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FILMS
SHOAH AND PIN-UPS
LENGTH : 88 MIN EURODOC-SCRIPT 2003-2004
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
LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005
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
LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005
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