DOCUMENTARY 2017

DOCUMENTARY FOR MARCHE DU FILM 2017

IVORY A CRIME STORY

  • TITLE: IVORY. A CRIME STORY
  • GENRE : Documentary
  • PRODUCTION YEAR : 2016
  • RUNNING TIME : 89 min
  • COUNTRY : FRANCE, KENYA, RUSSIA
  • DIRECTOR: Sergey Yastrzhembskiy
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alexandr Antonov, Frédéric Belge, William Chingonbe, Gabriele Clementi, Thierry Derouet, Yury Efremov, Alex Hofford, Elena Ivanova, Erick Kaglan, Elisbar Karavaev, Gleb Kiselev, Jonathan Klein, Yaniv Linton, Sergey Matveev, Vladimir Mernikov, Charlotte Notteghem, Anton Popilin, Diego Ramos, Narcisse Sandjon, Vitaly, Semenov, Nikolay Tarkhanov, Sergey Vasiliev, Alexander Voloshin
  • Producer/s : Sergey Yastrzhembskiy, Chris Bolzli, Leshan Lebasha
  • Narrated by : Jeff Koinange

SYNOPSIS :
Ivory. A crime story is arguably one of the most condemning film ever made about the massacre of elephants in Africa. It fires arrows at a complex web of culprits, from China and Buddhist monks, to corrupt African high-officials, toothless NGOs and secretive Chinese businessmen, building fortunes on an never-increasing demand for ivory which has brought one of the world’s most intelligent animals to near the brink of extinction.

TIGERS AND HUMANS

  • PRODUCTION: 2016
  • GENRE: DOCUMENTARY
  • COUNTRY: RUSSIA
  • DIRECTOR: SERGEY YASTRZHEMBSKY
  • SYNOPSIS:

A new film by Sergey Yastrzhembsky that highlights the gruesome massacre of tigers internationally. These felines are killed to fuel the trade for their teeth, skins, meat, and even bones to create "tiger wine."

FIGHTING TO BE FREE

FIGHTING TO BE FREE

TITLE: Fighting to Be Free
▪ PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016
▪ GENRE: Documentary
▪ COUNTRY: Ethiopia
▪ DIRECTOR: Cheryl Halpern

PRODUCERS: Cheryl Halpern, Mitchell Stuart
SYNOPSIS:
“Fighting To Be Free” celebrates the young freedom fighting heroines of Ethiopia during the latter part of the 20th century. These young women challenged all cultural norms when they left their homes and families to join the struggle to bring freedom, peace and democracy to their country. They came from diverse backgrounds; literate and illiterate, urban and rural and created a supportive sisterhood that challenged existing cultural myths and prejudices.

FASCINATION: HELENA’S STORY

  • GENRE : Documentary
  • PRODUCTION YEAR : 2016
  • RUNNING TIME : 63 mins
  • COUNTRY : USA
  • DIRECTOR: Karen Goldfarb
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emilie Alpert
  • PRODUCERS : Karen Goldfarb
  • SYNOPSIS : An intimate portrait of Holocaust survivor Helena Weinrauch. She survived 3 concentration camps, 2 firing squads and the death march from Auschwitz to Bergen Belsen. Yet now , at the age of 92, she exudes an extraordinary joie de vivre and radiates forgiveness and love. And, as a mere girl of 88, she decided to fulfill a lifelong dream become a Ballroom Dancer. And yes, the lady can dance!

The film weaves her memories of the war with her joyous life now as a dancer.

AGAVE IS LIFE

PRODUCTION: 2014
GENRE: Documentary

  • COUNTRY: USA
  • DIRECTOR: David Brown and Meredith Dreiss
  • NARRATED BY: James Olmos
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Layton Blaylock

SYNOPSIS:
Agave is life is the story of mankind's symbiotic alliance with the marvelous agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico's iconic distilled spirit is derived.

THE LOST VILLAGE

PRODUCTION: 2016

  • GENRE: Documentary
  • COUNTRY: USA
  • RUNNING TIME: 89 min
  • DIRECTOR: Roger Paradiso

SYNOPSIS:
In Greenwich Village there is debt slavery and prostitution at NYU due to high tuition and fees for students. NYU and other landlords are changing the character of the Bohemian Village due to outrageous rents and pass along real estate taxes.
agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico's iconic distilled spirit is derived.

AFRICA BLOOD & BEAUTY

  • TITLE: Africa Blood & Beauty
  • GENRE : Documentary
  • PRODUCTION YEAR : 2012
  • RUNNING TIME : 60 min
  • COUNTRY : Russia -

Nomadic Berbers (Morocco): 600,000
Dogon (Mali): 500,000
Hamer (Ethiopia): 40, 000
Baka Pygmies (Cameroon): 30,000
Surma (Ethiopia): 30,000
Himba (Namibia): 10,000
Bushmen (Botswana): fewer than 400 in the Kalahari desert.

  • DIRECTOR: Sergey Yastrzhembskiy
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY:
  • Producer/s : Sergey Yastrzhembskiy
  • Narrated by :

SYNOPSIS :
This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapshots of their traditional lifestyles before they are gone for good.
The protagonists of this film – the Bushmen, Pygmies, Surma and Hamer, Berbers and Himba, Yoruba and Dogon – live beyond the passage of time, doing their best to preserve ancestral traditions, believing in their gods and protecting their fragile world from the growing pressure of globalization.
This film is a declaration of love for Africa, the cradle of humankind. But it is also an appeal to the Africans to forgive us – for the progress that sows not only the good things…
Day by day, they are rapidly disappearing, those who still live “beyond the passage of time”:

Nomadic Berbers (Morocco): 600,000
Dogon (Mali): 500,000
Hamer (Ethiopia): 40, 000
Baka Pygmies (Cameroon): 30,000
Surma (Ethiopia): 30,000
Himba (Namibia): 10,000
Bushmen (Botswana): fewer than 400 in the Kalahari desert.