KHATTE: The Choice of Freedom

A documentary film about long-term street children, living in Kathmandu and two protagonists: ex-street kid Sushil Babu Chhetri and Lalit Shasi who runs a non-government organization for children in need. Sushil wants to direct street theatre with street children as main protagonists, trying to show alternative ways how to help them and how to face this never ending problem. But his task turns out not to be as easy as it seemed, facing more problems than he expected at the beginning. Lalit Shasi, despite the fact that there are no street children in his orphanage, wants to save three street kids from the street by giving them bed, food and safety in his organization. But he faces the reality of the street and struggle to convince children to choose safety instead of their freedom.

Director: Miha Mohoric

Passionate travel writer and filmmaker who is documenting people’s ways of
life and their culture in his films. As a multimedia engineer trained at the Institute
and Academy of Multimedia, Ljubljana 2006, his interest in the profession improved
at the Middlesex University, London, where in 2009 he graduated from the Media
Production Management.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary
Runtime:55 minutes 20 seconds
Completion Date:August 15, 2015
Production Budget:3,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Slovenia
Country of Filming:Nepal
Film Language:English, Nepali

PARADISO

The “Duque de Alba” is the last adult movie theatre remaining in Madrid. Rafael, the projectionist, works hard every day in order to make the place tidier.

Director: OMAR A. RAZZAK

Omar loves films. Sometimes he produce them, sometimes he edit them. He has directed Paradiso, his first
feature film.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Feature
Runtime:1 hour 13 minutes
Completion Date:March 15, 2014
Production Budget:30,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Spain
Country of Filming:Spain
Film Language:Spanish

A LA MEDIANOCHE (At nightfall) 'Moments with Javier Arzuaga'

Three of us were the protagonists of what happened in La Cabaña back then: he who died, he who killed and me, God’s clown, trying to offer what I could not.
The Cabaña was the Fortress of Havana; When: the first five months of 1959, that is, the first steps of the Cuban revolution;
Those executed: soldiers and police officers of the Batista regime;
The executioners: the fighters who had come down from Sierra Maestra;
God's clown, trying to convey his worn-out faith: Javier Arzuaga (Oñate, 1929), a Franciscan friar.
There were many well know characters there, one of them was the Che Guevara, who back then was the commander of La Cabaña.
After having kept all of his troubled life experiences to himself for over forty years, Arzuaga decided to put pen to paper. His book 'At midnight', stems from here as does this documentary presented by Angel Gonzalez Katarain.

Director: Angel Gonzalez Katarain

Angel Gonzalez Katarain is a sound engineer, musician and Basque audio-visual producer. He has his own recording studios located in Azkarate (Navarra-Spain). Since 1980 he has been heavily involved in a myriad of projects within the world of image and sound.
In 2010 he became the main promoter of Seeds in time, a historical research project that seeks to audio visually rescue and display the influence of the Basque culture in other parts of the world.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary
Genres:Social, Derechos humanos, conflictos, History, conflicts, Historia, Biografia, Biography, Latin, Latino, Latinoamericano, Religion
Runtime:1 hour 31 seconds
Completion Date:March 31, 2015
Production Budget:243,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Spain
Country of Filming:Cuba, Spain
Film Language:Spanish

As The River Goes

As the River Goes follows the residents of East Porterville, an area in California where more than 900 families live without water in their homes, as they struggle to continue their lives without this necessary resource.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Short
Runtime:18 minutes 6 seconds
Completion Date:May 10, 2015
Production Budget:6,955 USD
Country of Origin:United States
Country of Filming:United States
Film Language:English

Ten Centimeters of Life

I never planned to go to the Crimsk and make a movie about someone else's grief. I have never been politically active person. I turned out there by chance, a month after the tragedy and realized that I should fix it.

The tragedy in Crimsk took place on the evening of July 6 into the morning of July 7, from Friday to Saturday. . The notification system in the city did not work. When the residents became quickly flooded, they tried to call for help to the rescue service, to the local government, to the police, to Emergency Services and many others. But not one of them answered! The people were left alone, one-on-one with nature….

Director: Anna Yanovskaya

Anna Yanovskaya
Born in Ukrain
Russian filmmaker,actress,screeptwriter.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary
Runtime:1 hour 6 minutes
Completion Date:May 3, 2014
Production Budget:50,000 USD
Country of Origin:Russian Federation
Country of Filming:Russian Federation
Film Language:Russian

Аgainst A Perfect Sky

John Fante (1909-1983) was an Italian-American author. In AGAINST A PERFECT SKY - the title refers to a poem by John Fante’s son Dan – we witness the pilgrimage of Dutch authors and Fante aficionados Jaap Scholten and Henk van Straten to the Italian village of Fante’s forefathers in the Abruzzi. They try to capture the Italian roots that are such a vital part, or maybe even the soul of his writing. AGAINST A PERFECT SKY is a story about migration, fathers and sons and the art of writing, against the backdrop of the glorious town of Torricella Peligna and the literary festival Il Dio di Mio Padre.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary

Runtime:44 minutes 58 seconds
Completion Date:August 21, 2015
Production Budget:10,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Netherlands
Country of Filming:Italy
Film Language:Dutch, English, Italian

Our Canyon Lands

In Southeastern Utah, one of the last major wild places remaining in the lower 48 sits teetering on a precipice of rampant industrial development. Home to some of the most stunning landscapes in the world, the Canyon Lands of Utah have become the playground of adventurous souls who love and appreciate the wonder of wild places. It has also become the target of greedy industrialists, who threaten to turn our treasured parks into islands, our canyons into roaring hydrocarbon highways and our rivers into endangered arteries among vast swaths of oil and gas development, uranium and potash mining bordering Canyonlands National Park.

Director: Justin Clifton

Justin Clifton is a native of the American Southwest, who has dedicated the past decade of his career to advocacy film, first as Director of Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour and now as a filmmaker who’s work is centered around environmental and conservation issues. In the past year he has produced and directed three films centered around the protection of landscapes in Southeastern Utah as part of the Our Canyon Lands campaign for land conservation. He is currently working on two new projects - one is centered around river restoration and water conservation in California’s Central Valley and the other deals with the issues surrounding America’s last remaining Uranium Mill and its detrimental impact on the White Mesa Ute tribal community south of Blanding, Utah.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Short
Genres:Environmental, Land Conservation
Runtime:34 minutes 31 seconds
Completion Date:March 12, 2015
Country of Origin:United States
Country of Filming:United States
Film Language:English