Variant vol.2 no.24 Winter 2005 - Document 3 supplement

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International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
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Keynote Lecture:
Robert Fisk
October 15 2005
Exhibitions:
October 11–25 2005
CCA, GFT & Gilmorehill Cinemas
Glasgow October 21–24 2005
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exhibitions introduction
Following the success of our first two festivals we are proud to present Document 3. At
this years festival we are screening 90 films from 47 countries including 44 UK premieres.
The festival continues to provide an unrivalled social and cultural event that highlights the
diversity of contemporary Scottish culture and promotes open discussion and inclusion.
We are very excited about this year’s event and invite you to come along, meet the
filmmakers, get involved with the discussions and see work covering all sorts of issues
from the environment to asylum, protest to statelessness, Palestine, Africa, mental health,
India. The work ranges from cinematic explorations to politically charged frontline
reportage and continues to promote a deeper understanding of international human
rights.
We welcome asylum seekers and refugees to Glasgow and thank the filmmakers often
Promised Land working in difficult and dangerous conditions for raising these issues.
Martin Coyne Paula Larkin & Mona Rai, Festival Coordinators.
discussions
11th – 25th October 2005 • 10.00am – 10.00pm •
Admission: Free
Reception Thursday 13th October 6.00pm–9.00pm
Russian Cafe Cossachok • 10 King Street Glasgow G1
Mental Health & Social Miscarriage of Justice
This work is the result of a year-long project documenting the
Care Discussion Organisation
Gypsy community of Bury Brickfields, a council-run site near
Southampton Water. In order to diffuse notions of typology I Saturday 22nd October Monday 24th October
encouraged my subjects to approach the camera on their own CCA 4 • 5.00pm–6.00pm CCA 4 • 6.30pm–8.15pm
terms. Along with portraits more metaphorical images were
Ann Elliott, Artlink Mojo programme followed by a
made that, whilst having a poetic quality, avoid sentiment or
romance. Fully aware that the only ‘truth’ I can offer comes Fiona Reid, Care Free discussion about it’s campaigns with:
from my perception and experience, I have attempted to infuse Dr Ike Azuonye, Harley St Psychiatrist, A John McManus, Mojo Coordinator
the images with the dignity of the unique and distinct culture I Difficult Case Paddy Joe Hill, Birmingham Six and
encountered. Nick Higgins, Hidden Gifts: Angus founder of MOJO
Time Based Art McPhee Robert Brown, wrongly convicted of
Lauchlan Campbell Aidan Shingler, An Artists Guide To murder and spent 25 years in jail
Schizophrenia ‘T.C.’ Campbell, wrongly convicted of
11th- 24th October 2005 • 10.00am – 6.00pm •
Admission: Free Jenny Graydon, Glasgow Assiociation of murder in 1984
Mental Health William Gage has an appeal date for Fri
Reception: Saturday 15th October 7.00pm onwards
21st Oct, if freed he will attend.
Buddha’s Backyard • 38 Albion Street, Merchant City, Glasgow Glasgow School of Art and Document 3 Asylum Discussion
are pleased to invite you to this school’s year’s Kurdish & Palestinian
Lauchlan Campbell inaugural SoFA talk by Dr. Robert Fisk, on his new book: Sunday 23rd October
is a self taught CCA 5 • 4.00pm–6.00pm Statelessness & Survival
painter. He The Great War for Civilisation : The
This Way Out & The Eye of the Needle Monday 24th October
developed his Conquest of the Middle East followed by discussion with: CCA 5 • 9.15pm–10.00pm
artistic practice
whilst serving a Glasgow Film Theatre • 11.00am, Friday 14th October Jonas Soderquist and Oskar Sjodin, The Kurdish peoples, Palestinians and others
fifteen year prison 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB (just off Sauchiehall Street) Eye of the Needle have been engaged in diverse struggles
sentence for the “One of the outstanding reporters of his generation. As a war Mohammed Asif, Glasgow Refugee Action for survival and cultural rights across
possession of correspondent he is unrivalled”. Financial Times Group national boundaries and in diaspora.
7.9kg of cannabis Rarely have first hand reporting and history been so Bob Hamilton, City Strolls This is a collaborative discussion to
resin in the examine the issues of statelessness in a
powerfully combined than in Robert Fisk’s epic story of Michael, Collins, Make Borders History
People’s Republic region that undermine the cultural and
tragedy and betrayal in the Middle East. As his narrative of
of China. He Representative from Glasgow Campaign political rights of Palestinians and Kurdish
bloodshed and cruelty unfolds in Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran,
spent a total of 12 years and 4 months in jail and was released to Welcome Refugees peoples, with individuals, organisations
Palestine and other battlefields, the carnage of September
on the 5th December 2003. In spite of the strict regime and advocacy groups committed to
11th, 2001, and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s brutal Camcorder Guerillas
and through his own persistence, he was allowed to buy art human rights, cultural survival and
materials with the assistance of the British Consul in Shanghai. regime take on a new and frightening meaning. Discussion alliance building.
A key demand of the regime was that prisoners acknowledge Fisk, who has met Osama bin Laden three times, has been Monday 24th October To discuss the politics of nationalisms,
their own guilt and the perniciousness of their crimes in on the battlefront of the Middle East’s conflict for 28 years CCA 4 • 3.00pm–5.00pm ethnic identities, gender, class and human
writing on a monthly basis. and his devastating accounts of human suffering are now read rights — issues of internally displaced
around the world. CG programme followed by a
In Time Based Art, Lauchlan will exhibit a wide variety of oil persons and diaspora communities,
discussion:
paintings with subjects as diverse as landscapes and still lifes, In the tradition of all foreign correspondents, his eyewitness engaging dynamics of alliance and
to torture and incarceration. All works were made during his testimony of the horrors of modern warfare – in the tradition “Truth”, Distortion and the Alternative resistance, the causes of inclusion and
time in Shanghai Qing Pu Prison. of the great reporters of the Second World War – is laced Media – Reflections after the G8 Summit. exclusion in the region, the international
The money raised from the sale of the paintings will go with both suspicion and anger. This is no chronology of Middle The Environment regime’s responses, changing concepts
towards MOJO’s campaign to raise £500, 000 to build a East history but a passionate outcry against the lies and of citizenship, the relationship between
retreat for innocent men and women. deceit that have sent soldiers to their deaths and killed tens Discussion citizenship and the wider issues of
of thousands of men and women – Arab, Christian, and Jew democracy and human rights in the
Monday 24th October
– over the past century. region, the role of states and non-state
CCA 5 • 3.45pm–5.45pm
Book signings It is also a chronicle of journalists at war, of the rage, humour actors, and the need to mobilise the
and frustration of the correspondents who spend their lives Free The Rossport Five & The The international community to address
reporting the first draft of history, of their occasional courage Source followed by discussion with: these complex issues and provide
– and sometimes their deaths. Mika Minio Paluello, PLATFORM support.
It is also a deeply personal memoir which moves from - promoting creative processes of Speakers
Document 3 Bookstalls CCA 1 democratic engagement to advance
Fisk’s own presence on the front line in the Iran-Iraq war Mick Napier, Scottish Palestinian
Forever Lost Forever Gone, Paddy Joe Hill in the 1980s to the experience of his father, 2nd Lt Bill Fisk, social and ecological justice www. Solidarity Campaign
Saturday 22nd 2.00pm–3.00pm, Monday 24th, 8.30pm–9.00pm in the trenches of the Somme in 1918. In the months that platformlondon.org
Peri Ibrahim, Director, Kurdish Scottish
Village of Stone, Xiaolu Guo followed the First World War, the victors drew the borders Cultural Association
Saturday 22nd 2.00pm–3.00pm, Sunday 23rd, 12.45pm–1.45pm of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and much of the Middle East;
Robert Fisk has spent his entire career watching people within Mustafa Gundogdu, Kurdish Human
Forever Lost Forever Gone these borders die. Rights Centre, London
by Paddy Joe Hill
Limited edition The Great War for Civilisation – the legend on the back of Doug Aubrey, Autonomi
his father’s 1914-1918 campaign medal – is a masterpiece
Now out of print, this is a rare opportunity
of adventure and tragedy, softened with both humour and
to get a signed copy of Paddy Joe Hill’s
compassion. It is the story of the violent world that is shaping
t (The Birmingham Six) autobiography. I
our lives – and our future.
would make for a gruelling book were it not
for the fact that Paddy Joe Hill is a fighter. (The Great War for Civilisation will be on sale at this event
This is an inspiring, straightforward, and very and Robert Fisk will be pleased to sign your copy.)
readable book. GSA School of Fine Art (SoFA) Talks take place in the main
“Forever Lost Forever Gone provides clear and overwhelming cinema space of the Glasgow Film Theatre and are attended by
evidence of the rottenness of the whole judicial system in Britain.” several hundred students. Over the past few years, the SoFA
Talks have been centred on artistic practice, attracting high-
Village of Stone
profile speakers from the creative sphere. In the light of world
by Xiaolu Guo ISBN: 0701176040
events, it has been decided to also focus the Talks on specific
tickets
Shortlisted 2005 The Independent Best issues beyond the art world, to stimulate discussion amongst
Foreign Fiction Prize the students and help to inform their artistic practice.
Director of The Concrete Revolution in While directed towards the student body, SoFA talks are free
our film programme, Xiaolu Guo will be to the public: www.sofatalks.net
available to sign her latest novel Village of Exhibitions and Robert Fisk: Free admission
As we expect this talk to be very busy, we request you please
Stone. contact us to reserve a seat by emailing: [email protected] Film screenings: £2.00 / £1.00 concession.
Coral lives with her boyfriend Red in a For those who cannot make it to the talk, or if numbers Festival Day Pass: £10.00 / £5.00 & Festival Weekend Pass: £20/ £10
twenty five storey apartment block in become too large, there will be an additional signing at 1.00pm available from Document 3 staff at all participating venues or by contacting below.
Beijing; she works behind the counter in a
in the Glasgow School of Art Newberry building, opposite the Free to Asylum Seekers & Refugees.
video store and he organises Frisbee tournaments and is kept by
his parents. One day a huge dried eel arrives, sent to Coral from main GSA Machintosh building, 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Tickets for single screenings can be booked in advance and are held until 15 minutes
the village where she grew up; forcing her to come to terms with G3 6RQ. before screening.
her past, it will change their relationship forever. [email protected] • 0141 248 6168 • www.docfilmfest.org.uk
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document 3 schedule:
exhibitions Promised Land by Martin Coyne CCA4 Sunday 23rd October
Russian Cafe, Cossachok, 10 King St, Glasgow, G1
10.00am – 10.00pm • 11th – 25th October 2005 10.00am–11.15am The Letter 75 mins
Time Based Art by Lauchlan Campbell 11.30am–12.30pm The Concrete Revolution 61 mins UK Premiere
Buddha’s Backyard, 38 Albion St, Merchant City, Glasgow 12.45pm–1.45 pm Tin Soldiers 48 mins UK Premiere
10.00am – 6.00pm • 11th – 24th October 2005
2.00pm–3.45pm Another Road Home 77 mins
Keynote The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Lecture Robert Fisk 4.00pm–5.00pm Emblem of Turkey: The Kurdish Problem 58 mins
GFT • 11.00am–12.30pm • 14th October 2005 5.15pm-6.25pm Hopefully for the Best 42 mins UK Premiere
GFT Friday 21st October: Launch A Number Zero 28 mins UK Premiere
6.30pm–8.00pm Unmik Titanic 56 mins UK Premiere 6.30pm–8.00pm Freedom Highway 90 mins
CCA4 Saturday 22nd October 8.15pm-10.00pm Tidemarks; Legacy of Apartheid 99 mins UK Premiere
CCA5 Sunday 23rd October
10.00am–11.15am Night Commuters 12 mins
Young Child of Bethlehem 20 mins 10.00am–12.30pm The Grandparents 30 mins UK Premiere
People
Journeys Across My City: Buenos Aires 12 mins Children Underground 108 mins
Our Lives with the Horses 8 mins 12.45pm-1.45pm Unmik Titanik. 56 mins UK Premiere
I am a Traveller 3 mins 2.00pm–3.45pm The Peacekeepers and the Women 80 mins
Majd’s Story 8 mins 4.00pm–6.00pm This Way Out 32 mins UK Premiere
Saqo 5 mins Asylum The Eye of the Needle 57 mins UK Premiere
Waiting for Sunrise 6 mins 6.15pm-7.30pm Verdict 30 mins
Seagulls 4 mins UK Premiere Kurdish A Country a Time a Man 42 mins
11.30am-12.30pm Runaways 17 mins UK Premiere 7.45pm-9.15pm Promised Land 26 mins
Asylum Border 27 mins UK Premiere Palestine Keys of Salim Dau 60 mins UK Premiere
Shorts
Arrival 9 mins 9.15pm-10.00pm Statelessness — a discussion
Bon Voyage 3 mins GFT Sunday 23rd October
1.00pm–2.00pm Across the Waters 28 mins 11.00am–12noon Dr. Nagesh 51 mins UK Premiere
Scotland and Tree Fellers 24 mins 12.10pm-1.30pm Afonka does not Want to Herd Reindeer Anymore. 78 mins UK Premiere
Emigration
1.45pm–2.45pm Aral Fishing in the Invisible Sea. 52 mins UK Premiere
2.15pm-3.30pm Best Wishes Bernhard 30 mins UK Premiere
3.00pm–4.00pm Wellspring 60 mins UK Premiere
Social Care The Crime of Uglification 8 mins
CCA4 Monday 24th October
Care Free 5 mins UK Premiere
10.00am–11.15am Darkie Day 15 mins
Burt 25 mins
11.30pm–12.30pm Traditional Trades — Pearl Fishers and Whelkers 6 mins UK Premiere
3.45pm–5.00pm A Difficult Case 10 mins
Speaking the Journey 45 mins UK Premiere
Mental Health Liina 5 mins UK Premiere
12.45pm–1.15pm Offside Dreams 25 mins
Hidden Gifts: Angus McPhee 25 mins
1.30pm–2.45pm Atlas (Mohammed) 4 mins UK Premiere
An Artists Guide to Schizophrenia 29 mins
Until When 76 mins UK Premiere
5.00pm-6.00pm Mental Health & Social Care Discussion
3.00pm–5.00pm Tribute to a clown 5 mins
6.15pm–7.15pm Women in Black 24 mins
Camcorder Dear Mrs Blair 15 mins
One True Path 24 mins Guerillas
Why Close The G8 15 mins
7.30pm–8.45pm Alterglobalists 20 mins UK Premiere
A selection of G8 footage 10 mins
The Human Trial 5 mins
The Removed 3 mins
Still We Ride 37 mins
5.15pm–6.15pm The Making of a President 57 mins UK Premiere
9.00pm–10.00pm Big Plane—Small Axe 51 mins UK Premiere
6.30pm–8.15pm Liberatio 17 mins
CCA5 Saturday 22nd October
MOJO MOJO: Work In Progress 10 mins
10.00am–11.00am Inside Israels Jails 58 mins
8.30pm–10.30pm Seaside Bombers (From Hell to Heaven) 85 mins
11.15am–12.15pm Chemical Ali 60 mins
CCA5 Monday 24th October
12.30pm–2.00pm Battle of the Bogside 60 mins
10.00am–11.15am Between Midnight and the Roosters Crow 66 mins
GFT Saturday 22nd October
11.30am–1.30pm Switch Off 87 mins
11.00a–12.45pm A Certain Liberation 38 mins
1.45pm–3.30pm Pripyat 100 mins UK Premiere
Mana 10 years Later 59 mins UK Premiere
3.45pm–5.45pm Free The Rossport Five 6 mins UK Premiere
1.00pm–2.45pm Sunny Side of the Road. 19 mins The Source 90 mins UK Premiere
Frescoes 85 mins 6.00pm–6.50pm 2F4 5 mins UK Premiere
3.00pm–4.00pm Bride Kidnappers of Kyrgystan 51 mins UK Premiere What’re you gonna do next, Karolinka? 42 mins
Gilmorehill Saturday 22nd October 7.00pm–8.15pm 89 mm 77 mins UK Premiere
5.00pm–6.40pm Perspective Pavel 5 mins UK Premiere 8.30pm–10.30pm Three Rooms for Melancholia 106 mins
White Ravens — Nightmare in Chechnya 92 mins UK Premiere GFT Monday 24th October
6.50pm–8.20pm Punjabi Cab 20 mins UK Premiere 11.00am–12 noon Assia-Land of Our Fathers. 12 mins UK Premiere
Ford Transit 80 mins Voice of Blood 2 — Searching for Selden. 48 mins UK Premiere
8.30pm–10.10pm Children of Leningradsky 35 mins UK Premiere 12.15pm–1.15pm In Paradisum 56 mins UK Premiere
The Youngest 64 mins UK Premiere 1.30pm–2.30pm Land First 57 mins UK Premiere
2.45pm–4.00pm Witches in Exil 77 mins UK Premiere
venues
CCA Glasgow Film Theatre
50 Sauchiehall Street 12 Rose Street Glasgow
Glasgow G2 3JD G3 6RB
telephone: [phone] telephone: [phone]
Fax [phone] [email protected]
[email protected] Exhibitions:
Gilmorehill G12 Russian Cafe Cossachok
9 University Avenue 10 King Street, Glasgow G1
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Buddha’s Backyard
telephone: [phone]
38 Albion Street
boxoffi[email protected]
Merchant City, Glasgow
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GFT Friday 21 October
Launch Film Friday 21st 6.30pm–8pm neighbours and extremists. Adults idle
their time in the only grocery shop in
Unmik Titanik the basement or by visiting each other,
Boris Mitic kids chase pidgeons on the roof and play
football in the hallways, but nobody even
Serbia and Montenegro • 2004
thinks about giving up on a New Years
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Celebration.
An eerie New Year’s Eve in Pristina,
An hour long voyeuristic immersion inside
capital of UN run Kosovo, four years after
this monolithic ghetto, full of political
the end of the war. The last remaining
sarcasm, black humour and philosophy
Serbs (100 out of 40.000 before the
of the absurd, but altogether curiously
war) but still don’t dare to come out
positive and liberating.
of their downtown six storey building
following countless attacks from Albanian
GFT Saturday 22 October
11am-12.45pm Mana 10 years Later chapters of the soviet era-the period Frescoes 3.00pm-4.00pm.
Olga Sommerova when hundreds and thousands of people Alexander Gutman
A Certain Liberation died in Stalins Gulags. Bride Kidnapping in
Yasmine Kabir Czech Republic • 2003 • 59 The central character of the film is Ivan Russia-Germany • 2002 • 85 Kyrgystan
USA • 2003 • 38 The tragic anti-heroine Mana, a repeat Gudkov, one of the last living prisoners The Armenia captured through the poetic Petr Lom
offender whose life has become a never of the Communist Death Camps. “He lens of documentary filmmaker Alexander
Gurudasi Mondol gave herself up to ending cycle of prison, short periods is a man without a past and without a Gutman is a country of stone, of towering Kyrgystan-Canada • 2004 • 51
madness in 1971, during the Liberation of freedom, petty crime and repeated future. His fate is the fate of a Martyr, who mountains, and solemn grave markers. The According to an old Kyrgz proverb, a
War of Bangladesh, after she witnessed imprisonment. A disturbing and thought never became and will never become a hard landscape, however, is no match for good marriage always begins with tears. If
her entire family being killed by the provoking insight into the life of a young hero”, says the director about Gudkov. the strength of its people. Shot in Giumril, this were truly the case, then this Central
collaborators of the occupying forces. woman who cannot live inside nor In a carefully worked composition of a city devastated by an earthquake in Asian country would be a newly weds
Thirty years later, Gurudasi continues outside of the prison system. This film black and white footage, we are offered 1988 shortly before Armenia won its paradise. Among the traditions practiced
to roam the streets of Kopilmoni, a clearly observes the light and dark shades a view of a sick elderly man, who in his independence, Frescoes offers a powerful here is the kidnapping of young girls, who
small town in the rural Bangladesh, in of Mana’s existence. meagre wooden shack spends one of the portrait of a nation digging out and are subsequently violently forced into
quest of all that she has lost; snatching last mornings of his life with his dogs. moving on. Through the measured lives of marriage by the family of the groom. “Stop
at will from strangers and breaking into 1pm-2.45pm The surroundings of his home are the Varuzh, a young boy awaiting his baptism, struggling and don’t cry anymore, in time
spaces normally reserved for men. In her notorious Siberian islands of Kolyma, and Garnik, an elderly gravedigger you will get used to it, after all we were
madness she has found a strategy for Sunny Side of The Road which still breathe the omnious genius approaching another birthday, Gutman also kidnapped when we were young”.
survival. Alexander Gutman loci. The meditative mood of the picture finds the deep connections between These are the words of two older women
In Kopilmoni, Gurudasi has attained near filmed in a minimalist style is a powerful everyday scenes-a crowded market, trying to calm down the newly kidnapped
legendary status. Through her indomitable Russia • 2004 • 19 reminder of the crimes of the Soviet children at play, glasses raised for a toast- girl, who is cowering in fear in the corner
presence, she has kept alive the spirit of Award winning Russian director, regime. and the soul of a people. of her “new home”. Only in extraordinary
the Liberation war. Alexander Gutman’s most recent film cases do these girls succeed in escaping.
concentrates on one of the darkest Although illegal this tradition continues.
GFT Sunday 23 October
11am–12noon mouths of individual patients to come Documentary Film Festival was filmed of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers
through. Their deepest fears, self delusions amidst the harsh beauty of the endless by the Soviet government in the first half
Doctor Nagesh and simple hope impel them to meet this snow covered landscape and reflects the of the twentieth century. In the Uzbek
Dominique Henry -Vincent understanding man. contradictions in contemporary Siberian village of Moynak, once located on the
Detours life. Footage of the everyday joy and banks of the Aral Sea, today there is only
12.10pm–1.30pm concerns of a family - original Siberian a polluted wasteland with a few grassy
Belgium • 2004 • 51
inhabitants - clearly shows how civilisation shallows containing the last remaining
In the train station in Bombay, India can destroy traditional ways of life even in fish. The majority of the local population
an overcrowded train arrives. When the far ends of the earth. have already been forced to move to
looking at the flowing masses of people, neighbouring Kazakhstan, as fishing in
it is impossible to guess which of these 1.45pm–2.45pm Moynak was their primary, and very nearly
individuals will head in the direction of only source of livelihood. This film is an early childhood, and communicates with
the examination room of Dr. Nagesh intimate portrait of three generations of others using his foot. Far from being
Shirgoppikar. Patients come from the one family seeking out a living near what shut off from the love of his family, he
various corners of India to see Dr. remains of the Aral Sea. experiences greater warmth and joy of
Nagesh, they all have the same problem - “I cannot imagine that grandfathers family life than most healthy children do.
they are HIV positive and the majority do Afonka Does Not Want to stories of an immense sea, which was Cut off from society and from people
not have enough money for the expensive sailed on by great ships, are based on the in general, and having to witness the
drugs, which could at least extend their Herd Reindeer Anymore truth”, says little Jabanek Anuarov. The suffering of their child, the despair of his
lives and relieve the most difficult pain. Martin Rysavy tight style of filming utilises long shots peasant parents begins to grow. As their
Dr. Nagesh provides consultations and Czech Republic • 2004 • 78 which combined with the disturbing music child’s sickness is getting worse, they
examinations for free. Patients, who of A.R. Mutti, faithfully reflect the bleak reject the advice of others to give up on
do not have enough finances for the Afanasij Konstantinov comes from a situation of the locals. him in order to release him from suffering.
medicines, are placed in contact with Yakut-Even marriage, and is a member of Aral, Fishing in Instead, they choose to stay and bear with
local business man and philanthropist M. oinn Sei boef rtiha eb yla stth efa hmeirlideisn gw ohof Rmeainkdee ae rl.i vEivnegn the Invisible Sea 3.00pm–4.00pm their child, together by his side.
Rashid, who covers the cost of the most Saodat Ismailova–Carlos Casas
if she would often like to end this difficult
urgently needed medicines. The blunt Wellspring
nomadic way of life and settle down in the Uzbekistan–Italy • 2004 • 52
style of this noteworthy documentary,
which takes place almost entirely in the town of Sakkyr where she went to school, In the last few decades the Aral Sea has Sha Quing
examination room of Dr. Nagesh, allows she has nothing other than reindeer lost over 80% of its surface area. This is China • 2002 • 60
the power of the testimonies from the herding in her blood. This picture, largely due to the poor administration Lei Xiguan has had cerebral palsy since
which was awarded at the 2004 Jihlava
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GFT Monday 24 October
11am-12noon murderer. Her story touches on well 2.45pm-4pm
known themes, such as the desire to
be loved and the fear of being alone. Witches In Exile
Filmed in the style of cinema verite it is Allison Berg
a rare look inside Estonia’s prisons and
America • 2004 • 77
at the same time is a personal testimony
of a woman who tolerated inhumane In Ghana, women accused of witchcraft
treatment by her husband. It shows what are torn from their families and banished
a bizarre and horrible form tolerance can to isolated “Witch Villages”. This film
have. follows accused witches through their
Turkish Cypriot girl visited him in his daily struggle to survive in the Kukuo
dream, crosses the north side of the A group of powerfully committed and witches camp in Northern Ghana. As
island and sets out to find her, His inspiring Ghandian activists travel around government agencies attempt to abolish
Assia – Land of our Fathers
search brings him outside Famagusta Orissa, a stunningly beautiful but highly the age old tradition, these women
Elene Hadjdaniel where three Turkish-Cypriot villages lie impoverished state in East India. They find themselves caught between their
England • 2005 • 12 in ruins.(Sandalar, Murataga and Atlilar). are continuing Ghandi’s fight for the land society’s deeply rooted beliefs and it’s
There he meets some of the residents rights of India’s poor, using one of his drive towards modernisation. Witches in
This documentary follows the story of who share with him the stories of the methods of peaceful political protest - the Exile captures a country at a dramatic and
the director’s father who is returning villages and how in 1974 Greek Cypriots footmarch. emotional crossroads.
to his homeland in the north of Cyprus,
30 years after he and his family were slaughtered all the villagers. Not being With the additional aid of jeeps, they
forced out during the 1974 war between able to find Selden-he ends up in a Taskent travel over 2000 kilometres, mainly
the Greek-Cypriots and the Turks village where another frightening story 1.30pm-2.30pm Land First through remote and tribal areas. Their
- the border was opened to the Greek- about the 1974 war is revealed. final destination is the state capital,
Cypriots in 2003. Land First Bhubaneswar.
12.15pm-1.15pm Amanda Burrell
Voice of Blood 2 –
In Paradisum UK • 2004 • 57
Searching for Selden.
Sulev Keedus Land First is the story of a journey
Tony Angastiniotis
through one of the most beautiful parts
Cyprus • 2005 • 48 Estonia • 1993 • 56 of India, and of a passionate fight for
In Paradism follows the life of prisoner survival by some of India’s most desperate
A dramatic documentary about a Greek
Pille, whose husband Andreas is a mass people.
Cypriot journalist, who after a young
Gilmorehill 22 October
5pm–6.40pm Feindt and Tamara Trampe followed the one of the figures in the short film, which film concentrated on a community of The Youngest
attempts of these young people trying exposes one of the darker sides of the homeless children living hand to mouth in Ditsi Carolino
to fit back into society again, after their omnipresent war on terror. the Moscow train station Leningradsky.
return from war, a society which acted as Ford Transit. 8 year old Sasha, 11 year old Kristina, 13 Phillipines • 2004 • 64
if the war in Chechnya did not exist. Only year old Misha and 10 year old Andrej all Talented documentary film maker
in the Committee of Mothers of Russian Hany Abu–Assad dream of living in a communal home. They Ditsi Carolino has created another
Soldiers can these returnees from the war spend winter nights trying to stay warm noteworthy film, which allows us to look
and their helpless parents find similarly Palestine • Holland • 2002 • 80 by huddling together on hot water pipes into the bleak fate of children from the
stricken people, with whom they can find A documentary with fictional elements, and most of their days are spent begging. impoverished slums of the largest cities of
mutual understanding. about the life of young Rajai, a Palestinian Andrej has found himself here because of the third world.
taxi-van driver, who struggles everyday disagreements with his family. Kristina, was The main character of the film is 11 year
6.50pm–8.20pm to get passed roadblocks and barriers, driven into this way of life by the hatred old Bunso, who is serving time for minor
Perspective Pavel through detours and shortcuts from of her stepmother and 12 year old Roma theft in the metropolis of Manila, in the
Abigail Howkins East-Jerusalem to Ramallah and back again by the regular beatings he received from Phillipines.
transporting passengers for three shekels his constantly drunk father. “When it is Together with Diosel, who is a few
Scotland • 2005 • 5 a trip. worst, we try to make money for food by months older and 13 year old Tony, they
Pavel Romanov deserted the Russian His point of view on the intifada, the prostitution”, admits 13 year old Artur. are passed up against hundreds of adult
Army and came to the UK in 2000. occupation, suicide attacks and life The pair of Polish film makers in this raw prisoners in overcrowded cells, many of
Living in temporary hostel in general is mirrored by that of his and very effective documentary even whom are sentenced for rape, murder
accommodation in Central Glasgow, he passengers, ordinary people but also the succeeded in filming an incident where and dealing drugs.
tells us his experience of being an ‘Artist politician Hanan Ashrawi, film maker BZ the police patrol beat one of the street “Hey it’s raining, finally we can wash
in Exile’ in Scotland. Goldberg and others. children and smear an entire tube of glue ourselves and our clothes” screams
into his hair and onto his face. Tony in a burst of joy to his friends and
8.30pm–10.10pm It is precisely the sniffing of the glue fumes together they run out to the prison
that gives these children the possibility grounds towards the natural shower.
to at least for a little while escape the
unforgiving world around them.
Punjabi Cab
Liam Dalzell
USA • 2004 • 20mins.
Sikhs originating from the North Indian
Punjab form a relatively large and
prosperous group in San Francisco. One
of the expressions of their faith is the
long uncut beards and coloured turbans.
White Ravens –
This reminds some of Muslims and for
Nightmare in Chechnya this reason after September 11th they
became the target for a number of verbal
Johann Feindt, Tamara Trampe and physical attacks. “I am glad that I live The Children of
Germany • 2005 • 92 in America and I love my work as a taxi Leningradsky
driver. Now however I am afraid” tells
Katya and Keril signed up as vounteers in Hanna Pollak–Andrzej Celinski
the army at the age of eighteen and set
Poland • 2004 • 35
off for service in Chechnya. Katya worked
as a nurse in the field hospital in the war Since the fall of the iron curtain an
zone. When they returned home from the estimated four million children have found
Caucasus, none of them were the same themselves living on the streets in the
as before. former countries of the Soviet Union. In
the streets of Moscow alone there are
They were phsycologically and
over 30.000 homeless children surviving
emotionally at their lowest point, alone
in this manner at the present
with memories of war, death and suffering.
time. The makers of this documentary
In the course of three years Johann
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10am–11.15am Young Most of the footage involves the Doherty men and donkeys carry everything else form all forms of violence. They must be
Peoples Programme family, at weddings, holy communion, the that the group will need for survival. The kept safe from harm. They must be given
Appleby Horse Fair and in their campsite war has driven thousands of people from proper care by those looking after them.
Night Commuters in Woodgreen. their homes. Many are able to find refuge ‘the treatment I suffered in care was
Marc Hoeferlin-Ashley Jenkins- after a couple of months in the middle of unbearable. I was psychologically,
Justin Purefoy the border river in “No Mans Land”. emotionally, physically and sexually
abused....’
UK–Uganda • 2005 • 12
A copy of the convention of the human
Thousands and thousands of children
rights of the child by Peter Newell can
leave their homes and walk for miles each
night to escape rebel abduction. This film Tree Fellers be obtained from the National Children’s
Bureau, 8 Wakley St, London, EC1V 7QE.
looks at the effects on children of the 18 Sana Bilgrami
years war in Northern Uganda, described Burt
Scotland • 2004 • 24
as one of the worst humanitarian crisis of Anthony Di Salvo
the 20th century. Majd’s Story In 1942, nine hundred Belizean
lumberjacks left the tropical rainforests USA • 2002 • 25
Terry Smith of British Honduras to help Britain fight Burt Petrone was born in New York State
UK • 2005 • 8 Border Fascism by felling trees. Three of the men in 1921. He was born with developmental
“Confronted by checkpoints and soldiers Laura Waddington who stayed on after the war look back on disabilities. In the year 2001 at the age of
pointing guns-their guns in our faces, I their extraordinary lives. 79, Burt agreed to sit in front of a camera
felt compelled to make some comment. France-UK • 2004 • 27 with his wife Barbara and talk about his
I stayed in a village just outside Ramallah, In 2002, Laura Waddington spent months 2.15pm-3.30pm life. He gives a chronological history of
called Jiffna. Everyone I met there in the fields around Sangatte Red Cross Social Care Shorts his life and times beginning in 1936 when
showed great kindness and each had a camp, France with Afghan and Iraqi he was 15 years old and living in a large
story to tell. During the course of these refugees, who were trying to cross the institution for the mentally retarded.
conversations, one particular voice stood channel tunnel to England. Filmed at night
Child of Bethlehem. out: a small girl called Majd who talked with a small video camera, the figures lit 3.45pm–5.15pm
Stuart Bamforth eloquently and poetically about the only by the distant car headlights on the Mental Health Shorts
occupation and her life in the village.” motorways. Border is a personal account
UK • 2005 • 20 of the refugees plight and the police
2003 years after the birth of a local boy Saqo violence that followed the camp’s closure.
Jesus Christ, what is it like growing up on Aram Abrahamyan
the mean streets of Bethlehem today?
Armenia • 2005 • 5
Impeccably shot by Palestinian children
themselves, these 5 self directed vignettes Saqo is about a 13 year old boy Saqo,
Best Wishes Bernhard
show what it is like to fall in love, fly a who is working in a stone processing
kite, and build a garden in a refugee camp. factory with elderly people. He is doing Johanna St. Michaels
Refraining from sensationalism, this film hard work not meant for his age and is Sweden • 2004 • 30
shows the human side of growing up in a telling us about his previous experience as A Difficult Case
war zone. a worker, as well as his dreams to travel An old man sick with cancer asks a
around the world and see new countries. young film maker to document his death. A Difficult Case
Saqo does not go to school as other Best Wishes Bernhard is a macabre Alice Nelson/Scotland/2005/10
children do. He has never gone to school portrait of a peculiar man who conducts What if belief in the afterlife was not
and does not know how to read or write. Arrival an unsentimental relationship towards a question of faith but a matter of
He has been working in the factory since Damian Clarke and David dying. He expresses a deep loathing for necessity?
tohf eh iasg ep eoefr 7s,. bHuits hliefe disr edaimffesr eabnot ufrto tmhe t hat Emerson chaurminagn, mvaoluuerns,i npgr,e sfeymrrpinagt htyo adnwde ollt uhpeor n In 1984, Mrs A heard voices in her head.
same things. UK • 2005 • 9 the gruesome and the carnal. Johanna St. They said “don’t be afraid”. They tried to
Michaels debut film focuses on Bernhard’s re-assure her she wasn’t crazy. And they
Arrival tells the story of one refugee’s
Waiting For Sunrise obsessions with food, erotica, hygiene, informed her she had a problem that she
attempt to gain asylum. Shot on location
Journeys Across My City: Aneel Ahmad in the UK and East Africa it is a first hand ageing and of course death. “needed to attend to”.
Buenos Aires England • 2004 • 6 account of the experience of Albino The voices told her she had to have a
Anton Califano A documentary concerning the extreme Oadcahpeterod- fOrokmel loa sntaorrrya tfierds tb py uAbllbisinhoed a nbdy brerpailnie dsc sainm. Wplyh: “ebne schaeu saes kyeodu whhavye, t ha ebyr ain
UK-Argentina • 2004 • 12 poverty, the courtesans and the Granta in their ‘London: Lives of the City’ tumour”. What happened next is a truth
Film 1; Carlos and his friends are living prostitution within the streets of Lahore, series. that science cannot explain and religion
Pakistan. Children without parents, living can only suggest.
uncertain lives on the outskirts of Buenos in slums, cold and unloved, begging to A longer version of the film was originally
Aires. Their parents have come to the city stay alive. Undergoing verbal and physical produced for the Refugee Action ‘Refugee Filmed using a blend of stylized
looking for better lives. Some have found abuse to bring enough money in to live Voices’ Campaign. This is the first festival reconstruction and the personal
them, some are not so sure, but the young each day as it comes. This film focuses release. testimony of Dr Ike Azuonye – the
people have the same hopes and dreams Harley Street psychiatrist who gambled
on the underprivileged children and how The Crime of Uglification
as children everywhere. his professional credibility on listening to
poverty and social class controls their Jeanette Bell and Michelle the voices - this is the remarkable story
Film 2; Sandra and Andrea are both environment. Waiting for Sunrise deals Naismith of a woman who owes her life to unseen
13 and originally from Bolivia. Their with the poor and dispossessed — really
angels and an eminent scientist who was
families migrated to live in Buenos Aires, the poorest of the poor, the lowest of the Scotland • 2005 • 8
prepared to believe.
Argentina. Hermans family come from low in Pakistani urban society. A courtroom drama looking at some
Paraguay, whilst Diego was born in of the daily problems encountered “Science without religion is lame. Religion
Buenos Aires. Diego’s drawing explains in a modern psychiatric hospital. The without science is blind.” (Albert
how he sees the area in which he lives, screenplay was written by patient and Einstein)
as well as his vision of Argentina today. artist, Jeanette Bell and artist Michelle
The four of them explore their intimate Bon Voyage Naismith as part of the Functionsuite
feelings about their home city and the project.
capital of Argentina. Kapwani Kiwanga
France • 2004 • 3
A visual guide to immigration, contrasting
images of arrivals and departures at
Seagulls Montparnasse railway station with the
woman who tends and cleans the toilets.
Gor Baghdasaryan
Armenia • 2004 • 4 1pm-2pm Liina
The seagulls fly in the air. A ten-year old Scotland and Emigration Jaan Toomik
boy looks up, he seems to form part of a
nice view as his eyes follow these beautiful Care Free Estonia • 2003 • 5
Our Lives With The Horses birds. Suddenly the boy turns and walks Fiona Reid Liina shows a dialogue between Toomik
Steve Gear away and the camera displays the piles of the teacher and one of his former female
rubbish that seem neverending. Scotland • 2005 • 5 students. Although she has suffered from
UK • 2004 • 8
This film is a personal account of being schizophrenia for a number of years and
A short film which allows us to enter the 11.30am-12.30pm in care in Scotland before the existence has a multiple personality disorder, she is
world of the Gypsy/Travellers and their Asylum Shorts of the UN convention on the rights of a very talented painter. One of the alter
lives with the horses. Horses are a very the child. The UK government agreed personalities existing within her mind is
large and important part of the Gypsy/ Runaways to be bound by the convention in 1991. actually the artist Toomik himself.
Traveller lifestyle. This is a rare glimpse Across the Waters The Government is therefore obliged
into this part of life with a community in Orzu Sharipov Sana Bilgrami to meet the standards laid down by the
England. Tajikistan • 2004 • 17 convention.
Scotland • 2004 • 28
I am a Traveller Director Orzu Sharipov accompanies In 1955 a young woman emigrated from The Convention of the Human Rights of
Maedhbh McMahon a group of Afghan refugees who escape Pakistan to the outer hebrides in Scotland. the Child:
from war to the safety of an uninhabited Fifty years and three generations on, a 1) Protection from violence and harmful
England • 2004 • 3 island on the Panj river which forms a testing new journey begins. treatment.
Steis Pavvy is a collage of images from natural border with Tajikistan. The women
Children have the right to be protected
the Irish traveller community in London. carry their smallest children, while the
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Disability Film Festival, in 2004 it was and torture services to client states with 9pm-10pm
short listed for best documentary in the experience and expertise in these areas. It
Mental Health Media Awards. The film has is a key technique in the War on Terror
also been shown at film festivals in North The imaginative form of the piece is to
America and the Middle East. conflate the Chamber of Torture with
the Chamber of Commerce. This is an
5.15pm-6.00pm attempt to underline the common goals
Mental Health & Social Care of military and commercial enterprises
discussion and the basic market-led philosophy that
drives them. Outsourcing is an article of
Hidden Gifts: Angus McPhee One True Path
faith in any modern capitalist organization,
6.15pm-7.15pm
Nick Higgins Ruth Barrie be it a bank or security service.
UK • 2004 • 24 Scotland • 2005 • 24 The interrogation session proves to be
more an exercise in injecting information
Hidden Gifts is a creative documentary Since 9 • 11 attacks on Muslims as
rather than extracting it, surely the true
that explores the mystery of art and terrorists have skyrocketed. At the same
point of all such activity. The subject is Big Plane – Small Axe
mental illness. It tells the story of Angus time the number of Scottish converts to
told “the way things are” and the penalties
McPhee, “the quiet big man” from South Islam has dramatically increased. What Margaretta D’Arcy
for not realizing this. Unfortunately,
Uist, who wove clothes from grass. is going on? Why are Scots choosing to
the session is cut short through lack Ireland • 2004 • 51
Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1946 convert to Islam? Why would anyone
Angus was taken from his island home on reject the freedom of our western of funding, so the subject is sent on his In January 2003 the American build up to
South Uist to Craig Dunain psychiatric democracy and follow a path that calls way in a Gulfstream 5 private jet, the attack Iraq was intensifying daily. Shannon
hospital among the hills near Inverness in them to leave behind many of the values, CIA’s well documented ferryboat to the Airport had become a re-fuelling stopover
the Scottish highlands. For fifty years he Women In Black beliefs and customs with which they were underworld. for war. Mary Kelly, newly returned from
spoke not a single word to any member Nick Higgins raised. her hair raising experiences as a volunteer
of the hospital staff. His presence was also UK • 2004 • 24 nurse in Palestine, threw herself into the
an absence; his secret grass weaving his 7.30pm-8.45pm anti-war movement. Soon she became to
only form of expression Women in Black keep vigil for peace on believe that it wasn’t enough. “I felt that
the streets of cities all over the world. I had to do something else and shatter
From Japan to Israel, from Argentina to through their lies, I just did not want
Turkey and in many other countries there those planes going there, so I attacked
are women who oppose violence and one of them, it was like chopping down
lend their support to women suffering in extremely hard wood.”.
war zones.
She was charged with criminal damage to
In Edinburgh, every Saturday, come rain a US navy aircraft without lawful excuse.
and come shine, a disparate group of Still We Ride She faced a possible 10 years in jail.The
women don black clothes and stand on Andrew Lynn film follows her ordeal through three
Princes Street, in the centre of the city. Alterglobalists successive trials in Kilrush, Ennis and
USA • 2005 • 37
They are there to bear silent witness Andrezj Wojciechowski finally her sentencing in Limerick.
An Artists Guide To against the futility of war and the Still We Ride is an action packed glimpse
devastation which comes in its wake. Poland • 2005 • 20 into a shocking showdown between the
Schizophrenia
Three of their number explain the Anarchists, punks, intellectuals-they monthly critical mass bike ride and the
David Emerson and Damian experiences and knowledge which have created the antiglobalistic movement in police in New York City. On Friday 27th
Clark made them take the decision to join Poland. Alterglobalists is an alternative August 2004 just days before the start of
UK • 2003 • 22 the vigil. As they watch and recall events look on reality, demonstrations and the Republican National Convention, 264
in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine they battles with the system. people were arrested while participating
Artist Aidan Shingler has had three conclude -enough; I have to do something. in the monthly ride. It marked one of the
episodes of schizophrenia. The film meets The Human Trial largest mass arrests in New York City.
him as he prepares an exhibition that Butler Brothers
narrates his response to the experience
together with that of his family, his Scotland • 2005 • 5
partner and the psychiatric community. Human Trial depicts an extraordinary
‘An Artist’s Guide to Schizophrenia’ was rendition to a chamber of commerce.
first screened in 2003 at the National Extraordinary rendition is the new
Film Theatre London as part of the 5th practice of outsourcing interrogation
CCA 4 Sunday 23 October
10am-11.15am 11.30am–12.30pm 12.45pm–1.45pm 2pm–3.45pm 4.00pm–5pm
The Letter The Concrete Revolution
Emblem of Turkey:
Ziad. H. Hamzeh Xiaolu Guo Tin Soldiers Another Road Home
The Kurdish Problem
USA • 2003 • 75 China-UK • 2004 • 61 Torsten Grude Danae Elon
Jiyar Gol
A firestorm of controversy erupts when “We are not just good at destroying the Norway • 2004 • 48 Israel • 2004 • 77
Lewiston, Maine, Mayor Harry Raymond old world, but also at building the new A group of young UN soldiers in Lebanon Danae Elon grew up in Jerusalem. She Canada • 2005 • 58
sends an open letter to 1,100 newly one” announced Mao-Tse Tung many enter service with pro-Israelli views and a had 3 parents; her mother, her father In the onset of the 2004 European
arrived Somalis informing them that the years ago, and even he could not have naïve outlook on the war. They go through and Musa Obeidallah, a Palestinian man summit, Jiya Gol sets out on a unique
city’s resources are strained to the limit foreseen the extent to which China is a radical change of heart as they witness who worked for her family. For more pilgrimage to Turkey to explore Turkish
and asking them to tell other Somalis fulfilling his words at the beginning of and film the Qana massacre. They secure than 20 years, Obeidallah devoted himself life around the vast country as it lobbies
not to move to the city. Interpreted as the 21st century. Most notably, Peking, video evidence indicating that Israel to Danae, but when her family moved the European Union to open membership
racism by some and a rallying cry by white in connection with the organising of deliberately bombed a UN camp killing to the states, he stayed behind in the talks. His arrival in Turkey coincides with
supremacist groups across the United the 2008 Olympic Games, has become 106 refugees. divided region. Over a decade later, Danae the end of a unilateral ceasefire between
States. The Letter documents the ensuing one giant construction site. The symbol At the end of the film, Robert Fisk undertakes a quest to find the man who the Kurdish Guerillas and Turkish Military.
cross current of emotions and events, of the New China is built by hand by respected journalist shares his thoughts once met so much to her. Danae’s quest Facing horror and heartbreak across
culminating in a hate rally convened by approximately one million labourers on The Qana Massacre. brings out the delicate boundaries of Turkey, Jiyar meets those from both sides.
the World Church of the Creator and a travelling for work mainly from the politics, class and family relationships. A In each place he discovers unforgettable
counter peace rally involving nearly 4,000 poorer villages in the countryside. A painful, contradictory, gentle and loving tales of survival, resilience, ritual and
Lewiston residents supporting ethnic and number of them have not yet received story takes place against the backdrop of recovery.
cultural diversity. their wages after several months, while a distant and brutal conflict.
their families wait desperately for money.
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5.15pm- 6.25pm political realities take hold of the day. of Bethlehem during the Israeli army previous age has been characterised by apartheid, four former activists deal with
invasion of the city in 2001. He goes to a uprisings of people everywhere, from the consequences of their dedication to
Hopefully For The Best barber to have his hair cut and finds that the civil rights campaigns of African- human dignity with frustration, humour
Raed Helou the barbershop represents a microcosm Americans to the Suffragettes of the and hope. Canadian film maker Sarah
of the community that comes to the shop early 20th century, to the antiapartheid Abbot’s intimate engagement with
Palestine • 2003 • 42
to seek refuge from the warring world movement in South Africa. Freedom four Cape Town residents reveals the
Director Raed Helou describes Ramallah outside. Highway sees the 20th century as an age irony that many people who dedicated
during the tense winter before the of struggle and resistance whose stories themselves to the fight for human dignity
US invasion of Iraq as “calm, like snow 6.30pm-8pm live in song. still struggle for daily survival ten years
on graves, and angry as an old woman after South Africa’s first all race elections.
who has lost everything.” The curious Freedom Highway 8.15pm–10pm
monotony of life during an uprising is
Hummingbird Productions
the subject of the peripatetic camera Tidemarks:
that roams the rain-slashed streets A Number Zero Ireland • 2002 • 90
Legacies of Apartheid
of Ramallah. In brief encounters with Said Adouni Freedom Highway is a documentary
Ramallah’s street sweepers, bakers and which looks at the role of song in the Sarah Abbot
hummus makers, anxiety simmers below Palestine • 2002 • 28 fight for civil/religious liberties and human Canada-South Africa • 2004 • 99
the surface, but everyone seeks a bit of The film maker returns to his home town rights. The 20th century more than any Ten years after the triumph over
“normal” life in the early morning, before
CCA 4 Monday 24 October
11am-11.15am documentary footage, it is underpinned 3.00pm–5.00pm the elections were barely covered by the our fears and identities manipulated by
by an interview with Len Smith, one of Camcorder Guerillas international media. the authorities? We accept that we are
the founder members of the Gypsy and Programme “The Making of a President” is a unique unavoidably set within these parameters,
Traveller Law Reform Coalition and document which voices the silence of assuming that the best move is to
author of Romany Nevi Wesh. thousands of Malawians who have been acknowledge these limitations whilst
denied the right of speaking out. History trying our best to continue within them.
12.45pm-1.15pm cannot be deleted. This short documentary focuses on the
miscarriage of justice suffered by William
Offside Dreams Gage, whilst tackling issues of social, self
6.30pm-8.15pm
Ruth Kelly and moral beliefs.
Miscarriage of Justice
Scotland • 2004 • 25 Organisation
Darkie Day A Scottish street soccer team embark on The Miscarriages of Justice Organisation
an emotional journey to Austria to play
Dewi–Bruce–Konuah (Scotland) is a human rights charity set
in the first ever Homeless People’s World
up by Paddy Hill to help innocent people
UK • 2005 • 15 Cup.
“Truth”, Distortion and both before and after their release.
Cornish folk in black-faces singing old
minstrel songs. Harmless traditions or 1.30pm-2.45pm the Alternative Media At present there is no help to prepare
and counsel innocent victims after they
an act of racial mockery? Three student – Reflections after the G8
are released from the Appeal court - no
film makers embark on a journey across Summit preparation, no counselling pre- or post-
England to find out exactly what “Darkie
release — nothing. So what happens to
Day” is all about. A programme of films and open
the innocent? The answer is heartache
discussions with invited guests to Mojo - work in progress
and misery, usually followed by a cycle of
11.30am-12.30pm ifilllumsmtraaktee rtsh. eT hweo prkro ogfr alomcmal ep owliiltli chaigl hlight drugs or alcohol abuse, or both. 10mins
events surrounding the recent G8 summit There can be no doubt that wrongful Some footage from a documentary about
in Gleneagles and examine the differences incarceration is damaging: but, what is Mojo currently being made in Glasgow
between the mainstream and alternative worse, the way individuals are released
media coverage. back into society compounds this damage.
8.30pm-10.30pm
Atlas (Mohammed) Films At present MOJO is attempting to raise
£500,000 to build a retreat to for the
Kenny Davidson Tribute to a clown – 5mins
victims of miscarriages of justice. It would
(Camcorder Guerillas)
Scotland • 2005 • 4 be a tragedy of immense proportions to
A walk across Jebel M’Goun (3.000M) Dear Mrs Blair – 15mins think helping to get innocent people out
from Happy Valley to Valley Des Roses, (Camcorder Guerillas) of prison is ultimately damaging them
out beyond Marrakecch in Morocco’s Why Close The G8 – 15mins irreparably. This has to stop. Please help us
Traditional Trades– Atlas mountains with song. (Camcorder Guerillas) build a MOJO Retreat.
Pearl Fishers and Whelkers Until When A selection of G8 footage – 10mins Contact: MOJO Scotland, GMAC 3rd
Karen Carrick Dahna Abourahme (various sources) Floor, 34 Albion Street, Glasgow, G1 1LH
Scotland • 2004 • 6 USA • 2004 • 76 The Removed – 3mins Tel: [phone] Suicide Bombers
(Camcorder Guerillas) mobile: [phone]
A group of young Gypsy/Travellers from Set during the current intifada, this [email protected] (From Hell to Heaven)
across Scotland were concerned that documentary follows four Palestinian 5.15pm-6.15pm www.mojoscotland.com Khaled Ajamieh
their lifestyle, culture and heritage was families living in the Dheisheh Refugee
often poorly conveyed and that this Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is thirteen The Making of a President Ireland • 2005 • 85
contributed to it not being understood and cares for her four younger brothers; She is a Palestinian girl, 17 years of age.
Mirella Domenich–Christian
by the settled community. This film is the Hammash family pass on the lessons Wearing an explosives belt, she arrives
their way of doing something positive to of life with humour and passion; Sana is a Goertz at a large shopping mall in Israel, but at
promote Gypsy/Traveller traditions from single woman who endures long journeys Malawi–Germany • 2004 • 57 the last minute she decides not to press
their own contemporary perspective. The to do community work; and Emad and In 2004 Malawi celebrates 10 years the button. What made her change her
message they want to express is - they Hanan are a young couple trying to shield of democracy with its third general mind? How did she manage to persuade a
are the same as other people but they their daughter from the harsh realities elections held on the 20th of May. The military group to prepare her for a suicide
lead different lives of the occupation. They talk about their elections, however, raise the question operation? What is the real reason behind
past and discuss the future with humour, her decision to be a suicide bomber? The
of how far the democratisation process
Speaking the Journey sorrow, frustration and hope. Until When filmmaker followed this girl for a long
has reached this Southern African nation
Graham Charnley–Jordi Roberts paints an intimate in-depth portrait of time and filmed everything.
of 12 million people. While Dr. Bingu
Palestinian lives today.
UK • 2005 • 45 wa Mutharika from the ruling alliance is
sworn into office, Malawians are on the
Commissioned by the Forest Bus with
streets protesting against the outcome of
funding from the Countryside Agency
the elections, a rare event in one of the
Local Heritage Initiative this film is part
most peaceful countries on the continent.
of an Oral History Project with Gypsies
At least six people, including a 10-year
and Travellers in the New Forest area.
old girl, are reportedly killed by police Liberatio
Filmed in various locations it takes an
officials. International observes conclude
informal voyage through the lifestyle of a Paul McCluskey
“serious anomalies” within the process
group of contemporary English Gypsies
and a series of human rights violations. Scotland • 2005 • 17
exploring how they define their culture
and their links with their past. Taking the Interviews with voters and with politicians Society; ignorant and naive. Do we
form of a montage of talking heads and show the gap between the two edges of choose to see and believe, only what the
the society. Despite all of the irregularities, corrupt establishment want us to? Are
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10am -11am cells with unprecedented access to mastermind behind the viciously planned 12.30am-2pm government in Westminster, was to shape
the maximum security prisoners-those genocide campaign against the Kurds, the future of Northern Ireland for over
regarded as the most dangerous by the called ‘Anfal’. The Battle of the Bogside thirty years.
Israeli state-and their jailers. The result The film provides a riveting testimony of Vinny Cunningham
is a film which explores the surprising the fate the Iraq’s suffered by the hands of Ireland • 2004 • 60
relationships between guards and inmates Ali Hassan Al Majeed, AKA the “damned.”
characterised as “a gentle tango” of On the 12th August 1969, the disaffected
friendly animosity. Nationalist and Catholic population of the
Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland
took to the streets to confront the Royal
11.15am-12.15pm
Ulster Constabulary, in the wake of the
Inside Israel’s Jails Chemical Ali Protestant Apprentice Boys Parade in the
city. The riots which came to be known as
Nick Read–Dimitri Doganis Kawa Akrawi
“The Battle of the Bogside”, continued for
UK • 2004 • 58 Kurdistan • 2004 • 60 almost 3 days and saw over 1,000 people
Since the start of the recent intifada the Heartbreaking, never seen before footage injured. This was not a sudden unforeseen
number of security prisoners (those of Chemical Ali’s atrocities and interviews event as the pot had been simmering
accused of terrorist offences) in Israel’s with the ‘Anfal’ chemical victim survivors. for some time before August. The battle
prisons has leapt from a few hundred Ali Hassan Al Majeed, also known as ended when, in an unprecedented step,
to over four thousand. This World team Chemical Ali, who’d become the strongest British troops were deployed into
spent a month filming inside the prison man in Iraq after Saddam, was the Derry. This decision made by the British
CCA 5 Sunday October
10am-12.30pm long takes and discrete scenes, is one of this chilling investigation examines the faced by lesbians and gays in most parts of on the trials of those accused of killing
depressing sameness. The children bounce booming sex-trafficking industry in Bosnia the world. the people during the 1995 Istanbul “Gazi
in and out of shelters: they fight; they huff and Kosovo, and boldly explores the Besides portraying eloquent accounts of incidents”.
paint; they are beaten. These tattered lives, disturbing role of the UN peacekeeping Kahunya, Ana’s and Arslan’s experiences, A Country A Time A Man
offensive to our every notion of what forces and the local military in the film questions what kind of asylum the
childhood should be, are carried out in perpetuating this tragic situation. U.S. provides for them and what kind of Huseyin Karabey
full view of both Bucharest’s business In 1995, the UN set up a free trade zone “freedom” they have found. Turkey • 2004 • 42
commuters and Belzberg’s camera. in Bosnia, hoping to bring peace to the
The life and times of trade unionist Necati
troubled region. Instead it lured the
Aydin who was abducted from the Turkish
thriving business of human trade—where
state security court in 1994.
women from villages in Moldova, the
Ukraine and Romania are sold by the
7.45pm-9.15pm Palestinian
hundreds into prostitution. In a shocking
indictment, the film reveals that affluent
peacekeeping forces have been some of
the burgeoning industry’s most solvent
customers, allowing the sex trade to get
a foothold in the region and paving the The Eye of the Needle
way for its expansion. Jurschick confronts Jonas Soderqvist/ Oskar Sjodin
UN officials and aid workers, goes on a
raid with international police, and reveals Sweden • 2005 • 57
The Grandparents the tragic stories of the trafficked women “The Eye of the Needle” takes a close
Ioana Joca themselves to unravel the many layers of look at the Swedish, and European,
this complicated crime scene. migration policies and the living situation
Romania–Scotland • 2005 • 30
for refugees in Europe coming from
My grandparents’ story is the story of an 4pm-6pm Asylum troubled areas all over the world. The film Promised Land
entire nation. They represent Romania’s captures the daily life of four people, all Nora Meyer
last genuine peasant generation. These marked by the order of the New Europe:
UK • 2004 • 26
are the people who watched 3 political 12.45pm-1.45pm
– a young man hiding Asylum Seekers
regimes -monarchy, and then communism Nora Meyer, a British Jew, accompanies
from the authorities.
and now “democracy” – come uninvited Unmik Titanik New York’s ‘Friends Of Israel’s Defence
to impact on their lives. As my grandfather Boris Mitic – an official at the Swedish Migration Force’ on their annual military tour of
says in the film, “They all stole from us”. Board whose job is to decide who gets to the West Bank; a bizarre journey to the
Today the State hands out a combined Serbia and Montenegro • 2004 stay and who is thrown out. very heart of 21st Century Zionism.
• 56
monthly social security payment of – a young Bosnian woman living
Keys of Salim Dau
€13 on which they are both expected An eerie New Year’s Eve in Pristina, underground, hiding from the Swedish
to survive. With the worldwide slump capital of UN run Kosovo, four years after police, trying to avoid deportation. Salim Dau
in farm prices, today their produce is the end of the war. The last remaining
– a young Macedonian man waiting for his Palestine • 2003 • 60
worthless so they eat what they grow and Serbs (100 out of 40.000 before the
live a pathetically frugal existence. war) but still don’t dare to come out asylum application to come through. Keys of Salim Dau is the story of
of their downtown six storey building ‘We have filmed their lives for two and the Palestinians of Galilee. With the
I strongly believe that Romania will
following countless attacks from Albanian a half years in order to capture their establishment of the state of Israel in
only be able to understand where it
neighbours and extremists. Adults idle respective realities. We are trying to 1948, over 1 million Palestinians were
is headed if it also understands and
their time in the only grocery shop in understand the system by looking at how expelled from their homes. 300,000 of
respects its past. I hope that my film
the basement or by visiting each other, it marks administrative officials as well as them reside in Israel, dreaming of return
is a document addressed to all future
kids chase pidgeons on the roof and play refugees seeking help.’ to their original villages and homes. Many
generations in Romania, but also to all
football in the hallways, but nobody even of them still keep their old house keys.
those in all countries who may have lost
something precious as they embrace new thinks about giving up on a New Years Asylum Discussion Salim Dau a refugee himself, confronts
homogenised lifestyles. Celebration. This Way Out his personal memories with those of
An hour long voyeuristic immersion inside the characters he meets, their struggle
Children Underground this monolithic ghetto, full of political Jill Burnett & Anthony Lhotsc 6.15pm-7.30pm Kurdish for equal rights in the present, and their
Edet Belzberg sarcasm, black humour and philosophy Canada and USA • 2004 • 32 Verdict dream to return to their villages, some of
USA–Romania • 2000 • 108 opof sthiteiv eab asnudr dli, bbeurta tailntog.gether curiously Tsthoirsy h oigfh tlhy rpeeer sinodniavli dduoaclsu, mwehnot aersyc atpelelsd the Remzi Kazmaz wJewhiicshh ntoow lonnsg aenrd e cxiitsite, so.thers rebuilt as
“Children Underground,” Edet Belzberg’s Turkey • 2004 • 26
persecution at home because of their
first film, observes the lives of several 2pm-3.45pm Post homosexuality, and have claimed refugee After gun fire from a taxi in Istanbul, 9.15pm-10pm
Romanian street children in Bucharest’s
Screening Discussion status in the United States: Kahunya, Halil Kaya died in a café on 12th March
Piata Victoriei train station. These children Discussion on Statelessness.
who grew up on a mission station in 1995. Mehmet Gunduz died, ten people
live in the station’s tunnels and corridors,
The Peacekeepers and the Kenya where his father is a Bishop; Ana were wounded by gun fire from a panzer
in almost indescribable conditions; they
sleep in cardboard, and they beg and steal Women Claudia, a famous sports caster in Brazil; which was targeted at people who were
and Arslan, who was born into a “noble protesting the shooting. The next day the
and prostitute themselves for food and Karin Jurschick
family” in Pakistan. Their combined police shot at 15, 000 people who were
money. Almost without exception they
Germany • 2003 • 80 stories are a powerful illustration of the again protesting the events, 10 people
use drugs, especially the inhalant Aurolac,
a cheap, toxic paint that coats their faces Winner of the Arte-Documentary universality of homosexuality, regardless died and there were 400 injuries.Verdict,
in silver. The film’s story, told in a series of Award for Best German Documentary, of cultural origins, and the vulnerability made by lawyer Remzi Kazmaz, focuses
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CCA 5 Monday 24 October
10am-11.15am soon to their homes. They work in a The Environment Slava lives with Pavel, a decorator in a grey
power plant, live off crops grown in Discussion apartment block. They complain about a
contaminated soil, and drink radioactive lack of freedom, they do not specifically
water. The residents apparently don’t mention politics. Alexandr, despite the
think too much about the unhealthy 6pm-6.50 pm danger of imprisonment, organises protest
environment, a majority of them either demonstrations and is actively involved
2F4
appear uninformed or in some cases in the opposition movement. Red haired
resigned to their fate. Only one man, Peter Burton student of journalism Ludmila and Olga,
an employee of a laboratory which who studies movement theatre, earn
Scotland • 2005 • 5
studies the fallout of radioactivity in the extra money at a striptease bar, also
surrounding area, speaks out about the A short film secretly filmed about the have opinions about freedom of speech
attitude of the Soviet Government offices, antisocial life of a neighbour in a tenement in Belarus. Igor, a private in the army, is
who covered up the entire tragedy. close in Edinburgh. convinced that Lukashenko is the right
Between Midnight and the man for the job. The documentary’s
Roosters Crow 3.45pm-5.45pm lively style of filming utilises songs from
Belarus’s rock bands and offers a portrait
Nadja Drost
of the young post-soviet generation
Canada • 2005 • 66 divided into stagnation, resistance to the
regime, and planning for emigration.
Canadian oil giant Encana is under fire
for the construction of an oil pipeline
that has become one of the worlds most 8.30pm-10.30pm
controversial mega projects, faced with
mass opposition in Equador, as well as
abroad. Follow the journey of a first time
Canadian film maker as she investigates What are you gonna do
why an oil company is mired in social and
now Karolinka?
environmental controversy in the Amazon.
Karolina Bendera
Three Rooms For
11.30am-1.30pm Switch Poland • 2004 • 45
Melancholia.
Off Free The Rossport Five Eighteen-year-old single mother Karolina
Pirjo Honkasalo
Switch Off Margaretta D’Arcy, Finn Arden played a leading role in a recently
successful Polish film, Robert Glinski’s “Hi Finland • 2004 • 106.
Manel Mayol Ireland • 2005 • 6 Tereska” which brought her international At once harrowing and painfully beautiful,
Spain • 2005 • 87 The multi-national Shell Oil company awards for her acting. However, the harsh Honkasalo’s universally acclaimed
The Biobio is the longest river in Chile. has effectively invaded and taken over a reality in which she lives is a far cry from documentary offers an unforgettable
The source is in the Andes and it flows corner of the west of Ireland, with the the glamour of the film industry. She spent look at the legacy of militarism through
into the Pacific Ocean. It is of great complicity of the Irish government. Five her childhood in orphanages, renounced the experiences of Russian and Chechen
ecological importance as well as being farmers resisted the laying of a dangerous by her alcoholic mother and a grandfather children. The first segment ‘Nostalgia’ is
both politically and historically important natural-gas pipeline through their land. who physically abused her. Karolinka set withina military school for orphans
because the Biobio was the natural Shell got an injunction against them from suffers from eating disorders and has been and underprivileged kids outside St
frontier during the Spanish occupation. the courts and has had them committed taking tranquilizers since the age of seven. Petersburg; the second ‘Breathing’
to jail, where they have been since June. At present she lives with her infant son takes us into the blasted, apocalyptic
The third biggest dam in the world, in terrible conditions in a neighbourhood city of Grozny, where a dying woman
Ralco, in the Biobio river, has just been the locals call ‘The Ghetto’. She endures surrenders her three children to the care
inaugurated in 2004 after running into daily confrontations with her partner of a makeshift orphanage. Finally there
major trouble with the Pehuenche- and his alcoholic friends. What’re you is ‘Remembering’, which chronicles the
Mapuche indigenous people. gonna do next, Karolinka? is a powerful experiences of children and teenagers on
The ancestral lands have been flooded and moving, yet cautiously optimistic film both sides, their lives deformed by the
by ENDESA the transnational Spanish that depicts the deterioration of post- war. Courageous, genuinely poetic and
company. communist Poland. profoundly moving, this is filmmaking of
the highest order, the equal of Tarkovsky
1.45pm-3.30pm 7pm-8.15pm or Bresson..
The Source
Martin Marecek
Czech Republic • 2005 • 90
The driver stops at the gas pump, inserts
the nozzle into the tank of his vehicle, the
numbers recording the amount consumed
starts moving and the liquid flows…..in
89 mm
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the first
Pripyat
oil well in the world was opened many Sebastien Heinzel
Nikolaus Geyrhalter years ago. The surroundings of the city
Germany • Belarus • 2004 • 77
Austria • 1999 • 100 are completely full of drilling holes and
an interwoven network of rust coloured German documentary filmmaker
Before 1986, Pripyat was a bustling little pipes. The pumps oscillate monotonously Sebastien Heinzel set off to the capital of
town, profiting from it’s location near like strange steel animals-without a break, Belarus, Minsk to discover how his peers
a nuclear plant. After the Chernobyl and suck up the oil from ‘the source’. live there. With no ambition to paint a
explosion, it’s residents were evacuated What are the secrets hidden in these picture of the Lukashenko dictatorship,
and relocated to various parts of the centuries old oil-fields, which were loved he decided to examine the daily life of six
former Soviet Union. Several people by both Stalin and Hitler?. young people with different ideas, fates
however refused to leave or returned and social backgrounds.
supporters