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Festival 2016 OWR9
Bucureşti, 2016
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Films without Sweeteners. Experience without Borders.

Borders are last year’s nightmare. The collective fantasy is poisoned with images of European frontiers collapsing, of hundreds of thousands of refugees passing through barbed-wire fences, alongside a mounting fear of an economical crises that, pretty much like terrorism, acknowledges no borders.
The core of our 2016 program, through its three main sections, is closely linked to all the above-mentioned anguishes. While mass-media depict these issues in black and white, we provide context and present their nuances and shades. And this is how we will glimpse beyond the borders, to see that the old continent mourns and shivers, but preserves its unique charm and the straightforwardness of the values that kept it alive. Or that migration has always existed, and in the Middle East people still have fun, or love each other, even if around them it raves and storms.
Yet, nothing is more ghastly than what the human being does to his own kind. In other four sections we gathered films talking about injustice of judicial systems and about violence against women, about the absurdity of the “working market” and about the cruelty of institutions for people with mental disabilities. Bitter as they might seem, the selected films account for a necessary antidote to all those evils.
Documentary, as a film genre, is resting on edges, and lays there, where fiction borders journalism, where the experimental borders sound civic-mindedness. This being in-between borders, specific to non-fiction film, is perhaps the reason why documentary is so well-equipped to talk about frontiers.
The genre itself essentially migrated towards ever more hybrid territories. The power of documentary genre resides in its mobility hard to constrain by definitions, in the fact that it swiftly absorbs the most cutting edge online tendencies, as it ventured in the landscapes of video games and already took off in the dizzyingly unknown space of virtual reality. Through our festival’s events, we also tried to paint a comprehensive portrait of this emerging adventures beyond any sort of established or expected borders.
The fears and uncertainties in which we dwell are to be reassured by the magic of film, by the affection documentary makers show for the people whose lives they record, by the compassion they trigger in every single one of us. And not only films are at stake here: there are experiences and encounters that we envisaged around this selection. And thanks to all of the above, at least for one week, we will gather our strengths to overcome fears, even when it seems there is nothing left to lean on.

Dare to cross the border, and come on our side!

Alexandru Solomon
Mădălina Roşca

sections
EuroPains ... 10 Movies
Exodus ... 10 Movies
From the Middle East, with Love ... 9 Movies
Rights and Wrongs ... 5 Movies
Hardcore ... 5 Movies
Work ... 4 Movies
Cuckoo’s Nest ... 3 Movies
Delicatessen ... 6 Movies
Movies
9 Days - From My Window in Aleppo
Floor van der Meulen, Thomas Vroege
13', 2015
The Netherlands, Syria
A Flickering Truth
Pietra Brettkelly
91', 2015
New Zealand, Afghanistan
A Syrian Love Story
Sean McAllister
76', 2015
Uniten Kingdom
Above and Below
Nicolas Steiner
118', 2015
Switzerland, Germany
Bandage
Tuija Halttunen
8ț, 2015
Finland
Broken Land
Stéphanie Barbey, Luc Peter
75', 2014
Switzerland
Cartel Land
Matthew Heineman
98', 2015
USA, Mexic
Cecilia
Pankaj Johar
84', 2015
India, Norway
Chickpeas with Sugar
Antonio Aguilar García
10', 2015
Spain
Coups de foudre
Christophe Reyners
51', 2014
Belgium
Dancing With Maria
Ivan Gergolet
75', 2014
Italy, Argentina, Slovenia
Democracy
David Bernet
100', 2015
Germany, France
Dirty Business
Vadim Dumesh
15', 2015
Israel
Dreaming of Denmark
Michael Graversen
58', 2015
Denmark
Every Face Has a Name
Magnus Gertten
75’, 2015
Sweden
Fair Play
Tommi Rajala
28', 2015
Finland
Felvidek. Caught in Between
Vladislava Plančíková
74', 2014
Slovakia, Czech Republic
Flotel Europa
Vladimir Tomic
70', 2015
Denmark, Serbia
Free
Tomislav Zaja
73', 2015
Croatia
Greece: Days of Change
Elena Zervopoulou
78', 2014
Greece
Grozny Blues
Nicola Bellucci
104', 2015
Switzerland
Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr
Michelle Shephard, Patrick Reed
80', 2015
Canada
Haunted
Liwaa Yazji
112', 2014
Syria
I for Iran
Sanaz Azari
52', 2014
Belgium
In the Dark
Goran Stanković
60', 2014
Serbia
India's Daughter
Leslee Udwin
63', 2015
United Kingdom
Jenica & Perla
Rozálie Kohoutová
71', 2015
Czech Republic, France
Keeping Balance
Bernhard Wenger
5', 2015
Austria
Lampedusa in Winter
Jakob Brossmann
95', 2015
Austria, Italy, Switzerland
Like the Others
Constantin Wulff
96', 2015
Austria
Logbook_Serbistan
Želimir Žilnik
94', 2015
Serbia
Minor Border
Lisbeth Kovacic
24', 2015
Austria
Mos Stellarium
Karolina Markiewicz, Pascal Piron
52', 2015
Luxembourg
Motley's Law
Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
90', 2015
Denmark
My Nazi Legacy
David Evans
92', 2015
United Kingdom
Napolislam
Ernesto Pagano
75’, 2015
Italy
One Million Steps
Eva Stotz
21Ț, 2015
Germany, Turkey
Only Barberry Remains
Lia Sudermann
78', 2015
Germany
Oriented
Jake Witzenfeld
83ț, 2015
United Kingdom, Israel
Private Violence
Cynthia Hill
77', 2014
USA
Rebels
Kari Anne Moe
91', 2015
Norway, The Netherlands
Siberia in a Summer Dress
Bogdan Ştefan
16', 2015
Canada
Teaching Ignorance
Tamara Erde
51', 2015
France
The Amina Profile
Sophie Deraspe
86', 2015
Canada
The Golden Robot
Mihai Dragolea, Radu Mocanu
77', 2015
Romania
The Tentmakers of Cairo
Kim Beamish
94', 2015
Australia
Tiny Little Delicate Foreign Castles
Rob Key
11', 2014
Portugal, United Kingdom
Train to Adulthood
Klara Trencsenyi
89', 2015
Hungary
Ukrainian Sheriffs
Roman Bondarchuk
85’, 2015
Ukraine, Latvia, Germany
Under the Sun
Vitaly Mansky
105', 2015
Russia, Latvia, Germany, Czech Republic, North Korea
Vintage Sahia - Work
Studioul Alexandru Sahia
87 min, 1949-1986
Romania
Vintage Sahia: Hungary 1956
20', 1957
Romania
White Out, Black In
Adirley Queirós
93', 2014
Brazil
guests

DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS AND PROTAGONISTS

Antonio Aguilar Garcia, Ivan Gergolet, Khader Abu Seif, Kim Beamish, Klara Trencsenyi, Leslee Udwin, Lia Suderman, Liwaa Yazji, Magnus Gertten, Michael Graversen, Mihai Dragolea, Patrick Reed, Radu Mocanu, Rob Key, Sanaz Azari, Sean Mcallister, Tomislav Žaja, Tommi Rajala, Vadim Dumesh, Ville Hakonen & Jussie Sandhu, Želimir Žilnik

PARALLEL EVENTS GUESTS

Ioana Avădani, Ludo Heckman, Maciej Nowicki, Michiel Van Der Ros, Mona Nicoara, Uldis Cekulis