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Film and Women

One World 2005 will also tribute women filmmakers. One of the highlights of this year's program will be a retrospective of twelve films that have been selected by four prominent female filmmakers: Pirjo Honkasalo from the Finland, Barbara Kopple from USA, Kim Longinotto from the United Kingdom and Lourdes Portillo from Mexico. Each has been asked to select three films according to the following criteria: 1) one of the films should have been made pioneering female director from the ‘70s or ‘80s, 2) the second film should represent a talented young filmmaker of the next generation, and 3) the third film should be one of their own productions.

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Women Make Movies

Women Make Movies was established in 1972, it is a national non-profit media organization and the largest distributor of films made exclusively by and about women. WMM's collection of more than 500 films are used by thousands of educational, community and cultural organizations annually, exhibited at film festivals worldwide and broadcast on television and cable stations in the U.S. and abroad.
WMM's Films which will be screened during the Festival are: Shinjuku Boys; Man, When He Is a Man; Devil Never Sleeps.

For more information, visit www.wmm.com.

 


A Man, When He Is a Man / El Hombre, Cuando Es El Hombre
Valeria Sarmiento / Chile / 1982 / 66 min.

In Latin American culture the men traditionally dominate, yet in the eighties the feminist movement gained in strength.

    Screening:

     05.05.2005 / 18:30 / Ponrepo

 

Atman / Atman
Pirjo Honkasalo / Finland / 1996 / 76 min.

Handicapped Jamana and his brother Gisu and his family set off on a pilgrimage across India over thousands of kilometers to the holy Himalayan city of Haridvar.

    Screening:

     28.04.2005 / 21:00 / Ponrepo
     03.05.2005 / 19:30 / Městská knihovna ms

 

Daguerrotypes / Daguerrotypes
Agnes Varda / France / 1975 / 80 min.

A mosaic portrait of the citizens of the Paris street where the legendary French new wave director Agnes Varda lived for half of her life.

    Screening:

     29.04.2005 / 21:00 / Ponrepo

 

Harlan County, USA / Harlan County, USA
Barbara Kopple / USA / 1976 / 102 min.

This Oscar-winning film records the many month long miners' strike, which sought to force the employers to sign a collective bargaining agreement which would have ensured the workers more dignified working and living conditions.

    Screening:

     27.04.2005 / 18:30 / Ponrepo

 

Maya Deren: Experimental Films / Maya Deren: Experimental Films
Maya Deren / USA / 1959 / 75 min.

Director Maya Deren is one of the pioneers of experimental films in America. One World Festival will screen a collection of six of her short films from the 40s and 50s.

    Screening:

     28.04.2005 / 18:30 / Ponrepo
     02.05.2005 / 17:30 / Městská knihovna ms

 

Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy / Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy
Ellen Bruno / USA / 1994 / 28 min.

A half century since the Chinese invasion of Tibet, despite harsh repression, the Communist regime has not succeeded in wiping out the Buddhist faith among the Tibetan people.

    Screening:

     04.05.2005 / 21:00 / Ponrepo

 

Shinjuku Boys / Shinjuku Boys
Kim Longinotto / UK / 1995 / 50 min.

The boys from Shinjuku are in reality women, who dress and live as men and work in the Tokyo night club New Marylin, whose habitué are mostly heterosexual women.

    Screening:

     02.05.2005 / 21:00 / Ponrepo

 

Southern Comfort / Southern Comfort
Kate Davis / USA / 2001 / 90 min.

Robert was born a girl, the love of his life Lola was born a boy. Their unique love defies many odds, yet their happiness is ill-fated due to Robert's diagnosis with cancer.

    Screening:

     27.04.2005 / 21:00 / Ponrepo

 

State of Denial / State of Denial
Elaine Epstein / USA / 2002 / 86 min.

Despite the fact that in South Africa there are almost over five million people infected with HIV/AIDS, the government of President Thabo Mbeki refuses to seriously take the epidemic into account.

    Screening:

     30.04.2005 / 18:30 / Ponrepo

 

The Devil Never Sleeps / El Diablo Nunca Duerme
Lourdes Portillo / USA, Mexico / 1994 / 82 min.

A detective and mystical investigation by director Lourdes Portillo into the circumstances of the death of her uncle Oskar, in which she learns much more about her roots and life in her childhood village in northern Mexico.

    Screening:

     03.05.2005 / 21:00 / Ponrepo

 

The Great Way / Velikij pu»
Esfir Shub / Russia / 1927 / 71 min.

This famous film by one of the pioneers of the documentary genre Esfir Shub, The Great Way is part of a trilogy of edited documentaries compiled from historical chronicles.

    Screening:

     03.05.2005 / 18:30 / Ponrepo