Friday, March 07, 2008

With Ivanna we were on the opening of the 10th One world / Jeden Svet documentary film festival in Lucerna, Praha. Very unusual presentation with toy theater, founders speeches and very emotionally strong movie The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo story about consequences of war resulted in raped and assaulted women in Democratic Republic of Congo that was pesented by it's director of the film Lisa F. Jackson. I have been working in Kinshasa, DRC for 6 month and I felt the movie is objective in showing this narrow problem, but the move does not show and analyzes the much bigger problem of a social catastrophe resulted by the civilian war. I would say the situation in DRC is similar to 1945 in Europe, when some places were completely devastated by war and building of a new social society has to be done from zero.

Yesterday in small hall of Svetozor seen Czech documentary Pul Ctvrte (http://www.pulctvrte.cz) about the simple live of people in the Ukrainian village in Carpathian region, close to the highest Ukrainian mountain Goverla. The film is said to be about the "rich live in poor region". Either it is only a story about one region and does not compares the regions of the countly for example with modern and wealthy capital Kiev, or advanced Odessa or Lviv, I still found it funny and interesting, very realistic from insider point of view. It made me think were Ukraine and myself are now and were I want myself and Ukraine to be and how to get there. Which values are really important to me. Recommend to watch.

2 comments:

Trishymouse said...

I would really appreciate you telling us what the title of the film was that used toy theatre in it. What was it called? How was toy theatre used in it? Is it online somewhere? Thank you...

Ivanza - Czech it OUT !!! said...

Hi Trish,

Unfortunately I don't know. I would recommend to ask the same question directly to organizers mail@oneworld.cz or:

Filip Šebek, Spokeperson

MFF Jeden svět
One World International Film Festival
People in Need / Člověk v tísni
Sokolska 18
120 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic

Tel: +420 226 200 420
Fax: +420 226 200 401
filip.sebek@oneworld.cz