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ARISTIDE AND THE ENDLESS REVOLUTION
(In production - Completion scheduled for February 2005 / 1 x 52 minutes - 1 x 83 minutes)
Written and directed by Nicolas Rossier, produced by Baraka Productions (USA).
Through historical perspective and a critical look at the last three months of Aristide’s Presidency this documentary captures the essence of Haiti and its turbulent history...
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BRIDGE OF MITROVICA (THE)
(1 x 52 minutes / Selected for IDFA 2003 "First Appearance")
Produced, written and directed by Christian Labhart (Switzerland).
Mitrovica, in the north of Kosovo, is an ethnically divided town since the NATO intervention in 1999. A bridge formerly connected but now divides the Albanian from the Serbian part...
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BUILDING THE GHERKIN
Award-winner at FIFA Féstival International du Film sur l’Art, Montréal 2006.
Production: ican films / Condor Communications (Switzerland), a feature documentary by Mirjam von Arx.
Just a month and a day after the disastrous attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the first steel beam of a new tower is erected in London...
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CASE OF AL-ANFAL (THE)
(1 x 52 minutes)
Written, directed and produced by Mano Khalil (Switzerland).
"Al-Anfal" is the title of the eighth sura of the Koran. It revealed to the prophet Muhammad how the bounty, which the Muslims took in the war against the "unbelieving", should be divided...
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DALI DIMENSION (THE)
(1 x 53 minutes / English, Spanish and French versions available)
Written and directed by Joan Úbeda, Eli Pons and Susi Marquès, produced by Media 3.14 (Spain).
Salvador Dalí had an obsession for science that lasted all his life and that can be traced to his paintings. He was a compulsive reader of scientific literature, from psychoanalysis to quantum mechanics...
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FLYING OVER EVEREST
(1 x 60 minutes / 2 x 45 minutes)
Written and directed by Fabio Toncelli. Produced by SD Cinematografica (Italy).
For the very first time, a man flies over Mount Everest on a hang-glider in this award-winning documentary. Adventure and science come together in a story...
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FORGER'S TALES (THE)
(1 x 52 minutes)
Produced, written and directed by Johannes Flütsch.
How close are we to the next money-forging scandal of the new Euro currency? Hansjörg Mühlematter, perhaps Europe's most talented money-forger, reveals his dangerous and adventurous career...
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HABANA LIBRE
(1 x 52 minutes)
Written and directed by Stale Sandberg, produced by Big Noise (Norway, USA), Speranza Film (Cuba).
HABANA LIBRE is the unexpected story of youth culture in contemporary Cuba. The critical social transformation which grips Cuba will be shaped by the attitudes, hopes and fears...
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HARAM - Yemen, the hidden half speaks
(1 x 60 minutes)
Written and directed by Fibi Kraus and Gudrun Torrubia, produced by Gudrun Torrubia (Yemen).
"Even if we spend our lives next to each other, we hardly can make men understand our situation and our needs." This film, requested by the Yemeni Women National Committee...
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LAST WALL (THE)
(1 x 52 minutes)
Written and directed by Silvana Ceschi, produced by Dschoint Ventschr (Switzerland).
In December 2003 the Turkish Cypriot elections will be decisive if a united Cyprus will join the EU in May 2004. Turkish and Greek Cypriots have been living separated from each other by a wall...
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MADE IN CHINA
(1 x 52 minutes)
Directed by Roman Weber and Yves Scagliola, produced by Slomo Filmproductions.
Since the millenium hit China's post-Maoist generation, young culturally active evolutionaries create a new underground culture. Up rises a fresh new Shanghai and Beijing with musicians, djs...
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OUTSOURCING - The death of distance
(1 x 45 minutes)
Written and directed by Kent Brainerd and Mark Chaplin, produced by Jamestown Films (London).
For years American manufacturing has felt the pressure of foreign competition, but today it’s not just blue collar jobs that are migrating overseas...
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SAHARA MARATHON
(1 x 52 minutes)
A film by Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, pProduced by Irusoin (Spain).
What change can sport bring? Ever since the Spanish colony ended in Morocco 27 years ago, the Saharawi people were forced to evacuate to the refugee camps in the Algerian desert...
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SPEAKING HAND (THE)
(2 x 52 minutes)
Written and directed by Sumantra Ghosal, produced by Shift Focus (India).
Zakir Hussain is the greatest living exponent of the classical Indian drum, the tabla. Starting as a child prodigy playing traditional music, Zakir expanded the scope of his instrument...
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TIME OF THE TITANS (THE)
(1 x 52 minutes / 1 x 80 minutes)
Written and directed by Edgar Hagen, produced by maximage (Switzerland).
This is the story of the "Grande Dixence", the world's highest dam, as high as the Eiffeltower, built around the Matterhorn in Switzerland. It took many sacrifices for thousands...
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WAR AND PEACE
(2 x 60 minutes) Produced, written and directed by Anand Patwardhan.
Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the USA following nuclear tests in the Indian sub-continent, WAR & PEACE is an epic documentary journey of peace activism...
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