thematic categories

Right to Tradition

Several films illustrating the struggle of native communities against the modern world have been included as the Right to Tradition section. These films look at the struggles of the Sahara's Tuareg (Asshak, Tales from the Sahara), the South Sudanese Nuba tribes (Closed District), the Amazon Indians (We Are the Indians), the Siberian Evenks (Afonka Does Not Want to Herd Reindeer Anymore) and the Siberian Udeges (Roots of the Sky).



Afonka Does Not Want to Herd Reindeer Anymore / Afoňka už nechce pást soby
Martin Ryšavý / Czech Republic / 2004 / 78 min.

A documentary film about a member of one of the last families who live in Siberia by herding reindeer and an examination of the cruel reality that civilization tends to destroy traditional ways of life even in remote ends of the earth.

    Screening:

     03.05.2005 / 19:00 / Minor
     30.04.2005 / 13:00 / Světozor ms

 

Asshak, Tales from the Sahara / Asshak, Geschichte aus der Sahara
Ulrike Koch / Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands / 2004 / 110 min.

A peaceful wander in the Sahara desert accompanied by Tuareg Noehi, who is searching for his stray camel, Asshak is a unique portrait of a proud nation which still today maintains many specifics.

    Screening:

     05.05.2005 / 21:15 / Lucerna

 

Closed District / Closed District
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd / Belgium / 2004 / 55 min.

Powerful black-and-white footage tells the tale of the everyday lives of the inhabitants of a forsaken village in the inhospitable area of southern Sudan, which for decades has been tormented by civil war.

    Screening:

     05.05.2005 / 21:00 / Světozor ms
     01.05.2005 / 19:30 / Světozor vs
     30.04.2005 / 22:30 / Světozor ms

 

New Eldorado / Új Eldorádó
Tibor Kocsis / Hungary / 2004 / 76 min.

A documentary film about the fate of one of the oldest and most picturesque Romanian villages, Rosia Montana, which a mining company along with the support of its Canadian investors intends to wipe off the map and build in its place an enormous gold mine.

    Screening:

     01.05.2005 / 17:30 / Světozor vs
     28.04.2005 / 21:00 / Minor
     02.05.2005 / 11:00 / Světozor ms

 

Switch Off / Apaga y vamonos
Manel Mayol / Spain / 2004 / 85 min.

This documentary film captures in detail the controversial methods of the multinational company Endesa during the construction of a mammoth dam in the Chilean Andes, which led to the flooding of vast territory that had been inhabited by the Pehuenche-Mapuche Indians for centuries.

    Screening:

     03.05.2005 / 19:30 / Světozor vs
     04.05.2005 / 17:15 / Lucerna
     29.04.2005 / 15:00 / Světozor ms

 

The Roots of the Sky / Korni neba
Ilgar Safat / Russia / 2003 / 11 min.

A remarkable film with unique archival footage from 1928 about the course of the Shaman's healing in a community of the Siberian ethnic group Udege, of whom only two thousand currently survive.

    Screening:

     30.04.2005 / 13:00 / Světozor ms
     03.05.2005 / 19:00 / Minor

 

We Are the Indians / We Are the Indians
Philip Cox / UK, Argentina / 2004 / 72 min.

A colorful ethnographic documentary film about the lives of the Guarani Indians in Argentina who try to maintain in the surroundings of the rainforest their own traditions against the expansion of the white civilization.

    Screening:

     01.05.2005 / 19:00 / Městská knihovna vs
     04.05.2005 / 15:00 / Minor
     29.04.2005 / 13:00 / Světozor ms