EL OJO COJO
International Film Festival
Date
14
15 October 2010
Venue
Nave 17. Nave una
Location
Terrario
Price
Free entrance.
Programme
Intermediae
Organized by the cultural association El ojo cojo, thisfilm festival takes place in Madrid since 2005. It was created to promote intercultural dialogue and integration of disadvantaged groups, dissemination of quality films that hardly reach the cinemas in Spain.
Thursday 14th, 18 h
The Bristol Bike Project. 2009, documental, Dir. Alistair Oldham, UK, 18 min., English with English subtitles. Over 400 people request political asylum in Bristol. Government provides assistance of 25 pounds a week who are barely able to eat, preventing them affording the use of public transport. The film is about the The Project Bike Bristol, through which people of the city donates used bicycles to be repaired and be used by refugees. The film focuses on the history of Dahir and Aziz, from Somalia and Afghanistan, respectively, and their relationship with the project in Bristol.
Casting. 2003, documental, Dir. Goran Radovanovic, Serbia, 52 min. English with Spanish subtitles.Sex, survival, Serbia, tights ... What do they have in common? Girls who attend a casting for a role in the advertisement with the slogan: 'The best step in Europe. Tights for every occasion. Eurolook at Serbia at last! " suddenly become the protagonists of this documentary that reflects the problems of societies in transition.
My Country. 2000, documental, Dir. Goran Radovanovic, Serbia, 24 min., Serbian with Spanish subtitles. Serbia 1999: extreme poverty, corruption, autocracy, ethnic problems, OTAN aggressions, manipulation of public opinion through media controlled by the state ... hunger for democracy ...
Friday 15th, 18 h
Amazonia, Masato o Petróleo. 2009, documental, Dir. Josep Ramón Jiménez, Perú-España, 52 min., Spanish and Chayauita with Spanish subtitles.Masato is a traditional drink of Amazonian natives on which they identify culturally. Quite the opposite Oil, in this context, means social and cultural disintegration, pollution, disease and death. This film wants to denounce the policy of the Peruvian government against people and farmers who live in forest, considered second-class citizens.
Tatuutsí Maxakwaxí celebrates 10 years. 2006-2007, documental, Dir. Barbara Sackl, México, 62 min., Spanish and Wixarica with Spanish subtitles.This film is part of a project that also includes Tatuutsí Maxakwaxí documentary, that confronts two worlds. Maxakwaxí Tatuutsí is not only the God of creation and teaching of the Wixaritari or Huichol, is also the name of a bilingual and intercultural school created on 1995 at the highlands of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. The film is about this educational project where tradition and modernity coexist and young people learn to live in modern Mexico without giving up their cultural heritage. Life for Sale. 2009, documental, Dir. Yorgos Avgeropoulos, Grecia, 60 min., English and Spanish with English subtitles. Can you imagine a water market in which a few people benefit by buying and selling it without need? How would life be if all the water sources belonged to the private sector? This documentary examines the largest water market in the world built in Chile, where water sources of the country belong to individuals and a company owns a river channel as abundant as water in Belgium. A place where water has gone from being a public source to a property right which can cost as much as a house.
A Moving Business. 2009, animación, Dir. Falk Schuster, Alemania, 8 min., no dialogues. A world where characters clocks make a different pace. Two people live door to door, but in two completely separate worlds. One day their paths cross and their worlds turned upside down. What happened?
The festival has several locations, the full program is available at: www.elojocojo.org.
Thursday 14th, 18 h
The Bristol Bike Project. 2009, documental, Dir. Alistair Oldham, UK, 18 min., English with English subtitles. Over 400 people request political asylum in Bristol. Government provides assistance of 25 pounds a week who are barely able to eat, preventing them affording the use of public transport. The film is about the The Project Bike Bristol, through which people of the city donates used bicycles to be repaired and be used by refugees. The film focuses on the history of Dahir and Aziz, from Somalia and Afghanistan, respectively, and their relationship with the project in Bristol.
Casting. 2003, documental, Dir. Goran Radovanovic, Serbia, 52 min. English with Spanish subtitles.Sex, survival, Serbia, tights ... What do they have in common? Girls who attend a casting for a role in the advertisement with the slogan: 'The best step in Europe. Tights for every occasion. Eurolook at Serbia at last! " suddenly become the protagonists of this documentary that reflects the problems of societies in transition.
My Country. 2000, documental, Dir. Goran Radovanovic, Serbia, 24 min., Serbian with Spanish subtitles. Serbia 1999: extreme poverty, corruption, autocracy, ethnic problems, OTAN aggressions, manipulation of public opinion through media controlled by the state ... hunger for democracy ...
Friday 15th, 18 h
Amazonia, Masato o Petróleo. 2009, documental, Dir. Josep Ramón Jiménez, Perú-España, 52 min., Spanish and Chayauita with Spanish subtitles.Masato is a traditional drink of Amazonian natives on which they identify culturally. Quite the opposite Oil, in this context, means social and cultural disintegration, pollution, disease and death. This film wants to denounce the policy of the Peruvian government against people and farmers who live in forest, considered second-class citizens.
Tatuutsí Maxakwaxí celebrates 10 years. 2006-2007, documental, Dir. Barbara Sackl, México, 62 min., Spanish and Wixarica with Spanish subtitles.This film is part of a project that also includes Tatuutsí Maxakwaxí documentary, that confronts two worlds. Maxakwaxí Tatuutsí is not only the God of creation and teaching of the Wixaritari or Huichol, is also the name of a bilingual and intercultural school created on 1995 at the highlands of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. The film is about this educational project where tradition and modernity coexist and young people learn to live in modern Mexico without giving up their cultural heritage. Life for Sale. 2009, documental, Dir. Yorgos Avgeropoulos, Grecia, 60 min., English and Spanish with English subtitles. Can you imagine a water market in which a few people benefit by buying and selling it without need? How would life be if all the water sources belonged to the private sector? This documentary examines the largest water market in the world built in Chile, where water sources of the country belong to individuals and a company owns a river channel as abundant as water in Belgium. A place where water has gone from being a public source to a property right which can cost as much as a house.
A Moving Business. 2009, animación, Dir. Falk Schuster, Alemania, 8 min., no dialogues. A world where characters clocks make a different pace. Two people live door to door, but in two completely separate worlds. One day their paths cross and their worlds turned upside down. What happened?
The festival has several locations, the full program is available at: www.elojocojo.org.