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International Competiton
(Experimental) Documentary
No. 1 |
Monday September 15th, 2014 / 3 pm
Studio des Ursulines / Paris
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PS Sao Paulo |
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Leni Huyghe
Brazil, Belgium
2014 | 0:03:30
It is night and the lights of the city glimmer in the dark. “What is hell?” The man walking on the left tries to define it. The horizontal and vertical camera movements track anonymous lives hidden in apartments accompanied by the off-camera conversation of two lost souls in one of the biggest cities in the world, Sao Paolo. A filmic essay about the feeling of alienation.
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Mineurs Abattus |
Miners Shot Down |
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Rehad Desai
South Africa
2014 | 1:25:00
Renowned director Rehad Desai returned to the events of August 2012, when the Marikana mine in South Africa experienced the worst episode of bloodshed since the end of apartheid. For seven days, thousands of miners protested for a living wage. The non-violent demonstration was brought down through an intervention by state police forces, in which more than 30 miners were shot dead and many others injured. In this political thriller, the director reconstructs the sequence of events through testimonies and footage of the massacre, drawing a disturbing picture of the mechanism of power in South Africa, where corporations make profits by exploiting the poorest.
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September 15- 21, 2014
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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