International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (>70 min)
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- DirectorMarjoleine Boonstra
- DirectorKamar Ahmad SimonRebuilding homes and lives after disaster strikes in Bangladesh.
- DirectorSourav SarangiStory of a little boy living with blind parents.
- DirectorPankaj JoharStarsCeciliaPankaj JoharRishi KantCecilia is an investigative documentary that sheds light on the growing problem of child labour trafficking in India through its central characters - a 54 year old housekeeper and her employers. When 14 year old daughter of Cecilia, the housekeeper is trafficked and found dead in Delhi, her employers Pankaj and Sunaina decide to help her get justice. As the trio battle corruption at all levels, they find themselves navigating a complex network of cops, traffickers, judges, lawyers, villagers and family members.
- DirectorMalek BensmaïlMalek puts his camera at the service of El Watan, a prestigious publication in an unstable democracy. This is a telling of the encounters that take place at the paper, and a reflection on freedom of the press.
- DirectorHao ZhouStarsLi FuMa SuyingGeng YangboDATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half a million people to give way to restoration of Ancient relic walls in order to adopt a clean economic growth from tourism and culture, which he believes will do good to DA TONG citizen in the long term. With two years in the footsteps of GENG, along with the changing ideology and confrontations from the public, the film is trying to draw a looming shape of future of China.
- DirectorSebastián MorenoStarsVerónica De NegriJosé DuránPaz ErrázurizA film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.
- DirectorMaria MokMeral UsluCross Aid Post is a documentary about a general practice in Amsterdam's red light district, where doctors voluntarily provide medical care for people without health insurance, mostly illegal immigrants and homeless people.
- DirectorPetar OreskovicIn September 2004, Himzo Muratovic returned from the dead. Himzo turned up in a taxi in his Bosnian Muslim village, 12 years after he disappeared at the height of the Serb terror. His mother fell unconscious when neighbors told her that her missing son had returned. For several days the village celebrated the return of the long-dead Himzo Muratovic. Himzo's village of Motovo was burned to the ground in 1992 by Serb paramilitaries. Thousands of people in the area were declared missing. Human remains are still being unearthed from mass graves all over the country. Just before the killers entered his village, our hero disappeared through the woods. He was never heard of again. When the village erected a monument to the victims killed in the war, they included Himzo's name on the list. His grieving brother named his first-born son Himzo, so that the war-victim's name would not be forgotten. Then all of the sudden - Himzo returns alive and healthy. His name was erased from the monument. After the initial rejoicing, people from the village started asking questions. Where had he been? How did he survive? Was he captured and tortured? And the most urgent question of all: why won't he talk about it?
- DirectorCarlos EcheverríaA group of shearers goes through the Pampas territory living its rigorous routine, in each of its small gestures a picture of a life relegated and at the same time luminous is released.
- DirectorJude RatnamSri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratman is five years old. On a red train, he flees the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the liberal majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker, he takes the same train from South to North. As he advances, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil's fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes. Reminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again.
- DirectorRiaan HendricksBraam is a gang leader torn between securing the future of his young family while guiding his men through a deadly drug war turf. What choices will he make?
- DirectorKim LonginottoZiba Mir-HosseiniStarsJoanna RosenthallA documentary about real divorce cases in Iran's tribunals.
- DirectorMarcos PradoStarsEstamiraDocumentary about Estamira, a 63-year-old woman who's been working for over 20 years at a landfill in Rio de Janeiro. Schizophrenic, but very charismatic, she's the leader of a small community of old people living off garbage and has a very lyrical and philosophical attitude towards life.
- DirectorRashid GhaziStarsBilal Abu-OmarahHussein AjamiMustapha Bazzi'Fordson' follows a high school football team from Dearborn, Michigan as it prepares for its big cross-town rivalry game during the last ten days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The story is set at Fordson High School, a public school, which was once all white, but now boasts a 98% Arab-American population. As we follow the team on the road to victory, 'Fordson' unearths the story of a community desperately holding onto its Islamic faith while struggling to gain acceptance in post 9-11 America. 'Fordson' is an unprecedented glimpse inside the lives of a community that is home to the largest concentration of Arabs in any city outside of the Middle East, and their determination to hold on to the American Dream.
- DirectorRoss AshcroftStarsDominic FrisbyGillian TettLawrence WilkersonThe modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society. Four Horsemen is free from mainstream media propaganda, doesn't bash bankers, criticize politicians or get involved in conspiracy theories. The film ignites the debate about how we usher a new economic paradigm into the world which, globally, would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.
- DirectorJerry BlumenthalGordon QuinnThe work and times of American artist, Leon Golubfrom 1985 to his death in 2004, taking us from images of interrogations and torture to the ironies and dark humor of old-age. Over-sized canvasses with screaming mercenaries and rioters urinating on a corpse; photographic fragments used as information and inspiration; the making of one of Golub's death-squad series from start to finish and to its exhibition in Derry, Northern Ireland; news footage from around the world; museum-goers' responses; disturbing music: out of these disparate elements the film creates a dialogue between image and audience that reflects what Golub calls the "disjunctiveness" of modern life. In the aftermath of September 11, and with the photos from Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Golub's ferocious, monumental work of the 70's and 80's (used to this day by human rights groups such as Amnesty International) remain prophetic and essential, even as they give way to the snarling dogs, erotica, and wise-cracking meditations on mortality which began to appear in his paintings in the 1990's. When we revisit Golub in 2001, the aging artist tells us "my work these days is sort of political, sort of metaphysical, and sort of smart-ass. I'm playful and hostile. Let's see if you can keep up with my slipping around." Half empty canvasses are dotted with birds of prey, smoking skulls, neon chorus girls, pierced hearts, and snickering text: "Bite your tongue. Save your ass." The film captures an historic artistic journey, shared with his wife and studio partner of 50 years, the prominent anti-war and feminist artist, Nancy Spero. We see them as each other's most valued critic and most ardent supporter. Golub continued in his later paintings to "report" on what's going on in the world, but he does it with the kind of dissonances and discontinuities that led Theodor Adorno in his essay on Beethoven to proclaim, "In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes."
- DirectorAyman El AmirNada RiyadhAn unrelenting personal report of a faltering relationship in the aftermath of Egypt's Arab Spring.
- DirectorErnesto ArditoVirna MolinaThe life of workers of a ceramic factory in their fight to stop the deaths and accidents in the work place
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsHissène HabréMahamat-Saleh HarounIn 2013 former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré's arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime . Accompanied by the Chairman of the Association of the Victims, Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to meet those who survived this tragedy.
- DirectorYann Arthus-BertrandStarsLuis CancuAtmanBerthonyA collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
- DirectorMonteith McCollumStarsMilford BeeghlyThe life story of Milford Beeghly: Iowa farmer, early developer of hybrid seed corn, husband, father, grandfather.
- DirectorVicente FerrazStarsOthon BastosAlexander CalzattiFidel CastroThis film examines the creation and exhibition of the propaganda film I Am Cuba, a Soviet/Cuban collaboration unknown in the West until the 1990s.
- DirectorKhushboo RankaVinay ShuklaStarsArvind KejriwalSaurabh BhardwajPrashant BhushanA non-fiction drama chronicling the most outrageous political debut in the largest democracy in the world, "An Insignificant Man" follows Arvind Kejriwal and his insurgent party as they look to shake up Indian politics while struggling to keep their own idealism alive.
- DirectorCristian SotoCatalina VergaraA documentary film about old age that is set in nursing homes. Under the contemplative eye of the camera, the life and moments some old people face in their last stage are portrayed in an atmosphere of solitude and abandonment. Their families have no regard for them anymore, except when the occasional relative shows up to deal with a death. These homes, and the drawn-out passage of time, are the last station in life before setting out on the final inevitable journey.