Trento, Italy - 2-3 May, 2009
EURORAMA - One Europe of peoples in Ethnographic film festivals
At the frontiers of Europe, immigration / Post-socialist Europe, between tradition and modernity.
Since 2007 Eurorama, the film show organized by the Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina (Museum of Folkways of Trentino) of San Michele all’Adige, offers in a single venue the best of ethnographic documentaries on Europe, by selecting all winners and some of the best runners-up from ethnographic film festivals all over Europe.
PROGRAMM:
Sunday 2nd May 2009
Cinema Multisala Modena (viale S. Francesco D'Assisi, 6 – Trento)
> EURORAMA 4.1
At the frontiers of Europe, immigration
Ore 15.30 ASPEKTY FESTIVAL OF VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2009
(Torùn, Poland)
Altzaney, by Nino Orjonikidze & Vano Arsenishvili, Artefact Production, Georgia, 2008, 30 min.
The people of Pankisi Gorge (Georgia) believe that all the important issues of their lives should be solved through the mediation of some superior authority. Altzaney is a woman who mediates between conflicting sides as well as between this and the other world. She is the only woman trusted to take care of the dead. What makes her so authoritative in a totally patriarchal environment and what is the price that she has to pay for it?
> JEAN ROUCH FESTIVAL 2009
(Parigi, France)
Prophète(s), by Damien Mottier, Francia, Les films de la jetée, 2009, 46 min. (Prix FATUMBI - Société française d'anthropologie visuelle).
Placide is a young native from Ivory Coast, and he comes to Paris with the sole intention of evangelizing France. He preaches sometimes in the Parisian subway and soon meets a man who will become his spiritual father, a prophet.
Ore 18.00 DAYS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2009
(Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Mimoune, by Gonzalo Ballester, Spain, 2006, 11 min.
Illegal immigration is not only a problem for our society. Not only does the illegal immigrant suffer from social uprooting but also the most difficult part of this situation: the family division. This document was born out of the desire to bring together, even if only through the camera, a family that has long wished to be so.
> DIALËKTUS EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009
(Budapest, Ungheria)
Chicagoblock, Stories from the Elevator by Ingeborg Jansen, Holland Harbour Productions, Netherlands, 2008, 65 min. (Golden Deer - Human Stories).
On the left bank of the Scheldt, a block of high-rise flats is towering on its surroundings. The people of Antwerp have named it the "Chicago block" and perceive it as a place to avoid. Belgians of modest means live here next door to immigrants, representing over 35 nationalities on 26 storeys. The camera is set up in the lift of this concrete beehive, catching the occupants as they pass by. It follows some of them home, picking up on their stories, some big, others small; stories whose dignity and strength of will reach out far beyond their surroundings
> Ore 20.30 VISCULT FESTIVAL OF VISUAL CULTURE 2009
(Joensuu, Finnland)
Book of Miri by Katrine Philp, Sweden / Denmark, 2009, 29 min.
Miri lives on her own in a suburb of Linköping, Sweden. She works as a librarian. Every day she writes a personal blog. She takes photographs of herself and uploads them onto the internet. She writes about the life she leads and shares her thoughts with the world surrounding her. “Book of Miri” is a film about searching for identity.
> ETHNOCINECA 2009
(Vienna, Austria)
Salaam Aleykum Copenhagen, by Sašo Niskač, Denmark / Slovakia, 2008, 19 min.
Haluk, Iman and Allan are three young people with Turkish, Kurdish, Lebanese backgrounds living in Copenhagen. How do they get on with their lives in the atmosphere of Copenhagen, their new home? The film is a portrait of their attitudes towards the questions of immigration and integration, their daily problems and challenges, family values, their view on Danish society. While presenting their worlds, they are opening the doors to our understanding of Copenhagen itself.
> RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2009
(Manchester, Great Britain)
21 Sermiligaaq 65º54’N, 36º22’W., by Anni Seitz & Sophie Elixhauser, Germania, 2008, 64 min. (Wiley-Blackwell Student Film Prize).
The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few generations from tradition to modernity, complete with helicopters, satellite TV and alcohol. This documentary shows us East Greenland today, the village in summer and winter, the family between seal hunting and computer games. It lets us experience in poetical scenes ordinary life in an extraordinary world, quietly observing events, faces, gestures that form a portrait that is at the same time strange and familiar.
Monday 3rd May 2009
Sala Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto (via Garibaldi 33 – Trento)
Ore 10.00 Carnival King of Europe. A European project of visual anthropology.
Presentation 2009 - 2010 field materials.
Cinema Multisala Modena (Viale S. Francesco D'Assisi, 6 – Trento)
EURORAMA 4.1
Post-socialist Europe, between tradition and modernity
> Ore 15.30 SARDINIA INTERNATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL 2008
(Nuoro, Italia)
The First Day, by Marcin Sauter, Eureka Media, Poland, 2007, 20 min.
It’s a story about one of the most import¬ant moments in everyone’s life. The transfer to an urban environment of several children from the Tundra seen as a rite-de-passage as to the coming of age. The film was made within the frame¬work of the “Russia-Poland. New Gaze” film-pro¬ject.
> INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2008
(Belgrade, Serbia)
Caviar Connection, by Dragan Nikolic, Prababa produkcija, Serbia / USA, 2008, 58 min. (Grand Prize)
The Pacov brothers are trying to make a living by fishing beluga from the Danube. They have been trying unsuccessfully to reach the standards of their father, a legendary “king of caviar”, and they are dreaming of big catches and easy money. Once the European Union will have ruled out beluga fishing from the Danube, the life of the Pacov brothers will have to change…
> Ore 18.00 ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009
(Sibiu, Romania)
Birds’ Way by Klara Trencsenyi e Vlad Naumescu, Libra Films Productions, Romania, 2009, 52 min. (Sibiu-Hermannstadt Award)
In the Danube Delta, in Periprava, the old ones die and the traditions are lost. The Lipovan community, made up of old-rite believers, has remained without a priest. The priest has ever since been chosen from the community and he did not need to have theological studies. Now, the old priest is ill, bound to the bed for some time, and the new one cannot take care of his duties because he is unmarried and there is no girl willing to become a priest’s wife. The villagers are desperate – funerals are performed by the deacon, and the Easter and Christmas services are also held without a priest. The films follows three years from the community life, where recent changes and modernization unveil the fragility and vulnerability of a traditional society.
> RUSSIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008
(Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Welcome to Enurmino!, by Aleksei Vakhrushev, Studio Ethno-Online, Russia, 2008, 60 min. (Best Director Award)
More than 6000 km from Russian capital city, Chukotka peninsula. Enurmino village. The film tells about the modern life of the indigenous peoples of the northeastern coast of Russian Federation. This is a poetical drama devoted to the attempts of Enurmino villagers to save their culture and their own identity for the future.
> Ore 20.30 GÖTTINGEN INTERNATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL 2010
(Göttingen, Germany)
Tobacco girl, by Biljana Garvanlieva, Gebrueder Beetz Produktion, Germany, 2006, 30 min.
Mümine, a 14-year-old Turkish girl lives with her family in the high mountains of Macedonia. Her family belongs to the Turkish minority. Mümine’s family needs her for the difficult work in the tobacco fields – their only source of income. She is sold to her future husband for 3000 Euros. Will she find a way out from this „law of nature“? She has two possibilities in the village: either to be married or to go to school, but then to be sold to her husband for a higher price. Her dream is that of going to Skopje to attend school. She wants to become a teacher.
> BEELDVORBEELD DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL ON CULTURE AND REPRESENTATION 2009
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Alyosha, by Meelis Muhu, Romania, In-Ruum, 67 min.
Most Soviet memorials in Estonia have been destroyed after 1991, the year in which this Baltic country regained its independence. However, the „Bronze Soldier”, with his rifle and the chest full of medals, dominates one of the main squares in Tallinn. For the Estonian nationalists, „Alyosha” is the symbol of the bloody Stalinist repression. For the Russian residents of Tallinn, the statue represents one of the few links they still have with “Mother Russia”. Every year, on May 9th, “Victory Day”, they congregate around Alyosha, who becomes a catalyst of the Russian community’s collective memory. Between 2005 and 2007 the author followed thoroughly the conflict around the soviet bronze soldier.
> NAFA NORDIC ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM ASSOCIATION FESTIVAL 2009
(Bergen, Norway)
The Love Bureau, by Caterina Monzani, Great Britain, 2009, 26 min.
Bettina runs the marriage agency Maruska. She's a modern day Cupid who specializes in Italian men and Eastern European women. Aldo, a shy banker, has married beautiful Svetlana but Piero can't find a woman of the right height. A bitter sweet tale about internet dating, the fall of Communism and finding love in the 21st Century.
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