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identity
It took a long time before the Western powers and Japan engaged in a critical examination of their colonial pasts and the crimes they committed in the occupied regions. France, which colonized Algeria from 1830 to 1962, is a case in point. The best known documentation is the 1966 feature Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo which illustrates the escalating violence and atrocities committed by French armed forces against civilians and the response by the liberation movement FLN. Several years ...
Gaia International Film Festival is the place to talk about food and its territories, societies and peoples, traditions and memory, culture ...
A Festival that aims to promote the territorial identities of the whole world and to enhance their cultures and typicality through the cinematic narration of food and wine traditions.
At the same time, the Festival aims to promote and enhance the talents of national and international independent cinema to allow them a fruitful exchange of experiences, direct comparison with professionals in the sector and the expansion of skills, as well as to increase the possibility of making themselves known from a wider audience.
Director: LUCY SHEEN.
Identity, for the majority of people living in the UK, is something which is taken for granted.
We see ourselves reflected back as we gaze into the eyes of our parents. But what if as a child the images, the people that you saw around you didn’t look anything like you? What then? What if your parents weren’t actually your parents and the country that you grew up in wasn’t actually the country of your birth.
An independent documentary exploring the nature of identity, through the eyes of an adult transracial adoptee (Lucy Sheen). How being an adoptee affects and influences others like herself and what it means (if anything ) to be both Chinese and British - if there is such a thing?
Director: Gabriel Szollozy.
On November 19, 1970 a bomb exploded in my hands. What is the mathematical probability of surviving to tell the tale?" Asks Mr. Juan José Cabezas. In 1973, Pepe Vázquez was rehearsing a ballet of Victor Jara when brought arrested to the Estadio Nacional de Chile. "We were put a gun to our head and made us sing. They didn't know that I was free with music". "I always behaved well, I was the pastor's son, until I realized and I said: I must do something", says the Evangelical Pastor Ruben Arthur.
Does it make sense to plan your life? Can you plan a society?
An artist, a philosopher and a scientist revive the Southern Cone's recent history, from the intimacy of absolute freedom seekers.
Director: Karlos Alastruey.
A woman shifts to a parallel world during the night, and she must live a new life.
Wariazone trailer. Wariazone is a documentary exploring the notion of transgender in Indonesia.
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