Saturday, November 28, 2009

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IDFA, Friday 27.11.


None of the films I've seen has won ... except The Yes Men Fix the World who has the IDFA Doc U get award. Last Train Home (best feature length documentary): The other winners are The Player (Dutch documentary award), The Most Dangerous Man in America (special jury award), Iron Crows (best mid-length documentary), Six Weeks (best short documentary), Colony (first appearance award), The Cove (audience award), Redemption (student award).

contrast, yesterday I saw five mediocre movies (!): Dreamland , Mumbai disconnected , The accidental terrorist , Welcome to North Korea! and Eyes wide open in the repetition - I had the feeling at first viewing, many Did you miss about. The second time I actually understood a lot more because then I could enjoy the pictures a little longer and not had to read subtitles nonstop! This film is unfortunately too much text and stuffed - you'd loose can make it, or even three parts to every South American country to which the director travels Arijon Gonzales, a home movie.

Dreamland offered beautiful landscapes of Iceland, but was very content, redundant, not to say boring (statement: the aluminum industry damages the natural), so that it would have done basically a video of Björk.

From Mumbai disconnected I had expected more, as Marcuse Dr Sun had raved about it. The three protagonists (an Indian of the middle class, who heads the construction of a Flyways in Bombay, a wealthy Indian woman who is against it and a poor Indian who dreams of a car) were but all of them sympathetic, really at hand is the director of them but not. Nevertheless, the film was cut well and provided a chain of events that could well follow.

Welcome to North Korea! was how the director said in front of the projection itself, a pure Tourivideo. Unfortunately, not particularly well filmed and not going into the depths - what lies behind the facade really, the North Korea of the handful of tourists a year, travel into the country may present? As the lives of the people there actually see? What would they say if they could speak freely?

The last film The accidental terrorist, was designed very ambitious: a young Muslim of Turkish Dane Hitnergrund sets out on the track after a man with a similar past, but to drift into fanaticism and for a planned attack in Bosnia in prison. I told from the perspective, the film fundamental questions about religion and freedom and lead to the beautiful statement: ". The most important thing in life is to have a sense of belonging"

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