Neodvisni ljubljanski festival dokumentarnega filma 2011
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16_00 >>> 18_00

GHOSTS OF THE CAPITAL
laura von bierbrauer_50min_ARGENTINA / GERMANY_2010
Since the Argentinean economic crisis of 2001, on the streets of Buenos Aires more than 6,000 “Cartoneros” push their handcarts to collect the recyclable material of the household waste. Despite their daily presence facets of their work are hidden to the urban population, as the waste collectors usually appear at dusk in trains and trucks from the poorest areas of the province. The film remains close to them and shows the stories behind their handcarts.

MY FATHER IS A COMMUNIST
grigory grishin&olga yakovleva_59min_RUSSIA_2010
Film about a father and a son. They are extremely different but at the same time have much in common. The father, Victor Oshkin, is an orthodox communist, the leader of Labor party department of Saratov region. His son, Alexander Oshkin, is a break-dancer, winner of Russian and international dance competitions, fitness-presenter. He lives and works in Moscow.

18_00 >>> 20_00

NADIEZHDA
dali rust_32min_LITHUANIA_2011
The entire world in Nadiezhda’s life fits into small room in the house on the hill and her daily routine. She wakes up every morning to repeat the same daily rituals she did yesterday: to carry water in and out, to fire old oven, to launder, to cook for herself and for the animals huddling around her. In the evening her energy expires and the roaring emptiness enters into her small world.

FUNERAL SEASON
matthew lancit_87min_CAMEROON / CANADA_2010
In this comedic ghost story, a Canadian Jew wanders through an African culture where ”the dead are not dead”. Embarking on a road trip across Cameroon´s most joyous funeral celebrations, the foreigner befriends his guides and becomes increasingly haunted by memories of his own ancestors.

20_00 >>> 22_00

ZOOM FINLAND_docs

GHOSTS
jan ijas_15min_FINLAND_2009
Film about building originally built as an envelope factory located 500 km down from the Arctic circle and now a centre for asylum seekers -  warehouse for humans.

SAILBREAK
eeva siivonen_10min_FINLAND_2009
Moving freely in time and space, the film is a mental journey through states of mind, through rugged visions and forgotten memories.

LITTLE SNOW ANIMAL
miia tervo_20min_FINLAND_2009
It is not wrong to love – you just need to look for it in the right place.

SANTA MARIA DEL BUEN AIRE
oliwia&jerem tonteri_13min_FINLAND_2009
Impressionistic film about a city which got its name because of ”good air (Buenos Aires)”. People of the city tell legends and the walls have a voice of those who have disappeared.

GUARDIAN ANGEL
reeta aalto_20min_FINLAND_2010
Late in 2008, Vicar Olli Aalto starts being a woman, full-time. The film tells a story about acceptance, mercy and forgiveness.

HOW TO PICK BERRIES
elina talvensaari_20min_FINLAND_2010
Guests from far away appear at Lapland’s swamps. “How are we going to get along with these strangers when they’re taking our berries?” How to Pick Berries is a film about Finnish heart and the peculiarities of the global economy. The economy is a many-splendoured thing.

22_00 >>> 24_00

PETRZALKA IDENTITY
juraj chlpik_25min_SLOVAKIA_2010
With its 130,000 inhabitants, Petrzalka is the biggest neighborhood in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Three generations have grown up here since it was built. People are dying and being born, a new chapter of history is being written, one that is not perceptible from the outside, but only from the inside, from the point of view of our memories and our intimate personal stories. The movie portrays several people living in this featureless world of concrete, trying to find a place for themselves in this jungle of blocks of flats where they could put down roots.

SISYPHUS
marek janicik_15min_SLOVAKIA_2011
Life is a big ball that we have to push up a steep hill. All it takes is a single slip to set the ball rolling back down, leaving us with no other option but to start from the bottom again... „Sisyphus“ is a portrait of a former drug addict who has moved to a little house in the country, away from civilization, and spends his time making origami in the loft. Sometimes art is the easiest way to start from scratch.

A STORY OF A DEPORTEE EXILED BY HER OWN FATHER
andrius blazevicius_14min_LITHUANIA_2011
“How can you adapt when you get 118 litas? How can you, my kiddie, adapt? You go ad must keep on seraching – you  go to a church, you come here… Here I’m alive. I’m 79 years old – it seems I’ve managed to adapt.”

WRITTEN IN INK
martin rath_12min_POLAND_2011
Story of a man trying to get back in touch with his sister after they haven´t been talking for 14 years. But can one change what has already been written in ink?

URBAN TUNDRA
robi uppin&maria kivirand_15min_ESTONIA_2011
“Urban Tundra” is an observing documentary about homelesness and faith. A very big snowstorm named “Monica” hits Tallinn, Estonia in December 2010 and the filmcrew visited a soupkichen dedicated to people in need. The film tries to observe the activities during Christmas holiday and document how people in need are couping with the ongoing storm.

BLACK RIDERS
victor malyshev_26min_RUSSIA_2010
Russian road documentary.