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For more information, e-mail: distribution@encounters.co.za Tel: +27 21 465 46 86 Fax: +27 21 461 69 64 A Kalahari Family
Encapsulating over fifty years of Namibian history in stunning visual imagery and first hand storytelling, A Kalahari Family is a five-part series representing a lifetime of research and personal engagement with the Ju/'hoansi (Bushmen) of Nyae Nyae by the acclaimed filmmaker John Marshall. Jury Award - Athens Film Festival.
Bus 174
In June 2000, Sandro di Nascimento, a disenfranchised young man who had survived a harsh and brutal childhhood in the favelas of Rio, boarded a bus on route 174 and took its passengers hostage. Best Documentary - Sao Paulo Film Festival.
Capturing The Friedmans
The Friedmans are a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class American family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking crimes. Caught up in the hysteria and with their Great Neck community in uproar, the family undergoes a media onslaught. Winner Grand Jury Prize - Sundance Film Festival.
Checkpoint
Control Room Since Vietnam, war has been transmitted by television into living rooms and what is perceived there can have a powerful impact on public support for military engagements. Jehane Noujaim's startlingly courageous Control Room provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq war, courtesy of Al-Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news broadcaster. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian casualties, the station showed the world everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see. Grand Jury Prize - Full Frame Documentary Festival.
Family
Abandoned by his father at a young age, Arab-Danish filmmaker Sami Saif embarks on an epic personal search for answers. Assisted by his girlfriend Phie Ambo, Sami documents the gripping and tense process of finding his father in the face of fear, insecurity and doubt. Using his camera as the most important witness in his search, Sami exposes both humour and heartfelt emotion during gut-wrenching telephone calls and meditation on his personal life. Eventually tracking down members of his family in Yemen, his inspiring search reveals that the most basic and universal need for attachment, familiarity and common bonds can be found in even the most foreign of lands. Best Documentary - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
Sacrificio
Ever since the capture and killing of Che Guevara in 1967, Ciro Bustos, Guevara’s former lieutenant has been held responsible. Now for the first time Bustos tells his side of the story. Imaginatively executed with the pace and drama of a spy thriller this is an investigative documentary par excellence. Best Foreign Documentary - Havana International Film Festival. Sisters In Law
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
This documentary examines the political machinations of the most famous and influential US diplomat in history, Henry Kissinger – Nobel Peace Prize recipient – now accused of war crimes. This thought provoking film is methodical in weighing up the evidence against this 20th Century political icon. Historical facts, papers and footage are supported by extensive interviews placing him specifically in the hot seat regarding his influence on horrific events in Cambodia, Vietnam and Chile. Terrifying in its implications the documentary questions the validity of the US currently claiming the moral high ground. Amnesty International DOEN Award – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
To Live Is Better Than To Die In the 1990s, farmers in Henan Province, central China, were suddenly swept up in the fervour of making quick money by selling blood. Thousands of eager local peasants joined the rush. However, due to poor sanitary conditions, more than six out of ten were infected with HIV, as a random survey indicated.
Two Towns of Jasper
On June 7, 1998, a sleepy east Texas town awoke to the news of a horrifying crime. James Byrd Jr, an African-American was viciously beaten, chained to a pick-up truck and dragged until his body disintegrated. Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival.
War Photographer
In one of the world’s countless crisis areas, surrounded by suffering, death, violence and chaos, photographer James Nachtwey searches for the picture he thinks he can publish. A film about a committed shy man who is considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time – but hardly fits the cliché of the hard boiled war veteran. Best Documentary Feature - Oscar Nominee.
Cuba: An African Odyssey
Chronicling an untold section of African history, this enthralling documentary plots the influence of Cuba in Africa’s political landscape. During the Cold War from 1961 to 1991, the US and USSR jockeyed over resources, authority and ideology on the African continent. Determined to halt the US influence and assist revolutionaries, Cuba played a pivotal role in the independence struggles, beginning with Che Guevara’s mission into Zaire to avenge the death of Lumumba and then Cuba’s support of Amilcar Cabril’s insurgence in Guinea-Bissau. It explores the escalation of military assistance to 300,000 Cuban troops in Angola, the battle of Cuito Cranavale, the demise of apartheid and South Africa’s occupation of Namibia, and seeks to explain why Fidel Castro was the very first person that Nelson Mandela visited on his release from Robben Island.
VHS Kahloucha Tunisia 2006 Dir: Néjib Belkadhi Seeking some laughter and scenes from home, a group of illegal Tunisian immigrants in Italy badger anyone with a TV so that they can view the latest film from cult filmmaker, writer, director, action hero Moncef Kahloucha.
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