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50... and One World - Mrs. Ibouna / 2000

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Sébastien Kamba
CIRTEF - Productions
CG CONGO
Synopsis: Neither black, nor white, Mrs. Ibouna is albino. Not an enviable condition in her country and everywhere else in Africa. She, and people like her, are marginalized and hardly accepted. Albino people are surrounded by several myths: bearers of bad luck, they don't die, they simply disappear, etc. For a long time, Mrs. Ibouna suffered the curses and superstitions ascribed to albino people. Today, she claims to be happy because in spite of her condition she managed to fight and have a wonderful life with her five children, her husband and an occupation she likes.

50... and One World - Nomad / 1999

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Saad Housein
CIRTEF - Productions
DJ DJIBOUTI
Synopsis: Who is this modern times nomad? Ahmed Salah, twice a Djiboutian marathon Olympic medallist is still active on the international scene representing his country. In 1998, he won the 20 km marathon of Paris and the marathon of Amsterdam. This fervent representative of African and Djiboutian nomads continually struggles at each and every trial and marathon. Between Djibouti and Nice, movement is the leading word of his life marked by countless incidents, pitfalls and surprises.

A Day in the Raval / 2006

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Hussein M. Majida G. Hicham K. Alí, Chaima, Abdelà, Redouan
Fundacion Kine
ES SPAIN
Synopsis: The authors of the documental are Moroccan boys and girls, from 15 to 18 years old. They are bound to the Casal dels Infants del Raval, a local association that works on education with urban young people in vulnerable situation. For this reason they wanted to present, throughout interviews, life as it goes on in their neighbourhood, which has one of the highest levels of immigration in Catalonia (Spain) and has been passing through many changes during the last years. Despite of this, the neighbourhood preserved and increased its associative and cultural richness and variety. In the documental, Raval is observed under many points of view, in a simple and everyday life perspective.

Afro@digital / 2002

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Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
CD CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
Synopsis: In Afro@digital, a marabout explains that he no longer replies by letter to questions put to him by Africans living abroad. Rather he uses his mobile phone, which he carries with him at all times. Some of these African spiritual guides even use e-mail to transmit their advice, their replies reaching their destination in a few seconds instead of the several weeks it can take for a letter to cover the distance. Another eloquent illustration of the digital revolution in Africa is the rise of Internet cafés. One such café is featured in the documentary. Referred to as "Cyber teahouses" in Mauritania, these Internet access centers have really caught on in a big way in many African countries. In Bamako, the capital of Mali, the number of Internet cafés increased from one to 100 within the space of a year.

ALL THE WORLD’S STAGE / 2008

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ALL THE WORLD’S STAGE
The Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
IN INDIA
Synopsis: They left in dhows and returned on a plane. But the journey back, took over 700 years. Along the way; they lost their language and the knowledge of their native land, but retained their music and their dance – the most telling clue to their history. A film on the Sufi Sidis of Gujarat.

APNA ALOO BAZAAR BECHA / 2008

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PANKAJ H. GUPTA
The Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
IN INDIA
Synopsis: What happens when remote, isolated mountain communities come face to face with globalization? Jardhar gaon, a village in the Hemval valley of Garhwal, led an isolated, egalitarian existence until a series of events forced it, into joining the market economy. This short documentary, based entirely on local perspectives, reflects on the process of change – what triggers the shift to modernisation and what impact it has on the personal, social and environmental spaces. Golden Deer Award, 1st Prize in Short Length Film, 8th Ecofilms Festival, Rodos, Greece

AUTUMN IN THE HIMALAYAS / 2008

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MALGORZATA SKIBA
The Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
IN INDIA
Synopsis: The film brings to light the story of a group of elderly Buddhist nuns from Ladakh, who represent the last generation of unordained and uneducated women in robes. They have led quiet lives in isolated high mountains working as domestic helps and road construction labourers. Neglected by religious and social systems for centuries, the new Nyerma nunnery is their last call for dignity, enhancement and purification of their religious status.

Being a wawa in the Andes / 2003

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Maja Tillmann Salas
PRATEC
PE PERU
Synopsis: The diverse world in which a child in the Andes of Peru is raised is alive. The inhabitants of the Andes are in constant conversation with the nature. The human beings produce to the nature and the nature raises the human beings. Maria Núñez de Cuchoquesera, Quispillaccta, Ayacucho, describes her life as a garden in which they find different flowers. Maria Núñez is in the same a community of flowers, not as an individual.

Black Catalonia / 2006

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Gilbert Nsangata
Tala Tala Productions
CG CONGO
Synopsis: " Black Catalonia " is an author's documentary and produced with total creative freedom by the director Gilbert-Ndunga Nsangata, Congolese and resident in Sabadell, Catalonia. Nsangata presented its script to the CCCB, which has assumed the production of the film together with the producer Alea Doc and Films and Catalunya's television, thanks to which it made real this project. The documentary "Black Catalonia" analyzes the conflicts of identity of the second generation of Catalans of sub-Saharan origin. The film reports four histories in first person. Those of Axel Serrat Agboton (Barcelona), Sanata Dembele (The Fulliola, Lleida), Tidiane Diedhiou (Barcelona) and Fàtima Yara (Teià). The particularity of each personal history is vital to understand the magnitude of the problem of identity that represents the struggle between the loyalty to origins and the integration in Catalonia.

But It Never Rained / 2002

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Ningthouja Lancha
Ningthouja Lancha
IN INDIA
Synopsis: The film attempts to explore the inner world of the protagonists, a group of people which is not favoured by history, setting the Naga and Kuki ethnic conflict of 1990's as the backdrop. The epistemology and sentimentality that envisions the subject, space and objects in this film are all shaped by the repercussion of this reality. The story tries to sketch the rythm and life pattern of a Kuki community that survives by felling bamboos in a period when history becomes ruthless.