film.

BANANAS!*

Dir.: Fredrik Gertten, Sweden, 2009
Documentary, 87 min., English/Spanish with Danish subs.
Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever representing over 10,000 Nicaraguan banana workers claiming to be exposed to lethal effects of pesticides. In this ground-breaking legal battle, the personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles puts the global giants Dole Food and Dow Chemicals on trial.

Enjoy Poverty

Dir.: Renzo Martens, Holland 2009
Documentary, 90 min.
Deep in the interior of the Congo, Dutch artist Renzo Martens single-handedly undertakes an epic journey and launches an emancipatory program that helps the poor become aware of their primary capital resource: Poverty. The film investigates the emotional and economic value of Africa’s most lucrative export: filmed poverty.

Let’s Make Money

Dir.: Erwin Wagenhofer, Austria, 2008
Documentary, 107 min.
Ervin Wagenhofer looks behind the scenes of the colorful back-drop of banks and insurance companies. What does our pension provision have to do with the property boom in Spain? What do private banks do with our money as soon as we have opened an account? Under mottos such as “let your money work for you” or “the best time to buy is when there is blood on the streets”, the film reveals the network of hidden connections and tactics of the global financial market.

RIP: A Remix Manifesto

Brett Gaylor, Canada 2009
Documentary, 90 min.
RiP explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th Century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. Creating a participatory media experiment from day one, Gaylor shares his raw footage on the internet for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film.

Short Films 1

This Is Her
Dir.: Katie Wolfe, New Zealand, 2008. Fiction, 12 min.
The aftertaste of love freshly depicted in a furious female narrative.

Universal Spring
Dir.: Anna Karasinska , Polen, 2008. Fiction, 16 min.
Human lives spin in the world like atoms, always singular and alone. A combination of a realistic description and a filmic metaphor.

Danse Macabre
Dir.: Pedro Pires, Canada, 2008 . Fiction/Dance, 8 min.
Lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet set in a breath-taking visual design.

Land and Bread
Dir.: Carlos Armella, Mexico, 2008. Fiction, 8 min.
A dramatic story of misery and loneliness set in a single space and a tight time frame. Winner of the Golden Lion in Venice.

Majken
Dir.: Andrea Östlund, Sweden, 2008. Fiction, 29 min.
A surprising film about activism and civil disobedience. It all starts out with an elderly woman calling the supermarket’s customer service hotline.

Short Films 2

Beast
Dir.: Lars P. Arendt, Denmark, 2009. Fiction, 15 min.
Dad is hitting Mom, and Benjamin wants to make him confess. But Daddy is not the apologizing kind.

Doxology
Dir.: Michael Langan, Canada, 2007. Experimental,, 12 min.
An experimental comedy about tennis, dancing cars, and God.

Slaves – an animated documentary
Dir.: Hanna Heilborn & David Aronowitsch, Sweden/Denmark/Norway, 2008. Animation/ Documentary, 15 min.
Like thousands of other children, Abouk (nine), and Machiek (fifteen), were taken by government sponsored militia in Sudan and used as slaves.

Monsieur Selavy – The way it is
Dir.: Peter Volkart, Schwitzerland, 2008. Experimental,, 10 min.
A film diary about the vicissitudes of existence and a journey in which space and time coordinates become a bit tangled.

The Ballad of Marie Nord and her
Clients
Dir.: Alexander Onofri, Sweden, 2008. Fiction, 28 min.
A drama where passion, altruism, crime and hidden racism are intrinsically intertwined.

Still from "Monsieur Selavy - The Way It Is".

Still from "Slaves".