國際觀摩－多元視界

Sonia

Sonia, a 52-year-old intellectual living in Brussels, has been working as a prostitute for 30 years. She has her own 'salon'. While sitting behind her window, she tells us how she loves her work and her clients. But how does one define her particular slant on love and affection? What is her relationship to seduction, bodies and men?

Mona Lisa

23 year-old Xiu Xiu is fighting for her umprisoned foster mother to return home and see her elderly grandmother for one last time. After being kidnapped at the age of 3, Xiu Xiu found her biological mother after 20 years, thus her foster mother was put in jail. She really wanted to know whether her foster mother had stolen her or rescued her from street. However, after more than two decades living as a family, Xiu Xiu feels that this foster family is indeed her own family...

Estamira

Estamira tells the story of a 63 year-old woman who suffers from schizophrenia. Estamira has lived and worked for the past 20 years at the waste disposal site of Jardim Gramacho in Rio de Janeiro. Charismatic and maternal, Estamira shares her life with a community of elderly folk at the waste site. The film shows her life during four years of continuous medication; reveals her transformation and the effects the drugs had upon her.

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

Dedicated to the rights of black prisoners and the working class, the Symbionese Liberation Army, arguably the most notorious and flamboyant domestic terrorist group in American history, set forth in 1973 to incite the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, brilliantly manipulating the mass media to advance their message. This Film provides a thorough, clear-eyed account of the first terrorist group to hold not just one heiress, but the entire nation hostage, and its subsequent, disastrous self-destruction.

Dong

Painter Liu Xiaodong visited the Three Gorges area to create his oil painting series < Hot Bed >. Eleven local deconstruction workers became the models on his live sketch. Fengjie, with its two thousand years of history, will be dissipated very soon. Under the <Hot Bed> series, Liu Xiaodong invited eleven tropical women as the models in Bangkok, Thailand. Both cities have their own river running across the city centre, galloping forward and never return.

Darwin's Nightmare

This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world’s biggest tropical lake in the dark center of the continent an army of local fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots. Darwin's Nightmare is a tale about humans between the North and the South, about globalization, and about fish.

Chronicle of a Summer

Paris. The summer of 1960. While war rages in Algeria and pre-independence Congo seethes with violence, Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin were experimenting with a new kind of documentary film about their own society that would reveal the innermost truth of peoples' lives. They interview passersby with a simple starting question “Are you happy, sir?” More than 40 years later, the film remains as ambitious, forward-looking and powerful as the day it was first released.

Chicken Elections

Chicken Elections is a film about the contemporary society in rural Balkans. In this story an old Serbian peasant woman is trying to learn how to operate a used mobile phone given to her by her grandson...a funny, sad and beautifully ironic story about solitude, depopulation, about death before death...

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

The Chechen war is the setting for the film. The inability of adults to resolve the war gives rise to a generation upon whom hatred has been visited like the issue of a deity incarnate. Children have taken on a burden of hatred, which they believe springs from within. There is no need to seek its causes. The transposed hatred casts a pall to the depths of their minds; they are accompanied throughout their lives by an inexplicable melancholia and sudden outbursts of rage.