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Faito DOC Festival
Thematic documentary Film Festival
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9 TER (56’, 2010) BELGIUM
ALIJOSA (67', 2009) ESTONIA
FOREVER SCARED (52’, 2010) ISRAEL
FRATELLI D’ITALIA (90’, 2009) ITALY
KOR (55’, 2009) BELGIUM-POLAND
LE FILS DU MARCHAND D’OLIVES (77’, 2010) FRANCE
MANNEKEN PIS, L’ENFANT QUI PLEUT (86’, 2007) BELGIUM-FRANCE
MON PERE S’APPELLE ZOLTAN (48’, 2009) FRANCE
QUI FINISCE L’ITALIA (85’, 2010) BELGIUM
BE WATER, MY FRIEND (14’, 2009) ITALY-UZBEKISTAN
BETWEEN DREAMS (11’, 2009) FRANCE-RUSSIA-FINLAND
CAMEROUN, BREU HISTORIA D’UN EMBARAS (13’, 2010) SPAIN
DOS ENCUENTROS DE ULTRATUMBA (4’, 2010) SPAIN
HE-HELIUM (8’, 2008) SERBIA-ITALY
INTERSTICIO (13’, 2009) SPAIN
PICTURE’S CONCISE ANATOMY (21’, 2009) BELGIUM
ROUGH CUT (22’, 2007) IRAN
THE LAST RITES (17’, 2008) BANGLADESH
ARIA TAMMORRA (48’, 2010) BELGIUM
CORDE (55’, 2009) ITALY
DREAMING BY NUMBERS (75’, 2005) ITALY-THE NETHERLANDS
LA FABBRICA INCERTA VITE OPERAIE ALLA FIAT DI POMIGLIANO D’ARCO (52’, 2011) ITALY
IN PURGATORY (68’, 2009) ITALY-FRANCE-BELGIUM
MANI VESUVIANE (2010) ITALY
COME UN UOMO SULLA TERRA (60’, 2008) ITALY
PIGRECOEMME
Selected video works by the school students
Midnight Bingo
by Antonio Longo 28’ - Italy
La città immaginata
by Emanuele Vernillo 9’48” - Italy
Un buio perfetto
by Emanuele Vernillo 9’24” - Italy
Wael et la révolution
by Ahmed ZORGUI 8’04’’
Le pourchassé
by Imed ISSAOUI et Yosr BEN ROMDHANE 3’11’’
Tunisian Dream
by Amine MESSADI 4’50”
Regueb
by Emilie FLAMANT & Makram AYARI 1’35’’
Regueb, terre de liberté
by Mohamed MESTIRI & Safa BOUSSAADA 9’17”
Petites images
by Khaled BARSAOUI, Mohamed Salah ARGUI, Kouther HAMRI, Ali SAIDANE
3’07’’
Le Mur
by Rafik OMRANI & Ayemen OMRANI 4’49”
Les enfants de Regueb
by Najoua KHECHIMI & Chokri ARFEWI 5’46”
Sueur de la terre
by Karim di SOUAKI 3’52”
S 21, LA MACHINE DE MORT KHMÈRE ROUGE (101’, 2004) FRANCE-CAMBODIA
9TER (56’ 2010 Belgium) Celine
Darmayan and Origan Cannella
In Belgium, Article 9ter of the Act of 15 December 1980 allows a foreigner
to apply for a residence permit, if he suffers from an illness causing a
real risk to his life.For many undocumented, this article is the only access
to legal status. In Brussels, in March 2009, over 1000 people decided to
start a hunger strike.This film takes us to the extraordinary men and women
who, prisoners of this situation, are faced with the choice of putting their
lives at risk to get these papers, or not.
Authors-directors Céline Darmayan e
Origan Cannella
Cinematography Céline Darmayan
Sound Origan Cannella
Editing Sébastien Calvez
Production Cinétik asbl
Color correction Bertrand Leclipteux
ALYOSHA (67’ 2009 Estonia) Meelis Muhu
Most Soviet memorials in Estonia have been destroyed after 1991,
the year when this Baltic country regained its independence.
However, the „Bronze Soldier”, with his rifle and the chest full
of medals, dominates from his high pedestal one of the main
squares in Tallinn. For the Estonian nationalists, „Alyosha” is
the symbol of the bloody Stalinist repression. For the Russian
residents of Tallinn, the statue represents one of the few links
they still have with Mother Russia. Every year, on May 9th –
Victory Day, they congregate around Alyosha, who becomes a
catalyst of the Russian community’s collective memory. Between
2005 and 2007, the author followed thoroughly the conflict
around the Soviet bronze soldier.
Director Meelis Muhu
Cinematography Erik Norkroos
Editing Kersti Miilen Erik Norkroos Group Plus Zero Inc
Music Kersti Miilen Meelis Muhu
Producer Meelis Muhu / In-Ruum
FOREVER SCARED (52’ 2010 Israel) Dorit Zimbalist
Despite being one of Israel's leading columnists, novelists and
screenwriter, Sayed Kashua feels he doesn't belong. The Jews
don't like him because he's an Arab. The Arabs don't like him
because he's successful. The Arabs think he's a collaborator.
The Jews think he's a drunk. He's always the "other" and he's
always scared. This intimate portrait follows Kashua over seven
years through the upheavals and events that change his life,
wandering from place to place, from nation to nation, belonging
neither here nor there.
Director Dorit Zimbalist
Written Dorit Zimbalist
Cinematography Evyatar Lavy, Dorit Zimbalist
Editing Bat-Sheva Jancu
Design and Animation David Oppenheim
Music Ophir Leibovitch
Producers Barak Heymann & Dorit Zimbalist
Production company Heymann Brothers Films
KOR (55’ 2009 Belgium-Poland) Joanna
Grudzinska
Warsaw, Poland at the end of the 1970's. The workers' revolt,
violently repressed by the authorities mobilises a group of
individuals who create KOR, or Workers' Defence Committee. Heir
to the communist regime opposition movement since the end of the
second world war and supported by figures rising up against
social injustices since the 1920's, KOR is comprised of
committed people, with simple yet efficient methods, unusual
ethics, the will to shatter the state information monopoly and
to establish an independent workers' organisation. In 1980,
KOR's activities lead to the birth of Solidarnosc, the country's
first independent Union. By offering an insight into KOR's
actions and words with three of its protagonists, the film
recounts the story of one of the ends to Communism in Europe.
Author-director Joanna Grudzinska
Cinematography Benoît Dervaux
Sound Jaroslaw Bajdowski
Editing Yannick Leroy
Production Dérives, Camera Obscura, Novembre Productions,
WIP (Wallonie image production)
THE SON OF THE OLIVE MERCHANT (77’
2010 France) Mathieu Zeitindjioglou
After marrying Mathew, Anna (of Polish origin) inherited a name
which has historical meaning. An Armenian name with Turkish
intonations which permitted Garabed, the grandfather of Mathew,
to escape the 1915 genocide.
For their honeymoon they went to Turkey. With camera in hand,
they traced the footsteps of Garabed, they are determined to
learn more about Mathew's Armenian origins. In this country
where speaking of the Armenian genocide could be dangerous,
their name with Turkih intonations serves a purpose to get
people talking about their idea of the Turkish involvement
during 1915 tragedy.
A road trip across the country marked with animated meetings,
investigative film and historic documents to report a sad
confirmation: Tour guides, archaeological museum directors,
historians, economists, and day guides tell a hallucinating
story which has lasted more than 90 years. A State denial which
has become an institution in itself , has rewrote the history
books pretending that there was a genocide, but a genocide
committed by the Armenians against the Turks.
Director Mathieu Zeitindjioglou
Screenplay Anna Zeitindjioglou - Thomas Rio
Speaking voici Jean-Claude Dreyfus :
Animation Ronan Jupin
Music and sound design Gabriel Annede - Rodolphe
Caldironi
Color correction Yannig Willmann
Production Mathieu Zeitindjioglou (ZFILMS) - Georges
Fernandez (HERODIADE)
MON PERE S’APPELLE ZOLTAN (48’
2009 France) Agnès
Szabó
For his graduation film La fémis, director share in the
footsteps of his father, Zoltán Szabó (1912-1984). Fleeing the
Stalinism that settled in Hungary, the Hungarian writer has left
his country in 1949. He moved to London and spent the last years
of his life in Britain. Her daughter, Agnes Szabo, was five
years old when he died. For her, this lack of memories is a real
wound. The portrait of an absent, told by those who remain, by
what remains: the houses where he lived (Budapest, London,
Josselin in Brittany), sound recordings of his voice, pictures,
television archives ...
After being a member of a television production team in Paris
for a few years, Agnes works as a sound engineer and assistant
director on documentary films. She then goes on studying sound
at french cinema school La Femis. As her end of studies diploma
work she directed "My father Zoltán". It is her first film.
Director Agnès Szabó
Cinematography Cyrille Blandin, Thomas Favel, David Kremer
Editing Flore Guillet, Marie-Joe Nenert, Selma Zghidi
Sound Elsa Diringer
QUI FINISCE L’ITALIA (85’ 2010
Belgium-Italy) Gilles Coton
based upon "La lunga strada di sabbia" by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Summer 1959, Pier Paolo Pasolini decides to travel on his own
along the Italian coast from Ventimiglia to Trieste, with his
Fiat Millecento. He writes a travelogue entitled The Long Road
of Sand. Summer 2008,the objective is to follow the footsteps of
the Italian poet and filmmaker. The film is a road movie, not a
documentary about Pasolini. An adventure story that will pay
attention as much to places as to people along the way.
Pasolinis narration will be used as a guide, as a shadow to
chase. During his travel Pasolini focussed on single stories and
observations, such constructing a puzzle that reflected his view
of Italy’s reality. That’s what we’re intending to do: meeting a
hotel owner, a beach papagallo, a writer like Claudio Magris, a
hawker, a priest, an illegal immigrant, or the philosopher
Massimo Cacciari. The aim is not to describe individuals but to
reflect a mood. The purpose is not to make inquiries about
obvious differences but to find out what there is in common.
Summer 1959, with his brilliant, sometimes violent style
Pasolini describes boys and girls he meets, the misery of
Ravenna’s sewers, the opulence of Portofino’s villas, the smell
of a hotel in Ischia and the silence of the gardens of Villa
Cimbrone. Summer 2008, stimulated by a same curiosity and
captivated by the magic of the poet and filmmaker’s words, this
project invites us to travel space and time, touched by the same
restlessness, discovering San Foca’s refugees centre, Forcella
in Napoli, the injustice that followed the happenings of Piazza
Alimonda, Portopalo’s island and the words of Sbarbaro.
Author-director Gilles Coton
Cinematography Jean-François Metz
Sound Emmanuel Haessig, Leny Andrieux
Editing Christopher Yates
Production and italian distribution Playtime Films and
CineAgenzia
Author-director Olivier Smolders THE LAST RITES (17’ 2008 Bangladesh) Yasmine Kabir Director Yasmine Kabir
PICTURE’S CONCISE ANATOMY (21’ 2009 Belgium)
Olivier Smolders
Shooted in «La Specola», zoology section of the Museo di Storia Naturale
dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze.
At the end of the 18th century, Florentine artists created anatomical wax
effigies for their city's Museum of Zoology and Natural History La Specola. Surgeons dismembered the bodies and
the artists' reproductions were used as teaching aids. Every
muscle and organ was revealed for close examination. And this is
precisely what the Brussels-based filmmaker Olivier Smolders
does, creating symmetrical images from shots of these highly
realistic wax models. As the film progresses, the image
manipulation becomes increasingly radical until the split and
doubled bodies move across the screen as if in a kaleidoscope.
The images evoke alien beings, medical experiments or
symmetrical butterfly wings pushing away from one another. No
subject is taboo, including female reproductive organs and
fetuses, but at no point are the images offensive - this is,
after all, nothing more or less than a specola, an observatory.
Accompanied by classical music, the film is split into segments
with titles such as "Theory of Catastrophe," "Theory of
Androgyny," "Theory of Gustave Courbet," and "Theory of Tears."
Since the mid-1980s, Smolders has made several short surrealist
films and one feature-length film entitled Black Night,
concerned with human skin, religious iconography, doubled
imagery, reptiles and insects.
Cinematography Louis-Philippe Capelle
Editing Olivier Smolders
Original music Alain Wergifosse
Sound editing Marc Bastien
The Last Rites depicts the shipbreaking yards of Chittagong,
Bangladesh. The ship in the last stages of its life cycle must
come to the end of its journey. The shipyard is where it comes
to die. The film, accompanied by an industrial musical score, is
a choreography of moving images of workers performing the last
rites. Projected against a backdrop of metal, the vulnerability
of the human workers presents a stark contrast to the sheer
enormity of the monolithic structures of the ships. They recall
images from a past millennium.
Photography Yasmine Kabir
Editing Yasmine Kabir
Sound Yasmine Kabir
Production Yasmine Kabir
BETWEEN DREAMS (11’ 2009
France-Russia-Finland) Iris Olsson
A third class sleeping car of the Trans-Siberian train traveling
through Russia. What are the passengers dreaming of, and which
of the dreams come true?
Between Dreams is one of six short documentary films shot as a
part of the Cinetrain project, a project by six upcoming
European directors.
Director Iris Olsson
Script Iris Olsson
Photography Natasha Pavlovskaya
Sound Eugene Goryainov
Editing Dimitris Tolios
Music Florian Krebs
Production Nisi Masa / Mirumir/ Moviement RU
CAMERUN, BREU HISTORIA D’UN EMBARAS (13’
2010 Spain) Domènec Boronat
For a while we wanted to travel to Cameroon, but a pregnancy got
in the way… An account of a hope and a disappointment.
Production Company Domènec Boronat
Director Domènec Boronat
Screenplay Domènec Boronat
Cinematography Domènec Boronat
Art Director Domènec Boronat
Music Domènec Boronat
Sound Domènec Boronat
Editing Domènec Boronat
INTERSTICIO (13’ 2009 Spain) Cecile
Juan
Pierre-Emmanuel, Olivier, Marie-France : they all live to the
rhythm of the Abbey Ligugé where their routes cross ... This
place of silence and prayer reveals their profound truth, which
they share some bits we humbly.
Director and editing Cécile Juan
Cinematography Andrés Cornejo
Sound José Gómez and Albert Ribas
DOS ENCUENTROS DE ULTRATUMBA (4’
2010 Spain) Ander Duque
Two Bullfighters in Spain. First half of the twentieth century.
Admiration and rivalry. Joselito and Belmonte: a tale of two
artists.
Screenplay and
director Ander Duque
HE-HELIUM (8’ 2008 Serbia-Italy) Giuseppe
Schettino
The young and war, the young and love... The young who cannot escape but if
they could, they would have no idea where to go. The young and their
indetermination as a frantic road to the future. And there are two keywords:
the young and their anxiety shown in an experimental as an artistic way of
making Serbia become aware of it, being isolated and wounded more than it is
visible in the evident signs of ten-year madness.
Director Giuseppe Schettino
Producer Dejan Petrovic
ROUGH CUT (22’ 2007 Iran) Firouzeh Khosrovani
Rough Cut is a short documentary that reflects on cultural impositions in
Iran, inscribed in the bodies of women. This constitutes a conflictive area
within the patriarchal order.
Since the end of the 80s, the guardians of moral in Iran drive around the
city controlling that the Islamic dress code is respected. Rough Cut
portrays how, in the name of decency and virtue, the female mannequins in
shops must eliminate any sign of femininity. Women's bodies and sexuality
are problematic objects that must be approved and governed by the country's
moral institutions.
Screenplay Firouzeh Khosrovani
Photography Abbas Kowsari
Editing Bijan Mirbaghery, Kayvan Jahanshahi
Music Farhad Asadian
Sound design & mix Amirhossein Ghasemi
Production Firouzeh Khosrovani
Running time 22’
Format DVcam
Release Nov.2007 - Final release 2008
CORDE (55’ 2009 Italy) - Marcello Sannino
Ciro is a young boxer from Naples. He lives in the Ventaglieri neighborhood,
in the old city. When he was only thirteen his teachers Geppino and Lino
Silvestri taught him that the making of a champion lies in having a big
dream that can drive your willpower. And Ciro’s dream is to live a normal
life, despite the hard lessons he had to learn early in life and the
difficulty of growing up in a neighborhood in which violence and decay are
constant companions. Thus, boxing became a way for the boy to achieve his
objective. “What struck me about Ciro is his sweetness. As opposed to the
usual idea of jaunty and argumentative boxers, Ciro was ill at ease and
taciturn. He is a boy who had to grow up in a hurry. He came upon boxing by
chance and it gave him the chance to be educated somehow: to escape the
temptations of crime, when almost everyone else around you is committing
them, to run your life according to codes that are ‘normal’ are, in this
part of the world, a true act of resistance.”
Director, Story,
Cinematography Marcello Sannino
Editing Aurelia Luongo
Music Riccardo Veno
Sound Walter Montagna
Producer Antonella Di Nocera
Production Parallelo 41
Color Correction Diego Liguori e Massimiliano Pacifico
Press office Rosalba Ruggeri
DREAMING BY NUMBERS (75’, 2005 Italy-Holland) –
Anna Bucchetti
Everything has its own number, according to the Italian numbers book Grimas.
For instance, the number 22 represents fools, 18 blood and arena and 36
chestnuts. Italians take this number theory dead seriously and hope to make
a little extra money with it. The lottery and bingo sellers profit from
this: Dreaming by Numbers visits a century-old lottery office in Naples,
where everyone drops by to place a bet. A reasoned bet, that is, on the
basis of Grimas: for example, when someone has had a dream about his father
who stepped into a bucket of water, the lottery vendor takes the book out:
father is 81, foot is 53, water is 39 and bucket is 4. These will be the
numbers to bet with. When a regular customer's brother gets murdered, people
even use this incident to stake their bets. The obsession with numbers
sometimes takes on hilarious proportions ("which numbers can be derived from
a dream about a cockroach with a limp?"), but behind the gambling, there are
often tragic stories. A historian sees parallels with Pythagoras' numbers
theory, which is kept alive in Italian popular culture. Italians do not want
to save money, but prefer to live in the moment. Bucchetti previously made
the documentary Una storia Italiana, about Italy under Berlusconi.
Director Anna
Bucchetti
Cinematography Stefano Bertacchini
Screenplay Anna Bucchetti
Editing Katarina Türler
Sound Bouwe Mulder
Music Lucio Caliendo
Production André Bos for Armadillo Film / Hans Mulder for Armadillo
Film
Co-production NTR
IN PURGATORY (68’, 2009 Italy-France-Belgium)
- Giovanni Cioni
Taly-France-BelgiumThe cult of purgatory in Naples inspires this movie. Its
consists of a perambulation made of encounters, sacred places, true stories,
testimonies and dreams. It is a dive into the cult and its questioning ; we
need to be aware that we had an existence.
The soul of purgatory inhabits this world. The anonymous dead, who appears
in a dream and thus wanders around the living ; the stranger met in a crowd
; on a photograph, the look of a deceased made immortal. The Other. One of
the others, each one of us. I am an inhabitant of this world. I am one of
the others.
Author and Director
Giovanni Cioni
Cinematography Giovanni Cioni, Marcello Sannino
Editing Giovanni Cioni, Davide Santi, Massimiliano Pacifico
Sound Daghi Rondanini, Alberto Padoan
Sound design and mix Marco Saitta
Production Teatri Uniti
Coproduction Zeugma Films Parigi, Qwazi qWazi filM Bruxelles, Regione
Campania Assessorato al Turismo e ai Beni Culturali