TV2 DOCUMENTARIES AUTUMN 2001

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SPRING 2002

28.9.
SMALL INCIDENTS(52 min)

  • Director Kirsi Mattila, Making Movies, 2001

    1.9.
    KATRI'S FIRST LOVE (95 min)

  • Director Jean Bitar, Bitar Films, Finland, 1998

    4.9.
    History Book
    TAMMINIEMEN HERRA - Kekkosen aika kannesta kanteen (57 min)

  • Director Tapani Itäranta, manus Robert Alftan, TV2 Documentaries, 1997

    5.9.
    KATR'S FAMILY (45 min)

  • Director Jean Bitar, Bitar Films, 2001

    12.9.
    LONG SHORT JOURNEY(38 min)

  • Director Jyrki Heinonen, TaiK, - TV2 Documentaries, 2001

    KUIVILLA (26 min)

  • Director Didier Nion, Mille et une Film, France, 1997

    19.9.
    History Book
    DAAVID - TARINOITA KUNNIASTA JA HÄPEÄSTÄ(90 min)

  • Director Taru Mäkelä, For Real Production, 1997

    26.9.
    SOKKO (45 min)

  • Director Susanna Koskinen, Kinotar, 1997

    3.10.
    HITMAN HART (87 min)

  • Director: Paul Jay, High Road Productions, Canada, 1998
    Hitman Hart is a film about good and evil, sacrifice and greed, loyalty and betrayal - a man in a world of moral uncertainly, fighting to keep a sense of personal dignity and truth.

    10.10.
    STARTUP.COM (103 min)

  • Director Chris Hegedus - Jehane Noujaim, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, USA, 2001
    Startup.com traces the paths of two freewheeling entrepreneurs and their quest for the new American dream: developing a successful Internet start-up company. The great idea is to make a new media solution for connecting citizens with the government via the Internet.

    17.10.
    JUNG: In the Land of the Mujaheddin

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    A war surgeon wants to set up an emergency hospital for civilian war victims in Afghanistan. The survey mission is carried out in February 1999. In July 1999 a sudden Taliban attack forces the civil population to a desperate escape. The hospital starts working in January 2000.

    24.10.
    CRAZY (97 min)

  • Director Heddy Honigmann,Pieter van Huystee Film, Holland 1999
    A film about the reminiscenes of Dutch soldiers about various battlefields were they served. Using home videos and photos, moving and also gruesome archive footage, the soldiers tell their moving stories about responsibility, consternation, fear, love, total inpotence and death.

    31.10.
    MY BEST FRIEND (90 min)

  • Director Werner Hetzog, Werner Herzog Filmproduction, Germany, 1999
    Film about the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski - utterly puzzling to outsiders, about the deep trust between an actor and a director, and their independently and simultaneously hatchet plans to murder one another.

    7.11.
    FASHION VICTIM: KILLING OF GIANNI VERSACE (52 min)

  • Director James Kent, Little Bird, UK, 2000
    Versace, a global fashion brand that harked back to a feudal Roman Empire, came to epitomise late 20th Century society and all its tragic flaws. Eventually, the self-styled emperor, Gianni, with his entourage of elite celebrities, was to encounter his nemesis, Andrew Cunanan, a psychotic product of a decadent American dream, in a Mafia-style execution.

    14.11.
    DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES: NORMAN MAILER'S AMERICA (120 min)

  • Director Richard Copans, Films d'Ici, France, 1998
    What better witness to America's disorder, disappointment and contradictions than Norman Mailer? Novelist, essayist, journalist, film maker, actor, political activist, media star - his profilic writings reveal an America struggling with its demons, yet clearly shows the author's deep attachment to the country.

    21.11.
    SOURCE (85 min)

  • Director Chuck Workman, Calliope. USA, 1998
    Documentary on the Beats and the Beat Generation, beginning with meeting of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in the Forties, and spanning international bohemian life of the Fifties, the San Francisco and West Coast renaissance, the hippies and political and spiritual movements of the Sixties and Seventies, and the important and inevitable presence of the Beat influence today.

    28.11.
    WA N' WINA

  • Director: Dumisani Phakathi,Steps For The Future, South Africa, 2001
    Wa N' Wina (Sincerely Yours) is filmmaker Dumisani Phakathi's exploration of his community. As a protagonist, Dumisani engages with friends to discuss issues about relationships, sex and love. It's a rock and roll journey that reveals the gaps between the world of everyday and the AIDS campaigns that often talk past the very people they are supposed to address. It is the recognition of people's will to survive in the age of AIDS.

    5.12.
    ROOMS OF SHADOW AND LIGHT (60 min)

  • Director: John Webster , Millennium Film, Finland, 2000
    The prostitutes of Bombay live a nightmare life, yet there are some people who try to bring a little light into the darkness of the brothels.

    12.12.
    ANKARA UNELMA (85 min)

  • Director Ilkka Ilkare , Filmi-Fakta, 2001

    19.12.
    BLATNOI MIR - SOCIETY OF CRIMINALS (52 min)

  • Director Jouni Hiltunen, Illume, 2001
    Blatnoi mir is a film of three Russian prisoners serving a life term, taken from the edge of human life and the basic questions of life. The real drama in the film will be found within the cells where these men will live out the rest of their lives.

    26.12.
    MATKA KOHTI VALOA (79 min)

  • Director Kai Nordberg, Making Movies, 2001