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Le 17e Festival International
Signes de Nuit
Paris
3 - 13 october, 2019
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International Competition
Documentaries
# 8 |
Saturday October 12, 2019 / 10 pm
Maison du Japon
Cité universitaire internationale de Paris
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Hope Houses |
Altindag |
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Bayram Balci
Turkey
2019 |0:44:07
Altindag is the oldest slum in the capital of Turkey which is Ankara .
It has a 150 year old history and culture; at the same time is
responsible for the creation of the concept of a slum town. From the
initial time of creation it has been considered the home of people of
all ethnical identities such as notorious, tough guys and mobsters,
gamblers, prostitutes working at pavilion, lovers carrying their
musical instruments (saz) over their shoulder.
workers that were in the streets early in the morning. Poor and
working Turks, Kurds, Armenian, Jewish, Gypsies, Alevis (shies), Sunni
citizens all managed to live together as a community in the slums
without any racial and religious discrimination. According to many
people this slum town is a very rough place however from 1970-1980
detached itself from these illegal criminal activities and it went
through significant reforms within itself. Altindag attracted singers
such as Neset Ertas, Asik Mahsuni Serif etc.. and it has been the main
subject in the books of well known writers such as Yilmaz Guney...
This documentary talks about 150 years ago; how Altindag was created,
the social reforms that occurred at that time and why it was destroyed
under the common changes in society and how they were manipulated
under a fake social project that was supposed to help them but it did
the opposite. The people who are present in this documentary have
actually lived through this events and have first hand experiences of
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Happy Âphivoat |
Joyful Development |
WORLD PREMIERE
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Romain Kosellek
France, Cambodia
2018 | 00:54:00
Happy Âphivoat, "Joyful Development", reflects a global history of
social struggles, showcasing the metamorphoses of production methods
in Cambodia alongside the voices of women workers who testify to their
working conditions.
After studying fundamental mathematics and several years spent
traveling, I worked for 5 years in a theater school in Paris.
In 2007, I discovered the video and co-wrote my first reportage, about
the Mekong development. In 2014, I decided to devte myself fully to
the cinema and I integrate the Master of Documentary Realization of
Lussas.
After a gradual politicization through traveling and reading, I
started to be an activist in 2009. Since then I have been very
interested in history, economics and geopolitics. Today, I see my
commitment as the need to "shout louder for those who are struggling
and can not shout". |
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October 3 - 13, 2019
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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