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OUT OF CORDOBA
PRODUCTIONS
LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN EURODOC-SCREENING 2007
DIRECTOR : JACOB BENDER
PRODUCER : JOSÉ ANTONIO HERGUETA
COMPANY : MLK PRODUCCIONES (SPAIN)
In the first decade of our new millennium, “religion”, “intolerance”
and “terrorism” seem to have become related terms. Out of Cordoba
asks whether this has always been the case, not only in the Middle
East, but world-wide? Or, on the contrary, can religion be a positive
influence for peace and progress around the globe?
Out of Cordoba will take us from New York after the 9/11 attacks, to
Spain, Morocco, Paris, Berlin, Qatar, Cairo, and Jerusalem, along the
way looking for evidence of dialogue and the mythic convivencia
(coexistence) where Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in mutual
tolerance and peace. In this search, we follow the footsteps of
Maimonides and Averroes, two medieval geniuses who, both born in
the city of Cordoba in Muslim Spain, and each one from within his
own faith, courageously attempted to harmonize faith and science,
reason and revelation. While their controversial ideas caused their
own communities to burn the books of Averroes and Maimonides,
their writings form a crucial link between classic Greece philosophy
and Western thinking, and thus helped chart the path from the
Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Coproducer :
Jacob Bender (USA)
Partner :
Canal Sur TV (Spain)
O3 (Middle East Channels)
Delivery : 2009
FIERCE PEOPLE
LENGTH : 90 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2003-2004
DIRECTOR : JOSE PADHILA
PRODUCERS : MIKE CHAMBERLAIN & CAROL NAHRA
COMPANY : STAMPEDE LIMITED / ZAZEN (UNITED KINGDOM)
IN ASSOCIATION WITH AVENUE B (FRANCE)
This is the story of the war between anthropologists who are
studying the origins of ‘war’. The American, French and British
anthropologists fight in and amongst their subject of study: the
Yanomami tribes in the Amazon rain forest, who have become the
most exhaustively studied and filmed tribe on the planet.
LUZ OBSCURA
Partners :
BBC
ARTE
YLE
SBS
Delivery :
2010
LENGTH : 70 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2002-2003
DIRECTOR : SUSANA DE SOUSA DIAS
PRODUCER : ANSGAR SCHAEFER
COMPANY : KINTOP (PORTUGAL)
Throughout forty-eight years Portugal lived under a dictatorial
regime. During that time there were women and men who put up
resistance, swapping their normal lives for an ideal. Many were
arrested, tortured, or lived life underground. Many had children,
the product of better times and the opportunity to develop and
enjoy a relationship. Soon, however, they would have to give up
those children, as a true family did not correspond to the realities
experienced. Contacts were scarce and made under a dense
security blanket: informers and spies were a real danger. Many
children were only reunited with their parents after the fall of the
dictatorship. Others lost their faces in the depths of their
memories. While some would never forgive their parents for
having abandoned them for the sake of an ideology, others would
follow their path embracing similar ideals. Who are these boys
and girls, today? What place do they have in the world? How do
they deal with their own identity?
Coproducer :
François d’Artemarre, Les Films de l’Après-Midi (France)
Delivery : 2010