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International Competition Documentary
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Thursday, December 3, 2015 / 8 pm
Maison du Japon
Cité Universitaire de Paris
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Haunted Hoa Lo |
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Ryan White
United States, Vietnam
2015 | 00:10:15
"Haunted Hoa Lo" is a landscape documentary about psychic phenomena
and global capitalism at the site of Hanoi’s infamous Hoa Lo
prison. Using spectral 16mm images and interviews with famous spirit
mediums, government officials, and corporate employees, the film
unearths ghostly encounters to explore multiple perspectives on the
colonization and occupation of a single piece of haunted land in
Vietnam.
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Hide and Seek
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El juego del escondite |
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David Munoz
Spain
2015 | 00:23:00
To play hide and seek is can be fun, but it’s not a game anymore
when you end up hiding in fear of your life. A film crew travels to
Lebanon and vistis a Syrian refugee camp. Here, the children play hide
and seek while they are escaping war.
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Psychic Driving
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William E. Jones
United States
2014 | 00:14:30
Psychic Driving deals with experiments on unwitting subjects
involving hallucinogenic drugs and massive doses of electroshock. The
psychiatrist in charge treated patients in three stages – sleep
therapy, psychic driving, and de-patterning – to destroy depressed
personalities and then build them back up again. The source material
is a VHS tape recorded from a 1979 television broadcast.
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Telecommande
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Télécommande |
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Anonyme
France
2015 | 00:49:00
Tehran, June 2013. The Iranians are preparing to elect the new President of the Islamic Republic. Massed in front of their TV, they comment the presidential campaign broadcast by national channels : the jokes that accompany the parade of candidates betray the spectator's disappointment. After the 2009 riots, the Iranian people there still believe in politics? In the privacy of their homes, facing the images relayed by satellite feed, state propaganda, images of the West, Egypt or Syria, women and men freely talk about their hopes, their anger and their fears.
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November 26 - December 6, 2015
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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