TV2 DOCUMENTARIES AUTUMN 2002

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2.1.
MIINAVAARA! (90 min)

  • Director Lasse Naukkarinen, Ilokuva Oy, 2001

    9.1.
    THE CODE (52 min)

  • Director Hannu Puttonen, Making Movies, 2001
    Story of Linux, a little operating system that showed the world an alternative. Becoming, along the way, the arch nemesis of the mighty Microsoft. The biggest collaboration project of Internet. A trip to the center of the hacker culture: the mind-set of a programmer, and the communication between the programmers.

    16.1.
    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.

    STARTUP.COM (103 min)

  • Directors 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…

    23.1.
    RAJATTOMAN AJAN TALO (52 min)

  • Director Noora Männistö, Musafilmi, 2001

    Rerun
    MIINAVAARA! (90 min)

  • Director Lasse Naukkarinen, Ilokuva Oy, 2001

    30.1.
    NAKED STATES (74 min)

  • Director Arlene Donnelly, Juntos Films, USA, 1999
    Would you take your clothes off in public? Would your banker? Your neighbor? Naked States is a feature-length film documenting one man's journey as he photographs naked people in public places. It exposes America's current attitudes towards nudity, sexuality, body image, and all the other baggage that comes up when we take off our clothes.

    Rerun
    RAJATTOMAN AJAN TALO (52 min)

  • Director Noora Männistö, Musafilmi, 2001

    6.2.
    INNER TOUR (80 min)

  • Director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Belfilms, Israel, 2001
    Documentary about a bus tour to Israel. The passangers are Palestinians from the occupied territories who for the first time visit their official native country.

    Rerun
    THE CODE (52 min)

  • Director Hannu Puttonen, Making Movies, 2001
    27.2.
    VÄLITTÄJÄ (80 min)
  • Director Timo Korhonen, Tarinatalo Oy, 2001

    JULIA´S MADNESS ((59 min)

  • Director: Hannes Schönemann, MA.JA.DE Film, Germany, 1998
    "She called herself the Devil's little sister". "He" knew nothing of the pact she had made. Their love began in the time of the Cold War, a love that transgressed walls and power blocks. This is a very personal film of European life during the Cold War.

    6.3.
    ON THE ROPES (91 min)

  • Directors Nanette Burnstein - Brett Morgen , PBS, USA, 1999
    Enter the world of boxing at one of its sources - the Brooklyn neighborhood gym that produces superstars Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson and Mark Breland. The real fight is outside the ring.

    13.3.
    MOBUTU, KING OF ZAIRE (135 min)

  • Director Thierry Michel, Les Films de la Passerelle, Belgia, 1999
    The film "Mobutu, King of Zaire" will reflect on the mechanisms of power in neocolonial and postcolonial Africa over the past 30 years. It would be like reading a page in African and Zairean history through the personality of one man.

    20.3.
    LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE (80 min)

  • Director Agnes Varda,Cine Tamaris, France, 2000

    27.3.
    SHEPHERD

  • Director Markku Lehmuskallio - Anastasia Lapsui, Millennium Film, 2001
    A documentary about an unconventional shepherd, who wanders with his flock in the industrial badlands of the port of Antverpen. The film documents both ancient and modern ways of life, also showing the road society is following. To where is road leading?

    THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CHICKEN (55 min)

  • Director Mark Lewis, Mark Lewis Radio Pictures Inc, USA, 2000

    3.4.
    THE SETTLERS 56 min

  • Director Ruth Walk , Belfilms, Israel, 2002

    NEWS TIME 59 min

  • Director Azza El-Hassan, Yamama Creative House, Palestine, 2001

    10.4.
    ME AND SIMON (52 min)

  • Director Beverley Palesa Ditsie, Steps For The Future, South Africa, 2001
    Simon & I recounts the lives of two giants in the South African gay and lesbian liberation movement, Simon Nkoli and the film maker herself, Bev Ditsie. The story is narrated by Bev, both as a personal statement and a political history, as she charts their relationship through good times and bad against a backdrop of intense political activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Their converging and diverging lives are revealed in this heartfelt testament using a mixed format of interviews and archive footage.

    HOUSE OF LOVE (26 min)

  • Director Cecil Moller, Steps For The Future, South Africa, 2001
    Surrounded by vast expanses of desert and sea, the small Namibian harbour of Walvis Bay is the unlikely setting in which filmmaker Cecil Moller explores the professional sex industry. Dependent for their business on the brief visits of foreign shipping trawlers to this remote port, the women give revealing insights to the choices they have made and why they have made them. Their conflicts to do with notions of love, sex, sin and redemption become the main themes, while the threat of HIV/AIDS hangs ominously in the background.

    17.4.
    SECRET SAFARI (52 min)

  • Director: Tom Zubrycki, Maxi-D TV Productions, South Africa, 2000
    Secret Safari tells a story of one of the most successful and audacious projects in the armed fight against Apartheid in South Africa.

    THE YOUNG LIONS (52 min)

  • Director Khalo Matabane ,Mail & Guardian Television, South Africa, 2000
    Ten yeaars ago, a group of three young men who rallied the youth against the force of the apartheid military machine. They were arrested. After the release two on them believed that they were betrayed by the thrird one. In this documentary they meet again. This film is their story ...

    24.4.
    PROFILS PAYSANS: L'APPROCHE (90 min)

  • Director Raymond Depardon, Palmeraie et Désert, France, 2000
    The captivating portrayal of a dying rural tradition in France.

    Rerun
    SHEPHERD

  • Director Markku Lehmuskallio, Millennium Film, 2001

    1.5.
    CIRCUS LIFE

  • Director: Henrik Niinimäki, TV2/Documentaries, 2000
    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.

    15.5.
    KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT: A MODERN CANNIBAL TALE (82 min)

  • Directort: David ja Laurie Gwen Shapiro , Next Wave Films, USA, 2000

    29.5.
    FROM MOTHER TO CHILD (40 min)

  • Director Jane Lipman, Steps For The Future, South Africa, 2001
    The prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV - the statistics, the facts, the people – come vividly to life in this astounding documentary, which follows the lives of two pregnant and HIV positive women lucky enough to be on a drug trial at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. The film charts the lives of Kholiwe (Patience) and Ntombekaya (Pinkie), who have made friends at the clinic’s support group for HIV positive mothers, as they approach the delivery of their babies. It is about their exceptions, hope, and inevitable fears concerning not only the health of their babies but the trauma around the disclosure of their status to their families and partners as well. It is also about the unrelenting commitment of the people at the HIV perinatal clinic who are trying to make a difference.

    DANCING ON THE EDGE (40 min)

  • Director Karen Boswall, Steps For The Future, South Africa, 2001
    Dancing on the Edge is a narrative documentary set in rural Mozambique, where gender roles and poverty influence the fight to contain the spread of AIDS. A young HIV positive mother, Antonietta, who works as an AIDS counsellor, takes her healthy daughter to a remote village for initiation into sexuality. Antonietta struggles with the contradictions of maintaining traditional values while adapting to the reality of the modern world devastated by Aids.

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