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A window onto the world
Films from around the world that help us to discover more about our planet: other ways of living, other times, other realities. Because the cinema is also a chance to explore other universes and learn lots of things!
STORIES FROM HERE AND THERE
Saturday November 24 - 17h - Girona Cinemas
A careful selection of shorts will take us to different places around the globe. Amongst other things, we will discover the stories of an Inuit boy, a brave, strong girl who looks after her mother, a pumpkin that rolls around Iran, and a grandfather who tells stories to his granddaughter.
Run time = 60’
Session recommended for viewers from 7 years
Ideal for: the curious, explorers who want to learn about other cultures
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Tuurngait, Paul-Emile Boucher, France, 2011, 6’. No dialogue.
An Inuit child wanders away from his village, fascinated by a wild bird. His father follows his trail, determined to find him before he is carried away by an ice floe.
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Casa Nayda, Maya Yonesho, Morocco, 2011, 4’30’’. No dialogue.
This is the result of an animation workshop that the director ran in several countries around the world, with students, friends and children, combining drawings of the city she visits with the reality in the background to create a captivating collage effect full of rhythm light and colour.
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Missing, Tariq Rimawi, UK, 2010, 3’. No dialogue.
From an open window, a child who lives in a war-torn area yearns for his peaceful past life.
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Rolling Pumpkin, Morteza Ahadi, Iran, 2011, 18'. No dialogue.
An old lady learns of her grandson’s birth. Now she must set out on the long journey to see the baby. The way is long and full of danger. To ensure a safe return, overcoming all obstacles, she hatches a cunning plan…
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Homeland, (Heimatland) A. Schneider, L. Arnold, M. Portmann, F. Friedli, Switzerland, 2010, 6’30’’. No dialogue.
Hausi leads an ordered and happy life in his humble home. Everything seems to be peaceful until the day a foreigner moves in next door and turns his peaceful world – and his ideas – upside down.
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Rain is Falling, Holger Ernst, Germany, 2004, 15’. No dialogue.
Somewhere in some distant, unknown country where life is hard, a child carries heavy jugs of water, without complaint, to her mother’s humble abode. A moving, profoundly human story in which water plays a vital role.
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The Storyteller, Nandita Jain, UK, 2011, 11’5’’. Original version in English with subtitles in Catalan.
Seven-year old Nirmala attempts to grapple with the demons of her grandfather's dementia when he forgets the details of her favourite story.
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SELKIRK, EL VERITABLE ROBINSON CRUSOE
Saturday 24 November - 12h-Cines Verdi Park
Run time: 80’
Session recommended for viewers from 5 years
Ideal for: adventure film lovers. The film makes its Spanish premiere.
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Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe, (Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe), Walter Tournier, Uruguay-Argentina-Chile, 2012, 80'. In Spanish.
The Esperanza is a pirate ship that sails the south seas in search of treasure. During the voyage, the privateers pass the time playing all sorts of gambling games, which are always won by Selkirk, a greedy, selfish young pirate who is also very lucky. One day, the captain decides to maroon him on a desert island. There, completely alone, he has to begin a new life and to learn that there are things much more important than money.
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