Oma Export
In a grey apartment complex in Hamburg lives Petra Kallenbach with her son and her dog. She is a 58-years-old German pensioner, well-rounded with long blond hair, who loves going to theatres and rock concerts. She enjoys having a drink with a
friend or simply going out for a good meal once in a while. But all of this she cannot afford.
Petra got an early but dramatically low pension, like many other seniors in Germany. After paying rent and amenities, she has only about 100 euros left every month for food and other expenses. Barely enough to get by in an expensive city like Hamburg. Petra refuses to accept the current circumstances. She belongs to the new generation of seniors, who don't feel that life should be over when growing old. Her retirement shall be a new chapter in her life. She decides to leave everything
behind and to move thousands of kilometres away to Eastern Europe. In Kavarna, Bulgaria, she wants to find the “better” life she is desperately looking for. She loves the idea of sunny weather, beaches and a biggest rock festival right in front of her
doorstep.
Petra will embark on an adventure of a new culture without knowing neither people nor language. For Petra, retiring in a foreign country will keep her engaged with life. OMA EXPORT is an uplifting humorous documentary that presents old people as
heroes and proves that age is no obstacle for new challenges.
friend or simply going out for a good meal once in a while. But all of this she cannot afford.
Petra got an early but dramatically low pension, like many other seniors in Germany. After paying rent and amenities, she has only about 100 euros left every month for food and other expenses. Barely enough to get by in an expensive city like Hamburg. Petra refuses to accept the current circumstances. She belongs to the new generation of seniors, who don't feel that life should be over when growing old. Her retirement shall be a new chapter in her life. She decides to leave everything
behind and to move thousands of kilometres away to Eastern Europe. In Kavarna, Bulgaria, she wants to find the “better” life she is desperately looking for. She loves the idea of sunny weather, beaches and a biggest rock festival right in front of her
doorstep.
Petra will embark on an adventure of a new culture without knowing neither people nor language. For Petra, retiring in a foreign country will keep her engaged with life. OMA EXPORT is an uplifting humorous documentary that presents old people as
heroes and proves that age is no obstacle for new challenges.
Beyond the End of the World
Beyond the End of the World is the untold story of a 10-day international film festival that was staged in Sarajevo during the brutal 4-year siege and how the films helped us to survive the siege of Sarajevo when everything was lost.
Haris Pašović and the other heroes of this war story aren’t soldiers, they’re artists - people who used ingenuity and humor to battle the nationalism and bloodshed that raged around them. Today those same artists struggle in war’s aftermath.
In 1993, Haris was 32 and already a successful theater director. A determined romantic with a dry sense of humor, he showed surprising depths of courage by leaving the safety of Antwerp to sneak back into Sarajevo so he could play his part in the war. Once arrived, he saw something unrecognizable. People were living in isolation and fear, hiding from the shelling and snipers that had plagued the city for over a year. For centuries Sarajevo had been a cultural melting pot, but Yugoslavia's disintegration was dividing neighbors and families along ethnic lines. In the face of this destruction, Haris and his friends banded together to create a cultural resistance. Against enormous odds, they made films, put on concerts, and produced plays in an effort to hold the city together. And then Haris had an audacious thought: like any other European city, Sarajevo should host an international film festival. Cutting back and forth between Sarajevo’s past and current struggles, the film raises question: How does the role of an artist change in times of war and peace?
Using animation, archival footage, interviews and verité footage, Beyond the End of the World brings to life an incredible effort that involved Hollywood celebrities, international smuggling, and ordinary citizens risking their lives to go to the movies.
Haris Pašović and the other heroes of this war story aren’t soldiers, they’re artists - people who used ingenuity and humor to battle the nationalism and bloodshed that raged around them. Today those same artists struggle in war’s aftermath.
In 1993, Haris was 32 and already a successful theater director. A determined romantic with a dry sense of humor, he showed surprising depths of courage by leaving the safety of Antwerp to sneak back into Sarajevo so he could play his part in the war. Once arrived, he saw something unrecognizable. People were living in isolation and fear, hiding from the shelling and snipers that had plagued the city for over a year. For centuries Sarajevo had been a cultural melting pot, but Yugoslavia's disintegration was dividing neighbors and families along ethnic lines. In the face of this destruction, Haris and his friends banded together to create a cultural resistance. Against enormous odds, they made films, put on concerts, and produced plays in an effort to hold the city together. And then Haris had an audacious thought: like any other European city, Sarajevo should host an international film festival. Cutting back and forth between Sarajevo’s past and current struggles, the film raises question: How does the role of an artist change in times of war and peace?
Using animation, archival footage, interviews and verité footage, Beyond the End of the World brings to life an incredible effort that involved Hollywood celebrities, international smuggling, and ordinary citizens risking their lives to go to the movies.
A Man Sings After War
A man sings after the war is a film about tree artists from three different countries, which are fighting their memories of war through the art. Diala, Ali and Goran are from Syria, Baghdad and Belgrade. Diala lives in Saint Denis, a suburb near Paris where she found a refuge after a long journey, leaving Syria for Turkey and Lebanon. She is an illustrator for children, she draws stories that she heard in refugee camps and along her journey. In Saint Denis she starts a new life, but she can’t forget those left behind. When she goes back to Lebanon to work with the children from refugee camps, her work becomes a struggle to confront the traumas of the war. Ali is a choreographer in Baghdad. He is working on a new piece with his dancers, it is about a suicide attack he had witnessed. The work on the piece with his theater group confronts them with painful memories and brings them relief.
Goran is preparing a theater piece with his brother. Since the bombing 1999 he is drawing all the time. With theater piece he goes to Kosovo. The stage is set in the old abandoned house near his hometown he was forced to leave after the war. A few remaining inhabitants are the only audience.
Goran is preparing a theater piece with his brother. Since the bombing 1999 he is drawing all the time. With theater piece he goes to Kosovo. The stage is set in the old abandoned house near his hometown he was forced to leave after the war. A few remaining inhabitants are the only audience.
Prison Beauty Contest
Pirajui is a small city with only 25 000 people and three prisons with 1500 prisoners in each prison. Most of the female convicts in Pirajui prison are because of drug. Some of them did it for money, but the others did it for love, helping their boyfriends or husbands. GRAZIELLA FERNANDA COSTA (45), the director of Pirajui prison, decides to bring back self-esteem to female convicts with organizing a prison beauty contest. The Beauty Contest will give back the female inmates goals, pride and steps towards improving their self-esteem. Prison beauty contest is a welcome diversion from the monotony of life inside the bar. For 4 weeks, convicted women get a chance to transform from poor Cinderella to the beautiful princess.