Couv Cat 2009 - Eurodoc

2006 Chapter
OPERACION URSULA
LENGTH : 100 MIN EURODOC-SCREENING 2005
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
LENGTH : 100 MIN EURODOC-SCREENING 2003
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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