TV DOCUMENTARY 01 Leuven Hulp At the beginning of 2009 a number of prisoners from the Leuven Help auxiliary prison in Leuven took part in a theatre workshop. The improvisations and rehearsals within the prison walls were filmed over a period of three months, culminating in a performance in front Belgium of an audience. For three months prisoners were filmed, often day and night - including in the cells, in which they were locked up 22 hours a day. The viewers are thus privileged witnesses of the day-to-day life of Entering organisation: Nico, Bogdan, Dilges, Christos, Peter, Antonio and Ali. They see Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep - VRT them as they walk round the prison courtyard, as they go about the Contact: Franky Audenaerde tasks they are given to do and in their cells. They see them during Email: [email protected] the day, but also during the long nights. They observe their troubled relationship with the outside world, their often hopeless situations Author/s: and their survival strategies. Joeri Weyn, Yoohan Leyssens, Luc Haekens As a viewer you are constantly subjected to a conflict of feelings: on Directors: Joeri Weyn, Yoohan Leyssens, Luc Haekens the one hand you empathise with the person, on the other hand you Camera: Joeri Weyn & Yoohan Leyssens cannot avoid the reprehensible, often violent deeds of the criminal. Commissioning editor: Michel Vanhove Nico says to theatre-maker Thomas, ‘You often say ‘experienced’ but Email: [email protected] you should see it as ‘committed’. Dilges raps in his cell, ‘You know, Production company: Woestijnvis but you do it anyway, yo’. We carry on doing it even though we know Producer/s: Inge Sierens we shouldn’t. Co-producer/s: None This conflict of feelings regularly crops up in Leuven Hulp. What is ‘experiencing’ and what is ‘committing’? When is a perpetrator Length: 44 min. a victim? When do we punish the criminal and when do we Total budget: not available sympathise with the person’s impotence? Production format: 16:9 Leuven Hulp is a unique documentary about guilt and punishment, Original language: Dutch missed opportunities and the eternal intention of never going back to Date of production: June 2009 prison. First broadcast: on 28 December 2009, 21:15 by VRT één Presented on: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 Twitter: #PE10 #TVD01 2 TV DOCUMENTARY Decata na Drujbata 02 Ha and Ahmad are the Bulgarian symbols of communist internationalism in action. Ha is a Vietnamese singer and Ahmad a The Children of Drujba Lebanese doctor. Both came to Bulgaria at a young age and after the fall of socialism found themselves homeless. They are the ‘Children of Drujba - comradeship’, born in countries Bulgaria struggling for independence and socialism, nurtured and brought up in socialistic Bulgaria. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of socialism, these ‘children’ are forced to grow up quickly and decide whether to go Entering organisation: back to their old countries where they do not feel they belong or to cineaste maudit production Bulgaria move on. Contact: Svetoslav Draganov Email: [email protected] Author/s: Svetoslav Draganov Director: Svetoslav Draganov Camera: Svetla Neykova, Aleksander Krumov and Svetoslav Draganov Commissioning editor: None Production company: cineaste maudit production Bulgaria Producer/s: Svetoslav Draganov Co-producer/s: BNT Key staff: George Donchev (music) Length: 70 min. Total budget: € 50.000 Production format: Beta 16:9 Original languages: Bulgarian, French, Arabic, Vietnamese Date of production: December 2009 First broadcast: on 7 June 2010, 2:15 Presented on: Thursday, 21 October 2010 Twitter: #PE10 #TVD02 3 TV DOCUMENTARY 03 Trg/20. stoljeće na filmu The experimental documentary film ‘The Square / 20th Century on The Square / Film’ explores directing, screenwriting and dramaturgical options in recycling fragmented footages from film archives. 20th Century on Film The film is based on two and a half hours of documentary and archive footage of Zagreb’s central point - Ban Jelačić Square, made Croatia between 1915 and 1981. Through reductions and derivations carried out by 6 co-screenwriters, the original material that included documentaries, newsreels, fragments and 16mm TV reports were reduced to 27 minutes of experimental documentary film. Entering organisation: Out of this, two minutes of essential takes of the square throughout Hrvatska radiotelevizija - HRT / Croatian Television the 20th century have been derived in the end. Contact: Hrvoje Juvančić Email: [email protected] Author/s: Hrvoje Juvančić Director: Hrvoje Juvančić Camera: archive footage Commissioning editor: Miro Branković (HRT), Dalibor Martinis (Croatian Audio Visual Centre) Email: [email protected] Production company: HRT Producer/s: Miro Rezić Co-producer/s: Croatian AudioVisual Centre, Hrvatska kinoteka, AIII Length: 27 min. Total budget: € 44.300 Production format: 16mm, final: IMX Original language: Croatian Date of production: January 2010 First broadcast: on 5 February 2010, 23:15 by HRT Presented on: Friday, 22 October 2010 Twitter: #PE10 #TVD03 4 TV DOCUMENTARY Cinematerapie 04 We live in times when television churns out one reality show after another to amuse us. Thus our emotionally arid contemporary Cinematherapy society artificially feeds on the stories of people whose further fate is shaped by dozens of professionals. ‘Cinematherapy’ has chosen a different method. In advertisements Czech Republic on the small screens of Czech Television viewers were invited to participate in a casting event, where they were to tell their life story. Eleven winners then underwent cinematherapy offered to them by the camera as mediator between these individuals and the outer Entering organisation: world. Česká televize - Czech Television Ivan Vojnar is the director of this film, which is something between Contact: Jitka Prochazkova a live-action movie, a documentary and a reality show. Email: [email protected] To these eleven protagonists he offers neither plastic operations nor Author/s: Ivan Vojnar, Tomas Bojar encounters with long-lost friends; he bids them look back at their Director: Ivan Vojnar often bizarre lives and thus shed the burning traumas we all carry Camera: Michal Cerny around within. Commissioning editor: Jana Skopkova Email: [email protected] Production company: Czech Television Producer/s: Ivan Vojnar - Ivan Vojnar Film Co-producer/s: Petr Moravek - Czech Television Jordi Niubo - I/O Post Key staff: Richard Müller (sound), Sarka Nemcova (editor) Length: 108 min. Total budget: € 153.846 Production format: 35 mm, Digi Beta 16:9 Original language: Czech Date of production: March 2010 First broadcast: on 15 December 2010, 20:00 by Czech Television Presented on: Sunday, 17 October 2010 Twitter: #PE10 #TVD04 5 TV DOCUMENTARY 05 Disco and Atomic War The film maker recalls with humorous commentary how J.R. Ewing Disco and Atomic War from the TV-series ‘Dallas’ influenced his Estonian childhood, how he and his cousins savoured the likes of ‘Emanuelle’ and interpreted the world according to Finnish TV. Estonia Western popular culture had an incomparable role shaping Soviet children’s world-views in those days - in ways that now seem slightly odd. Finnish television was a window to a world of dreams that the authorities could not block in any way. Entering organisation: Though Finnish channels were banned, many households found Autlook filmsales some way to access the forbidden fruit. Contact: Youn Ji ‘Disco and Atomic War’ tells the story of a strange kind of Email: [email protected] information war, where a totalitarian regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture. And loses. Author/s: Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma Director: Jaak Kilmi Camera: Manfred Vainokivi, Kristjan Svirgsden, Asko Kase Commissioning editor: Aleksi Bardy, Annika Sucksdorff Email: [email protected] Production company: Eetriüksus Producer/s: Kiur Aarma Co-producer/s: Aleksi Bardy, Annika Sucksdorff Length: 78 min. Total budget: not specified Production format: Digi Beta PAL Original languages: Estonian, Finnish, Russian, English Date of production: November 2009 First broadcast: on 14 July 2010, 0:00 by SF Presented on: Monday, 18 October 2010 Twitter: #PE10 #TVD05 6 TV DOCUMENTARY Miesten vuoro 06 Naked Finnish men in saunas speak straight from the heart and in the warmth of rusty stoves cleanse themselves both physically and Steam of Life mentally towards the film’s deeply emotional and unforgettable finale. Finland The film travels through Finland joining men of all walks of life in many different saunas to let us hear their touching stories about love, death, birth and friendship; about life. In all its simplicity the camera records the raw and rare beauty of landscapes, saunas and men in Entering organisation: almost magical pictures. Yleisradio - Finnish Broadcasting Company Contact: Monica Bergman The presence of the characters and the depth of their emotion Email: [email protected] reaches a limit where it is almost intolerable for the viewer to watch. Author/s: Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen ‘Steam of Life’ reveals the men’s naked souls in an exceptionally Directors: Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen intimate and poetic way. Camera: Heikki Färm, Jani Kumpulainen Commissioning editor: Ilkka Vehkalahti Email: [email protected] Production company: Oktober Oy Producer/s: Joonas Berghäll, Oktober Oy Co-producer/s: Adel Kjellström, Röde Orm Film AB, in association with: YLE TV2 Dokumenttiprojekti, ARTE, SVT, ERR Key staff: Timo Peltola, (editor), Christian Christensen (sound), Jonas Bohlin (music) Length: 82 min. Total budget: € 400.000 Production format: s16mm Original language: Finnish Date of production: December 2009 First broadcast: on 31 December 2010, 0:00 by YLE TV 2 Presented on: Thursday, 21 October 2010 Twitter: #PE10 #TVD06 7 TV DOCUMENTARY 07 Mes deux seins, journal d’une guérison The director learns she has breast cancer. A Diary of Healing It is a complete shock. Will her life end tomorrow? How will she manage? The film-maker in her decides to assist the patient as she searches for meaning.