Филми от ЕВРОПЕЙСКИ ЕКОЛОГИЧЕН ФЕСТИВАЛ 2009
Вид: Ecology Movie
100 YEARS OF BIRD
RINGING IN HUNGARY SZABOLCS MOSONYI Hungary/2009/26min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: Erika Bagladi Director:
Szabolcs Mosonyi Camera: Szabolcs Mosonyi Music: Pierre Langer Producer:
Szabolcs Mosonyi Distributor: Szabolcs Mosonyi
Bird
migration, one of the most spectacular natural phenomena, has always
intrigued people. During human history, several accurate observations
and – often mistaken –observations and – often mistaken – conclusions
have been written down about the migration of birds. Some believed that
cuckoos transformed into sparrow-hawks and redstarts turned into robins
in the autumn. Others reasoned that birds spent the winter on the Moon.
Where do migratory birds disappear in the autumn so that they can
reappear in the spring just as fast as they have left?
1253 FOR A
DAY VREME STUDIO BULGARIA/1979/10min./Betacam SP Pal Category:
Documentaries Script: Pantcho Tsankov Director: Pantcho Tsankov Camera:
Andrei Chertov Music: Yulia Gurkovska Producer: Vreme Studio Distributor:
Bulgaria Film
Six veteran mountaineers in a touching manner
clean the lakes of the Rila mountain from the polution caused by the
Sunday tourists. Those old devotees of the nature are moving with their
sincere love to the mountain lakes Awards: Special prize of the
Bulgarian Cinema Union; 1st Prize in Ostrava Film Festival; Bronze
Triglav from MKF Kran, Slovenia; Special prize of the European Council
in Avignon Festival; Special prize in the Beijing Festival.
THE
ACORES ARTE Germany/2008/43min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and Educational films Script: Florian
Guthknecht Director: Florian Guthknecht Camera: Richard Ladkani,
Sigi Braun Music: Sebastian Pobot Producer: Udo Zimmermann Distributor:
Telepool
Millions of years ago, nine islands rose up out of the
seething depths of the earth. In spite of their lethal powers, they’ve
become an oasis of life. As if by magic, animals from all parts of the
earth are drawn to this region, and in the depths of the ocean
remarkable creatures can be found. How they find their way here, when
they appear and why they continue visiting this unique ecosystem – these
are the mysteries posed by the Acores.
THE ARCHITECTS OF
CHANGE THE NEED OF BIODIVERSITY/Episode 4 LES PODUCTIONS VIC
PELLETIER INC.&LATO SENSU PRODUCTIONS France/52min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Producer: LES PODUCTIONS VIC PELLETIER INC.&LATO
SENSU Productions Distributor: LES PODUCTIONS VIC PELLETIER
INC.&LATO SENSU Productions
Is there a way that allows
everyone to benefit from our planet’s riches without compromising our
recourses for future generation? The answer has been given by men and
women from all four corners of the earth who have succesded in creating
new models for economical development. They have gone new ways to
achieve sustainable and lasting growth for mankind and our planet. They
are farmers, chemists, architects, doctors, tradesmen and bankers. These
Architects f Change, are looking for and practicing innovative
solutions, which counteract the many threats to our future. Far from
being political or economical militants, these Architects of Change are,
above all, entrepreneurs. Our documentary series will be visiting this
new kind of pioneers. They belive in a capitalism that can create
social, economic and environmental wealth. They are not the only ones
who promote such ideas, but they are the only ones who can prove that
their ideas work out in day-to-day life. This is an international
documentary series for 30 Architects of Change, 26 different countries,
six continents, 10 different themes. Each episode investigates one
theme, 3 protagonists, 3 different countries.
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE:
OMEN FROM THE NORTH NHK/JAPAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION Japan/2008/49min./Betacam
SP Pal Category: TV programmes Script: Atsushi Nishida Director:
Atsushi Nishida Camera: Masaki Watanabe/ Daisuke Soma Music:
Takeshi Kobayashi Producer: Toshihiro Matsumoto Distributor:
MICO/Media International Corporation
The Arctic is changing
drastically as a result of global warming. The area of ice on the Arctic
Ocean is the smallest it has been since measurement began, and the
polar bears are threatened with extinction. The state of the Arctic is
an omen of our own future. This documentary depicts some of the
scientific research being conducted and describes the great changes that
are now taking place in the far north.
A BOILING SEA ISPRA Italy/2008/35min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Sergio Silenzi Director: Marco Pisapia Music:
Francesco Felli
During the last 100 years the overall
temperature of the Earth has increased by 0.7°C. For the next 100 years,
according to the various scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions, IPCC
predicts an increase in temperature between 1.1°C and more than 6°C.This
is a journey around the continents to understand the mechanisms of
climate change, future scenarios and possible solutions.
A
STATION IN THE BASEMENT BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION, RTVC
Bulgaria/2009/30min./DVD Category: TV programmes Script: Tzvetan
Simeonov Director: Tzvetan Simeonov Camera: Violin Paleykov Producer:
Bulgarian National Television, RTVC Plovdiv Distributor: Bulgarian
National Television, RTVC Plovdiv
There is an absurd exchange,
which happened in Veliko Tarnovo. The town council gave 53 decares of
forests in exchange for a basement of 100 sq.m. The new owner – an
automechanic from Debelec, intends to cut down(s) trees and (to) build
up houses. (The) ecologists warn that this will ruin the flora and
fauna, (will) provoke landslide and change the climate. Awards:
European Commission Competition Robert Shuman 2007, Ethno Festival
Plovdiv 2007, Euroekofest’08, Koprivstitsa, Bulgaria.
ADRIATIC
TSUNAMI CROATIAN TELEVISION Croatia/2008/30min./Betacam SP Pal Category:
Documentaries Script: Tanja Kanceljak Director: Tanja Kanceljak Camera:
Ivan Metes Music: Oleg Colnago, Drazen Scholz Producer: Croatian
television Distributor: Croatian television
30 years ago, Vela
Luka (has) been affected by large natural catastrophes. Bore in the
early dawn flood coastal part of Vela Luka caused huge damage to a small
city on the Island of Korcula, and long after that (the) scientists did
not even know what actually had happened. Today, we know that the Vela
Luka was hit by the meteotsunami – a bore of (the) mutual influence of
the atmosphere and the sea. And many thought that the cause of Tsunami
earthquake in the Aegean Sea, and a full moon, which is light before
this day. This phenomenon was not only noticed in some other places on
the Adriatic Sea, but also worldwide. Most cases the one last year when
he hit meteotsunami island Ist and one of this summer, when the flood of
a house. Citizens of Vela Luka still feel(s) the consequences of the
tidal wave and speak emotionally and some of which are affected by this
most difficult catastrofy - Adriatic tsunami, can be heard in this
documentary by Tanja Kanceljak. Famous scientist from Spain and Italy
and in the world participate in the documentary film along with
witnesses. In the film, first documentary photos of Vela Luka’s disaster
are shown.
ALASKA - WILDERNESS OF FIRE AND ICE ZDF Germany/2008/45min./DVD Category:
TV programmes dedicated to ecology and environmental preservation Script:
Sabine Armsen Director: Sabine Armsen Camera: Russel Weston,
Craig Baumann Music: PS Movie Sound Producer: Thomas Hamm Distributor:
ZDF
Fascination Earth Alaska – Wilderness of fire and ice
Synopsis Our planet is unique and the diversity of its habitats is
dazzling. The series “Fascination Earth” makes this opulence tangible,
with each episode focusing on a different region. In this episode
presenter Dirk Steffens takes the viewer into Alaska’s untamed
wilderness. In the long and cold winter months Alaska is in the firm
grip of ice and snow. But come spring, nature springs to life and
presents itself in all its exuberance and plenty. This vast region along
the edge of the Arctic Circle is at the mercy of nature’s most violent
forces. To survive under these extreme conditions, the rich fauna has
developed sophisticated adaptations. And while Alaska still is one of
the most remote regions on this planet, it was here that humans set
first foot on a new continent. This was the beginning of an epic tale
that became the colonization of the Americas. Today these Polar regions
are changing faster than ever before. Scientists from all over the world
are investigating the mysteries of Alaska’s melting glaciers.
Multinational companies, on the other hand, are assessing the potentials
of an ice-free Northwest Passage. In this documentary Dirk Steffens
unveils some fascinating tales about this land. His stories are spiced
with the latest science on wandering herds and fearsome predators as
well as cataclysmic geological events that moulded the face of Alaska.
Steffens also meets some of Alaska’s indigenous peoples and learns about
the great challenges they will face in this majestic wilderness.
ALONG
UPPER MARITZA BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION Bulgaria/2008/27min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: Nana Krasteva Director:
Dobrin Keresteliev Camera: Kamen Kolev Producer: Bulgarian
National Television Distributor: Bulgarian National Television The
film tells about the Maritsa River (Greek, Evros) and the fascinating
animal species and plants, living along its upper river valley. The
river was formed millions of years ago by the glaciers of the Rila
Mountain. Rila rises up in the very centre of the Balkan Peninsula,
boasting a crown of more than 100 peaks, the highest of which, Musala is
2925 meters high – a genuine record not only for the peninsula, but
also for the meridian that symbolically crosses the mountain. Maritsa
inspires with her 524 kilometres of length, two thirds of which in the
territory of Bulgaria, until it flows into the Aegean Sea. It is the
most important bio-corridor of the Balkans. The upper part of the river
crosses the central and high regions of the Rila Mountain, which
constitute a national park – a huge mountain park with natural habitats
of Bulgarian and European importance.
ASINA Spain/2009/27min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Daniel Lagares Ramirez Director: Daniel
Lagares Ramirez
Gotas arrived on the island of Fuerteventura,
from the continet of Africa, along the first setters, around the year
500 b.c. A large number of them lived in a state of semifreedom, like a
livinglarder. In the first century a.c., the Roman historian Plinius,
amazed by the large number of goats that there were, named the island
Capraria. Until the middle of 20th century, the capital of the island
was called Puerto Cabras (Goat Port).
ATLAS - ONE MAN, ONE CAMERA
- THE NAZCA PLATEAU BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION Bulgaria/2009/27min./DVD Category:
Tourist films about the protection of Cultural heritage Script:
Simeon Idakiev Director: Simeon Idakiev Camera: Simeon Idakiev Music:
Diana Tekelieva Producer: Bulgarian National Television Distributor:
Bulgarian National Television
The documentary “The Nazca
Plateau” is an attempt at revealing the secret of the pictures and
geometric figures of the Nazca Plateau in Peru, which can be seen only
from bird’s-eye view, as well as a story about Maria Reiche’s work – a
remarkable woman, who dedicated 40 years of her life to study them.
BAIKAL,
FESTIVAL MTV HUNGARIAN TELEVISION Hungary/2008/26min./Betacam SP
Pal Category: Documentaries Script: Jozsef Safrany Director:
Jozsef Safrany Camera: Jozsef Safrany Producer: Jozsef Safrany We
know little of the Russians, of their land; therefore it is always a
major experience to meet them. Our experiences are mostly from Soviet
times and the concepts of the Hungarian audiences are adjusted to them.
The fact that Russia and Siberia are lovely lands with wonderful natural
beauty is missing in our knowledge. It is absolutely new that there is
great interest in the protection of nature in Russia, for our earlier
knowledge was based on facts of violating nature, turning rivers back,
and immeasurable industrial pollution. The Film Festival of Irkutsk was
an eminent opportunity to enlarge our knowledge, to get acquainted with a
lovely landscape, the Baikal, to survey the world view of the Russian
nature film-makers, their anxiety about the environment, and to put
questions about Russian things we do not understand. All this done in
the spirit of friendship which cannot be forced, it either emerges or it
does not.
BIRD WITHOUT BORDERS - BLACK-FACED SPOONBILLS PUBLIC
TELEVISION SERVICE FOUNDATION Taiwan/2009/52min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Dean Johnson Director: Dean Johnson Camera:
Chieh-te Liang / Dean Johnson Music: John Lin Producer: Selena
Tsao Distributor: Public Television Service Foundation
Found
nowhere else but on wetlands in Asia, Black-Faced Spoonbill is the only
spoonbill currently endangered. Its migration is captured for the first
time on HD, and we reveal dedicated individuals divided by borders, but
share one common goal – conservation and protection of this endangered
species and their remaining habitats.
BTV REPORTERS - THE RILA
FIRE BTV Bulgaria/2008/15min./DVD Category: Documentaries/TV
programmes Script: Konstantin Karadjov Director: Adriana Alexieva Camera:
Blagoy Momchilov Music: Olivier Derivière (France) Producer: Gena
Traykova Distributor: bTV
The biggest forest fire in recent
years spread fast through precious woodland landscapes of Rila Mountain
last September, revealing not only how badly unequipped Bulgarian
firefighters are or how endangered natural forest life was, but
inflaming suspicions of shady ski-property investment plans, endorsed by
top government officials.
BULGARIAN FOREST – PRESENT AND OBSCURE
FUTURE GREEN BALKANS Bulgaria/2007/54min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Valentina Fidanova, Konstantin Dichev Director:
Valentina Fidanova Camera: Konstantin Dichev, Borislav Georgiev,
George Stoyanov Music: Stoyl Kerevanov Producer: Green Balkans Distributor:
Green Balkans
This movie represents only 8 of more than 300
cases investigated by Green Balkans. They generalize and illustrate the
most typical illegal practices for devastation of the Bulgarian forests
during the last 15 years.
CARSTENSZ - THE SEVENTH SUMMIT K2
STUDIO Slovakia/2009/44min./DVD Category: Documentaries Script:
Pavol Barabas Director: Pavol Barabas Camera: Vlado Zboja, Pavol
Barabas Music: Michal Novinski Producer: K2 studio Distributor:
K2 studio
Snowy Mountains rise high above the untouched jungle
of New Guinea, breaking through heavy rain clouds. A limestone pyramid,
known as the Carstensz Pyramid, soars above them as the most exotic, but
also the most inaccessible mountain in the world. The peak of this
mountain was conquered for the first time, by Heinrich Harrer, in 1962.
Access to the foothills of this mountain lead through the territory of
the legendary Damal native tribes and still belongs amongst the most
adventurous expeditions. Apart from obtaining the necessary permits, the
biggest problem lies is in persuading the naked natives to help us with
the transport of equipment from Beoga, across wild rivers and
mountainous jungle, up to the snowy glaciers below the Carstensz
Pyramid. Awards: Grand Prix - Spotkania z filmem gorskim, Zakopane,
Poland, 2008, Public Choice - MFHF, Poprad, Slovak Republic, 2008,
Jury’s prize - Welzlovo filmobile, Zabrez, Czech Republic, 2009, 1st
Prize - Go Kamera, Brno, Czech Republic, 2009
CHINA IN A
TORRENT: THE ENVIRONMENTAL DILEMMA NHK/JAPAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION Japan/2008/49min./Betacam
SP Pal Category: Documentaries Script: Toshifumi Kataoka Director:
Toshifumi Kataoka Camera: Yoshio Kamiizumi Music: Takehiko Gokita Producer:
Hideo Kado Distributor: MICO/Media International Corporation
Environmental
pollution is one of China’s most difficult policy issues.
Countermeasures vary greatly among the regions. In coastal cities,
pursuant to a national directive, polluting companies have been exposed
one after another and sanctions have been applied, even to the point of
shutting the companies down. In Hangzhou, authorities carry out 24-hour
monitoring, thanks to a video surveillance system installed in more than
300 major companies. Infractions can trigger intervention by a
Pollution Task Force. In China’s interior, however, many local
governments are freely dynamiting mountains and damming rivers so as to
build hydroelectric plants that will help fulfill supreme directives to
establish prosperity. How can China reconcile such conflicting
imperatives and achieve a harmonious society?
CITY FLOWERS CANADA/2007/29min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Tourist films about the protection of Cultural heritage Script:
Stephanie Pihery Director: Stephanie Pihery Camera: Stephanie
Pihery Producer: Stephanie Pihery Distributor: Stephanie Pihery
Every
year, some “colored” irreductibles animate the Lower east side in New
York to bring to light the saving of the community gardens of New York,
the last haven of peace, greenery, community and cultural exchange.
CLEANSING BULGARIAN
NATIONAL TELEVISION Bulgaria/2008/27min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Grigory Nedyalkov Director: Milan Kuzov Camera:
Anton Evlogiev Presenter: Grigory Nedyalkov Editor: Vladimir
Anastasov Producer: Bulgarian National Television Distributor:
Bulgarian National Television
This is a documentary dealing with
ecological topics and more specifically with the struggle with climate
change. It focuses on the purification and reduction of harmful
emissions in the United Kingdom. The documentary features interviews
with authors of projects related to reduction of emissions, with
scientists, university professors, politicians and ordinary people, who
discuss and share view points of the latest UK developments in coping
with climate change. It shows examples of the implementation of green
ideas and of successful good practices, such as wind generators, wind
turbines, eco-friendly wood houses, seawave generators, and so on.
CLOUDS’
CATCHERS BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION, RTVC Bulgaria/2009/30min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Tzvetan Simeonov Director: Tzvetan Simeonov Camera:
Violin Paleykov, Nikolay Sotirov, Anton Marchev Producer: Bulgarian
National Television, RTVC Plovdiv Distributor: Bulgarian National
Television, RTVC Plovdiv
Two men influence the sun and clouds in a
very strange way. In fact they shape the climate changes depending on
their moods. Orthodox and Muslim do the same. While the whole village
lives with the idea of a dragon who defines determines an alternative
synoptic reality. Awards: European Commission Competition Robert
Shuman 2007, Ethno Festival Plovdiv 2007, Euroekofest’08, Koprivstitsa,
Bulgaria
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PAST... PUBLIC NATIONAL
INSTITUTION OF BROADCASTING COMPANY/TELERADIO-MOLDOVA Republic of
Moldova/2008/32min./Mini DV Category: TV programmes Script: Lucia
Taut Director: Carolina Bobeico Camera: Vadim Voleanski Music:
Maria Triboi Producer: Lucia Taut Distributor: Channel TV Moldova 1
To
demonstrate the importance, necessity and contribution to the
prosperity of Soviet agriculture, the big chemical corporations have
chosen as experimental polygon Moldovan soil which without pesticides
and chemical fertilizers fructified on average 6 times more than in
other European regions of Soviet Union. Thus, under the pretext of a
modern agriculture Moldova was drowned by chemicals and fertilizers
which more than a quarter of a century have destroyed the whole
ecosystem of Moldova. Nowadays there are more than 1600 tons of unusable
prohibited pesticides affecting both soil and water. These chemicals
have been used heavily in agriculture. When the land became the property
of peasants, the deposits where the pesticides were stored have become
value share of the owners and were demolished. The Doors, windows and
bricks were distributed to the villagers. That is, the pesticides and
the chemicals were left out, being a danger for the surface and ground
waters. As a result, nowadays a lot of localities are confronted with
serious problems of potable water. The Villages Tomesti from Glodeni
district, Iargara from Leova district and Lunga from Floresti district,
which are presented in the documentary The Consequences of the past… are
real examples.
THE CONTACT RTV/RADIO TELEVISION OF VOJVODINA Serbia/2008/26min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Vladimir Perovic Director: Vladimir Perovic Camera:
Igor Petricevic Producer: Svetelana Paroski
Every summer the
heroes of the film Mira and her son Jovan leave their urban place
Belgrade and go to a remote mountain. Over there they spend three months
in a lonely house, with no inhabited village at sight, with no
electricity, TV, internet etc… Far from so called civilization, they
experience what the life is like when you live a natural way. They
prepare food from what they find in the nature, they drink water from
clear springs, they walk on bare foot, they swim in a fresh mountain
river, etc… Mira wrote “The Cook-book of edible indigenous vegetables”.
With serenity of the people sincerely devoted to something, with deep
persuasion, she explains her philosophy of the nature and of mankind’s
place in it…
CONCRETE BULGARIA/2009/28min./MINI DV Category:
Documentaries Director: Nikolay Vassilev Camera Borislav Georgiev
Concrete
is the sadly story of a bagpipe... about the fire... the rubish... and
the power. Forest of embers, mountain of tins and people who possess the
willingness to fight up against the drub mind.
CORK - FOREST IN A
BOTTLE BBC NATURAL HISTORY UNIT/MIKE SALISBURY PRODUCTIONS UK/2008/50min./DVD Category:
TV programmes dedicated to ecology and environmental preservation Script:
Mike Salisbury Director: Mike Salisbury, Paul Morrison Camera:
Graham Horder, Hugh Maynard Music: Ben Salisbury Producer: Mike
Salisbury, Paul Morrison Distributor: BBC Worldwide Every time we
weigh up which bottle of wine to buy, we hold the fate of nightingales,
rare black storks, secretive wild cats and one of the world’s most
remarkable trees in our hands. It’s all to do with the stopper. If it’s
cork, it probably came from the bark of one of the ancient cork oak
trees from the Montados, in the Alentejo region of Portugal. The cork
oak is the only tree in the world whose bark can be periodically removed
without killing it. But this tree is amazing in other ways. It survives
in poor soil and searing heat and provides not only nesting places for
Booted Eagles but also space for some of Europe’s rarest wildflowers.
This exquisitely-filmed portrait of the Montados reveals one of the last
places in Europe where a sustainable local economy still dovetails
harmoniously with nature. Cork producer and wildlife enthusiast,
Francisco Garrett explains what will be lost if cork stoppers are
replaced by plastic or screwtops. Prizes: Merit Award for
Conservation message
CRANE MIGRATION OF THE HORTOBAGY A CAMERA
IN THE BACKPACK PRODUCTION Hungary/2007/53min./Betacam SP Pal Category:
Documentaries Script: Zsolt Cseke Director: Zsolt Cseke Camera:
Zsolt Cseke, Attila Linzenbold, Peter Kery Musics: 7 steps Producer:
Zsolt Cseke Distributor: A camera in the backpack production
One
of the greatest treasures of the Hortobagy’s special fauna is beyond
doubt the water avifauna, which is admired and surveyed by
ornithologists from all over the whole world. It is mainly at the time
of the birds’ migration in spring and autumn that the wetlands of the
park spring into commotion, wild geese and mallards arrive in their
thousands, but the greatest spectacle is to be provided by to the first
crane flocks appearing on the horizon with flutelike calls. As they draw
closer, the news spreads over the plain like wildfire: The event
attracting the largest amount of animals in Hortobagy, the autumn
migration of the cranes, has begun. Awards: Special Enviromental
Award
DANDELION, WATER - THIRSTY IN BAERSTADT ZDF Germany/2008/24min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: Andreas Steinhoefel Director:
Klaus Gietinger Camera: Martin Meyer Music: Hosenfeld/Denis Producer:
Studio TV for ZDF Distributor: ZDF Enterprises
What a heat!
The entire town of Baerstadt suffers from thirst. Only Fritz’ neighbour
Paschulke does not have a water shortage. He is bathing in a sparkling
source. But in Fritz’ garden the flowers go limp. He does not have any
water left: His little well has dried up and the water tep is empty. Not
even Yasemin has left any water in her kiosk. Fritz wants to intervene,
but in the waterworks of Baerstadt there is no machine running. How can
Baerstadt get water again? Is the town going to be a desert soon? How
do human beings, animals and plants handle a long time without water?
Following the example set by nature Fritz develops an ingenious idea how
to get water.
THE DEAD AND THE LIVING ONES BELSATTV/LARYSSA
KABERNIK Belarus/2008/33min./ Mini DV Category: Documentaries Script:
Laryssa Kabernik Director: Laryssa Kabernik, Pavel Bandzich Camera:
Laryssa Kabernik Producer: BelsatTV/Laryssa Kabernik Distributor:
Laryssa Kabernik
After the flood, God tells to Noah and his sons
that now every flash is their food. Everything was easy from the very
beginning: animals lived side by side with the men, they gave food,
protected, they were friends or otherwice they filled with
consternation... Being more complicated and improved, our civilization
produces new possibilities and new problems of coexistence. But until
today, there is no excuse of human’s cruelty against animal, regardless
of whether it is wild, domestic or laboratory. Awards: XIII
International Environmental Film Festival Green Vision 2008, Prize for
the Courage in making an Enironmental film.
DECIDING TOGETHER REGIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER Bulgaria/2009/2min./DVD Category: Video
spots Script: Hristina Petrova, Ivan Kojuharov Director: Hristina
Petrova Producer: Regional Environmental Center
DJEMO, GOAT
AND BRUCELLOSIS BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/2009/19MIN./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and educational films Script: Nisvet
Hrustic/screenplay associate: Sead Hrustic Director: Nisvet Hrustic Camera:
Nisvet Hrustic/second cameramen: Teo Agačevic Music: Amer Sehic Producer:
Nisvet Hrustic Distributor: Nisvet Hrustic
Brucellosis is a
very dangerous disease that affects sheep, goats and other animals. It,
also, gets transferred to people and it is very hard to treat. About
500.000 people get affected every year, worldwide. Until year 2004. in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, brucellosis was not significantly present. But,
with the uncontrolled import of live stock that started this year,
brucellosis became highly increased dicease in this country. In 2007
alone, 500 people got affected. In first half of 2008, 12,500 sheep and
goats were euthanised slaughtered, when brucellosis got in epidemic
proportions.
DRAGONFLIES OF A BACKWOODS STREAM FINLAND/2009/16min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Miikka Friman Director: Miikka Friman Camera:
Miikka Friman Music: Miikka Friman Producer: Miikka Friman Distributor:
Miikka Friman
A nature film about damselflies and dragonflies
near a small forest stream in South-Eastern Finland. The surrounding of
the forest stream hide an entire world into with the variation of
dragonfly species from lush settings to rugged rapids. The film has been
shot between 2004 and 2008 and it was completed in 2009.
DRIVEN
BY WIND JANNA DEKKER The Netherlands/2005/13min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Janna Dekker Director: Janna Dekker Camera:
Janna Dekker Producer: Janna Dekker Distributor: Janna Dekker
Miller
Henk Borst lived and worked for more than 50 years on the watermill
\’Woudaap\’built in 1651. Henk was 72 years old but refused to retire
from his job as a miller. He died unexpectedly because of a heartattack.
He was one of the last fulltime millers. Nowadays the waterlevel in the
Netherlands is regulated by computers. Awards: Silver Ebenseer Bear
and Special Juryprice in Austria Award for best Cinematography in a
Documentary in Seattle, USA, Special Jury price in St. Petersburg,
Russia
EARTH HOUR MAD TV Bulgaria/2009/30sec./DVD Category:
Video spots Script: MAD TV Director: Stoyan Stoyanov Producer:
MAD TV Distributor: MAD TV
MAD TV made a special campaign to
support WWF in their “Earth Day”. A special clock on the web site
countdowned the hours to Saturday, 28th of March, when from 20:30 to
21:30 the air of MAD TV was switched on an energy saving regime, which
encouraged people to turn off the lights at least for one hour. For this
purpose a special 30” trailer was made by the production team of MAD TV
in support of the great cause. Started out as a campaign encouraging
the citizens of Sidney to turn off the lights, “Earth Hour” has now
become one of the most serious and important initiations against the
climate changes. “Earth Hour” started in 2007 in Sidney, Australia where
2,2 households shut the lights for one hour. A year later the event
went on to became a global phenomenon with more than 100 million
followers in more than 35 countries. Award: Special Diploma from WWF
for Best Partnership for the Earth Hour Campaign
ECO-CRIMES:
FISHING PIRATES WESTDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK, ARTE Germany/2008/52min./Betacam
SP Pal Category: Documentaries/TV programmes Script: Heinz
Greuling, Thomas Weidenbach Director: Heinz Greuling, Thomas
Weidenbach Camera: Steffen Bohn Music: Oliver Keidel Producer:
Thomas Weidenbach, LAENGENGRAD Film Production Distributor: United
Docs, Cologne, Germany
This film tells the story of an unknown
war. It’s being waged in the Southern Ocean, in the fish-rich waters
around the Antarctic. Its victims are fish, the Patagonian toothfish, to
be precise. It’s sold under various names and is highly prized
particularly in the USA, Japan and China for its firm, white flesh that
has very few bones - white gold to fishermen, because it fetches a
thousand US dollars a fish and more. This lucrative business has
attracted illegal fishermen who abide by no fishing quotas or laws.
These pirates and the men behind them become millionaires on the rich
pickings. Their unscrupulous fishing methods threaten not only the
livelihoods of legal fishermen but the integrity of the entire marine
eco-system. The starting point of the film is the powerlessness of the
AFMA, the Australian Fisheries Manage-ment Authority. For years its
officers have had to watch while the rich fishing grounds around the
Heard and McDonald Islands have been plundered by fishing pirates. They
operate large factory ships that stay at sea for months on end and
respect no laws or regulations. Using longlines kilome-tres in length
equipped with thousands of hooks, they haul the fish out from depths of
up to 4,000 metres. They also bring death to countless sea lions and
albatrosses. Again and again, the rough seas help the fishing pirates to
escape the fisheries inspectors, who lack the necessary equipment for
the chase – into waters made treacherous by ice floes, for example.
Above all, though, the in-spectors are unarmed so the pirates have
nothing to fear. But a courageous fisheries inspector and a dedicated
adviser from the Australian Attorney General’s Office are not prepared
to accept the situation. They mobilise the government and the armed
forces and set a trap for the pirates. The film relates the genuine case
of two pirates ships, the Volga and the Lena - just two ships from a
whole pirate fleet in the Southern Ocean. After a hair-raising chase
they are boarded with the help of the Australian navy. A special unit –
armed to the teeth – abseils onto the ships from a naval helicopter and
arrests the illegal fishermen. The investigations uncover an
international cartel that stretches from Spain to Russia and on to
Indonesia. The case comes to court at the Interna-tional Tribunal for
the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, which is dealing with more and more cases
like this – something of which the general public remains largely
ignorant. Through original footage shot during the chase and capture and
through re-enacted scenes, the film presents a scrupulously accurate
picture of the events. With the help of Australia\’s former environment
and fisheries minister, Ian Macdonald, the film-makers show how unarmed
and power-less fisheries inspectors have turned themselves into a
hard-hitting force to be reckoned with. The fisheries authorities are
given a new ship, an heavily armed ice-breaker capable of pursuing the
pirates through the heaviest seas. The fisheries inspectors are trained
in the use of weapons and learn how to win through by force of arms. As a
result, Australia finally succeeds in driving the pi-rates from its
territorial waters. The Lena is sunk, the Volga is scrapped. But the
illegal fishing has now spread to other waters, outside Australian
sovereignty. Experts estimate that 500,000 tonnes of illegally caught
fish find their way onto the market in the European Union alone every
year. If illegal fishing is not successfully tackled worldwide, then one
of mankind\’s most important food sources and the eco-system of the
world\’s oceans will be imperilled. Awards: Merit Award for
Conservation Message 32nd International Wildlife Film Festival 2009,
Missoula, USA intermedia-globe Gold Award WorldMediaFestival 2009,
Hamburg, Germany Grand Prix ENVIROFILM 2009, Banská Bystrica, Slowak
Republic Finalist Blue Ocean Film Festival 2009, Savannah, USA
ECO-CRIMES:
OZONE KILLERS WESTDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK, ARTE Germany/2008/52min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/TV programmes dedicated to ecology and environmental
preservation Script: Heinz Greuling, Thomas Weidenbach Director:
Heinz Greuling, Thomas Weidenbach Camera: Steffen Bohn, Michael Kern Music:
Oliver Keidel Producer: Thomas Weidenbach, LAENGENGRAD Film
Production Distributor: United Docs, Cologne, Germany
This
film tells the story of a problem that everyone thought long solved –
and shows just how wrong that assumption is. It concerns the destruction
of the protective ozone layer in the Earth’s atmos-phere, which screens
mankind from the ultra-violet rays of the sun that cause skin cancer.
Back in 1987 the world community adopted the Montreal Protocol and
banned the production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) for use as
propellants and coolants. These chemicals are considered to be the main
cause of the ozone hole. This milestone was greeted with public acclaim.
The Montreal Protocol was seen as the most successful environmental
protection agreement ever reached. No one at the time had any thoughts
of illegal trafficking in CFCs and the involvement of organised crime.
The starting point of the film is the research carried out by an
ecological organisation in London – the Environmental Investigation
Agency or EIA - and by the German customs authorities. At the end of the
90s, a German businessman, Georg G., came to the attention of customs
investigators. He used falsified documents to import hundreds of tonnes
of the long-banned ozone killers into Europe. His source for the
chemicals was China, where a special provision still permits them to be
produced up to the year 2010 – as an interim measure and only for
domestic use. That was the intention, at least. In 2001 Georg G. was
fined 230,000 euros and given a two-year suspended sentence. He had
bought CFCs for more than 2.5 million euros and sold them on again for
many times that amount: to customers in France, Great Britain, Italy,
Hungary, Austria, Belgium and the USA. This is the only case of CFC
smuggling which has ever come to court in Europe. But the EIA staff in
London suspect that the illegal trade is much more widespread. On the
basis of import and export statistics they estimate that in the 90s up
to 20,000 tonnes of ozone killers were smuggled into the EU alone – per
year. In a bid to uncover the manufacturers of the chemicals, Julian
Newman and Ezra Clark from the EIA set up a phantom company for
importing CFCs. To turn the tables on the traffickers, they them-selves
pose as dealers and put out feelers for CFC producers who still exist in
threshold and devel-oping countries. They receive replies from 26
companies in China alone. In precise detail the film documents just how
CFCs are smuggled into Europe and North America. The film-makers show
the EIA members travelling to China undercover and using a hidden camera
to film the meetings with the contact companies – impressive and
shocking footage. Various Chi-nese industrialists are ruthlessly
exploiting the loopholes in the Montreal Protocol and making mil-lions.
They laughingly reveal how they outwit the Chinese and European customs
authorities. And CFCs are still being offered for illegal export in
China today. Awards: Prize of the International Jury Techfilm 2009,
Czech Republic Grand Prix ENVIROFILM 2009, Banská Bystrica, Slowak
Republic
ECO-CRIMES: THE TIBET CONNECTION WESTDEUTSCHER
RUNDFUNK, ARTE Germany/2008/52min./DVD Documentary:
Documentaries/TV programmes dedicated to ecology and environmental
preservation Script: Heinz Greuling, Thomas Weidenbach Director:
Heinz Greuling, Thomas Weidenbach Camera: Michael Kern Music:
Oliver Keidel Producer: Thomas Weidenbach, LAENGENGRAD Film
Production Distributor: United Docs, Cologne, Germany
This
film tells the story of a terrible suspicion. It concerns the last
tigers in India. They are the most loved of the world\’s great cats, the
national symbol of six countries and strictly protected for over thirty
years. But that\’s precisely what makes them the target of greed and
the craving for status. The tigers are being hunted as never before. For
a long time, it was believed that tiger hunting was the work of
individual poachers and that the illegal trade in tiger products could
be brought under control through appeals and good will. It was assumed
that the tigers were killed above all in order to use their bones in
traditional Chinese medicine. But the truth is very different. The
majestic cats are killed primarily in order to sell their skins to
customers that no one had ever suspected. Eco-Crimes reveals just who is
behind this mass tiger poaching and who is buying the skins. For those
in charge of this trade, it’s about millions. For the Indian tiger, it’s
about survival. The starting point of the film is the research carried
out by Belinda Wright of the Wildlife Protec-tion Society of India. This
wildlife photographer and film-maker has given up her career because
she can no longer stand idly by, while the tiger is threatened with
extinction. No one else keeps as close a count as she of every seizure
of smuggled animal products; she knows every detail. She’s all the more
surprised, therefore, when at the beginning of the 21st century more and
more tiger skins are seized at random road checks. But it’s not just
the amount of skins the worries her: the fact that they are carefully
processed suggests that the dealers are professional. And on the
re-verse of the skins, she starts to notice strange markings. These turn
out to be Tibetan names. For quite a while no one has any idea what
this could mean. The nature protection authorities are baf-fled and do
nothing. It’s only after all the tigers in the Sariska tiger reserve
have been killed that the Indian authorities crack down. A special unit
of the New Delhi criminal investigation department is formed to track
down the man who organises a whole network of poachers and fences:
Sansar Chand. For years, his widespread clan has been suspected of
dealing in tiger products. The film shows how the special police unit
succeeds in arresting the godfather of the poachers - only through
employing detective methods that are normally used in the hunt for drug
barons and arms traffickers. Following the arrest of Sansar Chand the
film-makers accompany Belinda Wright in the search for the people who
buy the skins – a quest which takes her to China: to the regions of the
Sichuan province inhabited by Tibetans and to the Autonomous Region of
Tibet. It’s on this journey that she makes a shocking discovery. She
films hundreds of young, affluent Tibetans, who have bought them-selves
tiger skins. As status symbols. At a cost per skin of over 10,000 euros.
The truth is revealed: for years, the main buyers of the poached skins
have been Tibetans. The Chinese authorities turn a blind eye. It’s only
an appeal by the Dalai Lama and various education campaigns that bring
about a change of attitude.
E-CUBE: AND THIS IS BAD? RAI
EDUCATIONAL Italy/2009/30min./Betacam SP Pal Category: TV
programmes dedicated to ecology and environmental preservation Script:
Roberto Laurenzi and Marianna Madìa Director: Roberto Laurenzi Camera:
Alessandro Peticca Music: Non original music Producer: Roberto
Laurenzi Distributor: Rai Trade
You have melted our glaciers.
The Inuit file a report against oil magnates. Climate change is narrated
directly by those who experience the climate, a journey with the
participation of WWF into the places where the effects of climate change
have begun to modify everyday settings. The Arctic and the Antarctic
are places where the effects of this change are the most evident and
where scientific research continues to look for answers. The legendary
Northwest Passage was inaugurated a year ago. And immediately the race
for riches in the glaciers burst out, where 25% of the world’s
hydrocarbon resources are hidden. But while the great powers try to gain
benefits from the changing climate, there are people who pay the price
of damages deriving from global warming. Alaska, Argentina and the
Sunderbans are places in which glacier melting and an increase in water
levels have devastating effects on the population. And the implications
are more complicated than one can imagine: the Epa (Environmental
Protection Agency), the White House, USA Senate commissions, claims for
damage compensation filed against great oil companies.
THE
END OF THE JUNGLE FOREST - AS GARDEN FURNITURE IN EUROPE GERMAN
BROADCAST SWR SUEDWESTRUNDFUNK Germany/2009/45min./Betacam SP Pal Category:
Documentaries Script: Manfred Ladwig Director: Manfred Ladwig Camera:
Manfred Ladwig, Thomas Reutter Producer: German Broadcast SWR Distributor:
SWR
Garden furniture made of wood is in demand. Whether swing
hammock or beach chair - many consumers want wood instead of plastics.
But what do we know about the origin of the wood? Not each piece of
furniture has an ecological certificate. The SWR reporters Manfred
Ladwig and Thomas Reutter made an exciting journey. They start in German
property markets and find out: Garden furniture consists also of
robbery wood. Their search leads the reporters - carmouflaged as
tourists - to Laos, Kambodscha and Vietnam. With their small camera they
follow the wood mafia. They travel on motor bikes through mud and
rivers in the protected jungle, following the sound of the saws –
although no tree should be felled. They meet villagers, which protect
their forest and burn illegal sawmills. A small victory against a
superior opponent. Because the trade with the robbery wood in Southeast
Asia is well organized. Critics speak also of state crime
FALCONS
IN THE MONASTERY TIERDOKUMENTARFILME/DR. WIELAND LIPPOLDMULLER Germany/2008/44min./DVD Category:
TV programmes dedicated to ecology and environmental preservation Script:
Wieland Lippoldmuller Director: Wieland Lippoldmuller Camera:
Wieland Lippoldmüller Music: BR Hans Wiedemann Producer: Wieland
Lippoldmuller Distributor: Bayerischer Rundfunk
Overlooking in
the Rio Guadiana in south-eastern Portugal is a former Franciscan
monastery, the Convento Sao Francisco de Mértola. A family of Dutch
artists has painstakingly transformed the derelict grounds into a
paradise for plants animals. Hier in this \Noah´s Ark\, the endangered
Lesser Kestrels (Falco naumanni) in particular find a nesting place and
food for their young.
FIRE AND WATER OSMOZA PRODUCTION Macedonia/2008/58min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Kiro Urdin Director: Kiro Urdin Camera:
Brand Fero Music: Venko Serafimov Producer: Kiro Urdin
This
is a film about life circle of our civilisation. This film main subject
is dealing with purpose and function of our life set in the heart of
life in Africa. Africans have direct connection with nature; their
instinctive respect of nature`s laws is on the contrary to human`s
development elsewhere on this planet. Awards: Grand Prix,
International Film Festival Jahorina 2008, Prize for the Best Director
of the International Documentary Film Programme, International Film
Festival New York 2009
THE FOG GENIE PUBLIC TELEVISION SERVICE
FOUNDATION Taiwan/2009/15min./DVD Category: TV programmes Script:
Hsin-chih Hsieh, Song Liu Director: Hsin-chih Hsieh, Song Liu Camera:
Po-wen Wang, Kuo-wei Hu, Li-jen Tu, Li-an Hsieh Music: EMI/Taiwan) Producer:
Yi-wen Li, Song Liu Distributor: Public Television Service
Foundation
Taiwan Island, fog envelops all year round on a
mountain named Chilan. Only three days of the year are clear of fog, and
moisture left on the trees alone can reach 300 millimeters. This fog
stabilizes temperature and humidity in this forest, creating a perfect
environment to nurture Asia’s precious primal cypress forest. To unlock
the mysterious force behind this fog, prominent female scientist Dr.
Yi-ling Lai spends her life in the forest like a genie, reaching through
the fog to cypress trees around her, discovering the delicate
relationship between fog and the growth of plant lives here. How
incredible is mother nature!
THE FORGOTTEN DISTRICT OSMOZA
PRODUCTION France/UK/2008/52min./DVD Category: Tourist films about
the protection of Cultural heritage Script: Oliver Dickinson Director:
Oliver Dickinson Camera: Oliver Dickinson Music: Traditional Maya
& Charles Forman Producer: Anthony Dickinson Distributor:
LVP&TPI
Between the Caribbean Sea and the Mayan mountains
lies Toledo, known as The Forgotten District of Belize, Central America.
For the last 20 years, the Maya have been promoting their own
ecotourism programme in order to protect their rainforest and
traditions. Despite constant opposition from the government, Margarita,
Reyes, Chet and their friends remain strong and optimistic. This film is
a tribute to their tireless efforts.
FOREST REBORN IRISFILM Slovak
Republic/2009/52min./Mini DV Category: Scientific and Educational
films Script: Jana Sadlonova Director: Jana Sadlonova Camera:
Vladimir Ruppeldt Music: Tono Popovic Producer: Mgr. Jana
Sadlonova/IRISFILM, Klub Straze Prirody Distributor: Mgr. Jana
Sadlonova/IRISFILM
A nature documentary with impressive music and
images about the mountain forests and calamities shot in four European
countries. Awards: Hubertlov, Levice, SR - 3rd prize in category
Documentary and educational films
GIMME A HUG PROTECT THE
SHARKS FOUNDATION The Netherlands/2008/13min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and Educational films Script: Geert Droppers Director:
Geert Droppers Camera: Geert Droppers Music: Mark Putz Producer:
Geert Droppers Distributor: Protect The Sharks Foundation
Sharks
are one of the most important top-predators in our oceans and there is
still a lot we don’t understand, or even know, about these fascinating
animals. This short documentary shows one of the most mysterious
phenomena in the animal world; amazing animals, showing a totally
different behaviour from what most people would expect.
HAVE COW,
HAVE MILK BULGARIA/2009/23min./DVD Category: Documentaries Script:
George Zdravkov Director: George Zdravkov Camera: George Zdravkov Music:
NUFI Shiroka Luka Producer: George Zdravkov presents Distributor:
George Zdravkov
The village of Kukuvitza is rarely visited, and
every human movement there is an occasion. It is a place with only 5
permanent residents, 2 of which are shepherds and another 2 their wives.
This is the story of one of those shepherds and his wife, before,
during, and after the biggest Christian holiday of the year - Easter.
HELLO,
PAPUA!/PART І FILM AGENCY SINIS Bulgaria/2009/27min./DVD Category:
Tourist films about the protection of Cultural heritage Script:
Mario Markov Director: Mario Markov Camera: Tzvetan Markov, Mihayl
Yanakiev Music: Liudmila Filipova Producer: Mario Markov Distributor:
Film Agency Sinis
Higher up, in the freshwater area, they are
much smaller, only reaching a length of two metres. Life on the
riverbanks is enveloped in mysticism and shaman secrecy. People live in
straw dwellings scattered along the banks and use boats made of tree
trunks. Living conditions are primitive, and people are mainly
preoccupied with surviving. No other place on earth has so many
different languages, cultures and customs. Papuans traditionally believe
in spirits and practise a deeply embedded cult of their ancestors.
There are ghosts all around, and sorcerers are omnipotent.
HELLO,
PAPUA!/PART ІI FILM AGENCY SINIS Bulgaria/2009/27min./DVD Category:
Tourist films about the protection of Cultural heritage Script:
Mario Markov Director: Mario Markov Camera: Tzvetan Markov, Mihayl
Yanakiev Music: Liudmila Filipova Producer: Mario Markov Distributor:
Film Agency Sinis
Higher up, in the freshwater area, they are
much smaller, only reaching a length of two metres. Life on the
riverbanks is enveloped in mysticism and shaman secrecy. People live in
straw dwellings scattered along the banks and use boats made of tree
trunks. Living conditions are primitive, and people are mainly
preoccupied with surviving. No other place on earth has so many
different languages, cultures and customs. Papuans traditionally believe
in spirits and practise a deeply embedded cult of their ancestors.
There are ghosts all around, and sorcerers are omnipotent.
HELLO,
PAPUA!/PART ІII FILM AGENCY SINIS Bulgaria/2009/27min./DVD Category:
Tourist films about the protection of Cultural heritage Script:
Mario Markov Director: Mario Markov Camera: Tzvetan Markov, Mihayl
Yanakiev Music: Liudmila Filipova Producer: Mario Markov Distributor:
Film Agency Sinis
Higher up, in the freshwater area, they are
much smaller, only reaching a length of two metres. Life on the
riverbanks is enveloped in mysticism and shaman secrecy. People live in
straw dwellings scattered along the banks and use boats made of tree
trunks. Living conditions are primitive, and people are mainly
preoccupied with surviving. No other place on earth has so many
different languages, cultures and customs. Papuans traditionally believe
in spirits and practise a deeply embedded cult of their ancestors.
There are ghosts all around, and sorcerers are omnipotent.
THE
HOMELESS CLUB LATURMADOCUS/CLAUDIA BRENLLA Spain/2008/55min./Mini
DV Category: Documentaries Script: Claudia Brenlla Director:
Claudia Brenlla Camera: Claudia Brenlla Music: Aldo Dinis, Bnegão e
os Seletores de Freqüência, Eddie Producer: Claudia Brenlla Distributor:
Claudia Brenlla
Pituba: an elite neighbourhood in Salvador de
Bahía, Brazil. Along the seafront of the city, before reaching the
famous Itapuá beach, the Clube Português premises draw our attention.
It’s a sport complex with its main building surrounded by swimming
pools, tennis courts, a football pitch and other facilities. The
condition of the premises is pitiful: boards and canvas spread all over,
the grass coming out in between the tiles, the dirty water of the
pools, and all you can see has been reused according to its current
dwellers’ needs: 85 families that belong to the Salvador homeless
movement (MSTS). Walking around what used to be a luxury club for white
people, we become aware of the origin and reasons of that movement and
their living-together rules. In the former party and celebration halls,
Dadinha and Shirley, inseparable neighbours, have their own cosy place.
Rosa, however, prefers the terrace intimacy for her and her children,
although it can be wet in the rainy season… Even the toilets became a
home for Sandra and Lifael or for the lonely Edjauma Dias. Awards:
Best documentary Sección Transfrontera. Extrema’doc International
Festival (IV edition).Cáceres (Spain). Best documentary ex aequo with
“Pancho Villa, la revolución no ha terminado” Xóm. Xanela ó Mundo.
Festival de Cine Documental de As Mariñas. (I edition) Betanzos. A
Coruña (Spain) Documentary selected by the Consorcio Audiovisual de
Galicia for the promotion program of galicians documentaries Docs
Galicia 09.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO SELL THE SKY AND WARMTH OF THE
EARTH? SERBIA/2009/27min./DVD Category: Documentaries Script:
Petar Lalovic, Rados Glisic Director: Petar Lalovic Camera: Petar
Lalovic Music: Antonin Dvorzak Producer: PL Global Film, Dunav
Film, Avala Film, Radio Beograd RTS
Indian cheef has wroten a
letter to abraham licoln where he predicts course of modern
civilization. The serbia’s ecology disasters all over the country is
witness to that course.
INVASION - NATURE ON THE MOVE ZDF Germany/2009/30min./DVD Category:
TV programmes dedicated to ecology and environmental preservation Script:
Sabine Armsen Director: Juergen J. Grosse Music: PS Movie Sound Producer:
Thomas Hamm Distributor: ZDF
Invasion – Nature on the move
Synopsis Our desire for total mobility: successful strategy or dangerous
game? Life in the 21st century is life on the move. It is made possible
by total mobility, unrestricted and unlimited. Global traffic and
communication form the basis of our society and enhance our quality of
life and prosperity. But there is also a downside: modern transport
provides unwanted invaders with an easy route of entry. Pathogens –
viruses and bacteria – travel around the world as blind passengers and
thus spread disease at an ever accelerating pace. Global mobility also
presents opportunities for larger organisms like invasive plants and
animals. They propagate at explosive rates. These new arrivals are a
danger for local biodiversity and can even threaten the livelihoods of
people. High-speed global travel opens up a Pandora’s Box by
transporting living creatures into regions where indigenous competitors
have no means to defend themselves. Evolution is then being taken out of
its natural boundaries. It is an experiment on nature with global
dimensions. As for the results, mankind is still in for suprises.
THE
INVISIBLE BIRD PHOTOGRAPHER TERMESZETFILM.HU/FILMJUNGLE.EU Hungary/2009/25min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: David Attila Molnar Director:
David Attila Molnar, Zsolt Marcell Toth Camera: David Attila Molnar,
Zsolt Marcell Toth Music: Sandor Faludi Producer:
Termeszetfilm.hu/Filmjungle.eu
To take a good picture of a bird
is hard and difficult. To take the perfect picture of a bird doing
things you’ve never seen before - is nearly impossible. Bence’s pictures
are telling everything about the secret lives of birds - but telling
nothing about the secrets of cutting-edge bird-photography. If you want
to know how this young and obsessed young man won every imaginable prize
worldwide, how he was/is awarded time after time on BBC’s prestigious
Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition you just have go and ask. Awards:
IWFF-Merit Award for Creative Approach.
IRON CURTAIN - RIBBON OF
LIFE BBC/NDR Free Spirit Films UK/2009/49min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/TV programmes Script: Paul Reddish Director: Paul
Reddish Camera: Claus Muhr, Mike Potts, Ivo Nörenberg, Simon Werry,
Thomas Hackl Music: Kurt Adametz Producer: Paul Reddish
20
years ago the Iron Curtain collapsed. Its demise was a surprise to most
of the citizens of Europe who had been cruelly divided for over 40
years. But even as Europe celebrated, a group of conservationists from
East and West Germany were meeting to create a new movement, the Grünes
Band, the Green Belt; a movement that would grow into the largest
conservation project in the world. The no-man’s land, inside the barbed
wire and fences was a haven for rare plants and animals. Dr Kai Frobel
and his fellow conservationists set out to save this precious strip of
land and its wildlife. This is the story of their endeavour to protect
everything from bears in Finland to rare Eagles in Bulgaria.
LAPALALA-AN
EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW TERMESZETFILM.HU/FILMJUNGLE.EU Hungary/2008/26min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: Cintia Garai Director:
Zsolt Marcell Toth Camera: David Attila Molnar, Zsolt Marcell Toth Producer:
Zsolt Marcell Toth
After it was confiscated from the native
people, land was bought and sold for practically nothing in South
Africa\’s Waterberg Mountains. Then in 1981 came two man - Dale Parker
and Clive Walker – and immediately saw the perspective in this remote
part of South Africa. Thanks to their joint effort 19 farms were
obtained, and so Lapalala Wilderness was established. By now the 36
thousand hectare reserve became a safeheaven for endangered species like
the white and black rhino. In Lapalala native people and professional
conservationists are giving each other a helping hand in order to save
natural habitats of the area. If their efforts are coming into fruition,
or not, is still a question. But one thing is sure. This nature reserve
- in a lot of sense - sets an example to follow.
LET THERE BE
LIGHT RTV/RADIO TELEVISION OF VOJVODINA Serbia/2008/22min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Vladimir Perovic Director: Vladimir Perovic Camera:
Zelimir Tot Music: Valachian Producer: Svetelana Paroski
What
they need is the light. What they lack is the light. What they dream of
is the light. What they search for is the light. They live under the
oil lamp light. And a giant hydroelectric power station is roaring
nearby... Awards: Mefest, Vel. Gradiste, Sept. 2008 – Best Editing,
Festef, Kučevo, Oct 2008 – Best Direction.
LIFE ON SNOW FINLAND/2009/10MIN./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Miikka Friman Director: Miikka Friman Camera:
Miikka Friman Music: Miikka Friman Producer: Miikka Friman Distributor:
Miikka Friman
This is a film that showcases the interaction
between intertebrates and their environment, the forest in a cold dale
covered with snow. There is life also in winter, from springtails to
stoneflies, even if the temperature is below 0 degree Celsius.
LOOKING
FOR WILD-GEESE BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION Bulgaria/2009/30min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: Katerina Zareva Director:
Dobrin Keresteliev Camera: Kamen Kolev Producer: Bulgarian
National Television Distributor: Bulgarian National Television
The
crew of the film follows wild-geese, which spend the winter along the
lakes around the village of Durankulak and the town of Shabla, near the
Black Sea coast. We meet an exceptionally rare representative of the
protected species of wild-geese Branta ruficollis, whose population
spend the winter in Bulgaria.
MALTA AND LAMPEDUSA FOR MARINE
ENVIRONMENT ISPRA Italy/2008/23min./DVD Category: Documentaries Script:
Ernesto Azzurro, Alfonso Scarpato Director: Marco Pisapia Music:
Stefano Lentini Producer: Raffaella Piermarini
Human
activities are drastically modifying natural systems by causing deep
changes that increasingly influence our lives and our ability to cohabit
within the planet hosting us. For Malta and Lampedusa islands,
MonItaMal’s scientific activities focus on the most pressing
environmental themes, such as chemical pollution, alterations in
biodiversity, and climatic changes in progress.
THE MEDIEVAL
FORTRESSES OF THE EASTERN RODOPY MOUNTAIN AHRIDOS’ FORTRESSES, PART I BULGARIAN
NATIONAL TELEVISION, RTVC PLOVDIV BULGARIA/2008/54min./DVD Category:
Tourist films about the protection of Cultural heritage Script:
Zlatin Boyadzhiev Director: Zlatin Boyadzhiev Camera: Violin
Paleykov Producer: Bulgarian National Television, RTVC Plovdiv Distributor:
Bulgarian National Television, RTVC Plovdiv
The series in three
parts studies the history of originating, existence and disappearing of
the fortresses built by the Byzantine empire and the Second Bulgarian
state in the region of the eastern Rodopy mountain. Dozens of fortified
posts and fortresses have been built near the river Arda from 5th to
14th century. They used to guard the roads leading to Constantinople,
Adrianople (Odrin) and Philipople (Plovdiv). The most popular are
Perpericon, Ustra, Patmos, Crivus, Lyutitsa nearby Ivailovgrad and Mezek
nearby Svilengrad. There have also been built fortified monasteries
like “St. John Precursor” situated in today’s town of Kardzhaly. A
consultant of the film is Prof. Nicolay Ovcharov. The other participants
in the first part are Bonny Petrunova, Doctor of History, form the
National Archeological Institute to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
and Daniela Kodzhamanova from the Regional Historic Museum in the town
of Kardzhaly.
THE MEDIEVAL FORTRESSES OF THE EASTERN RODOPY
MOUNTAIN THE MARCHES OF KALOYAN, PART II BULGARIAN NATIONAL
TELEVISION, RTVC PLOVDIV BULGARIA/2009/42min./DVD Category:
Tourist films about the protection of Cultural heritage Script:
Zlatin Boyadzhiev Director: Zlatin Boyadzhiev Camera: Violin
Paleykov Producer: Bulgarian National Television, RTVC Plovdiv Distributor:
Bulgarian National Television, RTVC Plovdiv
The second part
studies the marches of tsar Kaloyan (1197–1207). The third ruler of the
Asenev clan, the youngest of the brothers, headed the uprising and the
restoration of the Bulgarian state from the Byzantine slavery in 1185.
In a series of heavy battles Tsar Kaloyan managed to protect his country
from the expansion of a new invader in the Balkans – the Latin empire.
The barons from France and Venice put in claims for the lands of the
Byzantine empire after conquering Constantinople in 1204. They are
participants in the fourth Crusade organized by Pope Inocentiy III. The
film studies the famous battle in Odrin in which the first emperor of
the Latin empire – Baldwin – has been captured. For the first time the
battles of Kaloyan by Rusiyon, Syar and the eastern Rodopy have been
viewed. The second baron of the Latin Empire – Bonifaciy Monferatsky –
died in the battle of Mosinopol, near the Makaza pass, in September
1207. The fortresses of Dimotica and Pition in the Republic of Greece
and Odrin in Turkey have been filmed too. A consultant of the film is
Prof. Nicolay Ovcharov. Another participant in the second part is
Atanasios Guidis – a Greek historic, studying the history of the region
of Dimotica, Soflu and the border areas with Bulgaria.
MEMORIES
OF NEVER GLOBAL EVENTS BUSINESS Romania/2009/8min./DVD Category:
TV programmes Script: Viorel Costea Director: Viorel Costea Camera:
Lucian Banu Music: Valeriu Ciubotaru Producer: Viorel Costea Distributor:
Global Events Business
An essay on the consequences of the human
activity on the environment, but also on its own species. The film is
divided into four sections, each of it representing a symbolic birth and
a confrontation of the main character, the Man, with the surrounding
reality altered by him and his fellows. The contrast between the
voice-over and the images stresses the differences between the natural
state of the environment (crystal clear water, sunlight, peace, green
nature) and the inner state of the Man. All four sections begin with a
symbolic birth of the main character, thrown on the hall of a hospital
where he learns to make his first steps in the real world. Once out in
the daylight, he gets familiar to the daily teeming, filth and misery.
In the second part, the Man is presented to the viewer while
participating to a symbolic hunt, where the wood is replaced by the
supermarket and the game by the already packed products on the shelves.
In the third part, the Man confronts the war, especially the war against
his own environment destroying the animals just because he can. The
last section presents the same symbolic character – the Man in a
hospital where he is born again, surrounded by many devices to keep him
alive while being fed with artificially images of the planet as it
looked once. The apocalyptic image of a lurid and dark sky world is not
impossible, but more and more probable. It is up to us to save what has
been left to save.
MICROB SOFT FEELME CREW Bulgaria/2007/1min./Mini
DV Category: Video spots Script: Andrey Chernev Director:
Andrey Chernev Camera: Andrey Chernev Music: Andrey Chernev Producer:
Andrey Chernev Distributor: Andrey Chernev
A short diaporama
making fun of the default windows desktop.
MISSION TREETOP ZDF Germany/2007/48min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Marion Pollmann Director: Rainer Bergomaz,
Marion Pollmann Camera: Rainer Bergomaz, Luis de Maja, Yung Sandy Music:
Florian Moser Producer: Marion Pollmann Distributor: Marion
Pollmann
Floods, storms, melting glaciers and rising sea levels.
We are sufficiently familiar with these consequences of global warming.
But CO2 and climate change also impact our environment in quite
different ways. In the tropical rainforest, especially in the treetops,
the first signs that might well fundamentally change the rainforest
eco-system can already be seen. Dr. Jörg Salzer, a biologist and liana
expert from Germany is investigating these changes. But in order to gain
a better understanding of what is happening, he must climb up to the
treetops. So he lives on a small platform, open to nature and animals.
He becomes foster-mother to an orphaned kinkajou that soon shows him how
closely intertwined the lofty habitat is. And in a daring DIY effort,
he develops a one-man flight system that allows him to hover like a
hummingbird in, around and above the highest tops of the trees. And
ultimately to gain long-awaited insights into the interplay of trees and
lianas.
MITRA AGAINST MILKA BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION,
RTVC PLOVDIV Bulgaria/2009/30min./DVD Category: TV programmes
dedicated to ecology and environmental preservation Script: Tzvetan
Simeonov Director: Tzvetan Simeonov Camera: Nikolay Sotirov,
Violin Paleykov Producer: Bulgarian National Television, RTVC Plovdiv Distributor:
Bulgarian National Television, RTVC Plovdiv
From beginning of
next year it will be necessary farmers in Rodopi mountains to kill all
their livestock because of clerk’s instruction. It makes villagers to
grow up at least 5 cows, to have their cattle-sheds somewhere on the
hills, and that the milk meets not-known over -the world requirements.
Otherwise, dairying factories are not permitted to buy up. The
specialists affirm that when this happens-after the animals, the people
also will be gone, the mountain will be spread over by parasite plants
and the ecological situation will be totally changed. Awards:
European Commission Competition Robert Shuman 2007; Ethno Festival
Plovdiv 2007; Euroekofest’08, Koprivstitsa, Bulgaria.
MOUNTAIN FEELME
CREW Bulgaria/2009/1min./Mini DV Category: Video spots Script:
Andrey Chernev Director: Andrey Chernev Camera: Andrey Chernev Music:
Andrey Chernev Producer: Andrey Chernev Distributor: Andrey
Chernev
A girl and a woman having fun close to nature.
MY
AFRICA - SERENGETI MTV HUNGARIAN TELEVISION Hungary/2008/15min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/TV programmes Script: Jozsef Safrany Director:
Jozsef Safrany Camera: Jozsef Safrany Producer: Jozsef Safrany
The
current episode of the series of twenty parts takes the viewer to the
largest and one of the best known national parks of the world. It is not
an idealised world of nature films but reality as the common visiting
tourist can see it. The extent of the Serengeti National Park is
one-third of the territory of Hungary, and an exemplary work of nature
protection has been in progress in that huge area. Tourists do not see
it, they are not interested in it; they only want to see lions, rhinos,
elephants and gazelles. The film narrates the cost of it, somewhat
reducing illusions related to African game keeping.
MY WORLD -
COROMANDEL MTV HUNGARIAN TELEVISION Hungary/2008/16min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/TV programmes Script: Jozsef Safrany Director:
Jozsef Safrany Camera: Jozsef Safrany Producer: Jozsef Safrany
The
Coromandel Coast is the eastern coastline of the Indian subcontinent.
It includes a great deal of what characterises the entire country. At
the northern end, near the metropolis of Calcutta visitors are attracted
by the sculpture of the Sun Temple of Konarak today considered
pornographic; a little further south there is the holy Hindu city of
Puri. Its sea coast is called “public latrine” by travel books. The
visitor is not in quest of traces of his or her own culture in these
regions but would rather get acquainted with what is exotic. The
attraction of the middle of the Coromandel Coast is the temple ensemble
of Mahabalipuram focusing on Krishna; there are some structures that
surfaced as a result of the destruction of the tsunami of 2005. After a
long train journey one reaches the southern tip of the subcontinent,
Cape Comorin. The tsunami was most devastating here. The survivors pray
for the victims but immediately set themselves to reconstruction.
MYSTERY
OF UNDERGROUND K2 STUDIO Slovakia/2009/16min./DVD Category:
Tourist films about the protection of Cultural heritage Script: Pavol
Barabas Director: Pavol Barabas Camera: Pavol Barabas Music:
Maok Producer: K2 studio Distributor: K2 studio Join us in
descending into the mysterious underground of Slovakia. Let’s walk
through unrepeatable sinter formations, bewitching aragonite or cooling
ice decorations which offer an unusual view of the mysteries hidden deep
beneath the Earth\’s crust. You will be captivated by a variety of
formations, passages preserved by water, massive underground halls,
narrow canyons with roaring waterfalls and crystal clear lakes. No
wonder that many of these caves were listed in the World Natural
Heritage register.
NATURA 2000 IN BULGARIA GREEN BALKANS Bulgaria/2007/31min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: Simeon Marin, George
Stoyanov Director: Zlatka Nikolova Camera: Liubomir Andreev,
George Stoyanov Music: Balkandji Producer: Green Balkans Distributor:
Green Balkans
The ecological network Natura 2000 had to be
implemented in all member states of the European Union. How did it
happen in Bulgaria? The unique combination of geographic and climate
characteristics makes Bulgaria one of the countries with the richest
biodiversity in Europe. About one third of the significant habitats and
species which need special protection in Europe can be observed in
Bulgaria. Bulgaria’s nature is a priceless part of the European and
world natural heritage.
NATURE CAN’T WAIT ANYMORE FEELME CREW Bulgaria/2009/1min./Mini
DV Category: Video spots Script: Andrey Chernev Director:
Andrey Chernev Camera: Andrey Chernev Music: Andrey Chernev Producer:
Andrey Chernev Distributor: Andrey Chernev
A traffic light
gone crazy…
NOAH’S ARK OF SOFIA SVIDAS Bulgaria/2009/54min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and Educational films Scripts: Katerina
Zareva Director: Krassimir Simeonov Camera: Yaroslav Yachev Producer:
Svidas
The programme is composed around 120 year’s history of
Sofia’s Zoo – the oldest and the largest one on a Balkans. One can see
everyday’s life and the fests in the Zoo. And look upon the variety of
the seasons and the secrets of life, love and death among the animals –
our little brothers.
ONCE THERE WAS A HILL - THE BEREMEND LUMP MTV
HUNGARIAN TELEVISION Hungary/2008/26min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Tv programmes Script: Jozsef Safrany Director:
Jozsef Safrany Camera: Jozsef Safrany Producer: Jozsef Safrany
Long
ago there was a hill at the southernmost point of Hungary. Today it is
no more. Cement industry has mined all of it and as a result the
Pannonian landscape has become significantly poorer. Cement is evidently
needed; the contemporary world cannot be imagined without it. We are,
however, not quite sure that our loveliest regions should be destroyed
in its interest. Is appeasement between man and man possible? And
between man and nature?
PACHAMAMA DOLPHIN PRODUCTIONS USA/2009/104min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Director: Toshifumi Matsushita Camera: Gustavo
Soto, Guillermo Ruiz, Carlos Crespo, Cesar Perez Music: Luzmila
Carpio Producer: Toshifumi Matsushita, Keiko Komori, Yamar Sanchez In
the Salar de Uyuni, where many families work with salt, there is a 13
year-old boy named Kunturi who lives a normal life, much like the others
in his village. But he suffers when his Grandmother dies and his friend
moves away so he experiments going on his first trip with the llama
caravan. For three months he travels throughout the “Ruta de la Sal”
exchanging salt for other products of the Andes, the antiplano and the
valleys. In the snow covered peaks his father sacrifices his favorite
llama. The boy does not understand his father’s action and distances
himself. Kunturi’s lives and learns from these different experiences as
he travels. The caravan arrives at its destination, the town of Macha
where the “Tinku” Festiva takes place, and Kuturi’s life is changed.
There he finds the most beautiful girl he could ever imagined, Ulala.
Kunturi and Ulala share the same dream “to run together across the
immense white sea that is the Salar de Uyunim until they reach the end
of the horizon”.
PANNONIAN DESERT SZABOLCS MOSONYI PRODUCTIONS Hungary/2008/29min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Erika Bagladi Director: Szabolcs Mosonyi Camera:
Szabolcs Mosonyi Music: Pierre Langer Producer: Szabolcs Mosonyi Distributor:
Szabolcs Mosonyi
The forests of Central Europe are facing a
great challenge. Nobody knows for sure, how much time they have been
left for acclimatization. The changing climate can alter wildlife
evolution into a still unpredictable direction. However signs are clear:
more frequent droughts and floods, storms and fires causing enormous
damages. Awards: Main Prize, HFW
PESTER TRADITIONS RTS/SERBIAN
BROADCASTING CORPORATION Serbia/2009/17min./Betacam SP Pal Category:
TV programmes Script: Aleksandra Sarkovic Director: Aleksandra
Sarkovic Camera: Gojko Despotovic Music: Svetlana Azanjac Producer:
RTS/Serbian Broadcasting Corporation Distributor: RTS/Serbian
Broadcasting Corporation
The Pešter highlands located in
South-Western Serbia span across the border of Serbia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Montenegro. With an average elevation of 1100 meters and
winter temperatures that drop down to -38C it is ruled by a climate
that makes cattle breeding the only productive activity for the locals.
The Pešter cheese has a reputation reaching beyond Serbia. Once it was
produced using sheep\’s milk only, but with the falling number of sheep,
the cow\’s milk variant is gradually taking over. Locals talk about the
harsh life in the Pešter region where winter often lasts seven months.
Proud of their traditional products which include a type of cheese that
has been nominated for a DOC product, they talk calmly and without
remorse about their struggle to preserve the traditional production and
find buyers for their cheese which represents their only source of
income Within the 18 minutes program the viewers will also have a chance
of hearing authentic music of the Pešter highlands that is often
referred to as Serbian Tibet due to the harsh climate and its specific
natural environment.
SATOYAMA: JAPAN’S SECRET FOREST NHK/JAPAN
BROADCASTING CORPORATION Japan/2008/52min./Betacam SP Pal Category:
TVprogrammes Script: Satoko Nakahara/Peter Hayden Director:
Tetsunori Kikuchi Camera: Hiroyuki Kozako/ Kou Kakizaki Producer:
Shinichi Murata/ Ryoji Ishida Distributor: MICO/Media International
Corporation
The acclaimed Satoyama series explores Japanese rural
environments where people and nature coexist in harmony. The third part
takes us into a mountain forest near Japan’s largest lake. Shot in
stunning high definition and narrated from the perspective of an old oak
tree, it shows how the locals use traditional wisdom to manage the
forest in ways that allow them to harness nature for food without
ravaging the environment. It reveals, for example, how the harvesting of
trees for mushroom cultivation encourages new growth, how bees play a
role in the cycle of life, and how the forest plays a part in the
traditional rituals of o-bon, when the locals honor the spirits of their
ancestors.
SAVE BULGARIA’S NATURE GREEN BALKANS Bulgaria/2008/5min./DVD Category:
Video spots Script: Elena Tilova, Liubomir Andreev Director:
Elena Tilova, Liubomir Andreev Camera: Liubomir Andreev, Tanyo
Markov, George Stoyanov Music: Isihia Producer: Green Balkans Distributor:
Green Balkans
This video was created in order to raise the
public awareness concerning the problems of nature protection in
Bulgaria. Almost all significant nature sites in Bulgaria have been
threatened by the intentions of shady investors during the last few
years. The message towards the larger audience is: Without your help
Bulgaria will never be the same.
SAWFISH -NEPTUNS FORGOTTEN
CHILDREN ARTE/BFS Germany/2008/43min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and Educational films Script: Florian
Guthknecht Director: Florian Guthknecht Camera: Richard
Fitzpatrik, Athol Forster Music: Sebastian Pobot Producer: Udo
Zimmermann Distributor: Telepool
We tend to think that our
homes are ours alone, but in fact we have billions of subtenants: golden
spider beetles, daddy long-legs spiders, drugstore beetles, book
scorpions and many more. Countless species even live on our skins, like
demodex. Immediately after birth they move on from the mother to the
baby. We hardly know anything about these organisms: Where and how do
they live? What do they eat? Are they harmful or just tedious? Their
number is growing steadily. Due to the changing climate for example the
Pharaoh ant, an extremely dangerous carrier animal, is on a permanent
rise. The documentary “Subtenants – Life in Hiding” enters this
mysterious microcosm. And presents creatures that never have been shown
on TV before. Awards: Albert Price of Jury Naturvision Winner
SILENT
DISAPPEARANCE RTV/RADIO TELEVISION OF VOJVODINA Serbia/2007/21min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Tv programmes Script: Nevena Kljajic Director:
Nevena Kljajic Camera: Zelimir Tot, Jozef Madar Music: archival Producer:
RTV/Radio Television of Vojvodina Distributor: RTV/Radio Television
of Vojvodina
This is the story of the Shanghai settlement
(suburbs of the city of Novi Sad Vojvodina, Serbia) living between an
oil refinery and heating plant. The settlement is slowly disappearing
due to the pollution which has increased since 1999 bombardment.
Inhabitants suffer from cancer, but nobody cares…
SIMILIA
SIMILIBUS CURENTUR OR ONE INFINITELY SMALL DOSE BULGARIA/2008/30min./
MINIDV Category: Scientific and Educational films Script:
Ekaterina Hristova Ribareva Director: Ekaterina Hristova Ribareva Camera:
Ekaterina Hristova Ribareva Producer: Ekaterina Hristova Ribareva Distributor:
Ekaterina Hristova Ribareva
Similia Similibus Curentur or One
Infinitely Small Dose Homeopathy appeared in Germany more than 200 years
ago with the investigations of Christian Hahnemann, but its roots lie
far in the past. The father of medicine Hippocrates knew that like cures
like – SIMILIA SIMILUBUS CURENTUR, which is the primary principle in
the art of healing with homeopathy. What is the essence of this method
and how was it discovered? Is it possible for a substance, diluted in
water 1:1 000 000 to affect the physique, mentality and emotions of a
human, thus curing him…
THE SHORE TURKISHMOON Turkey/2008/56min./Mini
DV Category: Documentaries Script: Ruya Arzu Koksal Director:
Ruya Arzu Koksal Camera: Aydin Kudu Music: Burak Ayranci, Mustafa
Parlak Producer: Turkishmoon Distributor: Turkishmoon
THE
SOUL OF WATER DYNAMO FILM Sweden/2008/57min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: Kurt Skoog Director: Kurt
Skoog Camera: Kurt Skoog Music: Mats Sundin Producer: Kurt
Skoog Distributor: Kurt Skoog
We live on a water planet and
each single drop of water bellies a world of remarkable abilities. Water
is a very simple substance but the small water molecule carries
properties that seem designed to fit perfectly into the requirements of
life. And water never rests, it has an ongoing movement. From a very
personal point of view the film deals with water from different
perspectives; From the structure of the water molecule to waterways in
the landscape, from micro cosmos to macro cosmos, from a scientific
perspective to an emotional, poetic perspective. Awards: Best film
about water at Green Vision St Petersburg, Honourable mention for
creative approach International WIldlife Film Festival, Missoula Montana
USA 2009.
THE STRAIT, THE GATEWAY TO THE WORLDS ARTICAM
PRODUCCIONES Spain/2008/54min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and Educational films Script: Alberto Gomez
Latorre Director: Alberto Gomez Latorre Camera: Alejandro Diaz Music:
Emilio Alquezar Producer: Josep M Reixa Distributor: Articam
producciones
The documentary The Strait, Gateway to the Worlds,
explain how the migratory birds are changing its usual behaviour as a
result of the climate change effects. Throughout history the Strait of
Gibraltar has been a communication bridge between Africa and Europe, but
now this enclave is threatened, just like many other places in the
Mediterranean Coast. The documentary shows images of the animals in
absolute freedom, as the act in the wild, as no “actor animals” has been
used in the filming.
THE SWIMMING CLASSROOM BAVARIAN
TELEVISION COOPERATION Germany/2008/30min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and educational films/TV programmes Script:
Arno Trumper Director: Arno Trumper Camera: Arno Trumper Music:
Pink Floyd Producer: Bavarian Television Cooperation Distributor:
Bavarian Television Cooperation, ARTE
The Floating Classroom –
Students Researching in the Arctic Sea. Teaching physics in the Arctic
Circle? Biology lessons between polar bears and walrusses? School must
be like this! We must fill more students with enthusiasm for science.
The researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine
Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven/Germany are concerned about the lack of
young scientists. As consequence, the researchers founded their own
school: it provides advanced biology and numerous other school subjects.
2 days a week 20 students are studying in the research school. For the
rest of the week they attend a normal school. Classic teaching is taboo
in the AWI. The students are learning subject matter in the form of
research projects, working hand in hand with the real scientists.
Highlight of their 3 years at the Alfred Wegener Institute is the
student research trip on the ship. In October 2008 the students left for
Svalbard. In their minds a spectacular research assignment: they should
search for a crystal in the polar ice. Finding it would prove a new
theory on climate change. In a 45 meter two mast sailing schooner they
travel the polar sea. Nothing for sensitive minds, because the trip
takes place at the beginning of winter. The students are supposing the
crystal in the fresh sea ice. Now there is only a few hours of natural
light during the day and the sea is often rough. But this does not
prevent the young researchers from their mission. They want the
scientific sensation: Students prove new theory on climate change!
Despite all the euphoria: the unusual school project has also got the
very practical purpose to prepare the students for the A-Levels (German
Abitur). Those responsible at the Alfred Wegener Institute say: Our
students learn more and better than the students of normal schools. They
even believe that their school could be a model for Germany’s
crisis-ridden education system. Arno Trumper, filmmaker of the Bavarian
Broadcasting Corporation, accompanied the students on their journey into
the Arctic Sea.
SOFIA TRASH FEELME CREW Bulgaria/2007/1min./DVD Category:
Video spots Script: Andrey Chernev Director: Andrey Chernev Camera:
Andrey Chernev Music: Andrey Chernev Producer: Andrey Chernev Distributor:
Andrey Chernev
Trash pouring out of dust bins.
STINKY
SKIRMISH BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION, RTVC PLOVDIV Bulgaria/ Category:
TV programmes Script: Tzvetan Simeonov Director: Tzvetan Simeonov Camera:
Violin Paleykov, Nikolay Sotirov Producer: Bulgarian National
Television, RTVC Plovdiv Distributor: Bulgarian National Television,
RTVC Plovdiv
For years our country is busy with Sofia’s garbage.
The first political men are loudly arguing and of course in front of the
media, without having any reasonable decision. The garbage is baling
and in the process of time turning into eco bomb. That’s why in Europe
we were hinted at future penalties. Awards: European Commission
Competition Robert Shuman 2007, Ethno Festival Plovdiv 2007,
Euroekofest’08, Koprivstitsa, Bulgaria.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
OF A FLOW RTV/RADIO TELEVISION OF VOJVODINA Serbia/2008/17min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Vladimir Perovic Director: Vladimir Perovic Camera:
Igor Petricevic Producer: Svetelana Paroski
In this film,
where apparently nothing is happening, the development flow (the
narration) is – the flow of a river and its development. We follow the
most beautiful, most pellucid and most limpid river, from the very first
drops and first gurgles at its spring, via the smooth flow and the
purl, across waterfalls and hoot, up to the real river… And up to the
indications of man’s presence. From that point on, the river carry on
flowing, but – not beautiful, pellucid, limpid any more. Maybe – even
not alive. The man – the one that disturbs, the one that ruins the
primeval beauty and the harmony… Only at first glance the film is about
the river…
TALES OF THE TRIGRAD GORGE BULGARIAN NATIONAL
TELEVISION Bulgaria/2008/27min./DVD Category: Scientific and
Educational films Script: Krassimir Simeonov Director: Dobrin
Keresteliev Camera: Kamen Kolev Music: Diana Tekelieva Producer:
Bulgarian National Television Distributor: Bulgarian National
Television
The film tells about one of the most charming places
in Bulgaria in the Rhodopi Mountains – homeland of Dionysus, Orpheus and
Spartacus. Here is where the mysterious and enigmatic cave leading to
the Underworld is. The gorge in its very throat, the so-called Devil’s
Throat (Dyavolskoto Garlo), formed by a mountain river, gives home to
many rare and endangered species, where they live in natural harmony.
And when autumn gives way to winter, nature’s beauty overwhelms us.
THE
LODGERS ARTE Germany/2008/43min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and Educational films Script: Florian
Guthknecht Director: Florian Guthknecht Camera: Richard Ladkani,
Sigi Braun Music: Sebastian Pobot Producer: Udo Zimmermann Distributor:
Telepool
We tend to think that our homes are ours alone, but in
fact we have billions of subtenants: golden spider beetles, daddy
long-legs spiders, drugstore beetles, book scorpions and many more.
Countless species even live on our skins, like demodex. Immediately
after birth they move on from the mother to the baby. We hardly know
anything about these organisms: Where and how do they live? What do they
eat? Are they harmful or just tedious? Their number is growing
steadily. Due to the changing climate for example the Pharaoh ant, an
extremely dangerous carrier animal, is on a permanent rise. The
documentary “Subtenants – Life in Hiding” enters this mysterious
microcosm. And presents creatures that never have been shown on TV
before.
THE PRAYER RTS/SERBIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION Serbia/2008/31min./Betacam
SP Pal Category: Tourist films about the protection of Cultural
heritage Script: Aleksandra Bozovic Director: Aleksandra Bozovic Camera:
Ivan Jasarevic Music: Svetlana Azanjac Producer: RTS/Serbian
Broadcasting Corporation Distributor: RTS/Serbian Broadcasting
Corporation
The prayer under Mt. Midžor deals with an ancient
custom of celebrating St George΄s day worshiping spring and nature. The
rituals performed on this occasion under Mt Midžor have pagan roots and
reveal the unison of man and nature in the past. The prayer has the role
of protection of crops, fertility of livestock and health and
prosperity of the household and village. This custom was widespread from
ancient times and was known throughout Europe. Today it is losing some
of its authentic rituals and is about to disappear.
THE TERRIBLE
PEOPLE’S MISFORTUNE BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION, RTVC PLOVDIV Bulgaria/2009/30min./DVD Category:
TV programmes Script: Tzvetan Simeonov Director: Tzvetan Simeonov Camera:
Violin Paleykov Producer: Bulgarian National Television, RTVC
Plovdiv Distributor: Bulgarian National Television, RTVC Plovdiv
The
film presents the need of prevention in case of disastrous situations.
It turns out that out of all known natural elements in our country; only
two of them are not examined. The scientists are worried about one big
earthquake which will hit. “The terrible people’s misfortune” is the
name of a book which describes the destructions in the region of Plovdiv
and Chirpan. It appears that even now people don’t know how to react in
such a situation, and the government still hasn’t worked out an
integrated crisis plan. Awards: European Commission Competition
Robert Shuman 2007, Ethno Festival Plovdiv 2007, Euroekofest’08,
Koprivstitsa, Bulgaria
THE TOXINS RETURN ALTEMEIER&HORNUNG
FILMPRODUKTION Germany/2009/44min./DVD Category: Documentaries Script:
Inge Altemeier Director: Reinhard Hornung Camera: Birgit Handke,
Ayhan Salar Producer: Altemeier&Hornung Film Production Distributor:
Altemeier&Hornung Film Production
More and more toxics are
banned in Europe. The knowledge that chemical residues threatens our
health is widely spread. Never the less - the toxic returns. Weather it
is in textiles or toys. Goods produced in China and India do have
harmful chemical residues. The background: those toxics, banned in
Europe are still produced by global companies like BAYER in India and
China. And they are cheap. So there is no other alternative for the
global producers. The film tells the story of the victims in China, in
India and in Germany.
TO PLANT A TREE BULGARIAN NATIONAL
TELEVISION Bulgaria/2009/1min./DVD/Mini DV Category: Video spots Script:
Nina Doneva Director: Nikolay Vassilev Camera: Borislav Georgiev Producer:
Bulgarian National Television
TWILIGHT OF A LAND Canada/2008/52min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and Educational films Script:
Jean-Guillaume Caplain Director: Jean-Guillaume Caplain Camera:
Steoh Music: Stephan Mengui, Jean-Guillaume Caplain Producer:
David Denton Distributor: Stéphanie Pihéry On November 5th, 2005,
closed the doors of the dam Eastmain-1 in the North of Quebec,
activating the flood of 600 km of Cree traditional lands. A part of a
heritage of world interest is threatened to disappear with the floods … A
team of archaeologists begins from summer, 2003 a campaign of
archaeological rescue along the river Eastmain. Joining them, young
people and elder of the Cree community shout affected by the stake in
waters involved in the process of excavation, beginning a reflection on
tracks left by their ancestors; at the same time as this update of the
vestiges of past, they were able to envisage a work of collective
mourning on this earth ground today flooded.
VALDEZ, THE WHALE
PARADISE FREESAM Czech Republic/2009/86min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Sasa Dlouhy Director: Sasa Dlouhy, Roman
Vavra Camera: Sasa Dlouhy, Roman Vavra Music: Martin Ledvina Producer:
freeSaM Distributor: freeSaM
A documentary on how the
endangered world of whale is seen by film-makers and divers from a
country that itself has no ocean no sea.
WALKING WITH THE WOLVES BELARUSIAN
VIDEOCENTER Republic of Belarus/2008/39min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: Igor Byshnev Director:
Igor Byshnev Camera: Pavel Zoubritskij, Ivan Goncharouk Music:
Vladimir Sivitskij Producer: Belarusian Videocenter Distributor:
Belarusian Videocenter
The film depicts complex relationships
between the man and the wolf, captures the desire to better perceive and
understand the nature of this exceptional animal, so controversially
portrayed by humans over the centuries. Man always punished wolves most
severely for their evil deeds, yet now, no longer suffering from hunger
or cold, we began to reflect upon our own actions.
WATER: SAVE
LOCAL, SOLVE GLOBAL SAPIENS PRODUCTIONS/EU MEDA WATER The
Netherlands/2009/41min./DVD Category: Documentaries Script: Joshka
Wessels Director: Joshka Wessels Camera: Joshka Wessels Producer:
Joshka Wessels
With a global water crisis looming, the
Mediterranean region urgently needs to act to use its local water
resources wisely and efficiently. Every year, countries in this region
experience water scarcity and longer and frequent droughts at an
alarming rate. Growing demand from agriculture and industry puts huge
pressure on the national water resources. Regional cooperation is
necessary. Managing the demand more efficiently and using alternative
water resources such as reused waste-water are ways forward to
sustainable water management. But these solutions lie mainly in the
hands of the people at local level. This film travels from Morocco,
Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and turkey to tell stories
from the ground.
WATERPROOF SAPIENS PRODUCTIONS/NOW The
Netherlands/2008/30min./DVD Category: Scientific and Educational
films Script: Joshka Wessels Director: Joshka Wessels Camera:
Joshka Wessels Producer: Joshka Wessels Distributor: NWO Dutch
Scientific Organisation
The recent report of the Dutch Delta
committee, guided by ex-minister Cees Veerman warned that even with all
efforts possible to reduce C02-emissions, climate change is going to
affect The Netherlands. The sea level will rise together with our main
rivers. We have to prepare for this, it is gradually going to change our
lives. Forecasting the exact impact of climate change is however a
complex and difficult process. Despite the global climate change models,
predicting climate change locally is full of uncertainties. Climate
change is traditionally the area of physical sciences such as
meteorology and climatic research but this film shows how important
social science is to be able to develop future scenarios and contribute
to making The Netherlands Waterproof. This film shows a selection of
projects of the VAM (Vulnerability, Adaptation and Mitigation) programme
funded by the N W O (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research).
The VAM programme aims to encourage scientific research into the
social, behavioural and legal aspects of climate change.
WHERE
THE PEULS GO AJC!&FREEBAND PROD Belgium/France/2007/52min./Betacam
SP Pal Category: Documentaries Script: Sylvain Vesco Director:
Sylvain Vesco Camera: Antoine Challeil Producer: AJC! &
Freeband prod Distributor: AJC! Valérie Berteau
Intimists and
emblematic portraits tell the current destiny of the peuls of West
Africa. In Mali, one of the poorest states of the world, these people
are confronted with the terrible question of his future. In a malian
society in full transformation, can the traditions and the way of life
of these seminomad shepherds continue to exist in front of the
inevitable modernization of the country? Through a touching meeting with
this traditional culture, the narrative shows the universal movement of
transformation of rural mentalities. Awards: 8èmes Rencontres du
Cinéma Européen, France. Prix du Conseil Général.
WHITE STORKS OF
MY VALLEY SERBIA/2007/27min./DVD Category:
Documentaries/Scientific and Educational films Script: Oliver Fojkar,
Dusan Cekic, Marko Tucakov, ornithologist Director: Petar Lalovic,
Ivan Obrenov Camera: Petar Lalovic, Ivan Obrenov
A film on
storcks, mascots of Vojvodina and Pannonian Plain. The plains are
traditionally known for fertile cultivated field, but also marshes and
swamps, which offer shelter to White Storks. This film has knocked down a
stereotype – established opinion that we already know everything about
White Storks. In other words “White storcks of my valley” does not
observe some scientific tabooes, but advocates that animals do have a
soul, i. e. that they know how to love, grieve, to be happy and really
think! Awards: Memoriam Award – Alexander Sasa Petrovic, Award for
Modern General Sensibility of Ecological Film – Mefest 2008, Serbia
WILD
TURKEY NAUTILUSFILM GMBH Germany/2007/45min./DVD Category:
Documentaries Script: Jan Haft Director: Jan Haft Camera: Jan
Haft Music: Joe Dinkelbach Producer: Britta Kiesewetter Distributor:
Parthenon Entertainment
Between Europe and Asia, lies a land
full of natural wonders. Here, between the Black Sea and the
Mediterranean, between the mountain ranges of Pontus and Taurus a large
variety of plants and a huge diversity of animals can be found. Many of
them are immigrants that arrived from all directions - before, during
and after the last ice age. Others return to Turkey every year to
hibernate or simply to raise their young. Analogous to animals – people
from all parts of the world have immigrated to Turkey, it today is a
melting pot and a bridge between continents – for all its inhabitants.
WISENT’S
FATE BELARUSIAN VIDEOCENTER Republic of Belarus/2008/13min./DVD Category:
Scientific and Educational films Script: Igor Byshnev Director:
Igor Byshnev Camera: Igor Byshnev Producer: Belarusian Videocenter Distributor:
Belarusian Videocenter
Europe’s most ancient woodland –
Belavezha forest – is going to celebrate its 600th anniversary as the
first nature reserve on the planet. This forest is many centuries old.
Its primeval origins are revealed by the presence of the largest land
animal surviving in Europe – the wisent, or the European bison. 300 of
them live here.
WONDERS OF WATER KVIK FILM PRODUCTIONS Iceland/2008/52min./Mini
DV Category: Documentaries Script: Pall Steingrímsson, Finnbogi
Rognvaldsson Director: Pall Steingrímsson Camera: Fridthjofur
Helgason Music: Askell Masson Producer: Pall Steingrímsson Distributor:
KVIK Film Productions
Nowhere in the world is there access to
study the varied behaviour of water like in Iceland. The tremendous open
North Atlantic, numerous lakes, roaring waterfalls, clear rivers and
muddy glacier rivers, which flood large areas when frequent eruptions
occur under the glaciers. Vatnajökull is the biggest glacier in Europe
with numerous icecaves. Geothermal areas, hot mudpools and geysers. This
has encouraged us to concentrate on Iceland in a film about this
remarkable element.
YELLOWSTONE - LAND TO LIFE HARPERS FERRY
CENTER USA/2009/20min./DVD Category: Scientific and Educational
films Script: John DeLancey Director: John Grabowska, Tim Lay Camera:
Jeff Hogan, Bob Landis Music: John Kusiak Producer: John
Grabowska Distributor: Yellowstone Association In Yellowstone:
Land to Life, filmmaker John Grabowska explores the connections between
the geology of a singular landscape and the life that has evolved there,
from microscopic organisms to the American bison. Stunningly
photographed, with a lush original score, Land to Life lyrically reveals
the significance of the world\’s first national park.
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