Additional 30 titles from the East Silver Caravan selection may the industry guests find in the Doc Shop market. All of them will be accessible online during the whole year.
Hot Docs 2011, Canada
April 28 – May 8, 2011
Films in the programme of Hot Docs:
Matchmaking Mayor
Nesvatbov, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2010, 72 min, Digi Beta, HD, Creative, Society
A situational documentary film about a village mayor trying to match local people in their thirties who are still single. Slowly but surely, the Slovak village Zemplínské Hámre is dying out. Its mayor, a retired general, doesn't want to give up though. Fighting the thirty-year-olds' loneliness, he has used various means such as offering a financial reward for each newborn child or encouraging people to make children in the local public address system. None of it has worked. However, the mayor has a new plan. He decides to organize a dating party for singles from all the neighbouring villages...
East Silver 2010 / East Silver Caravan 2010 / Silver Eye Nominees 2010 / Docu Talents from the East 2010
Pit No. 8
Auk Nr 8, Estonia, Ukraine, 2010, 95 min, HD, Creative, Personal View, Social Issues
In the heart of a once thriving Ukrainian coal-mining region everybody digs – retirees, unemployed miners and even the children. Years ago, the town's desperate residents decided to start mining illegally; they excavate everywhere!!! The story focuses on the Sikanov family, which has three children. 15-year-old Yura, the grandson of a powerful Soviet plant director, is the head of the family working as a miner in the illegal pit. Most Jura wants to run his own cafe somewhere far from home, but the responsibility for the two sisters and looming economic crisis pushes his dreams in the distant future.
East Silver 2010 / East Silver Caravan 2010 / Silver Eye Nominees 2010 / Docu Talents from the East 2010 / East European Forum 2008
All for the Good of the World and Nosovice
Vše pro dobro světa a Nošovic, Czech Republic, 2010, 82 min, 35 mm, Creative, Personal View, Social Issues
An original portrait of a Czech village that houses a giant car plant built by South Korea's Hyundai. Before the village turned into an industrial zone, many of the landowners had no intention of selling their plots of land... Not until many of them faced pressure from their neighbours who had accepted approx. EUR 4000 in compensation and not until they received death threats. Using nine protagonists, the film paints a portrait of a village changed beyond recognition. A humorous yet compelling film about a field that yields cars.
Cinema Komunisto
Cinema Komunisto , Serbia, 2010, 100 min, Digi Beta, HD, Arts and Culture, Creative, History, Politics, Society
When reality has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn't invent a country to fool themselves? Using rare footage from dozens of forgotten Yugoslav films, as well as never-seen-before archive from film sets and Tito’s private screenings, the documentary recreates the narrative of a country, the stories told on screen and the ones hidden behind it. Stars such as Richard Burton, Sofia Loren and Orson Welles add a touch of glamour to the national effort, appearing in super-productions financed by the state. Tito’s favorite film director, his projectionist who showed him films every night for 30 years, the most famous actor of partisan films, and the director of the film studios who was a secret policeman – all tell how the history of Yugoslavia was constructed on the screen.
East Silver 2010 / East Silver Caravan 2010
Family Instinct
Ģimenes lietas , Latvia, 2010, 58 min, HD, Drama doc, Portrait, Social Issues
"Family Instinct" is a film about incest - an illegal act, social taboo and a violation of religious norms. Zanda is a 28-year-old woman, worn out by hard work. Surrounded by poverty and despair, she is trying to survive with her two children in a god-forsaken Latvian village. Her hardships can be traced back to living in a relationship with her brother Valdis. When Valdis is put in jail, the local community forces her to make a difficult choice: to stay with him or with her children. Despite her ill fortune, she manages to express her love for the children, still hoping to save her family. The film offers a tragicomic but highly authentic insight into the bleak reality of Latvian countryside today.
East Silver 2010 / East Silver Caravan 2010 / Silver Eye Nominees 2010 / Docu Talents from the East 2010
At the Edge of Russia
Koniec Rosji , Poland, 2010, 72 min, Digi Beta, Society
Alexei is a nineteen year old recruit being flown in to perform his military service on the frontier of northern Russia. The base is one of few such remaining outposts on the Arctic Ocean. There are five other seasoned and long serving soldiers stationed here, each with their own personal story or secret that has caused them to retreat from the real world. Their training and breaking in of the new arrival is sometimes humorous, at times harsh. Gradually, they each reveal something of themselves in their daily interactions and private moments as they continue their absurd duty in this snow covered no man's land, hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement.
East Silver 2010 / East Silver Caravan 2010 / Silver Eye Nominees 2010 / Silver Eye Award winner 2010
Films included into Doc Shop Market at Hot Docs:
Austria
In the Bazaar of Sexes | Sudabeh Mortezai | Austria | 2009
V I N Y L (Tales from the Vienna Underground) | Andrew Standen-Raz | Austria, United Kingdom | 2010
Bulgaria
Concrete Pharaohs | Jordan Todorov | Bulgaria | 2010
Paradise Hotel | Sophia Tzavella | Bulgaria | 2010
Czech Republic
All for the Good of the World and Nosovice | Vít Klusák | Czech Republic | 2010
All that Glitters | Tomáš Kudrna | Czech Republic | 2010
Cinematherapy | Ivan Vojnár | Czech Republic | 2010
Coal in the soul | Ondrej Provaznik, Martin Dusek | Czech Republic | 2010
Eye Over Prague | Olga Špátová | Czech Republic | 2010
Heaven Hell | David Čálek | Czech Republic | 2010
Manual on How to Create a Terrorist | Tereza Reichová | Czech Republic | 2010
Matchmaking Mayor | Erika Hníková | Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2010
Saving Edwards | Dagmar Smržová | Czech Republic | 2010
Estonia
Lobotomy | Yuri Khashchavatski | Estonia, Belarus, Germany, Poland | 2010
Pit no. 8 | Marianna Kaat | Estonia, Ukraine | 2010
Hungary
Cave | Júlia Szederkényi | Hungary | 2010
Hunky Blues - The American Dream | Peter Forgacs | Hungary | 2009
Negative History of Hungarian Cinema | Gyula Nemes | Hungary | 2010
Latvia
Family Instinct | Andris Gauja | Latvia | 2010
On Rubik's Road | Laila Pakalnina | Latvia | 2010
Souvenirs: Healing After War | Mara Pelecis | Latvia, USA | 2011
Working Class Ballet | Roberts Vinovskis | Latvia | 2009
Poland
At the Edge of Russia | Michal Marczak | Poland | 2010
Planet Kirsan | Magdalena Pieta | Poland | 2010
War Games and the Man who Stopped Them | Dariusz Jablonski | Poland, Slovakia | 2009
Romania
Quest | Ionut Piturescu | Romania | 2010
The World According to Ion B. | Alexander Nanau | Romania | 2009
Russia
Blue Sky. Dark Bread | Ilya Tomashevich | Russia | 2010
Serbia
Cinema Komunisto | Mila Turajlic | Serbia | 2010
Slovakia
Ilja | Ivan Ostrochovský | Slovakia | 2010
Out of Round: What Is Behind? | Jaro Vojtek | Slovakia | 2010
Slovenia
King Mathias | Milan Urbajs | Slovenia | 2010
