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Thematic categories: Special Reports

   
 
Reconciling the Past
Accepting Otherness
Special Reports
Global South
Dying at Grace
Jury Member Films
Fiction

 
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
 
 

And the Trees Grow in Kabylie / Et les arbres poussent en Kabylie
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
 

Assassination of Russia / Assassination of Russia
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
 

What America Needs - From Sea to Shining Sea / What America Needs - From Sea to Shining Sea
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
 

Mother's Crossing / Passageres Clandestines
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
 

Laogai / Laogai
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
 

Wild East - Portrait of an Urban Nomad, The / Wild East - Portraet af en Storbynomade, The
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
 

Taste of Koumiz, The / Le Goût du Koumiz
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
 

Communist Charity / Communist Charity
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
 

Final Solution / Final Solution
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
 

Cuban Spring, The / Kubįnské jaro
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
 

Loud and Clear / Laut und deutlich
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
 

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin / Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
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
 

Kaddim Wind - Moroccan Chronicle / Ruah Kaddim - Chronika Marokait
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
 

Burma Report: The May 30th Incident / Burma Report: The May 30th Incident
/ 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
 

Terror in Moscow / Terror in Moscow
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
 

Aung San Suu Kyi: The Prisoner of Rangoon / Aung San Suu Kyi: The Prisoner of Rangoon
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
 

Beyond the Sea / Mas Alla Del Mar
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
 

Live Containers / ®ivyje kontejnery
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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