------WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 6 PM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 6 PM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 6 PM ------5 BROKEN CAMERAS PIT No. 8 NOAH'S CANOE ------Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi / France & Marianna Kaat / Estonia / 2010 / 95 min / Juliet Brown / UK / 2011 / 44 min / English ------The Netherlands & Israel & Palestine / Russian The journey of Noah, a female to 2011 / 90 min / Arabic & Hebrew Cold, hungry, out of work? Dig male transgender, as he moves RE-VERZIO A family saga with 4 children, a hole in your backyard and mine from a difficult past into a healing 5 broken cameras, and countless some coal. Ukrainian know-how future, finding his place as a man DOCUMENTARY burnt olive trees. A first-person for a "post-industrial" society. in a family of his own. story of non-violent resistance ------in a West Bank village. Snizhne, once a flourishing Ukrainian min- Noah's dream has always been to move FILM SERIES ------ing town, is plagued today by crushing back home to the North Woods of Maine, ------Emad is a farmer in Bil'in, just west of the poverty. For years, the town's desperate USA, and work with his father, building February - March 2013. city of Ramallah in the West Bank. He residents have been illegally mining coal wooden canoes. But every time he tries Wednesdays, 6 PM bought his first camera in 2005 to docu- on their own, dangerously excavating to return to his father's canoe shop he is ment the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. abandoned mines, the basements of overcome with fear. The mystery of the OSA ARCHIVUM With it, his passion for recording his condemned buildings, the nearby woods, film unfolds as Noah and his mother talk Budapest V, Arany János u. 32. family and his village was born. During and even their own backyards. Everyone of the decade when Noah lived with phy- www.osaarchivum.org the following years, Emad filmed the digs to survive – women, pensioners, sical illness. Noah's letter to his friends ------bulldozers ripping the olive trees out of unemployed miners, even children. After and family tells us about the 10 years he OSA Archivum and Verzio Film the ground, the steady progress of the leaving his alcoholic mother's home, 15- spent in turmoil: "The truth that has been year-old Yura has put his schooling and Festival present 6 outstanding construction of the dividing wall, burgeon- so long hidden from even my own con- ing Israeli settlements, and the villagers’ his dream of becoming a cook on hold. He sciousness is that I am transgender… The documentaries - the most non-violent protests, as well as their takes it upon himself to provide for his parts of me that are surfacing have been popular films of the 9th Verzio arrests and deaths. Emad keeps on film- sisters the only way he knows: by work- suffocated and tortured…I will now be International Human Rights ing even when his cameras are destroyed ing the illegal pits. In the absence of going by the name Noah. I have been adults, Yura shoulders family responsibili- Documentary Film Festival one after another by the soldiers’ bullets waiting years for this." The film follows and despite pleas from his wife, who fears ties – parenting, shopping, cooking meals, Noah as he finds the courage to go home. (www.verzio.org). Do not miss reprisals. Palestinian Emad Burnat joins and making ends meet. A heart-rending There he confronts the ghosts within him- this rare opportunity to watch forces with Guy Davidi, an Israeli, and — story of children forced to grow up too self and the constant reflection of Holly, some of the best documentary from the wreckage of five broken cameras quickly with no role models. the person he used to be. A healing that — the two filmmakers create one extra------he never expected begins as Noah finds features of 2012! ordinary work of art about one village's ------his place as a man in a family of his own. ------struggle. ------Films are screened in original ------+ SPECIAL BONUS SCREENING! Academy Award 2012, nominated, ------language with English subtitles. ------Audience Award, IDFA 2011, ------Admission free. Directing Award, Sundance 2012. ------A FARMER'S DESIRE ------VERZIO 9 AUDIENCE AWARD, ------Rebecka Rasmusson / Sweden / 2010 / ------14 min / Swedish ------STUDENT JURY AWARD ------Born in the wrong body, a Swedish ------farmer discovers his sexual identity ------after he turns fifty. ------WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 6 PM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 6 PM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 6 PM ------WINTER, GO AWAY! NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT PLANET OF SNAIL ------Denis Klebleev & Dmitry Kubasov Patricio Guzmán / Chile & France Seung-Jun Yi / South Korea & Japan & Askold Kurov et al / Russia / 2012 / & Germany & Spain / 2010 / 90 min / & Finland / 2011 / 87 min / Korean 79 min / Russian Spanish A love story like no other - a dis- Russia on the move – a humorous Chilean desert, the starry sky abled couple with a unique sense and insightful chronicle of the above, and the bones of the oppon- of touch. winter 2011 protests in Moscow, ents of the Pinochet regime below. ------filmed by a young generation Legendary documentarist Patricio Young-Chan has been deaf and blind since childhood. As he puts it, "In the be- of filmmakers. Guzmán explores the boundaries ginning there was darkness and silence." ------of the cosmos and the human Young-Chan had no idea how to parti- Winter, Go Away! was filmed by gradua- cipate in the world until he meets Soon- tes from Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail microcosm. ------Ho, who also has a physical handicap. He Ugarov's Documentary Filmmaking and Patricio Guzmán travels 10,000 feet ab- marries her and learns to communicate Theater School. Ten young directors went ove sea level to the driest place on earth, with the outside world through her. By on filming for two months during the the Atacama Desert, where atop the softly tapping each other's finger, they protests following the parliamentary elec- mountains astronomers from all over the can understand one another; sometimes tions of 2011 in Russia. The result was a world gather to observe the stars. The it is as if they are tenderly playing a chronicle of Russia's growing opposition sky is so clear that it allows them to see piano. This documentary follows the mood – a chronicle of those who make right to the boundaries of the universe. couple in the same gentle tempo as the political climate and those who are The Atacama is also a place where the Young-Chan moves through his life. We dissatisfied with the makers: faces, con- harsh heat of the sun keeps human re- see them replacing a light bulb together, versations, rallies, victories and defeats mains intact: those of Pre-Columbian receiving friends, working on a theater prior to the presidential election. A living mummies; 19th century explorers and piece, reading a book, and gliding on a camera interacts with living heroes. The miners; and the bodies of political prison- sleigh down a mountain. These everyday occasional sparks of humor and absurdity ers who were "disappeared" by the Chilean scenes are accompanied by a poetic only underscore the overall seriousness army after the military coup in September voice-over by Young-Chan, in which he of this multifaceted chronicle. 1973. While astronomers examine the reflects on his existence without sight and ------most distant and oldest galaxies, at the hearing. He feels like an astronaut, but ------foot of the mountains, women, surviving that doesn't mean he is without a sense ------relatives of the disappeared whose bodies of beauty in the world. This becomes ------were dumped here, search, even after ------palpable when Young-Chan touches the ------twenty-five years, for the remains of their bark of a tree, runs his hand through ------loved ones, to reclaim their families' his- sand, or brushes raindrops on a window ------tories. Melding the celestial quest of the ------pane with his fingertips. A unique test------astronomers and the earthly one of the imony of love and the will to overcome ------women, Nostalgia for the Light is a mov- obstacles. ------ing, and deeply personal odyssey. ------IDFA Best Feature Documentary 2011, ------Cannes Film Festival, 2010. ------Best World Feature at Silverdocs 2012. ------VERZIO 9 OPENING FILM! ------