2010年9月アーカイブ

Kite Runner

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The Visitor

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Vas, vis et deviens

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WAR DANCE

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Last Station

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Every year, many Afghans are forced to flee the ravages of war in their country. They depart full of hope for a better life, but not all of them survive to see their destination. Last Station tells the story of one young Afghan refugee's journey. After a long passage through Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, he finally settles in Switzerland, where he faces a stark cultural gap, and questions about his identity as a Muslim.

The film describes the lives of five refugees in Lebanon. One of them, Mohammad from Darfur, finds his three brothers and three of his sisters killed, his mother moments away from death. He decides to flee the conflict in Sudan and make his way to Lebanon, where he becomes one of the 9,000 non-Palestinian refugees and asylum seekers being cared for by UNHCR.

Mother Fish

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The inspiring story of four refugees fleeing Vietnam in 1980, Mother Fish goes inside the mind of one of the survivors. The present melds with the past as a quiet factory worker relives an extraordinary journey in which she and her sister took to the sea in a creaky river boat in search of a better life.

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Little Alien

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They are teenagers who fled crisis regions and undertook an extremely dangerous journey to Austria, all alone, hoping for one thing: to live. After arriving there, they fight to live normal lives, struggling against a system that demands they sacrifice their youth to an uncertain future.

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Our Life

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Why doesn't the conflict end between the junta and the ethnic minorities? The film follows the everyday life of a Karen boy born in a refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar (Burma) border whose wish is to become a Karen soldier, and a young Karen teacher born inside Burma, a graduate of the university inside the refugee camp, who believes in the value of education as a pathway to true independence for his ethnic group.

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War Dance

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Across the country, Ugandan children are getting ready for the biggest event of the year, the National Music Competition. Over 20,000 schools will compete, but only one will go home as the champion. No one expects it to be Patongo, a school in a refugee camp in Northern Uganda, a region suffering from two decades of war.

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There is only one known segment of footage showing any actual killing from the Rwandan genocide. This movie is about the extraordinary journey of that evidence as the original photographer returns to Rwanda, to revisit the people and events that he by chance caught on film.

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As we forgive

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The Rwandan government has returned over 50,000 of those who were involved in the 1994 genocide to their communities. Can the survivors forgive and accept them back in their societies? Can the government expect this of the people? The film explores these questions by peering into the lives of four survivors of the genocide. Narrated by Mia Farrow.

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Reporter

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The film tracks Nicholas Kristof, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, and his journey to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where conflict and poverty rage unabated. The film exposes the reality of the country, and in the process sheds light on why field reporting is vital to democracy and the raising of global awareness.

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Teza

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After studying medicine in Germany for several years, Anberber goes back to his home country Ethiopia. There, he finds his dreams stifled and disarrayed by the country's political turmoil. The film chronicles his internal struggle to stay true, both to himself and to his homeland.

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Climate Refugees

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Climate Refugees is a documentary film that exposes the underreported plight of people around the world displaced by climate-induced environmental disasters. The film illuminates for the first time the human face of climate change in a world at the crossroads of overpopulation, resources shortages and our changing climate.

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Children of War

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Filmed inside the war zone of northern Uganda over a period of three years, Children of War follows the riveting journey of a group of former child soldiers as they undergo a process of emotional and spiritual healing while in a rehabilitation centre. They struggle to confront and triumph over years of brutal abuse and participation in war crimes.

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Slingshot Hip Hop

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Slingshot Hip Hop weaves together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, and the West Bank, as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to overcome divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.

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Sergio

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The film revolves around the story of United Nations diplomat Sergio Viera de Mello, who worked for the UN for more than 34 years all over the world and was killed in the Canal Hotel Bombing in Iraq on August 19, 2003. Through interviews with his families and colleagues, the film captures his charisma, his bravery and the depth of his humanitarian ideals.

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Johnny Mad Dog

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15 year-old Johnny, known as the "Mad Dog," is the leader of a gang of underage freedom fighters. The film depicts the boys' struggles with extreme situations and sometimes themselves as they try to survive in a region where bloody wars have destroyed lives and stolen the innocence of countless children. Filmed on location in Liberia, the film was screened at the UN Headquarters in New York.

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Crossing

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A North Korean, Yong-soo, crosses the northern border with China to get medicine for his ailing wife. However, his wife passes away, leaving behind their only son Joon. Joon risks life and limb on a journey to find his father, but is captured as he tries to cross the border and sent to a detention camp.

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Baktay, a 6 year old Afghan girl, is determined: she wants to go to a recently opened girls' school across the river. But to do so she must overcome her family's poverty and indifference, and face the torment of boys whose ruthless games enact the terrible violence that they have witnessed through years of civil war.

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Rebuilding Hope

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A story of three young men who fled their home in South Sudan due to civil war when they were small children and resettled in the US. They return to Sudan to find out whether their families have survived and try to help their communities rebuild after the devastating years of violence.

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The Unreturned

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The film follows five Iraqis and their families who are among the 40 % of the country's middle class who have fled the country since 2003. Without them, Iraq still lacks reliable electricity, clean water, sanitation, and health-care services. The shattered nation needs its native professional class to return and help itself rebuild.

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Moving to Mars

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After almost 20 years in exile, two Karen refugee families take a remarkable journey from the temporary camps of the Thai-Myanmar (Burma) border to their new home in the British city of Sheffield. The film depicts the families' moving and sometimes humorous struggle to adapt to a life different from anything they've ever known.

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