Festival "Documenta Madrid 2010"
Activity Casa Asia takes part for the first time in the Festival Documenta Madrid, which holds its eighth edition in May. This collaboration opens a new section of the festival, devoted to the productions that approach topics related to the area of Asia and the Pacific under the name «Panorama of Asian documentaries».
Organizer Documenta Madrid, in collaboration with Casa Asia, Ministry of Culture, Matadero, Princesa, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Filmoteca Española, Casa de América, Casa Árabe, Goethe-Institut, Institut Français de Madrid, A, Museo Reina Sofía, 8 1/2, Filmotech, Egeda, Madrid Film Comission, Esmadrid.com, Filmad, Xunta de Galícia and CGAI.
Starts on 12/05/2010
Ends on 14/05/2010
Venue Casa Asia Centre-Madrid
Tagore Auditorium
Carrera de San Jerónimo, 15, 3ª planta
MadridPrice Types of tickets
Additional information Wednesday, 12th of May 2010, at 7.15pm.
"Une vie normale"
Jill Coulon(France). Country: Japan. Duration: 83 min. VOSE
18 years old Takuya gives in to his father's wishes and enrolls in a sumo school even though he prefers judo. Takuya swaps his trendy clothes for the traditional Japanese kimono and moves to Tokyo. His father has a warning for him as he leaves: « Do you realize there is no place for you if you come back? ». Coproduced by Japanese TV NHK as part of its « Tokyo Modern Series », granting an exceptional access, this documentary film follows the first 9 months of Takuya's initiation, telling about the dreams and disenchantments of a teenager who is discovering the reality of the traditional world of sumo.
Contact information:
Stéphan Riguet
Andana Films
Le Village.
07170 Lussas
France
Tel: + 33 4 75 94 34 67
sriguet@andanafilms.com
www.andanafilms.com
Thursday, 13th of May 2010, at 7.15pm.
"Kleine Wölfe"
Justin Peace(Germany). Country: Nepal. Duration: 48min. VOSE
Together with other children, the eleven year old Sonu lives on the streets of Katmandu. Their daily routine is a fight to survive in the chaotic capital of Nepal: always on the prowl for food, drugs, charitable tourists and what they seek most - as small boys do anywhere- is fun and adventure. The life of Sonu and his pack is shaped by hunger and violence but is also filled with childlike moments of freedom on the streets! This film follows ideas of Direct Cinema: no narrator, no music, no staging. We wanted to understand the everyday life of a street child in Kathmandu. The story is told by the kids themselves.
Contact information:
Justin Peach
St. Georgstr. 19
55128 Mainz, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)6131 8370307
Mov:+49 .null.179.9258056.
www.kleinewölfe.de
www.lonelypack.com
Thursday, 13th of May 2010, at 8.15pm.
"Prision sans Peine"
Olga Prud'homme Farges(France). Country: Philippines. Duration: 52min. VOSE
With this film, I want to show an exemple of "social success" happening in a jail, even though one could hardly think it is possible... Don't we first think that, in poor countries, the jail situation for inmates should be worse than in our so called "developped countries"? But, from my first visit at the Puerto Princasa City Jail, I had a very opposite feeling. Then, as I came back and spend time in this jail, my first feelings had to be confirmed: Yes, I even met happy people in this tropical jail, where anger, generated by lack of freedom, is transmuted into positive energy and creativity. My intent is to make a film that goes against commiseration. The one that, too often, western countries feel towards the so called "developping countries". And, in between the lines, this question: What about if those countries had lessons to teach us?
Contact information:
Kolam Productions
19 Rue de Saintonge
75003 - Paris
Tel: + 33 (0)9 52 25 87 37
olga@ kolam.fr
www.kolam.fr
Friday, 14th of May 2010, at 6.15pm.
"Nero's Guests"
Deepa Bhatia (India). Country: India. Duration: 55min. VOSE
Nearly 200000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 10 years. But the mainstream media hardly reflects this. Nero's Guests is a story about Indiaís agrarian crisis and the growing inequality seen through the work of journalist, P Sainath. Through sustained coverage of the farm crisis, Sainath and his colleagues created the national agenda, compelling a government in denial to take notice and act. Through his writings and lectures, Sainath tries to make us see the real India, and provokes us to think who are the "Nero's Guests" in today's world.
Contact information:
Deepa Bhatia
437/3, Tirupathi Balaji, 14th Road, Khar (W),
Mumbai 52.
Tel: +91 22 26058928
mistralmovies@gmail.com
Friday, 14th of May 2010, at 7.15pm.
"Disorder"
Weikai Huang (China). Country: China. Duration: 58min. VOSE
2009 Young Jury Special mention Award of 31nd Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Film Festival, France.
The film combines more than twenty street scenes into a collage, revealing absurd facets of a city's life, such as a man who hasnít received indemnity and is threatening suicide, a lunatic joyfully dancing in the middle of traffic, pigs running wildly on a highway, pedestrians risking their lives to cross a busy street, a conflict over counterfeit money, the discovery of a cultural relic on a construction site, a polluted river where official representatives swim, a determined laborer fishing, an escaped alligator hiding and more.
Contact information
ICTV-Solferino Images-Quartier Latin
17 rue du Colisée
75008 Paris
Tel: +331 4359 2679
Fax: +331 6403 7101
www.ictv-solferino.com