Original Film Title: Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language
Directors Name: Amel Tresnjic
Writers Name: Amel Tresnjic
Producer: Amel Tresnjic
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Language: English
Runtime: 62 min 9 sec
Film Description:
This inspiring documentary film takes us on a journey into the world of language and the crucial role it plays in the lives of newly arrived refugees in Australia. This heart-warming film tells of their experiences, from trauma endured as they fled their war-torn countries, to their search for safety and a better life in Australia. Dandenong North Primary School, a multi-cultural school situated in a Melbourne suburb, welcomes children of refugee backgrounds and their families with open arms. The school’s goal is to give children the best start on a path of lifelong learning. The film features the school’s highly successful English as an Additional Language Support Program and highlights the life changing role it plays for children of non-English speaking backgrounds. Dandenong North Primary School demonstrates the vital responsibility an educational institution plays in supporting refugee students as they overcome language barriers and develop the ability to express themselves. The importance of learning to ‘talk for life’ is the heart of this unique and uplifting educational film, made by multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker, Amel Tresnjic.
Original Film Title: Home
Directors Name: Paul Morris
Writers Name: Paul Morris
Producer: Benjamin Harris
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 17 min 20 sec
Film Description:
When a lonely young girl meets a local farmhand claiming to be held captive, can she help him or will his secret keep them both prisoner?
Original Film Title: Voiceless
Directors Name: Maite Hundt
Writers Name: Maite Hundt
Producer: Eric Cabutí, Maite Hundt
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: South Africa
Language: English, German
Runtime: 20 min
Film Description: Life in Africa is very difficult, especially for people with disabilities. Utho Ngathi is trying to change the lives of these people. The director Maite Hundt reports from her perspective which lives Utho Ngathi could already change.
English Film Title: POETRY: The Transcendence of Words
Original Film Title: ΠΟΙΗΣΗ: Η Υπέρβαση των Λέξεων
Directors Name: Sofia Kalantzi
Writers Name: Sofia Kalantzi
Producer: Eleni Finou, Sofia Kalantzi
Country of Origin: Greece
Country of Filming: Greece
Language: Modern Greek (1453-)
Runtime: 36 min 38 sec
Film Description:
A trip, an internal quest inside the world of poetry.
At the documentary we answer a deep question
What is the relationship between poetry and life and death?
Who are the real poets?
What is the purpose of poetry?
What is its relationship with the Soul?
Can poetry go beyond death?
What can be a Poetic Moment?
Artists, poets, teachers, seekers of truth, scholars and thinkers talk to us about that invisible world; which becomes visible at your eyes and in the Heart of the reader, the observer of the poet.
So poetry obtains another dimension or rather its true dimension is being revealed.
A dimension that cannot be restricted in any piece of paper, it becomes energy and transcends word and constructs an internal world of awakening.
Original Film Title: Diagnosing Healthcare
Directors Name: Paul Roberts
Writers Name: Paul Roberts
Producer: Paul Roberts
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 h 29 min 19 sec
Film Description:
Diagnosing Healthcare offers solutions for the COVID-19 crisis. The film is an exploration of health care with human rights at the center that offers innovative solutions for all humanity.
Original Film Title: The Patagonia Triple Crown
Directors Name: Nomade Media
Writers Name: Lorenzo Andrade Astorga
Producer: Lorenzo Andrade Astorga
Country of Origin: Chile
Country of Filming: Chile
Language: English
Runtime: 52 min 42 sec
Film Description:
A group of kayakers find themselves in the difficult mission of running the three less explored and most dangerous rivers of the south of the world.
The Pascua River, Bravo and Baker. They will overcome the difficult tests that the patagonia will put on them, in addition they will learn about of the complicated environmental situation that Chile is suffering in its fight for fresh water.
Original Film Title: Road to Hollywood Through Bollywood
Directors Name: Oleg Blinov
Writers Name: Oleg Blinov
Producer: Oleg Blinov, Terry Kaelber
Country of Origin: Russian Federation
Country of Filming: India, United States
Language: English, Russian
Runtime: 1h 10 min 55 sec
Film Description:
Part documentary, part adventure film, and part cultural reflection, Road to Hollywood Through Bollywood is a story about a Russian actor who decides to conquer the world of cinema after his graduation from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts – starting with Bolllywood and moving on to Hollywood. He flies to India and begins his quest via motorcycle, train and on foot. He has but one aim – to become a Bollywood movie star. With little money, but much drive, he casts his fate to the wind. Will he find his way to Bollywood? What will happen when he gets to Hollywood? Will he succeed with his dream or succumb to the difficulties of being a stranger in foreign lands? A revealing portrait of youthful adventure, dreams and contrasting cultures.
English Film Title: The Donbass children
Original Film Title: Дети Донбасса
Directors Name: Lubomir Dankov
Country of Origin: Bulgaria
Country of Filming: Ukraine
Language: Russian
Runtime: 60 min
Film Description:
This is a movie about the Donbas war, first-person stories. You will hear the stories of so-called “ordinary people”. These people suffered from irrational from a military point of view strikes on civilian targets. They are victims of someone’s desire to wage war on their territory at all costs.
There are no author’s comments in this movie and no censoring of the thoughts of the local people. This film was made especially for spectators in Europe, who do not know what is happening in Eastern Ukraine.
The purpose of the film is to arouse interest in the ongoing six-year armed conflict and to make people to start to think about the responsibility of each of us for peace in Europe.
Original Film Title: The Last Tribes
Directors Name: Ebru Cakirkaya
Writers Name: Ebru Cakirkaya
Producer: Ebru Cakirkaya, Guven Aksu
Country of Origin: Turkey
Country of Filming: Namibia
Language: Turkish
Runtime: 52 min 53 sec
Film Description:
Humans have hunted and gathered for thousands of years just to survive. They lived as part of the nature, without destroying anything. Today, only a few regions are left on earth where this life cycle continues. One of those very special places is the Tsumkwe region in Namibia. ‘The Last Tribes’ depicts the life of the Ju’/Hoansi San People one of the extraordinary peoples of Namibia, communing with nature.
Koma is a San boy who is passing through adolescence that is considered to be the time to prove himself as a hunter. According to San traditions, the first hunt is a momentous occasion for a boy of the tribe. Koma must hunt his first antelope now to come of age and to be accepted as a grown-up. But will he be able to hunt his chase all by himself and bring it to the village? Who would be approved for the new spousal by the grandmothers Gunna and Kuse? Who will be the tribes’ new bride and groom? The documentary focuses on San tribes’ ingenous daily life with all their excitement, fears and happiness in their natural habitat.
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