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GURS, HISTOIRE ET MÉMOIRE

(Gurs, History and Memory)

56 minutes, 2018
Director: Verónica SÁENZ GIMENEZ (Spain)
Production: Fernando YARZA, Anabel BELTRÁN, Asociación Fénix Aragón (Spain)

 

Gurs is more than a place. Located in France at the foot of the Pyrenees, near the town of Oloron-
Sainte-Marie, this refugee camp was built for people fleeing Spain (Spanish Republicans, International Brigade fighters) when General Franco took over power. During the Second World War Gurs became an internment camp. “Gurs, History and Memory” painstakingly records the oral history of those who spent time there, offering recognition to the victims of brutality and asking us to remember them all.

Verónica SÁENZ GIMENEZ took an on-line Master in film and HD technology, and a Master in script writing at Zaragossa’s vocational school CPA Salduie. She has worked on television series such as “Cuéntame cómo pasó”, “Los Serrano”, “Doctor Mateo”, “Con el culo al aire”, “Bajo Sospecha”, as well as two films “Truman” and “La mujer olvidada”. She has made several shorts: “Abuelitos”, “Y yo” about integrating deaf children in society, and “A vinos”. “Gurs, History and Memory” is her first documentary.

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FRIENDS FOES

51 minutes, 2017
Director : Sead KRESEVLJAKOVIC and Emir ZUMBUL KAPETANOVIC (Bosnia)
Production : Al Jazeera Balkans, Alhemija Film (Bosnia)

Dane and Daut faced each other in the 1990’s during the war in Bosnia. Both were on the front line during the Bosnian Serb army’s attack on a Bosnian village near Srebrenica. Daut fired at Dane and assumed he’d killed him. Years later, crossing Dane’s path by chance, Daut discovered that his “victim” had survived. The starting point of their friendship. Today, even though the scars of war are deep and have left their mark in the Srebrenica region, Dane and Daut are working together to survive, in a difficult economic situation which still divides Bosnia, two decades after the war.


Sead KREŠEVLJAKOVIĆ was born in Sarajevo in 1973. Between 2007 and 2012, he was a producer and editor in the documentary department of TV Sarajevo, while also making his way as a freelance. Since 2012 he has worked as a producer in the programme department of Al Jazeera Balkans.

Emir ZUMBUL KAPETANOVIĆ was born in Sarajevo in 1981, where he studied at the Theatre Arts Academy. In 2008 he created a production company Alhemija Film, through which he makes documentary and experimental films.

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MARE NOSTRO

55 minutes, 2016
Director: Andrea GADALETA CALDAROLA (Italy)
Production: Andrea GADALETA CALDAROLA, Rosanna RIZZI (Italy)

Molfetta, a town in southern Italy, overlooking the Adriatic Sea.
Here the sea is not just a background for the tourist postcards – over the centuries the sea has shaped the town’s social ecosystem and economy through fishing and maritime commerce.
“Mare Nostro” weaves together the voices of fishermen, fragments of memory, into an oral history of a place: the port of Molfetta.

Andrea GADALETA CALDAROLA was born in 1979. He is a documentary director and editor. He also works as a film instructor.
His credits include three documentaries: “Mare nostro” (2016), “Destination de Dieu” (2014) and “Nomos” (2012).

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L’HÉRITAGE DE FRANCO, LES ENFANTS VOLÉS D’ESPAGNE

70 minutes, 2016
Director: Inga BREMER (Germany)
Production: Soilfilms, BR Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte (Germany)

How can a person construct her life when she has been robbed of her identity and her past?
At the death of her adopted father, Alicia discovered she was sold at birth by her biological mother. She appealed to a police forensic expert, Jaume. Armed with samples of the young woman’s DNA, Jaume criss-crossed Spain in the footsteps of other children abducted from republican families during the Franco period – an estimated 30,000 of them, though this figure may well be too low. Traffic in children continued until the 1980’s, and bringing a real fortune to some. A documentary about a sordid state issue, still taboo, and about fighting against the law of silence.

Inga BREMER was born in Germany in 1980.
After travelling abroad, she began her studies at a drama school in Cologne, later joining Baden-Württemberg’s Film Academy, where she became a film-director in 2004.
In 2010 her film “Goodbye Kutti”, was nominated for the German Human Rights award. After a year studying at the International Film School in Cuba, she made “Perfect Girls”, financed by MFG Baden-Württemberg.
Inga is one of four founding members of the production company Soilfilms, through which she produces and directs documentaries, commercials and drama films.

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LES ANNÉES DE PLOMB, UNE TRAGÉDIE ITALIENNE

53 minutes, 2016
Director: Nicolas GLIMOIS (France)
Production: Sunset Presse, with support from France Télévisions (France)

From the late 1960’s to the 1980’s, Italy was plagued with social unrest, massacres, assassinations and kidnappings. It was a time of extremism, both right-wing and left-wing, unhealthy acquaintances, gnawing suspicions of criminal complicity – possibly initiated by certain sectors of the state apparatus (police, secret services) and foreign powers.
From the explosion in Milan’s Piazza Fontana in December 1969 to the massacre at Bologna station in August 1980 and the assassination of former prime minister Aldo Moro in May 1978, violence struck Italy as nowhere else in Western Europe.
A low-intensity civil war and an open wound for Italy, which, 40 years later, is still struggling to unravel the spiders’ web of responsibility.

Nicolas GLIMOIS is an author, film director and script-writer, born in Quimper (Brittany) in 1968.
He has a degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Bordeaux, from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Rheims and has a Masters in Media at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris.
Winner of the Albert Londres award in 1999 for “Les Blanchisseuses de Magdalen”, he has made several documentaries and TV reports, including: “L’Affaire des Poisons” (2011), “L’argent sale, le poison de la finance” (2012), “Paris 2014: coulisses d’une élection” (2014), “Steve Jobs – Bill Gates: le hippie et le geek” (2014), “Les enfants du péché” (2015) and “Le Val-de-Grâce, l’hôpital de la République” (2015).

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ALGER, LA MECQUE DES RÉVOLUTIONNAIRES

56 minutes, 2016
Director: Ben SALAMA (France)
Production: Electron Libre Productions, Version Originale, Arte France (France)

From the early 1960’s to the mid-1970’s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries around the world.
Successive presidents, Ahmed Ben Bella then Houari Boumedienne, made Algiers a place of welcome for those fighting against colonial or racial oppression.
Algiers the White became Algiers the Red. The internationalist Che Guevara established a base here for his guerilla activities in Africa. Eldridge Cleaver, the Afro-American leader, made it a centre for the world-wide spread of the Black Panther Party.
During this period, Algiers was known as the Revolutionaries’ Mecca.

Born in Algeria, French author and director Ben SALAMA arrived in France at the age of 20 and joined the film section of IDHEC in 1973. As a young film critic for Film Français, he rapidly moved into journalism, for many years working freelance before joining France 3.
His work as film-maker reflects his personal history, whether it be his immigrant parents arriving in France or the place of Islam as he knew it in Algeria in the 1960’s. He has drawn from that history a series of reflections and published works such as “Au Nom de l’Islam: Enquête sur une religion instrumentalisée”, published in 2009; and films like “Une Histoire algérienne”, produced for France 5 in 2012.
He has also made the following documentaries: “Nasser, du rêve au désastre” (53 minutes 2016); “1954, la fin d’un monde” (52 minutes 2013), in collaboration with Benjamin Stora; “Naissance d’une nation” (52 minutes, 2013), in collaboration with Thomas Marie.