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| Festival Choice-Prospering Asia, Reconciliation & Coexistence |
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This competitive section is composed of the most recent documentaries that were
carefully chosen to coincide with the EIDF 2006 theme, ＆Prospering Asia, Reconciliation
& Coexistence.＊ This section, which includes 12 outstanding works from various nations
such as Japan, Israel, France, and Denmark containing social significance and
grave local scene, aims to discover original and experimental documentary makers and
to represent the current spirit of Asian documentaries.
A total amount of USD 25,000 will be awarded in the main competition section
of EIDF 2006, ※Festival Choice.§
EIDF Grand Prix 太 US $10,000 EIDF Spirit Award 太 US $7,000
EIDF Special Jury Award 太 US $5,000 EIDF Audience Award 太 US $3,000
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Yesterday Today Tomorrow |
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Director : Naoi Riyo
TV : 06-07-12 19:50 / Screening : 06-07-13 15:00 |
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| The documentary film, shot at a village in a tranquil field in northern Thailand, follows the life of two families of HIV patients for a three year period. "Yesterday Today Tomorrow" depicts the pleasures and sorrows of life through HIV patients＊ ordinary lives |
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Innocence |
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Director : Nisa Kongsri Areeya Chumsai
TV : 06-07-14 19:50 / Screening : 06-07-14 13:00 |
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| In Northern Thailand is a boarding school for hill tribe children. These students and their teachers live together growing their own crops, cooking their own meals and continuing their education far from their homes. For the first time in their lives, they are taken to the ocean just before graduation. |
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Smiling in a War Zone |
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Director : Simone Aaberg Kaern, Magnus Bejmar
TV : 06-07-13 19:50 / Screening : 06-07-11 17:00 |
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| After 50 hours in the air, 33 landings, weeks of travelling and on top of it all: flying illegally into Afghanistan, Danish artist Simone Aaberg finally finds 16 year old Afghan girl Fayral to make her dreams of flying come true. |
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Angry Monk-Reflections on Tibet |
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Director : Luc Schaedler
TV : 06-07-13 21:20 / Screening : 06-07-11 21:00 |
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| This cinematic journey through time reveals a face of old Tibet that goes against popular cliches as it portrays the life of an unorthodox monk, Gendun Choephel. The film shows how Choephel was far ahead of his time and has since become a symbol of hope for a free Tibet. |
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Little School Children |
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Director : Giang Ning
TV : 06-07-10 21:20 / Screening : |
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| As parents leave baby girls at the gate of Ling Feng Temple, Mother Ming Xiu from the temple adopts these abandoned babies out of mercy and brings them up. Now these children have reached the age for school and they struggle to adjust to their new environment. |
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Our Own Private Bin Laden |
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Director : Samira Goetschel
TV : 06-07-11 19:50 / Screening : 06-07-13 20:00 |
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| Through this film, the originally Iranian director tries to expose connections between Cold War events and the more recent terrorist attacks carried out by Bin Laden and his followers. The film presents many pertinent interviews of those actually involved in policy making and other relevant figures. |
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Out of Bounds |
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Director : Alexandre Leborgne, Pierre Barougier
TV : 06-07-10 19:50 / Screening : 06-07-12 15:00 |
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| Alejandro, condemned to a life sentence and head of 2,300 inmates, tells us about Iwahig, a prison without bars where prisoners can live with their families. Founded more than a century ago in the Philippines, this unique prison system opens up new horizons. |
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You Can Do It, Kenta |
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Director : Aya Hiratsuka
TV : 06-07-11 21:20 / Screening : 06-07-11 18:40 |
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| Kenta,12, has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair. As he approaches his elementary school graduation, Kenta decides he will board at a middle school for disabled children. We see how Kenta and his family come to terms with his decision and give him the affection and courage he needs. |
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The Last Communist |
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Director : Amir Muhammad
TV : 06-07-12 21:30 / Screening : 06-07-11 15:00 |
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| A semi-musical documentary inspired by the life and legacy of Chin Peng, exiled leader of the banned Communist Party of Malaya. Interviews with the people in the towns he lived in from birth to national independence are interspersed with specially composed songs in the mould of old-fashioned propaganda films. |
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Sentenced Home |
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Director : David Grabias, Nicole Newnham
TV : 06-07-14 21:40 / Screening : 06-07-12 17:00 |
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| Putting a never-before-seen face on current U.S. deportation policy, SENTENCED HOME follows the heart-breaking sagas of three Cambodian-Americans through the deportation process over the course of three years, from the streets of inner-city Seattle to the rice paddies of Cambodia. |
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Pickles |
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Director : Dalit Kimor
TV : 06-07-11 22:00 / Screening : 06-07-13 17:00 |
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| Eight Israeli Arab widows with no vocational training decide to change their fate and open a "start up"-a plant for pickles. While they face numerous hurdles as the business struggles to expand, they manage to find friendship and support in each other. |
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Pacific Solution |
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Director : James Frankham
TV : 06-07-10 22:20 / Screening : 06-07-13 18:40 |
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| Pacific Solution tells the story of the story of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban regime, the new home they find in New Zealand, and the remarkable quest of their families to join them. Through their journey, it examines the political context of the refugee crisis facing our world. |
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