The Program of the Festival
Friday JUNE 24 th 2011
10 am Opening
Inside Cinema
11.30 PLASTIC & GLASS, 2009, France (9’) Tessa JOOSSE
In a recycling factory, the machines dance, the workers joined in song, and in this crossover between documentary and musical film it is the filmmakers aim to merge image and sound in such a way that the one cannot exist without the other. The result is a sculptural and informative documentary and at the same time a musical film with a sticky song.
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MY VIEWS, French première, 2010, USA (15’) directed filmed and edited by: Jean ROMAN SEYFRIED
A short film chronicling changes in jean roman's nyc soho landscape to which she has cast time and light as the main characters. The weather and all other elements that play within the framework act as supporting characters to the reconstruction of her views. Using time lapse photography and frame animation editing techniques, the film spans a 2.5 year period tracing the environment of what once was an active parking lot to the construction of the completed building of the Crosby street hotel.
12.45 THE RIVER OF WOMEN, French première, 2009, Brazil (21’) Christina Maure et Joana Oliviera
Brazil, the arid region of Minas Gerais, tens of women gather and wash clothes along the Araçuaí river. The colorful clothes that they washed and wore, their movements, the sound of beating clothes on rocks, the murmur of conversation in small groups reveals the everyday life of these women in rural communities, where men are forced to leave and seek support for their families elsewhere.
17.00 LA BELLE VISITE, 2010, Canada (79’) Jean-François CAISSY
In the far reaches of the Quebec countryside, between a road and a headland that plunges into the sea, an abandoned motel has been converted into a retirement home. In this former travellers’ retreat, time seems to have ground to a halt. La belle visite is an elegiac exploration of old age, set in a place at once physical and allegorical.
19.00 DAKINIS, 2010, France (52’), with (and by) film maker (and actress) Véronique JANNOT Debate and autograph signing (meanwhile Dakinis may be seen outside at the « open air space »).
Véronique Jannot's depiction of different Buddhist women reveals the feminine principle in this religious philosophy. « Dakini may be heard in silence and seen in the dark or in space … It doesn’t only belong to women, such as the masculine principle doesn't only belong to men. »
Orchard
15.00-17.00 Eco-rendez-vous : lectures and debates
« From oppression to feminine expression »
with Fatma BOUVET M.D , psychiatrist and addictologist
« Masculine-feminine imbalance in work life : acknowledgment and solutions »
With a DESS degree in marketing, Dr. Bouvet was able to go into pharmaceutical industry for twelve years, without stopping her medical practice. Presently, her clinical research focuses on women's pain at work while running the alcohol addiction unit of Hôpital Sainte-Anne in Paris. She wrote Les femmes face à l’alcool. Résister et s’en sortir and Le choix des femmes (Odile Jacob)
Géraldine LE ROUX, anthropologist and curator
« Aboriginal women auto determination»
As a social scientist who specializes in today Pacific art and cultural mediation studies Géraldine Le Roux designed many exhibits worldwide. She is an associate researcher at ESCoM, in the ' Barbara Glowczewski's Anthropologie de la Perception laboratory (LAS/CNRS/ Collège de France) and teaches at university level. She worked more than10 years with aboriginal artists and activists in Australia. Her interests lay in current artistic creation, inter- cultural processes and identity claims of the Pacific zone.
17.00 Books signing
Outside cinema
11.00 LA DOMINATION MASCULINE (Male supremacy), 2009, Belgium (103’) Patric JEAN, + Debate
Are patriarchate and machismo really out ? Why then do some men have their penis lengthened ? Why do executive woman want "dominating" males ? Through funny, striking and sometimes dramatic scenes, this film shows a lashing discrepancy between our speeches and behavior.
17.00 LE BATEAU EN CARTON (Cardboard ship), 2010, France (80’) José Vieira, debate
Himself a Portuguese migrant, José Vieira discovers in Massy-Palaiseau a Rom slum which is worse than that he knew when young on the same site. He will live with and film the community for a year showing the poor's solidarity.
19.00 DAKINIS, (52'), with and by film maker Véronique JANNOT. Debate, autographs (meanwhile Dakinis may be seen inside)
21.45 PINK SARIS, 2010, first time in France, by Kim Longinotto, UK/India, (96')
“A girl’s life is cruel...A woman’s life is very cruel,” notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS. PINK SARIS is an unflinching and often amusing look at these unlikely political activists and their charismatic leader; in extraordinary scenes, we watch Sampat launch herself into the centre of family dramas, witnessed by scores of spectators, convinced her mediation is the best path for these vulnerable girls. Her partner Babuji, who has watched Sampat change over the years, is less certain...
20.30 CINÉ-CONCERT
23.30 Closing
SATURDAY JUNE 25 th
10H00 Opening
INSIDE CINEMA
11.00 LA VOIX DES ANDES (Voices from the Andes), 2009, France (78‘), debate with film maker Stéphane PACHOT.
Pachot has spent many months in the Andean communities of the Qhapaq Nan imperial Inca Trail : 2000 km from Ecuador to Peru, half of the time walking or horse riding. A poetical and anthropological journey on a path to become a World Heritage Site.
13.30 SUPER MÉMÉS, French première, 2010, Canada (49’) Magnus ISACSSON, (Raging grannies)
Debate with an Amnesty International “Granny”
Their weapons : age, experience, smiles, flowered hats and creativity. Raging grannies fight for peace, social justice and the Environment. They challenge and upset powers that be. Magnus Isacsson portrays them in depth and delight : crunchy.
17.00 Rediffusion THE PINK SARIS, French première, 2010, UK-India (96’) Kim LONGINOTTO
ORCHARD
15.00-16.30 LECTURE and Debate
« Women at work for the planet»
VANDANA SHIVA, science philosopher, physician and environmentalist (India)
« Feminism and ecology at the heart of our action for the planet» (translation into French by Marie-Paule Nougaret author of La Cité des Plantes: City of plants, town living in polluted times)
As an agro ecology pioneer, she received the Goldman prize, considered as the Environment Nobel, in1993, and the Alternative prize for Peace in 2010. Her Navdanya Foundation builds up bio and cultural diversity. Vandana campaigns for food sovereignty and farmers autonomy, in India and elsewhere. She is very active against GMOs and for agro ecology, through local seeds conservation and exchanges. She supports women at work and created "Grand mothers university"
Books signing
OUTSIDE CINEMA
11.00 THE BURNING SEASON, 2010, Australia (60’), Cathy HENKEL, VISIOCONFERENCE
Dorjee Sun, a young Australian Entrepreneur, believes there's money to be made from protecting rainforests in Indonesia, saving the orangutan from extinction and making a real impact on climate change. Armed with a laptop and a backpack, he sets out across the globe to find investors in his carbon trading scheme. It is a battle against time. Achmadi, the palm oil farmer is ready to set fire to his land to plant more palm oil, and Lone's orangutan centre has reached crisis point with over 600 orangutans rescued from the fires.
13.00 L’INSTANT MAGIQUE (Magic Moment), World première, 2011, France (60’), David PAQUIN, Debate with special guest Ricardo Tsakimp Shuar shaman from the Amazon and the film crew.
Western medicine said he would die. He was cured in ten days, by Shuar shamans of the Amazon. That was in 2003. For the first time David Paquin discloses this documentary report of healing and initiation by men who talk in life's own language.
17.00 HIMALAYA, world première, 2011, France (60’) debate with film maker Catherine ADDOR- CONFINO.
A young Himalayan woman, Hema, seeks to conciliate tradition and modernism. Director and artist ADDOR- CONFINO has mixed her paintings with the images to show Hema's "inside landscapes" at a time when her life finds a new inspiration : AVANI, a unique development organization.
21.45 LA REINE MALADE (Ailing Queen), French Première, 2010, Canada (90’), Pascal SANCHEZ, + Videoconferencing with film director Pascal Sanchez et debate with bee keeper Sophie BERTON, creator of " the hive school".
By finely tuning on his collapsing bee colonies Anicet Desrochers from Quebec developed a rare intelligence in his trade. Film maker Pascal Sanchez used the same method to shoot this film and as a result it keeps winning prizes.
20.30 CINÉ-CONCERT
23.30 CLOSURE OF THE SITE
SUNDAY JUNE 26 th 10H00 Opening
INSIDE CINEMA
11.00 RAGAZZE, LA VITA TREMA, 2009, Italie (122’), + debate with film maker Paola SANGIOVANNI, + GIRLS, LIFE IS TREMBLING
Alessandra, Maria Paola, Marina and Liliana come from different geographical, cultural and social milieu and their lives crossed or just grazed each other in Rome between the end of the 1960s and the 1970s. Their stories, told in first person today, are rounded out by vivid and present images from public and private archives. It is a subjective telling. The “starting with one’s self,” which formulated spontaneously during the feminist movement and set the foundation for a new political practice, today becomes historical narrative. The idea of a new world – in which there would be no violence or bullying of one person by another – bloomed simultaneously in the breasts of nearly an entire generation throughout the country. Thus, the film unfolds along the parallel track of women’s history as well, touching upon the consciousness of one’s self as a woman, self-consciousness, love, violence against women, divorce, contraception, abortion, work, theatre, free radios, squatting, the displacement of personal experiences into collective ones for a more humane world, of women and men, girls and boys.
14.00 IS EVERYTHING POSSIBLE, DARLING ?
Can we live differently today? Byron Bay (Australia), alternative place and stronghold of the hippie spirit reveals portraits of men and women to free minds. A return to basics and the core values of life to express an environmental message, spiritual and artistic mode, through travel, meetings and discoveries.
17.00 VODOO, THE POWER OF HEALING, French première, 2009, Germany (71’) Christophe HENNING, + débate
Voodoo – The power of healing” is a trip to Benin, the birthplace of voodoo cult, the origins and various aspects of a religion that remains largely closed to outsiders. Known voodoo regalia work without often threatening: rotting goat heads with bared teeth, small dolls made of dirty rags, chicken feathers, blood, strange amulets for protection against evil powers. What causes this lack of understanding, disgust and fear, in the countries where voodoo is practiced, religion and medicine in one. In hours of Voodoo ceremonies are worshiped different gods, people fall into a trance state and it will be brought blood sacrifice. If not initiated these ceremonies seem chaotic and without any structure, the rituals do not reveal themselves to the Western audience right away. This is primarily about healing. Energies that are messed up, should be brought so again in the right order.
ORCHARD
15.00-17.00 ECO-Meetings : lectures and debates
Feminine and masculine act together for consciousness
Sylvie SIMON, writer and investigative journalist,
« Getting over our fear through consciousness rising»
Sylvie Simon is a writer and journalist. For years she has fought mistaken beliefs in different sectors of science, with a focus on misinformation in health and ecology, some hot matters indeed. She published various essays on scandals such as contaminated blood, mad cow disease, asbestos, growth hormone and vaccination. Through lectures in France and abroad she seeks to wake up consciousness that have fallen asleep from media overkill, inviting us to reflect, make fully informed choices that we can answer for, and alter our values and thinking system.
Patrice van EERSEL, writer aNDreporter,
« Growing in humanity » To probe mysteries might be Patrice Van Eersel's motto as a writer : birth (Mettre au monde), death (La source noire, Réapprivoiser la mort), what we call angels (La source blanche), dolphins' mind (Le cinquième rêve), links between personal and human evolution (Du pithécanthrope au Karatéka)... Far from trying to shock, the man always succeeds in suggesting new world views, new ways of thinking and acting. His last opus, Donner du sens à sa vie (Giving sense to one's life), groups long interviews that were published in Clés (ex-Nouvelles Clés) as an echo to the collective thirst that springs in front of climate and industrial disasters, fanaticism, physical and psychical pollution.
His "Growing in humanity" lecture aims to open our horizon through new findings.
17.00 Book signing
OUTSIDE CINEMA
11.30 Rediffusion L’INSTANT MAGIQUE, world première, 2011, France (60’), David PAQUIN
13.00 LA SEMENCE DANS TOUS SES ETATS (Seeds as they have come to be), French première, 2011, France (15’) by Christophe Guyon, debate with Jocelyn from Kokopelli organization .
By creating hybrids in the 1960 and recently GMOs, transnational corporations have made keeping crop seeds illegal. This report documents the anomaly and makes the viewer aware of a major issue.
13.30 DIX MILLE CHOSES (10 000 things), world première, 2010, France (45’), Benoit DELBOVE
On Montreuil hilltop near Paris, Beaumonts Urban Park is managed by local people. In 10 000 things, Benoît Delbove makes us meet the place, its soil, its trees, its plants, its neighbors and its regulars, with stories aplenty. Ten thousand things of one essence.
17.00 L’AFFAIRE COCA COLA, 2010, Canada (85’), G. GUTTIEREZ & C. GARCIA, + débat
You'll never look at a can of Coke the same way after seeing this documentary film. Directors German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia present a searing indictment of the Coca-Cola empire and its alleged kidnapping, torture and murder of union leaders trying to improve working conditions in Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey. The filmmakers follow labour rights lawyers Daniel Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth and an activist for the Stop Killer-Coke! Campaign, Ray Rogers, as they attempt to hold the giant U.S. multinational beverage company accountable in this legal and human rights battle.
19.30 CINÉ-CONCERT : LES POULETTES
21.00 CLOSURE OF THE FESTIVAL