Highlights of Documentary Competition in 2007

December 5, 2006

DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMME

The Flickerfest documentary competition celebrates excellence in short form
documentary from around the world. The selected films in competition in 2007 are:

Documentary Program 1

WIR SIND DIR TREU (WE ARE THE FAITHFUL)
Germany/Switzerland/9 min/Video/05
Dir Michael Koch
The Swiss football team FC Basel's crowd animator gives his all for the team: he decides
what music to play at matches and choreographs the fans to peak performance. It's all
about the energy and emotion he transmits to the fans and how he directs them. Or is
it rather the game itself that the fans follow?
Best Swiss Short, Winterthur 05, le Prix Canal + Clermont Ferrand 06, Audience Award,
Documenta 06, Silver Impakt Award, Impakt 06, Toronto World Wide Short FF 06
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

A MAP WITH GAPS
Scotland/26 mins/Video/06
Dir/Prod Alice Nelson
Writ Brian Nelson
A Map With Gaps is a surreal and comic account of a journey made by the director's
father through Soviet Russia in the early '70s, in a van he built and named Supervan.
The film utilizes a combination of archive audio recordings and still photographs, drama
reconstruction and animation.
Best Intl Short - Audience Award & Winner Youth Jury, Cork Intl Film Festival 06, Best
Doco, Hull Intl Film Fest 06, Special Commendation - Short Doco, Edinburgh Intl Film
Festival 06, Runner Up Intl Doco Award, Curtas Vila Do Condo 06, Melbourne Intl Film
Festival 06

A DOLLAR FOR THE GOOD ONES
Australia/34 min/Video/06
Writ/Dir/Prod Josh Lee
Drugs, alcohol and golf balls....This documentary follows two friends, one who spends
the bulk of his time on the wrong end of a bottle of port, the other trying to deny he
has a drug habit while it spirals more and more out of control.
Best Doco, WA Screen Awards, Best Doco, NASS Film Festival, Official Selection
Revelation Intl Film Festival

EUT-ELLE ETE CRIMINELLE... (EVEN IF SHE HAD BEEN A CRIMINAL)
France/9 min/Video/06
Wri/Dir Jean-Gabriel Perrot
Prod Yves le Yaouang
France, summer 1944. The public punishment of women accused of having affairs with
Germans during the war...
International Grand Prize, Tampere, Best Film, Odense (Denmark), Best Intl Film,
Bochum (Ger), Festivals 06 include: Clermont Ferrand, Sydney Film Festival, Vienna,
Sao Paulo, Animafest Zagreb, Warsaw, Geneva, Brief Encounters UK, Edinburgh, Leeds,
Sheffield, Taipei.

CIVIL STATUS
Russia/28 min/Video/05
Wri/Dir Alina Reidnitskaya
Prod Vacheslav Telnov
The Marriage Palace. This is the place where people's destinies are crossing the
bureaucratic system. The most significant events of people's lives - weddings and
divorces, births and deaths - are registered.
Principal Prize, Oberhausen 06, Jury First Prize, Documenta, Madrid 06, Grand Prize,
Stutgart, TV Jury Prize, Vila do Condo 06.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

DURATION 106 MINS

Documentary Program 2

THE TRIBE
USA/15 min/Video/06
Dir/Prod Tiffany Shlain
Writ Tiffany Schlain & Ken Goldberg
The Tribe weaves together archival footage, graphics, animation, Barbie dioramas and
slam poetry to take audiences on an electric ride through the complex history of both
the Barbie doll and the Jewish people - from Biblical times to the present day. It asks
the question, what does it mean to be a member of any tribe in the 21st Century.
Indiewire's Sundance Critic's Choice 06, Best Short Doco, Nashville Film Festival 06,
Official Selection: Sundance, Tribeca, SilverDocs 06.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

W DRODZE (ON THE ROAD)
Poland/29 min/Video/05
Wri/Dir Maciez Adamek
Prod Radek Stye
Jozef and Basia, a homeless married couple, journey through Poland in search of a
home they could call their own. In this documentary 'road movie' they meet different
people who might help them find their own place. Their two bags contain all their
possessions.
Best Documentary, WWSFF, Toronto, Audience Award, Belo Horizonte.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

MY BROTHER VINNIE
Australia/24 min/video /06
Dir Steven McGregor
Prod Sarah Bond
Writ Aaron Pedersen
Aaron and Vinnie are two brothers who have grown up as each other's shadow. Aaron
has established a successful career as an actor, all the while being responsible for the
care of Vinnie, who has mild intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy. The journey
hasn't been easy but the brothers have finally become independent.
Best Doco, Melbourne Intl Film Festival 06

I WANT TO BE A PILOT
Spain/Mexico/11.5 min/ Video/06
Wri/Dir Diego Quemada-Diez
In the biggest slum of East Africa, a 12 yr-old boy has only one dream.
Audience Award, Los Angeles Film Festival 06, Special Mention at the Festival Secuencia
Cero (Spain), Crystal Award Best Short Heartland Film Festival, Public Choice Award
Mostra da Cinema, Best Foreign Short-film in La Mostra da cinema (Sao Paulo).
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

MOTODROM
Germany/9 min/35mm/06
Wri/Dir Joerg Wagner
Prod Dirk Manthey
The world of the hellriders in their wooden barrel: men and motorbikes, speed and
stunts, gasoline and adrenaline. A dying fairground attraction, portrayed in a thrilling
homage with 5000 rounds per minute.
Best Documentary, Hamburg Intl Short Film Festival 06. Festivals 06 include: Tampere,
WSFF Toronto, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Sao Paulo, Helsinki, Cork, Sheffield
Documentary.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
NEVER LIKE THE FIRST TIME
Sweden/15 min/35mm/06
Dir Jonas Odell
A short film where four people each get to tell the story of their first time, an animated
film based on documentary interviews. As we hear the people tell their stories in their
own words, these are visualized in a range of different animation styles. These are
stories that range from comedy to tragedy, stories from last year or from the 1920's,
stories that are remembered with nostalgia, embarrassment or even horror. All these
stories have one thing in common: it is never like the first time!
06 Festivals Include: Brief Encounters, UK, Interfilm Berlin, Bradford Animation Festival,
Cork Film Festival, Calgary Intl Film Festival, London Film Festival, Prague Short Film
Festival, Sao Paulo, Edinburgh, Annecy, Clermont Ferrand, Tribeca.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

DURATION 103 MIN

Page Lovelace, The Lantern Group

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