Taking into account that East Silver aims to react flexibly to the release of newly completed documentary films with substantial international appeal, the body of East Silver Caravan members keeps on developing and changing shape. While the last year’s East Silver Caravan acquisitions steadily near their annual festival cycle which allowed them to reach over 100 festival programmers, the selection is being supplemented by new documentaries that have been under IDF’s attention since its development. The turn of June and July thus saw two Czech docs and one German-Russian co-production become new members among the 22 in the East Silver Caravan.
It was only few days ago when the first one of them enjoyed its world premiere at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – the project titled Two Nill by Pavel Abrahám and Tomáš Bojar who managed to raise social and suggestive dimensions of football wittily, paying attention to the game itself. In the contrary, sport in its genuine form is the pivotal motif in Martin Přívratský’s documentary feature debut Tomorrow Will Be Better, a dynamited portrait of one freestyle motorcycle racer – Libor Podmol – who finds himself on top of the world. The third fresh acquisition in the caravan is the German-Russian documentary Colors of Math, authored by the director-producer Ekaterina Eremenko. Its main intention is to remind audiences of math as a phenomenon that permeates everyone and everything – now also the festival selection East Silver Caravan.
Naturally, all the three films will feature at the autumn East Silver documentary film market in Jihlava (and in spring in Prague) and are already available to all registered users at East Silver streaming.
Colors of Math
Germany, Russia, 2012, 60 min, DCP, HD, Arts and Culture, Creative, Portrait, Science and Technology
To most people math appears abstract, mysterious. Complicated. Inaccessible. But math is nothing but a different language to express the world. Math can be sensual. Math can be tasted, it smells, it creates sound and color. One can touch it – and be touched by it...
East Silver / East Silver Caravan 2012
Two Nil
Dva nula , Czech Republic, 2012, 108 min, DCP, Creative, Society
At a football stadium in the very heart of Prague the biggest Czech football match of the year is about to take place. The live broadcast begins. This time however, the twenty-two film cameras are not aimed at the pitch, but at the stands. They record how various people experience this one shared event. An astonished kid from the football prep team, a bettor who has put thousands of crowns on the match result, or a member of the security service who is there to assure a smooth running of the event: they all experience it differently. A distinguished literary critic, who is not really interested in football, a lady who takes care of what goes on in the VIP lounge, or disoriented Italian tourists who just stare disbelievingly at it all: they each have a different attitude too. Each camera presents a unique and authentic insight into the different levels of the stands, as well as the different levels of today’s society. Each character represents a unique version of the same match. As Hannah Arendt says: “Only where things can be seen by many in a variety of aspects without changing their identity, so that those who are gathered around them know they see sameness in utter diversity, can worldly reality truly and reliably appear.”
East Silver / East Silver Caravan 2012
Tomorrow Will Be Better
Tomorrow Will Be Better , Czech Republic, 2012, 78 min, DCP, DVD, Adventure and Sports, Cinema Release, Portrait
It is January 2010, Libor Podmol arrives in the U.S. and in a legendary shop buys a motorcycle from one of the former best free riders. The FMX World Championship begins...
East Silver / East Silver Caravan 2012
