third state”. That might be an Austrian woman with a Nigerian man, or any European woman with 

a man from Afghanistan. People who become enmeshed in legal problems (laws relating to 

foreigners, affecting their partners) because of their love. Watching Heartbreakers you will 

experience hell but feel a hint of heaven too. 

Imagine: tu tombes amoureuse. Tu tombes amoureuse, même s'il y a des choses chez lui que tu ne 

comprends pas, tu tombes folle amoureuse, au point que tu voudrais passer toute la journée à 

câliner. Et puis la police de l'immigration apparaît, des étrangers dans des uniformes étrangers. Ils 

veulent connaître les détails intimes de votre relation. Afin de vous séparer. 

Heartbreakers est un documentaire sur les couples bi-nationaux, sur ceux qui ont épousé une 

personne issue d'un pays du "tiers-monde". Ce peut être une femme autrichienne avec un homme 

nigérian, ou n'importe quelle femme européenne avec un Afghan. Des gens qui sont rattrapés par 

des problèmes légaux (lois sur l'immigration, affectant leurs partenaires) du fait de leur amour. En 

regardant Heartbreakers, vous allez connaître cet enfer, mais aussi un aperçu du paradis. 

BIOFILMOGRAPHY 

Anja Salomonowitz studied film editing and direction at the Academy of Film in Vienna and at the 

College for Film and Television, Konrad Wolf, in Potsdam-Babelsberg. 

Her film “You will never understand this” won the Prix Regards Neufs in Nyon. 

The film “It happened just before” , released in 2006 won 7 international awards including the 

Vienna Film Prize at the Viennale 2006, the Artistic Innovation Award in Mar del Plata 2007 and the 

Caligari Award at the Berlinale 2007. 

ANCORA FILMS GASPAR ZURITA 

CONCRETE STORIES 

DIRECTOR : LORENZ FINDEISEN 

In Eastern Europe hundreds of millions live in identical flats, made of standardized concrete slabs. 

Both capitalist invention and symbol of soviet society, the slab linked destiny of people. The film tells 

the story of this genius and tragic invention through personal accounts of people living in there or 

having participated in the construction this adventure of modernity. 

Dans l’Est de l’Europe, un élément répétitif marque les villes et standardise le paysage. C’est un 

panneau de béton préfabriqué qui s’expose inlassablement sur des kilomètres de barres 

d’habitation. Des millions de gens vivent dans des logements identiques. Invention capitaliste et 

symbole soviètique, le panneau en béton préfabriqué lie le destin de peuples. Un film sur une réalité 

partagée, racontée par les habitants et ceux qui l’ont construite. 


Born in GDR, Lorenz Findeisen went in 1985 to Western Germany. Since 2001, he’s living in France 

where he has been working as a journalist, coming from printed media to television and finally to 

documentary. After some time as a researcher and assistant for different French filmmakers he 

started in 2005 an assistant lecture at the University of Leipzig: History of the French documentary. 

At the same time he directed short movies, institutional films and wrote different screenplays. 

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CNC 


Created by the Act of 25 October 1946, the Centre national de la cinématographie (CNC – National 

center for cinema) is a French public administrative organization, set up as a separate and financially 

independent entity. The Centre comes under the authority of the ministry of culture and 

communication and Véronique Cayla is its director general. 

The main missions of the CNC are: 

- regulation, 

- support to the film, broadcast, video, multimedia and technical industries, 

- promotion of film and television for distribution to all audiences, 

- preservation and development of the film heritage. 

AMÉLIE BENASSAYAG 

REPRESENTATIVE AT THE CREATION DEPARTMENT 

Since 2003, at the Creation Department (Creation, Territorial Action and Audiences Direction) 

Amélie Benassyag is in charge of the organization and follow up of the Audiovisual Innovation 

Fund (FAIA), grants for writing and development for creative documentary. 

The FAIA objective is to support the authors and the producers of most creative projects (cinema or 

TV), which requires specific writing and development works. 

The Creation Department is in charge of the FAIA for creative documentary, of profesionnal training, 

and supports short films production. 

MARIE MAS-MOISY 

CHARGÉEDEMISSIONÀLADIRECTION DE L’AUDIOVISUEL 

Depuis 2001 

Chargée de mission à la Direction de l’audiovisuel 

Aide à la production de programmes ayant trait au spectacle vivant (adaptation audiovisuelle à partir 

de spectacle, documentaires, magazines) destinés à une première diffusion sur une chaîne de 

télévision française 

1998 – 2001 

Chargée de mission à la direction financière et juridique 

Responsable de la passation des contrats d’aide à la production, d’achat ou de commande pour le 

compte des administrations civiles, hors Ministère de la culture et Ministère des affaires étrangères. 

1995- 1998 

Chargée de mission à la Direction des actions culturelles, patrimoniales et des interventions 

territoriales. 

Gestion du fonds audiovisuel Images de la culture, catalogue de films principalement documentaires 

à destination du secteur non commercial. 

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CORNBREAD FILMS CARLOTTA MASTROJANNI 

BAD WEATHER 

DIRECTOR : GIOVANNI GIOMMI 

Banishanta Island is made up of a community of sex workers. Living on a tiny sliver of land 100 

meters long and only ten meters wide in the Bay of Bengal, south Bangladesh. This community 

survives at the frontline of climate change. The rising river, soil erosion and frequent cyclones are 

slowly destroying what is left of the island. Razia, Khadija and Sufia, three of the last 65 women left 

living there, are in a battle for their homes, their futures, and even their quest for true love. As they 

strive to hold onto their livelihood, time is running out. Soon the whole of Banishanta will be totally 

submerged under water, making it one of the first real casualties of the shifting global environment. 

C'est l’histoire d'amour de Helena et Maruf. C’est aussi l’histoire des gens de Dauladtia. Helena est 

une jeune prostituée de Dauladtia, le plus grand bordel, en pleine expansion, du Bangladesh. 

Maruf est son client et amant habituel. Dans ce climat de chaos et corruption, ensemble, ils font tout 

leur possible pour se faire une nouvelle vie. 

Pendant ce temps, dû au changement climatique, chaque année le Ganges avance de quelques 

mètres. Bientôt Dauladtia sera complètement recouvert par les eaux. 


Sol Y Sombra (doc., 1997), Nel Cuore delle Alghe e dei Coralli - I Cento Passi di Peppino Impastato 

(doc., 1999), Beisbol (doc., 2000), Nice! (doc., 2003), Frames-Variazioni per Catena di Montaggio 

(doc., 2004), Avere Ventanni (TV, doc., 2005-07), Politica Zero (doc., 2006), Les Ninjas du Japon 

(doc., 2007), Parafernalia (doc., 2008) 

DANISH FILM INSTITUTE 

The Danish Film Institute (DFI) is the government agency responsible for supporting and encouraging 

film and cinema culture and for conserving these in the national interest. DFI operations extend from 

participation in the development and production of feature films, short and documentary films, over 

distribution and marketing, to managing the national film archive and the cinematheque. 

The DFI Film House, open to the public, is also an entertainment and edutainment facility, with its 

cinemas, videotheque, restaurant and cafe, bookshop and filmmaking studio FILM X. Located in 

central Copenhagen, the Film House also provides a vibrant meeting place for cinema-goers, 

filmmakers and filmbuffs alike. 

The Danish Film Institute (DFI) subsidizes the development and production of Danish short and 

documentary films and the participation by Danish producers in international short and documentary 

film co-productions. The objective of such subsidies is to ensure the continuous production of 

different types of film so that in terms of variety, volume, artistic quality, and audience appeal the 

overall range of Danish short and documentary films maintains and develops the art and culture of 

Danish film at home and abroad. The 2008 budget for support to short and documentary films 

amounts app. 4.000.000 euros, supporting the production of about 25-30 films, mainly 

documentaries, both national and international co-productions. 

SOREN TARP 

PRODUCER 

2000 to present : Producer for Short- and Documentary films, the Danish Film Institute. 

1993 to 2004 : Guest teacher in film production, Danish Documentary School and media courses. 

1990 to 2000 : Producer, line-producer, cameraman, editor, sound-engineer and researcher at Loke 

Film (documentaries, shorts and promos), Denmark and France. 

1987 to 1990 : Shop-assistant in the first ecological shop and bar in Denmark. 

1982 to 1987 : Social worker in institutions for socially handicapped children and youth. 

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BLACKSTAR 

DIRECTOR : ISAAC CHOKWE 

“Blackstar” is a sci-fi adventure into Zimbabwe’s and Africa’s past, present and future with the 

Zimbabwean painter Kudzanai Chiurai – Kudzi- as its hero. Kudzi is sick of his work – vast canvasses 

that depict his life as a black refugee in downtown Johannesburg- that sell for thousands. He wants 

to nail these lies: Africa the ignorant, the criminal and the hopeless. His weapon is his work. His 

portraits of Somali pirates transform them into Robin Hoods. The final new work a return to the first 

subject he ever painted. The lyrical beauty of his grandmother’s Zimbabwean farm. He finds his 

future in his past. 

Blackstar est une science-fiction sur le passé, le présent et le futur du Zimbabwé et de l'Afrique, avec 

comme héros, le peintre Zimbabwéen Kudzanai Chiurai. Fatigué de ses propres créations, 

notamment les toiles décrivant sa vie de réfugié noir dans les quartiers pauvres de Johannesbourg, 

il veut désormais rompre avec ce passé et dénoncer les mensonges sur l'Afrique dite criminelle, 

ignorante et sans issue. Ses portraits de pirates somaliens en Robin des Bois en seront la pure 

ilustration. Sa dernière peinture reviendra sur son premier sujet traité: la ferme de sa grand-mère. Il 

trouvera son avenir dans son passé. 


Isaac Chowke is a leading South African filmmaker and opinion former. He produced, directed and 

edited the recently completed 13 part documentary series “Trace Your Roots” for SABC1 which 

explored the common cultures and history of South African peoples as a riposte to xenophobia. His 

documentary feature White Trash profiled an isolated community of impoverished Afrikaners living in 

one of the most deprived areas of Johannesburg left behind by the tectonic shifts in the political and 

cultural life of South Africa after the end of apartheid. University was an unaffordable option so he 

has studied and trained vocationally throughout his career winning an Avanti (the South African 

Oscar) for his acting work and gravitating to producing, writing and directing forming his own 

production company PIR Squared in 2002. 

ERRANTE PRODUCCIONES PAOLA CASTILLO 

74 SQUARE METERS 

DIRECTOR : TIZIANA PANIZZA & PAOLA CASTILLO 

“74 square meters” tells the story of Iselsa, Kathy and the indigenous leader, Ivan. They have been 

offered the dream of being part of a middle-class neighbourhood in Valparaiso, an old port on 

Chile’s central coast. They were chosen, together with 150 families, to take part in a social 

experiment. This involved incorporating a marginalised community, made up of different groups and 

families, into an area with better facilities and networks. 

Pour Iselsa, Kathy et le leader indigène Ivan leur rêve va devenir réalité. Ils vont abandonner leurs 

logements provisoires pour s’installer dans une ville nouvelle. Ils ont été choisis, ainsi que cent 

cinquante autres familles vivant en marge de la société, pour participer à une expérience sociale qui 

les intègrera dans un quartier de classe moyenne. Cependant, leurs nouveaux voisins les accusent 

de délinquants qui pourraient être dangereux pour le quartier. 


Paola Castillo 

Chilean filmmaker, executive producer and director of television series and documentaries. She 

graduated as a Filmmaker from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba. She is one 

of the partners of Errante Production, developing television and cinema projects. She was awarded 

the Altazor Prize for Best Television Direction, with the cultural show, “Cine Video + Teatro”. She has 

also directed several seasons of the TV show “El Show de los Libros” (Media-España Award for the 

Best Ibero-American Show, among others). Her television work has allowed her to direct more than 

110 episodes since 1999. She has also worked on short-length and feature documentary 

films : “Los perros tienen hambre” (Dogs are Hungry), “Piscis” and the documentary films “Niños del 

Paraíso” (Children from Paradise), and “La Ultima Huella” (The Last Trace). 

Tiziana Panizza 

Chilean/Italian filmmaker and university professor. Master in Arts and Media Practice, University of 

Westminster, London. Documentary Filmmaking, International Film and Television School of Cuba. 

She has been a field-director for different documentary series on international television channels 

such as Discovery Channel, Discovery Kids, People & Arts and Travel Channel. She has directed 

award-winning documentaries series for the most prestigious television channels in Chile. She 

directed the film “Dear Nonna: a Film Letter” (2005) and “Postage: a visual letter (2008)”. She codirected 

the film “No Me quieras Tanto” (“Don’t Love Me So Much”, 2002) in Cuba and is responsible 

for researching and writing the script for the film “La Última Huella” (“The Last Trace”, 2001). 

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FABER FILM PAOLO BENZI 

GIACOMINO 

DIRECTOR : ALESSANDRO COMODIN 

The metamorphosis of Giacomo. Giacomo is a deaf boy of eighteen years. 

In a small village in the Italian region of Veneto, where the plain precedes the sea, young people 

spend their afternoons on the terrace of one of the corner bistro or plunging into the River. Giacomo 

had just taken his bachelor's degree and attends the event which will change his life: an operation 

that will enable him to discover a new world he only knew in a truncated way. Giacomo will finally 

be able to hear. 

How and through what steps will he pass before being able to accept the sounded world? Giacomo 

will live its own and unique coming of age the time of one year. 

La métamorphose de Giacomo. Giacomo est un garçon sourd de dix-huit ans. 

Dans un petit village de la région italienne de la Vénétie, là où la plaine précède la mer, les jeunes 

gens passent leurs après-midi à la terrasse du seul bistrot du coin ou en plongeant dans la rivière. 

Giacomo vient d’avoir son baccalauréat et attend l’événement qui va bouleverser sa vie : une 

opération qui lui permettra de découvrir un nouveau monde qu’il ne connaissait que de manière 

tronquée. Giacomo va enfin pouvoir entendre. Comment et à travers quelles étapes passera-t-il 

avant de pouvoir accepter le monde sonore ? Giacomo va vivre son propre et singulier passage à 

l’âge adulte le temps d’une année. 


Born on June 5, 1982 in San Vito al Tagliamento/Pordenone (Italy). 

Degree in cinema direction/INSAS (2004 - 2008), Bruxelles, Belgium. 

2008 – Jagdfieber, documentary film, 21’, 35mm (41st Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2009) 

2007 – Le bleu entre nous, documentary film, 16’, DVCAM 

2006 – Mandi, documentary film, 8’, 16mm 

2005 – À Bruxelles, documentary film, 4’, 16mm 

2003 – A viso scoperto, 8’, DVCAM 

2001 – Il timp furlan di Pasolini. 12’, DV 

FAMILIA PRODUCTION KAOUTHER BEN HANIA 

IMAMS GO TO SCHOOL 

DIRECTOR : KAOUTHER BEN HANIA 

Yaniss, Mohamed and Wadia are apprentice Imams at the Great Mosque, Paris. From now on, they 

are also required to train in secularity, in conformity to the policy of modernisation of Islam set up by 

the French authorities. 

Yet, among all universities, only one volunteered to give this training: the Catholic Institute of Paris! 

For the first time in the history of the Republic, in addition to the lessons they follow at the Great 

Mosque, our apprentice Imams are trained to secularity by the Catholics during one year. 

Yaniss, Mohamed et Wadia sont apprentis imams à la Grande Mosquée de Paris. Ils sont désormais 

également tenus de se former à la laïcité, conformément à la politique de modernisation de l’Islam 

mise en oeuvre par les pouvoirs publics. 

Or parmi toutes les universités, une seule s’est portée volontaire pour dispenser cette formation : 

l’Institut Catholique de Paris ! 

Pour la première fois dans l’histoire de la république, en plus des cours à la Grande Mosquée, nos 

étudiants imams se formeront donc à la laïcité chez les catholiques pendant un an. 


Kaouther Ben Hania studied direction at EDAC (Tunis School of Arts and Cinema) between 2002 and 

2004. She took a documentary class at the Fémis (Paris) Summer University in 2004 before she 

enrolled the screenwriting department of La Fémis in 2005. 

Then she worked in Aljazeera Documentary Channel (2006-2007). 

She directed several short films: Un film narcissique de K (2001), La Fenêtre (2002) and La Brèche 

(2005) along with a short documentary, Panoramique sur le monde (2004). 

Me, My sister and the thing (2006), her last film, was selected in several festivals all over the world. 

In 2008, she works with Familia production. 

Kaouther Ben Hania has also a feature project (City of Lead) currently in development. 


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FDA PRODUCTION ALMA ANAKIEV 

BORDERS OF MY HEART 

DIRECTOR : DIMITAR ANAKIEV 

In the documentary film Borders of My Heart we follow the unique way of life of our main character, 

Zinovy Vayman who is travelling around the globe pushing his baby carriage loaded with heavy 

suitcases. Zinovy pushes all his rich history with him wandering around looking for his lost identity. 

Like many people from Eastern Europe, his family and himself were forced to change their cultural 

identity many times in the last century. They are Ashkenazy Jews who survived Holocaust and became 

Soviet citizens. After the fall of communism Zinovy emigrated to America finding his new identity by 

adopting Japanese culture—he became a wandering haiku poet. Drawing the portrait of Zinovy 

Vayman the road movie Borders of my Heart is going to reconstruct a portrait of a whole epoch. 

Le film documentaire “Les Frontières de mon Coeur” retrace la vie singulière du personnage 

principal, Zinovy Vayman, qui voyage autour du monde en poussant son landau chargé de lourdes 

valises. A la recherche de son identité, Zinovy transporte avec lui toute sa riche histoire. Comme 

beaucoup de gens de l’Europe de l'Est au siècle dernier, lui et sa famille ont été contraints de changer 

plusieurs fois d’identité et de culture. Ce sont des juifs ashkénazes, qui ont survécu à l’Holocauste 

avant d'être devenus citoyens soviétiques. Après la chute du communisme, Zinovy émigre aux Etats- 

Unis où il trouve sa nouvelle identité en embrassant la culture japonaise. Il devient un haïkiste errant. 

En esquissant le portrait de Zinovy Vayman, l'ambition du road-movie “Les Frontières de mon Coeur” 

est de reconstruire le portrait de toute une époque. 


DIMITAR ANAKIEV (b. Belgrade, 1960) graduated from High Medical School in Nish (Serbia). He 

began his artistic career as a painter and graphic artist. He then continued as a free lance writer and 

poet, releasing 11 collections of poetry (many multilingual), and as an editor of numerous literary 

magazines and anthologies. His literary awards include the Franz Kafka Medal, granted in Prague in 

1999. His first documentary film "Amigo" won a Slovenian national award in 2003 and and award 

for "High Artistic Achievement" prize in the Kaljuga competition, Moscow. He currently devotes 

himself to his filmmaking career, with a particular interest in socially engaged films and screenplays. 

He is a head of FDA Production. 

FILM STUDIO KOPA KLAUDIJA KAIRAITYTE 

MONOLOGUES OF THE HEART 

DIRECTORS : SAULIUS BERZINIS 

Poetical documentary film where humanitarian philosophy and topicality of organ transplantation is 

being revealed by reconstruction, experimental and feature films technicians. A man killed in 

unexpected accident and his heart which can be still kept alive by the help of medics starts his journey 

into another person, a hopeless patient, whose life could be saved by transplantation as well as its 

own existing in him. Those few decisive heart survival hours join together very different people: the 

closest people of the dead man, medics, police crew, military aviation pilot as they pass from hands 

to hands the heart - invaluable charity and self-sacrifice relay-race on the way to save human life. 


Saulius Berzinis was born born in 1950 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Director, author, owner of film studio 

KOPA. Graduated from the Vilnius University Philological Department in 1973, the Moscow State 

Supreme Film School Directing department in 1983 and the BMC Co-production Course in 

Bornholm, Denmark in 1999. 

Selected films: THE LULLABY FOR MOTHER (83,- Award in the International Film Festival “Youth 85”, 

Kyev), TWO GLOVES FOR THE LEFT HAND (85), THE DIRECTIVE “R”.DO NOT EXECUTE! (85), ON THE 

ZHALALAND BEACH (87), ...I CAN NOT RETURN (88), THE BRICK STONE BANNER (88 – Award of 

Journalist Jury and Award of Audience – International Non-Feature Film Festival, Leningrad, 89; THE 

DIARIES OF LITHUANIAN CINEMA (91), GREIMAS (91), THE LITHUANIAN STAINED GLASS” (92), 

FAREWELL,YERUSHALAYIM DE LITA! (coprod.with “HCL-Videoproduction, Germany, Award “The Best 

Video” in International Non- Feature Filmn Festival “Rossya”, Sverdlovsk, 94 ), THE DAYS OF 

MEMORY (coprod. with the Confidence Building Measures of Council of Europe), HOUSE IN THE 

WOODS (2000), THE VOLUNTEERS (2000), LOVELY FACES OF THE MURDERER’S (2002), IN 

MEMORIAM OF THE LITHUANIAN SYNAGOGUES (2002), THE GLEES OF DIJUTA (2003), 

UNWRITTEN JUDEL DIARRY (20END OF THE ROAD (2004), YIDDISH WAS SPOKEN HERE (2006), 

ALONE AT HOME (2007). 

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First Hand Films was founded in Zurich (1998) and Berlin (1999) by Esther van Messel, to distribute 

independent fiction and documentary films for television and cinema. The company is present at all 

major festivals around the year, with meeting and screening facilities at stands at the main markets. 

First Hand Films represents more than 250 films and their makers from all over the world. Our films 

have competed in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Locarno, Sundance, Nyon, Toronto 

and most other major festivals. Its first pick-up went on to receive the Oscar for Best Documentary 

Feature. Since then, almost all First Hand Films have won awards: Emmy, Prix Europa, Joris Ivens and 

Silver Wolf (Winners Amsterdam), Biarritz, Banff, Grimme-Preis, Grand Prix Nyon, Leipzig, many 

National Film Awards, European Film Awards, Silver Leopards Locarno, Golden Roses and many 

more. 

SARAH BORN 

ASSISTANT OF SALES AND ACQUISITIONS 

Born in Hamburg, Sarah holds a Bachelor in Cultural Studies from the European University, Viadrina 

in Frankfurt/Oder. 

In 2004 Sarah finished her first documentary Smerffurt City about the relationship between German 

and Polish children as European neighbours within the urban artproject Slubfurt City. Sarah has also 

worked for NiKo Film, Berlin, as production assistant. 

In summer 2007, she started an internship at First Hand Films, completing a study about 

international distribution channels of DVD and VOD Services. Since September 2007 Sarah works for 

First Hand Films as assistant of sales and acquisition and is in charge of research and development 

of the company. 

GODMOTHER FILMS AMBER BORDEWIJK 

MEZRAB 

DIRECTOR : MARCO DELLA COLETTA 

Every Saturday night, musicians from the most diverse cultural backgrounds meet in the heart of 

Amsterdam at the Iranian Teahouse Mezrab to play together in fascinating jam-sessions or simply to 

listen to the universal language of music. The Mezrab is a place where the dream of a Dutch 

multicultural society seems to become reality. But did the Iranian family who started the Mezrab’s and 

the musicians who always gather there manage to connect with the Dutch community around them? 

What’s their relationship with the local music tradition known as Smartlappen? Can music be a 

creative tool for intercultural communication and therefore for integration? These questions will be 

addressed in occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Mezrab, when everybody from the 

neighbourhood will be invited to join a night of musical improvisation. 

Chaque samedi soir, des musiciens d’origines culturelles les plus diverses se rencontrent au coeur 

d'Amsterdam, au salon de thé iranien Mezrab. 

Lá, ils jouent ensemble des jam-sessions fascinantes ou écoutent simplement la langue universelle 

de la musique. Le Mezrab est un lieu où le rêve d'une société néerlandaise multiculturelle semble 

devenir réalité. Mais est-ce que la famille iranienne, à l’initiative du Mezrab et les musiciens qui s'y 

rencontrent, ont su entrer en contact avec la communauté néerlandaise ? 

Quelle est leur rélation avec la musique locale connue sous le nom traditionel de ‘Smartlappen’? Estce 

que la musique peut être un outil créatif au service de la communication interculturelle et de 

l'intégration? Ces questions seront abordées à l'occasion du 5 ème anniversaire du Mezrab. Tout le 

quartier sera invité à une nuit d'improvisation musicale. 


Marco Della Coletta is an Italian/Dutch filmmaker based in Amsterdam and partner in the production 

company Godmother Films. 

His latest works as a director are Run China Run, an animation about the controversial issue of 

freedom of speech in China and The Incredible Green, an Internet viral for Dutch NGO Milieu 

Defensie. 

Mezrab will be Marco Della Coletta’s first feature-length documentary. The subject of the film is very 

close to Marco’s personal experience. Son of an Italian father and a Dutch mother, Marco grew up 

in Italy and moved to The Netherlands five years ago. Due to his personal experience, Marco has 

dealt himself with the process of integration within the Dutch society. 

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HAVAS FILMS JULIANNA UGRIN 

IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD 

DIRECTOR : CSABA SZEKERES 

A couple of years ago there was a student at the Department of Theology of University of the 

Reformed Church of Budapest. Born with permanent deficiencies, he has been disabled and tonguetied 

all his life. However, he is known for his impeccable mental abilities and excellent academic 

performance. Following long-lasting internal struggle, he decided to openly declare being 

homosexual. In response, the young man was expelled from the University. He brought suit. The 

Court ruled in his favor. Gábor lives his life to the full, more so than most of us do. Smokes a pipe 

although not too easy to light up, he carries a beer mug in his bag to festivals, for fear of dropping 

regular paper cups, he takes dance courses and he writes… He is going to France next year to work 

with handicap children… This is a human story about negative discrimination, about handicap, about 

sexual orientation, about self-acceptance and acceptance of others. 

Un jeune homme faisait ses études à la faculté de théologie de l’Université calviniste de Budapest. 

Lors de sa naissance, il a subi une lésion durable : depuis qu’il est en vie, il est handicapé et 

dysphasique. Cependant, ses capacités mentales sont impeccables, ses résultats excellents. Suivant 

une longue lutte intérieure il s’est décidé à assumer publiquement son homosexualité. En réponse, 

le jeune homme a été éloigné de l’institution calviniste. Il a porté l’affaire devant la justice. Gabor 

vit une vie entière, plus complète que beaucoup d’entre nous. Il fume la pipe, même s’il ne lui est 

pas facile de l’allumer, il fréquente des festivals, il prend des cours de dance et il écrit. L’année 

prochaine il ira en France comme volontaire pour travailler avec les enfants handicapés... C’est une 

histoire humaine qui parle de discrimination négative, de l’handicap, de l’appartenance sexuelle, de 

l’acceptation des autres, de la compréhension et de l’incompréhension. 


Csaba Szekeres is a multi-award-winning independent filmmaker. After graduating from Berzsenyi 

Daniel College in Szombathely with a degree in Hungarian language and literature and film study 

in 1993, he moved to Paris to study the French theatre. In a strange manner, he turned towards the 

film due to the theatre and decided to pursue a career in filmmaking. In the same year he shot his 

first documentary "Provence Letters" which premiered on Spektrum TV , a basic cable documentary 

channel run by HBO in Hungary. Multi-tasking as a director, writer, editor and sometimes 

cameraman, he has over the past 15 years developed a Hungarian and international reputation with 

a range of unique and critically acclaimed short and feature length documentaries with a social topic 

- primarily the social phenomena on the level of the individual and small communities. 

His more recent and perhaps best-known work includes Dream Tour (2005), which premiered at New 

York Festivals and won a special prize. His latest film, Three Children, Three Fates - was nominated 

for the Teaching Award Prizes in London in 2009. 

HOLLAND HARBOUR PRODUCTIONS SIMONE VAN DEN BROEK 

A LOCAL TRADITION 

DIRECTOR : INGEBORG JANSEN 

A majority of the inhabitants of Glasgow’s city prison come from just a few housing schemes in the 

east of the city. This documentary examines the way of life of families from these areas, whose men 

keep ending up in prison from generation to generation. With the visiting hours of the prison as 

backbone, the film portays, without judgement but with a strong feeling for humour, a manner of 

living in which not only the men but also their families are stuck. 

La majorité des détenus à la prison de Glasgow vient de quelques quartiers seulement de la ville. Ce 

documentaire dépeint le mode de vie des familles dont les hommes, de génération en génération, 

finissent en prison. Les heures de visite servent d’élément de retour pour le film. Sans jugement mais 

avec un sens d’humour fort, le film propose un portrait d’un mode de vie qui s’impose à ces hommes 

et à leurs familles. 


Ingeborg Jansen studied at Dutch National Film- and Television Academy, depts. Documentary and 

Editing and Film- and Theatre sciences, University of Amsterdam 

Since 1992 she has directed a long list of successful documentaries for Dutch television. 

FAMILY ON HOLD : 2x 50 min, NCRV Dokument - Broadcasted March 2009. 

CHICAGOBLOK : Broadcasted in October 2008 by IKON television. 

IN THE SHADOW OF A MOSQUE : Broadcasted in October 2008 by HUMAN television. 

HOLY BEANS : 3 x 20 minutes, 2005 VPRO/Holland Harbour. 

JAMILA : release May 12 2005, 14 minutes / Holland Harbour/NFF/RFF. 

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IMMAGINARIA FABRIZIA GALVAGNO 

SUPER RATS 

DIRECTOR : MAURO TONINI 

Super Rats is a film about a love-and-hate relationship that has been going on since the earth started 

spinning. Ratatouille meets horror movies, Of mice and men will never get any more pertinent. Our 

film follows Massimo Donadon, a rat exterminator famous as the “chef for rats”, who claims rats are 

growing so much in number and size because we’re wasting too much food; John Chapin a neuro 

scientist from New York, who is turning rats into robots introducing a device in their brain so that they 

can be used in land mine detection; and Daniel Berquiny, a professional rat-trainer for horror movies. 

Super Rats will teach us about rats as much as about humans. Would we humans really be better off 

without those annoying rodents? 

Super Rats est un film sur une relation amour-haine qui a commencé depuis la nuit des temps. A michemin 

entre Ratatouille et un film d'horreur, Des souris et des hommes : jamais titre n’a été plus 

pertinent. Notre film suit Massimo Donadon, un dératisateur connu comme "le chef des rats": il 

soutient que les rats sont en train d'augmenter en nombre et en taille du fait qu'on jette trop de 

nourriture; Dr John Chapin, un neuroscientifique de New York qui transforme les rats en robots, en 

insérant une puce dans leur cerveau pour en permettre l'utilisation pendant les opérations de 

déminage; et Daniel Berquiny, entraîneur professionnel de rats pour les films d'horreur. Super Rats 

en dit long sur les rats mais aussi sur les hommes. Serait-on vraiment mieux sans ces pénibles 

rongeurs ? 


Born in Gorizia. In 1998, he won the Visual Arts First Prize at the Break 21 Festival in Ljubljana. In 

2002 he obtained a European stage as a researcher and story-boarder at GA&A Productions in 

Rome. This cooperation with GA&A has continued as a researcher for several projects, among which 

Mussolini’s dirty war, co-produced with History Channel, RTI, ERT and RTSI and Mark Daniels’ Comic 

books go to war, co-produced with STUDIO International, AVRO,YLE, SBS,CBC, JIMMY, RTBF, DR2 and 

ORF (currently in post-production). Mauro has also worked as an author and script consultant for 

GA&A and Minimum Fax Media. With Immaginaria he’s currently pre-producing La violenza è una, 

already pre-sold to RAI regionale Friuli Venezia Giulia; and he’s developing Ukmar, a Slovenian- 

Italian revolutionary, an Italy-Slovenia coproduction. 

LA GÉNÉRALE DE PRODUCTION ALEXANDRE HALLIER 

APPLE, THE TYRANNY OF COOL? 

DIRECTOR : LAURENT VÉDRINE 

This is a story of a “Mac addict”, who believes that he is cool, different, and hip. Suddenly he realizes 

that he has become totally dependent of Apple products. He decides to see specialists to cure his 

Apple - addiction. His therapy is a pretext to discover the hidden side of the brand: the power of 

marketing, the conformism of fashion, all in all the tyranny of cool. This ironic portrait tackles the 

modern consumerism and individualism with an original angle, which challenges every one of us on 

the impact of technology upon our lives. 

Ceci est l'histoire d'un "Mac addict", qui se croit cool, original et branché. Mais il réalise soudainement 

qu’il est devenu totalement dépendant des objets Apple. Il décide alors de consulter des spécialistes 

pour se « désintoxiquer » de la marque à la pomme. La thérapie de ce personnage est prétexte à 

découvrir la face cachée d'Apple : le pouvoir du marketing, le conformisme de la mode, bref, la 

tyrannie du cool. Ce portrait ironique aborde le consumérisme et l'individualisme modernes sous un 

angle original, qui interrogera chacun d'entre nous sur l'impact de la technologie dans nos vies. 


L’Obélisque de la Discorde - 2006 - La Générale de Production – ARTE / TV5 / PLANETE 

Kinshasa Beijing Story - 2008 - La Générale de Production – PLANETE / RTBF 


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LE P’TIT CINÉ 


Le P'tit Ciné is an association whose main mission is to promote documentaries in cinemas. Since 

1995 Le P'tit Ciné has organised regular screenings of creative documentaries in different cinemas 

in Belgium and at the Cinematek (Film Museum), In the past ten years, more than 450 films have 

been shown by Le P'tit Ciné. Most of the films accompanied by Le P'tit Ciné are released for first time 

in Belgium, and the association acts often as intermediary between the films and potential means of 

distribution for them. Le P'tit Ciné organises also an annual festival called "Regards sur le travail", 

which focuses on documentary films related to past and present evolutions and issues of labour. It 

questions how working people and the work system are depicted in non-fiction films. The programme 

includes debates and discussions, in presence of the filmmakers of the selected documentaries. 

PAULINE DAVID 

COORDINATOR 

With a university background in History and Cinema, and several experiences as film researcher, 

Pauline joined in 2001 the MEDIA Program where she navigated between the different departments 

and acquired certain knowledge of the European audiovisual industry. She is now responsible for the 

management of Le P’tit Ciné, a Brussels-based organization whose mission is to promote 

documentaries in the cinemas. Pauline has also published a few articles on European cinemas and 

taught film policy at the University Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle). 

LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE SOIE MURIEL SORBO 

ECHOS OF HARLEM 

DIRECTOR : JEAN-PIERRE LENOIR 

2008. A black man accedes to the presidence of the United States. Harlem, the mythical 

neighbourhood of New York, symbol of the Black culture and the struggle for Civil Rights is 

celebrating the event. Yet the Harlem known in the entire world no longer exists. 

For the past 20 years it is undergoing a complete change : the gentrification. The Black ghetto, violent 

and protesting, is turning into a pleasant neighbourhood with a wasting real estate speculation. 

Opinions on these changes are of a great variety in Harlem. From their browstones or council flats, 

from Central Harlem to Sugar Hill, these characters deliver their vision of the neighbourhood, true 

or fantasized. Their interiors, echoing their stories, also reveal a century of the history of the mythical 

Harlem. 

2008. Un noir accède à la présidence des Etas-Unis. Harlem, quartier mythique de NY, emblème de 

la culture noire et de la lutte pour les droits civiques, célèbre l’événement. Pourtant le Harlem connu 

du monde entier n’est plus… 

Il subit depuis 20 ans une mutation profonde : la « gentrification ». Le ghetto noir contestataire et 

violent, se transforme en quartier fréquentable, où la spéculation immobilière fait des ravages. Le 

regard que les habitants portent sur cette évolution est contrasté. C’est dans leurs brownstones, 

appartement ou HLM, de Central Harlem aux hauteurs de Sugar Hill que ces personnages et d’autres 

livrent leur vision, réelle ou fantasmée, de leur quartier. Et les intérieurs, à l’image de ceux qui y 

vivent, font écho à leurs témoignages, révélant eux aussi un siècle d’histoire de ce quartier mythique. 


Jean-Pierre Lenoir worked and lived in New York. After directing his first entitled short film 

"Inch'Allah" which was subsidized in numerous festivals, Jean-Pierre Lenoir turns to creative 

documentary films direction. He approaches in his films the questions of identity, memory, mixing in 

France or abroad.At the same time, he works on various films as chief cameraman or editor and 

teaches cinematic writing in several audiovisual schools and universities. 

Last films : L'Affirmative Action / The Affirmative Action (52’, doc, 2009) being edited 

Médée (124’, doc, 2008, CDN of Sartrouville) 

Au-dehors / Outside (20’, video creation , 2008, Festival of Avignon) 

Sounou Senegal – Notre Sénégal / Our Senegal (53mn, doc, 2006, France 5, TV5, Télessonne) 

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MOVIALA FILMS GÉRALD LEROUX 

CASA 

DIRECTOR : DANIELA DE FELICE 

One day my mother informed us that she wanted to sell the house, the family house in Santo Stefano 

Ticino where my brother and I grew up and my father died ten years ago. The following summer, my 

mother, my brother and I got together again in the house to talk it over. Very quickly, putting the 

house up for sale regenerated the group dynamic and led us each to assert or question our place in 

the family, and revisit our relationship with our father. Casa is a film that looks at that house as a 

place where a family’s shared memories are stored, and as the final unifying structure for a family 

dispersed throughout Europe. It also looks at the way people emerge from a period of mourning. 

Un jour, ma mère nous annonce qu’elle veut vendre la maison de Santo Stefano Ticino, notre maison : 

celle-là même où nous avons grandi, mon frère et moi, et où notre père est mort il y a dix ans. Ma 

mère, mon frère et moi nous retrouvons l'été suivant dans la maison pour faire le point. Très vite la 

mise en vente de la maison devient pour nous l'occasion de redonner vie au théâtre familial, 

d'affirmer ou de questionner notre place au sein de la famille et d'explorer notre rapport au père 

disparu. Casa est un film qui interroge la maison en tant que lieu des mémoires communes d'une 

famille, ultime lieu d'unité d'une famille dispersée en Europe. C'est aussi un récit qui expose la façon 

dont ceux qui restent vivent la fin du deuil. 


(G)RÊVE GÉNÉRAL(E) Documentary: 100 minutes • production Septièmesens / Cityzen TV 

Selections: “Regards sur le Travail” Ptit ciné, “Cinésup au Cinématographe”, “Cent Soleils”, “Façons 

de Voir”, “Visions du Réel”, Rencontres Cinématographiques de Gindou, “Ecran Libre”, “Le comptoir 

du Doc”, Distribution ISKRA - Distribution Germany by EYZ Media. 

OSERELLE Documentary: 10 minutes • production AJC Brussels 

Selections: “Les Inattendus”, Paris/Berlin Hors Circuit, Film Festival in Brussels. 

LIBRO, Documentary: 20 minutes 

Selections: “Doc en Courts”, Paris/Berlin Hors Circuit, “Les Inattendus” , “Traverse Vidéo”, “Cent 

Soleils”, Transat Vidéo, “Coté Court”, “Off Courts” 

NUKLEUS FILM CROATIA SINISHA JURICIC 

THE CLASS 

DIRECTOR : VESNA CUDIC 

They are young, bright, and ambitious. In their free time they practice folk dancing, watch TV soaps, 

and follow fashion trends. They dream of finishing school, acquiring a driving license, finding a job, 

leaving the village and moving to the city. Their dreams are not unusual; in fact they are pretty 

ordinary for girls of their age. But the problem is that they belong to a Roma minority, and what’s 

standard fare for non-Roma teenagers is out of reach for them. These girls simply can’t escape from 

the fact that only 10% of Roma students are likely to complete elementary school, and only a tiny 

proportion of them go onto high school. Instead, most marry at 17, and never stand a chance of 

entering a work place. 

Elles sont jeunes, intelligentes et ambitieuses. Elles passent leur temps libre entre la danse 

folkloristique, les soap-operas et les tendances de la mode. Elles rêvent de finir leurs études, 

d’obtenir leur permis de conduire, de trouver un emploi, de partir de leur village natal pour 

déménager en ville. Leurs rêves ne sont pas insolites ; à vrai dire, ils sont assez ordinaires pour des 

filles de leur âge. Mais elles appartiennent à la minorité des Roms et ce qui représente le standard 

pour les adolescents non-roms, reste inaccessible pour elles. Ces filles ne peuvent pas échapper au 

fait que seulement 10% d’étudiants roms termineront probablement leurs études élémentaires tandis 

qu’une petite partie d’entre elles ira au lycée. La majorité de ces filles se mariera à l’âge de 17 ans 

et n’aura jamais l’opportunité de travailler. 


Vesna Cudic has directed two award-winning commercials, and thirteen short films (fiction & 

documentary) which have been screened at numerous film festivals across the world, and won British 

and international awards. She has also directed a short film for BBC One, and Dream Team – a TV 

series broadcast on Sky One. Currently, she is developing feature film projects in both Croatia and 

the UK. Since 2008 Vesna has been developing longer length documentary projects. 




PERSPECTIVE FILMS ISABELLE MATHY 

MANHATTAN TRANSFERS 

DIRECTOR : ALICIA HARRISON 

When I was 18, I left my hometown, New York, and moved to Paris. Turning away from American 

ideology, searching for my French identity. Today, 10 years later, I've decided to return to New York 

to rediscover the city that was once my own. 

More precisely, to rediscover it through the eyes of those who embody the American dream: the 

immigrant taxi drivers. They tell me about the myths, images and stories that accompanied their exile 

and that still give meaning to it today. In the intimacy of the taxicab, they tell me about THEIR New 

York, and their vision echoes my questions about the city, about my exile and my return. 

A 18 ans, j'ai quitté New York pour Paris. Rejet de l'idéologie américaine, quête d'identité française. 

Aujourd'hui, 10 ans plus tard, je décide de retourner à NY, de redécouvrir cette ville qui m’a vue 

grandir. 

Je décide de croiser mon regard avec celui de ceux qui incarnent le rêve américain,: les chauffeurs 

de taxi immigrés. Ils me racontent les mythes, les images, les histoires qui ont accompagné leur exil 

et qui continuent de lui donner sens aujourd'hui. Dans l'intimité du taxi, ils me racontent LEUR New 

York, et leur regard fait écho à mon questionnement sur la ville, sur mon exil, sur mon retour. 


Alicia Harrison grew up in New York City before moving to Paris for her studies, in September 2000. 

During her college years at “l’Ecole Normale Supérieure”, where she majored in Philosophy and 

obtained the “agrégation” (the French teaching degree), she became passionate about documentary 

film and directed her first short films: Ce qui se joue, Hors-jeu, Refuge gardé and L’accord. From 

2005 to 2006, she worked as an assistant to a French director, Jean-Luc Leon, for the documentary 

series Manhattan Ladies (10 x 26’, ARTE), actively participating in all the stages of the production, 

from the conception of the sequences to sound taking, editing and translating. In the fall of 2007, 

she took an intensive course in film direction at Les Ateliers Varan, a renowned documentary film 

school in Paris; it is within this framework that she directed The metal spinner, which won the Grand 

Prix of the “Festival International de l’Image des Métiers d’Art 2008 ». Today, she is working on 

different documentary projects, including Manhattan Transfers. 

SALVADOR D JULIA MISHKINENE 

FAR AWAY SO CLOSE TO ME 

DIRECTOR : BAKUR BAKURADZE 

The film is about two women - Laritsa from Cuba and Tanya from Russia. Laritsa has never seen her 

father who was a military doctor. She doesn't have his photo but she hasn’t lost hope of finding him. 

Tanya lives in a small Russian city and half a year ago she found out that her biological father lives 

in Cuba, twelve thousand kilometers away. Tanya was able to find his address and write him a letter 

by e-mail. She was lucky because the Internet has come to Cuba quite recently and her father had 

a computer. However the notions of life change, the indissoluble ties of family are always alive, even 

over enormous distances and after many years have passed. This lyrical story is not only about two 

women but also about two countries, both so far away and so close. 

Ce film raconte l'histoire de deux femmes- Laritsa et Tania. Laritsa vit à Cuba, Tania en Russie. Laritsa 

n'a jamais vu son père. Elle sait seulement qu'il était médecin sur un navire militaire. Elle n'a qu’une 

seule photo de lui et a perdu tout espoir de retrouver sa trace. 

Tania habite dans une petite ville russe et il y a six mois elle a appris que son vrai père habite à Cuba, 

à douze mille kilomètres d'elle. Tania a réussi à trouver son adresse et lui a envoyé un e-mail. Par 

chance, internet est apparu depuis peu à Cuba et son père possède un ordinateur. Les notions de la 

vie changent mais les liens indissolubles qui unissent les gens et les rendent proches restent les 

mêmes malgrè les années passées et les kilomètres de distance. 

C'est l'histoire lyrique de deux femmes, l'une cubaine, l'autre russe mais également celle de deux 

pays, si loin l'un de l'autre mais si proches. 


2008 : Shultes, Feature, color, 100 minutes, 

2007 : Moscow. Feature, color, 35 minutes, HD 

2005 : The Diamond Way. Documentary, color, 40 min, Betacam SP 

2002 : Pilipenko. Documentary, color, 36 minutes 

2002 : The Age of Minfin. Documentary, color, 40 min, Betacam SP 

2001 : Shifted. Serial (4 episodes), Betacam SP 

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TARANTULA SWITZERLAND SANDRA K’BOURCH 

ON THE ROAD 

DIRECTOR : PIERRE MORATH 

"In those days, towards the end of the 60s, it all started from a very strong feeling shared by all, and 

therefore understood by all: the love of freedom…". Noël Tamini 

It all started at the end of the 1960s. The austere and regulated world of long-distance running was 

engulfed in a newly emerging wave of rebelliousness and individualism. Runners with no experience 

began to jog wherever the fancy took them, putting their pleasure first and ignoring not only the 

stadiums but also the clubs and official federations. To cap it all, even women started to jog, and thus 

swept away the prejudices that till then had maintained long-distance running as a male prerogative. 

The remarkably conservative world of sport was also about to espouse the militant cause. 

What sport better than running – that very purest of sports activities – embodies the revolution that 

was going to get the whole world up on its feet and running? Free at last! 

“A l’époque, tout est parti d’un sentiment très fort, que tout le monde possède, et donc comprend : 

l’amour de la liberté…“. Noël Tamini 

Fin des années 1960. Un vent nouveau d’insoumission et d’individualisme se met à souffler dans 

l’univers austère et réglementé de la course de fond. Des coureurs à pied inexpérimentés se mettent 

à jogger un peu partout dans la nature, pour leur seul plaisir, sortant des stades et défiant les clubs 

et fédérations officielles. Comble du comble, les femmes s’y mettent aussi, balayant les préjugés qui 

jusqu’ici réservaient les longues distances au seul genre masculin. Bastion conservateur, le sport 

s’engage lui aussi sur la voie militante. Et le geste sportif le plus pur qui soit – courir – incarne mieux 

que tout autre cette révolution grâce à laquelle, bientôt, le monde entier va se mettre à courir. Enfin 

libres ! 


Pierre Morath, 37, film director, has degrees in History and Management of Sports Organisations, but 

he is not just involved in the world of the cinema. After his studies, he was not only a high- level 

athlete, but also a researcher in contemporary history and a novelist. His knowledge of sport is a truly 

comprehensive one. He has sweated out marathon routes and taken athletes under his wing – Eticha 

Tesfaye and especially Tola Zenebech, who became Maryam Jamal – and has also filmed sport, and 

in 2005, he wrote, produced and directed his first feature film: a documentary called "Les Règles du 

Jeu" about backstage Genève-Servette, the hockey team trained by the controversial Chris McSorley. 

Pierra Morath is also a journalist, and he works regularly with the Télévision Suisse Romande. 

TGA PRODUCTION SÉBASTIEN GAUTIER 

CHICO’S WAY 

DIRECTOR : NÉGAR ZOKA 

Deep in the heart of Amazonia, thousands of poor rubber–tapers (“seringueiros”) have to fight every 

day to reconcile their will to save the jungle and their desire for material progress. Will they succeed? 

The film is about what sustainable development means in Amazonia today, precisely in the birthplace 

of Chico Mendès, an environmental and social activist who lost his life to save the forest… His ideas 

have outlived him and today the state of Acre has become a laboratory where foreign researchers 

work hand in hand with Chico’s inheritors to make sustainable development a reality. To reach their 

goal, they have to find new ways of thinking about progress, wealth and development. 

Au coeur de la forêt amazonienne, des milliers de pauvres récoltants de caoutchouc (“seringueiros”) 

doivent se battre au jour le jour pour sauver l’équilibre précaire entre la préservation de la forêt et 

le progrès matériel de la civilisation. Vont-ils réussir ? Le film traite de la question du développement 

durable en Amazonie et particulièrement dans la région natale de Chico Mendes, un travailleur 

syndicaliste qui a payé de sa vie, le combat pour la préservation de la forêt. Ces idées ont survécues 

et aujourd’hui, l’état d’Acre est devenu un véritable laboratoire où les chercheurs du monde entier 

travaille main dans la main avec les héritiers de la pensée de Chico pour faire du développement 

durable une réalité. Pour atteindre leur but, ils doivent trouver de nouvelles façons de penser le 

progrès, la santé et le développement. 


Iranian-born French documentary filmmaker. Many short documentaries and two acclaimed feature 

length documentaries for French TV: one about the symbolical and psychological impact a change in 

one’s nationality makes; another film about the yearlong life of a group of teenagers with some 

severely disabled youths between them. Many films in Iran and other foreign countries. Speaks 

French, English, Portuguese and Persian. 


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THEME ENTERTAINMENT DEBU BHATTACHARYYA 

HIS MAJESTY NO. 1 

DIRECTOR : SOMDEV CHATTERJEE 

The recent advent of democracy in Bhutan has not been well-accepted by the people, who still feel 

that Monarchy was far better for the Kingdom. A perfectly-functioning Monarchy should not need an 

alien concept like democracy at all, but when the King himself orders a democratic society, the people 

cannot even protest. 

Sangey Lamcha, an inhabitant of a remote village in Bhutan, fears losing his happiness as a 

consequence of all this. Meanwhile, the Chief Electoral Officer Mr Urgen Gonphel comes to his 

village to ‘educate’ the people about the democratic processes. Amidst a series of interactions 

between the people and the officials, Bhutan must soon decide which way it wants to go. 

L’arrivée récente de la démocratie au Bhutan n’était pas bien acceptée par les gens, qui pensent 

toujours que la monarchie était meilleure pour le royaume. Quand la monarchie fonctionne 

parfaitement, on n’a jamais besoin d’inviter un concept étranger comme la démocratie, mais c’est le 

roi qui l’a commandée, et les gens ne peuvent pas contester sa décision. 

Sangey Lamcha, un habitant d’un village éloigné, est en train de perdre son bonheur pour cela. 

Monsieur Urgen Gonphel, chef des affaires électorales, arrive dans son village pour ‘instruire’ les 

gens au sujet des processus démocratiques. Au milieu d’une série d’interactions entre les gens et les 

fonctionnaires, le pays de Bhoutan doit bientôt décider quelle direction choisir. 


Post-graduated with a specialisation in Film Direction and Screenplay Writing from SRFTI (Kolkata), 

India’s national film school. 

Filmography: 

Flights of Distress (2005). 31’, DVCam. 

The Student Headmaster (2008), 28’ & 52’, HDV [Al-Jazeera CC] 

Drugged to Death (2008), 28’ and 43’, HDV [Al-Jazeera English, NHK] 

Doctoring the Rot (2009), 52’, HDV [Al-Jazeera CC, NHK, Star Ananda] 

His Majesty No. 1 (under production) 

TNS PRODUCTIONS MARIE-CHRISTINE MALBERT 

ESCAPE FROM ISPARTA 

DIRECTOR : SERGE LE PÉRON 

Yilmaz Guney was a major star, as an actor and film director in Turkey in the 70s, but opposed to the 

Government, at that time, by taking position in favour of the Kurdish people. He was sent to prison, 

accused of having killed a judge during a brawl in a cafe. From prison, he continued making his films 

using intermediaries. At the conclusion of the shoot of “Yol”, he escaped from prison. Pursued by the 

Turkish police and by Interpol, he completed the film in secret, in France. The film, selected–as “film 

surprise”- for the Cannes film festival in 1982, won the Palme d’Or. The Turkish government 

demanded his immediate extradition, and Güney was forced to flee the festival… “Escape from 

Isparta” tells the compelling story of this incredible adventure through the people involved - 

anonymous heroes, cultural personalities, politicians - who have never spoken publicly, until now. 

Yilmaz Güney, acteur et réalisateur de cinéma extrêmement populaire en Turquie depuis les années 

70, mais aussi opposant au régime en place pour ses positions en faveur du peuple kurde, est 

emprisonné, accusé d’avoir tué un juge lors d’une rixe dans un café. De sa prison, il continue à écrire 

et dirige ses films par personne interposée. A la fin du tournage de “YOL”, il s’évade. Recherché par 

toutes les polices turques et par Interpol, il monte le film clandestinement en France. Sélectionné – 

comme “film surprise”- au Festival de Cannes en 1982, il remporte la Palme d’Or. La Turquie 

demande l’extradition du condamné. Il doit s’enfuir à nouveau pendant le festival… “L’évadé 

d’Isparta” raconte cette épopée incroyable en donnant la parole aux protagonistes (héros anonymes, 

personnalités culturelles, hommes politiques) et qui n’ont jusqu’à ce jour jamais parlé. 


Film critic for the Cahiers du Cinéma from 1976 to 1984. Director for the television movie program 

“Cinéma cinémas” (Antenne 2), from 1985 to 1990. Documentaries : “Film music : Joseph Kosma” 

(1997) 52 mn for Arte. SACEM prize for the best musical documentary. ”Léaud the only one” (2000) 

6O mn for Canal +. “Lise and Artur London” (2OO4) 84 mn for France 2. “Gilles Jacob : the stroller 

on the croisette” (2009) 60 mn for Arte & Canal +. 

Fiction for cinema and television : “Laisse béton” (Let it be) 1984, Grand Prix du Festival d’Orléans. 

“L’affaire Marcorelles” (The Marcorelles Case) 2000, selected at Cannes Directors Fornight, Moscow, 

London, Karlovy-Vary. “J’ai vu tuer Ben Barka” (I saw Ben Barka killed) 2005, selected at Rotterdam, 

New-York, San Francisco, Barcelona. “Françoise Dolto, le désir de vivre”. (Françoise Dolto, the Desire 

to Live) 2008 TF1, selected at La Rochelle, Richmond (USA). 

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UHURU PRODUCTIONS REHAD DESAI 

THE BATTLE OF JOHANNESBURG 

DIRECTOR : REHAD DESAI 

The central organising question of the documentary is ‘Do the poor have a place in the new 

Johannesburg’. Johannesburg has gone from economic bust to boom since the advent of democracy. 

In the run up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the poor are being driven out, the city metro find 

themselves hostage to the power of real estate capital, but the poor fight resist with often violent 

means. The Battle of Johannesburg looks at how big money is refashioning the city in their own 

image more often than not at the end of a barrel of a gun. The are poor resisting sometimes with 

their own firepower. We show how the 2010 World Cup plays into it all. 

La question centrale de ce documentaire est la suivante: les pauvres ont-ils une place dans la 

nouvelle ville de Johannesbourg? Depuis l'avènement de la démocratie en Afrique du Sud, la ville de 

Johannesbourg est sortie de la faillite économique et est désormais en plein essor. Depuis le début 

des préparatifs de la Coupe du Monde de football 2010, les pauvres ont été écartés de la ville. La 

ville est prise en hotage par le pouvoir du capital immobilier, mais les pauvres résistent en utilisant 

des moyens souvent violents. The Battle of Johannesbourg examine la manière dont l'argent 

redessine la ville à son image, le plus souvent par la menace. Cependant, les pauvres résistent, 

parfois à l'aide de leurs propres armes. Nous expliquons la place que la Coupe du Monde de football 

2010 occupe dans ce combat. 


Rehad Desai completed a history degree at the University of Zimbabwe where he lived for three 

years. In 1996 Rehad entered the TV and film industry as a Producer/Director and has since focused 

much of his energy on documentary productions, much of which has received critical acclaim. In 

1997 he completed his Masters Degree in Social History at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 

2000 he completed a postgraduate degree in TV and film producing through AVEA. He currently runs 

Uhuru Productions a film and TV company producing documentary and drama work. 

2007 : BHAMBATHA: WAR OF THE HEADS 1906 - 72 min. Producer/Director 

2006 : BUSHMANS SECRET - 52 and 65 min. Producer/ Director. 

2004 : BORN INTO STRUGGLE – Producer/Director 52 and 74 min 

VIDES FILMU STUDIJA AIJA BERZINA 

PALAVANI 

DIRECTOR : TEMUR TSAVA 

In Georgia, little is taken as seriously as wrestling. This little country keeps producing an astonishing 

number of World and Olympic Champions and medallists in all major wrestling disciplines. Many of 

them come from the tradition of the folk wrestling style known as Chidaoba. Chidaoba is more than 

just the national sport. It is Georgian culture, Georgian lifestyle and, for many, it’s even Georgian 

religion. For centuries, this folk wrestling tradition has been characterized by a strictly respectful and 

gentlemanlike attitude towards the rival wrestler. But it’s all changing now. When the Georgian 

Orthodox Church bans the centuries-old tradition of holding folk wrestling tournaments in church 

yards, Shakro, a veteran wrestler, thinks the Church has gone too far. He sets out to raise support for 

a plea to the Patriarch to cancel the ban. 

En Géorgie peu de choses sont autant prises au sérieux que la lutte. Ce petit pays a toujours produit 

un nombre étonnant de champions du monde, de champions olympiques ainsi que des médaillés 

dans toutes les grandes disciplines de la lutte. Beaucoup d’entre eux sont issus de la tradition de la 

lutte folklorique connue sous le nom de Chidaoba. 

Chidaoba est beaucoup plus qu’un simple sport national. C’est la culture, le mode de vie et pour une 

grande partie, c’est même la religion géorgienne. Pendant des siècles, ce style folklorique de lutte 

est caractérisé par une attitude respectueuse et cavalière à l'égard des lutteurs rivaux. Mais tout 

change... Quand l’Église orthodoxe de Géorgie bannit la tradition séculaire d’organiser les tournois 

de lutte folklorique dans les jardins de l’église, Shakro – un lutteur vétéran, décide que l’église est 

allée trop loin. Il recueille le soutien du Patriarche pour qu’il annule le bannissement. 


Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, 1954. Temur Tsava graduated from the Georgian Shota Rustaveli State 

Institute of Drama and Film (S.Chkhaidze and V. Khotivari class) with a film director Bachelor in 

1982. In 2004 Temur Tsava created his own independent production company PALESTRA. He has 

been making fiction films and documentaries since 1976. Alongside with making films Temur Tsava 

is a renowned professor at Ivane Javaxishvili Tbilisi State University where he teaches a course for 

young filmmakers. 


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ZERO ONE FILM ANN CAROLIN RENNINGER 

GOLDRUSH 

DIRECTOR : DIRK LAABS 

“GOLDRUSH” tells the controversial story of the Treuhand-Agency, the holding that was responsible 

for the privatisiation of the economy of the former GDR. The Treuhand was supposed to sell factories, 

companies and real estate in an orderly fashion, thus privatising an entire country in one tour de 

force. A unique experiment that had never taken place anywhere else in the world. 

The dramatic story of the trust agency experiment proves what happens when market economy 

crashes into an economically underdeveloped nation without any safety hatch. Many of the players 

instinctively understood that even a bankrupt state offers opportunities to earn money – for those 

without any scruples. In the end the trust agency collected 250 Million Marks of debt on every single 

day of the three and a half year of its existence. Criminals defrauded 20 Billion Marks. Many former 

GDR citizens still consider the trust agency the “gravedigger” of East Germany. A film about one of 

the most exciting chapters of German post-war history. 

LA RUÉE VERS L’OR raconte l’histoire très controversée de la “Treuhand“, organisme chargé de la 

privatisation de la RDA. La “Treuhand” était responsable d’organiser la vente des entreprises, des 

fabriques et des terrains de la RDA, et donc de privatiser le pays d’un seul coup. Une expérience 

unique en son genre dans le monde entier. 

L’histoire dramatique de la “Treuhand“ montre ce qui peut arriver quand une économie de marché 

peut tout faire, sans limites, dans un pays économiquement sous-developpé. De plus, beaucoup 

d’acteurs ont compris instinctivement que l’on peut gagner beaucoup d’argent dans un pays en 

faillite, si l’on est sans scrupules. Finalement, ce sont 250 millions de marks par jour que la 

“Treuhand“ a perdu en trois ans. Elle a été flouée par des criminels de plus de 20 milliards de marks. 

Beaucoup de citoyens est-allemands pensent encore aujourd’hui que la “Treuhand“ aura été le 

fossoyeur de l’Allemagne de l’Est. C’est un film sur l’un des chapitres les plus captivants de l’histoire 

de l’Allemagne d’après-guerre. 


Born in Hamburg (1973). Author and filmmaker. Reporter since 2001 for the “Los Angeles Times” 

and the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. Laabs is an expert for international and Islamist 

terrorism. He worked as a lecturer for the Henri-Nannen-School and was a consultant for Channel 

4, the John Jay College for Criminal Justice, New York and for Marc Sageman. 

Filmography as Director (selection): 

“Who’s Afraid of America?” (2008, 52’, ZDF/ARTE), “Disco Sucks“ (2008, 52’, ZDF/ARTE), “The 

OPEC-operation – terror attack in Vienna” (2007, 53’, ZDF/ARTE), “Strangers in Paradise – Why 

God’s Warriors Kill” (2006, 66’, ZDF/ARTE), “An Almost Perfect Crime – Who Shot Marta Rosso?” 

(2005, 45’, WDR) 

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Aram Ismail SAEED KNN Kurdish News Network Iraq 

Marie-Claude SEVEAU C.N.C France 

TUTORS 

Erkki ASTALA YLE Coproductions France 

Thierry GARREL ex ARTE France France 

EXPERTS 

Niels Pagh ANDERSEN Denmark 

Pierre-Olivier BARDET IDÉALE AUDIENCE France 


Peter DALE United Kingdom 

Hugues LE PAIGE Belgium 

Stan NEUMANN France 

Leena PASANEN Finland 

Kristiina PERVILA MILLENNIUM FILMS Finland 

Eckart STEIN Germany 

Iikka VEHKAKAHTI YLE TV2 Finland


EXECUTIVES 

RACHEL ADOUL ARTE FRANCE 

COMMISSIONING EDITOR 

The Current Affairs, World Affairs and Social Issues Department 

The department I work for is responsible for editing the Special Theme Evenings broadcast on 

Tuesdays in addition to various magazines. Our programmes aim at analyzing and understanding 

our societies’ changes and disruptions on a social geopolitical and cultural level. 

- Thema on Tuesday: Focusing on the contemporary world, Thema on Tuesday looks at society today 

and the big issues in politics, socio-economics and geopolitic. 

- Creation: Creation allows us to see artists at work in their studios and workshops, and invites 

viewers to explore the world of dance, architecture, music and drama. 

- Chic unveils the latest trends in architecture, design, fashion, gastronomy and art. 

- ZOOM Europa: reports on current European affairs featuring daily, life, economics and politics. 

- Metropolis: the culture magazine Metropolis details Europe’s intellectual and cultural life. 

- Biography portraits of today’s leading personalities engagement 

PIA ANDELL AVEK 

PRODUCTION CONSULTANT, CINEMA 

The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture 

AVEK promotes cinema, video and television culture. It is responsible for the management of funds 

which arise from authors' copyright entitlements for levies on blank video tapes, DVD-disks and other 

devices with memory. 

The main emphasis of AVEK’s support is on creative documentaries, short fiction, animated films and 

media-art based productions. In the term 2008/09 the production support is 1,4 million Euro. The 

special emphasis will be in the development support in all audiovisual genres. 

AVEK participates in international co-productions where the Finnish producer acts as a minor partner. 

Such production is required to have either a noticeable connection to Finland or have serious artistic 

involvement from Finland. Two to three co-productions have been supported per year, the amount of 

support ranging between 10 to 25 thousand euros. 

AVEK is part of the copyright organization Kopiosto. 

ALI DELICI ARTE FRANCE 

DEPUTY COMMISSIONING EDITOR 

Arte’s Culture And Performing Arts Department 

ARTE France’s (recently created) Culture and Performing Arts Department covers a broad range of 

subjects, including significant international cultural events as well as performing arts (Live music, 

theatre and dance). 

The Cultural section of this Department has the editorial responsibility of Tracks, our weekly youth 

magazine, theme days (such as ‘Claude Levi-Strauss : 100 years’, ‘The 20 years of the Louvre’s 

Pyramid’, or ‘the Contemporary Art day’), as well as the thursday cultural documentary slot. 

The cultural documentaries examine major artists, cultural phenomenon and ideas while exploring 

their social interaction and impact. All artistic disciplines are explored: photography, design, 

literature, cinema, architecture, music, as well as movements, humanities, religion. 

Tracks is the magazine show that keeps viewers in touch with the latest trends, lifestyles, music, and 

avant-garde artistic experiments. 

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CÉLINE GANDNER FRANCE 5 

COMMISSIONING EDITOR 

With 3800 hours of programms in 2008, France 5 is indisputably the leading French documentary 

channel. Documentaries are 50% of the programmation. 

France 5 prides itself on its unusually varied and formally exciting documentary programming. The 

channel seeks to represent a wide variety of viewpoints and makes a conscious effort to provide a 

showcase for documentary writers, producers and directors in all their diversity. The fact that we work 

with nearly 130 producers this year is indicative of our openness to widely differing approaches. 

As a public-service knowledge channel, France 5 cannot allow itself to aim at a minority audience. 

The channel has shown that is has the will and the expertise to kindle absolutely everyone’s interest 

and curiosity. On France 5 there is something for everyone and everyone’s point of view is given a 

hearing. 

France 5 claims to offer the widest range of documentaries in French broadcasting. We make a point 

of covering a very broad spectrum of topics so as to introduce viewers to subjects that are new to 

them and enable them to apprehend a wide variety of themes and topics in all possible fields with a 

rich mix of directorial approches: Society, History, Economy / world of work, Sciences / Healthy / 

Environement, Discovery and last but not least Culture. 

Since 2007, France 5 engaged season 1 & 2 of “Empreintes” (Imprints). During 4 years, the series 

sets up to explore the lives of 120 living French or French-speaking personalities who have left their 

mark on the collective memory of the French nation. This project has attracted all the great 

documentary directors. 

France 5 continues to position itself as a multiplatform channel. We are the first French broadcasters 

to have launched a documentary wiki so that as well as accessing an online treasure trove of 

information bout documentaries provided by the channel and producers, writers and directors, 

viewers can add to information. Curiosphere.tv, lesite.tv are other interactive outlets dedicated to 

school networks. 

ANDILE GENGE SABC 

COMMISSIONING EDITOR : FACTUAL PROGRAMMING 

SABC Factual is a department responsible for the acquisition of factual programmes for SABC’s three 

public service channels. The kind of content commissioned by this department ranges from 

documentaries, specialist factual, factual formats, talk-shows and landmark documentaries. 

MIIA HAAVISTO FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION 

FILM COMMISSIONER 

The Finnish Film Foundation grants support for professional Finnish film production. It promotes 

high-quality, versatile and unique Finnish film. The Finnish Film Foundation grants support for 

feature-length, short and episodic fiction, documentary films, animations, children’s films and 

international co-productions provided that there is a Finnish co-producer and that the conditions 

regarding Finnish distribution and artistic input are met. 

The Finnish Film Foundation may subsidise preparation of film scripts, development of a project and 

production. It also grants support for the marketing and distribution of films in Finland and abroad 

as well as post-release support based on the theatrical success of a Finnish film.


EXECUTIVES 

ANITA HUGI SCHWEIZER FERNSEHEN 

EDITOR CULTURE DOCUMENTARIES 

Anita Hugi is the Editor of the Art documentaries’ program “Sternstunde Kunst” and Editor of 

documentary films for “Sternstunde Philosophie” for Swiss Public Television SF since 2005. 

“Sternstunde Kunst” is a weekly program of selected creative documentary films in the wild field of 

art: factual documentary films and creative in-depth portraits of artists in photography, architecture, 

literature, music, art, video art, new media, counter culture. 

It broadcasts 45 selected documentary films a year, 2/3 of the films are from international production 

(sales and some presale, rare coproduction) and 1/3 coproduction, which mainly should fit within the 

so-called ‘swiss-aspect’ (and/or swiss filmmaker, swiss producer). “Sternstunde Kunst” is the third 

hour of the three hours program “Sternstunde” of SF and a background program: 3 x 1 hour in-depth 

program on Art, Philosophy, Religion. 

I am also programming a handful of documentary films a year for “Sternstunde Philosophie” (55 

minutes), which normally airs in-depth talks: factual documentary films and/or portraits of female or 

male philosophers, philosophical issues, economics, sustainability, equality matters, etc. 

Schweizer Fernsehen (SF) is the Public Broadcaster of german speaking Switzerland. There also are 

TSR (French speaking) and RSI (Italian speaking). The three of them and the radio broadcasters 

together form the SRG SSR idée Suisse. 

2/3 of the films we can co-produce are also co-produced by the Pacte de l’audiovisuel, the 

coproduction fund for films coproduced by independent producers and SRG SSR. 

JACQUELINE IRLANDE TV RENNES 35 

COPRODUCTIONS AND PURCHASE OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS 

TV Rennes 35 is a local broadcasting company situated in Rennes, in Brittany region in France. 

Created in 1987, it is a private society, broadcasting in digital and numerical ways, on a region of 

about 1 200 000 inhabitants. It is also availble in internet : www.tvrennes35.fr, as well as cable in 

Rennes, and orange box. 

TV Rennes 35 is a generalist channel, The programmes are mainly informations ( news and 

magazines) and programmes on all kinds of subjects : social, politics, economy, culture, sports and 

untertainment. The total production is 14 hours per week. (first edition programmes) 

The company is financed with public and private funds, theses mixed resources give its stability. The 

budget is 3 Millions Euro / year. The company employs 34 persons full time. 

The channel’s main missions are: to develop pluralism in information field; to contribute to social 

links among the population; to help in the growth of local medias network. 

The programmes schedule: Information for local audience; 5 main themes : Information, Economy 

/Social/Politics, Culture, Sports, civism; Public service ambition. 

CLAUDIA MARTINS DE CARVALHO ICA, IP 

PROJECT MANAGER 

The Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, I. P. (ICA, I.P.) arose from the restructuring of the Instituto 

do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia (ICAM), essentially to bring greater precision to the functioning 

of this Institute, in a way which, in the approach of the cinematographic and audiovisual sector and 

in the support to the creation, production, exploitation and dissemination and other activities in the 

area of cinema, would take into account the new forms and opportunities of production and 

distribution or broadcasting of cinematographic works. 

ICA, I.P.’s mission is to foment and develop cinematographic and audiovisual activities, contributing 

towards cultural diversity and quality in these areas, towards the extended national and international 

circulation of works and towards the vitality of the said activities as cultural industries. 

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RIMA HODA NAZER 

EXECUTIVES 


Rima was headhunted from London by MBC Group / O3 Productions-Al-Arabiya News Channel in 

Dubai, her job was to closely manage part of the in-house documentaries production, as well as work 

as Commissioning Editor by looking for potential documentary Co-Productions in International Film 

Festival around the world. 

She organized professional documentary workshops for MBC staff, of which ADW / Al-Arabiya 

Documentary Workshop, where she invited 25 Arab Documentary Filmmakers from around the world 

to attend a three day workshop to help them develop and pitch their ideas in front of International 

jury of commissioning editors from ARTE, Sundance, ITVS, BBC, TV2 Denmark and others. 

Rima joined Baynounah Media Group in October 2008 as Director/Producer, where she played a 

leading role in developing concepts and ideas for locally produced programs in the UAE as well as 

helped in suggesting and creating a forward plan for producing and acquiring documentaries for the 

Arabic and English Channel that should launch by early 2010. 

As part of her wide experience and connections in documentary industry both in Europe and the Arab 

World, Rima is looking into establishing a sustainable funding for documentary Industry for the Arab 

World – funding documentary projects, training workshops, Film Distribution- in collaboration with 

EU and Arab Investors. 

Rima keeps working as a freelance Documentary Filmmaker between Lebanon and the UAE. 

ARAM ISMAIL SAEED KNN TV 

CHIEF MANAGER 

Aram took part in the creation of the first TV-channels in the post-Saddam Iraqi Kurdistan. He has 

collaborated with several medias and international NGO’s. He was the director of the Baghdad 

Office of the satellite channel Kurdsat, for which he also created and hosted political talk shows. He 

is the founder of the Kurdish-French Institute of Sulaimaniya, the venue of the workshops of 

documentary film in Iraq, DOKU. 

Aram is ambitious about developing the production and diffusion of documentary films on KNN. 

KNN, Kurdish News Network, is an independent news channel existing autonomously of the two 

main Kurdish parties of Iraq, the KDP of Massoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, 

and the PUK, led by the president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani. 

The channel was founded one year ago and it participated actively in the presidential campaign by 

supporting Nawshirwan Mustafa, the leader of The Movement for Change, that mixed up the cards 

during the regional and presidential elections. 

KNN broadcasts news in image simultaneously in the two main languages of Kurdistan, the kurmanji 

and the sorani. KNN belongs to the Wusha corporation. 

MARIE-CLAUDE SEVEAU CNC 

PROJECT MANAGER 

Created by the Act of 25 October 1946, the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC – National 

center for cinema) is a French public administrative organization, set up as a separate and financially 

independent entity. The Centre comes under the authority of the ministry of culture and 

communication and Véronique Cayla is its director general. 

The main missions of the CNC are: 

- regulation, 

- support to the film, broadcast, video, multimedia and technical industries, 

- promotion of film and television for distribution to all audiences, 

- preservation and development of the film heritage.

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THE ONE-MAN VILLAGE 

LENGTH : 87 MIN EURODOCmed 

DIRECTOR : SIMON EL-HABRE 

PRODUCER : JAD ABI KHALIL 

COMPANY : BEIRUT DC (LEBANON) 

Semaan is leading a quiet life on his farm in the small village of 

Ain al-Halazoun in the Lebanese mountains. The hamlet was 

completely emptied and destroyed in combats during the civil war 

in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. Today, many years after an 

official reconciliation, its inhabitants, who are all from one family, 

regularly go back to the village to cultivate their plots of land or 

visit their houses and always leave before sunset. In his comforting 

and humorous film Simon El Habre observes the life in his quasi 

ghost village and tries to reflect on the collective and individual 

memory in a country that seems to live in a collective amnesia and 

is vulnerable to a new civil war. 

Partner : 

Mec Film, Irit Neidhardt (Germany) 

Festivals : 

2008 : Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’yia (Lebanon); International Film 

Festival Dubai 

2009: Berlinale; DOK.Fest Munich (Germany); Dox-Box, 

Damascus (Syria); Arabesque – Kennedy Center Washington DC 

(USA); One World Human Rights Film Festival Prague; 

International Film Festival of Mediterranean Cinema Tétouan 

(Morocco); Doc à Tunis; Visions du Réel (Switzerland); Hot Docs - 

Toronto (Canada); Minneapolis - St. Paul International Film 

Festival (USA); Jeonju International Film Festival (Korea); 

Documenta Madrid (Spain); Arab Film Festival Rotterdam 

(Netherlands); Dokufest (Kosovo); Yerevan International Film 

Festival (Armenia); Limesos International Film Festival (Cyprus); 

Film Festival Della Lessinia Competition (Italy); Mediterranean 

Film Festival in Siroki Brijeg - Competitio (Bosnia and 

Herzegovina); Split International Film Festival (Croatia) 

2009 

Awards : 

Special Jury Prize Documentary, Muhr Award (UAE) 2008, Dubai 

International film festival; Special Mention from the Grand Jury 

(Czech Republic) 2009, One World Human Rights Film Festival; 

Best International Feature Award at Hot Docs Documentary Film 

Festival (Canada) 

HANA, DUL, SED … 

FOOTBALL AND THE DPR-KOREA 

LENGTH : 98 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005 

DIRECTOR : BRIGITTE WEICH 

PRODUCER : BRIGITTE WEICH 

COMPANY : RI FILME (AUSTRIA) 

Ri Jong Hi, Ra Mi Ae, Jin Pyol Hi and Ri Hyang Ok live in Pyongyang. 

Their job is football. It grants them a living and high reputation. They 

are very good at it and they love it. The four starters of the national 

team were essential for the stellar ascent of the People’s Republic’s 

women’s football to international top level. When they failed to 

qualify for the Olympic Games however, their career came to a 

sudden end. Today best friends Mi Ae and Hyang Ok don’t see each 

other that frequently anymore, because new relationships are part of 

the new life. But when they do have a night out, the old intimacy is 

right back. Hand in hand they stroll through the ostentatious unlit 

boulevards, exchange memories of the good old days, chat about the 

current challenges and about life without the beloved sport. An essay 

on life of women in the last reclusive communist regime on earth. 

Partners : 

Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund 

Festival : 

Locarno Film Festival 2009 (Switzerland)

2009 Chapter 

SUPER MOM 

LENGTH : 68 MIN EURODOC 2007 

DIRECTOR : SARAH KLEIN 

PRODUCER : ANNE LABRO 

COMPANY : LA COMPAGNIE DES PHARES & BALISES (FRANCE) 

Every year, young mothers from all over America leave their 

children behind and set out to the heartland of the United States 

to compete for the title of Mother of the Year. One of these hopeful 

candidates will go on to impress the judges and become the 

reigning national representative of mothers all over the country. 

This feature-length documentary film will follow five women as 

they leave their crucial roles at home and go on the journey of a 

lifetime. 

Coproducers : 

Redglass / Speakeasy Docs (USA) 

ARTE, Nathalie Verdier (France) 

Partners : 

RTBF, Claire Colart (Belgium) 

YLE, Jenny Westegaard (Finland) 

TSR, Gaspard Lamunière (Suisse) 

NOGA (Israel), SVT (Sweden) 

SBS (Australia), VPRO (The Netherlands) 

UN VOYAGE AMÉRICAIN 


DIRECTOR : PHILIPPE SÉCLIER 

PRODUCER : JUDITH NORA 

COMPANY : AD VITAM PRODUCTION (FRANCE) 

In contemporary art, everybody agrees there is a “before” and an 

“after” The Americans, Robert Frank’s 1958 photographic 

manifesto. Half a century later, French director Philippe Seclier 

decided to follow Robert Frank’s footsteps to explore the spirit of 

the « Beat Generation », and the impact of his book, The 

Americans, not only on the art of photography, but also on 

American culture. From Texas to Montana, from Nebraska to 

Louisiana, from New York to San Francisco, an American journey 

is a 15,000 miles-odyssey through contemporary America, moving 

between past and present, photography and cinema, and two 

Americas, separated by time. 

Partners : 

Selenium Films, George Fondation, Muse film and Television 

Festival : 

Visions du Réel 2009 

FILMS 

COOKING HISTORY 


DIRECTOR : PETER KEREKES 

PRODUCER : RALPH WIESER 

COMPANY : MISCHIEF-FILMS (AUSTRIA) 

A portrait of different military cooks from all over Europe who 

served in various armies and have witnessed the European wars of 

the 20th century. Their recollections tap into a subjective view of 

historical events and one that diverges in some respects from 

conventional history. They take us behind the scenes of dates, 

facts, declarations of war, battles, and peace agreements. 

Cooking History shows the little secrets of these people, opens up 

a dimension of history one won’t find in textbooks or archives. The 

directness of the anecdotes and destinies of the people in this film 

conveys a sense of life and death in the “war apparatus,” a sense 

of hope, longing, and survival strategies in the midst of destruction 

and despair. 

Partners : 

ORF, Austria; YLE, Finland; RAIsat, Italy; Czech TV; Slovak TV 

Coproducer : 

Peter Kerekes Negativ S.R.O., Slovakia 

Festivals : 

Visions du Réel 2009 (Switzerland) 

Jury prize at Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival (Canada) 

Karlovy Vary Film Festival (Czech Republic) 

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DOUBLE TAKE 

FILMS 


DIRECTOR : JOHAN GRIMONPREZ 

PRODUCER : EMMY OOST 

COMPANY : ZAP-O-MATIK (BELGIUM) 

“Double Take” targets the global political rise of ‘fear as a 

commodity’, in a tale of odd couples and double deals. As 

television hijacks cinema, and the Krushchev and Nixon debate 

rattles on, sexual politics quietly take off and Alfred himself 

emerges in a dandy new role on the TV, blackmailing housewives 

with brands they can't refuse. 

The novelist Tom McCarthy writes a plot of personal paranoia to 

mirror the political intrigue, in which Hitchcock and his elusive 

double increasingly obsess over the perfect murder – of each 

other! Subverting a meticulous array of tv footage and using 'The 

Birds' as an essential metaphor, Grimonprez traces catastrophe 

culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images’ 

inception to the present day. 

Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid 

history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the 

cold war period. The master says all the wrong things at all the 

wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately clammer 

to say the right things, live on TV. 

Coproducers : 

Volya Films, Denis Vaslin (The Netherlands) 

Nikovantastic Film, Hanneke Van der Tas (Germany) 

Partners : 

ZDF/Arte, Doris Hepp (Germany) 

YLE, Outi Saarikoski (Finland) 

RAI Sat, Luca Macciocca (Italy) 

With the participation of : 

The Hammer Museum’s artist in residency program 

James Irvine Fundation 

Festivals : 

Berlinale 2009 

Visions du Réel 2009 (Switzerland) 

VULNERABLE 

2009 


DIRECTOR : REINE MITRI 

PRODUCER : ANNE-MARIE LUCCIONI 

COMPANY : DJINN HOUSE (LEBANON) 

This film is a chronicle of anxiety and malaise. From 2006 to 2009, I filmed 

inside my intimate space, on the TV screen, a daily violence, and on the 

editing screen, another film that remains suspended – a film on the July 

2006 war. I also filmed my friends; those who left the country and those who 

remained. All along, many questions arisen: what space is left for the 

individual’s freedom, for hope, creativity and love? Is it possible for personal 

happiness to exists amidst collective pain? How can we live with the defeat? 

Partners : 

ZDF/ARTE, Doris Hepp (Germany) 


VIVRE ICI 


DIRECTOR : MOHAMED ZRAN 

PRODUCER : MOHAMED ZRAN 

COMPANY : SANGHO FILMS (TUNESIA) 

Simon, le « célèbre » droguiste, de confession juive incarne l’attachement 

infaillible à la mémoire collective locale. Son magasin est le lieu de 

croisement et de rencontre entre tous les protagonistes, l’occasion propice 

d’échanger leurs points de vue ou de confier leurs intimes secrets. Autour de 

Simon, une constellation de portraits: Tahar l’instituteur, le progressiste qui 

s’enflamme joyeusement à commenter la situation dans le monde et les 

maux qui rongent l’homme victime de la mondialisation; Hadi, le peintre; 

fatma, la marieuse, l’entremetteuse et la messagère; Bechir, le chauffeur de 

taxi, ami de tous… Ils fréquentent le magasin de Simon, pour 

s’approvisionner en produits multiples mais aussi pour discuter entre eux et 

parler d’eux-mêmes, de leur ville et du monde. 

Partners : 

YLE (Finland) 

Tunisian Television & Ministry of Culture, Canal 7, CCF (Tunisia)

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MOON INSIDE YOU 

LENGTH : 52 & 75 MIN EURODOC 2007 

DIRECTOR : DIANA FABIANOVA 

PRODUCER : JERO MOLERO 

COMPANY : UBAK PRODUCCIONES (SPAIN) 

Diana has been suffering from problematic periods for years. With 

every new cycle, the same question arises: Why the pain and 

annoyance if I am healthy? Her initial innocent curiosity sparks off 

an emotional voyage to the very roots of femininity and life. Moon 

inside you is a fresh look at a taboo that defines the political and 

social reality of both women and men in a more profound way 

than society might be willing to admit. 

Coproducer : 

Avenue B, Julie Paratian (France) 

Partners : 

ARTE 

ORF (Austria) 

RTBF (Belgium) 

TSR (Switzerland) 

Noga-Channel 8 (Israel) 

Czech TV (Czech Republic) 

Duna TV (Hungary) 

TG4 (Ireland) 

TVP (Poland) 

HRT (Croatia) 

Festival : 

Locarno Film Festival 2009 (Switzerland) 

FILMS 

TODAY IS BETTER THAN TWO TOMORROWS 

LENGTH : 75 MIN EURODOC-SCRIPT 2003-2004 

DIRECTOR : ANNA RODGERS 

PRODUCERS : JOHN MURRAY, SIOBHAN WARD 

COMPANY : CROSSING THE LINE FILMS (IRELAND) 

In a remote part of Laos, South East Asia, two boys must leave 

their village 

to undergo a rite of passage. One will go to school, the other will 

become a monk. Somewhere between Buddhist wishlessness and 

western dreams their paths will join again. Today is a good day to 

come of age. Today is better than two tomorrows. 

Festivals : 

Galway Film Fleadh, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, 

Guth Gafa (Ireland), Canberra Film Festival (Australia) 

KOR 


DIRECTOR : JOANNA GRUDZINSKA 

PRODUCER : JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE, DÉRIVES (BELGIUM) 

Varsovie, Pologne, fin des années 70. Création du KOR, Comité de 

défense des ouvriers. Héritage des révoltes contre le système 

depuis la fin de la guerre, investi des courants de l’opposition 

depuis les années 20, le Comité compte : des personnes 

passionnées et investies, des méthodes à la fois précises et 

artisanales, une éthique singulière, la volonté de briser le 

monopole de l’information de l’état, la nécessité d’une 

organisation autonome des ouvriers. Retour au gestes et aux mots 

du KOR par trois des acteurs d’une des histoires de la fin du 

Communisme en Europe. 

Partners : RTBF (Belgium), Camera Obscura (Poland) 

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FILMS 


DIRECTOR : SERGEJ KRESO 

PRODUCER : DENIS VASLIN 

COMPANY : VOLYA FILMS (THE NETHERLANDS) 

In 1972, Congolese-Belgian pop star Jack Roskam moves to 

Yugoslavia, where he meets and marries his Croatian wife. He 

becomes the guitarist of one of the most popular local rock bands, 

Galija. Tall, black and adorned with dreadlocks, Jack stands out on 

stage amongst his mostly Serbian colleagues. 

Being a convinced pacifist, Jack had escaped service in the 

Belgium army, but at the time of the outbreak of the Yugoslavian 

war his convictions are sorely tested. As Galija’s songs become 

more Serb orientated, Jack decides to leave the band. While 

Yugoslavian people are forced to choose sides, Jack faces the 

dilemma to either return to Belgium or to stay, thus sharing the 

fate of his new country, his family and friends. The war will force 

him to change his Fender Stratocaster for a Kalashnikov and to 

fight in the Croatian army. 

In this road movie, Jack and the Bosnian moviemaker travel 

through former Yugoslavia, reflecting on the choices they both 

made in the war. 

Coproducer : 

Serendipity Film, Ellen de Waele (Belgium) 

Partner : 

IKON TV, Margje de Koning (The Netherlands) 

Festivals : 

Premiere at IDFA 2008, section 'Premieres from the Lowlands' 

Bergamo Film Meeting 2009 

Beldocs 2009, Belgrado 

Honorable mention at Gdánsk DocFilm Festival 2009 

LOW Festival 2009, Budapest 

THE LITTLE ALIEN 

2008 


DIRECTOR : NINA KUSTURICA 

PRODUCERS : CARMEN WEINGARTSHOFER, EVA TESTOR 

COMPANY : MOBILEFILM PRODUKTION (AUSTRIA) 

They’re teenagers who fled crisis regions and undertook an 

extremely dangerous journey to Europe, all alone, hoping for one 

thing: to live. After arriving here, they fight to live normal lives, 

struggling against a system that demands they sacrifice their youth 

to an uncertain future. 

Partners : 

ORF (Austria) 

Austrian Film Institute, The Future Fund of the Republic, The State 

of Lower Austria, Vienna Film Fund 

Festival : 

Diagonale 2009, Austria 

PLAYING ADULTS 


DIRECTOR : PIA ANDELL 

PRODUCER : PIA ANDELL 

COMPANY : OF COURSE MY FILMS (FINLAND) 

Playing Adults is a creative documentary on adults and their 

relationship to play and playfulness in Finland . It draws a picture 

of the around-forty-generation in the rush hour of their lives - and 

it ain't relaxed! The film uses heavily 8 mm film, family footage as 

well as contemporary 8 mm material shot in the present time to 

compare the lives now and then. It is constructed in the form of a 

scientific study, a questionnaire to be precise, and also so plays 

with the concept of maybe we have gone too far in taking things 

seriously... 

Partners : 

YLE 

AVEK 

Festivals : 

World’s Greatest Film 

Festival, Helsinki

2008 Chapter 

THE INFAMOUS AND HIS BROTHER 


DIRECTOR : LUIGI MARIA PEROTTI 

PRODUCER : LUIGI MARIA PEROTTI 

COMPANY : STAMEN FILM (ITALY) 

The documentary is the human story of Patrizio and Roberto Peci. 

In the 1980 Patrizio is one of the most wanted terrorist of Brigate 

Rosse. Roberto, his smaller brother, is fascinated by the ideas of 

the brother but He didn’t want to follow him in terroristic activity. 

On February 18th Patrizio is arrested and after few months he 

began to co-operate with the State. It was the first time that a 

leader of terroristic group decided to do it. Brigate Rosse 

nicknamend Patrizio THE INFAMOUS, the vile. On June 10th 

1981, Roberto was kidnapped by Brigate Rosse. The terrorists 

forced Roberto to say in front of a camera that he was a traitor and 

that Patrizio was arrested because of him. They never touched an 

innocent worker, like Roberto was. The documentary is the story of 

what happened in the 54 days of the kidnapping, from the news 

of the kidnapping to the tragic death, trough the voice of Ida Peci, 

the sister of Patrizio and Roberto, friends of the brothers, secret 

agents and members of Brigate Rosse. 

Partners : 

NDR, Erich Friedler (Germany) 

RAI, Piero Corzini (Italy) 

FILMS 

BAM, RAILROAD TO NOWHERE 


DIRECTOR : JOUNI HILTUNEN 

PRODUCER : KAARLE AHO 

COMPANY : MAKING MOVIES (FINLAND) 

BAM – Railroad to nowhere is a documentary about the pioneering 

spirit, about people who built the future with their own hands, and 

how today they are trying to hold on to it, even if the rest of world 

would like to forget them. 

BAM (Baikal-Amur Magistral) was Leonid Brezhnev’s plan to build 

more than 3500 kilometres of railroad in five years in Southern 

Siberia, as well as 200 new stations and communities. The work 

was supposed to be done mainly by Komsomol elite youth. 

We will meet people who moved to Siberia – as young idealistic 

communists – in the 1970’s to build BAM and who have stayed 

there until today. The same people who starred – as strong and 

beautiful communists – dozens of Soviet propaganda films made 

on the builders of BAM 30 years ago and who still seem to have 

some of that pioneering spirit left. Or do they? 

The historical back story will be told with the old Soviet archive 

films. But in BAM – Railroad to Nowhere stars of those films will 

tell their stories - and a story of a remote Siberian community – 

also from today’s perspective 

Coproducer : 

Piret Tibbo, AllFilm (Estonia) 

Partners : 

YLE2 (Finland) 

ETV (Estonia) 

SVT (Sweden) 

DR (Denmark) 

LTR (Lithuania) 


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THE BUG TRAINER 


DIRECTORS : LINAS AUGUTIS, DONATAS ULVYDAS, MAREK SKROBECKI 

PRODUCER : RASA MISKINYTE 

COMPANY : ERA FILM (LITHUANIA) 

Ladislas Starewitch (1882 – 1965), European Disney, a pioneer of 

puppet animation is one of the most forgotten film geniuses. He was 

named as a true Wizard and an Alchemist of animation, whose 

wizardry was born in Lithuania; he got his fame in Russia and 

flourished in his full power in France. Unique methods of animation, 

never disclosed to others, - who was he? 

This film will be an effort to “decode” Starewitch by using the means 

of his own artistic thinking, and tiding together the biographical facts, 

memoirs, factual information, films made by Starewtich himself 

driven by the love story of puppets. 

Coproducers : 

Produkcja Filmowa SE-MA-FOR (Poland) 

Gerbrueder Beetz Production (Germany) 

Partners : 

DR-TV, Flemming Grenz (Denmark) 

SVT, Vera Bonnier (Sweden) 

NHK, Takahiro Hamano (Japan) 

AVRO, Marijke Huijbregts (The Netherlands) 

YLE Outi Saarikoski (Finland) 

NRK (Norway) 


ETV (Estonia) 

LRT (Lithuania) 

Festival : 

Karlovy Vary IFF, Award for best script, music, director and 

producer’s work at Silver Crane (Lituania) 

IMMORTALITY 

2008 


DIRECTOR : GÉRARD CAILLAT 

PRODUCER : SOPHIE GERMAIN 

COMPANY : KALÉO FILMS (FRANCE) 

Why do we die? Nature has not organized immortality. Nor 

Reproduction nor species continuity need immortality but it may be 

possible. 

Today the question of an almost immortal man is made accurate 

by the latest scientific researchs about ageing process, genomics, 

or nanotechnologies. 

In the most prestigious universities, we will meet the leading 

scientists, in their laboratories, during international conferences or 

arguing with their collegues. They will tell us their wildest dreams. 

Partner : 

ARTE France 

SYLT, A PERTE DE VUE 

Coproducer : 

Stella Productions, Dominique Tiberi 

LENGTH : 50 MIN EURODOC-SCRIPT 2002 

DIRECTOR : SAMUEL BESTER 

PRODUCER : SOPHIE-CHARLOTTE GAUTIER 

COMPANY : LES EDITIONS DU RÉEL (FRANCE) 

L'île de Sylt, en Allemagne du Nord, est en sursis. Chaque année, 

les tempêtes de la Mer du Nord grignotent un peu plus les 

morceaux d'un paysage austère mais précieux comme un joyau. Au 

drame de la disparition annoncée de l’île répondent alors les 

gestes frénétiques et obsessionnels des hommes. 

Habitants et scientifiques mènent un combat acharné pour 

protéger l’île contre les vents et marées : les falaises sont 

renforcées, les plages reconstituées, les digues rehaussées,... Tout 

est tenté pour freiner le déchaînement de la nature et préserver cet 

environnement, devenu avec le temps, de moins en moins 

“naturel”, de plus en plus interdit (les terrains sont clôturés, les 

dunes sont inaccessibles,...). 

Malgré toutes les technologies sophistiquées employées pour 

préserver ce site, le combat mène invariablement au même constat : 

les forces du climat se jouent de l'homme et de ses efforts pour le 

contenir. La nature poursuit son évolution et l'homme, tel Sisyphe, 

sa lutte ancestrale pour la domination des forces de la nature.

2008 Chapter 

5 MINUTES FROM MY HOME 


DIRECTOR : NAHED AWWAD 

PRODUCER : BERTAND GLOSSET 

COMPANY : KARAVAN FILM (TURKEY) 

Jerusalem airport is laying along the road that links Ramallah to 

Jerusalem. Under occupation by the Israeli army since 1967, 5 km 

away from Ramallah and 10 km from Jerusalem, the dusty runway 

saw growing at its eastern extremity, one of the biggest 

checkpoints to access west bank. Nevertheless, it didn’t use to be 

so, and this abandoned place today lived, as many international 

air terminals of the 50’s-60’s, the pompous life and freedom of 

traveling. The happy pictures and luminous testimony of the past 

bitterly contrast with those of the present where the air field access 

is forbidden, abandoned behind barber wires and soon, behind 

the Israelis separation wall. 

This film meets this place, and so calls the past to grasp better the 

present: a Palestinian society marked by abandonment. 

Coproducers : 

Nicolas Wadimoff - Akka Films (Switzerland) 

Nahed Awwad - Manara Films (Palestine) 

Partners : 


Fonds français de coopération de Jerusalem 

Palestinian Authority - Ministry of Culture 

Festival : 

Festival Visions du Réel, “Regards neufs” (Switzerland) 

FILMS 

LA CHINE EST ENCORE LOIN 


DIRECTOR : MALEK BENSMAÏL 

PRODUCER : HACHEMI ZERTAL 

COMPANY : CIRTA FILMS (ALGERIA) 

Le 1er novembre 1954, près de Ghassira, un petit village perdu 

dans les Aurès, un couple d’instituteurs français et un Caïd 

algérien sont les premières victimes civiles d’une guerre de sept 

ans qui mènera l’Algérie à l’indépendance. 

Plus de cinquante ans après, Malek Bensmaïl revient dans ce 

village chaoui, devenu « le berceau de la révolution algérienne », 

pour y filmer au fil des saisons ses habitants, entre présent et 

mémoire, mais aussi son école et ses enfants… 

Chronique d’une Algérie profonde dont la Chine, terre 

symbolique, semble encore lointaine. 

Coproducers : 

Unlimited, Philippe Avril (France) 

INA (France) 

3B Productions (France) 

ENTV (Algérie) 

Avec la participation de France 2 et France 5 

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BACK TO GWADELOUPE 


DIRECTOR : SYLVAINE DAMPIERRE 

PRODUCER : STÉPHANE SANSONETTI 

COMPANIES : ATLAN FILMS (FRANCE) 

Born on Guadeloupe, but having spent most of her life in France, 

the director leaves to rediscover her roots and her own, personal 

history. Along the way, she initiates herself to her birthplace as the 

people she meets blend with the stories her father recounts. She 

hopes that as she uncovers this island’s fascinating story and the 

tragedy of its past connections with the slave trade, she’ll also unveil 

the origins of her surname. 

Partner : 

Yumi Productions (France) 

Festival : 

Etats Généraux du Documentaire 2008 

STOLEN ART 

UNE COLLECTION PARTICULIÈRE 

LENGTH : 56 MIN EURODOC 2003-2004 

DIRECTOR : SIMON BACKÈS 

PRODUCER : AURÉLIEN BODINAUX 

COMPANIES : NÉON ROUGE PRODUCTION (BELGIUM) 

As he investigates a mysterious collection of Stolen Art exhibited in 

1978 at a New York gallery by Czech artist Pavel Novak, the author 

invites us to share his questioning about art viewed as property, both 

material and intellectual. Can there be works of art without artists? 

Can there be beauty without a copyright? 

Partners : 

La Parti Production (Belgium) 

CBA (Belgium) 

Festival : 


LE JOUR SE LÈVE 

ET SURMOI LA NUIT TOMBE 

2008 

LENGTH : 74 MIN EURODOC-SCREENING 2005 

DIRECTOR : FLORENCE LLORET 

PRODUCERS : ALEXANDRE CORNU 

COMPANY : LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE SOIE (FRANCE) 

Marseille - district of La Joliette: along the port, in front of the sea, 

a new world emerges and bit by bit covers the old one. I am the 

anxious witness of this slow slide. What is going to happen to 

those who live there? How do they perceive the transformation of 

their neighbourhood? What will their life be like in the new 

Joliette? And what will La Joliette be like? What is the imaginery 

of those who orchestrate this change? What are their ethics, their 

vision of the future and of mankind? 

Partner : 

Images Plus (France)

2007 Chapter 

IMPRISONED IN PERU 


DIRECTOR : ANNE GULLBJORG DIGRANES 

In 1999 the Norwegian woman Tove (39) is arrested at the airport 

in Lima after an attempt to smuggle 8 kilos of cocaine. She is given 

a 15 years sentence. At first Tove tries to be extradicted to Norway, 

to serve her sentence in Bergen to be close her daughter who has 

been in a fosterfamily since 1996. Then Tove in 2003 fells in love 

with a well off Peruvian man, « Pepe », who visits the prison every 

Saturday. Pepe engages his lawyers to look into Tove’s case, and 

in March 2006 she is released on parole. She is living with Pepe in 

Lima in his mothers house. Pepe is a very possive fiancé and Tove 

feels to be in another kind of prison untill Pepe dies of an 

heartattack in June 2007. When Pepe’s family gets to know that 

Tove has inherited his real estate, they put a price on her head and 

she decides to flee from Peru via Equador back to Norway. 

The film follows Tove in her everyday life inside the prison walls 

and the first weeks in freedom, her inmates and her friends, 

especially the friendship with Helen(76), her translator. Helen is an 

intellectual who has been living in Peru since 1953 when she 

married a Peruvian professor of philosophy. 

Partner : 

TV2 (Norway) 

MARIA’S GROTTO 


DIRECTOR : BUTHINA KHOURY 

PRODUCER : BUTHINA KHOURY 

COMPANY : MAJD PRODUCTION (PALESTINE) 

A gripping portrait of women, whose lives were dictated by a 

moral code, Maria’s Grotto is a painfully true film about the issue 

of honor killings in Palestine. Khoury explores the issue through 

the stories of four women: one is wrongly accused of dishonoring 

her family and then murdered; the second dies after being forced 

by her brothers to swallow poison; the third survives repeated 

stabbings inflicted by her brother; and the fourth is a Hip-hop 

singer who dares speak out about honor killings, and faces death 

threats. Through these stories, Khoury exposes the magnitude of 

honor killings in Palestine. 

Partners : 

Swiss Corporation, Unifem org (United Nations Development 

Fund for Wormen), RTBF (Belgium) 

Festivals : 

Dubai's Film Festival 2007, Silver Muhr Award 

Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece 2008 

Encounter Fest, South Africa 2008 

Tatwan Fest, Morroco 2008 Jury Mention 

Layoon Fest, Morroco 2008 

Rotterdam Fest, Nederland 2008, Golden Hawk 

Doc à Tunis 2008 (Tunisia). Nominated for Ahmad Atia award in 

Sitges (Spain) 

GEORG 

FILMS 

A STORY OF LOSS, IDYLLS, ILLUSIONS & LONGING 


DIRECTOR : CATERINA KLUSEMANN 

PRODUCER : REINHILD FELDHAUS 

COMPANY : MA.JA.DE. FILMPRODUKTION (GERMANY) 

Georg is part of a series of autobiographical films by Caterina 

Klusemann, who was born in Italy to a Jewish mother and German 

father. As a member of the third generation, she deals, in a highly 

personal way, with the Holocaust and its consequences today. In 

breaking down the family history, so steeped in silence and 

taboos, and shedding light on the rituals of memory and 

processing thereof, she gradually moves closer to her own 

ambivalent place in a story full of pain, anger, suppression and 

hope. 

In “Georg", Caterina Klusemann focuses on her German-born 

father, who died in Italy in 1981 at the age of just 38. She was just 

eight years old at the time. In her film, the director tries to confront 

her lack of memories and win back a part of her own personal 

history. 

Who was he? How can his behaviour towards his wife and motherin-law 

be interpreted? This conflict drives the film forward, 

connecting the father's biography with the questions and opinions 

of a member of the third generation. 

Partner : 

ZDF / Arte, Doris Hepp 

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BLOODY SUNDAY, A DERRY DIARY 


DIRECTOR : MARGO HARKIN 

COMPANY : BESOM PRODUCTIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 

On 30th January 1972 the British Army shot dead thirteen 

unarmed civilians on a civil rights march in Derry, Northern 

Ireland. At the subsequent Tribunal of Inquiry, Lord Chief Justice 

Widgery exonerated the soldiers and blighted the reputation of 

those who were killed and wounded by describing them as 

gunmen and bombers. In 1998 a new Tribunal of Inquiry was 

announced into the day that has become known as `Bloody 

Sunday’. This documentary follows the course of the Inquiry from 

the point of view of the families of the victims as they attended the 

Inquiry in Derry and London over a six year period. The filmmaker 

Margo Harkin was a witness to Bloody Sunday and gave evidence 

to the Tribunal of Inquiry which is expected to report in late 2007. 

When the Inquiry Report is published a final footnote will be 

recorded in order to complete the film. 

Partners : 

Lichtblick Films (Germany) 

ZDF / Arte 

RTE (Ireland) 

Irish Films Board (Ireland) 

NIFTC 

CORRIDOR #8 

2007 

LENGTH : 52 & 70 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005 

DIRECTOR : BORIS DESPODOV 

PRODUCER : MARTICHKA BOZHILOVA 

COMPANY : AGITPROP (BULGARIA) 

The distance between Sofia and Tirana is exactly 324 km. The road 

linking Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania corresponds to the site 

of a huge infrastructure project, called Corridor #8. 

Currently the entire trip is hardly possible due to the lack of 

communication and the long-time isolation and prejudices of the 

people living in these small Balkan countries. The infrastructure 

project is only an excuse to embark in complicated relations, 

tragicomic situations and human stories. 

It turns out that on the Balkans short distances are sometimes the 

longest. 

Partners : 

National Film Center, Bulgaria 

Swiss Agency for development 

YLE, Erkki Astala, Finland 

TSR, Gaspard Lamunière, Irène Challand (Switzerland) 

Media Programme : Distribution Television Support 

Festivals : 

Berlinale - Ecumenical Award 

HotDocs - HBO Documentary Film Emerging Artist Award 

Visions du Réel - Nyon 

Warszaw, Buenos Aires, SilverDocs, Bratislava 

Best Documentary - Sarajevo Film Festival 2008

2007 Chapter 

ICE PEOPLE 


DIRECTOR : ANNE AGHION 

PRODUCER : BENOIT GRYSPEERDT 

COMPANY : DRY VALLEYS PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) 

“Ice People” will be a feature-length exploration of the human 

experience of being a scientist today in the extreme environment 

of Antarctica. Intended for a wide non-professional audience, the 

film will examine the personal and emotional challenges that 

researchers meet on the frozen continent as they pursue their 

scientific quest. 

Partners : 

ARTE France 

Sundance Channel, USA 

ITVS, USA 

European Commission - DG research 

SBS, Australia 

RTBF, Belgium 

CNC, France 

Conseil Régional Rhône-Alpes 

Conseil Général de l'Ardèche 

Developed with support from the MEDIA Programme 

FILMS 

NOVELAALASANTA CASA 


DIRECTOR : CATHIE LEVY 

PRODUCER : ALEXANDRE CORNU 


Rio de Janeiro. It is dawn, but already over 100 apparently healthy 

women are waiting outside Santa Casa de Misericordia, one of the 

oldest benevolent hospitals in Brazil. In a city where one in two 

women over 50 has undergone cosmetic surgery, these women do 

not see why their low income should keep them from the scalpel. 

In Brazil, physical beauty and youth are all-important and the fact 

that only the richest can afford cosmetic surgery makes it all more 

alluring to the poor. These women are waiting for Professor Ivo 

Pitanguy’s plastic surgery consultation to open. The professor is a 

world famous high priest of cosmetic surgery. He heads one of the 

most famous and most expensive plastic surgery clinics in Rio de 

Janeiro, but he has also vowed to treat the poorest members of 

society. 

From March to June, the Professor’s staff, most of whom are 

volunteers, handle the request of 3,000 women. They come to this 

unique centre of cosmetic surgery – facelifts, liposuction, silicon 

implants and so on – at a very low price which just covers the cost 

of the equipment used during the operation. Over four months of 

waiting, appointments and shared dreams, Edna, Iolanda and 

Teresa meet there and tell each other their stories, without 

embarrassment, sometimes laughing at themselves. Will the 

promise of hapiness really be kept at the end of the long wait ? 

Partners : 

France 5, Sophie Chégaray 

France 3, Anna Glogowski 


TSR, Gaspard Lamunière (Switzerland) 

Coproducers : 

Arnaud de Mezamat, Abacaris Films (France) 

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DIRECTOR : DANIELLA MARXER 

PRODUCER : MICHEL DAVID 

COMPANY : ZEUGMA FILMS (FRANCE) 

Zuoz is a boarding school in the Swiss snowy mountains, where 

youngsters coming from the most fortunate and influent families 

in the world live a life apart. The life of the boarding school is held 

by old and traditional values trying to prevent any overflow within 

this gilded microcosm. 

Partner : 

ARTE France 

Coproducer : 

Navigator Film, Austria 

MAGIC RADIO 

2007 


DIRECTORS : LUC PETER & STEPHANIE BARBEY 

PRODUCER : LUC PETER 

COMPANY : INTERMEZZO FILMS (SWITZERLAND) 

In Niger, where more than 80% of the population is illiterate, radio 

is the main means of mass communication. Simple yet reliable, the 

radio is everywhere, in the streets, homes and the bush. 

It entertains, educates, informs and helps provide a check on power. 

Today, through the radio waves, the citizens of Niger seize the 

microphone and taste democracy. 

It is revolution FM. 

Partners : 

SSR-SRG Idée Suisse 

TSR 

ARTE G.E.I.E. 

TV5 Monde 

Canal + Horizons 

Coproducer : 

Nord Ouest Documentaires, 

Sylvie Randonneix

2007 Chapter 

CAMPO SANTO 

LENGTH : 60 MIN EURODOC NETWORK 

DIRECTOR : SONIA PASTECCHIA 

PRODUCERS : ISABELLE TRUC, BELGIUM & SERGE GUEZ, FRANCE 

COMPANIES : IOTA PRODUCTIONS & CRESCENDO FILMS 

To emigrate implies the loss of a homeland which witnessed our birth 

and which, once left behind, becomes a sacred place in our memory. 

We attach ourselves to this memory. In the Fifties, my parents left 

their native village of Esanatoglia, situated in the Marches in Italy to 

work in Belgium. In the last thirty years, new immigrants from Europe 

and from the world over have come to work in this resurgent region 

of Italy, and some have settled in the village. Following the path of 

one family, a polyphonic narrative will be woven to bring out the truth 

of this process of loss and rebirth, which little by little deeply 

transforms our identity. I would like to reach out to the emotional 

experience of the spectator and shed light on this experience of 

losing one’s motherland that, to a greater or lesser extent, affects us 

all. 

Partners : 

ARTE G.E.I.E., Anne Baumann 

RTBF, Wilbur Leguebe (Belgium) 

Wallonie Image Production 

FILMS 

LE BLUES DE L’ORIENT 


DIRECTOR : FLOENCE STRAUSS 

PRODUCERS : XAVIER DUBOIS, FRANÇOIS DUPLAT 

COMPANY : BEL AIR MEDIA (FRANCE) 

Cairo, Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Beirut, Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra… 

In a troubled world, these cities share a common inheritance, that 

of classical Arab music. 

Florence leaves Paris for the Middle East to discover an unknown 

and hidden part of her past – she is of Jewish and Arab descent – 

carried along by her love of the oriental music that guides her 

footsteps. 

Le Caire, Alexandrie, Tel Aviv, Beyrouth, Damas, Alep, Palmyre… 

Dans un monde déchiré, ces cités ont un héritage commun en 

partage, la musique arabe classique. De Paris, Florence part en 

Orient à la rencontre de la part ignorée et occultée de son histoire 

– elle est d’origine juive et arabe – portée par son amour de la 

musique orientale qui guide ses pas. 

La route et la quête se transforment au gré des rencontres qui la 

ponctuent : des musiciens surtout, qui sont aussi des poètes et des 

visionnaires de cette histoire de l’Orient qu’ils ont véhiculée dans 

les sonorités de leurs voix, les mélodies de leurs chants et les 

rythmes de leurs mains. 

Co-Producers : 

Les Films d’Ici, Serge Lalou (France) 

Amythos, Amit Breuer (Canada) 

Partners : 

ONF, Colette Loumède (Canada) 

TV 5 

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DES NUAGES POUR SEUL TOIT 


DIRECTOR : YVES SCHMITT 

PRODUCER : LILLIAN STIRLING 

COMPANY : BALTHAZAR FILMS (FRANCE) 

Once upon a time there was a director who wanted to make a film 

about the gypsies in Alsace. A people who don’t want to speak 

about themselves or be spoken about. They form a closed 

community with a specific way of life, still based on oral tradition 

and nomadism. 

Things become even more complicated when the director falls in 

love with one of the women of the community. 

Yves Schmitt’s personal point of view interwoven with that of Bilda, 

his youngest sister-in-law, invites us on an immersion into this 

world, sometimes « raw », often tender. 

Partner : 

France 3 Alsace 

THE TWO FACES OF WAR 

2007 


DIRECTORS : DIANA ANDRINGA & FLORA GOMES 

PRODUCER : LUIS CORREIA 

COMPANY : LX FILMES (PORTUGAL) 

In 1963, PAIGC – African Party for the Independence of Guinea- 

Bissau and Cape Vert – started a liberation struggle against 

Portuguese rule. PAIGC’s leader Amílcar Cabral made always 

clear that they were fighting colonialism, not the Portuguese 

people. And it was in Guinea-Bissau that was born the Army 

Movement that lead to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, in 

April 74. The conflict brought no hate, but friendship. Why? We 

tried to find it out, through different characters scattered through 

Guinea, Cape Vert and Portugal. 

Partners : 

RTP 

ICAM 

LOTTO S, IN THE NAME OF JESUS THE KING 


DIRECTOR : ITALO TODDE 

PRODUCER : ITALO TODDE 

COMPANY : CRE-ACTION (ITALY) 

Lotto S is a block in the district of Scampia, the greatestr drug 

dealing zones of Naples. This district was ignored till, when a 

cruel war of gangs brought more the 60 murders in four months.In 

such a place Massimo, 35 years old, works with children in need. 

This activity is volunteer and is tolerated by the Camorra the local 

mafia. After all he’s the leader of a catholic association and the 

church is the last institution recognized by these Barbarians.In 

such an environment, even the simple idea of setting up a Drama 

for Christmas looks like a challenge. 

Once Massimo told me: "You know, you’re not the first film-maker 

who came here, everybody looking for stories of drugs and 

murders... Well, I'd like people to know that there are positive 

examples here too, and not for you but for the people who live 

here: we need to see something beautiful in our everyday life too".

2007 Chapter 

AVANTI POPOLO ! 


DIRECTORS : YANNICK BOVY & MATHIEU SONCK 

PRODUCER : MATHIEU SONCK 

COMPANY : ZOGMA (BELGIUM) 

Le capitalisme, les cancres et les premiers de classe 

Sur l’estrade, derrière leur grand bureau, les maîtres d’école. Les 

précepteurs du libre marché, de la finance et du capitalisme 

globalisé. 

Au fond de la classe, les mauvais élèves de la « mondialisation 

heureuse », les réfractaires aux dogmes néolibéraux, les rêveurs 

d’autres mondes possibles. De mauvais élèves qui s’agitent, 

dénoncent, s’insurgent, de plus en plus nombreux, de plus en plus 

bruyants. Au Nord, au Sud, d’Est en Ouest, ils chahutent. Ils disent 

que le capitalisme c’est la guerre, le pillage de la planète, la 

contamination et la privatisation de l’air, de la terre, de l’eau. Ils 

disent que le capitalisme, c’est nous résigner à voir nos enfants 

vivre moins bien que nous. Alors, du fond de la classe, au nez et 

à la barbe des maîtres d’école, ils organisent la résistance. 

Là-bas, devant, dans les tout premiers rangs, nos « camarades de 

gauche ». Les délégués de classe. Les élus. NOS élus de gauche. 

Ceux que nous avons choisis pour nous représenter devant les 

précepteurs... et qui ont pris place à leurs côtés. Nos camarades 

de gauche qui ont un peu oublié pourquoi leurs copains du fond 

de la classe les ont élus. 

Nous, en douce, on prend quelques images. Des images et des 

mots en vrac sur le capitalisme, sur l’offensive néolibérale, sur 

ceux qui résistent au fond de la classe. Et puis aussi sur ceux qui, 

devant, font semblant. On observe, en compagnie de quelques 

chahuteurs professionnels. Et on se demande, avec eux, comment 

on fait pour « changer la vie ». 

FILMS 

A MASSACRE FORETOLD 


DIRECTORS : NICK HIGGINS 

PRODUCER : NICK HIGGINS 

COMPANY : LANSDOWNE PRODUCTIONS (SCOTLAND UK) 

On 22 December 1997, forty-five indigenous residents of the 

small Southern Mexican village of Acteal were attending a prayer 

meeting in their village church when they were slaughtered by 

unknown paramilitary forces. They were members of the pacifist 

group Las Abejas (The Bees), who were supporters of the 

revolutionary Zapatistas but renounced their violent methods. The 

investigation into their deaths quickly went suspiciously cold... 

Scottish documentary maker Nick Higgins, attains unprecedented 

access to the place, the people, and the story behind a barelyreported 

atrocity. 

Partners : 

VPRO & Holland Doc (The Netherlands) 

Festivals : 

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007 

Morelia Festival de Cine, Mexico 2007 

Festival International du Film Des Droits de l'Homme – Paris 2008 

Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival – Norway 2008 

First Peoples Festival – Montreal 2008 

WACC/Signis Prize, Best Human Rights Documentary 2007 

Sky Movies Best Documentary Award 2007 

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L’HOMME AUX CELLULES D’OR 


DIRECTOR : FLORENCE MARTIN-KESSLER 

PRODUCER : VIRGINIE GUIBBAUD 

COMPANY : 13 PRODUCTION (FRANCE) 

Los Angeles, 1984: John Moore, a cancer patient, finds out that 

his doctor has cultivated and patented his unique “golden” cells, 

without his awareness. He decides to take him to court. After a 

lengthy legal process, the questions asked are: does John Moore 

have rights over his own cells? Can private companies own a stake 

in our bodies? Where do we draw the line between the « thing » 

and the « person »? In 1990, the California Supreme Court 

decides that, where the University’s patent on Moore’s cells is 

indeed valid, Moore’s claim to sovereign ownership over his own 

body is, in fact, groundless. 

Since then, patents on life have come to number in the thousands 

and are crucial for the biotechnological industries, and for the 

advancement of biomedical research in general. 

A landmark case, the Moore story serves as the starting point for 

this film which will explore, through equally troubling instances, 

the current state of the global trade around the human body, its 

use as raw material for medical research, its privatisation as 

intellectual property and its commercial exploitation by biotech 

companies. 

Partners : 

ARTE France 

ONF (Canada) 

CBC 

MONTAGNARDS OUBLIÉS 

2007 


DIRECTOR : FRANCK CUVELLIER 

PRODUCER : JEAN-LUC MILLAN 

COMPANY : GRAND ANGLE (FRANCE) 

Between the years ’71 to ’75, about twenty children native from 

the highlands of the deep Vietnam have been removed from their 

family to french voluntaries family, on different places of the 

territory. In five, maybe six travels, we don’t know any longer, one 

by one or in small groups, brothers and sisters, or sometimes 

children from the same village, those renegades, about 12 years 

old, are gone with the agreement of their parents and under the 

authority of “Foreign Mission of Paris” priests, with a mission 

assigned to them. Thirteen years later, what did they become? 

What kind of memory did they keep of this epic? And, above all, 

did they fulfil their mission? In order that this episode of the 

history, this episode of their story, does not pass over in silence, I 

wanted to rebuild with them the narrative of this humanitarian 

interference before the age. A story in which one the protagonists, 

step after step, yesterday like today, wonder: Have I been wrong? 

Partners : 

France 5 

KTO

2007 Chapter 

AIGI 


DIRECTOR : DAINIS KLAVA 

PRODUCER : RIHO VASTRIK & ULDIS CEKULIS 

COMPANIES : VESILIND (ESTONIA), VIDES FILMU STUDIJA (LATVIA) 

Man, Time and Place forms the conceptual triangle of this film, with 

the social and economic reality as the inevitable background. The 

film reveals the present confusion in which the Saamis have found 

themselves as a result of the conflict between traditional nomadism 

and modernity. What is the Saami identity today? Are the Saamis by 

definition reindeer people? And are they ready to define themselves 

differently? 

Partners : 

National Film Centre of Latvia 

Estonian Film Foundation 

Estonian Cultural Endowment 

ETV 

LTV 

LRT 

SVT 

MEDIA Broadcasting 

UTOPIA 79 

FILMS 


DIRECTOR : JOAN LLORET 

PRODUCER : SÉVERINE ROINSSARD 

COMPANY : PARATI FILMS (FRANCE) 

The revolutionary dreams of the 20th century died after the 

Nicaraguan Sandinista revolution of 1979. Based on the diaries of 

several Nicaraguan revolutionaries and 'children of the revolution', 

we experience their hopes and disillusionment. 

Coproducer : 

Frame Zero 

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DIVORCE ALBANIAN STYLE 

LENGTH : 66 & 59 MIN EURODOC-SCREENING 2003 

DIRECTOR : ADELA PEEVA 

PRODUCER : ADELA PEEVA 

COMPANIES : ADELA MEDIA FILM & TV PRODUCTION (BULGARIA) 

This is a story about love and separation. It happened in Albania, a 

small poor country in the Balkans in the sixties of the past century. 

Through the eyes of a few of the many thousands of people who 

experienced this extraordinary period, our film tells the story of the 

families that were forcefully separated by the Communist regime of 

Enver Hodja - the longest lasting European dictator of the 20th 

century. When in 1961 Albania broke off relations with Soviet 

Union, Albanian men married to non-Albanian women were forced 

to split up with their wives and drive them from their houses. The 

official reason: fear of espionage. Those who did not obey spent 

years in prisons. 

Our film tells the stories of three couples - only three of the many 

couples of Albanian men married to foreign women.This was their 

only crime. The executioners of these outrages against them also 

participate in the film: the prosecutor Pandi Konomi, the investigator 

Dolores Veliay and the officer of the Albanian secret police 

“Sigurimi” - Yuli Hilla. 

Partners : 

Studio Kalejdoskop (Poland) 

WDR (Germany) 

Bulgarian National TV 

Festivals : 

Nomination of the European Film Academy for “The Best 

Documentary 2007 - Prix Arte” 

Special award of the Jury National Non-Fiction Film Festival 

"Golden Rython" 2007 

Grand Prix for the Best Documentary International TV Festival 

"Golden Chest" 2007 

“Best Bulgarian Documentary 2007” Award of the Bulgarian 

National Film Centre 

“Best Documentary 2006 - 2007” Award of the Union of Bulgarian 

Film makers 

SRG SSR Idée Suisse, Prize of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation 

Human Rights Award, Sarajevo International Film Festival 2008 

LE BEURRE ET L’ARGENT DU BEURRE 

2007 


DIRECTORS : PHILIPPE BAQUÉ & ALIDOU BADINI 

PRODUCER : JEAN-FRANÇOIS HAUTIN 

COMPANY : SMAC (FRANCE) 

Fair trading is very much in fashion today. The concept is to help 

the most underprivileged populations on our planet to emerge 

from this state thanks to a fairer distribution of revenues. 

Shea butter is more and more appreciated in Europe. It is used in 

the cosmetic industry and as a cocoa substitute. Who profits from 

the money of the butter? 

Several experimenting fair traders are trying to break away from 

the dominating market. In sharing the lives of the producers in 

Burkina Faso, the film carries us to the heart of the problems of 

survival in Africa. 

Coproducer : 

Sekou Traoré (Burkina Faso) 

Partners : 

TELESONNE (France) 

TV5 Monde (France) 


Festivals : 

Fespaco - Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) 2007 

Résistances – Foix 2007 

Etats Généraux du Documentaire – Lussas 2007 

Nuits Atypiques – Langon 2007 

Utopies du quotidien – Paris 2007 

International du Film – Amiens 2007 

Escales documentaires – Libreville (Gabon) 2007 

Lumières d’Afrique – Besançon 2007 

Quintescence – Ouidah (Bénin) 2008 

Cine Africano – Tarifa (Espagne) 2008 

Arrêts sur Images – Charleroi (Belgique) 2008 

FIGRA – Le Touquet 2008 

Panafricain – Cannes 2008 

Plein Sud – Cozes 2008 

Vue d’Afrique – Montréal (Canada) 2008 

Girafe d’or, Festival de Niamey 2008

2006 Chapter 

OPERACION URSULA 


DIRECTOR : JOSÉ ANTONIO HERGUETA 

PRODUCER : JOSÉ ANTONIO HERGUETA 

COMPANIES : MLK PRODUCCIONES (SPAIN) 

For decades, a sunken submarine has been jealously keeping all its 

secrets under the bay of Malaga (Spain). Only at the late 90s 

Antonio Checa, a local lawyer, discovered some oily bubbles coming 

from the bottom of the sea and found out its source: the wreck of 

the C-3, a Spanish Republican submarine, was lying in the seabed 

near the Costa del Sol beaches since the beginning of the Spanish 

Civil War (1936). 

In the meantime, Willard Frank, an American historian 

acknowledged as the main expert in naval operations of such event, 

had been researching in archives world-wide following the track of 

a mission successfully kept in total secrecy by the Kriegsmarine, the 

German Nazi Navy, since 1936: the Operation Ursula. 

Witnesses, historians, veterans of the Spanish and German navies, 

support the research of Frank and Checa to reveal the truth of this 

submerged story: the first combat mission of Hitler’s Navy, a 

rehearsal in Spanish waters of the u-boots that would soon become 

famous in World War II. And, above all of them, with their 

untouched memories, the relatives of those 37 crewmembers who 

“disappeared” on December 12th 1936 and whose story was never 

talked again… till now. 

Partners : 

Canal Sur TV (Spain) 

Graffiti Doc, Enrica Capra (Italy) 

Festivals : 

Oficial competition in 2007: 

Festival de Cine Español de Málaga 

DocumentaMadrid 

Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo 

Istanbul 

FILMS 

GAGARIN’S PIONEERS 


DIRECTOR : VITALIJ MANSKIJ 

PRODUCERS : HEINO DECKERT & MEIKE MARTENS 

COMPANY : MA.JA.DE (GERMANY) 

Anti-Semitism at the hands of the Soviet Union state made many 

families in the 70s emigrate. Vitalij Manskij makes for Israel and 

other countries in search of those he once knew so well, for their 

mutual past and for discussions about dreams and 

disappointments, discrimination and dominance, homeland and 

happiness. 

Coproducer : 

Vertov Studio (Russia) 

Partners : 

YLE TV2 Iikka Vehkalahti (Finland) 

ZDF/ARTE Doris Hepp (Germany) 

LA MALADIE SILENCIEUSE 

LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-Screening 2005 

DIRECTOR : LAURE BUDIN 

PRODUCER : JÉRÔME AMIMER 

COMPANY : LEITMOTIV PRODUCTION (FRANCE) 

Upon my return from three months in Africa, it turned out I had 

contracted hepatitis C. Ahead of me, lay a year of heavy 

treatment. How was I going to live through this time-lapse? From 

the very first day of the bitherapy, I started a diary. I took photos. 

And then one day, I had a video camera. To film, what was within 

reach of my fatigue and seclusion. I felt that shooting would help 

me ear the treatment, help me not to stop it. To go on living, and 

eventually to leave my flat for more images. A chance for a 'third 

therapy' at hand. 

Partner : 

Cityzen Télévision (France) 

Distributor : 

Andana Films 

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LETTERS TO A DICTATOR 


DIRECTOR : INES DE MEDEIROS 

PRODUCER : SERGE TRÉFAUT 

COMPANY : FAUX (PORTUGAL) 

A Women’s support Movement defending the dictatorship was set 

up in 1958. The Portuguese dictator, Salazar, had been in power 

for more than 30 years by then. From the thousands of letters we 

discovered, it is clear that Salazar had strong popular support. He 

was loved and respected almost like a religious leader. 

Bought from a second-hand book dealer, these letters are now in 

our hands. They portray a country seen through the eyes of the 

greatest devotees of the regime. They express a blind adherence 

to fascist values and show the way fascism affected the intimate 

lives of women of all social classes. Some precious archive show 

these women screaming under the dictator window like 

adolescents in a rock concert. But Salazar was an austere man, 

celibate and apparently sexless. What did this love signify then ? 

Partners : 

France : ADR Productions (Pascal Verroust), Image Plus 

Belgium : Néon Rouge Productions (Aurélien Bodinaux), RTBF 

Portugal : RTP 

Festival : 

Eurodoc-Screening 2006 

2006 

IRAN, A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION 

LENGTH : 98 / 52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2003-2004 

DIRECTOR : NADER T. HOMAYOUN 

PRODUCER : CAROLINE BONMARCHAND 

COMPANY : AVENUE BPRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) 

Throughout the twentieth century, Iranian filmmakers have been 

involved in a constant struggle, first against the monarchy and 

then against Islamic power. This confrontation gave rise to an 

innovative and unique cinematography, exported today around 

the world. This film tells the story of the unexpected success of 

Iranian cinema, from the era of the Shah (1925), through the 

revolution and the Iran – Iraq war up to contemporary life. 

The crossed destiny of cinema with power is told through archive 

footage, extracts of pre and post revolution films and through 

interviews with the main protagonists of Iranian film industry. 

Tout au long du XXe siècle, les cinéastes iraniens n’ont cessé de se 

battre contre le pouvoir monarchique puis islamique. De cette 

confrontation est née une cinématographie originale qui s’exporte 

aujourd’hui dans le monde entier. Ce film est l’histoire de la 

réussite inespérée d’un cinéma iranien, de la période du shah 

(1925), jusqu’à nos jours en passant par la révolution et la guerre 

Iran-Irak. 

Destins croisés de cinéma et de pouvoir à travers des images 

d’archives, des extraits de films d’avant et d’après la révolution et 

des entretiens avec les principaux protagonistes du cinéma 

iranien. 

Partners : 

Arte France 

YLE, TSR, Rai Sat, Ciné Cinéma 

Foreign Affairs Ministry, TV 5, MEDIA New Talent, PROCIREP, CNC 

Distributor : 

Doc & CO – Catherine Le Clef 

Festival : 

Eurodoc-Screening 2006

2006 Chapter 

THE BAD GUY’S FACE 


DIRECTOR : DAVIDE TOSCO 

PRODUCER : ENRICA CAPRA 

COMPANY : GRAFFITIDOC (ITALY) 

Berlin, 1943: Bruno Lüdke, a young man of the suburbs, is 

accused of 81 murders. His whole body is an accusation, starting 

from his face: the “bad guy’s face”, one of a true brutish lout. His 

name is still associated today to the image of an appalling serial 

killer. 

Yet in fact how would one define the “bad guy’s face”? Has this 

typical criminal’s portrait evolved through the years? Which logics 

provided the parameters for a “bad guy’s face”? 

To our great surprise these questions propel us into a journey 

backwards to some of the most respectable places of 19th century, 

as the temples of science, on the tracks of the researchers 

animated by one common obsession: discover the laws which 

determine the individual’s future actions starting from their 

bodies. 

Partners : 

ARTE, Claudia Bucher, Olaf Grünert 

RTBF, Claire Colart, Belgium 

TSR, Irène Challand, Switzerland 

SBS, Mark Atkin 

History Channel 

Coproducers : 

Serge Lalou, Les Films d’Ici (France) 

Aurélien Bodinaux, Néon Rouge (Belgium) 

Festival : 


US ANDTHEM 


DIRECTOR : ANTRA CILINSKA 

PRODUCER : ANTRA CILINSKA 

COMPANY : JURIS PODNIEKS STUDIO (LATVIA) 

The existence of the two parallel communities - one Latvian, the 

other Russian, is the reality of the present day Latvia. Out of a total 

population of 2.5 million people in Latvia, nearly 1 million is 

Russian speaking, the majority of which has settled here since the 

Soviet invasion in 1941. How does this new “minority”, which 

hitherto has always had the privileges of a majority, feel today in 

this new European state? Why are so many younger generation 

Russians out on the streets today? Why did so many Russian 

speaking people, and those who had recently gained citizenship, 

vote against the European Union and why do they still support the 

left wing and pro-Moscow politicians? 

Is it a question of grand politics, of big issues; is it the external 

workings of very complicated political cogs in a number of 

different political systems? 

Or is it simply that the idea of integration, for both the sides, does 

not work properly? 

Partners : 

Latvian TV 

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SHOAH AND PIN-UPS 


DIRECTOR : REINHILD DETTMER-FINKE 

PRODUCER : REINHILD DETTMER-FINKE 

COMPANY : DEFI-FILMPRODUKTION (GERMANY) 

SHOAH and PIN-UPS is a film about breaking a taboo. 

In his art the 80-year old New York NO! Artist, Boris Lurie, brings 

together what doesn’t belong together: the gassed corpses and 

the naked, the Shoah and pin-ups. 

It’s not perverted art, but a comment on a perverted society, says 

Lurie, and he draws a line from the Shoah to the war in Iraq. And 

he would have so liked to have painted comfortable, comforting 

things, like the Impressionists did. But something kept him from 

doing that. And that something is what this film searches. The 

search takes us via Riga and Buchenwald to the New York of the 

50s and 60s, when NO! Art developed as an obstinate reaction to 

Pop Art. Boris Lurie’s NO! is his motto: NO! to the expectations of 

the art market. NO! to bourgeois decorum! NO! to victim 

mentality. 

A film about the timeless timely questions of remembering and 

about coping with the extermination of the Jews through art. 

Partner : 

WDR, Sabine Rollberg 

CORE DI ROMA 


DIRECTOR : GWYN SANNIA 

PRODUCER : EMANUELE PIANO 

COMPANY : OYIBO PRODUCTIONS (ITALY) 

…Another football season of joy and anguish awaits Sergio Rosi, 

Alfredo Bragaglia and the Testaccio Roma Club regulars. As 

another season of hostilities and bitter rivalry kicks off between AS 

Roma and SS Lazio, the two teams of the Italian capital, stay with 

us for the four months between the first and second Leg capitoline 

derby and discover the real Rome. Made up of a special kind of 

Roman: ‘Il Testaccino’ or The Testaccio people. Food, football, 

passion, culture and a hefty dose of sarcastic comedy will be the 

recurring theme for this story, as we learn all about this special 

place and these special people. This is “Core de’ Roma”, the heart 

of Rome. 

SECRETOS DE LUCHA 

2006 


DIRECTOR : MAIANA BIDEGAIN 

PRODUCER : JEAN-FRANÇOIS HAUTIN 

COMPANY : LA S.M.A.C. (FRANCE) 

Secrets of the struggle: the journey of a young woman, who travels 

to Uruguay in search of the what really happened to her family 

during the darkest years of the Uruguayan dictatorship. Through 

her father’s eyes and her seven aunts and uncles’ confessions, she 

tries to understand why they kept their memories silent for so long. 

From the French Bask country to South America, she follows their 

steps and explores their individual struggles, whether these were 

through union or legal political actions, or through clandestine 

activities within an urban guerrilla organisation called the 

Tupamaros, many of their actions in these events they have kept 

silent about, even to their immediate families. 

Partners : 

France 3 Aquitaine 

Euskaltelebista 

Coproducers : 

Alberto Rojo, IDEM (Spain) 

Jean-Marie Bertineau, Zangra Productions (France) 

Festivals : 

Cinéma et Culture d’Amérique Latine, Biarritz 2007 - Prix du 

meilleur documentaire 

Festival du Film d’Histoire, Pessac 2007 - Prix du public 

Festival de cinéma latino américain, Sydney 2008 - Prix du public 

FIPA 2008 - Nominé au Prix Michel Mitrani

2006 Chapter 

MANDY’S CHOICE 


DIRECTOR : LUISA PRETOLANI 

COMPANY : PAHNI PRODUCTIONS (UK) 

COPRODUCER : MIKE CHAMBERLAIN, STAMPEDE (UK) 

On October 2003, Mandy, 22 years old, faced the death of her 

husband Josh, after a motorcycle accident. While he was in a 

coma, she asked the doctors at the hospital in Littleton, Colorado, 

to harvest Josh’s sperm for future conception. Mandy’ had to fight 

in order to have the doctors carry on this simple but extraordinary 

medical procedure which eventually has changed Mandy’s life 

forever. In Spring ‘04 she decided to proceed with the In Vitro 

Fertilization and become pregnant with Josh’s baby. 

The documentary follows Mandy, her family and her closest friends 

for 18 months in this incredible journey: from her decision to have 

Josh’s baby, though her maternity, and everybody’s painful coping 

with the everyday memories of Josh’s loss and eventually the birth 

of Kaven: the Child of Hope and Happiness. 

LE SOLEIL ET LA MORT 


DIRECTOR : BERNARD DEBORD 

PRODUCER : MARIE MOUCHEL-BLAISET 

COMPANY : MAT FILMS (FRANCE) 

On April 26, 1986, a nuclear explosion released a toxic cloud at 

Chernobyl in northern Ukraine. In the following days, this plume 

spewed 70% of its radioactive fall-out over Belarus, whose border 

is just seven kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power station. 

The world-at-large was unsuspecting, and it quickly forget that the 

remainder of the fatal deposit was released over the northern 

hemisphere. This film concentrates entirely on Belarus, whose 

population in the twenty years since the disaster have been 

condemned by the effects of the ingestion of small doses of 

radioactivity. 

The ambition of this film is to give witness to the process of slow 

death, to reveal the imminence of the genetic catastrophe, and to 

untie the threads of the international conspiracy of silence, all of 

which threaten this country. It also aims to alert the world to the 

danger that this organized disinformation represents for the 

immediate future. 

Its actors are human beings full of humanity - the neglected 

victims of the contamination, doctors and scientists, and scientific 

activists - not willing to abandon themselves to a worst-possiblescenario. 

Their subject matter, the atom, is invisible and 

indescribable; their wager is to show its materiality, and to say 

something of its meaning. What they have to say often flies in the 

face of established truths, in the same way as does this film. Their 

adversaries are the nuclear lobby and the comfort of ignorance. 

Their weapon is reality: that of a world that one strives to make 

more palatable. 

Partners : 

France 5 



ERT (Greece) 

LRT (Latvia) 

CBC, Radio-Canada 

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FOREVER LENIN 

FILMS 


DIRECTOR : XAVIER VILLETARD 

PRODUCER : JÉRÔME AMIMER 

COMPANY : LEITMOTIV PRODUCTION (FRANCE) 

It was Stalin’s suggestion to make Lenin immortal. The 

mummification of the Bolshevik Leader was the very first act of 

theatrical deception by an ideology that was giving itself a living 

God. The adventures of Lenin’s mummy are in a direct sense a 

reflection of the history of the Soviet Union. Mixing both visible 

history and the dark secrets that were brought to the surface by 

the disintegration of the USSR, “Forever Lenin”, is a sort of autopsy 

of Vladimir Ilitch’s mummy. At the same time, among gangsters 

and “New Russian”, the temptation of immortally continues to 

stimulate emulation within Russia today. 

Partners : 

France 5 : Muriel Rosé 

TSR-TSI : Irène Challand 

SBS : Mark Atkin 

DRTV 

RTBF : Bill Binnemans 

YLE : Leena Pasanen 

Festival : 

Festival du Film d’Histoire de Pessac 2005 

AN OPEN WINDOW 

2005 


DIRECTOR : KHADY SYLLA 

PRODUCERS : MARIAMA SYLLA, SOPHIE SALBOT 

COMPANIES : GUISS GUISS COMMUNICATION (SENEGAL), ATHENAÏSE (FRANCE) 

In 1994, filmmaker and auteur Khady Sylla attempted to film a 

documentary about homeless psychiatric patients who roam the 

streets of Dakar, but the images were overexposed and appeared 

to be unusable. Some of them now form the beginning of another 

attempt by Sylla to portray insanity. In the past years, the director 

herself has also suffered the pain of a deeply troubled mind - she 

has crossed over "to the other side." Sylla feels drawn to her main 

subject, the expressive Aminta Ngom, who spends her days 

confined to the courtyard of her family's house. Despite the 

simplistic use of camera, the film is complex and layered, and Sylla 

relates to Ngom in different ways: as a director who is aware of 

her film crew, as an equal beside her neurotic friend, and as a 

narrator who looks into the camera and describes the mental state 

of her subject with stylised, powerful words. The intimacy of the 

shared experiences is disturbed by the intrinsically unequal 

relationship between director and psychiatric patient. Une fenêtre 

ouverte is simultaneously a portrait, a self-portrait and a lucid 

illustration of damaged self-awareness in which no sense of time, 

but only moments exist. 

Partners : 

ARTE France, Luciano Rigolini 

TSR, Irène Challand 

MAE, France 

Agence de la Francophonie 

Centre National de la Cinématographie 

Films pour un seul monde (Switzerland) 

Jan Vrijman Fund 

Festivals : 

FID Marseille 2005 


IDFA 2005 


2005 Chapter 

THE DESTINY OF CLARA B. 


DIRECTOR : ALEXANDRU SOLOMON 

PRODUCER : BONIN CEDRIC 

COMPANY : SEPPIA (FRANCE) 

The film – a fictional documentary which is mostly made up of reel 

archives ; films and photos – tells the fictional story of Clara B, a 

photo-journalist born in 1900 in Strasbourg. Nowadays, her life is 

reconstructed by another fictional character, Jonas, young man living 

in Berlin-Est whom she came to know late in life and whose own 

family history echoes the life of our heroine. Jonas's subjective 

reconstruction of Clara B.'s story highlights the destiny of a free 

woman in the 20th century and provides an alternative insight into 

recent events in Europe's history, some of which have had a veil cast 

over them. 

Partners : 

Arte - NDR; France 3 Alsace 

DJAMEL ALLAM, MINERAL BIRD 


DIRECTOR : PHILIPPE ETIENNE 

PRODUCER : RAPHAEL VION 

COMPANY : LES FILMS DU SAFRAN (FRANCE) 

Né à Bejaia, capitale de la petite Kabylie, Djamel Allam appartient à 

cette jeunesse enthousiasmée par l'indépendance mais également 

imprégnée de culture occidentale. Il arrive en France à 21 ans. Il a 

dans ses bagages les chants traditionnels algériens, arabes et 

kabyles, mais aussi les poètes français comme Prévert et les 

surréalistes. Des petits boulots au théâtre du Gymnase à Marseille, 

jusqu'à ses premiers succès sur scène à Paris, Djamel deviendra en 

France un des plus importants chanteurs algériens. Le film dresse le 

portrait du chanteur en le suivant dans son intimité et dans sa vie 

d'artiste à Paris, à Alger et Béjaia et sur scène à Toulouse. 

Partner : 

Cityzen TV (France) 

FOREVER 

FILMS 


DIRECTOR : ALINA MARAZZI 

PRODUCER : GAIA GIANI 

COMPANY : MIR CINEMATOGRAFICA (ITALY) 

Per Sempre probes the motivations that lead some women to 

choose a secluded life inside religious communities. The film 

originated from a basic question that compelled the director to 

take a look inside these communities: how can it be possible for a 

woman today to make such an extreme and irrevocable choice, 

one that lasts forever? This question raises issues that perhaps 

cannot be described or explained in words, but that enable us to 

catch the essential aspirations behind this choice: the value of 

community, the attempt to transcend the ego in a perspective of 

faith and love, the sense of discipline as the constant reference 

point of an “extra-ordinary” way of life. 

Partners : 

TSI (Switzerland) 

Fox Channel, Cult (Italy) 

Rai Tre (Italy) 

Yle 1 (Finland) 

Cinema release : 

Cineteca of Milano 

Rome at Fandango Politecnico 

Festivals : 

58° International film festival Locarno 

Turin Film Festival 

Festival dei popoli Florende 

It’s all true San Paolo 

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DIRECTOR : SAMANTA YEPEZ 

PRODUCER : JEAN-MARIE BERTINEAU 

COMPANY : ZANGRA PRODUCTION (FRANCE) 

Pepin, Fausto and Fabian migrated from Ecuador to Spain because 

of the economical crisis that began in 1999 in their country. The 

film is exploring the experience of forced exile and the loss of roots 

threw day to day life of these migrants. 

Partner : Voi Senart, Linda Ortholan (France) 

Festivals : 

Festival Internacional d’Amiens; Encuentros del otro cine, 

Equateur; Reflets du Cinéma Ibérique et Ibéro-américain de 

Villeurbanne; Quinzaine Culturamérica de Pau; 23e Rencontres 

avec le Cinéma d’Amérique Latine de Bordeaux 

GRAZIE BERLUSCONI ! 


DIRECTOR : FULVIA ALBERTI 

PRODUCER : PATRICE BARRAT - ARTICLE Z (FRANCE) 

On the eve of the 2001 general elections, Fulvia, an Italian 

woman having lived in France for twenty years, decides to buy 

herself a camera and go film the “changes” talked about by her 

former Italian friends who sound more and more worried. 

As she meets them - former activists having given up any political 

activity and newer ones having grown up in the midst of various 

associations - Fulvia is reminded of her own story and that of her 

old country. She also gets to know better today’s Italy, a very 

controversial and ill-treated country, especially by those who run it. 

Berlusconi wins the elections and an opposition reorganises itself, first led 

by the anti-globalisation movement in Genoa. Other events and other 

disappointments were to come up until the latest European elections. 

History with a capital H, and history with a small one : they look 

alike and need one another to make progress. This is the reason 

why Fulvia agreed to run as a candidate in the local elections in her 

hometown together with the people that she filmed over four years. 

Partner : TV10 Angers (France) 

Festival : Les Z’engagés La Ciotat 

WHITE TERROR 

2005 


DIRECTOR : DANIEL SCHWEIZER 

PRODUCER : DANIEL SCHWEIZER 

COMPANY : HORIZON FILMS (SWITZERLAND) 

White Terror is a documentary film asking the question: who are 

hiding behind the "White Power" slogan? Starting with the content of 

a neonazi video tape seized in Switzerland, this film tries to go up the 

extremist connections so as to trace these people in European 

countries and North America who are at the source of this 

propaganda encouraging segregation, hate an racial war. 

Coproducers : 

Little Bear, Matthieu Belghiti (France) 

Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (Switzerland) 

Cameo Films (Germany) 

Making Movies (Finland) 

Partners : 

ARTE G.E.I.E 

TSR / SRG SSR Irène Challand 

YLE, Finland 

Avec le soutien du CNC France et l’Office de la Culture Suisse et 

du Fond régional Nord Rhein-Westfallen Allemagne

2005 Chapter 

EXILE FAMILY MOVIE 

LENGTH : 60 & 94 MIN EURODOC-SCRIPT 2002-2003 

DIRECTOR : ARASH 

PRODUCER : GEZA HORVAT 

COMPANY : GOLDEN GIRLS FILMPRODUKTION (AUSTRIA) 

An Iranian family living in political exile in Europe and America 

decides to organise a secret meeting with the rest of the family, 

which still lives in Iran and which they haven’t seen for more than 

20 years. The only place that proves to be possible for this meeting 

is Saudi Arabia. Despite all the dangers, the family members living 

in exile pretend to be Muslim pilgrims in order to be allowed to 

enter the holy cities of Medina and Mekka. There, in a small hotel, 

room the long awaited, tearful reunion takes place after 20 years 

of separation. 

It proves to be a huge culture clash between the Muslim world and 

the western societies of Europe and America. 

Partners : 

Financed by ARTE France, ORF, Filmfonds Vienna, BKA 

World sales : First Hand Films/ Esther van Messel 

Festivals : 

Diagonale, Austria 2006 

Festival de Nyon, Switzerland 2006 


FILMS 

PREMIER NOËL DANS LES TRANCHÉES 


DIRECTOR : MICHAËL GAUMNITZ 

PRODUCER : SYLVIE RANDONNEIX 

COMPANY : NORD OUEST DOCUMENTAIRES (FRANCE) 

In December 1914, an unheard of event occurred. Soldiers from 

Germany, France and England came out of their trenches and 

fraternized with the enemy. They sang together, exchanged food, 

and showed each other photographs of their families. In some 

places, it lasted nearly a fortnight and entailed the passive 

complicity of officers. According to the military code of the day 

fraternizing was a war crime, a failure of duty and a cowardly act, 

guilty soldiers should have been shot. 

Today then, fraternization is to be commemorated. Why ? It is 

interesting to question the topic and put it in its historical context. 

In recounting these events which in retrospect appear somehow 

unreal, the film tries to understand the mind set of those times. 

While fraternization remained marginal, what it reveals about the 

soldiers involved is far more telling than the ‘official’ version, 

history has accustomed us to. 

Besides recounting these events and the ensuing commotion 

brought upon military staff, we will look at the reasons as to why 

fraternization happened, and also why it was not more frequent. 

Through archives, and photographs but also soldiers’ letters from 

Germany and France, we will try to get closer to the mentalities 

and views of those times... 

Partners : 

France 5 

France 3 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie 

INA Productions 

Editions Montparnasse 

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BARNEY WILEN, THE REST OF YOUR LIFE 


DIRECTOR : STEPHANE SINDE 

PRODUCER : SYLVIE RANDONNEIX (EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2000-2001) 

COMPANY : NORD OUEST DOCUMENTAIRES (FRANCE) 

The life and times of Barney Wilen, the legendary jazz musician 

who at age 18 was already playing with Miles Davis, and whom 

many called the "greatest European saxophonist." Exiled to 

Zanzibar in the 70s where he lives among the impoverished 

nobility, hero of Loustal's cult comic strip, The Blue Note, Wilen 

was as famous for his brilliant appearances as for his inexplicable 

disappearances. This film essay reconstitutes his rich, mysterious 

life even as it attempts to distinguish the man from the myth. With 

the participation of Laurent de Wilde, Philippe Garrel and Archie 

Shepp. 

Partners : 

ARTE 

CNC 

Mezzo 

SACEM 

Festivals : 

FIPA 2006 

Festival Cinéma du Réel 2006 


ANATOMY OF A MASSACRE 

2005 


DIRECTOR : ANDREA PRANDSTRALLER 

PRODUCER : AGNESE FONTANA (EURODOC-PRODUCTION 1999-2000) 

COMPANY : BROOKLYN FILMS (ITALY) 

On April 30th, 1945 at Pedascala, a small mountain community in 

North-east Italy, a retreating German platoon massacred 82 

innocent civilians, among them women and children. The reasons 

behind this retaliation remain unknown. In 1994 documents were 

uncovered containing the Anglo-American investigations on Nazi 

war crimes, labeled "Temporarily Archived", a prefectly executed 

shelving. The impossibility of finding and punishing a guilty party 

shifts the emphasis of the question who? to the question why? Is 

someone guilty for having provoked this wild reaction in the 

German soldiers? Several versions of the event, gathered by the 

surviving members, become the tracks to follow in order to 

confront this contoversial and uncomfortable memory. A personal 

and rigourous research completed through Italy, the NARA of 

Washington D.C., and Germany. 

The project was developed at Eurodoc-Script 2002 by Andrea 

Prandstraller. Brooklyn Films assisted Mr. Prandstraller in 

developing the project. The project was pitched in Bologna during 

the workshop organized by DOC/IT : "National Geographics/Fox 

International Channels/Meetings of Documentary filmmakers ", 

also gaining the interests of the present commissioning editors. 

Shooting took place in Italy (Pedescala), Germany, and at the 

NARA in Washington D.C. 

Produced by Brooklyn Films srl in co-production with AGER 3 srl 

and Istituto Luce Italnoleggio. Pay TV world wide rights pre-sold 

Fox International Channels Italy.

2005 Chapter 

MEMORIES OF DREAMS 


DIRECTOR : TONI STRASBURG 

Memories of dreams is a feature length documentary that crosses 

time and continents to chart the fascinating history of three 

generations of one family who played a role in some of the major 

political upheavals of the last century – The Bolshevik Revolution, 

World War II and the end of Apartheid in South Africa. 

Through letters and interviews this emotionally charged film 

recalls the dilemmas made by many when faced by political 

events; the dilemmas that attempt to resolve the moral imperative 

of revolutionary change without sacrificing the emotional needs of 

family. 

The author embarks on a personal journey in an attempt to find 

out how history came to repeat itself in so many ways. It explores 

why some people choose to look beyond their own self-interest to 

work for a better future for all. It asks how they came to the 

choices that they did. Choices between family and political beliefs 

? Choices that echo through the years with the repeating themes, 

passion and politics; exile, and return; love and country and 

belonging. 

Journeying from Russia to South Africa, via England, this intimate 

exploration draws on the migrations and conflict of the 20th 

Century, to reconcile the personal wounds left by all-consuming 

need to a fight for a dream. 

Producers : 

Big World Cinema 

Ebano Multimedia 

Coproducer : JBA Production 

Partners : 

National film and video Foundation of South Africa 

SABC 

European Commission 

FILMS 

ARLIT, DEUXIÈME PARIS 


DIRECTOR : IDRISSOU MORA KPAI 

PRODUCERS : MKJ FILMS, NOBLE FILMS 

Arlit sprang up through uranium mines and immigration, and in 

the 70s was the equivalent of 19th century New York for that part 

of Africa. It was a kind of land of adventure where everything 

seemed possible, where everyone could better their situation. The 

Touareg rebellion and the collapse of the price of uranium 

changed everything.?While filming his most recent work, the 

Director met up with the ageing Issa, who put him up in Arlit in 

Niger when he was about to leave for Europe. That was 17 years 

ago. He has decided to follow the old man on his last trip back to 

Arlit to see his son and old friends, allowing the director to 

introduce us to this desert frontier town.?Back in the 70s, Arlit was 

the Eldorado and fulcrum of the region due to COGEMA’s uranium 

mining operation. Arlit has become a ghost town since the 

Touareg rebellion and the French company’s withdrawal, and has 

now been transformed into a stop-off point for illegal immigrants 

heading for Algeria. This film also focuses on the surprising ethnic 

mix found there as a result of the continous migrations, and which 

has made it such a unique and fantastic place. 

Partners : 

CNC 

Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED) 

Hubert Bals Fund 

Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie & Cirtef 

Commission Européenne 

Fonds Sud Cinema 

Fonds Images d’Afrique (Ministère des Affaires Etrangères) 

Festivals : 

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2005 

Festival International de Films de Fribourg 2005 

Fespaco 2005 

Milan:15° Festival Cinéma Africano d’Asia e America Latina 2005, 

Award Best Documentary 

Freiburger Film Forum 2005 

Durban International Film festival 2005 

International Film Festival Munich 2005 

International Film Festival Innsbruck 2005, Award Prix du public 

Festival Résistances de Foix 2005 

XVIII. Fernsehworkshop Entwicklunspolitik 

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OPERATION SPRING 


DIRECTORS : ANGELIKA SCHUSTER, TRISTAN SINDELGRUBER, 

PRODUCERS : ANGELIKA SCHUSTER, TRISTAN SINDELGRUBER, 

COMPANY : SCHNITTPUNKT – SINDELGRUBER TRISTAN, 

FILM -& MULTIMEDIAPRODUKTION (AUSTRIA) 

Operation Spring is a suspenseful thriller of a documentary about 

a police investigation and court proceedings against Africans 

suspected of belonging to a Nigerian drug ring. 

New laws were implemented and new methods of investigation 

were put to the test for the first time. The film poses the question of 

whether the defendants ever stood a chance of receiving a fair trial. 

In Operation Spring we pose the question of how much value is 

attached to basic democratic rights when new laws and 

investigative methods are to be implemented at all costs, 

regardless of the consequences for the rule of law. 

Partners : 

Sundance Institute Documentary Fund (USA) 

The Documentary Channel (Canada) 

Media Plus 

Film Fund Vienna 

ORF (Film - TV-Agreement) 

Federal Chancellery of Austria – Division for the Arts 

Festivals : 

First appearance: Diagonale – Austrian film festival, Graz 

International premiere & Special mention : Visions du reel, 

Nyon 2005 

Cinema : 

Austrian wide cinema release in autumn 2005 

European cinema release is planned for the end of 2005 Rome. 

www.operation-spring.com 

L’HÔTELDEMESRÊVES 

2005 


DIRECTOR : HELLE TOFT JENSEN 

PRODUCER : SIGNE BYRGE SØRENSEN 

COMPANY : SPOR MEDIA (DENMARK) 

Many years ago, a 10-year old boy stood on the windswept beach 

at Popenguine, a fishing village on the coast of Senegal. It was 

Whitsun, and he was on the first pilgrimage of his life. A band was 

playing at a small hotel. He wanted to dance to the music, but the 

owner refused to let him in. The boy vowed that one day he would 

return to buy the hotel. After 27 years in Belgium, the Senegalese 

artist and businessman Jeannot Da Sylva returns to Africa to 

realise his dream. He builds a hotel at the heart of Popenguine. 

His dream-project kick-starts a new kind of development in this 

tiny community. Tourists will soon arrive in the village. The 

question is, if Jeannot understands the importance of the village 

for the success of his project? Has he been away for so long that 

he has forgotten the African ways? And how do the villagers react 

to the prospect of becoming tourist attractions? 

Partners : 

NDR Arte - Christiane Hinz 

TV 2 Denmark - Mette Hoffmann Meyer 

RTBF - Claire Colart 

E-TV - Marje Jurtshenko 

YLE - Erkki Astala 

TSR - Irène Challand 

Media+

2005 Chapter 

MITUMBA, THE SECOND-HAND ROAD 


DIRECTOR : RAFFAELE BRUNETTI 

PRODUCER : RAFFAELE BRUNETTI 

COMPANY : B&B FILM (ITALY) 

The story of a t-shirt’s journey from the North to the South of the 

world. The story of what goes on in between and underneath the 

garments’ first and second lives told through personal tales and 

unusual situations which create the patchwork of “second hand 

road”. The offstage voice of a traveller unravels the story 

L’historie du voyage d’un T-shirt du Nord au Sud de notre planète. 

L’histoire de ce qui passe entre la première et la deuxième vie des 

vêtements ; les histoires personnelles et les endroits inhabituels 

créent le patchwork de " Second-hand Road ". Le récit est raconté 

par la voix off d’un voyageur. 

Partners : 


YLE Teema - Leena Pasanen 

Planet Italia (Pre-sale) 

LTV Latvia (Pre-sale) 

Media+ 

Festivals : 


FILMS 

12 TANGOS RETURN TICKET TO BUENOS AIRES 

LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN EURODOC-SCRIPT 2002 

DIRECTOR : ARNE BIRKENSTOCK 

PRODUCERS : TRADEWIND PICTURES (HELMUT G. WEBER, THOMAS SPRINGER) 

& ARNE BIRKENSTOCK 

VOCACION SRL (ENRIQUE MARMONTI, MARIO LEVIT). 

COMPANIES : FRUITMARKET ARTS AND MEDIA & TRADEWIND PICTURES (GERMANY) 

“12 Tangos – Return Ticket to Buenos Aires” tells the story of 

several tangueros in crisis-ridden Buenos Aires. When the tango 

was created, their grandparents, who had come from Italy and 

Spain, were among the millions of immigrants, stranded at the Rio 

de la Plata. Today, their grandchildren are heading in the opposite 

direction: back to Europe. In 12 tangos, recorded live in the hottest 

tango hall in town and performed by some of Argentina’s finest 

musicians, the film narrates the story of crisis and immigration – 

and connects the sentiments of its protagonists are with the music, 

the lyrics and the dance steps of the tango. 

The soundtrack includes 16 exclusively arranged and recorded 

tangos, performed by 25 of the best Argentinian musicians under 

the direction of Luis Borda. The CD accompanying the film will 

presumably be released in Fall 2005. 

Partners : 

ZDF / ARTE - Christopher Janssen. 

Tradewind Pictures 

Vocacion SRL 

Peter Bach 

MEDIA Programme of the EU 

Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA). 

www.12tangos.com 

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CLEJANI HISTOIRES, STORIES, POVESTI 

LENGTH : 59 & 114 MIN EURODOC NETWORK 

DIRECTORS : MARTA BERGMAN & FRÉDÉRIC FICHEFET 

PRODUCERS : CYRIL BIBAS & VALÉRIANNE BOUÉ 

COMPANIES : ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP (BELGIUM) & TS PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) 

Young musicians without work chase away their depression with 

drugs and dreams of the West. Marius grabs his accordion and 

plays some gypsy blues to charm the moneylenders who demand 

their due, to seduce a beautiful chick or maybe even attract 

Johnny Depp who, it seems, promised to be godfather to his 

youngest child. 

Won, stolen, borrowed or exchanged, money is the only way to 

thwart the fate that dogs this small gypsy community. Clejani is a 

chasm at the end of a road. Some are willing to do anything to get 

away. 

Partners : 

RTBF 

CBA - Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Communauté 

Française de Belgique et des Télédistributeurs Wallons 

Centre National de la Cinématographie (F) 

Festivals : 

Festival Cinéma du Réel 2005 

2005 

L’APOTHÉOSE D’ARTHUR BISPO DO ROSARIO 


DIRECTOR : MAIONE DE QUEIROZ SILVA 

PRODUCER : PHILIPPE BUFFON 

COMPANY : I.SYNCHRO PRODUCTION (FRANCE) 

Vie et œuvre d’Arthur Bispo do Rosario, marin, noir et pauvre, né 

en 1911 dans le nordeste brésilien. A l'âge de 27 ans Bispo a une 

vision mystique : 7 anges descendent du ciel et lui commandent 

une mission "faire le compte rendu du monde pour apporter à 

Dieu le jour de sa mort". 

Interné dans un hôpital psychiatrique d'une banlieue de Rio 50 

ans durant jusqu’à sa mort, Arthur Bispo do Rosario a créé, contre 

les misères d’un système psychiatrique abandonné et obsolète, 

une œuvre majeure acclamée par les critiques de l’art 

contemporain. 

Ce film conçu sous forme d'une lettre adressée à l’artiste évoque 

sa vie et visite son œuvre dans les lieux de l’hôpital psychiatrique. 

Partners : 

Délégation aux Arts Plastiques – Ministère de la Culture. 

Chantal Soyer

2004 Chapter 

THE LOST HERITAGE 


DIRECTOR : MARTIN BIEBEL 

PRODUCER : CARL-A. FECHNER 

COMPANY : FECHNERMEDIA (GERMANY) 

The German ‘Grand Canyon’ - a bizarre landscape; What used to 

be an opencast mining field covers a territory ten times larger than 

Europe’s biggest airport. This region in the former GDR, was 

powered by a vital industry with thousands of miners ploughing 

the grounds for brown coal up until twelve years ago. Today the 

workers have lost their jobs and the ripped-open mining 

landscape has literally petrified into a vast, empty desert. A desert 

that has a beauty of its own; a unique moonlike landscape that 

triggers contrasting feelings; it is a surreal surrounding – awesome 

and extreme. And it is doomed. LAUBAG, a semi-federal 

organization is determined to ‘domesticate’ this wild area through 

a massive "back-to-nature"-program, intending to turn the 

impressive remnants of human history into picturesque, innocent 

lakes. In opposition to this plan there is a renowned institute, the 

"IBA Fürst Pückler". What they strive for has the potential to 

integrate not only the people, but also their identity and the pride 

they take in it. What they see is the unique and fantastic chances, 

which this manmade landscape holds for them. 

Partners : 

ZDF/arte - Martin Pieper 

Publishing on VHS and DVD in german and english subtitled. We 

own all rights for world distribution except Germany and France 

and are open for broadcasting proposals. 

FILMS 

THE ROAD TO KERBALA 


DIRECTOR : KATIA JARJOURA 

PRODUCER : CHRISTINE DOUBLET 

COMPANY : PROGRAM33 (FRANCE) 

Baghdad, April 2004. As Iraq is daily shaken by current violence, 

members of the religious Shiite community prepare to brave the 

road to Kerbala to carry out their annual pilgrimage, which was 

banned under Saddam’s dictatorship. This ritual ends the 40 dayperiod 

of mourning which commemorates the death of 

Mohammed’s grandson, Imam Hussein, who was beheaded in 

680 AD. 

Despite the risk and dangers of the situation, a young Lebanese 

Canadian woman impassioned by Shiism, accompanies the 

pilgrims on the road. 

The Road to Kerbala captures her investigative journey on the 110 

kilometre-walk from the Iraqi capital to the Shiite capital. Through 

her vision and the narrative of her main character, a Shiite poet 

and former political prisoner, we penetrate into the heart of the 

long-oppressed Shiite community of Iraq. 

Along the road, we experience religious and social rituals, political 

demonstrations, encounters with American soldiers and the 

peaceful countryside of Iraq. 

This personal journey reveals an intimate view of this community, 

which both embraces death and celebrates life in their new-found 

freedom. 

Partners : 

Arte France 

RTBF 

TSR 

Umam Production 

Festivals : 

FIPA 2005 

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ALGÉRIENNES 

FILMS 


DIRECTOR : DJAMEL SELLANI 

PRODUCER : WALLY S. TAÏBI 

COMPANY : LES FILMS DU CYCLOPE (FRANCE) 

The Algerian war broke out back in 1st November 1954. Louisette, 

Eliette and Fatma, go back to where it all happened in Algiers and 

tell us their story of their commitment to put an end to social 

injustice. 

Hunted down by French paratroopers, they were arrested in 1957 

and tortured. They ended the war in prisons and in camps. The 

solidarity borne of their imprisonment was a lesson in humanity 

and has led to lasting friendships. 

Forty years later, Louisette Ighilahriz reaches the end of a long 

quest to pay tribute to the man who saved her from torture. This 

quest for the facts to be acknowledged is also a way for these 

women to pay tribute to a few French military officers who had an 

exemplary and noble attitude. Our film is also a quest to 

understand the identity of a generation of women and men who 

have never spoken out about this war. 

Partners : 

Image Creation.Com - Martine Barbé 

RTBF - Claire Colart 

CANAL+ Horizons - Azibi Boualem 

NMO - Malika Amzourou 

C9 Télévision - François Taverniez 

CRRAV - Catherine Droubaix 

Festivals : 

2 ème Prix Festival du Cinéma Africain, d’Asie et d’Amérique du sud 

- Milan 2005 


COACH 

2004 

LENGTH : 5X26 & 53 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2002-2003 

DIRECTOR : LIAM MCGRATH 

PRODUCER : TRISHA CANNING 

COMPANY : SETANTA TELEVISION (IRELAND) 

Sport in school is more than just a subject, for teachers it is more 

than just a class. For some students it is the only thing they are 

good at. It is their hope for college, for success, for recognition. 

Coaches are more than trainers, they are parent figures, role 

models and guardians. 

“Coach” is a 5 x 25” series looking at the lives of three New York 

high school coaches, their schools and their students. We see the 

students strive for victory and what it means to them. 

Soccer : Martin Jacobson, ex-heroin addict and soccer coach, he 

takes African kids into his school to teach them life lessons as well 

as soccer lessons. 

Basketball : Larry Major, single father to a three year old boy, he 

also minds a school full of Afro-American kids. A quiet, intelligent 

man, he is the opposite of his new employee, Todd Myles. Todd is 

a young hot-headed coach. He swears all the time, and tries to get 

his students motivated by yelling. He feels they are not trying hard 

enough. 

Athletics : Natasha Hastings is a talented young athlete with a 

bright future. Already she has broken high school records. This 

Winter she has to chose between running for her school team and 

running for her country. 

Partners : 


Zero Film - Thomas Kufus 

Festivals : 

Cork Film Festival 

Chicago Irish Film Festival 


2004 Chapter 

FRANÇOIS MAURIAC, UN JOURNALISTE ENGAGÉ 


DIRECTOR : GILBERT BALAVOINE 

PRODUCER : JEAN MARIE BERTINEAU 

COMPANY : ZANGRA PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) 

L’apparition du " Bloc- Notes " de François Mauriac dans les 

années 50, d’abord dans l’Express puis dans Le Figaro Littéraire, 

va profondément marquer le journalisme. 

Durant toute sa vie publique et journalistique, le prix Nobel de 

littérature François Mauriac se place sous le signe de la 

contradiction entre les influences bourgeoises catholiques les plus 

réactionnaires et l'éveil d'une conscience chrétienne humaniste, 

passionnément éprise de justice et de liberté. 

Au travers d'articles extraits du Bloc- Notes lus par Claude Rich et 

de témoignages d'historiens et philosophes, ce film traite de 

l'évolution d'une pensée politique confrontée à l’épreuve des 

évènements du 20éme siècle : guerre d'Espagne, occupation et 

résistance, décolonisation et guerre d'Algérie, avènement de la 

5éme République… 

Avec la participation de : Claude Rich, pour les interviews de Jean 

Lacouture, Jean Touzot, René Rémond, Jean Daniel, Francis Jeanson. 

Partners : 

France 3 Aquitaine 

RTBF 

M.M.M. 

Euskal Télébista 

Région Aquitaine 

IOTA Production (Belgique) 

IDEM (Pays Basque - Espagne) 

Direction du livre et de la lecture 

Festivals : 

Festival International du film d'Histoire de Pessac 2004 


DREAM LAND 

FILMS 


DIRECTOR : LAILA PAKALNINA 

PRODUCER : ULDIS CEKULIS 

COMPANY : VIDES FILMU STUDIJA (LATVIA) 

There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, 

places that we would rather pretend donít exist at all. One such 

place is a dumpsite. From the humansí point of view, it is a ghastly 

place, a stinking desert of trash. But itís a desert that is teaming 

with life. The astounding profusion of insects, reptiles, birds and 

mammals, all intertwined in an existential life-death relationship 

imparts to it with some strangely alluring dream-like quality. 

Partners : 

in co-production with NDR/arte (co-producer Christiane Hinz) 

in association with YLE Teema, SBS TV Australia, the Cultural Capital 

Foundation of Latvia and 

the Latvian National Film Centre. 

Sales: Studio Hamburg Fernseh Allianz. 

Festivals : 

Pusan IFF, IDFA, Leipzig Filmwochen, Luebeck FF, Chicago IDFF, 

DocPoint. 


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THE DALÍ DIMENSION 


DIRECTOR : SUSI MARQUÈS 

PRODUCER : JOAN UBEDA 

COMPANY : MEDIAPRO - MEDIA 3.14 (SPAIN) 

Salvador Dalí had an obsession for science that lasted his entire 

life. This can be seen in his paintings, which reflect every major 

discovery of the 20th Century. His signature is directly influenced 

by a scientific image. 

Dalí read scientific literature compulsively, from psychoanalysis to 

quantum mechanics, and mathematics to genetics. 

He befriended researchers in physics, mathematics, biology and other 

disciplines. Scientists were surprised to discover that beyond the façade 

of a clownish showman was a brilliant artist with whom they could have 

meaningful discussions at the crossroads of art and science. 

The film features interviews with Dalí in which he speaks about his 

passion for science together with previously unseen footage of 

Dalí with scientists. 

THE DALI DIMENSION reveals a completely unknown aspect of 

one of the most important figures of the 20th Century, and gives 

new insight to interpret some of Dalí’s masterpieces. 

Partners : 

Televisio de Catalunya 

Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali 

Institut Ramon Llull 

AVRO 

in collaboration with YLE Teema RTBF TVE Temáticos with the 

support of the Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals and the 

MEDIA programme of the European Union 

Festivals : 

Prix Festival Telesciencia (Portugal) 

Best TV Program-Art film festival Montréal Canada 


THE COLONIAL MISUNDERSTANDING 

2004 


DIRECTOR : JEAN-MARIE TENO 

PRODUCERS : BÄRBEL MAUCH - JEAN-MARIE TENO 

COMPANIES : BÄRBEL MAUCH FILM (GERMANY) - LES FILMS DU RAPHIA (FRANCE) 

In The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno sheds light on 

the complex and problematic relationship between colonization 

and European missionaries on the African continent. 

Through an examination of the work of German missionary 

societies in Africa whose vocation was to bring Christianity – and by 

extension, European culture and European rule – to the heathens, 

Jean-Marie Teno reveals The Colonial Misunderstanding. 

En suivant les traces des premiers missionnaires en Afrique, Jean- 

Marie Teno met en lumière la relation ambiguë entre les missions 

chrétiennes et l’entreprise coloniale. Il confronte les analyses 

d’historiens africains et européens avec celles du personnel des 

missions, et livre un témoignage bouleversant sur la mission " 

civilisatrice " de la colonisation. 

Partners : 

ZDF/ARTE - Olaf Grunert 

with the support of CEE/ACP, EZEF/EED, KEM, Agence 

Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, CNC, 

PROCIREP/ANGOA,ORTN (Niger) and Ministère de la Culture 

(Cameroun). 

Festivals : 

Competition FESPACO 2005 

IDFA 2004 

Etats généraux du documentaire - Lussas 2004

2004 Chapter 

THE AMAZING STORY OF FATHER HIMALAYA 


DIRECTOR : JORGE ANTÓNIO 

PRODUCER : LUÍS CORREIA. 

COMPANY : LX FILMES (PORTUGAL) 

In 1904, a crowd gathered at the entry of the St. Louis Exhibition, 

in Missouri, U.S.A. Many people went to admire the enormous 

steel structure, where thousands of mirrors reflected the sunlight. 

It was the Pyrhelióphero, a revolutionary solar device which was 

awarded the 1st prize at exhibition, although it was not even 

included in the Portuguese oficial section. 

This film is a tribute to the life and work of this genius and 

visionary inventor that history seems to have forgotten. 

Partners : 

RTP 

ICAM - Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia, Programa 

“Ciência Viva” - Ministério da Ciência e da Tecnologia, Câmara 

Municipal de Arcos de Valdevez, Câmara Municipal de Viana do 

Castelo 

Festivals : 


FILMS 

THE GUGGENHEIM AND THE BARONESS 


DIRECTOR : SIGRID FALTIN 

PRODUCER : SIGRID FALTIN 

COMPANY : WHITE PEPPER FILMS (GERMANY) 

The story of hilla rebay is told with film footage, photographs, and 

letters from and to hilla. hilla’s relatives and friends, artists and art 

critics tell us how they remember this unusual woman and artist. 

roland von rebay, hilla's nephew, an architect and apprentice to 

frank lloyd wright, and two of the curators of the rebay exhibition 

lead us to the warehouses in germany and the u.s., where hilla's 

artworks are kept, and through the main stations of hilla's life. 

lending a lighter note to her story, animations that are little 

artworks themselves, bring us closer to hilla. the film documents 

the preparations for the rebay exhibition and the rediscovery of 

one of the earliest abstract women artists. 

Partners : 

ZDF Arte 

AVRO 

YLE 

Guggenheim / Rebay Foundation 

MFG Film Foundation Baden-Württemberg 

Media Plus 

Festivals : 

Bronze Medal at the New York Festival 

Szolnok Festival (Hungary) 

Film Festival of fine arts (Montréal) 

www.the-baroness.com 

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SEDA PEOPLE OF THE MARSH 


DIRECTOR : KASPARS GOBA 

PRODUCER : ULDIS CEKULIS 

COMPANY : VIDES FILMU STUDIJA (LATVIA) 

In Seda, a remote peat minersí town of Latvia, the time seems to 

be frozen in the Soviet era. Built in 1952 and inhabited by a multiethnic 

workforce from different parts of the former USSR, it still 

preserves intact the signs of the inflated style of a Stalinís ìshock 

workî construction project. Culturally Sedaís people feel like a 

community apart. Their lingua franca is the Russian, and their 

social life is a mixture of Soviet and Russian Orthodox traditions. 

They donít want the European Union, they want to live in their own 

state ñ the Marshland. 

Partners : 

in association with NDR/arte (co-producer Christiane Hinz) 

Filmtank Hamburg - Thomas Tielsch 

National Film Centre of Latvia 

MA VIE DANS UNE VALISE 

2004 


DIRECTOR : SYLVIA CALLE 

PRODUCERS : VALÉRIANNE BOUÉ 

COMPANY : TS PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) 

Today, Colombia is experiencing a critical moment of its history, 

torn apart by a confused war against drug and armed irregular 

groups. Running away from violence, but also from the 

economical crisis it has entailed, six million Colombians have been 

forced to move abroad. This is a true silent exodus that affects the 

country. "Des valises Pleines" in an intimate conversation with 

some Colombians living in exile in New York, ironically called "the 

second Colombian city". Those characters tell us what they have 

gone through in Colombia, tell us in what way violence has forced 

them o decide to flee their country. 

"What did you bring in your bag when you left Colombia?" is the 

starting question of the project. In the place they are living, their 

place of refuge as exiles, these people unpack for the second time 

their bags in front of the camera An old pull-over, a blanket, a pair 

of sleepers…These objects have become "fetishes", sanctuaries of 

the past, full of suggestive power. Little by little, the whole of those 

tales, of those suitcases, outlines the contours of the drama 

experienced by millions of Colombians. 

Partners : 

Voi Sénart (France) 

YLE Teema et YLE TV1 (Finland)

2004 Chapter 

CHECK MATE, STRATEGY OF A REVOLUTION 


DIRECTOR : SUSANNE BRANDSTÄTTER 

PRODUCER : GUNNAR DEDIO 

COMPANY : LOOKS (GERMANY) 

A case history of U.S. foreign policy, propaganda and secret 

operations: Why the Romanian Revolution had to take place 

before America could win the Cold War. 

A new and startling story of international intrigue, involving the 

reunification of Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

Checkmate analyses the events surrounding the Romanian 

Revolution, revealing for the first time how the superpowers were 

involved and above all, why. When Ceausescu refused to accept 

the reforms sweeping Eastern Europe in 1989, the ruthless 

Romanian dictator unwittingly rushed headlong into his own 

destruction. Little did he know of the agreements reached 

concerning Europe’s destiny: though both Bush and Gorbachev 

pursued their own aims, the two statesmen had come to terms on 

this question. 

But then there was the problem of Germany. Mitterand and 

Thatcher made a simple stipulation. First Western and Eastern 

Europe mist be united, before the reunification of Germany could 

take place. As the last of the hard-liners in the Warsaw Pact, only 

Ceausescu stood in the way… If Europe’s division should end and 

Germany was to be reunited, Romania’s dictator had to be 

overthrown. 

Upon the backdrop of the one of the most exiting and moving 

episodes of history – the Romanian Revolution and Ceausescu’s 

overthrow – this documentary revels and exemplifies the working 

of power politics. 

Partners : 

ZDF / Arte - Martin Piepper 

3sat ORF (Austria) 

Parallel.40 (Spain) 

TVR (Hungaria) 

Festivals : 

IDFA 2003 

Diagonale 2004 (Austria) 

INPUT 2004 


FILMS 

AN ABSENT WORLD 


DIRECTOR : RONNIE RAMIREZ 

PRODUCER : CYRIL BIBAS 

COMPANY : ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP (BELGIUM) 

At the heart of Chilean Patagonia, the economic activity – especially 

stock breeding and forestry development- exploits the local natural 

resources knowing no limit.These days, a new threat is looming for 

the Aisen province: the setting up of a huge industrial complex, of 

which the site work is planned to begin in 2003. 

Meeting some of the inhabitants of this southern region, some of 

these pioneers’ and Indians’ sons, it will be their turn to speak so 

we can better understand what are the stakes and contradictions 

of this country which has been described as an “economical 

model” in Latin America since the end of the 80s. 

Partners : 

RTBF 

CBA 

YLE (Pre-sale) 

Festivals : 

Cinemas d’Espagne et d’Amérique latine (Bruxelles) 

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LIFE RUNNING OUT OF CONTROL 

LENGTH : 3X60 & 95 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2000-2001 

DIRECTORS : BERTRAM VERHAAG & GABRIELE KRÖBER 

PRODUCER : BERTRAM VERHAAG 

COMPANY : DENKMAL-FILM (GERMANY) 

In the mid-eighties science, with the help of genetic technology, 

finds the key to mastering the earth and especially its creatures. 

Suddenly, everything seems possible! 

Twenty years later we embark on a global journey to explore the 

progressive and continual genetic manipulation of plants, animals 

and human beings: Due to a disastrous crop with genetically 

modified cotton many Indian farmers face ruin, have to sell one of 

their kidneys or resort to committing suicide. In Canada genetically 

modified canola seeds blow onto the fields of neighbouring organic 

farms, thus making ecological farming impossible. 

The Icelandic parliament sells the entire pool of genes of its 

population to a private company that, in turn, intends to turn over 

the data at a profit to the pharmaceutical industry and insurance 

companies. 

A research project is designated as "vampire project” in which 

blood, hair and saliva samples are taken from 700 so-called 

ethnic groups on the verge of extinction on the pretext of 

preventive health. The gene samples wander into the laboratories 

of industry to provide the basis for valuable patents. 

Worldwide only a handful of idealistic scientists are defying 

industry, doing independent – without the financial support of 

industry – research on the effects of transgenic animals and plants 

on the environment and our health when we consume genetically 

modified food. 

Partners : 

SWR/ARTE 

Festivals : 

The 21st International Environmental Film Festival "ÖKOMEDIA" 

2004 in Freiburg, Germany awarded to " Life Running Out Of 

Control " the "Golden Lynx" for Best Journalistic Achievement. 

Meanwhile also the list of festival- invitations is getting longer: 

19th International Documentary Film Festival Munich, Germany-05.2004 

6th FICA – International Environmental Film Festival, Goias/Brazil-06.2004 

2nd Ecology-Festival Irkutsk, Irkutsk / Russia - 09.2004 

Naturvision - International Nature- and Animalfilmfestival, 

Neuschönau / Germany - 09.2004 

23rd Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver/Canada-09.2004 

49th Cork Film Festival, Cork / Ireland - 10.2004 

Ökomedia – 21. International Environmental Film Festival, 

Freiburg, Germany - 10.2004 Nanookfest- "Il Silenzioso Richiamo 

della Terra", Palermo/ Italy - 11.2004 

2004 

Awards: 

"1.Price for best long production (The Carmo Bernardes trophy)" 

6th FICA – International Environmental Film Festival, Goias / Brazil 

"Nominee for NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA AWARD" 23rd 

Vancouver International Film Festival 2004 

"Nominee for IDA Award"International Documentary Association 

IDA’s 20th Annual Awards Competition 2004, Los Angeles / USA 

Ökomedia Award "Golden Lynx" for the best journalistic 

achievement 21st International Environmental Film Festival 

OPERNFIEBER 


DIRECTOR : KATHARINA RUPP 

PRODUCER : JORG KOBEL 

COMPANY : BARBAROSSAFILM (GERMANY) 

It sounds like a relic from a time long forgotten but they still exist, 

people hired to be the life and soul of the opera. Their reputation 

is notorious, entwined with flamboyant and colourful stories and 

myths. Regarded by many as influential and dangerous, for others 

they are nothing more than a burdensome parasite whose days 

are numbered. The `claqueurs´ see themselves almost as artists 

whose work support the singers and is of importance to the opera. 

Even so, the ´claqueurs´ guild is threatened with extinction due to 

the lack of up and coming young professionals. An insight into the 

working days of the ´claqueurs´ in the Italian opera. 

Partners : 

ZDF/ARTE, SF DRS 

YLE TEEMA 

Filmstiftung NRW 

BUON VIAGGIO, MICHELANGELO 


DIRECTOR : MATTEO DELBO 

PRODUCER : ANASTASIA PLAZZOTTA 

COMPANY : FANDANGO (ITALY) 

Memory stimulated by the Atlantic crossing, a documentary-like an 

Atlantic crossing, re-evocation of an Atlantic crossing. In the last 

century, at the end of the 60s, the great ocean liners stopped 

connecting Europe and the United States. The barmen in the first 

class cocktail lounges had learned their trade with the none too 

easy-to-please American clientele, mixing martinis for Rock 

Hudson and Humphrey Bogart, stealing secrets from the 

professionals they spied on over the counters of Manhattan bars, 

when the crews went ashore for a day before going back on board 

to return to Italy. We will meet quite a few barmen who have spent 

a good amount of their life on ocean liners. They are in their sixties 

and seventies. We will meet with these “salts” to discover 

something… 

Partners : 

Les Films d’ici 

Instituto Luce 

ARTE France 

Archivio Ansaldo

2004 Chapter 

CASABLANCA (SOUVENIR) 


DIRECTOR : BERNARD MONSIGNY 

PRODUCER : FRÉDÉRIC FERAUD 

COMPANY : LES PRODUCTIONS DE L’OEIL SAUVAGE (FRANCE) 

Jean-Michel, a blind man, returns to his native Morocco with 

powerful memories of his childhood days. He records the sounds 

encountered along the way in order to make a radio broadcast on 

his return. His son Jean-Marc, who is ten and visually unimpaired, 

acts as his guide. He is eager to discover the places that gave his 

blind father his first impressions of the world. Father and son 

spend several days in Casablanca with Rachid, an old school-mate 

of Jean-Michel's, at an institute for the young blind. Rachid shows 

us how a blind man introduces another blind man to his culture 

and a big Moroccan city. They will be our escorts between the 

world of the sighted and the world of the blind on a journey 

through different fields of perception. How a blind man teach us 

to see ? 

Partners : 

France 3 

2M (Maroc) 

YLE TEEMA (Pre-sale) 

RTBF (Pre-sale) 

FILMS 

CINÉMA, DALI 


DIRECTORS : JOSEP ROVIRA 

PRODUCER : VICTOR CARRERA 

COMPANIES : TELEVISIO DE CATALUNYA (SPAIN) 

ARTICLE Z (FRANCE) 

Salvador Dalí was a celebrated surrealist painter with an excessive 

creative ambition in regards to what was usual in the mid-20th 

Century. Among many other artistic disciplines, he did various and 

known contributions to the Cinema with capital letter, but he also 

invented a new form of cinema. He discovered that he could 

realise his dream by showing himself in front of the camera. It's 

been a surrealist cinema, made out of short scenes, with a sole 

actor and director of scene, the famous Salvador Dalí acting out 

all sorts of eccentric roles. Cinema, Dalí brings about a completely 

new perspective on Salvador Dalí. Its investigation work has 

brought back into light and put back in order more than forty 

hours of images of archives from around the world. As new 

images appeared, the documentation team discovered links 

between them that threw a new light on Dalí's cinematographic 

ideas. The end result is a film approved by the Gala and Salvador 

Dali Foundation, the heir of the painter. If up until now we only 

knew about Dalí's work with the great film-directors Buñuel, 

Disney or Hitchcock, historians will now have to open a new 

chapter and a new genre dedicated to the cinema of Dalí. 

Partners : 

France 5 

Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí 

Festivals : 

Finalist of International Emmy Awards, New York 2004 as best Arts 

Programming 

Finalist on the URTI Prix, París 2004 

Malaga Film Festival, 2004 

Fipa in Biarritz 2004. 

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LES PASSEURS 

FILMS 


DIRECTOR : LAETITIA MOREAU 

PRODUCER : MATTHIEU BELGHITI 

COMPANY : LITTLE BEAR (FRANCE) 

In the last five years, almost 4 000 illegal immigrants, most of 

them Maroccan, have drowned while attempting to cross the Strait 

of Gibraltar. Moved by the terrible fate of these men and women, 

two brothers, Martin and Angel Zamora, have put their 

undertaking business at the service of the victims and their 

families. Without them, the clandestine voyager’s journey ends in 

a communal fosse in Algéciras. In addition to the transportation, 

the Zamoras take charge of identifying the bodies, notifying the 

next of kin; accompanying them through the legal formalities of 

repatriation, finally assisting with the funerals at the other end, 

sometimes in the most remote villages of Marocco. 

Partners : 

France 5 

TSR 

RTBF 

Festivals: 

Mention spéciale au Prix Michel Mitrani 

(FIPA 2004) 


JUSTICE, IN TIME OF WAR 

2003 


DIRECTOR : FABRIZIO LAZZARETTI 

PRODUCER : VANNI GANDOLFO 

COMPANY : DOCLAB (ITALY) 

A man fights for justice in a foreign land -justice for his murdered 

son. One man against all. When his son was killed by the 

Colombian military police and the verdict was cocaine overdose, 

the Italian doctor Sisto Turra understood that it was not the truth, 

and he began to fight back. Though only one of the 24 000 similar 

cases per year in Colombia. This one reached a trial. And the 

justice is now coming. 

Partners : 

Meike Martens - MAJADE 

BBC : Nick Fraser 

ZDF Arte : Anne Even 

RAI3 : Ricardo Scottoni 

TELEPIU : Fabrizio Grosoli 

TV ONTARIO : Rudy Buttignol 

Distributors : 

D.NET SALES : Heino Deckert 

MIKADO/EMIK : Francesco Melzi 


SIZA, THE ARCHITECT AND THE OLD CITY 


DIRECTOR : CATARINA ALVES COSTA 

PRODUCER : CATARINA MOURAO 

COMPANY : LARANJA AZUL (PORTUGAL) 

Álvaro Siza Vieira, a famous visionary Portuguese architect, is 

called to coordinate the rehabilitation of the monuments and 

architectonic heritage of Cidade Velha (Old Village), in Santiago, 

one of the African islands of Cape Vert. This project creates great 

expectations amongst the local population, who envisages it as a 

way of improving their life quality. The film shows the relationship 

and conflict between these two worlds, two cultures, with different 

life concepts and ideas of what modernity and progress are... 

Partners : 

JOUR J PRODUCTION : Sylvie Randonneix 

RTP : Nuno Brandao / Helena Torref 

Rai Sat : Luca Macciocca 

Voi Senart (France) 


2003 Chapter 

THROUGH HELL & HIGH WATERS 


DIRECTOR : ELLY TAYLOR 

PRODUCER : ELLY TAYLOR 

COMPANY : TAYLORED PRODUCTIONS (UNITED KINGDOM) 

This is a real life drama about ordinary people in extraordinary 

circumstances. It is a saga of hope in the face of despair, of love 

flowering out of tragedy. A film told through a poignant love story 

that will merge the past with the present, bringing survivors from 

a long-forgotten World War II rescue together again for the first 

time since 1944, and showing the consequences of war on people 

like you and me. 

Partners : 

LICHTBLICK FILMS : Carl-Ludwig Rettinger 

ZDF-ARTE (DE) : Anne Even, NRK : Tore Tomter 

BBC Scotland, History Channel UK 


Festivals : 

Silver world medal NY Festival 2005 

DO YOU REMEMBER LAURIE ZIMMER ? 


DIRECTOR : CHARLOTTE SZLOVAK 

PRODUCER : DAVID BERDAH 

COMPANY : ZEUGMA FILMS (FRANCE) 

Do you remember Laurie Zimmer? tells the story of a search. 

The search for an actress, Laurie Zimmer, who played in a film that 

Charlotte Szlovak directed in 1977 in Los Angeles. Laurie was 

gifted and beautiful but after this shooting, she disappeared. The 

people who knew her at that time have not heard from her since. 

Do you remember Laurie Zimmer? is an answer to questions 

Charlotte and other people who knew Laurie have kept asking 

themselves during those past 25 years: why did Laurie disappear? 

What happened in her life? And what may become a young 

actress in Hollywood when she does not succeed? Do you 

remember Laurie Zimmer? is an investigation. Do you remember 

Laurie Zimmer? is a detective story without any murder nor blood, 

just a fascinating and mysterious figure. The story of a life as well 

as a road-movie in a real or imaginary land: Hollywood. 

Partners : 

ARTE France : Luciano Rigolini 


YLE Teema : Pasanen 


FILMS 

CHANTZ, L’ENFANT JAZZ 


DIRECTOR : MOHAMMED KOUNDA 

PRODUCER : DOMINIQUE LE PIVERT 

COMPANY : GRENADE PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) 

This is the story of a relationship between a mother, Glinda, and 

her son, Chantz. It is a relationship that is ambiguous, but full of 

tenderness and complicity, that presents itself as a fabulous story. 

Chantz, the 'chance', was given the name because he should never 

have been born. Glinda, a black American 'fat woman', comes 

from Mississippi, the land where the legend of gospel music 

emerged from the terrible poverty. He has been playing the 

trumpet since the age of five. He has exceptional talent that 

fascinates the public and arouses the interest of well known artists. 

Chantz and his mother live their life on the road, in shabby hotels 

and fantastic palaces, depending on the invites they receive. 

Without being absolutely poor, they have no fixed address. Chantz 

plays in the street, but also in the most prestigious places. He does 

not go to school because everyday he is attending the 'school of 

life'. With his humour and charm, he has a gift when it comes to 

extraordinary meetings. Chantz is not only the child prodigy of a 

pygmalion mother. He is also the only hope for a woman who has 

pulled herself out of misery, determined to do something with her 

life. Over a two year period, under the critical and curious eye of 

a director, they continue on their path which is sometimes 

dangerous and uncertain. The story will be given rhythm, with 

accelerations and pauses, joy and pain, like a blues song or an 

improvised piece of jazz. 

Partners : 

BBC 

Arte France 

Odyssée 

Cityzen TV 


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WHOSE IS THIS SONG ? 


DIRECTOR : ADELA PEEVA 

PRODUCER : ADELA PEEVA 

COMPANY : ADELA MEDIA FILM & TV (BULGARIA) 

The Balkans are said to be a place for wars and for scandals. A 

maxim reads: „De mortuis aut nihil aut bene". The Balkans are 

always held in bad repute. I wonder whether their ill fame is all to 

the good because nevertheless it means that we are alive. With 

this film I would like to show the Balkans from a different 

standpoint - the standpoint of a person who being unable to 

change his birthplace and doesn't want to emigrate to West, is 

trying to get to know the Balkans and understand them. The song, 

which the people in different Balkan countries claim to be theirs, 

will be used to create an absurd situation. A situation in which 

nobody will ever miss an opportunity to play down the other man, 

to make fun of him, to bring forward his shortcomings. 

"Whose is this song" is a unique opportunity to make a film with a 

sense of humour about all us that live as neighbours in the 

Balkans. About that common trait of ours, which make us certain 

that all that is good is ours and all that is bad is our neighbour's. 

Each and everyone in the Balkans claims what is good is only his 

and discounts the possibility that it can belong to the neighbour. 

That’s the way it is even when it comes to a song. 

Partners : 

Periscope Productions NV 

ORB/ARTE : Dr. Geri Nasarski 

YLE : Eila Werning / TV1 

Danmarks radio : Flemming Grenz / TV Facta 

Carre Noir RTBF Liège : Christiane Philippe 

LICHTPUNT / NPS 

Festivals : 

Prize of the Jury “Golden Rython” 2003 National Documentary 

Film Festival 

Prize of the Jury “Golden Chest” International TV Film Festival - 2003 

“Silver Conch” Prize and FIPRESCI Award, Mumbai International 

Film Festival - 2004 

“Prix Bartok” Ethnographic Film Festival, Paris - 2004 

“Gibson Impact of Music” Award Nashville Film Festival - 2004 

Prize of the Jury” Motovun International Film Festival Croatia 2004 

Annual Award of the City of Sofia - 2004 

Second Award and Award of the Student Jury "Crossroad Europe" 

International Documentary Film Festival Lublin, Poland - 2005 

Award "Silver Knight" & "Golden Knight" International Film 

Festival, Russia - 2005 

“Human Rights and Respect of Diversity” Award, Documentary & 

Short Film Festival, Prizren, Kosova - 2006 

Award “The Best Film” and “Award for Innovation” Sardinia 

International Ethnographic Film Festival - 2006 

Audience Award at “Roving Eye” Documentary Film Festival 

Providence, USA - 2007 

THE TRAVELS OF MONA LISA 

2003 


DIRECTOR : MARIA DOLORS GENOVES 

PRODUCER : JOAN ARANO 

COMPANY : LA PRODUCTORA (SPAIN) 

500 years later, Leonardo’s Gioconda remains probably the most 

famous painting in the world. From the chaste and young wife of 

Giocondo, a Florentine civil servant, she became a madonna 

secluded within the walls of Palaces, under the vigilance of kings and 

aristocrats. Vincenzo Peruggia, a keeper at the Louvre, kidnapped 

her in 1911, and nothing of her whereabouts was known until two 

years later. She even suffered an attack in 1956, when an insane 

Bolivian man hurled her a stone. In 1963 she made her first 

transatlantic journey : In Washington she met JFK and Jacqueline. 

Ten years later (1974), she flew to Tokyo and Moscow. And now, the 

kind Japanese are arranging a 200 square-meter flat only fo her. She 

has hundreds of sites on the Web, and her face on an infinity of 

objects. It is the monalisamania, an icon of the culture of the masses. 

And despite all the fame, even now we ignore so much about the 

identity of this Florentine lady, when it was painted, who ordered it… 

Partners : 

Erik Loetch - LOOKS 

ZDF Arte : Olaf Grunert 

AVRO : Marijke Rawie 

TV3 : Jordi Ambros 

ARTE distribution : Adrienne Fréjacques 

History Channel Iberia : Anna Marqués 


WILLY RONIS PARIS-PROVENCE 


DIRECTOR : MICHEL TOUTAIN 

PRODUCER : PATRICK SERAUDIE 

COMPANY : PYRAMIDE PRODUCTION (FRANCE) 

Even if he started in photography almost despite himself, Willy 

Ronis finds naturally his place among the great French realist 

photographers of the 20th century, next to Doisneau and Cartier- 

Bresson. For more than 70 years, he has been pacing up and 

down the streets of Paris, his favourite city, especially in the 

Belleville-Ménilmontant neighbourhood, capturing in the act 

instants from daily life. In Provence, his second homeland and 

place of rest and family happiness, he let himself be guided and 

inspired by the light, the landscape and the colourful ambience of 

the South of France. Today, aged 90, in Paris as well as in 

Provence, we start with him a reflection on what has determined 

his whole existence: photographic creation. 

Partners : 

France 3 Limoges : Marc Wilmart 

France 3 Méditerranée : Eric Ollivier 



Prix au 28 ème festival film d’art, UNESCO Paris

2003 Chapter 

KINGS AND EXTRAS 

DIGGING FOR A PALESTINIAN IMAGE 


DIRECTOR : AZZA EL HASSAN 

PRODUCER : MEIKE MARTENS 

COMPANY : MA.JA.DE. FILMPRODUKTION (GERMANY) 

The filmmaker Azza tries to trace the fate of the lost archives of the 

PLO Media Unit - and therefore she meets eccentric old 

revolutionaries, telling her contradictory stories about what has 

happened to the missing films. They only agree on that the Israelis 

did not get hold of them… The search for the lost archives leads 

her to Gaza, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, meeting the different 

protagonists, and it allows her to have a look at their way of 

remembering the past, their “good old days”. How they are 

dealing with the march of time, up to the presence, the feeling of 

defeat and loss. Thus the quest for the archives becomes an 

attempt to review an image of Palestinian identity, from Azza’s 

personal point of view. And this perspective includes both the 

insider’s proximity and the distance of a young woman to this 

older generation; intelligent, sometimes ironic, without being 

destructive. 

Partners : 

Yamama 

BBC 

WDR in association with ARTE 

YLE TV2 

03 productions 

with the support of Mitteldeutsche 

Medienförderung and the Media Plus 

Programme (Distribution) 

AU HASARD DES MARIAGES 


DIRECTOR : NEETA JAIN-DUHAUT 

PRODUCER : CÉLINE MAUGIS 

COMPANY : LA VIE EST BELLE (FRANCE) 

In spite of ideal of love marriage, education and Western 

influences, 90% of all marriages in India are “arranged”. We shall 

accompany a young woman in her early twenties, a Master’s 

degree holder, who has agreed that her parents find a suitable 

match for her. Parallel to her story will be presented the 

experiences of my collegue friends who took the same decision in 

the past, and have lived a married life for around fifteen years. 

These friends who rebelled against arranged marriages during our 

University years, will talk about the evolution of their marriage and 

their concept of love, from the moment they were confronted with 

the problem of finding a partner, till the present day. A 

comparaison between love and arranged marriages will be 

brought in without bias towards any of them. 

Partners : 

LES FILMS D’ICI 

ARTE : NATHALIE VERDIER 

RTBF : CLAIRE COLART 

FILMS 

ON N’EST PAS DES MARQUES DE VÉLO 


DIRECTOR : JEAN-PIERRE THORN 

PRODUCER : MARIE MOUCHEL-BLAISOT 

COMPANY : MAT FILM (FRANCE) 

Bouda, a 30 year-old hip-hop dancer, has been an illegal 

immigrant since the age of three, when he arrived in France with 

his parents. Today, he is the victim of the "double condemnation", 

a law by whitch the children of immigrants who have served prison 

terms are sent back to their contry of origin upon their release. 

This musical film, whitch blends hip-hop dancing and rap music, 

examines the discriminatory pratices of the French government in 

applying this law. It also deals with the collective and individual 

adventure of hip-hop movement, which first emerged in France in 

the northem suburbs of Paris in the 80s. 

Partners : 

ARTE France 

DANSE TAUREAU, DANSE ! 


DIRECTOR : CHRISTIAN ALVAREZ 

PRODUCER : MURIEL ORTMANS 

COMPANY : CLAP D'ORT FILMS (BELGIUM) 

An island in the middle of the Amazonian forest and on this island, 

a town called Parintins. A little township, insignificant in 

appearance… only in appearance. The truth is elsewhere, in a 

hundred year old tradition which has transformed the destiny of 

this town. 

Parintins is divided into two. Parintins has two faces, one red and 

the other blue. These are the colours of two groups of antagonists : 

the Garantido and the Caprichoso. 

The director went to Parintins to breathe in this strange obsession 

which unites and divides a whole town. 

But mostly, between the silence of the river and the rhythm of the 

drums, there, he found a true lesson in happiness. 

Partners : 

FILMS DU VILLAGE 

POLO DE IMAGEM 

RTBF 

Canvas 

Canal + Belgique 

YLE 

Cityzen TV 

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THE SOUND OF RUSSIA 


DIRECTOR : EKATERINA EREMENKO 

PRODUCERS : MEIKE MARTENS & HEINO DECKERT 

COMPANY : MA.JA.DE (GERMANY) 

All the members of the Russian "Society of Amateur Canary Bird 

Singing" are men. They belong to different social groups and come 

from all over the country. One cold winter day, they arrive in 

Moscow, unified only in the burning desire to win the annual 

contest. They have been training their students - exclusively male 

too - for a whole year. Only the male bird of the species "serinus 

canaria canaria" is able to produce the admirable heavenly tunes. 

It is a rigid men's world, as most women in Russia unfortunately 

are completely busy with their daily chores and they have no time 

to care about these "real essentials of life"… 

A film full of pathos and humour, about an outstanding bond 

between men and birds, exploring Russian society and a 

passionate confrontation of genders. 

Partners : 

ZDF/Arte: Sabine Bubeck-Paaz (Germany) 

YLE Teema: Leena Pasanen (Finland) 

Distribution : 

Deckert Distribution 


Festivals : 

IDFA Amsterdam 2003, Silver Wolf Competition 

Festivals e.g. New york, Moscow, Belgrad, Auckland, Zagreb 

Russian National Award (LAVT) “Branch of Laurel” 2003 

WITH IVAN 

2003 


DIRECTOR : PHILIPPE CRNOGORAC 

PRODUCER : PATRICK SERAUDIE 

COMPANY : PYRAMIDE PRODUCTION (FRANCE) 

D’origine yougoslave par mon père, j’ai longtemps cherché un 

lien fort avec ce pays qu’il avait fui pour des raisons politiques. 

Mon père était persuadé que je ne pourrais jamais comprendre et 

moi, je me persuadais qu’il refusait de me parler, de me 

transmettre. 

C’est le regard intime d’un français, issu de l’immigration, sur ses 

origines, sur sa relation toute particulière avec son père. Il y est 

question d’identité, de déracinement, d’appartenance, de filiation. 

Interrogations personnelles qui croisent l’histoire tragique de la 

Yougoslavie. 

Partners : 

Yumi (France) 

TV 10 Angers (France) 

Festival : 

Les Ecrans Documentaires

2002 Chapter 

MEMORIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS CENTURY 

LENGTH : 4X52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 1999-2000 

DIRECTOR OF THE SERIES : BERNARD DEBORD 

PRODUCER : MARIE MOUCHEL-BLAISOT 

COMPANY : MATFILMS (FRANCE) 

Historical and geographical overview of Human Rights in the 20th 

century, based on Amnesty International archives, with the critical 

eye of Salima Ghezali -an Algerian militant journalist - , and the 

evidence of the implied actors (the defenders) or the unwilling (the 

victims) from all around the world. The ambition of this 

documentary series was to report the main strokes that were 

blown against individual and human groups rights all around the 

world and during this century. But also to report the efforts, 

actions, reflections carried out by men of good will to make 

barbarity no longer an inevitability. 

DES ENFANTS EN LUTTE 

DIRECTOR : LAURENT CIBIEN 

PARTNER : FRANCE 5, RTBF, IMAGE CRÉATION.COM 

LA SOLITUDE DE LA COÉPOUSE 

DIRECTOR : BERNARD DEBORD 

PARTNER : FRANCE 5, RTBF 

¿ DONDE ESTAN ? 

DIRECTOR : AURINE CRÉMIEU 

PARTNER : ODYSSÉE, RTBF, HISTOIRE 

AU CARREFOUR DES DROITS DE L’HOMME 

DIRECTOR : PASCAL CARCANADE 

PARTNER : FRANCE 5 


FILMS 

LETTRES DU TRAIN FANTÔME 


DIRECTOR : LAURENT LUTAUD 

PRODUCER : MARIE BERTHELIUS & ROGER NARBONNE 

COMPANY : SAME FILMS (FRANCE) 

June1944 ; in the midst of the Liberation, 800 deportees were 

transported from French camps to Germany. Due to the Allies’ 

bombing and the Resistants’ attacks, the railway was in such bad 

shape that the journey across France took 54 days. Sometimes the 

deportees even had to walk and were seen in every place.This 

story is unique, because of the incredibly long voyage that made 

many people witness the deportations towards German camps, 

usually made "invisible". The film, based on the eye witnesses’ 

evidence and on the deportees’ own letters, asks us: What would 

we have done in a similar situation today? 

MARIAGES ARRANGÉS 

Partners : 

France 3 Sud 

ZDF/ARTE 

History Television 



DIRECTOR : CAROL EQUER-HAMY 

PRODUCER : LAURENT BOCAHUT 

COMPANY : DOMINANT 7 (FRANCE) 

In India, most marriages are arranged. Love is not necessarily 

taken into account. It is neither something to which one aspires, 

nor a necessary condition for happiness. One must follow one’s 

destiny. Love marriages are still an exception. 

Arranged marriages serve for the best the interests of the families, 

safeguard the values from one generation to the other. 

But how can love, how can whole lives be the business of families 

and not of oneself ? 

In this first person narrative documentary, the director tries, as she 

encounters her Indian friends, to approach and define what love 

can be like when one is not given a choice. 

Partners : 

France 5, 

TV 10 Angers 


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FILMS 

SI-GUÉRIKI LA REINE-MÈRE 

2002 EURODOC-PRODUCTION 1999-2000 

LENGTH : 62 & 90 MIN 

DIRECTOR : IDRISSOU MORA KPAI 

PRODUCER : JEAN-MARIE TENO 

COMPANY : LES FILMS DU RAPHIA (FRANCE) 

Director Idrissou Mora Kpai, 33, is a member of the Wassangari 

tribe of northern Benin. Once a tribe of fierce warriors ruled by 

rigid traditions, The Wassangari people have abandoned their 

battles, but have maintened their strict patriarchy to this day. 

Following the death of his father, the director return to his village 

after a ten-year absence. He is disheartened to see his sisters and 

nieces suffering from the Wassangari’s enduring traditions of 

female oppression. But he is surprised to find his mother liberated. 

When Mora Kpai was a child, his mother, a stranger to him, was 

simply one of his father’s wives, a mere shadow in the family 

compound… Today, she has received a title, Si-Gueriki (the Queen 

Mother), the female equivalent of a king. Si-Gueriki "The Queen 

Mother" is the story of a young man’s confrontation with his culture 

and traditions. It’s an intimate, personal film… an insider’s view of 

this ancient culture. The film is also the belated meeting between 

a son and his two "mothers". 

Partners : 

France 5 

Lichtblick Film 

Arouna Sacca Mora Kpai 


GENERATION 0 



DIRECTORS : ANNE HJORT & CLAUS LADERGAARD 

PRODUCER : CLAUS LADEGAARD 

COMPANY : EASY FILM (DENMARK) 

"Generation 0" is a documentary series that tells the story of five 

children who were born and grew up after the turn of the 

millennium. The series focuses on the upbringing of the children, 

and its framework is the everyday life of the families. The children 

and their parents will be filmed regularly and a number of 

documentaries will be made showing the children as they grow up. 

Partners : 

TV 2 Denmark 

THE IDLE ONES 



DIRECTOR : SUSANNA HELKE & VIRPI SUUTARI 

PRODUCER : ULLA SIMONEN 

COMPANY : KINOTAR (FINLAND) 

Summer with old friends. Experiencing the end of childhood together. 

Fishing at a beautiful lake, driving around the town, hanging out at 

the gas station… Not because they want to, but because there is 

absolutely nothing else to do. "The Idle Ones" is a touching and 

revealing, yet funny documentary about three young men, Lötkö, 

Hapa and Bodi, who live in an emptying area in Northern Finland. 

Partners : 

YLE/TV1 

ARTE 

Festivals : 

The film won several prizes including : 

Best Scandinavian Documentary Award in the Nordisk Panorama 

Festival 

Best Documentary Award in the Milano Festival Internazionale 

Best Documentary Film award in the Finnish Academy Awards 


L’HOMME AUX SEMELLES D’OR 



DIRECTOR : OMAR AMIRALAY 

PRODUCER : ELISABETH MARLIANGEAS 

COMPANY : AMIP (FRANCE) 

Rafiq Hariri, a Lebanese entrepreneur and multi-billionaire, has 

made his fortune in Saudi Arabia before being shot off onto the 

political scene of his country. Being now Prime Minister for a third 

mandate, he confided in the camera of the filmmaker Omar 

Amiralay a couple of months ago. On a play background, a discrete 

and strange game is beginning between the author and the main 

character of his film. 

Partners : 

YLE/TV1 

ARTE 

Maram CTV 


2002

2002 Chapter 

AFGHANISTAN, AN IMPOSSIBLE STATE 


DIRECTOR : ATIQ RAHIMI 

PRODUCER : MAHMOUD CHOKROLLAHI 

COMPANY : PLAY FILM (FRANCE) 

Through the analysis of the “loya Jerga” and the testimonies of 

political personalities who are part of it, this film provides us with 

some explanations of the impossible Afghan stability, according to 

Afghans themselves. 

The project “Orphelins et sans pays”, developed within 

EURODOC, has not been totally abandoned but was delayed sine 

die because of political reasons. However, all the work that had 

been done with the director for this project, especially with ARTE, 

has lead to a new film: “Afghanistan, an Impossible State?” that 

we were previously referring to. 

Partners : 

ARTE (F) : Pierre Merle 

NMO (Pays Bas) 


SUR LES TOITS DE PARIS 


DIRECTOR : OLIVIER LASSU 

PRODUCER : FABRICE ESTÈVE 

COMPANY : AMPERSAND (FRANCE) 

“On the Rooftops of Paris” offers to take its spectators to the 

discovery of a dimension as mythical as unexplored of the French 

capital, between the city and the sky. From one roof to another, we 

discover this universe by meeting a gallery of characters who have 

the privilege to be intimate with this place. “On the Rooftops of 

Paris”, we take an urban and human tour, a poetic stroll revealing 

entire unknown sections of the city architecture, recounting the 

story of its life and inviting to reverie and to the meeting of those 

who live between the zinc and the azure. 

Partners : 

ARTE (F) : Christine Reisen, Alain Wieder 

France 5 : Muriel Rosé 

RTBF (B) : Claire Colart 

ARTV (Canada) 

Rai Sat : Lucca Macciocca 


VICTOR HUGO EXIL 


DIRECTOR : AXEL CLEVENOT 

PRODUCER : MICHEL RAGER 

COMPANY : EXMACHINA (FRANCE) 

On the one side, the hunters, and on the other, the prey. A tracked 

man. But a man who refuses to give in. A man who denounces, rises 

up and accuses. For nearly twenty years, between 1851 and 1870, 

Victor Hugo personified all of Europe's democratic ideas by nearly 

singly standing up to Napoleon the third’s despotism. For twenty 

years, he paid for this struggle for freedom by an exile at first forced 

then voluntary. For twenty years, because of his ideas and writings, 

he was the object of unending police persecution and espionage. 

It seemed to us timely, upon the occasion of the commemorations to 

accompany the bicentennial of Victor Hugo's birth in 2002, to relate 

these twenty years of headstrong struggle of a man alone against the 

arbitrary of absolute power. Twenty years of rupture in the life and 

work of one of the monumental figures of French literature and the 

19th century. 

Partners : 

France 5, 

INA 

Memento Production 

RTBF 

SCEREN/CNDP 

HANGMEN 


DIRECTORS : JENS BECKER & GUNNAR DEDIO 

PRODUCER : GUNNAR DEDIO 

COMPANY : LOOKS (GERMANY) 

They are the only men who are allowed to kill. Each in his own 

way. Always at the break of day. They carry out a sentence 

pronounced by rule of law. Hangmen. They now reveal 

themselves. Tell us about their lives. Tell us about their "trade". 

After five years of research and shooting, this unique film is now 

completed. The last executioners of Germany, the former East 

Germany, France, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Romania have faced 

the camera. They are living eye-witnesses of the end of an era: 

800 years of the death penalty in Europe. The film provides the 

viewer with a close-up biographical look at the lives of the 

enforcers of this penalty and of their personal fates. The careers 

and personalities of the individual hangmen mesh into an 

inconsistent whole. 

Partners : 

ARTE 

ORB 

BR 

SFP 

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CHANDANI 

THE DAUGHTER OF THE ELEPHANT WHISPERER 


DIRECTOR : ARNE BIRKENSTOCK 

PRODUCER : ARNE BIRKENSTOCK 

COMPANY : FRUITMARKET FILMPRODUCTION (GERMANY) 

Chandani wants to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a 

mahout. Her father does not have a son to which he could pass on 

the family knowledge from many generations. Against the other 

mahouts‘ will, he decides to give his daughter a chance. He gives 

her responsibility for the young elephant calf Kandula. Chandani 

must demonstrate that she is serious about her wish. Because she 

is the first girl in a male profession, everyone doubts her abilities 

and the ranger Mohammed becomes her only supporter. He takes 

her into the jungle, shows her the world of elephants in the 

wilderness. On one of these trips, Mohammed and her save a little 

elephant baby from its certain death. Strengthened by this 

experience and her mentor’s support, she makes tremendous 

progress in the work with ‚her‘ little elephant Kandula, and 

develops a real emotional attachment to this animal. But when 

Kandula is taken away from her, also Chandani’s path changes… 

Partners : 

WRD, SWR, ARTE (Germany) 

YLE (Finland) 

Delivery : October 2009 

HEAD COLD 

EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005 

DIRECTOR : GAMMA BAK 

PRODUCER : GAMMA BAK 

COMPANY : GAMMA BAK FILMPRODUKTION (GERMANY) 

First person documentary using interviews taken over 4 years about 

living with diagnosed schizophrenia. Addresses the issues of the 

illness itself, hospital stays and use of medication as well as the 

question of stigmatization. Video letters from family members fill in 

background information about the filmmaker and her illness. 

Partners : 

GMFilms (Germany) 

Moving Images Distribution (Canada) 

Delivery : 2009 

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EYES WIDE OPEN 

PRODUCTIONS 


DIRECTOR : JACQUELINE ZÜND 

PRODUCER : PATRICK MÜLLER 

COMPANY : DOCMINE PRODUCTIONS (EX CONDOR FILMS, GERMANY) 

"Eyes Wide Open" leads us into the mysterious world of the sleepless. 

Four insomniacs of four different countries and continents invite us to 

spend a night in their world. Each of the four has his very own way 

of being awake. "Eyes Wide Open" is a cinematic essay about the 

weird fruits of boredom and the desperate search for rest. 

Coproducer : 

SF Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland) 

Delivery : 2010 

THE LAST LADY OF THE MELLAH IN FEZ 


DIRECTOR : AZIZ DAIRI 

PRODUCER : AZIZ DAIRI 

COMPANY : GAMA C (MOROCCO) 

From the 15 th century, Jewish Moroccan citizens lived peacefully 

and fraternally together with their Muslim compatriots in the 

Jewish area of fes. With Jewish–Moroccan music in the 

background, the documentary relates how the communities 

enriched each other in various ways. But the 20th century of all the 

centuries, dispersed the community towards Israel, to Europe and 

America deserting a neighbourhood where the stones are the sole 

witness to history, witch is slowly fading away. 

Partners : 

2M Television (Morocco) 

Musée du Judaïsme Marocain (Belgium) 


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OUT OF CORDOBA 

PRODUCTIONS 


DIRECTOR : JACOB BENDER 

PRODUCER : JOSÉ ANTONIO HERGUETA 

COMPANY : MLK PRODUCCIONES (SPAIN) 

In the first decade of our new millennium, “religion”, “intolerance” 

and “terrorism” seem to have become related terms. Out of Cordoba 

asks whether this has always been the case, not only in the Middle 

East, but world-wide? Or, on the contrary, can religion be a positive 

influence for peace and progress around the globe? 

Out of Cordoba will take us from New York after the 9/11 attacks, to 

Spain, Morocco, Paris, Berlin, Qatar, Cairo, and Jerusalem, along the 

way looking for evidence of dialogue and the mythic convivencia 

(coexistence) where Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in mutual 

tolerance and peace. In this search, we follow the footsteps of 

Maimonides and Averroes, two medieval geniuses who, both born in 

the city of Cordoba in Muslim Spain, and each one from within his 

own faith, courageously attempted to harmonize faith and science, 

reason and revelation. While their controversial ideas caused their 

own communities to burn the books of Averroes and Maimonides, 

their writings form a crucial link between classic Greece philosophy 

and Western thinking, and thus helped chart the path from the 

Middle Ages to the Renaissance. 

Coproducer : 

Jacob Bender (USA) 

Partner : 


O3 (Middle East Channels) 


FIERCE PEOPLE 


DIRECTOR : JOSE PADHILA 

PRODUCERS : MIKE CHAMBERLAIN & CAROL NAHRA 

COMPANY : STAMPEDE LIMITED / ZAZEN (UNITED KINGDOM) 

IN ASSOCIATION WITH AVENUE B (FRANCE) 

This is the story of the war between anthropologists who are 

studying the origins of ‘war’. The American, French and British 

anthropologists fight in and amongst their subject of study: the 

Yanomami tribes in the Amazon rain forest, who have become the 

most exhaustively studied and filmed tribe on the planet. 

LUZ OBSCURA 

Partners : 

BBC 

ARTE 

YLE 

SBS 

Delivery : 

2010 


DIRECTOR : SUSANA DE SOUSA DIAS 

PRODUCER : ANSGAR SCHAEFER 

COMPANY : KINTOP (PORTUGAL) 

Throughout forty-eight years Portugal lived under a dictatorial 

regime. During that time there were women and men who put up 

resistance, swapping their normal lives for an ideal. Many were 

arrested, tortured, or lived life underground. Many had children, 

the product of better times and the opportunity to develop and 

enjoy a relationship. Soon, however, they would have to give up 

those children, as a true family did not correspond to the realities 

experienced. Contacts were scarce and made under a dense 

security blanket: informers and spies were a real danger. Many 

children were only reunited with their parents after the fall of the 

dictatorship. Others lost their faces in the depths of their 

memories. While some would never forgive their parents for 

having abandoned them for the sake of an ideology, others would 

follow their path embracing similar ideals. Who are these boys 

and girls, today? What place do they have in the world? How do 

they deal with their own identity? 

Coproducer : 

François d’Artemarre, Les Films de l’Après-Midi (France) 

Delivery : 2010

LUCIEN HERVÉ : BUILDING IMAGES 


DIRECTOR : GERRIT MESSIAEN 

PRODUCER : MARTINE BARBÉ 

COMPANY : IMAGE CRÉATION.COM (BELGIUM) 

The documentary “Lucien Hervé” traces the eventful life of Lucien 

Hervé, a multi-talented painter and photographer. Between 1949 

and 1965, Lucien Hervé was Le Corbusier’s photographer of choice. 

It was thanks to this long collaboration with the world-renowned 

French architect that Hervé came to be one of the leading 

photographers of the 20th century. A Hungarian Jew who emigrated 

to France in 1929, he was a fanatical artist with a passion for life. 

Photography was a later vocation. He was successively a fashion 

designer, pianist, wrestling champion, trade union leader, director, 

journalist and painter. When he achieved fame as a photographer 

after the Second World War, it was rather in spite of himself. 

Partners : 

Ministry of the French Community of Belgium 

Flemish Film Fond (VAF) 

U.J.-I.S. Media ( Hungary) 

MOLINO NUEVO 

ONE STREET BEYOND HELL 

LENGTH : 58 MIN EURODOC 2003-2004 

DIRECTOR : JOSÉ SANCHEZ MONTÉS 

PRODUCER : JOSÉ SANCHEZ MONTÉS 

COMPANY : ATICO SIETE (SPAIN) 

During ten years Molino Nuevo, a street at the border between the 

countryside and the slums of Granada has been rebuilt. 

Inhabited by Gipsies, with enourmous problems with drugs and 

violence the life of these 156 families changed completely because 

of the intelligence and open mind of institutions and workers. 

Partner : 



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THERMERSONS & THEMERSON 


DIRECTOR : WIKTORIA SZYMANSKA 

PRODUCER : WIKTORIA SZYMANSKA 

COMPANY : LUNA W (POLAND) 

In the spring of 1975, after giving an interview for German TV, Stefan 

Theme son lost his memory. He rather enjoyed this freedom. 

He was a philosopher, his wife Franciszka bi-abstract painter, 

together they were probably the first avant-garde couple of artists in 

Poland. 

This their love story. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and 

worked together for almost sixty years. First in Poland, then in France 

to eventually settled in England. The only time when they were 

separated was the outbreak of the Second War but even then they 

remained connected. The film is retracing the story of this unusual 

and unique union. 

Partners : 

ARTE, TVP, AVRO, TVKULTURA, Planète, TG4 

CANNED DREAMS 


DIRECTOR : KATJA GAURILOFF 

PRODUCER : JOONAS BERGHÄLL 

COMPANY : OKTOBER OY (FINLAND) 

The film “Canned Dreams” tells stories about humanity. In this film 

ordinary working people around Europe tells stories about their love 

and dreams. These people will be connected to each other by one 

food product and they all work on the 

journey of it's production. These little stories combined will build a 

portrait of European people today. In this film beauty of humanity is 

seen through working hands. 

Partners : 

ARTE (France), YLE TV2 (Finland), RTP (Portugal), NRK (Norway), 

TG4 (Ireland), Noga Communications (Israel) 

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PRODUCTIONS 

THE CHILDREN OF BUENA VISTA 


DIRECTOR : DANIEL FRIDELL 

PRODUCER : MARGUS OUNAPUU 

COMPANY : FILM TOWER KUUBIS (ESTONIA) 

Can a capitalist music producer and a communist doctor and artist 

work together? In Cuba they can! Michel Miglis – a Swedish music 

producer, known for his provocative ideas and El Medico – a doctor 

and a singer, born and raised in the midst of the Cuban Revolution 

and who’s values are in total contrast to the cynical Western music 

industry. 

It all started from a mix tape, where Michael suddenly heard a 

fantastic voice. After long-lasting search Michael found the owner of 

the voice high up in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Michael was met 

with great suspicion – „another tourist who wants to steal a slice of 

Cuban culture”. 

But after a while El Medico started to trust Michel and the song 

“Chupa Chupa” was recorded. 

The song became a worldwide hit! Then the trouble began! 

The film is based on paradoxes of Cuba. It’s a prison for its nation 

but also an oasis of very emphatic people. It’s a country of poverty 

but where you look after your own. It’s an island where state owns 

its subjects from cradle to grave but where people still manage to live 

the day and enjoy the moment. 

Cuban Reggaeton is an underground musical movement in this 

archaic society; a commercial music as a subversive force in a cultural 

reactionary but social revolutionary society. 

We are fascinated by this contradiction. We believe we have 

something to show to the world: To have nothing but still enjoy life. 

Carpe Diem! 

Coproducer : 

Röde Orm Film (Sweden) 

Partners : 

New Danes Production (Denmark) 

Filmpool Nord (Sweden) 

SVT (Sweden) 


IBERIAN UNION 


DIRECTOR : MIGUEL GONÇALVES MENDES 

PRODUCER : MIGUEL GONÇALVES MENDES 

COMPANY : JUMPCUT (PORTUGAL) 

“Iberian Union” is the love story between the couple José 

Saramago (Portuguese Literature Nobel Prize) and Pilar del Rio 

(famous Spanish journalist). 

Based on intimate interviews and on the shooting of their daily life 

in Lanzarote - their home, and on their endless journeys 

throughout the world; the main idea of this documentary is to 

achieve an intimate/personal record, aiming to create on the 

viewers the sense of personally knowing the couple. 

Coproducer : 

El Deseo (Spain) 

Partners : 

RTP (Portugal) 

YLE (Finland) 

SVT (Sweden) 

Delivery : 2010

THE CAMBODIAN ROOM 

SITUATIONS WITH ANTOINE D’AGATA 


DIRECTOR : TOMMASO LUSENA 

PRODUCER : GIUSEPPE SCHILLACI 

COMPANY : DOWNTOWN PICTURES (ITALY) 

Antoine d’Agata, a photograph from Magnum Agency, is in Phom 

Penh (Cambodia) where his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost 

point. After devoting his art to picture desolated landscapes and 

borderline realities, Antoine d’Agata focuses his art on his intimate 

human relations. His latest work concentrates on body and flesh, 

in a narrow room. 

This film catches the hidden part of his art making ; his choice of 

living at edges and living sex as extrem vitalism. An apocalyptic 

and sublime course, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of 

contemporary culture, from Kerouc to Artaud, from Bacon to 

Pasolini. 

Partner : 

Kolam, Olga Prud’homme (France) 


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GLIMPSED ON THE ROAD 

THROUGH THE EDGE OF THE WOODS 


DIRECTOR : JOÃO TRABULO 

PRODUCER : JOÃO TRABULO 

COMPANY : PERIFERIA FILMES (PORTUGAL) 

“Glimpsed on the road…” – film – is a guide to a journey, a 

journey that a group of artists (directors, writers, actors, 

musicians…) want to repeat throughout one month on the roads 

of Europe, and during which, in encounters with places and 

people, the outlines and the content of the proposed film are 

defined. The themes the project aims at dealing with are already 

well defined: cinema, literature, dramaturgy, architecture, politics, 

and the idea of a Europe that is becoming increasingly complex in 

all domains… 

Partners : 

ICA (Portugal) 

Fondation Edison (Italy) 


RADIATION CITY 


DIRECTOR : ANTHONY BUTTS 

PRODUCER : SARAH TIERNEY 

COMPANY : CLARITY PRODUCTIONS (UK) 

Hiroshima. Bikini Atoll. Chernobyl. Nevada. All nuclear landmarks 

towards which memory and imagination need no signpost. But 

shockingly the Cold War’s most callous experiment has remained 

hidden from public knowledge for nearly 60 years… Constructed 

in 1945 in a remote corner of Kazakhstan, Kurchatov - one of 

Stalin’s ‘secret cities’ – formed the epicentre of a massive nuclear 

testing which, over four decades, released the equivalent of more 

than 20,000 times the radiation of the Hiroshima bomb. 

Kurchatov’s grandiose Soviet architecture is now crumbling: the 

city an eerie ghost town now dubbed ‘Radiation City’. But the 

areas atomic legacy lives on… The inhabitants of this desolate 

region remain hostages of their history and their homeland, 

medically and financially crippled and forgotten. 


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ONE WAY KIDS 

PRODUCTIONS 


DIRECTOR : MARCO GASTINE 

PRODUCER : ALEXANDRE CORNU 


During the Greek civil war (1946-1949) 25.000 children, ages 3 

to 14, were transferred by the Greek communist partisans to 

socialist countries, in order to “protect them until the victory”. The 

victory never came, the children never came back. Nikos was one 

of them. In 1948, aged 12, he was sent with 250 children of his 

village to Hungary. In 1956, after the Soviet invasion, he escaped 

to France and lost the tracks of the other village children. Now 

retired, Nikos has decided to find out what happened to them. 

Through his quest, we will learn about this major political issue of 

the early Cold War which changed the entire course of so many 

lives. 

Coproducer : 

Minimal Films, Marco Gastine (Greece) 

Partners : 

ERT, Irène Gavala (Greece), YLE, Jenny Westergard (Finland), 

History Channel 


THE BOY WHO WAS A KING 

LENGTH : 90 MIN MASTER-CLASS 2006 

DIRECTOR : ANDREY PAOUNOV 

PRODUCER : MARTICHKA BOZHILOVA 

COMPANY : AGITPROP (BULGARIA) 

The Boy Who Was a King will tell the story of one of the most 

fascinating monarch figures in contemporary history. Simeon II of 

Bulgaria, cousin to the House of Windsor and a descendant of 

William the Conqueror. From his adventurous life as an exiled boy 

king who became a symbol of hope for a small European country, 

to his glorious return as Prime Minister of Bulgaria after half a 

century of Communist dictatorship. This “happy-end” Balkan 

version of Princess Anastasia’s story will tell the real life fairy-tale 

of one of the greatest experiments of democracy today. 

Coproducer : 

Zero One Film, Thomas Kufus (Germany) 

Partners : 

Channel 4, Jackson Tabitha (UK), TVP Kultura (Poland), TSR, Irène 

Challand (Switzerland), YLE, Erkki Astala (Finland) 


TRANSIT 


DIRECTOR : JOÃO CANIJO 

PRODUCER : JOÃO TRABULO 

COMPANY : PERIFERIA FILMES (PORTUGAL) 

“Transit” is a dialectical portrait of a Second World War episode, 

namely the passage and stay in Lisbon of 100.000 refugees 

escaping from Nazism. This flood of people was composed by 

everyone who could have been threatened by Hitler’s regime : 

Jews, intellectuals, artists or communists. Best way to join America, 

Lisbon became for these people the “harbour of hope”. The 

unexpected world converged on “neutral” Portugal, whose society, 

during this short period of time, stops being exclusively Lusitanian 

to become cosmopolite. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Erika Mann and 

Alfred Döblin - which made part of that flood - let us accurate 

testimonies of Lisbon in the 40’s. Through that perspective of 

encounter/divergence between refugees and Portuguese society, 

jailed in the Antonio Oliveira Salazar’s “apostolic fascism”, the 

film’s aim is to reveal its abnormal status-quo, still characterising 

it today. 

Partners : 

RTP, Jorge Wemans (Portugal), Gulbenkian Fundation (Portugal), 

ITVS, Claire Aguilar (USA) 


TINGUELY 


DIRECTOR : THOMAS THÜMENA 

PRODUCER : CHRISTIAN DAVI 

COMPANY : HUGOFILM PRODUCTIONS (SWITZERLAND) 

«There is no stillstand!» Jean Tinguely (1925 - 1991) fascinated 

people during his lifetime and beyond. In the film the so called 

“bande à Jean” share their memories of the man who brought 

movement into the world of art of the 20th century. Today his old 

friends repair Tinquely's machines, organise exhibitions and 

catalogues, found new museums and archive old photographs. 

However, they are fighting a somehow futile and almost tragic 

battle against oblivion and decay, and the merciless rust attacking 

Tinguely's machines shows that without sturm and drang, even 

with a huge effort, perpetual motion cannot be sustained forever. 

His former girlfriends, colleagues, mechanics and companions 

recount the exemplary life and fate of the artist. Their wild youth 

and their sense of infinite possibilities come back to life once 

more. 

Partners : 

Swiss Federal Office of Culture 

and Television 

Delivery : 2010

COUNTING SHEEP 


DIRECTOR : DIETER AUNER 

PRODUCER : DIETER AUNER 

COMPANY : IKANDI PRODUCTIONS (IRELAND) 

Albin, and Mirel Creta, two young Romanian shepherd brothers 

are torn between their traditional village life and modern life. 

Milking sheep and guiding horses is part of their daily work. 

Technology is encroaching. 

Old status symbols are replaced by flashy mobile phones. In direct 

cinema style, the film accompanies Albin and Mirel through one 

year of shepherding. 

Reflecting upon changes in the village, through them and their 

family, we question the price of progress. 

Coproducer : 

Mobra Films, Cristian Mungio (Romania) 

Partners : 

TG4 (Ireland) 

Realitatea TV (Romania) 


Chapter 

KURDISHLOVER 

PRODUCTIONS 


DIRECTOR : CLARISSE HAHN 

PRODUCER : PATRICE NEZAN 

COMPANY : LES FILMS DU PRÉSENT (FRANCE) 

A voyage into the heart of the Kurdish community. 

30 million people with one language, one culture and one 

common history. 

A people without a homeland, a nation without a state. 

To reveal community links, Clarisse Hahn immerses herself into 

the heart of this complex reality. She shares the daily life of a 

Kurdish family where some members live in the Kurdistan 

mountains in Turkey, while the others are scattered abroad, in 

France and in Germany. 

“This intimate documentary is an inquiry within the heart of the 

Kurdish community. The story begins in Paris, observing, from my 

window, bare-chested Kurdish men demonstrating in the street. A 

trip to Turkey follows, in the company of Oktay, a young Kurd with 

whom I'd fallen in love. During a gradual ascent to the heights of 

the Kurdistan mountains, we meet guerillas, families bound tightly 

together by jealous love, goldseekers, solitary individuals, an old 

witch who casts spells, a holy man who goes into trance in front of 

the television, a sex-starved hermit, a mute inhabiting a ghost 

village, a shepherd waiting for her Prince Charming...” 

Through these encounters, Clarisse Hahn reaches back to the 

roots of a thousand-year-old culture where she observes ritual and 

analyses practice. She shows us that which links, which unites, and 

which gathers people together. 

Coproducer : 

24 Images, Farid Rezkalah 

Partner : 

Centre National de la Cinématographie, Avance sur Recettes 

(France) 


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EURODOC 

TEAM 

STEERING COMMITTEE

Chapter 

EURODOC 

The EURODOC team is at your disposal for the duration of the programme to answer your 

questions, help you with applications and administrative tasks, and to facilitate contacts with 

the members of the EURODOC network. 

Information and promotion : Reception of the projects and applicants information 

Selection : Follow-up of applications and projects, preparation of selection 

Programme : Finalisation of the courses with the Head of Studies, organisation of the sessions 

Network : Animation of the EURODOC network 

Publications : Publication of proceedings. 

L’équipe D’EURODOC est à votre disposition pendant toute la durée du programme pour 

répondre à vos questions, vous aider dans vos démarches administratives, vous guider dans la 

constitution de vos dossiers et faciliter vos contacts avec les membres du réseau EURODOC. 

Information et promotion : Réception des projets et information des candidats 

Sélection : Suivi des candidatures et des projets, préparation de la sélection 

Programme : Mise en place des modules pédagogiques avec la Direction des Études, 

organisation des sessions 

Network : Animation du réseau EURODOC 

Publication : Diffusion des actes des sessions. 

ANNE-MARIE LUCCIONI 

HEAD OF PROGRAMME 

ASSISTED BY 

MARIE-SOPHIE DECOUT 

MAIJA MIIKKOLA 

VÉRONIQUE DUCLOS 

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EURODOC 

STEERING COMMITTEE / COMITÉ DE PILOTAGE 

Jacques BIDOU, JBA PRODUCTION, HEAD OF STUDIES, FRANCE, 

Anne-Marie LUCCIONI, EURODOC, HEAD OF PROGRAMME, FRANCE 

Jordi AMBROS, TV3, SPAIN 

Erkki ASTALA, YLE, FINLAND 

Christian BAUTE, CELLULOÏD DREAMS, FRANCE 

Xavier CARNIAUX – AMIP, FRANCE, PRÉSIDENT 

Irène CHALLAND, TSR, SWITZERLAND 

Claire COLART, RTBF, BELGIUM 

Heino DECKERT, MA.JA.DE FILMPRODUKTION, GERMANY 

Marie-Pierre DUHAMEL-MULLER, FRANCE 

Diana ELBAUM, ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP, BELGIUM 

Francesc ESCRIBANO, TV3, SPAIN 

Denis FREYD, ARCHIPEL 33, FRANCE 

Thierry GARREL, FRANCE 

Doris HEPP, ZDF-ARTE, GERMANY 

Thomas KUFUS, ZERO ONE FILM, GERMANY 

Luca MACCIOCCA, RAI SAT, ITALY 

Pierre MERLE, ARTE-FRANCE 

Kristiina PERVILÄ-ANDERSSON, MILLENNIUM FILM, FINLAND 

Carl-Ludwig RETTINGER, LICHTBLICK FILM, GERMANY 

Muriel ROSÉ, FRANCE 3 

Rod STONEMAN, IRELAND 

Esther van MESSEL, FIRST HAND FILMS, SWITZERLAND 

& 

Hala ALABDALLA, SYRIA/FRANCE 

Massimo ARVAT – ZENIT ARTI AUDIOVISIVE, ITALY 

Hartmut BITOMSKY, GERMANY 

Alexandre CORNU, LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE SOIE, FRANCE 

Luis CORREIA – LX FILMES, PORTUGAL 

Edgardo COZARINSKY, FRANCE/ARGENTINA 

Carlo CRESTO-DINA, FELTRINELLI, ITALY 

Harun FAROCKI, GERMANY 

Patrizio GUZMAN, FRANCE/CHILE 

Hugues LE PAIGE, BELGIUM 

Joaquim PINTO, PORTUGAL 

Anne REEVELL - MOONBEAM FILMS, UK 

Joan UBEDA - MEDIA 3.14, SPAIN

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AMOUR FOU FILMPRODUKTION 

Karin BERGHAMMER 

Lindengasse 32 

AU-1070 Vienna 

Tel : +43 1 99 499 110 

Fax : +43 1 99 499 11 20 

projects@amourfou.at 

www.amourfou.at 

ANCORA FILMS 

Gaspar ZURITA 

5, place Jean de Vienne 

FR-32100 Dole 

Tel / Fax : +33 9 52 60 06 94 

zurita@redcinema.fr 

ANCORA FILMS 

Gaspar ZURITA 

5, place Jean de Vienne 

FR-32100 Dole 

Tel / Fax : +33 6 50 73 61 73 

zurita@redcinema.fr 

C.N.C 

Amélie BENASSAYAG 

11, rue Galilée 

FR-75116 Paris 

Tel : +33 1 44 34 36 82 

amelie.benassayag@cnc.fr 

Marie MAS-MOISY 

3, rue Boissière 


Tel : +33 1 44 34 34 91 

marie.mas@cnc.fr 

www.cnc.fr 

CORNBREAD FILMS 

Carlotta MASTROJANNI 

37 Stratford Road, Flat 5 

UK-W86RA London 

Tel : +44 75 45 56 48 77 

carlotta.mastrojanni@gmail.com 

DANISH FILM INSTITUTE 

Soren TARP 

Gothersgade 55 

DK-1123 Copenhagen K 

Tel : +45 33 74 35 63 

Fax : +45 33 74 34 55 

soerent@dfi.dk 

www.dfi.dk 

END STREET PRODUCTIONS 

Anna TEEMAN 

19A Seaford Rd 

UK-W13 9HP London 

Tel / Fax: +44 78 02 93 09 37 

anna@endstreetproductions.com 

www.endstreetproductions.com 

ERRANTE PRODUCCIONES 

Paola CASTILLO 

Gerona 3450 

CP 7790767 - Nunoa 

CL- Santiago 

Tel : +56 2 209 24 94 

Fax : +56 2 209 26 28 

pcastillo@errante.cl 

www.errante.cl 

FABER FILM 

Paolo BENZI 

Via Ramuscellutto, 80 

IT-33079 Sesto al Reghena 

Tel : +39 2 231 99 16 

Fax : +39 2 97 38 78 27 

paolobenzi@faberfilm.it 

www.faberfilm.it 

FAMILIA PRODUCTION 

Kaouther BEN HANIA 

5 rue Medhat Pacha 

TN-1001 Tunis 

Tel : + 33 6 59 17 48 77 

kaouther.ben@gmail.com 

FDA PRODUCTION 

Alma ANAKIEV 

Na Mlaki 1B 

SI-4240 Radovljica 

Tel : +386 31 364 304 

fdaproduction@gmail.com 

FILM STUDIO KOPA 

Klaudija KAIRAITYTE 

Pavilnio 16-2 

LT-11300 Vilnius 

Tel / Fax : +370 520 560 53 

claudia.kair@gmail.com 

Participants 


Sarah BORN 

Fritz Heeb-Weg 5 

CH-8050 Zurich 

Tel / Fax : +41 44 31 22 060 

sarah.born@firsthandfilms.com 

www.firsthandfilms.com 

GODMOTHER FILMS 

Amber BORDEWIJK 

Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 12 

NL-1017 RC Amsterdam 

Tel : +31 20 48 98 896 

amber@godmotherfilms.com 

www.godmotherfilms.com 

HAVAS FILMS 

Julianna UGRIN 

Tinodi u.26 

HU-2094 Nagykovacsi 

Tel : +36 20 212 86 36 

Fax : +36 1 326 71 01 

julianna.ugrin@havasfilms.com 

www.havasfilms.com 

HOLLAND HARBOUR 

PRODUCTIONS BV 

Simone VAN DEN BROEK 

Willemskade 22 

NL-3016 DM Rotterdam 

Tel : +31 10 23 31 400 

Fax : +31 10 23 31 401 

simone@hollandharbour.nl 

www.hollandharbour.nl 

IMMAGINARIA 

Fabrizia GALVAGNO 

Piazza Don G. Savoia, 6 

IT-30040 Pradamano 

Tel / Fax : +39 432 184 52 64 

fabriziag@gmail.com 

www.immaginaria.biz 

LA GÉNÉRALE DE PRODUCTION 

Alexandre HALLIER 

80, rue du Faubourg St-Denis 


Tel : +33 1 53 64 19 99 

Fax : +33 1 45 00 74 51 

alex@lageneraledeproduction.com 

www.lageneraledeproduction.com

LE P’TIT CINÉ 

Pauline DAVID 

5 rue du Fort 

BE-1060 Bruxelles 

Tel / Fax : +32 25 38 17 57 

contact@leptitcine.be 

www.leptitcine.be 

LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE 

SOIE 

Muriel SORBO 

6A rue Crinas Prolongée 

FR-13007 Marseille 

Tel : +33 4 91 33 35 75 

Fax : +33 4 91 33 35 24 

murielsorbo@tamtamsoie.net 

www.tamtamsoie.net 

MOVIALA FILMS 

Gérald LEROUX 

53bis Avenue de Grammont 

FR-37000 Tours 

Tel : +33 2 47 74 73 07 

Fax : +33 2 47 74 64 96 

moviala.films@orange.fr 

NUKLEUS 

Sinisha JURICIC 

Dalmatinska 1 

HR-10000 Zagreb 

Tel / Fax : +385 1 48 48 868 

sinisa@nukleus-film.hr 

PERSPECTIVE FILMS 

Isabelle MATHY 

18, rue Taine 


Tel : +33 1 43 40 56 91 

Fax : +33 1 44 87 92 02 

contact@perspectivefilms.fr 

www.perspectivefilms.fr 

SALVADOR D 

Julia MISHKINENE 

7, Bolshoy Karetny Pereulok 

RU-127051 Moscow 

Tel : +7 495 699 32 90 

Fax : +7 495 699 14 65 

julia@salvador-d.ru 

Participants Chapter 

TARANTULA SUISSE 

Sandra K’BOURCH 

Rue Eugène Marziano, 41 

CP 1750 

CH-1211 Genève 

Tel : +41 78 698 86 95 

Fax : +41 22 301 74 88 

sandra@tarantulaprod.ch 

www.tarantulaprod.ch 

TGA 

Sébastien GAUTIER 

19, rue des Granges Galand 

FR-37550 Saint-Avertin 

Tel : +33 820 821 200 

Fax : +33 2 47 27 95 64 

s.gautier@tga.fr 

www.tga.fr 

THEME ENTERTAINMENT 

Debu BHATTACHARYYA 

6/31, Purbapally, Sodepur 

IN-700110 Kolkata 

Tel : +91 33 2595 1396 

debu@themeentertainment.in 

TNS PRODUCTIONS 

Marie-Christine MALBERT 

18, rue La Bruyère 


Tel : +33 6 20 32 36 41 

tns.mcm@free.fr 

UHURU PRODUCTIONS 

Rehad DESAI 

10th Fl. Sable Centre, 

41 De Korte Street 

ZA-2017 Braamfontein Johannesburg 

Tel : +27 11 403 84 99 

Fax : +27 11 403 84 38 

rehad@icon.co.za 

www.uhuruproductions.co.za 

VIDES FILMU STUDIJA 

Aija BERZINA 

Lapu Street 17 

LV-1002 Riga 

Tel : + 371 67 50 35 88 

Fax : +371 67 50 35 89 

aija@vfs.lv 

www.vfs.lv 

INDEX 

ZERO ONE FILM 

Ann Carolin RENNINGER 

Lehrter Str. 57 

DE-10557 Berlin 

Tel : +49 30 390 663 651 

Fax : +49 30 394 58 34 

anncarolin@zeroone.de 

www.zeroone.de 

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ARTE FRANCE 

Rachel ADOUL 

8 rue Marceau 

FR-92785 Issy les Moulineaux cedex 

9 

Tel : +33 155 007 257 

Fax : +33 155 007 413 

r-adoul@artefrance.fr 

www.arte.tv 

ARTE FRANCE 

Ali DELICI 

8 rue Marceau 

FR-92785 Issy les Moulineaux cedex 

9 

Tel : +33 155 007 462 

Fax : +33 155 007 405 

a-delici@artefrance.fr 

www.arte.tv 

AVEK 

Pia ANDELL 

Hietaniemenk. 2 

FI-00100 Helsinki 

Tel : +358 943 15 23 52 

Fax : +358 943 15 23 77 

pia.andell@avek.kopiosto.fi 

www.kopiosto.fi/avek 

C.N.C 

Marie-Claude SEVEAU 

3 rue Boissière 


Tel: +33 1 44 34 35 64 

Fax: +33 1 44 34 34 52 

marie-claude.seveau@cnc.fr 

www.cnc.fr 

FRANCE 5 

Céline GANDNER 

2-4 rue Marceau 

FR-92785 Issy les Moulineaux cedex 9 

Tel : +33 156 22 94 27 

Fax : +33 156 22 95 35 

celine.gandner@france5.fr 

www.france5.fr 

Executives Chapter 

FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION 

Miia HAAVISTO 

Kanavakatu 12 

FI-00160 Helsinki 

Tel : +358 962 20 3025 

Fax : +358 962 20 3050 

miia.haavisto@ses.fi 

www.ses.fi 

ICA, IP – INSTITUTO DO CINEMA 

E AUDIOVISUAL 

Cláudia MARTINS DE CARVALHO 

Rua Sao Pedro de Alcântara N.45-1° 

PT-1269 – 138 Lisboa 

Tel : +351 21 323 08 00 

Fax : +351 21 343 19 52 

claudia.carvalho@ica-ip.pt 

www.ica-ip.pt 

KNNC TV 

Aram Ismail SAEED 

Zargatha Hill 

Ashti Road 

IQ-64001 Sulaymaniyah 

Tel : +964 533 271 750 

Fax : +964 533 130 939 

aramsaeed@yahoo.com 

www.knn.com 

Rima Hoda NAZER 

Abu Dhabi, UAE 

Tel : +97 150 944 93 38 

rimanazer@gmail.com 

TV RENNES 35 

Jacqueline IRLANDE 

19 rue de la Quintaine 

FR-35000 Rennes 

Tel : +33 299 305 858 

Fax : +33 299 310 650 

jacquelineirlande@tvrennes35.fr 

www.tvrennes35.fr 

SABC 

Andile GENGE 

Cnr Henley and Artillery Road 

ZA-2006 Johannesburg 

Tel : +27 11 714 6309 

Fax : +27 11 714 5160 

gengea@sabc.co.za 

www.sabc.co.za 

INDEX 

SF SCHWEIZER FERNSEHEN 

Anita HUGI 

Fernsehstrasse 1-4 

CH-8052 Zürich 

Tel : +41 44 305 58 43 

Fax : +41 44 305 56 60 

anita.hugi@sf.tv 

www.sf.tv 

www.sternstunden.sf.tv 

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ADAV 

Pascal BRUNIER 

41, rue des Envierges 

F-75020 Paris 

Phone 331 43 49 10 02 

Fax 331 43 49 25 70 

contact@adav-assoc.com 

www.adav-assoc.com 

ARTE FRANCE 

Alec HERRMANN 

8 rue Marceau 

FR-92785 Issy-les-Moulineaux cedex 9 

Phone 33 1 55 00 73 22 

Fax 33 1 55 00 79 88 

a-herrmann@artefrance.fr 

ARTE G.E.I.E. 

4, Quai du Chanoine Winterer 

FR-67080 Strasbourg cedex 

www.artepro.com 

Anne-Laure NÉGRIN 

Phone 33 3 88 14 21 08 

Fax 33 3 88 14 23 70 

anne-laure.negrin@arte-tv.com 

Nadine ZWICK 

Phone 33 3 88 14 22 15 

Fax 33 3 88 14 22 20 

nadine.zwick@arte-tv.com 

ARTILERIA 

Marko SKOP 

Drobného 23 

SK-841 01 Bratislava 

Phone 421 903 789 198 

skop@artileria.sk 

www.artileria.sk 

AUTLOOK FILMSALES 

Peter JÄGER 

Trappelgasse 4/17 

AT-1040 Vienna 

Phone 43 720 34 69 34 

Fax 43 720 55 35 72 

peter@autlookfilms.com 

www.autlookfilms.com 

Experts & Guests Chapter 

BULGARIAN NATIONAL 

TELEVISION 

Sevda SHISHMANOVA 

Ul. San Stefano, 29 

BG-1504 Sofia 

Phone 359 29 63 30 55 

Fax 359 29 63 40 45 

sevda@bnt.bg 

www.bnt.bg 

CANAL + 

Francine DUPRAZ 

5-13 boulevard de la République 

F-92100 Boulogne Billancourt 

Phone 33 1 71 35 25 58 

Fax 33 1 71 35 23 26 

francine.dupraz@canal-plus.com 

www.canalplus.com 

CASSETTE FOR TIMESCAPES 

Emmy OOST 

Oude Houtlei 134 

BE-9000 Gent 

Phone 32 478 211 811 

emmyoost@telenet.be 

www.timescapes.be 

CENTRE IMAGES 

24 rue Renan 

F-37110 Château-Renault 

Phone 33 2 47 56 08 08 

Fax 33 2 47 56 08 92 

infos@centreimages.fr 

Emmanuel PORCHER 

emmanuel.porcher@centreimages.fr 

Colette QUESSON 

colette.quesson@centreimages.fr 

CZECH TELEVISION 

Kamila ZLATUSKOVA 

Behounska 18 

CZ-65888 Brno 

Phone 420 739 524 544 

kamila.zlatuskova@ceskatelevize.cz 

www.ceskatelevize.cz 

INDEX 

EDN 

Ove RISHOJ JENSEN 

Vognmagergade 10 

DK – 1120 Copenhagen K 

Phone 45 33 13 11 22 

Fax 45 33 13 11 44 

ove@edn.dk 

www.edn.dk 

EUROPEAN COMMISSION 

DG INFORMATION, SOCIETE & 

MEDIA 

Preparatory Action Media 

International 

Emmanuel COCQ 

BU 33 03/83 


Phone 32 229 69 780 

emmanuel.cocq@ec.europa.eu 

ec.europa.eu/information_society 

EUROPEAN COMMISSION 

MEDIA PROGRAMME – TRAINING 

UNIT 8 

Education Audiovisual & Culture 

Executive Agency 

Arnaud PASQUALI 

BOUR 3/18 

B-1049 Bruxelles 

Phone 32 2 2980 422 

Fax 32 2 2985 542 

arnaud.pasquali@ec.europa.eu 

http://eacea.cec.eu.int 

FELTRINELLI 

Carlo CRESTO-DINA 

via Andegari 6 

IT-20121 Milano 

Phone 39 02 72 57 25 1 

Fax 39 02 72 57 25 00 

carlo.cresto-dina@feltrinelli.it 

www.lafeltrinelli.it 


Esther VAN MESSEL 

Fritz Heeb Weg 5 

CH-8050 Zurich 

Phone 41 44 312 2060 

Fax 41 44 312 2080 

esther.van.messel@firsthandfilms.com 

www.firsthandfilms.com 

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FRANCE 2 

Anne ROUCAN 

7, Esplanade Henri de France 

FR-75907 Paris Cedex 15 

Phone 33 1 56 22 37 28 

Fax 33 1 55 00 74 04 

a.roucan@france2.fr 


FRANCE 5 

Barbara HUREL 

2-4 rue Marceau 

FR-92785 Issy-les-Moulineaux cedex 9 

Phone 33 1 56 22 94 72 

Fax 33 1 56 22 95 35 

barbara.hurel@france5.fr 


Thierry GARREL 

thgarrel@yahoo.com 

Michel GYORY 

59, avenue Everard 

B-1190 Bruxelles 

Phone 322 345 39 73 

Fax 322 344 57 80 

michel.gyory@skynet.be 

IKON 

Margje DE KONING 

PO BOX 10009 

NL-1201 DA Hilversum 

Phone 31 35 67 27 272 

Fax 31 35 62 15 100 

margje.dekoning@ikon.nl 

www.ikon.nl 

ITVS 

Claire AGUILAR 

651 Brannan Street, Ste. 410 

San Francisco, CA-94107 

Phone 1 415 356 8383 /245 

claire_aguilar@itvs.org 

www.itvs.org 

JBA PRODUCTION 

Jacques BIDOU 

Marianne DUMOULIN 

52, rue Charlot 

F-75003 Paris 

Phone 33 (0)1 48 04 84 60 

Fax 33 (0)1 42 76 09 67 

jacquesbidou@jbaproduction.com 

www.jbaproduction.com 

Sergej KRESO 

Lariksstraat 53 

NL-6101 KE Echt 

sergej.kreso@gmail.com 

Sibylle Kurz 

Alter Weg 24a 

D-64711 Erbach-Günterfürst 

Phone 49 6062 91 25 08 

s.kurz@pitching.de 

www.pitching.de 

LES FILMS D'ICI 

Serge LALOU 

62, Boulevard Davout 


Phone 33 1 44 52 23 23 

Fax 331 44 52 23 24 

serge.lalou@lesfilmsdici.fr 

LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE 

SOIE 

Alexandre CORNU 

6A rue Crinas prolongée 

FR-13007 Marseille 

Phone 33 4 91 33 35 75 

Fax 33 4 91 33 35 24 

alexandrecornu@tamtamsoie.net 

www.tamtamsoie.net 

LICHTBLICK FILM 

Carl-Ludwig RETTINGER 

Apostelnstrasse11 

DE-50667 Köln 

Phone 49 221 925 75 20 

Fax 49 221 925 75 29 

info@LICHTBLICK-Film.de 

www.lichtblick-film.de 

Experts & Guests 

MA.JA.DE. FILMPRODUKTION 

Heino DECKERT 

Pohlstr.44 

DE-10785 Berlin 

Phone 49 30 84 30 61 66 

Fax 49 30 84 30 61 67 

berlin@majade.de 

www.majade.de 

MILLENNIUM FILM 

Kristiina PERVILÄ-ANDERSSON 

Koskikartanontie 12 

FI-75530 Nurmes 

Phone 358 13 5110 100 / 101 

Fax 358 13 5110 111 

kristiina.pervila@millenniumfilm.fi 

www.millenniumfilm.fi 

MISCHIEF FILMS 

Ralph WIESER 

Goethegasse 1 

AT-1010 Vienne 

Phone 43 1 585 23 24 23 

Fax 43 1 585 23 24 22 

ralph@mischief-films.com 

www.mischief-films.com 

NATIXIS-COFICINÉ 

Silvia LAJ 

6 rue de l'Amiral Hamelin 

F-75016 Paris 

Phone 33 1 40 72 22 00 

Fax 33 1 401 72 22 01 

silvia.laj@coficine.natixis.fr 

THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND 

Niek KOPPEN 

Jan Luijkenstraat 2 

NL-1071 CM Amsterdam 

Phone 31 20 570 76 76 

Fax 31 20 570 76 89 

n.koppen@filmfonds.nl 

www.filmfonds.nl

NOGA COMMUNICATIONS 

Liran ATZMOR 

147 Yehuda Halevi Street 

IL-65276 Tel Aviv 

Phone 972 3 684 9937 

Fax 972 3 684 9971 

liran@noga.co.il 

www.noga.co.il 

RAI 3 

Lorenzo HENDEL 

Viale Mazzini 14 - Room 130 

IT-00195 Roma 

Phone + 39 34 63 77 65 26 

l.hendel@rai.it 

www.rai.it 

RAISAT S.P.A. 

Luca MACCIOCCA 

Borgo Sant’Angelo 23 

IT-00193 Roma 

Phone 39 6 6818 2659 

l.macciocca@raisat.it 

ROTTERDAM MEDIA FONDS 

ROTTERDAM MEDIA 

COMMISSION 

Jacques VAN HEIJNIGEN 

Lloydstraat 9F 

NL-3024 EA Rotterdam 

Phone 31 10 436 0747 

Fax 31 10 436 0553 

info@rmf.rotterdam.nl 

www.rmf.rotterdam.nl 

RTBF - UNITÉ DOCUMENTAIRE 

Claire COLART 

Boulevard Reyers, 52 

Bureau 7M36 


Phone 32 2 737 27 36 

Fax 32 2 737 45 74 

clc@rtbf.be 

www.rtbf.be 

SLOVENIAN FILM FUND 

Nerina T. KOCJANCIC 

Miklosiceva 38 

SI-1000 Ljubljana 

Phone 386 1 2343 214 

nerina.kocjancic@film-sklad.si 

www.film-sklad.si 

Experts & Guests Chapter 

TSR 

Gaspard LAMUNIÈRE 

Quai Ernest-Ansermet 20 

CP 234 

CH-1211 Genève 8 

Phone 41 22 708 89 36 

Fax 41 22 708 89 21 

gaspard.lamuniere@tsr.ch 

www.tsr.ch 

VISIONS DU REEL 

Gabriela BUSSMANN 

18, rue Juste-Olivier 

CH-1260 Nyon 1 

Phone + 41 22 365 44 55 

Fax + 41 22 365 44 50 

docnyon@visionsdureel.ch 

www.visionsdureel.ch 

YLE 

www.yle.fi 

Erkki ASTALA 

YLE Television – Box 96 

FI-00024 Yleisradio 

Phone 358 9 1480 5392 

Fax 358 9 146 2495 

erkki.astala@yle.fi 

Jenny WESTERGARD 

PO Box 62 

FI-00024 Yleisradio 

Phone 358 9 1480 2706 

Fax 358 9 278 99 42 

jenny.westergard@yle.fi 

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