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2007 Chapter
IMPRISONED IN PERU
LENGTH : 50 MIN EURODOC-SCRIPT 2002
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
LENGTH : 53 MIN EURODOCmed
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
LENGTH : 72 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005
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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