2010 programme released

Welcome to the 13th edition of AARHUS FILMFESTIVAL; to days full of films, full of visionary power, of laughter and wonders, troubling knowledge and new perspectives. Welcome to must-see documentaries and inescapable experimental shorts - reframing reality.
The AARHUS FILMFESTIVAL 2010 programme is released at this page, in print, at kulturnaut.dk, aoa.dk and paradisbio.dk

Read on for a general idea about what’s on and some titles...

short film programmes

vision, sight & sense short film programmes with a total of seventeen new, innovative, artistic and experimental short films among which are the Venedig premiered new film by Nicolas Provost (focus guest last year), Stardust, Jonas Odells latest docu-animation, Tussilago, the tripple winner at this year’s Tampere Film Festival, Little Snow Animal, and Berlin winner Please Say Something.
go wæst with seventeen new film from Jutland compeeting in the regional competition.
focus 1+1: Films & talks with media artists Abhshek Hazra (India) and Inger Lise Hansen (Norway) (Friday 12/11, 14.30)
retro with spectacular films by Norweigian artist Inger Lise Hansen.
short matters with fourteen films nominated for the European Film Academy Award
literate with three films of extreme literary interest!
uphill a official off-festival programme.

selected events

swim the film (Thursday 11/11) with short film screenings in Gellerupbadet.
underground/rock the film (Saturday 20/11) where film and music are united in an extraordinary event: After the movie Taqwacore; Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (Michael Angus & Murray Frederics, Canada 2009), there will be a live performance by the Danish upcoming band The Bang Bang Brain.
trash the film (Saturday 13/11) – some two hours of films and performance that are dirty and have a rotten sense of humour.
celebrate the film (Saturday 13/11), the annual not-to-miss party!

documentary film programmes

migration
Wars, material needs and desire for better living conditions drive millions of people into migrating, more or less voluntarily. However, the sunny side of the road is not exactly where the vast majority end up. Sexual exploitation, slavery and hard factory work as well as fractured families and constant longing constitute the harsh everyday reality for migrants.
10 min. (Jorge Léon, Belgium 2009)
Trafficking/Mission kvindehandel (Judith Lansade & Sine Plambech, Denmark 2010)
Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, Canada 2009)
You Are Served/ Vous êtes servis (Jorge León, Belgium 2010)
Stolen (Violeta Ayala & Dan Fallshaw, Australia 2009)

techno body
A revolution has occurred. We are no longer children of nature when it comes to sex, pregnancy and reproduction. Gender issues, ethical dilemmas, individual identity questions and self-esteem are at stake, when multi-national corporations and innovative entrepreneurs set out to conquer the marketplace of the human body and its desires: Sex and human reproduction are techno!
The Erection Man (Michael Schaap, Netherlands 2009)
Orgasm.Inc (Liz Canner, USA 2009)
Google Babies (Zippi Brand Frank, Israel 2009)

radicalism
In the East as well as in the West, millions of people have faith and strong ties to religions and spiritual movements, which provide easy answers, a sense of being a part of a bigger picture and often strict moral as well as legal prohibitions with fatal consequences for non-believers. Power, politics and money go hand in hand with radical beliefs, and even entertainment, creativity and the film industry become an arena for the holy battle!
David Wants to Fly (David Sieveking, Austria 2010)
The Miscreants of Talliwood (George Gittoes, Australia 2009)

genocide
During its four year reign, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia developed into a regime of horror. Almost 2 million people lost their lives between 1975 and 1979 when Pol Pot and his ideological brothers ruled their Marxist utopia. After 30 years of war, political instability, sealed archives and a reluctance to face the past, an international UN tribunal is prosecuting the aging leaders. In two films we meet them and come face to face with their ideologies.
Facing Genocide - Khieu Samphan and Pol Pot (David Aronowitsch & Staffan Lindberg, Sverige 2010)
Enemies of the People (Thet Sambath & Rob Lemkin, Cambodia/UK 2009)
+ seminar with journalist Mette Holm (in co-operation with Amnesty International)

& Waiting for Superman (Davis Guggenheim, USA 2010) presented by Cph:dox & Steam of Life / Miesten vuoro (Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen, Finland/Sweden 2010) as a warm up for next year’s Nordisk Panorama.

Still from "Stardust".

Still from "Stolen"..