Human rights competition
| Human rights competition |
 | Chernobyl: The Invisible Thief / Чорнобиль: невидимий злодій |
| Christoph Boekel / Germany / 2006 / 59min | |
| April 26th 1986. The day a nightmare scenario became horrific reality: the day reactor block 4 of the Chernobyl atomic power station exploded. Very little information about the true extent of the radioactive contamination managed to find its way out to the public. Filmmaker Christoph Boekel spent many years living and working in the Russian Federation. While researching and filming [read more] |
 | Esma / Есма |
| Alen Drljević / Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2007 / 26min | |
| Inside the UN camp in BiH, in course of official negotiations of representatives of the two sides in conflict, the Serb army kidnaps the counter-negotiator, colonel Avdo Palic. As of then begins the several years lasting search of his wife, Esma for her missing husband.Alen Drljević: Born in Sarajevo. 1999. Enrolled at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, the [read more] |
 | Fantasy / Фантазія |
| Aldin Arnautović / Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2007 / 45min | |
| As long as there are wars, there will be warriors - this is a story of 1992-1995 war veterans of Bosnia-Herzegovina.Following the life stories of three men who regularly meet at group therapy sessions, the film shows how the PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) affects a human's mind and questions the system of values in „post-war“ society.Zerin is an ex miner. [read more] |
 | Goodnight Beijing / Добраніч, Пекінe / Goodnatt Beijing |
| Ronja Yu / Sweden, China / 2006 / 29min | |
| The city of Beijing is undergoing enormous changes during the preparation for the summer Olympics 2008. A blend new Beijing, with a vision for the future, is replacing the old emperor capital. Nowhere else is the restructuring of living space carried out as rapidly, and nowhere else are the interests of citizens ignored as much as here. "New Beijing – [read more] |
 | Last to Know / Кожен мовчить про своє / Jeder Schweigt Von Etwas Anderem |
| Marc Bauder, Dörte Franke / Germany / 2006 / 72min | |
| 15 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the country is still very much occupied with recent history. Around 250,000 people were political prisoners in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Three of them are portrayed in this film that shows the life of German families having one or more members imprisoned, and considers the still-reverberating effects that that imprisonment [read more] |
 | Muzyczna Partyzantka / Music Partisans |
| Mirosław Dembiński / Poland / 2007 / 52min | |
| The documentary presents young rock music bands who are in opposition with Lukashenka’s regime. They express their attitude to surrounding reality trough their music, cloths, behavior.Mirosław Dembiński:Born 1959 in Bydgoszcz (Poland). Graduated in Mathematics Torun University. Graduated in Directing Polish National Film School (Lodz, Poland), Documentary Directing Teacher since 1990. Directed almost 30 films, series, documentaries, received almost 80 international [read more] |
 | Métropolitains / Метрополітен |
| Guillaume Launay / France / 2007 / 24min | |
| A travel around the South. A exile around the North. Meeting between this both journeys, between White person and Black person, the black and white. Through a exchange of reading, this film become a reading of the exchange.Guillaume Launay: born in 1975. Self-taught photographer. Since 2005 have been a coordinator of Atelier Super 8 de Tours.Producer: Guillaume Launay, 35 Cité [read more] |
 | On the third Planet from the Sun / На третьей от Солнца планете |
| Pavel Medvedev / Russia / 2006 / 32min | |
| 45 years ago on the pomor’s land in Archangelsk area (North of Russia) were held the most powerful of the mankind experiments of a hydrogen bomb. Nowadays oil, gas and diamonds are extracted from the land; on sea dockyard the new nuclear fleet is being built; the most modern rockets take off the space-vehicle launching site. Despite this the pomor’s [read more] |
 | Tales from the Margins / Голоси забутих Богом |
| Kavita Joshi / India / 2006 / 23min | |
| Twelve women disrobe on the streets of Manipur, in protest… For over six years, Irom Sharmila has been on a fast-to-death demanding justice; she is kept under arrest by the government and is forcibly nose-fed for this "crime". Why are the women of Manipur, a state in the North-East of India, using their bodies as their last weapon?For decades Manipur [read more] |
 | You wanted to make a film? / Ти хотіла зняти фільм? / At ratzit laasot seret? |
| Gali Weintraub / Israel / 2007 / 25min | |
| I was born disabled. Once my nephew was born I started to think how handicapped people can raise children.I met Zehava Padnes, a polio victim who dreamed of dancing and Oren Braier, a young man who specialized in folk dance, who, since childhood, had watched his father dance in a wheelchair. They suggested that I make a film about their [read more] |