Synopsis of the selected films!
Mon, 04/06/2007 - 09:35 — Thais
Special guest : ANNA KAZEJAK
Biography :
Anna Kazejak was born in 1979 in Bytom, Poland. She studied Film Theory for three years. Since 2001 she has been a student of Polish National Film School in Lodz, Directing Department.
Film: You are there (Jestes Tam)
Poland / Fiction / 1999 / 13 mins
The film describes a time of growing up - when you want to know who you are and where is your place. Sometimes you have to get into the darkness to find your way.
Marlena is 16 years old. She has a strong need to meet her father, whom she hasn’t seen for a long time. She believes he is able to solve all her problems.
Selected YEFF ! movies:
- WE ARE ALL FROM BRONX
Dir: Sara Mozic, Ziga Divjak, Katarina Gunde, Ivor Hodulak.
Slovenia 2007 / Documentary / 6 mins.
Usually in every town we can find places as this so-called Slovenian « Bronx ». This documentary aims at showing young people’s life and problems in these areas. It is also about the way they see their future.
- VOICES FROM VIANA (Vozes de Viana)
Dir: Nuno M. Cristino Ribeiro
Portugal 2006 / Documentary / 26 mins
How it is to live the city of Viana do Castelo? This documentary shows the vision of the citizens living there…
- THROUGH THE YEARS (A travers les âges)
Dir: El Hassan El Ourrach, Asri Abdessammad, Nadia El Ghajji, Fatima, Fayssal, Moussa, Zaki, Mustapha Rahmani, Othman Rifaad (youngsters), Emma, Rosa, Katrien, Vitoria, Consolée (Seniors) Eric (technical support).
Belgium 2004 / (semi) documentary / 6 mins extract (total lenght 25 mins).
The film deals with the insecurity feeling in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Brussels (Kuregem, Anderlecht). The seniors and youngsters changed roles. These two groups live in the same neighborhood but they don’t know each other, so they get scared.
- ECO
Dir: Tove Rosander
Sweden 2006/ Documentary/ 7,30 mins
Who’s going to take care of our nature if we don’t? The Swedish State guideline says that 25 percent of the municipal purchases should be ecological but the municipal of Vetlanda buys no ecological products at all. This documentary asks the people responsible why, and also tries to find out how much does the non ecological milk damage the environment.
- STREAMS
Dir: Enej Mavsar, Masa Zagorc, Ivor Hodulak, Iztok Radej.
Slovenia 2007 / Documentary / 8 mins.
The authors tried to get answers from young musicians: what do they want to express, what are they motivated by, how do they influence young bands? The authors also wanted to know about which alternative to mass culture do these young musicians see?
- THE END CROWNS THE WORK (Finis coronat opus)
Dir: Kuba Kubajewski, Jarek Piekarski, Marek Deregowski, Mikocaj Mieszaca, Andrzej Mos.
Poland 2006 / Fiction / 6 mins.
Short symbolic film. Struggles of creators, writers on stage. Esoteric space. Continuity. Everyone is both different and the same.
- BOSNA BANJA LUKA
Dir: Maja Dusanic, Aleksandra Kaurin, Natasa Milosevic, Nina Vukasinovic
Germany 2006 / Documentary / 14,58 mins
An attempt to convey an impression about the atmosphere between the different entities on the Balkans with the help of honest and engaged young people.
- HOUSSEIN
Dir : Christopher Symes, Khadija Ahmadouch, Houssein Elbouhassa.
Belgium 2007, documentary, 5,40 mins
Houssein is a 18 years old thai boxer from Moroccan origin who lives in Brussels. He turned to thai boxing as an escape from the bad direction in which his life has headed.
Session 2: INTERCULTURAL EXPERIENCES
- OPEN CLOSE
Dir: Massimiliano Lombardi, Luca Sermani, Simone Rabassini, Alessia Melchionna, Giovanni Feraco, David Feraco, Chiara Nardi, Theresa Vangelisti, Michele Marchini, Lorenzo Passaglia, Haiman Sediki.
Italy 2005-06 / Experimental / 10 mins.
The story of a refrigerator leaving for a journey around the world.
- KICK IT LIKE ZIDANE
Dir: Jashar Behboud, Puja Behboud, Adi Zarcos, Melih, Karl Högerle, Ali Kashani, Martin Neumeyer, Simon Binnenmarsch
Germany 2006 / Fiction / 2,46 mins
Since Zidane’s headbutt, a lot has changed!
- GIVE A VOICE
Dir: Damien Beedham, Sean Atkinson, Tom Urry, Patrick Lefrère
Great-Britain 2006 / Documentary / 20’25 mins
“Give a voice” documents the process of young asylum seekers learning the video production skills they need to make this short film. The documentary features interviews with staff and volunteers at the local Drop-in centre in Grimsby along with activities that occur there, such as cooking their national dishes and playing football. “Give a Voice” enabled the Asylum seekers and refugees to express themselves.
- I DON’T MISS ANYTHING (Ich vermisse gar nights)
Dir: Frank Dudek, Philipp Schüssler
Germany 2005 / Documentary / 10,50 mins
A German Christian converts to Islam.
Philip is a 19 years old student, living in Wuppertal. He tells us his story about finding his way to Islam.
- THE ITALIAN KEBAB
Dir: Federica Gresta, Soraia Cipolla, Alessandro Geremia, Gianfranco Distefano, Laura Contraffatto, Marysol Boschetty, Irene Bonaventura, Manikon Poullay, Alessandro Montemagno, Maria Innati, Simona La Spina, Fausto D’Amico, Erika Motta, Andrea Lanzafame.
Italy 2007 / Fiction / 7 mins.
“What about a kebab tomorrow night?” An ordinary suggestion builds an “on line” bridge between Catania and Istanbul. Laura and Jasmine are two teenagers who live in completely different cultural situations. But some common aspects in their lives will be the way to face racial prejudice and daily problems.
- YES
Dir: Maxime Soliti, Perrine Soler, Elie Moscato, Léa Lattanzi, Bruno Salque, Simon Thoral.
France 2005 / Animation / 2,30 mins
What do the artworks from the Museum of Modern Arts become during the night?
- IT MOVES! (Naïda!)
Dir: Pierre Martin (coordinator), Laila El Jaouarti, Natasia Hamarat, Nesrine Bencer Alaoui.
Belgium 2007 / Documentary (Youth TV program) / 14 mins.
Coup2Pouce is the only youth TV program in Belgium. Entirely made by young people, this is a weekly educational program. In this context, some of the young participants were invited by a youth international program to cover this event and to create some clips for the show. It was a very particular context of creation, and that kind of ending wasn't expect by anyone.
Session 3 : ALL DIFFERENT, ALL EQUAL…
Special guest : DANIEL MULLOY
Biography
As a teenager Daniel Mulloy moved with his parents from the hustle of inner city London to the wilds of rural Wales. He then went on to study fine art at the prestigious Slade School London as well as hunter College New York. Daniel is currently living in London.
Using the proceeds from the sale of his own artwork Daniel financed his second short film ‘’Sister’ – a moving tale of alienation in rural Wales - which went on to win a BAFTA for best newcomer.
Film: Sister
Great-Britain / Fiction / 2005 / 12 mins
A 14-year-old boy of Chinese decent, the desire to belong overwhelms Richard. One dark winter's morning on the school bus Richard's routine is disrupted and his instincts are forced to take over. His actions will have unexpected consequences.
Selected YEFF ! movies:
- DIARY OF DIFFERENCE
Dir : Nina Tomsik, Gasper Bregar, Klara Zgajnar, Nina Prelowsek, Laura Avsek, Marusa Bizjan, Tanja Belec, Katja Ribic, Matej Kragelj, Luka Polc, Matic Rojsek, Igor Levicnik.
Slovenia 2006 / Fiction / 5 mins.
The film is about three very different girls, who have one common thing: they are all different from their peers.
- VANILLATIGER (Vaniljstigern)
Dir: Niklas Ottander, Desiree Schuhmacher, Tove Nanklen, Solar Fields.
Sweden 2007/ Fiction/ 10,43 mins.
A young girl with incredible talent who doesn’t want anything else but paint everyday is now facing the choice of establishing in an art world which she contempt.
But has she really any alternatives?
- PITTA
Dir ; Arnout Vandamme, Indra Walbers, Niels Kelchtermans, Thomas Schoenaerts, Jelle Frencken, Mohamed Bari, Thomas Provoost, Zeljka Babic.
Belgium 2006, Fiction, 8’20
Bart, a young idealist and oxfam worker, encounters a homeless Algerian. He buys Hassan a pitta and the two chat for a while about origins,... Suddenly Bart is confronted with something that happened in the past. His feelings towards Hassan take dramatic changes.
- ANECDOTE
Dir: Cécilia Loiseau-Gomes, Maud Pierre, Orianne Duboz, Patrice Gainet and Benjamin Decocq.
France 2007 / Fiction / 6,50 mins.
An encounter between 2 persons that will (maybe) not happen.
- HETERO? (Etero?)
Dir: Anna Agonigi, Sara Andreacchio, Luca Bardi, Francesco Fadda, Livia Franchini, Francesco Sorgente, Margherita Squaiella.
Italy 2007 / Fiction / 5,51 mins
Four friends are talking about homosexuality. However the points of view change when Sara, one of them, reveals that she is herself homosexual: the gay is no longer “the other”, “the different” but one of them.
Can communication demolish their prejudices, even the ones of the most narrow-minded friend?
- OUR DISCO
Dir: Amanda Kernell, Cecilia Sundkrist, Mathias Fjallstrom, Petrus Sjovik, Hanna Goding, Maja Andersson, Evelina Engberg-Nogren, Lina M. Sandberg, Henrik Wiklund, Gabriella Ormin, Hona Danielsson
Sweden 2006/ Fiction/ 8,11 mins
It's a Friday night filled with expectations. 12 year-old Filly goes to the junior high school party, while her sister Nadia chooses to stay at home in her wheelchair watching TV. But the party doesn't turn out as she'd hoped it would: Filly’s friends make fun of her « retarded sister ». After hours of sitting alone during the slow dances, Filly decides that she has to do something.
- ACE OF SPADES (A de espadas)
Dir: Luis Fil Gueiras, Ricardo Brito, Ruben Santiago, Marilu Toque, Joel Ferraz, Carlos and Bety
Portugal 2005 / Fiction / 15 mins.
This work is a first part of a project called Genomaproject, carried through by two young plastician artists, Ricardo Brito and Luís Filgueiras. It is a fiction that describes the relationship between two people, the place of this love concentrates the emotions human beings in a game, where the desire to have, and the absence of the being, is given launched in this platform.
- MARTINA AND JASNA
Dir: Martina Hudorowic, Jasna Hudorovic, Ziga Divjak
Slovenia 2006-07 / Documentary / 6 mins.
Martina and Jasna are sisters who are just finishing primary school and are preparing themselves to go to the next step of their life. This wouldn’t be so unusual if only the sisters weren’t the second Roma youngsters in Krsko to go to secondary school. In a short portrait the young girls are explaining their experiences, their fears and their hopes for the future.
- HIDDEN (En cachette)
Dir: Camille Moreau, Sofia Ouabi, Fatine Benfaida, Gery Parmentier, Vincent Adamo, Yokess Agnero, Nancy Narbonnais, Aurélie Gonzales and Frédéric Carpentier
France 2007 / Fiction / 10-12 mins
A young couple living in the suburbs, Michael and Samia are seeing each other secretly because it is too difficult to live this relationship otherwise. They are used to meet at Angelique’s place. The latter is both Michael’s sister and Samia’s best friend. However Fathia, very religious, is trying to prevent her sister Samia to see a boy and to be friend with Angelique. One day the neighborhood kids see the girl leaving her boyfriend’s building. They denounce the couple to Fathia…
Session 4 : HERE AND THERE, ME AND MY ORIGINS…
Special guest : LAURENCE PETIT-JOUVET
Biography
Laurence Petit-Jouvet is a film director. She mainly realizes documentaries on an anthropological approach.
She is also a teacher at the University of Marne la Vallée, near Paris, where she supervises workshops.
Film: “Bams and Moumy, young African girls in Paris”
France / Documentary / 1997 / 10 mins (extract out of 26 mins)
This documentary is a portrait of two young women, Bams and Moumy, whose parents are respectively from Cameroon and Mauritania. They are living in Paris and they tell their hopes, struggles and fears: Bams is a rap musician who claims her identity, whereas Moumy, wounded and more discreet, evokes the Muslim tradition on which she was raised.
Selected YEFF ! movies:
- IT S A STRANGE STATE, MY HEART
Dir: Arian Hasani, Elena Ionita, jasmine Moudabir, Anum Rustam, Diana Mosulet, Paola Soavi.
Italy 2007 / Clip / 5 mins.
A Pakistani girl living in Bergamo (Italy) dreams to become a museum guide, in order to be a bridge between her own culture and the Italian one. She decides to take part in a course for museum guides with students from all over the world.
- HEY MUM, TELL ME (Hey mam vertel es)
Dir: Anna Spohr, assisted by : Karina Baarda, Janine Gillot, Corhilde Schonewille, Marianne Mewissen, Mark Walraven and John Swildens
Netherlands 2007 / Documentary / 27,13 mins.
“She will always forgive you” Precenta tells the camera, Nisrin agrees with her, looking at her 8 brothers and sisters, and adds: « being a mother is really heavy, you should try it for a day! ». Five girls share four cameras. For months, they’ve filmed and filtered through their mother’s undreamt dreams and wishes. What was their life like when they were sixteen years old? Could they also choose between a Moroccan, Surinam, Dutch or Turkish boy? And who would encourage them to make choices regarding their unique identity? This film is an ode to all mothers.
- AUDIOVISUAL LETTER (Carta Audiovisual)
Dir: Shumaila Ishaque, Sidrah Ishaque, Mehvish Khadim, Saba Khanum, Crezel Ann Manalo, Alvin Manalo, Jaclyn Dumagan, Clara Robledo, Jorge Moreno Andrés, Clara Mas Vall, Alba Gorina, Enrric Cassu.
Spain 2006-07 / Documentary / 14 mins.
This documentary chronologically follows an image and digital edition workshop done with a group of teenagers from El Casal dels Infants de Barcelona. During the workshop the idea of creating a visual letter is conceived. A group of pictures is mounted as a video-clip to show the teenagers’ life in the city, and then is sent to their native country through Internet (Pakistan, Filipins).
- LOOKING FOR ALGER (En Quête d’Alger)
Dir:Vincent Rouxel, Cécile Mires, Sandrine Grialou, Gaëlle Vandaelle, Hervé Souchet, Sébastien Houitte, Benoît Pinsault, Maklouf Melaab
France 2007/ Documentary / 8:25 mins (extract out of 29 mins)
The “Travelling film festival” was dedicated the city of Alger in 2006. This was the occasion for some Algerians to express themselves about their culture, their traditions, their history and the place given to women in the society.
- AZAN: A CALL TO PRAYER
Dir: Heena Bukhari
Great-Britain 2006 / Documentary / 9’11 mins
Fazaila is a Shia-Muslim teenager from East London whose mum thinks she’s becoming « too English ». This first film by her cousin Heena is a personal exploration into being female and Muslim in Britain today by looking at the life of her younger cousin.
