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URTI : lauréats du 28ème Grand prix international du documentaire d’auteur
Le jury du 28ème Grand prix international du documentaire d’auteur de l’Urti a décerné son palmarès hier dans le cadre du Festival de télévision de Monte-Carlo. La cérémonie s’est déroulée à l’hôtel Hermitage, entrecoupée de chansons interprétées par Pierre Barouh (Un homme et une femme...). Alain Massé, directeur exécutif de l’Urti, a proclamé les résultats. 123 documentaires étaient en compétition présentés par 88 chaînes. Gaston Kaboré, le réalisateur burkinabé, président du jury, était entouré de représentants issus de quatorze nationalités. Le Grand prix est revenu à Corridor, de Boris Despodov, présenté par YLE (Finlande) ; la médaille d’argent a été attribué à Bruma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country, d’Anders Ostergaard, présenté par WDR (Allemagne). Une autre planète, de Ferenc Moldovanyi, présenté par MTV (Hongrie) a reçu la médaille de bronze. Le prix Martine Filippi de la découverte est revenu à La vie sur l’île de Jeung, de Hyoung-Suk Kim, présenté par KBS (Corée du Sud).
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Enfance - DOCUMENTAIRES
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Les damnés de la Terre
Hubert Heyrendt
Mis en ligne le 20/11/2008
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Sans parole, sinon celle de ceux qu'il filme, "Another Planet" dresse un état des lieux accablant de l'enfance maltraitée.
Un documentaire brillant signé Ferenc Moldovanyi.
A découvrir ce soir sur La une à 22 h 00.
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Si ce jeudi 20 novembre est la Journée internationale des droits de l'enfant, 2008 est l'année de la Terre. Ferenc Moldovanyi parvient à mȇler les deux thématiques dans "Another Planet", brillant documentaire tourné aux quatre coins de la planète durant deux ans, de 2005 à 2007. A travers sept histoires, narrées par leurs jeunes protagonistes, le film dresse un constat accablant de l'état du monde en ce début de XXIesiècle, et en particulier du sort réservé aux enfants dès que l'on sort du confort de l'Occident.
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Sept visages, sept enfants, vivant au Congo-Brazzaville, en Equateur ou au Cambodge, différents et pourtant réunis par un mȇme mal, celui d'une enfance bafouée, d'une innocence écrasée. Les rȇves de ces filles et de ces garçons n'ont rien à voir avec ceux de nos chères petites tȇtes blondes; les leurs ressemblent à des cauchemars. Ainsi cette petite Indienne qui raconte avoir rȇvé que la Terre s'enflammait et qu'elle devait sans cesse courir en avant pour dénicher un refuge. Refuge qu'elle ne peut espérer trouver auprès de sa mère, dormant du matin au soir et lui imposant non seulement toutes les tâches ménagères mais aussi d'aller vendre chewing-gums et cigarettes dans la rue une fois la nuit tombée. Réduite au rang d'esclave, la gamine apparaît résignée. |
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Cette résignation est sans doute ce qui réunit l'ensemble de ces enfants. Qu'ils fouillent des montagnes de déchets pour un dollar par jour, qu'ils soient enfants-soldats ou filles des rues (oů prostitution et viol se confondent), tous n'ont d'autre choix que d'accepter leur sort pour survivre dans leur environnement hostile. Ces histoires, on les connaît toutes. Pourtant, le film se révèle bouleversant par sa capacité à conserver leur dignité à ses témoins.
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La grande réussite de "Another Planet" est en effet de nous faire vivre ces destins tragiques sans jamais tomber dans le voyeurisme. Sans voix off, le documentaire se contente de donner la parole à ses personnages. Leur parole se suffit à elle-mȇme, se passant de tout commentaire. D'autant que le documentariste hongrois, issu de l'univers du 7e Art, confère à son film une dimension cinématographique apportant une distance nécessaire, sans jamais pour autant réduire l'impact de l'émotion. La lumière étudiée, les images magnifiques et souvent saisissantes du directeur photo Tibor Mathé illustrent le propos des enfants, nous plongeant dans leur quotidien, souvent sordide. Tandis que le compositeur Tibor Szemzö propose une partition tout en finesse, aux notes cuivrées, conférant à l'ensemble une dimension de profondeur et de gravité.
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Par son esthétique travaillée, par son propos sobre et universel, "Another Planet" ne se contente pas de livrer un cri d'alarme, il acquiert une dimension spirituelle, poussant le spectateur à réfléchir à un état de fait inacceptable, à regarder en face l'état de la condition humaine en 2008.
Cet article provient de http://www.lalibre.be
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Another planet: les métaphores de l’enfance exploitée
Lucie Poirier
Lançant un cri de cœur, exprimant l’exaspération sincère, il m’a dit spontanément : « La situation actuelle est injuste, insoutenable, insupportable»
Déterminé par sa conviction, Ferenc Moldaványi a consacré 4 ans à l’aboutissement de son film Another Planet. Il a dépassé le genre documentaire, le reportage journalistique en proposant une évidence métaphorique, un constat poétisé.
À travers la planète, il a filmé des enfants, généralement sans famille, ou exploités par leur mère lorsqu’elle est présente, contraints à gagner de l’argent dans des conditions d’exploitation.
Pendant des semaines, parfois des mois, il a fait des démarches grâce à des ONG, l’Unicef, des aidants sur place avant l’arrivée de l’équipe technique.
Il a voulu donner un titre qui laisse place à la méditation et à la réaction, il souhaite que chacun se fasse son idée.
Pour signifier l’universalité de la situation, dans le film, il ne précise pas les endroits où il a capté la sordide réalité d’enfants obligés de gagner leur vie ou forcés par leur mère à rapporter de l’argent.
Tous ces enfants travaillent dans des conditions risquées, des contextes dangereux. Aucun d’eux ne souriait, sauf les enfants soldats. «Le phénomène est partout, affirme Ferenc Moldaványi. Je ne voulais pas dire c’est à tel endroit parce qu’un peu plus loin c’est la même chose».
Il a évité d’être critique : «Je n’ai pas voulu forcer les idéologies».
Travelling, gros plans, panoramiques, rafales, branches dénudées, la tempête s’aggrave. Puis, un calme croissant de lune, le chant des grillons, un shaman devant un feu dans une grotte. L’indien demande : Make the workd as it once was». Caméra à l’épaule, captation de rochers dans la forêt. Panorama d’un lac.
Changement total. La ville. La nuit. Une enfant seule vend des cigarettes et de la gomme. Elle raconte ses rêves et sa peur de sa mère qui la bat quand elle ne vend pas assez. De plus, elle est l’employée domestique de sa mère, la servante de ses frères. (1)
Encore des gros plans, cette fois ils cadrent le rasage des crânes d’enfants et révèlent les plaies ouvertes des petits garçons noirs. Ils demandent du travail, offrent leurs services dans le marché. Il n’y a rien de net à cet endroit où ils lavent la vaisselle, hachent de la viande, tranchent des légumes, cuisent des aliments. Tout se fait dans la promiscuité. Ils mangent dans la rue avec leurs mains. Ils peuvent avoir droit à un sac d’eau froide pour la boire ou s’arroser. L’un d’eux a été accusé d’être sorcier, d’avoir ainsi tué sa mère. De plus en plus, des familles se débarrassent de leurs enfants en les accusant de sorcellerie.
Des enfants transportent des briques de boue. Jamais ils ne parlent, même entre eux. Ils travaillent. La pluie est torrentielle, il faut couvrir les briques avec des bâches de plastique.
Portrait d’une fillette déviergée à 8 ans sous l’effet d’une drogue. Depuis, elle se prostitue dans la rue. Long, très long travelling de ces rues la nuit. Des hommes se droguent, une prostituée raconte avoir été violée par 4 policiers.
Une ville, un garçon cire des souliers, assis sur le sol. Gros plans de ses mains, avec la brosse, le linge. Il marche, propose ses services aux clients. Il caresse et nourrit un pigeon.
La nuit, lampe au front, des enfants fouillent les ballots d’ordures en risquant d’être frappés par le bulldozer. Une jeune fille raconte qu’elle fouille de 7 heures le matin à 5 heures le soir. Elle cherche du plastique, du métal qu’elle revend pour 1$ par jour. Elle achète le riz pour sa famille qui mourrait de faim sans elle. Elle a peur du bulldozer mais les enfants doivent être téméraires et se précipiter vers les amoncellements, les grimper; parfois, certains tombent. Elle raconte ses rêves et sa vie; les enfants qui refusent de travailler sont battus, ceux qui ne rapportent pas assez le sont aussi par leurs mères. Gros plans des visages sales, des vêtements tachés, la misère.
Les enfants enrôlés de force sont entraînés, ils semblent jouer mais les balles sont vraies, ainsi que les morts, tout comme les viols. Ils chantent et dansent certes, en mettant leurs armes en valeur.
Les crises écologiques, les guerres civiles, les génocides nombreux laissent des séquelles dont les peuples ne se relèvent pas. Le film interpelle à la lumière des faits captés sur place.
Moldaványi a varié ses mouvements de caméras, serré ses cadrages, prolongé ses plans pour induire un autre rythme, une attention différente et pour suggérer un nouveau sens des valeurs.
Régulièrement dans son film, il insère les images superbes d’une nature sauvage, inviolée. Il a voulu ce contraste «pour montrer la nature, les Indiens, ce qui disparaît avec l’ordre du monde capitaliste».
Moldaványi a su utiliser les procédés artistiques du cinéma d’auteur pour montrer l’exploitation des enfants. Ses techniques poétisent le film, ramène au sens de la vie. Son rêve était de filmer les rêves des enfants dont l’existence est un cauchemar et il l’a fait avec un langage filmique délibérément lyrique.
La poésie recèle plusieurs possibilités de significations, le titre du film Another Planet peut donc être interprété de diverses façons; l’une d’elles rappellent une citation d’Aldous Huxley : «Comment savez-vous si la Terre n’est pas l’enfer d’une autre planète?».
Another Planet : Réalisateur : Ferenc Moldaványi Scénariste :Ferenc Moldaványi
Photographie : Tibor Máthé Montage : Anna Kornis Hongrie - Finlande - Belgique
2008 / Couleur / 96 min
Présenté lors du Festival des films du Monde 2008 à Montréal dans le cadre de la série Documentaires du monde
www.ffm-montreal.org
(1) Sur terranova vous pouvez lire mon article sur les Restaveks d’Haïti, j’y mentionne que selon l’organisation Internationale du Travail, celui en domesticité est une des pires formes de contraventions à la Convention de l’OIT.
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Réseau International humaniste : Rencontre à 10h00 avec le cinéaste Ferenc Moldovanyi "Another Planet"
LE 27 AOUT 2008 - 06:00:20 AM
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - 27 août 2008) - Le Réseau International humaniste (RIH) de l'UQAM invite les étudiants et la population à venir rencontrer le cinéaste Ferenc Moldovanyi de passage à Montréal dans le cadre du Festival des Films du Monde aujourd'hui à 10h00 au local DS-2129 - pavillon Alexandre de Sève 320 rue Sainte-Catherine Est.
Le film est présenté au Cinéma Quartier Latin : aujourd'hui à 12h20 au cinéma Quartier Latin.
"Another Planet"
Loin, très loin de l'Europe danubienne, le cinéaste Ferenc Moldoványi a filmé pendant deux ans des enfants au Mexique, au Cambodge, au Congo et en Equateur. Un concentré de "condition humaine" dans les coins les plus démunis de la planète. A Quito, un cireur de chaussures haut comme trois pommes travaille sept jours sur sept. A Brazzaville, une gamine de 12 ans, prénommée Merveille, se prostitue depuis l'âge de huit ans. Au Cambodge, des mômes de 4 ans façonnent des briques à longueur de journée. Enfants exploités, prostitués ou soldats... La force du film "Une autre planète" réside dans les images brutes et absentes de tout commentaire. Le réalisateur a simplement demandé aux gamins de raconter leurs rêves, d'où ressort une solitude extrême. En contrepoint s'intercalent des images poétiques des Indiens Tarahumaras, peuple du Mexique qui a conservé ses croyances, ses traditions, et qui apparait comme un paradis perdu. (extrait tiré du magazine Rue89 http://www.rue89.com/2008/02/05/budapest-se-fait-des-films).
POUR PLUS D'INFORMATIONS, COMMUNIQUEZ AVEC:
Source : Anne Farrell
514-886-4858
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NOUVEAU FILM de FERENC MOLDOVANYI:
UNE AUTRE PLANETE
www.another-planet.eu
 "ENFANTS - Kosovo 2000" encore sur Sundance
" Enfants - Kosovo 2000" sera rediffusé par Sundance Channel aux Etats-Unis en mars.
Voir le programme ci-dessous :
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Dimanche 03.06.2005
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Vendredi 03.11.2005
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Lundi 03.21.2005
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Jeudi 03.31.2005
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Jeudi 03.31.2005
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Vendredi 04.01.2005
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Une Autre Planète (Another Planet)
documentaire de création par Ferenc Moldoványi
Participation confirmée jusqu'au 14 janvier 2005 par les établissements suivants :
Fonds d'EU :
Fonds publiques :
- MMKA - Fondation nationale hongroise pour le cinéma
Chaines (coproduction, préachat) :
- MTV - Télévision hongroise (coproduction)
- ONCE TV - Canal 11, - Le Mexique (coproduction)
- YLE TV2 - Teema, Finlande (coproduction)
- RTBF - Télévision belge française (pré-achat)
- ETV - Télévision estonienne (pré-achat)
- RTP - Télévision du Portugal (pré-achat)
- RTVSLO (Slovénie) (pré-achat)
- TVR (Roumanie) (pré-achat)
D'autres :
- Kodak Hongrie
- Kodak Cinelabs Hongrie
- Studio de post-production Focus Fox
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Award Ceremony Speech
 We had a chance to witness a very interesting encounter while watching the contestants' films made for One Minutes Jr. The encounter of a form requiring a very to-the-point expression on film and creative attitude with a young fresh spirited generation sensitive to the problems of the world. Young people in their teens made one-minute works from all over the world, Armenia, Iceland, Moldavia, Sweden and Kyrgyzstan just to mention some.
All credit goes to UNICEF, the European Cultural Fund and the Sandberg Institute for this two year initiative, the One Minutes Festival opening its gates wide for teenagers who have met the challenge and tested their own talent with this demanding but exciting task. There are certainly some for whom making a film has been a wonderful adventure and there are others for whom it meant the beginning of a serious - and maybe long-term-relationship.Whichever the case, I believe that it is essential that young people express their views, feelings and standpoint, that they explore the world through one of the most important tools of communication: motion pictures.
The films competed in two categories "Best of World" with 34 and "Inside Out" with 32 contestants.The pre-selection - of about 200 works - was performed by BBC and Swedish Television. Extra thanks for the great work they have done!
 The Jury did not have an easy job choosing the seven filmmakers for each category that is the nominees of this extremely manifold team. Finally when selecting the nominees we aimed at preserving and reflecting the richness of approach, message and filmmakers' attitude. Fourteen young filmmakers from ten countries are the finalists for the two main awards.
The films of both categories have shown proof of an astonishingly acute sense of social justice and justice on the whole, an honest, critical and responsible attitude to reality. They have spoken up for tolerance, social inclusion and important human values such as tolerance and pacifism expressing demand for a violence-free world. To my mind the seven talented nominees of both categories are winners, as they are all here to present their films, and we are winners as well to have the chance of seeing them.
However, as the rules are rules, we had to choose, not an easy task: Twice seven nominees and two of them shall become the award winners of the Best of World and Inside Out categories in 2004. How does an apple compare to grapes? How does one compare bugs making love in a condom a very witty anti-AIDS work to another film against racism and social segregation?
Or let's take a work cleverly calling for children's rights, full of humour and another very expressive one evoking a night in an orphanage full of anxiety. And there is the smart film against smoking and how about the lyrical work touching upon the subject of supporting the seriously ill. And we still had to decide:
I can hear a voice, a child's voice in the night, a silent prayer:
" Dear angel, sent to me by God
I am asking you to teach me how to do good.
I am small, make me big, I am weak make me strong
Please save me from evil.."
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".. Dear Lord in heavens.." This is a voice in an orphanage.
 The winner of the Inside Out category of One Minutes Jr. 2004 is:
Tatiana Panait with her film "Sleeping at the orphanage"
Download the film: http://www.theoneminutesjr.org/mmmcms/public/index.nof?thissection_id=10&movie_id=264
The film operates with simple tools and a very powerful atmosphere. The way it speaks up against hurting the children, the weak, defenceless ones and against senseless violence leaves a deep impression. Although this prayer is said in an orphanage it echoes in many parts of the world where children suffer abuse. This prayer is said for them too. A very talented and very important work the images of which won't leave us.
And now we come to announcing the winner of the "Best of World" category of One Minutes Jr.
There were lyrical moments, films full of momentum, a fresh look, powerful and dynamic shots. There was warmth and sarcasm in these talented works. From "Caroussel" trough "Revolution" to "Chalkpainting" from "Maffiozi" to "Scars" and "Lost Communication", and "Blip!".
And the winner of the "Best of World" category is:
 Narieh Daneghyan's film "Chalkpainting"
Download the film: http://www.theoneminutesjr.org/mmmcms/public/index.nof?thissection_id=10&movie_id=319
A beautiful lyrical film with puritanical artistic tools and a convincing knowledge of the profession conveying a metaphorical message with talent. Let's leave the islands of play and the possibility for self-expression untouched and not only on the big city pavements but all around our Planet as well. I believe this is the mission, One Minutes Jr. festival wishes to achieve and that's the secret of its success. Let's preserve these peaceful islands moreover let's create some more!
I thank you for your attention and my heartfelt congratulations to all the nominees and the winners.
Ferenc Moldovanyi (Amsterdam, 21 November 2004
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"Children, Kosovo 2000" Again on Sundance
Our documentary "Children, Kosovo 2000" will be broadcast again by Sundance Channel in the USA in August. The successful US television premiere of the film was in February. The work can be seen at five different times in August. See the schedule below:
- Mon Aug 2 12:00P on Sundance Channel
- Thu Aug 19 08:30A on Sundance Channel
- Mon Aug 23 03:00P on Sundance Channel
- Fri Aug 27 06:05A on Sundance Channel
- Fri Aug 27 05:00P on Sundance Channel
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 "Children, Kosovo 2000" in Rio de Janeiro
There is still international interest shown in our film "Children, Kosovo 2000" made three years ago. Following the very successful US television premiere on Sundance Channel in February the film has been invited to the Eyes Wide Open Festival in Rio to be held in August. Since its world premiere in Berlin this will be the 52nd festival participation of the film.
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 The Danish Red Cross will make "Children - Kosovo 2000" available to schools in Denmark.
The Danish Red Cross will make "Children" available to schools in Denmark. It also supplies rich complementary application material to the film such as historical and pedagogical guidelines.
More info
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 MON 15
It's been several years since images of war-torn Kosovo have made the evening news. For the victims of the violent ethnic spat between the Serbs and Albanians, the memory still burns freshly in their minds. On March 15, their recollections of the 1999 atrocities can be seen in Children: Kosovo 2000, a stirring film by Hungarian filmmaker Ferenc Moldovanyi. Interviewing a group of children a year after they survived the horrors, Moldovanyi paints a grim portrait of what happens when revenge gets carried too far. Children: Kosovo 2000 shows at 9 p.m. at Cinema Paradiso (503 SE Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale). Call 954-525-3456.
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SUNDANCE CHANNEL:
Monday February 9, 2004
PREMIERING TONIGHT AT 9PM:
CHILDREN: KOSOVO 2000
directed by Ferenc Moldovanyi
The brutal ethnic fighting between Serbs and Albanians that consumed Kosovo has disappeared from today's front pages, but its witnesses will be scarred for generations. A handful of children who survived the 1999 horrors provide articulate testimony for Hungarian filmmaker Ferenc Moldovanyi in an incredible document filmed less than a year after the events which outraged the world. A searing, unforgettable portrait of resilience in the face of hardship, and a chilling examination of how evil perpetuates itself in endless cycles of revenge. TV14 (AC)
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Link: http://www.sundancechannel.com/docday/?ixContent=5940
WHERE DID YOU GROW UP? HOW DID YOU THINK IT INFLUENCED YOU AS A FILMMAKER?
I grew up in Debrecen, which is the second largest town of Hungary. It was rather a boring and not a very exciting place for me but from the age of ten I visited my grandfather, as often as it was possible, who immigrated to France and lived in Paris. The sixties and seventies was quite a strange era of contradictions in Central Europe with a stifling and oppressive atmosphere. Paris opened up new vistas and dimensions. Maybe the immense contrast between these two worlds in those years could have an influence on me. There was one thing I realized and was certain about, which was that I had to leave my hometown as soon as possible and it was how it happened.
WHAT WAS THE FIRST DOCUMENTARY YOU REMEMBER SEEING, AND HOW DID IT AFFECT YOU?
In my teens in the seventies fiction films mainly influenced me. For example when I was sixteen Ingmar Bergman's black and white masterpiece WILD STRAWBERRIES touched me deeply then. I remember watching it several times over in a dirty little movie house. In those days newsreels were shown before the main feature, in which the various achievements of communism were shown such as the opening of a new factory and official ceremonies etc. At the same time the documentaries of the Hungarian Bila Balazs Studio showed another reality such as Gyula Gazdag's intelligent and finely sarcastic film THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER. An important Hungarian experimental documentary was Gabor Body's PRIVATE HISTORY. There is also a short film, the images of which have been with me for a long time, made by Herz Frank, which is TEN YEARS OLDER.
WHICH PERSON, LIVING OR DEAD, WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO INTERVIEW, AND WHY?
I prefer having a conversation to making interviews. One can start a conversation independently of time and place either by opening up a book by Spinoza, conversing in your mind, or when popping down to your local grocery. I think we can learn from both.
WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT TOPICS THAT NEED TO BE COVERED IN DOCUMENTARY TODAY?
Our world is brutally unjust and merciless. Unfortunately, there are numerous topics that should be covered by documentaries. At the same time what interests me in documentary making is creative cinematographic form, through which one can kindle thoughts and emotions, which stay with the viewer for a long time. I think also that documentaries can be a tool of getting to know the world and human nature in the concrete and philosophical sense. So I consider it important that the images of our reality should be preserved in our common consciousness.
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 International Documentary Association:
Monday, February 9
Sundance Channel
Children: Kosovo 2000. Filmed in spring 2000, this moving documentary focuses on Albanian and Serbian children, who remember the parents, siblings and other family members killed-- sometimes before their own eyes--during the war in Kosovo. Winner of several awards, including the Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature at the 2002 WorldFest Houston and Best Documentary Feature at the Arizona International Film Festival. Dir: Ferenc Moldoványi.
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 Monday 02/09/04
9pm Sundance
Children: Kosovo 2000 (2001 BEL-HUN): If you need a distraction from fluff and fantasy - and who among us doesn't yearn for a brisk punch to the gut every now and then? - look no further. Hungarian documentarian Ferenc Moldovanyi went to Kosovo only a year after the horrors of Serbia's pocket genocide and interviewed children who had lived through the dark days of 1999. In equal parts bitter, depressing, and life-affirming, this is a worthy companion piece to other genocide documentaries such as The Last Just Man and the forthcoming S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine.
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/tv/tv020104.asp
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  CHILDREN - Kosovo 2000 and The Way on DVD
Filmhu, news, 11 December 2003
Ferenc Moldoványi's two films recently published on DVD are available in the Budapest Writers' Bookstore. The DVD publications of "The Way" and "Children, Kosovo 2000" supported by the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation and published by Engram Film are not only available in Budapest but the major chains around the country. They can be loaned from video rental stores in Hungary.
Both DVDs have English, French and Hungarian subtitles and they also include extras such as biographies of the filmmaker, the composer and the cinematographer and also some stills made during the shoot of "The Way". A booklet is also supplied with the DVDs, which has the films festival career, prizes and the international press review. Ferenc Moldoványi has informed our website (www.magyar.film.hu) that DVDs published in 700 copies so far, have a Dolby Stereo soundtrack so Tibor Szemző's music can be enjoyed in an excellent quality. The DVDs can be enjoyed across borders as they were marketed with an all-region code and this way there are no limitations to ordering them online from abroad from the official website of Engram Film (www.engram.hu).
The two films were shown at eighty festivals on five continents and have won sixteen prizes. They were also broadcast by prestigious television channels and "Children, Kosovo 2000" will be screened by the Sundance Channel in the USA in February. At present the director is working on the preparation of his new feature film titled "Another Planet" planned to be shot on three continents.
Source: http://www.magyar.film.hu
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 NEW PROJECT "ANOTHER PLANET" by Ferenc Moldoványi
The Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation has decided to support our new project, "Another Planet", with aprox. 140 000 USD. Kodak Hungary has confirmed its intention to give important suppport to the project as well. We hope to start work on our new feature creative documentary in 2004.
Our project, which will be shot on three continents, may count on significant international interest and we trust that with the help of our international co-production partners our film will come out in the cinemas by 2005.
We would like to thank the support of the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation and the interest and collaboration of our present and future partners.
If you need further information do not hesitate to contact us.
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DOCAVIV ON HUNGARIAN TELEVISION
  The half hour television broadcast about the 5th DocAviv - Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival shot and directed by Ferenc Moldoványi will be broadcast in the Mediamix monthly slot on Hungarian Television channel one 15th June (Sunday) at 23.45 CET.
Mediamix- Editor in chief: Ms Judit Kooper
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19.FESTROIA 
Ferenc Moldoványi has received an invitation to the 19th Festroia International Film Festival as a member of the Official Jury. The prestigious event will take place between the 5th - 16th of June in Setubal (Portugal).
www.festroia.pt
CHILDREN KOSOVO 2000 in NEW YORK 
Children, Kosovo 2000 wil be screened at the Illuminated Voices event jointly organised by Sundance Institute and MoMA.
The New York premiere will be held 26th (Saturday) April at Gramercy Theatre, Manhattan.
The Gramercy, located at 127 East 23rd Street. NY, NY 10010 between Park and Lexington Avenues.
The director-producer Ferenc Moldoványi will be present at the roundtable and the screening of the film following it.
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THE VILLAGE VOICE
Truths and Reconciliation
Foreign Correspondence
by Anthony Kaufman
April 23 - 29, 2003
'Sundance at Moma: Illuminated Voices
April 25 through May 2, at MOMA Gramercy
From Long Night's Journey Into Day to Children Underground to Daughter From Danang, the nonfiction cinema supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund exposes social injustices and personal tragedies from around the globe. In "Sundance at MOMA: Illuminated Voices"—the first of an annual collaboration between the two institutions—the best films continue the tradition of resonant political and emotional work.
Take Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez's The Passion of María Elena, a poetic account of one indigenous woman's fight against prejudice in northwestern Mexico. After her three-year-old son is hit and killed by a truck driven by a "white" Mexican, María Elena seeks retribution, turning to both her local Raramuri community in the Sierra Taramura canyon and the city government of neighboring Chihuahua. María Elena's pursuit provides narrative drive, but the film's strength comes from its sensitivity and luminous imagery. When justice finally arrives for María Elena, it is on terms that defy Western sensibilities.
According to program director Diane Weyermann, María Elena epitomizes the type of project the fund aims to help. "Because it is very filmic with untraditional narrative storytelling," she says, describing the doc's formal mirroring of the Raramuri spiritual views on death and destiny, "it would not have been financed by television." The other truly cinematic documentary is Ferenc Moldoványi's Children (Kosovo, 2000), which alternates lyrical visual passages with utterly devastating testimonials from Albanian and Serbian children about their murdered fathers and raped siblings.
Such divided communities dominate the selection. Anat Even and Ada Ushpiz's distressing Detained chronicles three Palestinian widows in Hebron who inhabit an apartment building controlled by Israeli soldiers (and literally share a roof with their snipers), while Amit Goren's Golan interviews Israeli settlers in the Golan Heights. Both films show, at best, an underlying mistrust between the two peoples, and at worse, a blazing hatred. Rwanda's situation appears similarly dire. Anne Aghion's Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda looks at a post-genocide community-based tribunal reminiscent of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but the bitter, traumatized participants experience little truth or reconciliation.
The increasing ideological gap within Iran is explored in two films. Maziar Bahari's And Along Came a Spider is a collection of chilling interviews with a man who murdered 16 prostitutes (he calls himself an "anti-street-woman activist") and shocking conversations with friends and family who support his actions. For a more general cultural survey Thierry Michel's Iran: Veiled Appearances documents religious fanaticism side by side with university students denouncing the Islamic revolution as a "disaster." The most sensationalistic of the bunch, John Friedman and Eric Nadler's Stealing the Fire spins a worthwhile investigation of centrifuge technology and nuclear proliferation into inflammatory agitprop insinuating a German-Iraqi plot against Israel.
For a little hope, turn to Belkacem Hadjadj's A Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbès, which follows the only female taxi driver in the violent Algerian city. Despite rampant sexism and death threats, the charismatic, fearless widow and mother of three keeps on cabbing. And then there's Georgie Girl, a portrait of New Zealander Georgina Beyer, the world's first transgender person to hold national office. Aided by stellar '70s stock footage and campy '80s video of the drag diva, director Annie Goldson charts the personable Maori member of Parliament's inspiring rise from cabaret queen and prostitute to heralded local leader. "Imagine putting a transsexual in our [legislature]," Weyermann notes. It might solve much of the world's divisiveness.
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 International Jury Awards of Docaviv -
5th Tel-Aviv International Documentary Film Festival:
Best Film Award
Balseros
directors Carles Bosch and Josep M. Domenech.
Balseros follows a group of Cuban running away from their lives in Havana, risking their lives in improvised rafts, to join their families in America, and experience the American dream. The characters were observed throughout the film with great intimacy. As a jury of three film makers, we were highly impressed by the way the authors captured events as they happened in real time over eight years. The makers of the film elevated this observation into a memorable cinematic experience for the big screen. We felt that the strength of the film lay in its exploration of cultural choices and self identity without ever preaching simple answers - whether it is better to be lying on a beach in Cuba or driving a car in the USA.
Honorary Mention
Iran, Veiled Appearances
director Thierry Michel.
Iran, Veiled Appearances is a film that takes us to the heart of a profound cultural clash at very important watershed in our times. The film contains a world of imagery, used cinematically and metaphorically to convey contemporary events. The film maker succeeded in creating a complete dramatic arc using powerful episodes, put together in an intelligent and beautiful manner.
Certificate of Merit:
Awarded to Herz Frank (Flashback ) for his contribution in the field of documentary filmmaking. Flashback
International Jury:
Paul Jenkins (England),
Erez Laufer (Israel),
Ferenc Moldoványi (Hungary)
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ONE-MINUTES JUNIOR: Award Ceremony Speech
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