THE XXXV PÄRNU FILM FESTIVAL DAY 5

Friday July 16^th

11.00 | Nikolai 26 | Nominated for the Grand Prize:

A MAN AND A CAMERA by Guido Hendrikx, Netherlands, 63′

Masterclass by the director and author of the movie – Guido Hendrikx

Movie trailer: https://cineuropa.org/en/video/rdid/401711/

A playful doc by an author who is hiding behind his camera, creating a portrait of a Dutch people as curious and warm individuals. To open his protagonists, Guido Hendrix uses a kind of key no filmmaker has ever used before. Let’s be curious as well and see where the author would reach with his camera.

16.00 | Nikolai 26 | Masterclass by Andrzej Cichocki:

Methods of author’s film making in Poland

Short docs by Andrzej Cichocki

18.00 | Nikolai 26 |Docs for Kids:

SCHOOL OF HOPE by Mohamed El Aboudi, Morocco/Finland, 78′

The film maker who has found his new home in Finland, takes the viewer to Bedouins in Maroccan Sahara. The challenge of the children is to go to school and to fly away to the big world. The challenge for their parents is the opposite – the children should stay at home to work as herders and to keep alive the thousand-year-old lifestyle.

19.30 | Nikolai 26 | Docs on survival of indigenous peoples:

THE ROOTS WEAVER by Fernando Saldivia, Chile, 10′

A poetic observation of the indigenous Yaghan art of grass­ weaving as developed in Chile. It is an intergenerational process from the extraction of raw material to the exhibition of a final piece; original tradition is attached to diverse aural and visual textures.

I WON’T REMAIN ALONE by Yaser Talebi, Iran, 15′

In a village of Iran, an old couple lose their son. They decided to donate his organs. Five years later, they hear the sound of their child’s heart.

BEFORE I DIE by Iker Esteibarlanda, Spain/Kenia, 14′

In a small island of Lake Victoria, Kenya, fishermen believe that they are entitled to everything. Meanwhile, women and girls are forced to carry the weight of their silence. In a close journey through her childhood memories, a young woman decides to tell her story to lighten her burden and find hope…

OUR LOVE by Valeriya Golovina, New Zeeland, 16′

Meli and her husband Avito reflect on the pivotal decision of their lives. With much trepidation they left the tiny atoll of Tokelau for New Zealand seeking a better life for their son. 43 years on, they find themselves pulled between family and a longing for home.

A SINGLE DAY by Frédéric Furnelle, Belgium/Ethiopia 45′

Assayuh, living in an isolated village, seven days’ walk from Lalibela in Ethiopia, raises in a particularly patriarchal rural society, her two daughters and two sons alone. The Amharic language spoken in the film, is not subtitled. Our incompre­ hension of what is spoken gives way to the richness of the exchanges of silent glances and gestures. As the life of the village looks like a century behind us, the author has used black and white images and ways of expression of the past cinema.

21.30 | Nikolai 26 |Nominee for the Grand Prize:

PIEDRA SOLA by Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf, Argentina, 72′

Deep inside the Argentinian highlands at an altitude of 4000 m, a native llama herder is following the traces of an invisible puma who is killing his livestock. Through his incessant search, a mystical encounter is revealed between him, his ancestors and the changing form of the puma.

21.30 | ETV2 | Nominated for Estonian Peoples Award:

SCHOOL OF HOPE by Mohamed El Aboudi, Morocco/Finland, 78′|  6229955

The film maker who has found his new home in Finland, takes the viewer to Bedouins in Maroccan Sahara. The challenge of the children is to go to school and to fly away to the big world. The challenge for their parents is the opposite – the children should stay at home to work as herders and to keep alive the thousand-year-old lifestyle.