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The Special Reports Category was created in order to give the viewer more insight into the context of several issues that are covered by the mass media. The goal of these films, all very different from each other, is to push the viewer deeper into the issues the filmmakers are exploring. Comprised of 18 films, the section offers a diverse cannon of themes including illegally taken amateur footage from a Chinese prison, professionally shot investigative documentaries, an artistic black and while portrait of nomads in Kyrgyzstan and a raw look at life in Algerian suburbs.
Thematic sections and films:
Harry Wu - The Witness
Communist Charity
Laogai
Putin’s Roadmap for Russia and Chechnya
Assasination of Russia
Terror in Moscow
Anger and Fury of the Urban Underclass
And the Trees Grow in Kabylie
Kaddim Wind - Moroccan Chronicle
Burma – The Land of Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi: The Prisoner of Rangun
Burma Report: The May 30th Incident
Focused on India
Final Solution
Socialismo o Muerte
The Cuban Spring
Beyond the Sea
The Other America
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
What America Needs - from Sea to Shining Sea
The Wild East
The Taste of Koumiz
The Wild East - Portrait of an Urban Nomad
Live Containers
Migrant Tales
Mother's Crossing
Behind Closed Doors
Loud and Clear
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Djamila Sahraoui / France / 2003 / 85 min.
A picture of the daily frustrations of unemployed Berbers and their growing rage, fury, and dreams of a better life overseas.
screening:
17.4. 17:00 City Library - small screening room 22.4. 22:00 Institut francaise
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Charles Gazelle / France / 2002 / 52 min.
Investigative documentary exposing the surprising connection between bomb attacks in two Russian cities in September 1999 and the activities of the Russian secret service.
screening:
19.4. 22:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 22.4. 17:30 City Library
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Mark Wojahn / USA / 2003 / 93 min.
On a train journey across America, Mark Wojahn asks 500 people one question: What does America need?
screening:
17.4. 11:00 Archa Theatre 20.4. 21:00 City Library - small screening room
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Lode Desmet / Belgium / 2003 / 60 min.
A non-traditional look at the illegal crossing of the Turkish-Greek border and the story of an Iranian woman, Sima, her two daughters, and a smuggler, Djouma.
screening:
15.4. 22:15 City Library - small screening room 18.4. 17:00 City Library - small screening room 21.4. 16:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room
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Jo Angerer, Rico Carisch / Germany, China, USA / 1993 / 50 min.
Investigative report about the existence of the Chinese work camps laogai, in which at present over five million people are used as slave labor.
screening:
16.4. 19:00 City Library - small screening room 18.4. 22:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 19.4. 19:00 Bijįsek Kotva
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Michael Haslund-Christensen / Denmark / 2002 / 54 min.
The transition of Mongolian society from communism to capitalism as seen through the lives of two young men who make a living in frozen Ulan Bator as best they can.
screening:
18.4. 17:00 Bijįsek Kotva 21.4. 21:30 Evald
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Xavier Christiaens / Belgium / 2003 / 56 min.
Artistic film with carefully composed and slowly passing black-and-white footage expressing the inner nostalgia for the unstoppable disappearance of the traditional culture of Kyrgyz nomads.
screening:
16.4. 20:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 17.4. 19:00 Evald 22.4. 22:00 Per¹tżn
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Harry Wu / USA, China / 1998 / 29 min.
Chinese activist Harry Wu in an investigative documentary shows the shocking connection between the execution of prisoners and organ transplants.
screening:
16.4. 19:00 City Library - small screening room 19.4. 19:00 Bijįsek Kotva
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Rakesh Sharma / India / 2003 / 80 min.
Thousands of citizens of Gujarat in India were killed and thousands were forced to leave their homes in a spiral of communal violence that was stirred by political propaganda.
screening:
17.4. 13:00 Bijįsek Kotva 17.4. 15:00 Bijįsek Kotva 18.4. 13:00 Bijįsek Kotva
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Carlos Gonzįlez, Pablo Rodrķguez / Czech Republic / 2003 / 28 min.
A documentary film that reveals life in Cuba behind the veil of the political propaganda of Fidel Castro’s regime.
screening:
17.4. 19:00 City Library - small screening room
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Maria Arlamovsky / Austria / 2001 / 67 min.
Five women and one man openly discuss the trauma caused by sexual abuse and how difficult it is to come to terms with it.
screening:
19.4. 19:00 City Library - small screening room 21.4. 17:00 Bijįsek Kotva
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Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer / USA / 2002 / 84 min.
A portrait of African-American activist Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King’s teacher, who was never afraid to fight for his ideas, even at the risk of imprisonment.
screening:
16.4. 17:00 City Library - small screening room 22.4. 15:00 Bijįsek Kotva
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David Benchetrit / Israel / 2002 / 255 min.
The history of Moroccan Jews and their process of assimilation into Israeli society is a story of oppression, drastic life changes, and tremendous power and endurance.
screening:
18.4. 16:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 18.4. 18:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 18.4. 20:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room
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/ Thailand / 2004 / 14 min.
The report examines the events of May 2003, when Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and supporters from her opposition party, the National League for Democracy, were brutally attacked during her political tour in upper Burma.
screening:
15.4. 19:00 Bijįsek Kotva 21.4. 17:00 City Library - small screening room
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Dan Reed / UK, USA, Russia / 2003 / 60 min.
What led the group of Chechen terrorists to exclaim without reservation: “We desire death more than you desire life”?
screening:
16.4. 19:00 Bijįsek Kotva 19.4. 22:15 City Library 20.4. 16:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room
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Claude Schauli / Canada, Switzerland / 2003 / 42 min.
A documentary film about well-known Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, whose only weapon against the ruling military junta has been non-violent civil disobedience.
screening:
15.4. 19:00 Bijįsek Kotva 21.4. 17:00 City Library - small screening room
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Lisandro Perez-Rey / USA, Cuba / 2003 / 80 min.
Eyewitness accounts and unique archival materials bring to life the events of 1980, when 130,000 Cubans left the “island of freedom.”
screening:
15.4. 16:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 17.4. 19:00 City Library - small screening room 22.4. 17:00 Evald
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Orzu Sharipov / Tajikistan / 2002 / 26 min.
Due to financial necessity, many women in Tajikistan have become “live containers” for the smuggling of heroin.
screening:
16.4. 20:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 17.4. 19:00 Evald 22.4. 21:00 City Library - small screening room
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