Theme:
SUCCESSFUL MOVEMENTS
Successful movements tells about how the peoples movements have won the battles against various big companies and government agencies. When the peoples livelihoods and the untouchable nature and big companies are one against another , the peoples movements have been empowered to defend their environment against even powerful companies .
1. & 27. SCREENING: Cultures of Resistance / Vastarinnan kulttuurit
Thursday 6.10 at 17.00 Kino Engel 2
Sunday 9.10 at 19.00 Kino Engel 2
Tyger
Brazil
2006, 5 min, Animation, dvd
Director: Guilherme Macondes
Producer: Guilherme Macondes
Nature is striking back in a magical short film by Guilherme Marcondes of Brazil, based on a William Blake poem. Tyger blends puppetry, illustration, photography and computer-generated imagery.
Cultures of Resistance
Brazil, Colombia, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, Iran, Rwanda, USA
2010, 80 min, Documentary, bluray
Director: Iara Lee
Producer: Caipirinha Productions
Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, travelling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story. From Iran, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting government repression, to Burma, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to Brazil, where musicians reach out to slum kids and transform guns into guitars, and ending in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard, Cultures of Resistance explores how art and creativity can be ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.
The film is the opening act for the Film Festival Displaced.
12. SCREENING: ¡YA BASTA! / Jo riittää!
Friday 7.10
at 21.00 Kino Engel 2
The Devil Operation
Peru
2010, 69 min, Documentary, bluray
Director: Stephanie Boyd
Producer: Guarango
Father Marco, a humble priest from the mountains of Peru, is being followed. A private security firm is filming and photographing the priest´s every move; their meticulous reports are code-named "The Devil Operation". Father Marco´s allies are murdered and tortured, but he and his disciples refuse to be victims. They turn their cameras on the spies and develop a counter-espionage plan that leads to South America´s largest gold mine, owned by the Newmont Mining Corporation of Colorado.
For the past two decades, Father Marco has defended farming communities against the Yanacocha mine´s abuses, earning him the nickname ´The Devil´. Peru is one of the world´s top gold producers and the state has ceded power to transnational corporations who guard their territory like outlaws in the Wild West.
Film-maker Stephanie Boyd has spent 10 years documenting the farmer´s struggle and became caught up in this real-life political thriller.
15. & 26. SCREENING: Female Power in India / Intian vahvat naiset
Saturday 8.10 at 17.00 Kino Engel 1
Sunday 9.10 at 17.00 Kino Engel 2
Redefining Peace
India
2005, 60 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: KP Sasi
Producer: Visual Search & Sangat
In 2005, a thousand women from all over the world were nominated as one group for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005. The peace makers… Women who have transformed their personal struggles into a struggle for collective justice… Women who are making history by changing the world. This film covers the extraordinary work of some of the women nominated from India including Medha Patkar, Magline Peter, Teesta Setalvad, Sharmila Irom, CK Janu, Kutch Mahila, and Vikas Sangathan.
Buru Garra – The Wild Rivulet
India
2005, 30 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Shriprakash
Producer: Kritika
The success stories of two daughters of soil from Jharkhand, India, Dayamani Barla and Nirmala Putul. Barla is the first freelance Mundari journalist, and has even won the P Sainath Award for counter media reporting. Nirmala Putul on the other hand is a powerful Santhali writer and Sahitya Academy Award winner.
16. SCREENING: From Seed to Tree / Siemenestä puuksi
Saturday 8.10
at 19.00 Kino Engel 1
Women and Climate Change
Brazil
2010, 10 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Flavio Pazos
Producer: World Rainforest Movement
Climate change is one of the severest problems we have ever faced. Its direct impacts include ever more frequent floods, droughts, forest fires, extreme temperatures, storms, and land- and mudslides. The main reason for the climate change is burning fossil fuels, which causes the release of carbon to the atmosphere.
Surely you have heard about all of this before. But have you ever stopped and wondered that it is women who suffer from the consequences of the climate change the most? Yes, that’s right: women.
Taking Root
Kenya
2008, 80 min, Documentary, bluray
Director: Lisa Merton and Adam Dater
Producer: Marlboro Productions
A Kenyan Nobel Prize awarded activist for environment and human rights, Wangari Maathai, and her Green Belt Movement have affected the Kenyan politics in a way never seen before. The movement started as a little project of women planting saplings, but grew up to be a nationwide movement, which has boldly defended the environment, democracy and human rights against the unscrupulous Kenyan politicians. This inspiring and skillfully made documentary describes the dramatic life of charismatic Wangari and explicates the history of Kenyan turbulent politics.
17. SCREENING: Gone Fishing
/ Kalassa
Saturday 8.10
at 21.00 Kino Engel 1
Restless Shores
India
2003, 19 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Noel Rajesh
Producer: Anawim Trust
Traditional fisher folk stand on restless shores, as commercial trawlers threaten their control over local fishing grounds, their livelihoods and their futures. For the local community in Overi on the southeastern coast of India, their small scale fishing livelihoods are under threat. As the Government of India encourages the export of fish and prawn, large scale commercial trawler boats are encroaching and destroying local community fishing grounds along the coast. The consequence is a rapid decline in local harvests and fish species diversity. Moreover, with rising fish prices, a crucial source of protein is becoming unaffordable for many rural communities. The local people of Overi recount the story of their “restless shores”: the changes and challenges they are facing with the export-oriented commercial fishing boats as they struggle to maintain control over local fishing grounds, their livelihoods and economic security.
The Mekong: Grounds of Plenty
Mekong
2011, 47 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Noel Rajesh
Producer: Mekong Program on Water, Environment and Resilience (M-POWER), Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER) and International Rivers
A story about how fish from the Mekong River is caught and sold, cooked and consumed, by the people in the Mekong region. A healthy Mekong River is central to mainland Southeast Asia’s food security. The rich fisheries and ecosystems of the Mekong River not only feed people living alongside the river but are crucial for the livelihoods of millions of people across mainland Southeast Asia. Caught using an array of nets, baskets and traps, and cooked in many amazing ways, the wild fish catch provides protein and essential nutrients. Yet, the interconnection between the Mekong River’s well-being and the fish on a family’s plate is not so apparent in the urban centers. The film shows the Mekong River’s wild fish being caught and processed, and its passage through networks of trade as people work through the night and day to transport the catch to villages and towns, to markets, homes and restaurants. Filmed in over 30 locations across the Mekong region from Cambodia and Laos to Thailand and Vietnam.
20. SCREENING: El Pueblo Unido / Yhtenäinen kansa
Saturday 8.10
at 21.00 Kino Engel 2
Tambogrande: Mangos, murder, mining
Peru
2006, 85 min, Documentary, bluray
Director: Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd
Producer: Guarango
Adventurous pioneers transform Peru´s harsh northern desert into a fertile valley of mango and lime orchards. But all they´ve worked for is threatened when gold is discovered under their land. Fear, violence and murder rock their once quiet community. In the midst of chaos, a martyr´s vision unites the farmers and leads them down a revolutionary path of non-violent resistance. These brave men and women take on corrupt politicians and the global mining industry in an epic tale of ordinary people rising to heroic deeds in times of great crisis.
The Majaz case: Let the People Speak, Documentary spots
Peru
2008,5 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd
Producer: Guarango
In September 2007 three separate communities in Northern Peru held a referendum whether to allow mining on their land. More than 98 % of the total voters said “NO” to mining. However, Peru’s government declared the Majaz referendum illegal and refuses to recognize the results of the vote. These video spots express the opinions of the local people who are directly affected by the conflict.
