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Afghan Muscles
Country: Denmark
Year: 2006
Length: 58 min
Director: Andreas M. Dalsgaard
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The
young men of Afghanistan have discovered the art of bodybuilding.
In a country ravaged by war, these men still hold on to their
dreams; dreams of muscle, honour and fame, absolute control
of the body in a world of chaos. Afghan Muscles is a story
about dreams. The dreams we all share, but that are never
the same. From the rubbles of Kabul to the skyline of Dubai
we follow Hamid on a great journey to honour both his own
dreams and his fathers aspirations.
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The Forgotten Refugees
Country: USA, Israel
Year: 2005-2007
Length: 49 min
Director: Michael Grynszpan, Ralph Avi Goldwasser
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The
Forgotten Refugees explores the history and destruction of
Middle Eastern Jewish communities, some of which had existed
for over 2,500 years. Employing extensive testimony of survivors
from Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Iraq, the film recounts the stories
of "joy and of suffering" that nearly a million
individuals have carried with them for so long. Segments on
the contributions of Middle Eastern Jews to politics, business
and music, testify to the enormously rich cultures which fleeing
Jews left behind. The film weaves personal stories with dramatic
archival footage of rescue missions, historic images of exodus
and resettlement, and analysis by contemporary scholars, to
tell the story of how and why the Arab world's Jewish population
declined from one million in 1945 to several thousand today.
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The Tea In England
Country: UK
Year: 2007
Length: 14 min
Director: Kerry McLeod
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A tea break-sized
glimpse into the many and varied ways that Britain's favourite
brew is enjoyed today,“ and it's not always a simple case
of tea bag and milk. From Xun, the self-confessed tea fanatic
with a cupboard full of teas to Grazyna, who collects wild
and wonderful teas wherever she travels, but for whom nothing
beats the traditional cuppa, this film is a homage to the
most popular hot drink in the world.
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Rojeki
Bafri /
A Snowy Day
Country: Australia- Iraq
Language: Kurdish
Year: June 2006
Length: 10 minutes
Director: Hossein Jehani |
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is early morning and the sky is getting brighter on a Kurdish
village as it starts to snow. People gradually emerge from
their homes and tend to their everyday chores. We follow a
little boy visiting his father's grave and then to his house
where his mother tells us about the death of her husband.
During the Iraq-Iran war the area was covered by mines and
the father died trying to retrieve one to sell it back to
Iran for money. Every Friday the little boy visits his father's
grave and pretends he is a soldier defending his home.
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The
Dali Triangle
Country: UK
Language: English
Year: 2007
Length: 55"
Producers: Maureen Murray & Clifford Thurlow |
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Ghostwriter
Clifford Thurlow finds himself haunted by the ghosts from
his book "Sex, Surrealism, Dali and Me":Â Salvador Dali,
the surrealist painter, and Carlos Lozano, the galerista and
Dali intimate who died 6 weeks after the book was published.
What begins as a road trip through Cadaques, Figueras and
Pubol - the so called Dali Triangle - becomes a portrait of
Thurlow himself, of how a writer actually works and how this
particular biography changed his life.
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