OFFICIAL SELECTION (4th Edition)

12-16 May, 2017

CURANDERISMO

Directed by: Sam W. McFadden

 

Category: Documentary

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Year & Country: 2016, United Kingdom

 

Duration: 26 min

 

Synopsis: A film set in the jungles of Peru about shamanism and ayahuasca.

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Website:N/A

 

 

 

The Five Breakfasts of Mr Podgoretsky

Directed by: Carl Rowlinson

 

Category: Documentary, Student

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Year & Country: 2016, United Kingdom

 

Duration: 21 min

 

Synopsis: Under the shadow of Brexit an immigrant is facing deportation from a country he has called home for 50 years. This powerful documentary asks what it means to make a country your home.

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Website: N/A

 

 

 

Living in-between

Directed by: Nefeli Oikonomou Pantzou

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Category: Documentary

 

Year & Country: 2016, Czech Republic

 

Duration: 9 min

 

Synopsis: At the moment the number of homeless people in Czech Republic is approximately 68.500, while 9.500 out of them live in Prague. 
Having as a reference the concept of heterotopias as described by Michel Foucault, this documentary focuses on the public spaces homeless people appropriate and transform into private ones. Those places are the “homes” of Vaclav and David and also an overnight shelter for homeless people, organised by the state this time, which surprisingly is not a building but a “retired” boat. 
Using as a connective element between those different locations is the water we are making a journey in different spaces where the narrator is those people describing their experiences in relation to the specific site in which they live and the Director of the Social Services in Prague explaining the way this floating piece of space is functioning.

 

Virgile Sleeps, 6 sketches for a film

Directed by: Jean Seban

 

Category: Documentary

 

Year & Country: 2014, France

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Duration: 22 min

 

Synopsis: Virgile Novarina conducts, for more than 20 years, a survey on sleeping. His research lead him to produce some "night writings and drawings" during micro-awaking, to sleep in a Bremen laboratory in order to researchers to analyze his sleep different forms, and also to produce an image of the sleep in public places all around the world: the one from Virgile sleeping. The week of 21st to 26th January 2013, from 9 am to 6 pm, he slept during the day, in the Inlassable Gallery window, 18 Dauphine street in Paris. For each of these days, Jean Seban proposes a film as a vision of this performance. 

 

Website: http://www.jeanseban.fr/JS/Virgile_sleeps.html