Regie: Vitalo Manskij 

Refugees from the Caucasian republics, Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Russians, meet on the shore of the Black Sea: they work as shop keepers, life guards, karaoke singers, or just enjoy their holidays. It all happens at a place called Broadway, which is no-where to be found on a map, not even the most detailed ones. The temporary inhabitants of Broadway construct a whole world en miniature, consisting of small carts, tents or booths parked in close, haphazard rows. eintragen102 rows. The scenery, which is put up for a few weeks during the summer, bubbles with life - and in no way corresponds with ordinary daily life in Russia.

 

Regie: Peter Kerkes 

This documentary film about the Old Swimming Pool in Košice, where the history came to bathe, was made over the summer seasons 2000 to 2002. Seen through several stories which unfolded between the years 1936 and 2002, the film captures 66 seasons at the popular swimming pool, and also the same number of years in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The film is supported by the reminiscences of several visitors to the “Čéháčko”, as the pool was known, which the film crew try to reconstruct years later. The swimming pool thus acquires another metaphysical dimension – it resembles a model of the world where, with greater intensity, private stories merge with universal history. Different generations of swimmers replaced one another over the course of the decades, only the craving for water as a place of absolute equality and also a source of security remains just as strong.

 

Regie: Yury Khashchavatski 

Three months before elections the president of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko claimed: "You have no other choice, you will vote for me!" This is exactly how it happened in March 2006. We started to film in January 2006, two months before elections, and continued through the whole year. We were trying to figure out how did it happen that 83% of population voted for Lukashenko? The film tracks the opposition struggle during few post-election days. Using a lot of archive material imprinted in the course of Lukashenko's governing author draws a parallel between history and recent days. The movie shows the falsehood of the official propaganda and the ambiguous, sometimes polar, attitude of simple people. Assembling together all the debris of the opinions, comparing different historical events, jeering at dictator's arrogance and manners, admiring courage and dedication of the young generation, the feature approaches the understanding of what is really going on in the center of Europe. And one more thing - the director's sarcastic comment throughout the film does not make you bored!

 

Regie: Edgar Bartenev 

Yaptik-Hasse is one of the younger members of the very large Yaptik family. He is also their good spirit and therefore privileged to ride on a holy slide. As it is the end of August the Nenets people commence their journey on the \'middle-world\' as usual (under-world - the north, upper-world - the south, middle-world - the way). Their camp was in Tundra, on the Yamal Peninsula. We meet Jarkalyn, who is only one year old and Jako, his two and a half years old brother, who is already very precise at throwing the lasso; there is also Ejne, without children, the parents, and the 90 years old shaman Iri Tadibe (felt age: 35) as well as the eldest, Chado, who was all her life considerate of the reindeers and therefore never carried or pulled by them. Film-maker Edgar Bartenev chooses three different means to tell the story of the breathtaking everyday life of these Siberian nomads. Music (relatively aggressive, structuring the rhythm of perception), inter-titles (fairy-tale-like and funny), and last but not least a camera. Yet, the latter is used in a very sophisticated way, well above the feature-film standard. The result is one of the most exciting forms to reanimate the ethnographic genre in an alienated way!

 

Regie: Marco Wilms 

Der indische Maßschneider Issar begibt sich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise zu seinen langjährigen Kunden ins ferne Europa. Er erhofft sich neue Aufträge und die Wiederbegegnung mit alten Freunden und der Liebe. Marco Wilms begleitet den Schneider auf seiner ersten, großen Reise durch europäische Städte, Wohnzimmer und Mentalitäten. Zugleich geht für Issar alias Mike ein Lebenstraum in Erfüllung: Seine erste Rolle als Bollywood-Star - im ersten Bollywood-Dokumentarfilm Europas ! www.tailormadedreams.de Stab Buch und Regie: Marco Wilms Kamera: Lars Barthel Ton: Nicole Nagel und Robert Cibis Schnitt: Christian Fibikar Musik: Eike Hosenfeld und Moritz Denis Regieassistenz: Melanie Langpap Produktionsleitung: Sebastian Gassner und Edda Rosenfeld Herstellungsleitung: Meike Martens Redaktion: Kathrin Brinkmann (ZDF / ARTE) Iikka Vehkalahti (YLE TV2) Produzent: Heino Deckert Produktion: ma.ja.de filmproduktion in Koproduktion mit ZDF in Zusammenarbeit mit ARTE, YLE TV2, France 5, DR, TV Ontario, VRT und RTBF Preise: GOLDENER GIRALDILLO, Bester Dokumentarfilm, Sevilla Festival de Cine 2006, Spanien PRIZE OF FRENCH AMBASSADOR, Int. Competition Int. Documentary Filmfestival Pärnu 2006, Estland Festivals Eröffnungsfilm / Int. Wettbewerb VISIONS DU REEL, NYON 2006 Filmfestival MAX OPHÜLS PREIS, Saarbrücken; SILVERDOCS USA Sterling Award Feature Film Competition; DOK LEIPZIG; Dokfest KASSEL; Achtung Berlin Filmfestival; Int. Filmfestival Frankfurt, Guangzhou; Int. Documentary Festival, DOCPOINT Helsinki; Int. Filmfestival Krakow Opening Film in Feature Film Competition Kinostart Deutschland: 7.12.2006, Wfilm Verleih Kinostart Spanien: 9.11.2007, ermedia distribution DVD bestellen unter: marcowilms@heldenfilm.de

 

Regie: Alexander Rastorguev 

Every morning during the last 25 years beach, hereditary photographer Eugeniy and his camel, bought in Kalmyk steppe, are on their way to their habitual working place - a beach at the Black Sea shore, a world of naked people. To be more correct: NUDE people, in all meanings of this word - nominal as well as figurative.The film shows a variety of characters, which shape a unique portrait of the state of the human world in which we live. Both irony and melancholy, cleanliness and meanness, love stories and betrayal, life and death are depicted in their development.Four years ago, Vitaly Mansky has been shooting \"Broadway. Black Sea\" on the same beach. Now you will meet many heroes from this previous film in \"Wild, Wild Beach\" again.D