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SPRING 1999 January February March April May June
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6.1. HITMAN HART (87 min)
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. 13.1. THE FINAL MISSION (57 min) 20.1. FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL (80 min) Errol Morris is one of the most original filmmakers working today. This film may be his most unusual work yet. Morris refers to it as the ultimate low-concept movie - a film that utterly resists the possibility of a one-line summary.The film interweaves the stories of four obsessive men, each driven to create eccentric worlds of their dreams, all involving animals. 27.1. SATA KELLOA (52 min) 3.2. CHILE - LA MEMORIA OBSTINATA(52 min) Chile, syyskuussa 1973: The Allende regime falls to the dictator Pinochet. A film against oblivion, about historical memory, and the younger generation's need to know the truth. 10.2. HILJAISTEN VUOSIEN MIEHET (52 min) 17.2. ANTAKAA MEILLE LUURANKOMME! (45 min) 24.2. UNELMOIJA JA UNIKANSA (51 min) 3.3. HOAX (50 min) Hoax is a documentary portrait of Michael Born, a media frauster recently imprisoned for selling 40 fake documentaries to German TV. Hoax explores the current crisis in media ethics and investigative journalism. 3.3. FUN FUN FUN This project is for a "fly-on-the-wall" documentary in tradition of British direct cinema on the world of the tabloid press. Its central subject is "scoop organisation": how, by manufacturing scandals, the British tabloids maintain the highest circulation in the world. 3.3. LAP ROUGE 43 min In the course of several months the camera follows the life of two Dutch brothers, Herman and Egbert. In 1959 their mother fled the petty bourgeois atmosphere in fifties Holland. She took her two boys and left for Marnhac, a deserted village in the south of France. After living there for 35 years both brothers have become almost fully alienated from society. They don't have the courage to leave their old-aged, dominant mother. 10.3. PAWN SHOP (50 min) 17.3. RUUNAUS (52 min) 24.3. THE MEASURE OF A MAN (52 min) The Measure of A Man is a documentary film of the medical treatment of five impotent men. The most common reasons for impotency include hypertension, diabetes and prolonged smoking. In the documentary, the medical treatment of impotent patients is monitored from beginning to end. Tre treatment consists of two consultations with the doctor and laboratory tests. The approact of the film is close cinema verité documentaries. The documentary, based on the findings of the French anthropologist Pierrre Legendre, takes us on a fascinating journey to the very heart of some of today's strongest institutions: the Vatican, the army, an adoption home, a hospital, a multinational corporation, the educations system, etc. 7.4. BETTER AND BETTER (80 min) The filmmakers spent one-and-a-half-years filming the ups and downs of a Swiss family. Why them? Because they personify the deep insecurity within our society, which on the surface still looks smooth and intact. 14.4. LOSING IT (68 min) The critical, at times hilarious documentary follows the Finnish representative in the European Parliament Pertti Paasio during his daily pursuits. The occasion was a trivial one: the filmmaker wanted to find out how it is possible that people often lose a sock. 21.4. JOURNEY TO THE FAR RIGHT (90 min) 28.4. FOTOAMATOR (56 min) 12.5. TRICKSTER (50 min) Portrait of Jarmo Luttinen, a magician, a father and an alcoholic 19.5. TALE OF HUMAN HEART (52 min) On December 3, 1967, Professor Christiaan Barnard, a young South African surgeon, surprised people around the globe when he performed the world's first heart transplantation. Thirty years later and some 32,000 transplants later, we meet Dr. Bernard and other transplant pioneers. 26.5. DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES: NORMAN MAILER'S AMERICA (120 min) 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.
2.6. GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE (140min) In the Spring of 1989, nighty news acounts filmed in China's Tiananmen Square alternately enthralled and horrified millions of viewers around the globe. Chine students took to the streets demanding democratic reforms, only to have the government respond with deadly force.The film gives voices, for the first time, to those, who directly participated in the protests.
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