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International Competition
Documentaries
# 4 |
Friday October 18th / 3 pm
Résidence Lucien Paye
Cité Universitaire / Paris
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Frederik Jan Depickere
Belgium, Colombia
2012 | 0:09:00
A random refugee wanders without purpose or direction 150 kilometer above the arctic circle.
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Aldona |
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Emilija Škarnulyté
Lituania, Norway
2012 | 0:13:00
This documentary film is based on a true-life story of my grandmother Aldona from Druskininkai in Lithuania. In 1986 April one day, without any particular reason, Aldona lost her vision. Doctors silently were claiming that it probably happened due to Chernobyl’s Nuclear Power Plant accident occurred on 26 April 1986 in Ukrainian USSR. Her eye nerves got poisoned. In the film Aldona walks through the Grutas Park, sculpture garden of Soviet-era statues from the times of the Lithuanian USSR. Aldona is touching the sculptures and trying to guess what it is.
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Massimo d'Anolfi, Martina Parenti
Italy
2013 | 1:20:00
The military missile testing site on Sardinia is picturesquely situated between the coast and a mountain range, a seemingly pristine natural setting. Yet it has been in a state of constant "war" since 1956, as the film footage of the military test series shot and archived by the site’s own film department bears witness. This cinematic survey by Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti is of a radically different nature. They scour the battlefield for signs of devastation: munitions, rubbish, rusted equipment. They make visible what actually cannot be seen. The soil is heavily contaminated; there have been repeated deformities in both humans and the animals that graze on the test range. With a rigorous visual approach that eschews any explanatory commentary or interviews, the filmmakers are less concerned with presenting facts than conveying some disturbing insights. The irrevocable nature of human intrusion into nature makes words such as "unspoiled" or "pristine" seem absurd. The death of a mouse before our eyes, the images of a deformed calf in its death throes serve as a portent that it is about much more here than just collateral damage from constant war games.
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October 10th - 20th 2013
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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