Asian Panorama
Crime and Punishment / Zui yu Fa
Zhao Liang / China, France / 2007 / 123 min.
There is more to today's China than the hypermodern urban complexes and dazzling sports centres which we find in the media. The film Crime and Punishment offers an unexpectedly authentic everyday portrait ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 20:00 / Světozor malý sál
12.03.2008 / 19:30 / Lucerna
Delhi – Mumbai – Delhi / Delhi – Mumbai – Delhi
Saba Dewan / India / 2006 / 63 min.
Indian society on the outskirts of big cities today is marked by material deprivations, a gradual transformation of traditional family forms and an omnipresent media picture of reality full of dancing ...
Screening:
12.03.2008 / 17:30 / Evald
Kid Power / Makkala Panchayat
Ramchandra PN / India / 2007 / 30 min.
This picture by Indian director Ramchandra PN shows that India is probably the largest democracy in the world despite all its deficiencies. At least judging by a unique project, which was initiated by ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 13:00 / Evald
08.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
09.03.2008 / 15:00 / Evald
10.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál
Lakshmi and Me / Lakshmi and Me
Nishtha Jain / India, Denmark, Finland, USA / 2007 / 59 min.
This personal film turns the camera on the director's maid Lakshmi. She works nearly 10 hours a day, seven days a week for a number of Mumbai families, earning in a month what her employers would spend ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 21:30 / Evald
13.03.2008 / 21:30 / Atlas velký sál
One Day from a Hangman´s Life / One Day from a Hangman´s Life
Joshy Joseph / India / 2005 / 83 min.
After a long gap, the Indian courts brought back the death sentence with an execution which took place on June 25, 2004. Dhananjoy Chatterjee had been sentenced to death by hanging in 1990 for the rape ...
Screening:
09.03.2008 / 19:30 / Ponrepo
13.03.2008 / 21:30 / Ponrepo
The Lightning Testimonies / The Lightning Testimonies
Amar Kanwar / India / 2007 / 116 min.
The Lightning Testimonies documents the conflict that erupted on the Indian subcontinent when India and Pakistan were divided following the withdrawal of colonial Britain in 1947. That conflict was linked ...
Screening:
12.03.2008 / 19:30 / Ponrepo
Up the Yangtze / Up the Yangtze
Yung Chang / Canada / 2007 / 93 min.
The Three Gorges Dam, a megalomaniac project of the current Chinese leadership, mixes together the fates of many. Alongside the two million who have been repatriated and the employees of the giant river ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 20:30 / Francouzský institut
11.03.2008 / 17:30 / Lucerna
Useless / Wu Yong
Jia Zhang–ke / Hong Kong, China / 2007 / 81 min.
The respected director Jia Zhang–ke maps contemporary China in both feature films and documentaries and won the Golden Lion at Venice in 2006. In the documentary Useless he focuses on China as the ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 18:00 / Francouzský institut
12.03.2008 / 17:30 / Ponrepo
Zhao & Yang. The Unbreakables / Zhao & Yang. Die Unbeirrbaren
Monika von Behr / Germany / 2006 / 92 min.
A dual portrait of the independent Chinese artists Zhao Wenliang and Yang Yushuo, this picture focuses on both their theories about art and their strong personal friendship. For over 50 years the two ...
Screening:
10.03.2008 / 21:30 / Ponrepo
13.03.2008 / 17:30 / Ponrepo