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International Competition
Documentaries
# 9 |
Sunday 15 october, 2017 / Noon
Maison des étudiants Canadiens
Cité internationale
universitaire de Paris
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Sand Men
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Tal Amiran
United Kingdom
2016 / 00:13:56
Neculai, Aurel and Raj all left their homes in Romania for the same
reason - to seek a better life for their family. Now, in Britain, with
their loved ones depending on them, they survive by creating sand
sculptures on London’s streets. They try to find hope in the hardships
they endure, while thoughts of their children's futures keep them
going.
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Ginan Seidle, Yalda Afsah
Germany
2015 / 0:20:00
"Boy" narrates through pictures of urban environments and close
observations the lives of a girl which is raised as a boy in
Afghanistan and a young afghan singer, who now lives in London but
wore boys clothes to be more free in afghan society.
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Land within |
Maa sosälläni |
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Freak Kivisto
Finland, Colombia
2015 / 1:00:00
A Finnish director finds her own national identity in the desert
betweenColombia and Venezuela. There she encounters the indigenous
Wayuu who believe in dreams andin their ability to shape what is
real. The director feels a strange and beautiful kinship to
theWayuu, until the film crew receives a death threat.
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FRENCH PREMIERE |
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October 5 - 15, 2017
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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