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‘A IUCATA
Switzerland 2013 40'
2013 Monday, December 2nd, Odeon, 6:00 pm - Tuesday, December 3rd, Odeon, 4:15 pm
Directed by: Michele Pennetta
Concetto, aka “the chemist”, wants to win the next clandestine race at all costs. He owns a formidable horse, a champion whom he named after a boss from a TV series: Vito Portanova. The chemistry of the injections mixes with the sweat of exertion and the harsh words pronounced by Concetto’s men. His son, Vittorio, takes care of Vito, and establishes with him a relation made of meek gestures and gazes in a world where there’s no room for doubts and feelings. -
Alba de un recuerdo
Dawn of a MemoryColombia 2013 15'
2013 Wednesday, December 4th, Odeon, 6:00 pm - Thursday, December 5th, Odeon, 11:30 am
Directed by: Camila Rodríguez Triana
Alba is a 75 years old woman who lives alone in the present time but lives in the company of his daughter Alai in the time of memory, which never leaves her. Everyday objects, children’s drawings, old toys accompany Alba in a continuous journey between the present and the past that is still alive.
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BUENOS DIAS RESISTENCIA
Good Morning ResistenceSpain 2013 20'
2013 Thursday, December 5th, Odeon, 7:30 pm - Friday, December 6th, Odeon, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Adrián Orr
David has the difficult task of getting his ‘team’ ready at the crack of dawn – three children who must go to school. The frenzy of peremptory and nervous instructions and the importunate or silent submissiveness of the still sleepy children conceal how precious it is to care for children every day. Every day a battle, an adventure, an unexpected occurrence. Every day the need to resist.
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CHA FANG
The QuestioningChina 2013 22'
2013 Friday, December 6th, Odeon, 9:00 pm - Saturday, December 7th, Odeon, 12:00 pm
Directed by: Zhu Rikun
Shot in exceptional and unique circumstances, the film shows a tense exchange between Power –the police – and Individual – the director himself, who is in a hotel room in the middle of the night. Like in a game of chess layed with inscrutable rules, the players make moves and counter-moves on the crazy chessboard of the strict control procedures which the Chinese police adopts with non-residents. An enclosed and claustrophobic film: an example of cinéma vérité in a Kafkian absurd.
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Costa da morte
Coast of DeathSpain 2013 81'
2013 Wednesday, December 4th, Odeon, 6:30 pm - Thursday, December 5th, Odeon, 10:00 am
Directed by: Lois Patiño
Costa da morte is a Galician region in Spain and, during the Roman Empire,
was considered as the place where the world ends. It is a location in which the earth, the sky and the rocks dominate the landscape. Its inhabitants seem immersed in a sort of eternity in which life is directly bound to the place. How to film this environment and its inhabitants? How to film this life? the film works on those question by making, take after take, an animated portrait of time and space, of bodies and territory being able to create animated portraits, full of life and time.
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Géographie Humaine
Human GeographyFrance 2013 101'
2013 Sunday, December 1st, Odeon, 6:00 pm - Monday, December 2nd, Odeon, 10:00 am
Directed by: Claire Simon
Gare du Nord, a huge train station in Paris, full of departing and arriving travellers. The filmmaker and her assistant start talking to these people. One after another, people come out of anonymity and reveal their own identity, through gestures, tales and sensations. A film essay on how to tell stories, and on the thousands of stories which every day and every moment go through the spaces of a big train station.
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Hamdan
Argentina/New Caledonia/Palestine 2013 75'
2013 Thursday, December 5th, Odeon, 4:30 pm - Friday, December 6th, Odeon, 10:00 am
Directed by: Martín Solá
Hamdan is a Palestinian militant who was jailed for 15 years. We discover his story through his own words. What was his experience? How can cinema represent it? These are the questions that underlie a film which not only intends to reconstruct a story, but also to investigate feelings, the experience of a radical past and the memories of past experiences that remain in places, voices and faces.
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L’Escale
Stop-overFrance/Switzerland 2013 100'
2013 Friday, December 6th, Odeon, 9:00 pm - Saturday, December 7th, Odeon, 10:00 am
Directed by: Kaveh Bakhtiari
In a narrow apartment in Athens, Amir and his comrades are waiting for the fake documents that will open the doors to Europe for them. They share games and despair, confrontations and affections: these are not only details of daily life but necessary, unique companions in the exhausting wait for an unknown, possibly cruel future. Greece, land of uncertainty amplifying the sense of precariousness, cannot stop the dreams and expectations of those who are forced to “stop over” there.
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La parka
The ReaperMexico 2013 29'
2013 Wednesday, December 4th, Odeon, 4:00 pm - Thursday -December 5th, Odeon, 11:30 am
Directed by: Gabriel Serra
Details of metallic machinery, cages, mechanisms. A cold and swift repetitive movement. Animal bodies, one after another, alternating, they can also be recognized thanks to some details: a back, a tail; the representation of a slaughter house and of a consciousness, the one of a man who has been working there for years. Words and images become a flow of thoughts on life and death, on aspirations, disappointments, traumas and dreams.
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Lettres à la mer
Sea of LettersFrance/Spain 2013 5'
2013 Sunday, December 1st, Odeon, 9:00 pm - Wednesday, December 4th, Odeon, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Renaud Perrin, Julien Telle
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, two hospital ships stand off Marseille shores hosting hundreds of wounded people coming from the frontline searching for refuge in France. Three hundred letters were sent to those people, but they would never be delivered. They will be later found, decades after, in an archive in Bouches-du-Rhône (France). Drawing inspiration from these precious documents, the two filmmakers shot an original animated documentary using stop-motion and one of the simplest materials: water.
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LEWA POŁOWA TWARZY
Left Side of the FacePoland 2013 12'
2013 Monday, December 2nd, 5:30 pm - Wednesday, December 4th, Odeon, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Marcin Bortkiewicz
The photographic project that Leszek Krutulski is conducting since 2010 contemplates that he will take a shot of a number of subjects in his itinerant photo studio. During the first session he takes a picture, in the foreground, of only the left side of the subject’s face. In ten years, the photographer will proceed to photograph the right side. While we wait for the camera shooting, we listen to the conversation with the models posing, we listen to their reflections and questions.
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LOLI KALI SHUBA
Ukraine 2013 52'
2013 Sunday, December 1st, Odeon, 3:00 pm - Monday, December 2nd, Odeon, 12:00 pm
Directed by: Aleksandr Balagura
In Romani language, "loli kali shuba" means a red and black coat, but it’s also the nickname given by the Romani children of Trans-Carpathia to ladybirds, and the refrain of some kind of nursery rhyme. A song, recorded by chance twenty years ago, becomes a mystery to be solved by going back to the same location twenty years later. This film is an act of love towards marginal lives and the poetry of simple things such as the capacity of being surprised by a ladybird flying.
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Metamorphosen
Sebastian MezGermany 2013 84'
2013 Tuesday, December 3rd, Odeon, 6:00 pm - Wednesday, December 4th, Odeon, 12:00 pm
Directed by: Sebastian Mez
In 1957, in a remote area of the southern Urals region (at that time part of the USSR), a nuclear explosion contaminated a vast area. Today, after decades and other accidents and irresponsible management of facilities and waste, the contaminated area measures 20,000 km2. The film builds up a portrait of the lives of people who, abandoned to themselves, they still live today along the Tetcha river, in the middle of a placid radioactive hell. A cinematic experiment, of great rigor, that uses highly original visual solutions to make the invisible visible.
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NIGHT LABOR
USA 2013 62'
2013 Friday, December 6th, Odeon, 4:00 pm - Saturday, December 7th, Odeon, 12:00 pm
Directed by: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
Sherman lives in a seemingly desert place. His face carries the signs of life. This man performs with an almost ritual calm and precision all the action that make up his hermit life in front of the camera, an indiscreet eye: shellfish harvesting by day and the work in a mysterious fish processing plant by night, in which Sherman moves in absolute solitude. A story-less tale, a visual phantasmagoria without any show, a diary of a marvel-oriented observation.
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NOTÍCIAS DA RAINHA
News of the QueenBrazil 2013 19'
2013 Thursday, December 5th, Odeon, 9:00 pm - Friday, December 6th, Odeon, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Ana Johann
In an original combination of autobiographical documentary and theatrical performance, the news of the queen is spread on the boards of a stage that is reduced to the essential and populated by objects that are just as obsolete as evocative. Deliciously old fashion special effects re-create the “ambient sounds” which have always represented the magic of radio and which become the soundtrack of this modern fable: the story of Lucia Cecília Kubis, Queen of Brazilian radio.
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ÖDLAND - Damit keiner das so mitbemerkt
Wasteland - So That No One Becomes Aware of ItGermany 2013 79'
2013 Wednesday, December 4th, Odeon, 9:00 pm - Thursday, December 5th, Odeon, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Anne Kodura
In the outskirts of a German town, between passing sheep and an old Soviet military base turned into a housing project, where the buses only come three times a day, Aya, Momo and Mustafa, three children of families who have taken refuge in Germany, spend their summer. Between freedom and restrictions, between desires for a better future and the uncertainty of the present, between play with friends and the threat of being repatriated at any time, these children could not do other than live in a suspended time and in an uncertain world.
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Onder Vrouwen
Among WomenNethrlands 2013 51'
2013 Sunday, December 1st, Odeon, 4:30 pm - Monday, December 2nd, Odeon, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Kim Brand
Everything you always wanted to know about sex and were afraid to ask…a Zambian woman. The filmmaker comes from the Netherlands to documents an ancient initiation ceremony to marriage life dedicated to women only: an all-female backstage where sex is prepared, learned, discussed, and staged. Because love and sex are too important to be left to incompetent, insecure
individuals.
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PER ULISSE
Italy/France 2013 92'
2013 Monday, December 2nd, Odeon, 9:00 pm - Tuesday, December 3rd, Odeon, 10:00 am
Directed by: Giovanni Cioni
How to represent the various and unpredictable experiences of those who attend Progetto Ponterosso, a socialization center of Florence dedicated to several categories of marginalized people? The film is a rhapsodic narration made of leaps, interruptions, pauses, but also of sudden revelations that light up the dullness of days, which seem endless. Life has not been kind to any of the protagonists of Per Ulisse. Their stories, their confessions, their creativity are the precious gifts which this film makes to us all.
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QUAND PASSE LE TRAIN
Here Comes the TrainFrance/Spain 2013 30'
2013 Tuesday, December 3rd, Odeon, 5:00 pm - Wednesday, December 4th, Odeon, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Jérémie Reichenbach
A group of women throws essential supplies to those migrants who leave Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala clandestinely, crossing the border on freight trains, often on the top of those trains. These women violate the law, because even in Mexico helping illegal immigrants is a crime, but they are glad to help people they don’t know, without any potential personal profit,
making the most of their sense of solidarity.
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SICKFUCKPEOPLE
Austria/Ukraine 2013 72'
2013 Monday, December 2nd, Odeon, 7:00 pm - Tuesday, December 3rd, Odeon, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Juri Rechinsky
They hide in the cavities of the city of Odessa as forgotten otters. They look for the holes of the previous time or the empty spaces in which to put the umpteenth needle. They are very young heroin-addicted people, and this film represents and listens to them avoiding easy humanitarian tones. A scream expressing courage and desperation at the same time.
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STO PHARMAKEIO
At the PharmacyGreece 2013 41'
2013 Wednesday, December 4th, Odeon, 5:00 pm - Thursday, December 5th, Odeon, 11:30 am
Directed by: Myrna Tsapa
The meticulous daily life in a pharmacy in Athens, from 2010 to 2012, during the crisis that grips the Greek society. Through the dialogues between the owner, the employee and the few customers, we sense the escalation of the drama that takes place outside, with an every day more significant impact on ordinary lives. Without ever leaving the small local pharmacy, the film manages to tell an atmosphere and a condition common in Greece today.
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UNE FEUILLE DANS LE VENT
Leaf in the WindFrance/Camerun/Gabon 2013 55'
2013 Friday, December 6th, Odeon, 7:00 pm - Saturday, December 7th, Odeon, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Jean-Marie Teno
In 2004, J-M. Teno meets Ernestine, daughter of Ernest Ouandie, hero of the struggle for the independence of Cameroon. In a beautiful morning, sitting under a porch, she decides to tell the filmmaker the story of her life. Can the story of an individual become the symbol of a country marked by repression and bloody struggles? The words of Ernestine take us into a world where childhood is denied and where injustice prevails. Her words are simple and straightforward, they touch our heart and leave a lasting impression.
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WIP - Work in Progress
Italy 2013 50'
2013 Thursday, December 5th, Odeon, 6:15 pm - Friday, December 6th, Odeon, 11:30 am
Directed by: Simona Risi
In Trapani, a group of shipyard workers after the dismissal occupies the tanker "Marettimo" for six months. In Latina, a group of workers, for the same reason, occupies the factory for a year. Two parallel stories about the crisis of the work, depicted in the same phase: the end of the occupation. The filmmaker offers a refined, intelligent and complete exploratory system, which dilates the time of today’s reality chronicle in order to photograph the very deep change in our world.
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Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Serbia/Germany/France 2013 62'
2013 Monday, December 2nd, Odeon, 4:00 pm - Tuesday, December 3rd, Odeon,
Directed by: Marta Popivoda
From the partisans who rebuilt in 1945 to kids who set fire to the parliamentary building in 2000, the film collects emotional curves and syncopated movements of the “collective body” reacting to the sound of patriotic songs and pro-government electronic guitars. The collectivity mourns the death of Tito, rages sparked by talk of Miloševic and finally converts to individuality. The film takes note of the crumbling of communism in and through the body of each individual.
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