Couv Cat 2009 - Eurodoc

2002 Chapter
AFGHANISTAN, AN IMPOSSIBLE STATE
LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2000-2001
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)
Eurodoc-Screening 2003
SUR LES TOITS DE PARIS
LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2000-2001
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
Eurodoc-Screening 2003
VICTOR HUGO EXIL
LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2001-2002
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
LENGTH : 80 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 1999-2000
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
FILMS
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