Theme:
WOUNDED EARTH
Wounded earth tells about the projects that have wounded the earth’s crust, such as large scale dams and plantations, mines, oil and gas wells, industrial estates, roads and cities, which have driven original inhabitants from their homes. Displacement is caused especially the lack or abundance, as reservoirs and floods, pollution, and impoverishment of water caused by excess fishing.
1. SCREENING: Holy Island / Pyhä Saari
Thursday 6.10
at 17.00, Kino Engel 1
Hori no shima – Holy Island
Japan
2011, 105 min, Documentary, dvcam
Director: Aya Hanabusa
Producer: Pole Pole Times
Iwaishima residents, in Kyushu, Southern Japan have already for 30 years gathered into a weekly demonstration against the nuclear power plant, which has been planned to build facing their beautiful island village. Kaminoseki Nuclear power plant site would threaten the traditional fishing and farming culture of the village. The film gradually introduces us to the peaceful lifestyle of the community, the fishermen getting to the sea, the farmers farming, the children studying at their tiny school, the villagers preparing for the yearly ritualistic festivity. Director’s aim was not to picture the anti-nuclear movement per se, but to concentrate on the life-style that the protesters aim to preserve. This is the simple beauty of a lifestyle that may have been lost forever in some of the Fukushima communities, but is still possible to keep alive in Iwaishima.
3. SCREENING: Plantations ≠ Forests / Plantaasit ≠ Metsät
Thursday 6.10
at 19.00, Kino Engel 1
Up for Grabs
Indonesia
2009, 19 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Paul Redman
Producer: Telapak
Massive land grab for plantations in Papua threatens vital forests and exploits local communities. The film exposes how five million hectares of land, most of it forest, is being targeted in Papua by powerful companies seeking to cash in on projected demand for biofuels, derived from crops such as oil palm, and other commodities. This land grab is provoking conflicts with local communities and threatens the third largest area of remaining tropical forests on Earth.
Countdown to Nil – Mud Disaster at Porong Sidoarjo Indonesia
Indonesia
2008, 18 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Ridzki R Sigit
Producer: Telapak
Lapindo’s mudslide tragedy is the biggest ecological disaster ever happened in Indonesia. Since the first time the mud blasted on 28 May 2006, till today there has been no real effort to stop the mudslide. The number of people evacuated in Pasar Baru Porong has reached up to 14,768 people. Though some of them have been compensated by Lapindo, the people have lost their livelihoods, shelters, properties, and togetherness that had been built. Besides these losses, there are a lot of people who are experiencing physical and mental problems. The costs of this tragedy have reached up to 33 trillion rupias, while the amount of costs of environment and social effects is innumerable. The costs are increasing as the mud keeps running – until when? Who knows? One thing for sure, those of Porong’s community whose houses are covered in mud will never return to their homes.
Save Kampar Peninsula
Indonesia
2011, 20 min, Documentary, dvd
Producer: Jikalahari
The film sends information about deforestation which is a big threat in Kampar Peninsula; the causes of it and how it affects people almost in every aspect of life. Some people have lost their land, homes, livelihood and chances to live better. This film also reviews deforestation and the affects from government side. As the threat continues people start to defend their rights. In order to make it succeed they need support from local, national and international level. The supports will help them ensuring the forest will exist longer for current people and future generations.
Silence Cry in Kampar Peninsula
Indonesia
2009, 19 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Nanang Sujana, Serge Marti
Producer: Telapak
The Kampar Peninsula is 700,000 hectares of peat land up to 15 meters deep, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The peat contains more than 2 billion tons of carbon. 400,000 hectares of forest remain standing; 300,000 hectares have been converted to oil palm and pulp and paper plantations. All eyes are on the Kampar: loggers, carbon traders, and plantation companies including the giant RAPP pulpwood planter. But where does this leave the Akit and Melayu indigenous peoples who inhabit the peninsula? This film tells the human story behind one of the biggest carbon stores in the world.
5. SCREENING: Dams are the Worst / Padot ovat pahimpia
Thursday 6.10
at 21.00, Kino Engel 1
Rivers for Life
Thailand
2004, 15 min, Documentary, mpeg
Producer: International Rivers
In November 2003, more than 300 people from 62 countries gathered in Rasi Salai, Thailand, for Rivers for Life: The Second International Meeting of Dam-Affected People and their Allies. For five days grassroots activists, dam-affected people and representatives from NGOs exchanged experiences and developed new strategies to fight destructuve large dams. This is their story.
Ang Pasahol na Dam – Dams Make It Worse
Philippines
2006, 11 min, Documentary, mpeg
Producer: IBON
A presentation on the corporatization of water resource management. The development of water infrastructure must ensure the provision and supply of water to the people. Water infrastructure development in the Philippines only benefits private and foreign corporations who control
the country´s river systems through the construction and privatization of large dams.
Risky Business
Laos
2009, 9 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Sonja Willems
Producer: BankTrack and International Rivers
Risky Business describes how Nam Theun 2, Laos’ largest and most controversial hydropower project, is affecting villagers’ everyday life. The affected communities tell their experiences.
Still Waters, Deep Trouble
Laos
2009, 10 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Sonja Willems
Producer: BankTrack and International Rivers
The Theun-Hinboun dam in Laos is financed by international banks and the energy it produces is mainly exported, but the costs of environmental change stays in Laos and falls for the local peoples to pay. Its expansion project threatens the livelihoods of more than 50,000 people.
Zone of Initial Dilution
China
2006, 30 min, Documentary, dvcam
Director: Antoine Boutet
Producer: Antoine Boutet
The implementation of the world’s biggest hydraulic dam is transforming the Chinese landscape of the Three Gorges Area. Of the Yangtze River bank cities, some are in ruin or disappeared, and some are booming: the water rise has had multiple consequences on landscape and population.
6. SCREENING: Made by Blood / Verellä valmistettu
Thursday 6.10
at 21.00, Kino Engel 2
Quel Souvenir – The Chad Cameroon Oil Pipeline
Cameroon, Chad
2011, 55 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Danya Abt
Producer: RELUFA Network
Fighting Hunger
in Cameroon
The Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline was the largest investment project ever made in sub-Saharan Africa, a 600 mile pipeline from the oil fields of Southwestern Chad to the beaches of Cameroon. Quel Souvenir follows the pipeline through the many communities it touches, who ask “If the land is rich, why are we so poor?” and frames the project within a larger context of growing oil exploitation in Africa.
Verikännykät – Blood in the Mobile
Congo, Finland
2010, 53 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Frank Poulsen
Producer: Koncern TV- og Filmproduktion
Most of the minerals used in mobile phone business come from Eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, from illegal mines, where working conditions are inhuman. By buying these raw materials the West is also financing a conflict whose main victims are the Congolese civilians. Blood in the Mobile addresses the direct connection between mobile phones and the civil war in Congo. The director Frank Piasecki Poulsen travels to Congolese copper mines, which are controlled by many different military groups. Children are forced to work in dangerous mines, and former farmers have become disadvantaged miners. It is difficult to get in touch with the responsible persons in the Keilaniemi headquarters of Nokia.
10. SCREENING: Filth, Toxins and Radiation / Sotkua, syövytystä ja säteilyä
Friday 7.10
at 19.00, Kino Engel 2
Sabidong ti Balitok – Toxic Gold
Philippines
2005, 22 min, Documentary, dvd
Producer: STARM
In Philippines, Lepanto Consolidated Mining Corporation’s gold mining operations are having many effects and impacts on the Abra River and the indigenous and peasant communities by the river. Besides the ecological and cultural devastation, the documentary presents the plight of Lepanto’s underground mine workers.Finnish Outokumpu has bought copper from these Lepanto mines.
Un dimanche a Pripiat – Sunday in Pripyat
Ukraine
2006, 27 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Blandine Huk, Frederic Cousseau
Producer: Nofilm
Somewhere in Europe there is a forbidden zone. Lying in the heart of this zone is Pripyat, at one time a model city inhabited by some 50,000 people. An invisible enemy forced the residents to evacuate the area in order to escape. Constructed in the early 1970s, Pripyat is now a ghost town. The land it was constructed upon has reverted back to its natural state, but traces of its former occupants are still visible some twenty years after.
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives of the Alberta Tar Sands
Canada
2009, 43 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: Peter Mettler
Producer: Greenpeace
Canada´s tar sands are an oil reserve the size of England. Extracting the crude oil called bitumen from underneath unspoiled wilderness requires a massive industrialized effort with far-reaching impacts on the land, air, water, and climate.
It´s an extraordinary spectacle, whose scope can only be understood from far above. In a hypnotic flight of image and sound, one machine´s perspective upon the choreography of others, suggests a dehumanized world where petroleum´s power is supreme.
18. SCREENING: Homes under Threat / Kodit uhan alla
Saturday 8.10
at 19.00, Kino Engel 2
Gaon Chodab Nahin
India
2010, 5 min, Music video, dvd
Director: KP Sasi
Producer: Visual Search
An Adivasi music video against forced displacement.
Living in Fear
India
1985, 33 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: KP Sasi
Producer: Visual Search
The Indian Rare Earths Ltd. is causing radiation hazards in Alwaye, India, in an undertaking of the Department of Atomic Energy trying to produce thorium, a fuel for the fast breeder technology in India.
Development at Gunpoint
India
2002, 36 min, Documentary, dvd
Director: KP Sasi
Producer: Visual Search
The southern part of the state of Orissa, in India, contains one of the richest bauxite reserves in the country. Large aluminum companies, both in India and abroad, who know that there are billions of dollars of profit to be made from this region if only the local population could be moved out, have been trying to establish their base there. The region has also seen some of the most sustained and vigorous struggles by the local people against the threat of displacement. A new phase of the people’s struggle against bauxite mining was ushered in, in the year 2000, when on December 16th, the police gunned down three local Adivasis and injured many others in an incident of unprovoked firing in Kashipur block, an area that has come to be closely associated with the resistance movement. Development at Gunpoint takes a look at the struggle against bauxite mining through interviews with the local people. Using word and song, people describe what the land means to them and how they will not be moved at any cost.
