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Dangerous Numbers
( English / 47 min. ) |
Poignant drama from Ghana about Afriyie who comes
from
a typically large Ghanaian family dubbed ‘The
Football Team’: knowing
the hardships, he has decided
to opt out and has only two children.
Daughter of the Puma
( English, Spanish / 85 min. )
Country : Guatemala
Production Co. : Domino Film & TV - Produktion,
Ulf Hultberg Film
Producer : Tom Winther
Director : Ulf Hultberg
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Ulf Hultbert’s powerful drama tells the story of Aschlop, a
young
Mayan girl, who journeys home secretly from a
Mexican refugee camp to
search for her missing brother
Mateo. In Mayan mythology, Aschlop’s
spiritual
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guardian is the puma, whilst Mateo’s is the owl - the
puma’s guide - and so the two are destined to be
reunited. The film
re-enacts a Guatemalan army
massacre in the Mayan village of San Francisco
in 1982
in which 253 villagers are slaughtered. Ascholp herself
witnesses
the killing and sees the military police
dragging Mateo off. When Mateo’s
wife gives birth to a
son, she determines to go back to the village to
find her
brother. Her search leads her to the city - and straight
into the
hands of the military police.
Anak Hilang (The Lost Child)
( English, Indonesian / 75 min. )
Country : Indonesia
Production Co. : John Hopkins University
Producer/Director : Slamet Rahardjo Djarot
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Basri is 12 years old and lives with his family in a
kampong
- a shanty town - built on stilts over an
estuary in Jakarta,
Indonesia. Blocked off by city
development,
the estuary has become choked
with
sewage, plastic refuse and other debris. Depressed by
his mother’s death at the hands of a hit-and-run driver
and frustrated by life in the kampong,
Basri leaves his
father and runs away from home. He dreams of
becoming a
musician and joins a group of street
magicians, hoping that his new skills
will provide a
means of changing his fate. But, he discovers, hope for
the
future lies in family solidarity and facing the truth.
Slamet Rahardjo
Djarot’s film mixes documentary with
fiction to emphasise the wider relevance of young
Basri’s dilemmas.
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