competition
Main Competition
The Main Competition includes 16 recently made full-length documentaries. As usual, the main competition section will offer gripping stories, powerful testimonies, charismatic personalities, outstanding filmmaking and intriguing reflections on the challenges of our time. Films in this category compete for the Minister of Culture Award for the best film and the Best Director Award. Members of the Grand Jury are acclaimed personalities in the world of documentary film. In 2005 they will be Don Edkins (Republic of South Africa), Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Austria), Anna Glogowski (France), Alena Müllerová (Czech Republic), and Anand Patwardhan (India).
Compadre / Compadre
Mikael Wiström / Sweden / 2004 / 90 min.
A visually imaginative and very personal film from an experienced Swedish documentary film director offering a distinctive view of the mentality and difficult life of a native inhabitant of Peru, and the role that social inequality can play in a long-term friendship.
Screening:
27.04.2005 / 19:15 / Lucerna
02.05.2005 / 21:00 / Minor
30.04.2005 / 21:00 / Světozor ms
Devil' s Miner / Devil' s Miner
Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson / Bolivia, Germany, USA / 2004 / 84 min.
Fourteen-year-old Basilio and his younger brother are forced to provide for their family after the death of their father by extremely dangerous and harsh work in the Bolivian silver mines, located deep inside a mountain which has been given the nickname the "devourer of humans" by the locals.
Screening:
04.05.2005 / 21:30 / Světozor vs
28.04.2005 / 19:00 / Minor
02.05.2005 / 13:00 / Světozor ms
Liberia: An Uncivil War / Liberia: An Uncivil War
Jonathan Stack, James Brabazon / USA / 2004 / 102 min.
In this unusually authentic documentary film about the course of the civil war in Liberia, the creators of the film are able to place themselves in the immediate vicinity of both sides of the military conflict.
Screening:
29.04.2005 / 21:00 / Městská knihovna vs
05.05.2005 / 19:15 / Lucerna
01.05.2005 / 19:00 / Světozor ms
My Beloved Child / Mitt elskede barn
Brit Jorunn Hundsnes / Norway / 2004 / 103 min.
A very sensitively filmed Norwegian documentary about the fate of Sigrid Beate Edvardsen who as an adult murders her father- the man who sexually abused her as a child.
Screening:
28.04.2005 / 21:00 / Městská knihovna vs
03.05.2005 / 21:15 / Lucerna
30.04.2005 / 19:00 / Světozor ms
05.05.2005 / 21:30 / Světozor vs
04.05.2005 / 19:30 / Městská knihovna vs
04.05.2005 / 19:30 / Městská knihovna ms
Odessa Odessa... / Odessa Odessa...
Michale Boganim / Israel, France / 2004 / 96 min.
The poetically tuned film, which was awarded this year at the Berlin Film Festival, is a visually refined and slightly melancholic portrait of the Jewish soul imprisoned in the trap of memories, disappointments, and hopes placed in finding its true home.
Screening:
05.05.2005 / 19:30 / Světozor vs
04.05.2005 / 21:15 / Lucerna
Raw Youth / Ungdommens raskap
Margreth Olin / Norway, Denmark / 2004 / 80 min.
Produced by Lars von Trier according to the rules of the Dogma manifest, a highly-acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker creates an authentic portrait of a group of secondary school students, who don't have respect for their teachers.
Screening:
30.04.2005 / 19:15 / Lucerna
01.05.2005 / 17:15 / Lucerna
Sentenced to Marriage / Mekudeshet
Anat Zuria / Israel / 2004 / 65 min.
A carefully and very sensitively documented story of three young Israeli women, who after a number of years of requesting a divorce are forced to fight with the law, according to which a woman can only divorce if her husband agrees.
Screening:
02.05.2005 / 19:00 / Městská knihovna vs
03.05.2005 / 17:15 / Lucerna
29.04.2005 / 21:00 / Světozor ms
The Children of Leningradsky / The Children of Leningradsky
Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celínski / Poland / 2004 / 35 min.
A raw look at the everyday reality of Moscow street children, whose number at the present time has reached thirty thousand.
Screening:
03.05.2005 / 17:00 / Minor
30.04.2005 / 17:30 / Světozor vs
02.05.2005 / 19:00 / Lucerna
The Immortal / El Immortal
Mercedes Moncada-Rodriguez / Spain, Nicaragua, Mexico / 2005 / 80 min.
This is a visually refined and spiritually tuned film with imaginative composition and effective music which reveals through the story of one family how deeply war can affect the lives of ordinary people.
Screening:
30.04.2005 / 17:15 / Lucerna
03.05.2005 / 19:15 / Lucerna
The Liberace of Baghdad / The Liberace of Baghdad
Sean McAllister / UK / 2004 / 74 min.
The main figure of the film is the formerly most well-known Iraqi pianist Samir Peter, who shows us the difficult situation of post-war Baghdad.
Screening:
29.04.2005 / 19:15 / Lucerna
02.05.2005 / 19:00 / Minor
02.05.2005 / 19:00 / Světozor ms
04.05.2005 / 20:00 / Mat
The Peacekeepers / The Peacekeepers
Paul Cowan / Canada / 2004 / 90 min.
A complex look at the activities of the UN and its peacekeepers in the Congo, where despite the threat of ethnic massacres, the world paid only minimal attention to it because of the war in Iraq.
Screening:
01.05.2005 / 21:30 / Světozor vs
03.05.2005 / 19:00 / Městská knihovna vs
05.05.2005 / 19:30 / Městská knihovna ms
29.04.2005 / 19:00 / Světozor ms
The Source / Zdroj
Martin Mareček / Czech Republic / 2005 / 90 min.
Director Martin Mareček searches for the secrets hidden under the century-old oil fields in the surroundings of the capital city of Azerbaijan, Baku, and examines the true cost of “black gold”.
Screening:
29.04.2005 / 19:30 / Světozor vs
30.04.2005 / 17:30 / Městská knihovna ms
The Three Rooms of Melancholia / Melancholian Kolme Huonetta
Pirjo Honkasalo / Finland / 2004 / 106 min.
The children's military academy in Russian Kronstadt, the streets of bombed-out Grozny and the refugee camp in Ingushetia; these are the three rooms where young girls and boys live who have lost their childhood because of the war in Chechnya.
Screening:
30.04.2005 / 21:00 / Městská knihovna vs
02.05.2005 / 21:15 / Lucerna
04.05.2005 / 17:30 / Světozor vs
The Youngest / Bunso
Ditsi Carolino / Philippines / 2004 / 64 min.
A disturbing documentary film about eleven year-old Bunso and his two friends, who are serving time for minor theft in an overcrowded Philippine prison together with adult criminals.
Screening:
05.05.2005 / 19:00 / Městská knihovna vs
02.05.2005 / 19:00 / Lucerna
30.04.2005 / 17:30 / Světozor vs
02.05.2005 / 22:30 / Světozor ms
The 10th District Court, Moments of Trials / 10e chambre, instants d´audiences
Raymond Depardon / France / 2004 / 102 min.
A film in the spirit of cinema verite recording the court proceedings of twelve various crimes committed in one Paris district.
Screening:
03.05.2005 / 21:00 / Městská knihovna vs
Wall / Mur
Simone Bitton / France, Israel / 2003 / 100 min.
A visually engaging film about the construction of a 500 km long wall, which Israel has built to protect against Palestinian terrorists, and the people who are forced to live with it.
Screening:
29.04.2005 / 21:15 / Lucerna
05.05.2005 / 21:00 / Městská knihovna vs
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