Where to see the films of the 2022 FIFDH?
Fictions
Luzzu by Alex Camilleri
Jesmark's difficulties are mounting, with his fishing boat taking on water and his baby needing expensive medical care. How can an artisan survive when faced with European regulations and dwindling resources? In his debut film, Alex Camilleri pays tribute to Italian neo-realism and gives a voice to those oft-forgotten thanks to a remarkable non-professional cast.
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107 Mothers by Peter Kerekes
Leysa is convicted of the murder of her husband. She gives birth to her son in a prison for young mothers and is allowed to stay with him for three years before they are separated, until the end of her sentence. This extraordinarily sensitive film shifts between fiction and documentary: Leysa is played by an actress, but the other characters are real guards and prisoners in the Odessa prison where this deeply moving film was shot.
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My Sunny Maad by Michaela Pavlàtovà
Herra, a young Czech woman, decides to leave everything behind to marry Nazir, whom she met at university. Married in Kabul, Afghanistan, she witnesses and participates in the upheavals her new family goes through after the fall of the Taliban. Herra's daily life is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Maad, an unusual orphan who will become her son... Michaela Pavlatova has crafted a magnificent animated film that won an award at the Annecy Festival.
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Grands reportages
Made to Measure by Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck & Cosima Terrasse
Can a person be recreated alone based on their search history? Five years of a woman's life have been excavated to create a composite portrait, subsequently played by an actress. The original is then presented to its double. Part experiment, part cross-media project, part documentary, Made to Measure is a dizzying project about the surrender of our private lives, directed by the filmmakers behind The Cleaners (FIFDH 2018).
Co-presented with the RTS
Available for free online!
Children of the Enemy
by Gorki Glaser-Müller
Patricio Galvez is living a nightmare. Radicalisation has led his daughter and her husband to leave for Syria, where the couple have met an untimely death, leaving seven young orphans to be shuffled around in a ghastly camp. With little hope for these "children of the enemy", Patricio decides to go looking for them. Lacking any knowledge of the situation on-site, he is plunged into the heart of conflicting strategic, media and political interests. But Patricio is ready for anything...
Available on Play RTS!
Special screenings
La Finance lave plus vert by Matteo Born & Romain Girard
Since autumn 2019, a green wave has been sweeping across Europe. The climate issues raised by Greta Thunberg and the thousands of protesters are bringing a new, younger, female generation to power, promising to shake up the climate-sceptic old guard. A wind of change anticipated by banks and public institutions, who for some years now have been shifting to “sustainable finance”. Following the financial crisis and repeated tax scandals, an opportunity to improve its image has presented itself for the banking sector.
To be discovered for free on maRTS - Temps Présent
Writing With Fire by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, produced by Sushmit Ghosh (Black Ticket Film, India)
Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera leads India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Together they break traditions, be it on the frontlines of India's most significant issues or within their homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.
The film was selected this year at the Impact Days, the Industry programme of the FIFDH.
The illusion of abundance by Erika Gonzalez Ramirez and Matthieu Lietaert
Carolina, Bertha and Maxima share a common goal: they are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas governments and corporations, trapped in a global race towards unlimited growth, need to get the cheapest raw materials, these three women tell us a story of tireless courage: how to keep fighting to protect nature when your life is at risk?
«The Illusion of Abundance» is not only a film about those who pay the high price of 'development' and 'progress', it is above all a film about the globalization of their environmental resistance and their conviction to hunt down misbehaving transnational corporations, wherever they hide.
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