Current Films

GANDHI’S CHILDREN

David MacDougall
India 2008 | 185 Min. | DigiBeta, OmeU
The Prayas Children’s Home for Boys: a mono­lith­ic build­ing, out­ward­ly not unlike a prison, locat­ed in one of New Delhi’s poorer neigh­bor­hoods. The insti­tu­tion pro­vides shel­ter to 350 boys. Some … read more

HIMALAYA, A PATH TO THE SKY

Marianne Chaud
France 2008 | 62 Min. | DVD, OmeU
Kenrap is eight years old. He is a Bud­dhist monk and lives in the Phuk­thal monastery on the peaks of the Himalayan moun­tains of Zan­skar. Kenrap chose his life away … read more

MAKING OFKAMIKAZE

Nouri Bouzid
France, Germany, Morocco, Tunisia 2006 | 120 Min. | 35 mm, OmU
The young Tunisian, Bahta (Lotfi Abdel­li), has dreams of becom­ing a famous break-dancer. But break­danc­ing is frowned upon in Tunisia, and the police fre­quent­ly harass the dancers. He has no … read more

QIANMEN QIAN

A disappearance foretold

Olivier Meys
Belgium, France 2008 | 86 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
“Qian­men” is a pop­u­lar neigh­bour­hood in the very heart of Bei­jing, just south of the Tianan­men Square. In the per­spec­tive of the 2008 Olympic Games, the city decid­ed that the … read more

SONBOL

Niko Apel
Germany, Iran 2007 | 54 Min. | DigiBeta, OmeU

So why don’t you find your­self a hus­band then?“ asks Sonbol’s mother. The daugh­ter responds with silence. Sonbol Fatemi is 35 years old. She is single. She has her own den­tistry prac­tice, and on the side she likes to race cars in rally com­pe­ti­tions – espe­cial­ly against men. Sonbol lives in the holy city of Mashad in the Islam­ic Repub­lic of Iran. To lead the kind of life she wants to live, she has to fight every day: against her mother, who would like to see her mar­ried; against the local sport­ing author­i­ties, who want to ban women from com­pet­ing in the rally races; and, not least of all, against her own doubt as to whether or not God is on her side. SONBOL is the por­trait of a woman who just wants to be who she is, and has to pay a high price to do so. The film pro­vides a unique look into a soci­ety full of con­tra­dic­tions – the set­ting of one woman’s rally race through life. 

THE ART OF REGRET

Judith MacDougall
Australia, China 2007 | 59 Min. | miniDV, OmeU
This bril­liant observed doc­u­men­tary, by renowned ethno­graph­ic film­mak­er Judith Mac­Dougall, explores the dig­i­tal rev­o­lu­tion in China, where pho­tog­ra­phy is known as the ” art of regret”. In the rapid­ly chang­ing … read more

THE DAMNED OF THE SEA

Belgium, Morocco 2008 | 71 Min. | DigiBeta, OmeU
For­mer­ly known as Mogador, Essaouira was the first sar­dine fish­ing port in the world. Today the fish have left its waters. Thou­sands of small Moroc­can fish­er­men from Essaouira, Safi, and … read more

VALI ASR – July 2006

Norman Richter
Germany, Iran 2006 | 14 Min. | 35 mm
An elder­ly woman / a fan; a young man / a book; a lady / a neck­lace… Twelve people and sev­er­al objects filmed along Vali Asr, Teheran’s longest and oldest … read more

VICTOIRE TERMINUS, KINSHASA

Renaud Barret
Dem. Rep. Kongo, France 2008 | 80 Min. | DigiBeta, OmeU
The film por­trays a group of extra­or­di­nary women who choose boxing as a way of get­ting ahead in an African cap­i­tal caught in the tur­moil of its first demo­c­ra­t­ic elec­tions. … read more