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International Competiton
(Experimental) Documentary
No. 10 |
Thursday September, 18th, 2014 / 9 pm
Studio des Ursulines / Paris
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Love City Jalalabad |
Han da hanao |
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George Gittores
Norway, Australia
2013 | 01:38:00
Love City, Jalalabad is a documentary that shows how the progressive youth of Afghanistan refuse to use weapons, preferring instead film production as a method to create reconciliation and social change in a war-torn and occupiedcountry.
Internationally renowned filmmaker and artist George Gittoes has learned that documenting frontline action is not enough; he wants to use art to bring about change. George forms an artists' collective in the western Afghan city of Jalalabad - a province long controlled by the Taliban. Someone only as brave and creative as George would then dare to make movies in Jalalabad, recruiting female actors from Pakistan (there are no Pashtun-speaking Afghan women actors) to join Australian performance artist Hellen Rose, and local action star Amir Shah in their quest to bring love back to Afghanistan. This fearless documentary will show how the progressive youth of Afghanistan are rejecting the use of armed force
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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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