EIDF - EBS International Documentary Festival
August 17 - 24, 2012
Seoul, South Korea
Lurking in various settings spread widely around the continent, leaning back into the region’s history and lecturing about different ways of life, Mama Illegal, Private Universe and The Tundra Book all enable Asian audiences look at Central and Eastern Europe through families. While the EBS festival offers as much as nine specialized sections, Ed Mochitz’s family drama and Helena Třeštíková’s family time-lapse are presented among the 10 “playful” documentaries within Festival Choice section. Alexei Vakhrushev’s polar expedition, on the other hand, is labeled as a World Showcase.
For further information on the festival background, programme and festival sections, visit the official website.
Mama Illegal
Mama Illegal , Austria, 2011, 95 min, HD, Drama doc, Human Rights, Reportage, Social Issues
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
East Silver / East Silver Caravan 2012
Private Universe
Soukromý vesmír , Czech Republic, 2012, 83 min, 35 mm, Longitudinal, Personal View, Social Issues
Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana's divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began writing a family chronicle and he has continued to do so for 37 years. “Family Diary“ shows not only the life of one ordinary family but also how the Czech society has changed in the last four decades. Who are we, where do we come from and where do we go?
East Silver / East Silver Caravan 2012
The Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock
Kniga Tundry. Povest o Vukvukaye - Malenkom Kamne. , Russia, 2011, 105 min, HD, Adventure and Sports, Anthropology, Society
72 years have passed as deer herder Vukvukai lives in the depths of Chukotka. He is an old man full of energy and wisdom - The Real Man of Tundra whose life can not be seen apart from the deer. His people take care of a huge herd - over 14,000 deer. Their life is a non-stop struggle for survival and well-being in the most harsh weather conditions of Chaun-Chukotka. They deeply believe in the strength of tradition and so succeed in their struggle. The ancient culture of Nomadic Chukchi takes care of them, so they preserve and follow it. As far as it is now - their realm remains stabile. This is the Truth of Vukvukai.
East Silver / East Silver Caravan 2012
