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FILMS
WHOSE IS THIS SONG ?
LENGTH : 55 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2000-2001
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
LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2001-2002
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
Eurodoc-Screening 2003
WILLY RONIS PARIS-PROVENCE
LENGTH : 55 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 1999-2000
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
Rai Sat : Luca Macciocca
Eurodoc-Screening 2003
Prix au 28 ème festival film d’art, UNESCO Paris