BEST OF INPUT 2004 AT ENCOUNTERS
at Cinema Nouveau screened by Nedbank
Cape Town V&A Waterfront
Johannesburg Rosebank Mall
Tickets available at Cinema Box Offices or through Computicket
Sessions are R50 each
Input, the International Public TV Annual Showcase explores the limits of television. At Input the rules of broadcasting are challenged and redefined. Input has been held in a different city around the world for the past 27 years.
About a thousand TV Professionals gather to view and discuss 60 TV programmes that go beyond the conventional.
This year Input was held in Barcelona and, for two weekends at Encounters in Cape Town and Johannesburg, the SABC brings you the…
BEST OF INPUT 2004
SESSION 1 | Cape Town Sat 24 July CINE 1 | Johannesburg Sat 7 August CINE 6 |
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10:00 |
BETWEEN JOYCE AND REMEMBRANCE (Opening Programme)Shot over 7 years this is an unforgettable story of one family, stretching back two decades. Through the ultimate unfolding of personal narratives, the film raises far-reaching questions about the nature of truth, forgiveness and reconciliation. It illustrates the ripple effect of an injustice perpetrated two decades ago to show how fragile the “miracle” of South Africa’s transition actually is. |
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11:30 |
QUINTETCome and watch some poems! A six-minute compilation of five poems by various authors, illustrated by clever animation. A successful experiment in showing poetry on screen. |
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11:50 |
A CAT AND A HALFProsaic works by Joseph Brodsky combined with his verses, his amazing drawings, unique photos from his archive, all that form the basis of the film. Various expressive means are used to realize this idea: animation, computer graphics, documentary and feature elements. |
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13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH | |
SESSION 2 | Cape Town Sat 24 July CINE 1 | Johannesburg Sat 7 August CINE 6 |
14:00 |
AL’LEESSI… AN AFRICAN ACTRESSZalika SOULEY is in her fifties. She lives in suburban Niamey, the capital city of Niger. Thirty years ago, she was a movie star. But today who remembers her ? She acted in many films and worked with the major film directors from around the Continent. She was the first truly professional female actor in Africa… But now… |
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15:30 |
ASIDEA film about the lives of young people, cultural outcasts of the ‘knowledge society’, which implies more than merely economic or social isolation. The director (one-man team) never asks direct questions. The author intervenes only with his social and aesthetic viewpoint, completely alone with the real characters at all times. The difficulties of finding a job and scraping together some money, the temptations of crime and its harsh consequences, the lack of culture and knowledge of the basics of life, are all intertwined in their parallel lives. |
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16:50 |
IN SATMAR CUSTODYIt is a closed and almost unknown community. These ultra-orthodox Jews that call themselves ‘Satmar’ and live in America are barely noticed in their own country, but abroad they constitute an active anti-Zionist movement. In Yemen, poor Jewish families are persuaded not to emigrate to Israel, but to America, where the prospect of a warm welcome is held out to them. In practice, this turns out differently, as is demonstrated by the harrowing story of Yahia and Lauza Jaradi. The reality turns out to be far shadier, as director Nitzan Gilady reveals. The camera closely follows the family, especially the desperate Yahia. At other times it remains hidden in the bushes and behind walls, to spy on the meetings Yahia has with different advisors. The result is a thriller-like documentary that does not offer cut-and-dried answers. But, the film does make it clear how negligence and fundamentalism can be so destructive for individual victims. |
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SESSION 3 | Cape Town Sat 24 July CINE 6 | Johannesburg Sat 7 August CINE 8 |
10:00 |
CIA Secret Wars 1990-2001 – ONE WAR BEGETS ANOTHERIn the aftermath of September 11th 2001, America suddenly realized its intelligence services weren’t up to the task. The CIA is on the verge of being declared clinically dead. How could this have happened? How did crisis and human error gradually undermine the CIA and bring the agency to its knees? This three-part documentary identifies and dissects the CIA’s true power base, as several main players give us a rare inside glimpse at the inner workings of the US intelligence agency. |
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11:15 |
CHAVEZ: INSIDE THE COUP‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ is a thrilling insight into the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, charting the last seven months in the run up to the April 2002 coup d’etat against him and his dramatic return to power some 48 hours later. Never has such a range of footage been seen of Chavez, the new icon of the left and the thorn in the side of the US Administration. |
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SESSION 4 | Cape Town Sat 24 July CINE 6 | Johannesburg Sat 7 August CINE 8 |
14:00 |
LIFE OF CHILDREN IN 21st CENTURYThe film was shot in Dakar, from July 1999 to January 2000. It evokes the life of street children in the Capital of Senegal. Two roving gangs are followed day and night in the city by a camera that calmly records the reactions, point of view and silent thoughts of children who are drugged, raped and destroyed, children whose destiny stopped the day it began. Through its form (images in black and white, at a speed that is often frustrating, sometimes silent, sometimes with sound), the film maintains and affirms its existence with the style of a documentary, based in moments in real life, never staged… |
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15:20 |
INVASIONAn Israeli soldier views a documentary about the aftermath of the Israeli invasion in Jenin camp. He was one of the bulldozer drivers that caused massive destruction in the camp. The camera moves between demolished houses and alleys that echo the hopes and fears of the Palestinian people, their basic right to live in peace, have a warm house, children… This is the story of simple dreams being wiped out on invitation. |
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16:00 |
SURPLUSTerrorized into being consumers… In the US consumer confidence has been low since September 11 2001. A successful war against Iraq was supposed to be the only way to restore that confidence and happiness. But is shopping a salvation? Surplus is a forceful award-winning documentary with a unique approach to over-consumption. In this differently shot world journey, the filmmaker explores the subject through a very musical, cinematic and hilarious approach. Surplus dares to portray the issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective. |
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SESSION 5 | Cape Town Sun 25 July CINE 1 | Johannesburg Sun 8 August CINE 6 |
10:00 |
EVERYBODY’S PROBLEMEvery body’s problem depicts the spiral of violence that a group of teenagers fall into as they struggle to survive from day-to-day in a Guinean refugee camp in the capital of Conakry. Little by little, we discover the teenagers’ daily lives. John and Tom go from burglary to armed robbery, whilst Satou and Dady end up in prostitution. As time goes by, the gap widens between Tom, who revels in an extreme violence and John, who is violent because that’s the only way to survive, but who nonetheless struggles to build himself a ´normal´ life again. Despite the love and attention she showers on them, seventy-year-old Mémé, their grandmother, who is refugee too, can do nothing to save John, TOM, Satou and Dady from this infernal spiral… |
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10:50 |
SATURDAYThe series follows the daily life of two black boys, nicknamed Acerola and Laranjinha, who were brought up in one of the biggest slums of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The episode Sábado (Saturday) shows how two young men have fun on Saturday night in the slum. From the Director of City of God, this electric program uses amateur actors and “ad language”. How are these actors chosen and how do they achieve such outstanding performances? |
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11:40 |
CITIZEN BERLUSCONIThis was a hot summer in Italy, a big summer for Silvio Berlusconi – Italy’s prime minister – and a summer Italians should never forget. A summer where the Prime Minister’s soccer team won the European championship, where he took over the rotating presidency of the European Union, and a summer where Berlusconi used the power of Prime Minister to remedy his personal and business problems. It was a summer to show the rest of the world the dangers of mixing media ownership with politics. …’Citizen Kane’ is, you know, a mouse compared to an elephant. ‘Citizen Kane’ was a businessman and ran a very important newspaper. Berlusconi owns half of Italian televisions, controls the other half and all the advertisement. He influences most of the press. Citizen Kane is, as we say in Italian ‘una pulce!’ nothing… (Giovanni Sartori) |
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13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH | |
SESSION 6 | Cape Town Sun 25 July CINE 1 | Johannesburg Sun 8 August CINE 6 |
14:00 |
FROM THE SMALL SCREEN TO THE OSCARS: THE STORY OF BALSEROSIn the summer of 1994, a team of Spanish public television reporters filmed and interviewed seven Cubans, and their families, beginning a few days before their risky venture of setting out to sea in homemade rafts to reach the coast of the United States. One of the balseros (rafters) was on a raft that was not seaworthy and had to return to Havana. The others made it far enough to be picked up at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard and taken to the North American naval base at Guantanamo, where the film crew caught up with them, and recorded their many months of confinement. Their families in Cuba had no news of them. When the balseros were finally allowed to go to the United States, the film crew went with them.The film opened in April 2002 to universal acclaim in festivals held around the world, culminating with the nomination for the Oscars 2003 in the Best Documentary Category (the only non-American entry). |
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16:20 TO 17:30 |
STUDENT SCREENING |
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17:30 | Session ends | |
SESSION 7 | Cape Town Sun 25 July CINE 6 | Johannesburg Sun 8 August CINE 8 |
10:00 |
TRACES, WOMEN’S IMPRINTSA documentary film that ventures to the discovery of three grandmothers kassenas (Burkina-Faso), their granddaughter and the exclusively feminine art of this region’s mural paintings. Between these women’s portraits and a traditional art form, ´Traces´ is a painting upon a painting that reflects education and memory in the context of a world in mutation. |
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11:10 |
THE SECRET POLICEMANMark Daly, a BBC undercover reporter, spent the first seven months of 2003 leading a double life training to be a policeman with the Manchester Police. This disturbing investigation reveals what Mark found in his life as a secret policeman. |
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13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH | |
SESSION 8 | Cape Town Sun 25 July CINE 6 | Johannesburg Sun 8 August CINE 8 |
14:00 |
THE ORIGIN OF AIDSCan Great Science make mistakes? Could it be capable of ruining our souls and our environment! This documentary tells of an extraordinary controversy about scientific responsibility towards these issues. The whole world scientific community is clearly in turmoil. |
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15:50 |
ARNA’S CHILDRENArna Mer (1929-1995) in the last years of her life led a small theatre group of Palestinian children on the West Bank. Her son Juliano, who directed the group, filmed the rehearsals and performances of the plays for many years. Arna Mer was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, an alternative Nobel Prize. Juliano Mer Khamis is the son of the Jewish Arna and an Arab father. Many of the people featured in Mer’s film have been killed. |
Tickets available at Cinema Box Offices or through Computicket
Sessions are R50 each