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10.1. SADAN VUODEN MUISTOT
17.1. "Remember Bloomsbury" were the last words uttered by Rudy Kennedy's father, as he was marshalled out of the I.G Farben Factory neighbouring Auschwitz, to his death. Rudy's quest to unravel the riddle took him to London at the close of the War and marked his destiny.
24.1. Volvon koritehtaan työntekijät Helsingissä saavat kuulla, että heidän tehtaansa aiotaan lopettaa. Maailmanlaajuinen konserni aikoo keskittää tuotannon Puolaan. Työntekijät yrittävät kaikkensa, jotta heidän työpaikkansa säilyisi. Luiz was amongst the 2500 employees to be laid off from Ford in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Adailton, who works at Volkwagen's, had to accept an agreement to see his pay reduced by 15%. The documentary takes us to the IMF, the World Bank, the American administration. and the companies headquarters. The basis of the film is to enable our character- and the audience- to understand, how the globalisation effects our lives today.
14.2. Through the confessions of various men and women who practice sadomasochism, we try to comprehend a singular and complex form of human sexuality.
21.2. Kyrgyzystan used to be a part of the Soviet Union and Communism was the dominant ideology. In their efforts to spread this ideology, the Russians used propaganda films that were shown to the Kyrgyz nomads by itinerant projectionists. For the nomads, this was often the only contact they had with art and the culture, making the travelling cinema very dear to them.
28.2. 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. BOMBAY (42 min) Bombay, 11 June: the first raindrops have finally fallen. It's the monsoon. For days you could feel it coming. The crows were going frazy, and finally, yesterday, the downpour that bowled us over after nine months without a drop of rain. BELFAST, MY LOVE (85 min) In August 1969 Lawrence Pitkehly was a young BBC journalist filming in protestant and catholic communities and with the British Army as it occuped Northern Ireland. In this film, he returns to the same streets. What has changed?
14.3. Europe faces two crises simultaneously. At the core and at the periphery. Europe is having to reorganise itself radically at the centre, following accusations of graft and incompetence, and the collapse of the whole Commission. It is trying to do this at the same time as it edges itself, like an ageing spaceship, into admitting so many more nations that the idea of Europe itself is being modified.
21.3. WAITING FOR GODOT AT DE GAULLE (52 min) Alfred (Mehran Karimi Naseri), Victim of a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, has been forced to live in the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport for 11 years because his refugee papers were stolen in Paris 1988. He is forced to stay at the airport until he receives his papers from Belgium.
11.4. Controversial story of Martin Zaidenstadt, an 87 year old Dachau KZ survivor that remained to live in the adjacent town of the camp. It is a strange and fickle story of a conflict between this man and his environment, spun out through the experiences of three young tourists who came for a 'routine' trip to a KZ memorial and found more then they had expected. FOTOAMATOR (56 min) On the Nazi extermination of the Jewish people as seen through the recently discovered photographs of Walter Genewein, administrator of the Lodz ghetto (taken between 1940 and 1943).
18.4. Documentary on the thousands of migrant workers who cut down forests daily in Brazil in order to make charcoal for the multi-national industries. The pig iron and steel they produce are used to make the cars we drive and the houses we live in. The real story about the life behind the circus curtains. Sirkus Finlandia is owned by the family who has faced all troubles that one circus family might meet. And still they have one goal in their life and it is circus.
9.5. A documentary on the theme of childbirth from a personal angle, exploring the various stages from the emotional point of view, this is a film which will describe the mental development and physical processes a woman undergoes. Gradually it will become obvious that from the moment it is born, a child is a "round-a-clock-project" indeed, a project for life, one we never let go. The film will give us pause to reflect on childbirth in our own western culture, where the native instincts are fading away.
23.5. The Last Cigarrette is to smoking what Rafferty's The Atomic Café was to nuclear warfare: an entertaining and irreverent exploration of a deadly subject. It made entire from achival footage.
30.5. The documentary goes through four cases of fatal car accidents caused by reckless driving,. The young survivors tell their tragic tales in their own words. Besides their stories the documentary contains original footage shot by the Finnish Highway Patrol and rescue personnel.
30.5. Writer/Director James Marsh's first feature, Wisconsin Death Trip, is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century.
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