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MIPDOC 2011

AGNUS DEI: LAMB OF GOD by Alejandra Sanchez \| La Femme Endormie - Pepa Films - Fopro Cine \| 84' - 52' \| France-Mexico \| 2010 \| HD
	Agnus Dei is a courageous, candid documentary on the thorny subject of pedophilia in the Catholic Church. As an 11-year-old altar boy, Jesús, now 26, was abused by a priest. After years of silence, he decides not only to bring criminal charges against his aggressor, but to confront him in the flesh. This is the story of Jesús's journey, a mandatory hiatus on the road to forgiveness, born of a deep-seated need to come to terms with the past. Jesús is torn between brotherly love and anger toward his sexual predator in this film full of nuances that gives a name and a face to a problem stigmatized by silence.
ALL THAT GLITTERS by Tomas Kudrna\| Armada Films \| 90' - 57' \| Czech Republic \| 2010\| HD
	The Kyrgyz Republic, one of the post-soviet republics in Central Asia, is a very recent democracy. The Canadian company, Cameco, is operating the Kumtor gold mine in this region. All that Glitters shows the unique imprint the Communist past has had on the local mine workers and their way to adjust to the capitalistic system. It also explores the effort of the Canadian company to adjust to the communist mentality of Kyrgyz people.
THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE by Marie Losier \| 72' \| USA \| HD
	This is a love story, and a portrait of two lives that illustrate the transformative powers of both love and art. Marie Losier brings to us the most intimate details of Genesis P-Orridge's extraordinary, uncanny world. He has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years and the founder of the legendary groups COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. Defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits of biology. In 2000, he began a series of sex reassignment surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye. The film documents a truly new brand of Romantic consciousness, conveying beauty, dignity and devotion from a perspective never before seen on film.
BICYCLE SPOON APPLE by Carles Bosch \| Cromosoma \| 90' - 57' \| Spain \| 2010 \| HD
	Alzheimer's disease has no cure and affects over 24 million people worldwide, a number that will quadruple within 10 years. This unique documentary blends human drama with science following Pasqual Maragall's life, a born fighter and beloved politician who brought the Olympics to Barcelona, as he works with the leading doctors in the field to eradicate the disease, knowing that he will never reap the benefits because he is a victim as well.
BOYAMBA \| BELGIQUE or why a king should not lose his sword by D. Engels & B. Van Peel \| Serendipity Films \| 60' \| Belgium \| 2010 \| HD
	On June 30, 1960, Congo became independent from Belgium. On Wednesday June 29, 1960, around half past four in the afternoon, the German photographer Robert Lebeck shot the picture of his life. A young black unexpectedly steals the sabre of King Baudouin, and seals herewith the independence. Later, the photographer went looking for this man, but he had vanished. An anonymous note in history. In 2009 and 2010, a small Belgium crew went to Congo and met several "suspects" and discovered some amazing theories about the how and why of this deed. And finally, they found the thief!
BURMA SOLDIER by Nic Dunlop & Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern \| leBrocquy Fraser Productions - Break Thru Films \| 70' - 58' \| Ireland-Burma-Thailand \| USA \| 2010 \| HD
	"Only when there is discipline will there be progress" reads the billboard on the side of a Burmese road. Indeed, "discipline" by the standards of the ruling Burmese army means keeping civilians living in terror, and violently crushing any sign of dissent. Myo Mint knows this first hand - he entered the army as a teenager, attracted by the promise of security and power. But his harrowing stint came to an equally harrowing end when an arm and leg were blown away whilst clearing mines. Discharged and disillusioned, he began to try to educate himself - illicitly through banned books - on just why Burma was at war with itself. He soon became an outspoken activist, campaigning against the very regime he used to represent - a dangerous undertaking which soon led to brutal repercussions.
CIRCO by Aaron Schock \| Hecho a Mano Films \| 75' \| USA-Mexico \| 2010 \| HD
	Gorgeously filmed along the back roads of rural Mexico, Circo follows the Ponce family's hardscrabble circus as it struggles to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering family conflict. Tino, the ringmaster, is driven by his dream to lead his parents' circus to success and corrals the energy of his whole family, including his four young children, towards this singular goal. But his wife Ivonne is determined to make a change. Feeling exploited by her in-laws, she longs to return to her kids a childhood lost to laboring in the circus. Circo opens the viewer to the luminous world of a traveling circus while examining the universal themes of family bonds, filial responsibility, and the weight of cultural inheritance.
THE ELECTRIC MIND by Nadav Harel \| Noprocess Films \| 60' \| Israel \| 2010 \| HD
	The Electric Mind is a filmic journey into the heads and hearts of four people suffering from debilitating brain disorders: Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Epilepsy and Dystonia. As these people undergo groundbreaking treatments involving intervening with the electric activity of their brain, questions arise about medical ethics, our brain-body and brain-mind interactions and about the essence of our personal identity. Recent conceptual and technological advancements in brain sciences are turning science fiction into genuine medical reality for the millions suffering from brain disorders.
HEALTH FACTORY by Håvard Bustnes \| Faction Film \| 78' - 58' \| Norway \| 2010 \| HD
	Health care institutions mimic industry production to become more efficient. The goal is to get more health for the money spent, based on the presumption that private corporations are more efficient and less wasteful than public institutions. Do we have to be in competitive state in order to work efficiently, or does professional pride really exist? Are we about to lose our humanity in our struggle to increase productivity?
KARLA'S ARRIVAL by Koen Suidgeest \| El Rayo Films - Cobra - Daggewood \| 88' - 58' \| Spain-Belgium-USA \| 2010 \| HD
	In Managua, Nicaragua, teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Based in a city park and part of a larger group of youngsters, mother and baby struggle to reach the little one's first birthday. Beautifully told and full of hope, Karla's Arrival offers an intense personal story about second generation street children.
LOST DOWN MEMORY LANE by Klara Van Es \| Associate Directors - Memphis Film & Television \| 90' - 55' \| Belgium-Netherlands \| 2010 \| HD
	This is the first documentary about living with Alzheimer's, as seen through the eyes of the people who suffer from it. The characters live together in an apartment called Iduna, under constant supervision and care. Iduna is a somewhat unusual department of The Bijster, a nursing home for people with dementia in Belgium. The eight residents of Iduna are in - scientifically considered - the first phase of the disease: flurries of lucidity, forgetfulness and falling into oblivion alternate constantly.
MY BAREFOOT FRIENDby Seong-Gyou Lee \| Trump Media - SigongTech - CreativEAST \| 81' - 52' \| South Korea \| 2010 \| HD
	In Calcutta, 20 thousand feet are running tangled up, all barefoot. They are rickshaw pullers. Among them are Manoj, a feeble young man, Mohamad, a lovely trickster, and Husain the street sage. And Shallim, an ordinary man. For Shallim, an old and tired rickshaw has been the only means of hope. He's run endless miles with it to save up money to buy an auto rickshaw, that will realize his dream: a house for his family. However, despair comes to the weakest first. Shallim's wife is found to be seriously ill. His son catches a swine flu. Hospital charges are mounting and Shalim's dream is on the verge of collapsing.
MY REINCARNATION by Jennifer Fox \| Zohe Films \| 82' - 58' \| USA \| 2010 \| HD
	My Reincarnation is an epic father-son drama, spanning two decades and three generations, about spirituality, cultural survival, identity, inheritance, family, growing old, growing up, Buddhism, Dzogchen-and past and future lives. The film follows the renowned reincarnate Tibetan spiritual master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, as he struggles to save his spiritual tradition, and his Italian born son, Yeshi, who stubbornly refuses to follow in his father's footsteps. Yeshi was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of his father's uncle, a high spiritual master who died at the hands of the Chinese in Tibet. But while Yeshi longs for a normal life, he cannot escape his destiny...
NUMB by Phil Lawrence \| Little Dog Big Bite Films - Frozen Feet Films \| 78' - 52' \| USA \| 2011
	What would happen if you decided to stop taking antidepressants? This film documents the drastic effects on the filmmaker's physical and psychological well-being after giving up his medication in his quest to stop feeling "numb". It also reveals the impact his journey had on his family as well as revealing startling information about antidepressants that the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want you to know.
THE PRICE OF SEX by Mimi Chakarova \| Violeu Productions \| 73' \| USA \| 2011 \| HD
	The Price of Sex is an investigative documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse. Intimate, harrowing and revealing, it is a story told by the young women who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and violence. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal investigative journey exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access for nearly a decade, Chakarova illuminates how although some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives.
THE QUEEN HAS NO CROWN by Tomer Heymann \| Heymann Brothers Films \| 84' - 58' \| Israel \| 2011
	The Queen Has No Crown is a poignant meditation on family, loss, and the mental maps of homelessness. The film navigates the intimate lives of 5 brothers and their mother, over the course of a decade, through the pains of exile and the joys of family bonding. Exploring the politics of belonging, displacement, and homosexuality, the film examines the hard decisions one Israeli family has to make and the intractable bonds that unite them in the face of complicated life choices.
SOMETHING ABOUT GEORGIA - 99' \| DESPERATELY SEEKING EUROPE - 58' by Nino Kirtadzé \| Zadig Productions \| 99' - 58' \| France \| 2010 \| HD
	The film is a political fable that depicts the frail equilibrium of the world and questions the values of international politics. It takes us through a critical year in the life of Georgia's young democracy- from the presidential election of January 2008 to the chaos of the war with Russia and the sobering aftermath - and raises questions about political responsibility and the morality of international affairs. It intimately captures the human and political drama of those months, when Georgia found itself briefly at the centre of global attention, and poses searching questions about the modern world and its values.
THIS IS MY PICTURE WHEN I WAS DEAD by Mahmoud al Massad \| KeyDocs - iSee Film \| 75' - 52' \| The Netherlands \| 2010 \| HD
	When Bashir Meraish was four-years-old two men in motorcycles rode next to the car he and his father, a top lieutenant of Palestine Liberation Organization, were in and shot into it 13 times presumably killing them both. 25 years later director Mahmoud al Massad examines Meraish's miraculous life that was thought to have ended on the night of the assassination and the dream that did die.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN by Yony Leyser \| Yonilizer Productions - BulletProof Film - PBS \| 90' - 60' \| USA \| 2010
	Burroughs was one of the first writers to cross the boundaries of queer and drug culture in the 1950s. His novel Naked Lunch is one of the most recognized literary works of the 20th Century. He has influenced generations of artists. However, his friends were left wondering, did William ever find happiness? This intimate documentary breaks the surface of the troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of all time. It features never-before-seen archival footage, as well as exclusive interviews with Burroughs' colleagues and confidants including John Waters, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Sonic Youth, Gus Van Sant, and many more.
THE WOODMANS by C. Scott Willis \| C Scott Films LLC \| 82' \| USA \| 2010 \| HD
	The Woodmans are a family of well-known artists bonded in their belief of art-making as the highest form of expression, but for their daughter Francesca -- one of the late 20th century's most recognized and influential photographer -- fame came only after a tragedy that would forever scar the family. The Woodmans traces the story of a family broken and then healed by their art.