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24/4/2003

Illuminated Voices

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

The power of nonfiction film to ignite debate, uncover corruption, provoke political movements … and move audiences is at the heart of Illuminated Voices, a program devoted to shining light into the shadows of human suffering and bringing forth voices that might not otherwise be heard.

This first of what will be an annual collaboration between the Sundance Institute and The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to the original and provocative work funded by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund (formerly the Soros Documentary Fund), which provides support to documentary filmmakers focusing on wide-ranging international issues, including human rights, civil liberty, social justice, freedom of expression, and the development of open societies. The Fund has energetically encouraged issue-oriented cinema and artistic daring while working to bring documentaries to a wider audience through enhanced avenues of distribution. All the films in this program were coproduced with grants from the Soros or Sundance Institute Documentary Fund. All the films screened on May 1 and 2 are New York premieres, and most will be introduced by their directors and followed by Q&A’s.

Organized by Diane Weyermann, Director, the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, and Jytte Jensen, Associate Curator, Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art.



SHORTS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA
A selection of shorts from the projects Landscape of Memory (1999), a four-part series on reconciliation in Southern Africa, and Steps for the Future (2001), an international collaborative project commissioning local filmmakers from seven countries in Southern Africa to create documentaries about the HIV/AIDS crisis. Both series produced by Don Edkins.
Landscape of Memory
From the Ashes. Mozambique. Directed by Karen Boswall. In Shangaan with English subtitles. 26 min. Soul in Torment. Zimbabwe. Directed by Prudence Uriri. In Shona, Ndebele, and English with English subtitles. 26 min.
Steps for the Future
The Ball. Mozambique. Directed by Orlando Mesquita. In Ximanica with English subtitles. 4 min. The Moment. South Africa. Directed by Siyabonga Mikhatini. In Zulu and English with English subtitles. 5 min. Imiti Ikula. Zambia. Directed by Sampa Kangwa and Simon Wilkie. In Bemba and Nyanja with English subtitles. 26 min.
Total running time 87 min.
Friday, April 25, 1:30

Iran: Sous le voile des apparences (Iran: Veiled Appearances). 2003. Belgium/France. Directed by Thierry Michel. Defying, clarifying, and contradicting the images presented by much of the U.S. media, this beautifully realized film captures the contemporary everyday life of Iranians living in a country in which religious fervor and the continued threat posed by radical Islam’s commitment to martyrdom contrasts with an increasingly modernized youth expressing its desire for freedom, change, and a more open society. In Farsi, French, and English with English subtitles. 94 min.
Friday, April 25, 3:30

La pasión de María Elena (The Passion of María Elena). 2003. Mexico. Directed by Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez. When her young son is killed by a hit-and-run driver, María Elena leaves her home in Chihuahua to go back to her birthplace, rural Sierra Tarahumara. The film’s concentric structure is organically in tune with the processes that lead María Elena from one stage of her life into a new and entirely different one. In Spanish and Raramuri with English subtitles. 76 min.
Friday, April 25, 6:15 (introduced by the filmmaker); Sunday, April 27, 4:00 (followed by Q&A with the filmmaker)

Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda. 2002. France/USA. Directed by Anne Aghion. With the urgency of a reporter’s dispatch, Aghion’s film explores the Gacaca, a new form of citizen-based justice designed to unify Rwanda in the wake of the 1994 genocide. This process, which accords justice and responsibility according to ancient customs, raises important questions about how people in small communities can learn to forgive each other’s unspeakable transgressions and live and work together for the greater good of the country. In Kinyarwanda with English subtitles. 55 min.
Friday, April 25, 8:30

DOCUMENTARY ROUNDTABLE
Filmmakers and film professionals discuss documentary filmmaking dedicated to social and political issues, and the funding, distribution, and exhibition of same. Participants to be announced. 120 min.
Saturday, April 26, 1:30

Asurot (Detained). 2001. Israel. Directed by Anat Even, Ada Ushpiz. A portrait of three Palestinian widows who share a house with their eleven children in Hebron. Their roof is an Israeli military post and the house is literally split between the Israeli command and the Palestinian authorities. While their lives are largely dictated by these perverse conditions, they still dream of a better future. In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. 73 min.
Saturday, April 26, 4:00

Deza-Femijet [Kosovo 2000] (Children Kosovo 2000). 2001. Hungary. Directed by Ferenc Moldoványi. This film looks at Albanian and Serbian children in Mitrovica, a city split north and south along ethnic lines. Through creative black-and-white images reflecting the inner wounds of his subjects, Moldoványi exposes the tragedy of a land torn by ethnic hostility through the eyes, dreams, fates, and memories of its traumatized children. In Albanian and Serbian with English subtitles. 90 min.
Saturday, April 26, 6:00

And Along Came a Spider. 2002. Iran. Directed by Maziar Bahari. This chilling film examines the murders of sixteen prostitutes in Iran. Through interviews with the killer, his family, and the families of the victims, Bahari explores the murderer’s motivations and the religious and political contexts that inspired, and allowed, the slayings to take place. In Farsi with English subtitles. 53 min.
Saturday, April 26, 8:00

Golan. 2003. Israel. Directed by Amit Goren. This beautifully shot and thoughtful documentary tells the stories of several Israeli settlers living in the Golan Heights, capturing their daily lives and attitudes regarding negotiations to return the land to Syria in exchange for peace. The film interweaves found footage to trace the more recent history of the Golan, and strives to imagine a future for this region that is on the verge of dramatic change. In Hebrew with English subtitles. 95 min.
Sunday, April 27, 2:00; Thursday, May 1, 2:00

Une Femme Taxi à Sidi Bel-Abbès (A Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbès). 2000. Algeria/Belgium. Directed by Belkacem Hadjadj. After the death of her husband, a mother of three becomes the only female taxi driver in the violence-plagued city of Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria. Culture, tradition, and prejudice are revealed in the filmed conversations between the outgoing cabby and her various customers. In Arabic and French with English subtitles. 52 min.
Sunday, April 27, 6:00

Georgie Girl. 2002. New Zealand. Directed by Annie Goldson. Intelligent, funny, and full of charisma, Georgina Beyer, née George Beyer, is the world’s first transsexual to hold national office. A former sex worker of Maori heritage, she was, amazingly enough, voted into New Zealand’s parliament in 1999 by a mostly white, largely conservative rural constituency. The film presents a beautifully rounded portrait of this farm boy who transformed himself into a celebrated cabaret diva and grassroots community leader. 53 min.
Sunday, April 27, 8:00

When the War Is Over. 2002. South Africa. Directed by François Verster. Bonteheuvel, a township near Cape Town, was notorious for its violent riots in the 1980s during the armed struggle against apartheid. This film focuses on the day-to-day lives of two former members of the teenage unit Bonteheuvel Military Wing, a guerilla branch of the ANC, as they find their way in present South Africa. In Afrikaans and English with English subtitles. 52 min.
Monday, April 28, 6:00

Lost Boys of Sudan. 2003. USA. Directed by Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk. This warm, smartly structured film follows two young refugees and their fellow “Lost Boys,” from the Kenyan refugee camp where they were hiding out from the twenty-year civil war in Sudan through their first year in the United States. The film puts a very human face on the often abstract, global issues of displacement, alienation, and acculturation, as well as on the more concrete problem of being young and in a land not your own. In Dinka and English with English subtitles. 87 min.
Thursday, May 1, 4:00

Flute Player. 2003. USA. Directed by Jocelyn Glatzer. The remarkable musician Arn Chorn-Pond, who grew up under Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime, escaped from imprisonment in a death camp in 1979 and made his way to safety in Thailand. The film is a stunning portrait of Chorn-Pond’s endeavor to rescue traditional Cambodian music from the brink of extinction and bring the tragic story of Cambodia’s holocaust to the world. In Khmer and English with English subtitles. 53 min. Chorn-Pond present.
Thursday, May 1, 6:00; Friday, May 2, 2:00

Seeing Is Believing. 2001. Canada. Directed by Katerina Cizek, Peter Wintonick. It invades your privacy and protects your rights: the camcorder. It began as a hobbyist’s dream and has become a political weapon, a tool of justice, and a portable way of preserving history. This film, while aware of the camcorder’s potential for abuse, champions it as a major advancement in the global fight for human rights. 53 min.
Behind the Labels. 2002. USA. Directed by Tia Lessin. An eye-opening film about human rights and an inspiring tale of one woman’s emancipation and fight for justice on United States territory—Saipan, where Japanese and Filipino female garment-workers are part of a billion-dollar industry, yet have no rights and are excluded from U.S. immigration laws. 46 min.
Friday, May 2, 3:15

Stealing the Fire. 2001. USA. Directed by John Friedman, Eric Nadler. How did Saddam Hussein get his hands on nuclear technology? Directors Nadler and Friedman follow a nightmarishly convoluted international trail in search of the origins of the centrifuge scandal, which takes them from the Middle East and South America of the present day to Adolph Hitler’s Germany. In English and German with English subtitles. 95 min.
Friday, May 2, 5:00



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