Se trailerHAVANA MARKING GREAT BRITAIN/AFGHANISTAN, 2009, 87 MIN, DVD
After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop culture has returned to Afghanistan. Millions are watching Afghan Star - a Pop Idol-style TV series in which people from across the country compete for a c... Read more
After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop culture has returned to Afghanistan. Millions are watching Afghan Star - a Pop Idol-style TV series in which people from across the country compete for a cash prize and record deal. 2000 people audition, including three brave women. The viewers vote for their favorite singers by mobile phone and for many this is their first encounter with democracy. This timely and inspired film follows the moving stories of four young contestants looking for a new life. But their journeys take a terrifying turn as one young woman dances on stage, threatening her own safety and the future of the show itself. In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#afghan-star
Se trailerCOCO SCHRIJBER NETHERLANDS, 2008, 87 MIN, DIGIBETA
Beauty, love, work… sometimes it just isn’t worth getting out of bed for. BLOODY MONDAYS & STRAWBERRY PIES examines the role of boredom in the human condition by showing the lives of a 32 y... Read more
Beauty, love, work… sometimes it just isn’t worth getting out of bed for. BLOODY MONDAYS & STRAWBERRY PIES examines the role of boredom in the human condition by showing the lives of a 32 year old Wall Street stockbroker who makes millions a year, a desert nomad who does nothing all day, the last living spy from the Second World War, a painter who has been painting Time for the last 42 years and the first school shooter in history: Brenda Spencer, who at the age of 16 shot eleven people because: ‘I don’t like Mondays’. The actor John Malkovich gives voice to the inner bored human being. His fascinating timbre crawls under your skin and wonders: ‘How many people in the world are like me?’
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#bloody-mondays-strawberry-pies
Se trailerHANNE MYREN, NORWAY, 2009, 23 MIN, DIGIBETA
A story about a young couple and their struggle to understand one another. A film that dives into the underlying emotions that often control our actions and the feelings we prefer to keep to ourselve... Read more
A story about a young couple and their struggle to understand one another. A film that dives into the underlying emotions that often control our actions and the feelings we prefer to keep to ourselves. Winner of the Terje Vigen Price 2009, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#control
Se trailerPETER KEREKES AUSTRIA/SLOVAKIA, 2009, 88 MIN, 35 MM
A portrait of different military cooks from all over Europe who served in various armies and have witnessed the European wars of the 20th century. Their recollections tap into a subjective view of hi... Read more
A portrait of different military cooks from all over Europe who served in various armies and have witnessed the European wars of the 20th century. Their recollections tap into a subjective view of historical events and one that diverges in some respects from conventional history. They take us behind the scenes of dates, facts, declarations of war, battles, and peace agreements. Cooking History shows the little secrets of these people, opens up a dimension of history one won’t find in textbooks or archives. The directness of the anecdotes and destinies of the people in this film conveys a sense of life and death in the “war apparatus,” a sense of hope, longing, and survival strategies in the midst of destruction and despair.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#cooking-history
Se trailerGONZALO ARIJÓN FRANCE, 2009, 110 MIN, DIGIBETA
After 500 years of uninterrupted plunder of its natural resources and the fierce repression of popular revolts, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of new leaders has come to... Read more
After 500 years of uninterrupted plunder of its natural resources and the fierce repression of popular revolts, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of new leaders has come to power, most of them from outside the traditional political establishments and all elected democratically by safe majorities hungry for change. Their platform? To seek ways of answering the enormous challenges presented by inequality and social exclusion. How they meet these challenges will depend largely on the consolidation of economic and political integration in the region, an integration that should at last make it possible for Latin Americans to be the masters of their own destinies, less dependent on the economic recipes meted out by “the North” in general and especially by Washington.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#eyes-wide-open-exploring-today-s-south-america
Se trailerJAN IJÄS, FINLAND, 2008, 15 MIN, BETA SP
Not very far from the Arctic Circle is a house that was once a was factory for the manufacturing of envelopes. It is now a home for refugees in a no man’s land. The refugees are observed cookin... Read more
Not very far from the Arctic Circle is a house that was once a was factory for the manufacturing of envelopes. It is now a home for refugees in a no man’s land. The refugees are observed cooking, watching TV and breakdancing in the recreation room. ”I just exist, that’s the only word I can use. I’m not dead, I just exist.”, one of the inmates says. Ghosts won the special prize at the Tampere International Short Film Festival 2009 and the Grand Prix at the International Short Film Festival Kratkofil 2009.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#ghosts
Se trailerVALENTINA MONTI, ITALY, 2009, 59 MIN, DIGIBETA. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
Girls on the Air is a strongly interesting document about Afghanistan and the ”new internal democracy” building process. Humaira, founder and manager of Radio Sahar, the first independent... Read more
Girls on the Air is a strongly interesting document about Afghanistan and the ”new internal democracy” building process. Humaira, founder and manager of Radio Sahar, the first independent community radio station run by women, who tells the stories of the women of her country, becomes a symbol of Afghanistan, alive and multifaceted, capable of discussing and going through rigid stereotypes in which reality is so often trapped. Girls on the Air will take you into the minds of the young Afghani who are trying to make a difference. Radio Sahar’s name describes this hope beautifully. In Afghani, it means ”dawn”
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#girls-on-the-air
Se trailerJESPER RAVN, DENMARK, 2008, 6 MIN, DIGIBETA
How They Dance is a documentary about ordinary people who love to dance. The film is a funny and unconventional portrait of these people.... Read more
How They Dance is a documentary about ordinary people who love to dance. The film is a funny and unconventional portrait of these people.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#how-they-dance
Se trailerFREDERICK WISEMAN, FRANCE/USA, 2009, 159 MIN, 35 MM
The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. Frederick Wiseman has filmed all the aspects of the work and life of this cultural institutional monument. By filming daily course... Read more
The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. Frederick Wiseman has filmed all the aspects of the work and life of this cultural institutional monument. By filming daily courses, repetitions and performances, Frederick Wiseman highlights the French school of ballet known for its emphasis on rigorous attention to technical perfection and precision of movement. This new opus is part of Wiseman’s long working method, a craftsman approach to filmmaking entirely shaped by his own aim: that of listening to the institution as it “speaks”, trying to identify the rule it lives by.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#la-danse-the-paris-opera-ballet
Se trailerCHRISTIAN POVEDA, FRANCE/SPAIN/MEXICO, 2008, 90 MIN, 35 MM
In Central America, they are called ”Maras”, these groups of youngsters who have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent and are propagating terror i... Read more
In Central America, they are called ”Maras”, these groups of youngsters who have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent and are propagating terror in El Salvador and elsewhere. This is a study, through photography and the personal stories of these gang members, of a violent phenomenon that has been imported from the USA.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#la-vida-loca
Se trailerMARC ISAACS, GREAT BRITAIN, 2009, 60 MIN, DIGIBETA.
A Bangladeshi man dashes through the streets burdened by the crossed shaped advertising signboard he carries on his back; a trader loses his family as a result of his addiction to the financial marke... Read more
A Bangladeshi man dashes through the streets burdened by the crossed shaped advertising signboard he carries on his back; a trader loses his family as a result of his addiction to the financial markets; a chain smoking insurance man tries desperately to escape the city’s daily grind; an aggressive metals trader lives for killing animals at the weekend; a street sweeper on a spiritual quest seeks a life in the wilderness. Marc Isaacs’ latest feature length film shot during the current financial crisis explores the human cost of life in the dog eat dog world of London’s Square Mile.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#men-of-the-city
Se trailerSASKIA BISP, DENMARK, 2009, 45 MIN, DIGIBETA
”Nobody Passes Perfectly” is a subtle, humoristic and thought evoking film about the courage to change oneself radically. In beautiful filmic tableaux, debut director Saskia Bisp invites her audience... Read more
”Nobody Passes Perfectly” is a subtle, humoristic and thought evoking film about the courage to change oneself radically. In beautiful filmic tableaux, debut director Saskia Bisp invites her audience to places where the gender isn’t a predefined condition, dictated only by biology, but a very personal part of the self that can be challenged, investigated and altered. Meet Tomka who is right in the middle of such a process. He lives in a very loving relationship with his Lesbian girlfriend Lotte. Together they try to imagine what his transitioning will mean for their relationship. And meet Erik, who was once a heterosexual woman, and has finally decided to live his life as a man.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#nobody-passes-perfectly
Se trailerOLAVI LINNA, DENMARK, 2009, 40 MIN, DIGIBETA
Happiness. Can it exist anywhere? The film takes place in Solf, a small country village in Western Finland where everything has stagnated in its own peculiar way. Solf was offiically declared the ... Read more
Happiness. Can it exist anywhere? The film takes place in Solf, a small country village in Western Finland where everything has stagnated in its own peculiar way. Solf was offiically declared the ’most perfect village’ in Finland in 2006. To some extent this has caused the village inhabitants to stop dreaming of better places. Why leave this paradise?
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#restless-in-paradise
Se trailerCHRISTIAN SØNDERBY JEPSEN, DENMARK, 2008, 37 MIN, DIGIBETA
Two neighbours live side by side, but they haven’t spoken for more than 15 years. Instead they have built not just one, but two hedges that separate them. In this visually compelli... Read more
Two neighbours live side by side, but they haven’t spoken for more than 15 years. Instead they have built not just one, but two hedges that separate them. In this visually compelling story the director goes far beyond the animosity between the two rivals, and unravels the incidents that stirred the conflict in the first place. The gardens of the village of Tarm supply the images — the grass is never green and the sky has never been covered by such large grey clouds. With played down lines that only people from Western Jutland can deliver »Side by Side« is a moving portrayal of human beings, bubbling with dry humour.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#side-by-side
Se trailerJUDITH EHRLICH AND RICK GOLDSMITH USA, 2009, 94 MIN, DIGIBETA
The Most Dangerous Man in America catapults us to 1971 where we find America in the grip of a familiar scenario: a dirty war based on lies. And Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, one of the nation’s leading war p... Read more
The Most Dangerous Man in America catapults us to 1971 where we find America in the grip of a familiar scenario: a dirty war based on lies. And Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, one of the nation’s leading war planners, has the documents to prove it. Armed with 7000 pages of Top Secret documents; he leaks the truth about the Vietnam War to The New York Times and risks life in prison to end the war he helped plan. It is a story that held the world in its grip, with daily headlines, the top story on the nightly news for weeks on end.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-most-dangerous-man-in-america-daniel-ellsberg-and-the-pentagon-papers
Se trailerHELGA REIDEMEISTER, GERMNANY, 2009, 87 MIN, DIGIBETA
Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the late 1990s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war. A shell spli... Read more
Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the late 1990s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war. A shell splinter leaves him paralyzed. Shortly afterwards, Shaima is sold in marriage to a man 40 years her senior. This situation doesn’t prevent the two lovers from seeing each other as much as possible – even though this means going against their families’ hard and fast rules.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#war-love-in-kabulDesign and solution by Oktavilla