International films: Documentaries
1) Humans Display (Dir: Lam Can-Zhao; 59 min; China)
There are many animals in the zoo, most of them are human. This documentary pointing camera at humans in the zoo, tries to re-examine the relationship between human and other animals from a new perspective
2) Arlette, Courage is a Muscle (Katharina Diessner & Matilda Mester; 83 min; Central African Republic / Germany)
The film centers around Arlette, a 15-year old girl from the Central African Republic who suffered severe injuries during the last war. In Berlin a surgery frees her from her year-long pain. This changes her both physically and mentally: suddenly Arlette is in her puberty.
3) Dispossession (Dir: Mathieu Roy; 83 min; Canada)
The Dispossession is an impressionist journey that sheds light on the daily strife of the world’s hungry farming class. In this era of industrialized agriculture, across the globe, people who produce food are paid less than almost any other profession. Part cinema-vérité, part essay, our film examines the mechanisms by which farmers are falling into a somber cycle of despair, debt and dispossession.
4) Hear Me (Dir: Olga Arlauskas, Svetlana Gorlo; 90 min; Russia)
About 13 million of Russians have impairment of hearing. 250000 of them live in full or partial silence. Such people are easy-going, they dream, fall in love, look for their dream job and really want to be of use to the society. They want to respect and be respected.
In order to make these dreams come true, people who hear well should make a step towards hearing impaired people, understand them and really try to hear them. Just because there are more hearing people than hearing impaired ones.
5) Nimble Fingers (Dir: Parsifal Reparato; 52 min; Vietnam / Italy)
The film brings out the living and working conditions of migrant women from the rural districts of Vietnam, in Hanoi working at one of the biggest industrial production sites in the world, through their eyes, dreams and fear, and also by their drawings that become animations.
6) Second Income (Dir: Gal Kedem; 54 min; Israel)
M, a 40-year-old divorcee and a mother of a 9-year-old girl, works by day as a sales manager while at night she chooses to supplement her income through sexual encounters with men in order to make it through the month.
We accompany her for a year as she ponders about her life and face an important decision. At a time when women's rights in general and sexual harassment, in particular, are on the international agenda every week, this film is more relevant than ever.
7) Bakurov (Dir: Yuliya Kiseloyova; 55 min; Russia)
He went through the war from Leningrad to Germany. He was awarded two medals of valor and the Order of The Patriotic War of the 2-nd Class. Vladimir lives in a small village of the Irkutsk region. Sometimes he goes to the city to his son, grandson and great-grandchildren by the train. But sometimes there are the moments of silence to sit and remember all the living and the dead. And the more silence, the more the memories, the ghosts of war.
5) Nimble Fingers (Dir: Parsifal Reparato; 52 min; Vietnam / Italy)
The film brings out the living and working conditions of migrant women from the rural districts of Vietnam, in Hanoi working at one of the biggest industrial production sites in the world, through their eyes, dreams and fear, and also by their drawings that become animations.
6) Second Income (Dir: Gal Kedem; 54 min; Israel)
M, a 40-year-old divorcee and a mother of a 9-year-old girl, works by day as a sales manager while at night she chooses to supplement her income through sexual encounters with men in order to make it through the month.
We accompany her for a year as she ponders about her life and face an important decision. At a time when women's rights in general and sexual harassment, in particular, are on the international agenda every week, this film is more relevant than ever.
7) Bakurov (Dir: Yuliya Kiseloyova; 55 min; Russia)
He went through the war from Leningrad to Germany. He was awarded two medals of valor and the Order of The Patriotic War of the 2-nd Class. Vladimir lives in a small village of the Irkutsk region. Sometimes he goes to the city to his son, grandson and great-grandchildren by the train. But sometimes there are the moments of silence to sit and remember all the living and the dead. And the more silence, the more the memories, the ghosts of war.
8) Madmen (Dir:Algis Arlauskas; 50 min; Spain)
He wants to build a theatre with his own hands using no machine in a far-away village in Spain. His family, friends and well-wishers believe him. He achieves it finally and has a grant inauguration too.
9) Copy Brad Pitt (Dir: Ariela Alush; 60 min; Israel)
Eldar cannot speak due to Cerebral Palsy he has since birth, so he makes movies to tell his parents his desires for independence.
10) Near the Railroad (Dir: Nora Fingscheidt & Simone Catharina; 63 min; Germany)
He wants to build a theatre with his own hands using no machine in a far-away village in Spain. His family, friends and well-wishers believe him. He achieves it finally and has a grant inauguration too.
9) Copy Brad Pitt (Dir: Ariela Alush; 60 min; Israel)
Eldar cannot speak due to Cerebral Palsy he has since birth, so he makes movies to tell his parents his desires for independence.
10) Near the Railroad (Dir: Nora Fingscheidt & Simone Catharina; 63 min; Germany)
The women's shelter in Stuttgart: 50 rooms, 50 residents, 50 destinies - and in the background the rattle of the trains. Sylvia wants to get out of the shelter and back to her own apartment. Carola loves the place like her home, especially her view from the window. Gabi has come to terms with the situation and has started to make art. All women have one thing in common: at one point in their lives they were without a roof over their heads and ended up in a shelter. Encounters with special women in a special place.
11) The Day Before Chinese New Year (Dir: Lam Can - Zhao; 23 min; China)
The day before Chinese New Year, Mr. Monkey chopped the wood, lit-up the fire, cooked the food as if nothing was gonna happen; Eventually, nothing ever happened.
11) The Day Before Chinese New Year (Dir: Lam Can - Zhao; 23 min; China)
The day before Chinese New Year, Mr. Monkey chopped the wood, lit-up the fire, cooked the food as if nothing was gonna happen; Eventually, nothing ever happened.
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