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Daddy and Lili Marlene / Taticek a Lili Marlen [FL 1450]
The life of each of us is unique and unrepeatable. The cycle “ Private Century ” tells authentic stories based on private family film archives. The “Private Century ” shows the history as a set of intimate human stories. Their intensity can affect also others because the essential events take place in every single one of our lives. “Daddy and Lili Marlene” is a lose sequel to “the King of Velichovky” part of the series. The story is narrated from the point of view of little Eva who recollects her memories of Velichovky and her parents: daddy and Lili. Life was captured on private archive films in 30’s and 40’s of the last century. Jan Sikl, Czech Republic, 2005, Czech/Subtitles: English, 52 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Damn Circumstances / Maldita circunstancia, La [FL 916]
Candido finds his life crumbling away when his small house floods and he gets caught up in the red tape of government bureaucracy. A satirical glimpse at contemporary life in Havana. Eduardo Eimil, Cuba, 2002, Spanish, 11 min, short film, VHS

Damnation / Kárhozat [FL 1479]
While at the time of its making, before the fall of the Berlin wall, the film was widely understood as the representation of the last days of communism, however there is more to it than that: it is about the hopelessness of human existence, and not only in an evil society. In the unspecified mining town in Hungary it has been raining for days, stray dogs fight among the dilapidated buildings. There are no birds on the dull grey sky and the buckets of the mine run squeaking disagreeably. The protagonists Karrer, Sebestyén and his wife are pathetically vegetating void beings. One day Karrer is hired by the bar owner to do a smuggling trip but he lets the job to Sebestyén, the husband of the singer Karrer longs for. Béla Tarr, Hungary, 1987, Hungarian/Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, 116 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Damned, The / Prokleti [FL 1217]
Filmed in Congo, the documentary investigates a custom which connects evil and witchcraft by labeling unwanted children as possessed by the devil. Exorcisms are performed on such children and if they fail, the children are banished from the community and become homeless. Hundreds of them live on the streets of today's Kinshasa, with no way to survive except by begging or petty theft. The journey into the dark heart of the black continent leads through various characters who manage to make a profitable business out of this hellish medieval drama. The viewer becomes witness not only to bizarre stories from the lives of children, but also to an incredible array of characters. Portraits of shamans and modern-day exorcists gradually reveal the mechanisms of a system that feeds on poverty and desperation. Damnation turns out to be profitable scam for everyone - except the children. Petr Orozovič, Czech Republic, 2006, French/Subtitles: English, 75 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Dancing Bear Park / Парк За Танцуващи Мечки [FL 538]
Bulgaria is the last country in Europe where not long ago, dancing bears could be spotted in the streets, led on chains by bear-keeping gypsies. With the financial help from the Brigitte Bardot foundation, the world's largest and most sophisticated Dancing Bear Park was built near the small mountain town of Belitsa, and the surviving animals were resettled there. The film tells the story of the bears and of the people – the former bear-keepers who have been left without their livelihood, and the local impoverished population, who say with envy: "In Belitsa bears live better than people!" The goal-oriented NGO leader buys off the bears from their keepers for what they consider small money. He is happy with his state-of-art bear park explaining the initial skepticism of locals. Yet the ex-owners are not only shedding tears of separation, but have serious insecurities about the future income. Eldora Traikova, Bulgaria, 2004, Bulgarian/Subtitles: English, 54 min, DVD-ROM

Danube Exodus, The / Dunai exodus [FL 332]
An intimate, surprising, and gripping journey into the world of refugees displaced by war. Music, newsreel images, and narration from private diaries are combined with extraordinary footage taken by the captain of a Danube cruise ship between 1938 and 1945. He filmed the transformation of his elegant ship into a refugee liner that carried Central European Jews desperate to escape the coming war, travelling by way of the Danube River to the Black Sea and beyond, to Palestine. The captain captures the hopes and anxieties of his passengers as they dance, pray, and even find romance. As the war continues, he begins to ferry a different set of refugees in the other direction: Bessarabian Germans expelled by the Russians in 1940. Their evacuation and resettlement in Poland as World War II progresses is a haunting counterpoint to the fate of the Jewish refugees. Péter Forgács, Hungary, 1998, English, 60 min, VHS

Danube waves, The / Valurile Dunarii [FL 50]
The movie is about the tumultuous years of the final period of World War II in Romania. When a Romanian port on the Danube is sabotaged by partisans, the Germans ask for a barge to collect what is left after the explosion. Bargee Mihai, takes along his new wife, Ana, on his voyage up the Danube, despite wartime bombs and mines, but it ultimately proves to be a journey of personal discovery for them both. It’s 1944, and his cargo of arms for the retreating Germans, as well as the convergence of Nazi “protectors,” newly insurgent partisans, and suspicious crew members, mark him as a man in the middle, faced with an unexpected moral choice. Liviu Ciulei, Romania, 1959, Romanian, 100 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Daughter from Yan'an / Enan no musume [FL 377]
A Chinese woman's search for her real parents, members of the Red Guard who abandoned her shortly after she was born. Haixia has spent her entire life in Yan'an and she longs to know why she was abandoned. Through her single-minded quest for her parents, the viewer is offered an intimate glimpse of events which occurred in China in the mid-1960's, Mao inaugurated his Cultural Revolution, including the slogan "Young people will learn the roots of the revolution from peasant farmers." Haixia's parents were among sixteen million students to whom this slogan applied. The indisputable existence of the daughter of Yan'an forces the forsaken children of the revolution to confront the bitterness of the past - a period in which the smiling masses, resolutely looking forward to a splendid future, concealed the unbearable private suffering of so many individuals. An exceptionally personal view of the legacy of Cultural Revolution in China. Kaoru Ikeya, Japan, 2001, /Subtitles: English, 120 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Daughter in Law / Невестка [FL 621]
The film is based on a true story witnessed by the director of the film. At the very railway junction where he spent his childhood there lived two people - an old shepherd and his daughter in law. The shepherd's son died at the front. The young wife, however, never accepted his death and kept waiting for her husband's return. The film "Daughter in Law" portrays the usual lifestyle of Turkmen shepherds with much insight and sympathy for the deeper meaning of traditional values. The wealth of detail and the laconic, iconographic, imagery prompted certain critics to call this film an "encyclopedia of Turkmen life." The cast of the movie is also noteworthy, especially the performance of the young actress Maya-Guizel Aymedova, who later became one of the best-known actresses of Turkmenistan. The film received the USSR State prize and was awarded numerous prizes at international film festivals, including Locarno, Tbilisi, Sorrento, Venice, etc. Hodzhakuli Narliev, Turkmenistan, 1972, Russian, Russian/Subtitles: English, 75 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

David Bek / Давид-Бек [FL 1096]
Made during the years of the WWII to inspire patriotic feelings, the film is a historical costume epic set in the 18th century, presenting the liberation struggle of Armenians under the leadership of David-Bek against the Persian conquerors. Amo Bek-Nazarov, Soviet Union, 1943, Russian, 90 min, DVD-ROM

David the Tolhildan / David der Tolhildan [FL 1139]
This film is a portrait of David Rouiller, a young Swiss man who joined the Kurdish freedom movement six years ago. Rouiller, the son of a university Professor and a former President of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, gave up a comfortable and safe existance in Switzerland, and the amenities of a Western lifestyle, to commit his life and strength to the ideals of the Kurdish freedom fight. Is he an adventurer, a dreamer, an idealist, a hero? Is his commitment visionary or illusionary? The film, "David the Tolhildan" encourages viewers to confront their own outlook on oppression, respect, human dignity, freedom, and violence. It also provides an impressive, realistic and up-to-date view of the current situation of the Kurdish freedom movement. Mano Khalil, Switzerland, 2006, German, French, Kurdish/Subtitles: English, 54 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Day I Will Never Forget, The [FL 80]
As many as 100 - 140 million women worldwide have been subjected to female circumcision, a practice that dates back to ancient Egypt and which can be found in many traditional cultures today. It is estimated that as many as two million young girls undergo this painful and life threatening operation every year. Set in Kenya, the film explores the tradition of female circumcision in both Kenyan society and among the large group of Somali émigrés. Even though the practice is officially outlawed, cultural acceptance in these societies depends heavily on the fact of female circumcision, and the practice shows no signs of declining. Men support it as a way of guaranteeing fidelity, but it is women, mothers who were circumcised themselves, who are often the most outspoken supporters of the practice. Increasingly, young girls seek to defy their parents and avoid this painful and debilitating ritual. Kim Longinotto, England, 2002, Swahili (macrolanguage)/Subtitles: English, 92 min, documentary film, VHS

Day of Freedom - Our Armed Forces / Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht [FL 261]
The 7th Nazi Party Congress with glorious marching of German troops during the colorful ceremonies in Nuremberg on German Armed Forces Day 1935. Leni Riefenstahl, Germany, 1935, German/Subtitles: English, 31 min, propaganda film, VHS

Dead Presumed Missing? [FL 1302]
About two thousand people dissapeared in Cyprus between 1963 and 1974. One third are Turks, and the remaining are Greek Cypriots. The issue of the missing persons in Cyprus has remained obscure to this day. The film investigates the destiny of the missing persons in both sides. Were they killed? When and under what circumstances? Where are their remains buried? Stories of the families of the missing persons are corroborated with statements of the officials. To this day, the fate and whereabouts of the missing persons on both sides has remained an official secret. By following the desperate attempts of two Greek Cypriot women to discover what happened to their loved ones, the film explores the significance of mortuary rituals, and the political lives of the dead bodies of both the Greek and the Turkish Cypriots. Colette Piault, Paul Sant Cassia, (n/a), 2003, , Greek, Modern (1453-)/Subtitles: English, 40 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Death in Gaza [FL 665]
In the spring of 2003 director James Miller and reporter Saira Shah traveled to the Middle East to record the way in which ordinary children grow up under extraordinary conditions. The main characters in their film are Ahmed, Mohammed, and Najla, three friends living in the city of Rafah on the edge of the dangerous Gaza Strip, Ahmed and Mohammed spend their free time playing soldiers or throwing stones at the Israeli tanks or bulldozers. Their deeply-engrained hatred towards Israel, created by the conditions in which they grew up and fostered by a well-developed system of brainwashing, suggests that they are well on their way to becoming suicide bombers. During the making of the documentary, however, a shocking event occurs. Director and cameraman James Miller, father of two small children, is himself killed by an IDF soldier. Miller becomes another victim of the conflict whose destructive impact on the lives of Palestinian children he was trying faithfully to record. James Miller, United Kingdom, 2004, English, Arabic, Hebrew/Subtitles: English, 79 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Death of Yugoslavia, The Part 1 [FL 280]
Film on the disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1987-1994. Angus MacQueen, United Kingdom, 1995, English, 49 min, documentary film, VHS

Death of Yugoslavia, The Part 2 [FL 281]
Film on the disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1987-1994. Angus MacQueen, United Kingdom, 1995, English, 48 min, documentary film, VHS

Debt, The / Dlug [FL 682]
A gripping thriller about two entrepreneurs who become tangled in the web of a Russian thug. Two friends begin a business venture of importing Italian scooters into Poland. With no collateral, they turn to a Russian acquaintance that offers money and support in the beginning and then inexplicably turns violent and vicious. Tension mounts as the two friends begin to understand what must be done. Based on a true story, "The Debt" is a terrifying tale of ordinary men pushed to their limit. Stars Robert Gonera, Jacek Borcuch, Andrzej Chyra. Krzysztof Krauze, Poland, 1999, Polish/Subtitles: English, 97 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Decent Factory, A [FL 661]
Director Thomas Balmes follows Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, in his quest to tackle the problem of sustainable enterprise. Is it possible to make a profit and conduct business ethically at the same time? When the film begins, the originally Finnish company Nokia has just hired hanna Kaskinen as an "ethnical and environmental specialist," to propagate the concept of sustainable enterprise within the company. Apparently, Nokia managers are still quite unfamiliar with the phenomenon. Director Balmes follows Kaskinen and her English advisor to China, where they visit and inspect a number of Nokia suppliers. The filmmakers's direct cinema style mercilessly records the discomfort among the British managers, who walk the tightrope between profit and law. The executives' initial frankness changes when they find out that the film is not solely intended for internal use. By this time, though, we are already haunted by images of factory girls on as assemby line, putting together adapters day in and day out for less than the required minimum wage. Thomas balmes, Finland, 2004, Finnish, Macedonian/Subtitles: English, 79 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Declaration of Love, A / Объяснение в любви [FL 994]
This is the story of a writer's love that spans over many decades. An elderly writer is visiting his wife at a medical establishment to give her a copy of his latest book. As he travels, he remembers how they met during the chaos surrounding the Russian Civil War (1918-21). She came to the door of his apartment looking for a room and was carrying her infant son with her. He took her under his wing, but his job of conveying the meaning of the revolution frequently sent him on trips which placed him in danger. The two of them married, but around the beginning the Second World War, his wife left him following the accidental death of her then-teenaged son. On an assignment to the front, he meets an injured publisher who tells him about her life since she left him -- her affairs and so on -- before he dies of his wounds. After the war, he returns to his apartment, which the two of them shared together for so many years, and he finds her sitting there in a darkened room. Ilya Averbakh, Soviet Union, 1977, Russian, 135 min, fiction film, VHS

Defeat of Nazi Troops Near Moscow, The a.k.a. Moscow Strikes Back / Разгром немецких войск под Москвой [FL 954]
The film is based on documentaries showing Moscow and the Moscow region and people digging defense trenches, defense factories' selfless work, severe fighting, and the liberation of towns and villages near the capital. It is a story about the heroism people demonstrated defending the capital, but it also portrays the scale of destruction and loss. A total of two million troops, 2.700 tanks, and 2.000 aircraft were engaged in the mortal combat near Moscow in late 1941. The battle of Moscow was Hitler's first defeat. By pushing Nazi troops back by 150 to 400 kilometers, the Red Army staved off the threat on the Soviet capital and it also drastically changed the situation on the front. Leonid Varlamov, Ilya Kopalin, Soviet Union, 1942, Russian, 58 min, war reports, DVD-ROM

Déjà vu aka Reflections / Već viđeno aka Déjà vu [FL 461]
The story follows a music teacher at a Belgrade educational center in the 1970s. Once a brilliant piano player, Mihailo now cannot even touch the piano as he is deeply traumatized by the events of his youth. When young Olgica, giving modeling lessons, enters his school, everything changes in his lonely life and they start a relationship. Instantly, pictures from the past and scary premonitions of the future start flashing before him. With time, the situations which encounters seem to him as if they were repeated – a déjà vu. Living in an unhappy environment, Olgica sees the opportunity of a lifetime in the organization of a major socialistic event in the centre. She manages to involve everybody in the preparations and persuades Mihailo to play the piano. Still, Mihailo’s old traumas will not leave him. Frustrated with his inability to play, bemused with the merging of past and present in his mind and driven by jealousy towards a married karate teacher, Mihailo commits a terrible crime. 20 years later, the narrator from the beginning of the film now reveals himself as Olgica’s brother and has a chance for revenge. Goran Marković, Yugoslavia, 1987, Serbo-Croatian, 92 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Déjà vu / Дежа вю [FL 221]
Retro-comedy. After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow him to Odessa, USSR. Upon arrival, Pollack loses his memory and goes on various adventures with a group of thick-headed Odessa locals who think he is a harmless butterfly collector. He subsequently regains and loses his memory several more times while trying to track down Mick Nich, who has taken it upon himself to create his very own alcohol smuggling syndicate filled with inept thugs. After a serious of comic misunderstandings, Pollack gives up and turns himself in. Juliusz Machulski, Soviet Union, 1989, Russian, 105 min, fiction film, VHS

Democracy isn't built on demonstrators' bodies [FL 927]
Documentary movie made by a group of Israeli left-wing activists. Its starting point is a demonstration of its members against the security wall in the occupied territories. It consisted of an attempt to breach it, but ran into the harsh response of the Israeli Army and one of the demonstrators was shot. The authors of the film use the response of the media and of the politicians to the footage of their friend's shooting as a motif to discuss the importance of a left-wing alliance in Israel against the political establishment and against the army that would provide enough civil opposition in order to stop and reverse the building of the wall. The main message is that the security wall just encourages more and more lack of transparency and increases violence rather than bringing democracy and security. David Masi, Israel, 2004, Hebrew, 33 min, documentary film, VHS

Deserter / Дезертир [FL 448]
A young soldier drafted to serve in Chechnia deserts from the army. He shares his army experiences in front of the camera, still living in illegality and hoping for a pardon. Sergei Bosenko, Russia, 2001, Russian/Subtitles: English, 31 min, documentary film, VHS

Detour Calcutta / DÉTOUR PAR CALCUTTA [FL 946]
One day, the director meets a friend of the mayor of Calcutta who asks him: "You're a film maker, aren't you? Why don't you make a film about our mayor?!" That is how the film was born. Originally planned as a simple portrait of Calcutta's mayor, it gradually becomes - through various difficulties met on location (bureaucracy, the director's preconceived ideas, heat) - an essay on tinkering about, and chaos, and a reflection on the documentary genre. In this shooting diary, the director speaks in first person voiceover, without trying to hide what's off camera. On the contrary: that's where he points his lens, looking for a good subject, because his main character - the mayor - disappears after the first third of the shoot. We are taken through an Indian sub-continent metropolis of 17 million inhabitants, led by astonishing chances which the director - a little Swiss - reorganizes in his own style, so that his beautiful escape becomes ours too. François Rossier, Switzerland, 2004, 50 min, art documentary, VHS

Devils Don't Dream! [FL 362]
A film about Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, elected President of Guatemala, overthrown and chased out of the country four years later by a CIA-orchestrated coup. Andreas Hoessli, Switzerland, 1995, German/Subtitles: English, 90 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Devil's Miner, The / Devil's Miner, The [FL 1115]
The Devil's Miner follows two brothers, 14-year-old Basilio and 12-year-old Bernardino, who live in poverty with their mother in the mountains of Bolivia. They work long shifts in the Cerro Rico silver mines, braving deadly conditions to earn enough money to attend school.Through the children's eyes, we encounter the sixteenth century mine, where devout Catholics must sever their ties with God each time they enter the shafts, because of the ancient belief that the devil, as represented in the hundreds of statues constructed in the tunnels, determines the fate of all who work there.Raised without a father, the boys assume many adult responsibilities and must work to afford the clothing and supplies vital to their education. Basilio believes only the mountain devil's generosity will allow them to earn enough money to continue the new school year. Without an education, the brothers have no chance to escape their destiny in the silver mines. Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson, United States, 2005, Spanish/Subtitles: English, 82 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Devil's Wind, The [FL 1363]
India was the romantic literary muse of the famous 19th century English writer Rudyard Kipling. Out of this romance came his most famous book 'Kim' whose central is an English boy, disguised as an Indian, who spies for his British masters against Russian designs to conquer India. This was a tale of imperialism, knowledge and power that gave universal recognition to the term Great Game and also endowed the British Raj's intelligence service and its mapmakers with an adventurous mystique, in their shadowy game of domination with the Russian empire in 19th century Central Asia. This was the playing field of the Great Game; a vast swathe of land that stretched from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet in the East to Ashkabad, the capital of what was then Russian Turkistan in the West. This distance of several thousand kilometers, following ancient caravan trails, encompassed the great mountain ranges of the Pamirs and the Himalayas, great rivers like the Indus and the Oxus, the world's highest passes, grassy and sandy steppes and salt marshes, great lakes, remote cities and fierce and indestructible people. In this film, Iqbal Malhotra follows in the footsteps of Kipling's Great Gamers' and tries to juxtapose the lessons of the past with the reality of the present. The result is an unusual travelogue about Central Asia set in the backdrop of history and politics. The film captures unusual images of this region that are interconnected to one another and transcends the boundaries of time. Iqbal Malhotra, India, 2007, English, 46 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Diagonal Symphony / Symphonie Diagonale [FL 1337]
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. Viking Eggeling, France, 1924, (silent), 42 min, fiction film, VHS

Diamond Arm / Бриллиантовая рука [FL 146]
Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he doesn’t know is that this is a signal for a gang of smugglers, who are also on board. So his arm gets bandaged with gold and diamonds. After he returns home, the gangsters are trying to get their loot back, while the police try to catch them using Gorbunkov and his arm. Leonid Gaidai, Soviet Union, 1968, Russian, 95 min, fiction film, VHS

Diamonds of the Night / Démanty noci [FL 94]
Tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guard members. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and deals with man's struggle to preserve human dignity. Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia, 1964, Czech/Subtitles: English, 63 min, fiction film, VHS

Dinka Diaries [FL 1589]
Dinka Diaries tells the story of some of America's most recent arrivals: Sudanese refugees who would have never dreamt a few years ago that they'd be living in America. Over the course of ten months, the film follows the lives of three Sudanese refugees who resettle in the Philadelphia area and adjust to the new American culture and way of life. Dinka Diaries represents an important attempt to empower refugees by giving them the opportunity to represent themselves and their experiences through film. Filmon Mebrahtu, United States, 2005, English, 56 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Dinner with the President [FL 1594]
Dictator, democrat, defender or dummy - what do Pakistanis really think of President Musharraf? From the middle classes to the mullahs and Musharraf himself, this insightful and timely documentary from acclaimed film-maker Sabiha Sumar explores issues of political power and human rights in Pakistan, considered geopolitically to be one of the most important, and troubled, countries in the world. Sabiha Sumar, Sachithanandam Sathananthan, Pakistan, 2007, Urdu/Subtitles: English, 80 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky / Regi Andrej Tarkovskij [FL 297]
This documentary on Andrei Tarkovsky was made by the co-editor of his last movie "The Sacrifice". Michal Leszcylowski interviews Tarkovsky, considered the most important and influential Soviet director of the post-World War II era. Interviews with his widow in addition to television interviews with the legendary director give an insight into the vision and inspirations for his films. Michal Leszczylowski, Sweden, 1988, Russian/Subtitles: English, 102 min, documentary film, VHS

Disowned / Kitagadottak [FL 385]
The story of an extended (mostly Roma) family living in Northern Hungary, near the Slovak border. The starting-point of the family story is an old photo which suggests that they might have been of aristocratic origin. Following the different branches of the family tree, searching for ancestors together with the characters, the filmmakers interview family members leading different ways of life, as the family includes miners, musicians and farmers. This social and cultural 'in-betweenness' determines their life: where do they belong, with whom they can identify, what family stories will they pass on to the next generations? Edit Kőszegi, Péter Szuhay, Hungary, 2000, Hungarian/Subtitles: English, 93 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Dissident: Oswaldo Paya and the Varela Project [FL 1433]
The 20-minute documentary portrays a grassroots pro-democracy movement -- the Varela Project -- struggling to peacefully advance human and political rights in Cuba. Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, leader of the movement, shares his uncensored story of this civic campaign, which calls for a referendum on open elections, freedom of speech, freedom for political prisoners and free enterprise. Heidi Ewing, United States, 2003, Spanish/Subtitles: English, 20 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Divine Nubia / Un Dia Na Vida de Uma Estrela [FL 1132]
A day in the life of Divine Nubia, a transexual in Rio aspiring to be a rich and famous star. Ricky Mastro, Brazil, 2006, Portuguese/Subtitles: English, 20 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Divorce Iranian Style [FL 1054]
Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women’s lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband beats her; Ziba, a 16 year old trying to divorce her 38 year old husband; and Maryam, who is desperately fighting to gain custody of her daughters, this deadpan chronicle showcases the strength, ingenuity, and guile with which they confront biased laws, a Kafkaesque administrative system, and their husbands’ and families’ rage, to win their divorces. Longinotto and her Iranian co-director Ziba Mir-Hosseini spend several weeks following the complainants in and outside of court as they go to great lengths to convince the patient judge to free them. Dispelling images of Iran as a country of war, hostages, and “fatwas”, and Iranian women as passive victims of a terrible system, this film is a subtle, fascinating look at women’s lives in Iran. Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, United Kingdom, 1998, /Subtitles: English, 80 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Dmitrii Likhachev: I Recall / Дмитрий Лихачев: я вспоминаю [FL 340]
Academic Dmitrii Likhachev tells his life story, starting from childhood before World War I, university years, his imprisonment in the Solovki labor camp, release, later years of work and final academic acceptance and success. The film includes extracts from a non-fiction film "Solovki" (1927). V. Vinogradov, Soviet Union, 1988, Russian, 70 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? / Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell? [FL 557]
This film debut by world-famous director Emir Kusturica is a coming-of-age drama, set in 1960s Sarajevo and revolving around a 16-year old boy Dino. To the chagrin of his strict, hard-drinking communist father, Dino is more into hypnosis and self-help mantras than Marxism and spends his time in the local culture center. When petty criminal Braco introduces him to a girl named Dolly Bell he agrees to hide her in his attic until Braco returns, unaware that she will be working as a prostitute. Soon, Dino enlightens Dolly about hypnosis and gets some kissing lessons in return. Then, suddenly, Dino's father falls ill and leaves for hospital. In the meantime, local party officials decide to form a band as a way of fighting teenage delinquency. Tormented by his father’s illness and his guilty conscience over Dolly, Dino cannot concentrate on the music and goes to find Dolly who is receiving her customers in a hotel. They renew their emotional bond, which results in Dino’s sexual initiation. Suffering from lung cancer, Dino’s father changes his behavior toward his children, even dropping his objections to Dino’s philosophical ideas. When he dies, Dino finally accepts the role of a lead singer and guitar player at the official dance in culture center while his family, after a lengthy wait, move into a newly built skyscraper. Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia, 1981, Serbo-Croatian/Subtitles: , 105 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Docu - Zsolt Csalog Speaks / Doku - Csalog Zsolt beszél [FL 1655]
A documentary portrait of renowned ethnologist and sociologist Zsolt Csalog. He talks about friends, lovers, and politics. Istvan Javor, Hungary, 1999, Hungarian, 105 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Does Gandhi Matter? [FL 1511]
Produced by the Public Diplomacy Division of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, this film searches for the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in today's Indian society and not only. A series of interviews with prominent public figures, students, passers by and tourists, the documentary shows interesting views on how Gandhi's heritage lives on in the 21st century. Manoj Raghuvanshi, India, 2008, Hindi/Subtitles: English, 31 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Dog Who Loved Trains, The / Pas koji je voleo vozove [FL 465]
A girl named Mika, convicted for drug smuggling, escapes from the transport train. Mika dreams of going to her brother to Paris, but without money or passport she is forced to accept the help of a former stuntman who is now touring provincial towns presenting primitive rodeo shows. On the road they pick up a boy in search of his long lost dog who was trained to jump on and off trains. When the youngster realizes that the cowboy is going give up Mika to the police, he offers her a ride to Belgrade on his motorcycle. There she attempts to get a passport with money she stole from the cowboy, but her criminal friends deceive her and the boy’s bike is destroyed. In desperation, Mika tries to get rid of the affectionate boy who still wants to help her and jumps on a passing train. Trying to catch up with her, the boy injures himself and falls under the train. With the horrific scene moving further and further away from her, Mika notices the boy’s dog peacefully riding her train. Goran Paskaljević, Yugoslavia, 1977, Serbian/Subtitles: Slovenian, 83 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Dog's Night Song / Kutya éji dala [FL 1616]
A disconcerting portrait of a Hungarian town thrown into disarray by the arrival of a new parish priest, the film is a web of fragmented and often intersecting narratives: The audience follows a wheelchair-bound veteran of the 1956 uprising unable to commit suicide; an astronomer who moonlights in a punk band; the abused wife of an explosives officer who runs away to join the band; and their son, who films his world with a German tourist's Super 8 camera. A pioneering work of European cinema. Gábor Bódy, Hungary, 1983, English/Subtitles: English, 160 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Don Quixote / Don Quijote [FL 772]
The French version of G.W.Pabst's monumental three-language (English, French and German - separate versions each) filming of Cervantes' classic novel. Pabst adaptation is starrring Russia's legendary opera singer, Fedor Shaliapin as Don Quixote. Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Germany, 1932, French/Subtitles: German, Hungarian, 82 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Don’t Get Me Wrong / Nu te supara, dar… [FL 1547]
"How do you stop the rain?" one of the patients in a psychiatric hospital in Romania repeatedly asks his discussion partner. The latter explains that he is in close touch with God and that he is a supernatural being. But his inquiring friend is not easily convinced. Both men suffer from schizophrenia and spend their days in the clinic endlessly repeating the same discussions. Other patients keep themselves busy by compulsively moving pebbles, staring at liquid projections on the wall, or patiently caring for fellow patients. Without comment, the camera registers everything, pausing at the details: water dripping from the shower head in the bare white-tiled bathroom, a drainpipe attached to the outer wall, the reflection of the air in the puddles in the concrete courtyard. Days go by filled with routine and endless conversations about life, death, God, and the weather forecast. What is divine and what is not? Who brings and who stops the rain? What is normal and what is not? In a contemplative and refined way the film follows the daily life of a community that shows profound humaneness in an inhuman setting. Adina Pintilie, Romania, 2007, Romanian/Subtitles: English, 50 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Donkey in Lahore [FL 1600]
Donkey in Lahore tells the real life tale of Brian, an Australian Goth whose skills as a puppeteer takes him on a journey that transcends borders, religion and love. While visiting Lahore in Pakistan to perform at a puppet festival, Brian meets Amber, 17. Ten years Brian's junior, Amber doesn't seem a likely match for this tear-away Goth. She's a devout Muslim and still lives at home with her tight-knit family. Yet in a whirlwind two-week romance during which the pair are never alone together, they fall in love. Over the next two years, Brian and Amber continue their relationship by correspondence. Brian converts to Islam in order to be accepted by Amber's family and so that he can marry her. Brian's struggle to marry Amber is fraught as he battles the Australian immigration system, costly trips between the two countries, his own religious conversion, lifestyle changes and last but not least the stern disapproval of Amber's parents! What unfolds is a real life Romeo and Juliet tale that spans the globe, a captivating story of love that borders on obsessive. From Brisbane to Lahore, from Christianity to Islam, can these star-cross'd lovers live happily ever after? Faramarz K. Rahber, Australia, 2008, English, Arabic, Urdu/Subtitles: English, 117 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Don't Fence Me In: Major Mary and the Karen Refugees from Burma [FL 1452]
The film chronicles the life of 70-year-old freedom fighter Major Mary On and her people's struggle for self-determination. Major Mary's charismatic storytelling is accompanied by rare, clandestine footage smuggled out of the refugee camps along the border between Burma and Thailand. The film reveals the Karen refugees' spirit and determination to survive as political and historical forces conspire against them. Ruth Gumnit, United States, 2004, English, 30 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Don't go away / Не си отивай! [FL 500]
A sequel to the film “Boy turns man” by the same director and script-writer. The protagonist Ran is a grown up already. After university he returns to his hometown and is appointed as school-master. His former classmate Mariana is now his wife. The young couple shares an apartment with his parents, which brings tension into their relationship. In his workplace Ran is principled and enters into conflict with his older colleagues who are driven by routine and egoism. Ran cherishes the idea that the teachers should not impart the children’s self-esteem, in a period when they build up their personalities and are extremely sensitive to the outer world. Parallel to his conflicts at school Ran has problems with his wife. She insists that he uses his influence as a schoolmaster and arrange a flat where they could move in. He rediscovers the object of his infatuation in young years – the elder shop-assistant, who now serves at a buffet – an enterprise of her husband. Profit seeking counterpoised as usually to beauty and idealism enkindle the feelings of Ran. In the end of the film Ran is chased out of his position at the school, due to the conflicts his attitude provokes. Lyudmil Kirkov, Bulgaria, 1975, Bulgarian, 95 min, DVD-ROM

Don't Leave Your Lovers / С любимыми не расставайтесь [FL 139]
A divorce case brings up numerous mutual frustrations - sometimes bitter, sometimes funny - in the court-room. Yet after the divorce process is successfully completed, the couple look back at their relationship and decide to start everything all over again. Pavel Arsenov, Soviet Union, 1979, Russian, 78 min, fiction film, VHS

Don't Worry, It Will Probably Pass / Du Ska Nog Se Att Det Gar Över [FL 390]
Even in such a liberal environment as Sweden, coming out in public about one's sexual orientation is not an easy step. Especially when a person comes from a small town, where any noticeable difference is taboo for the local people. The director of the film, who lived through the same situation, in an effort to achieve complete sincerity, decided to give small digital cameras to the girls and let them document themselves. The result is a colorful story enriched by varied music, where changing moods correspond to the maturing process of the main protagonists. Cecilia Neant-Falk, Sweden, 2003, Swedish/Subtitles: English, 74 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Doomed Souls / Осъдени души [FL 19]
The action takes place during the Spanish Civil War. The accidental meeting of British noblewoman Fanny Horn with Father Eredia, a Jesuit, reverses their destinies. The attraction between them is very strong, yet the priest is devoted to his faith. Influenced by his religious strength, Fanny Horn follows him to a place where a typhus outbreak is raging. Against the background of this inferno, a crime of passion is committed. Fanny fights for Eredia's love but is in the end rejected by his fanatic aescetism. Exhausted by her experiences, Fanny starts taking morphine. Valo Radev, Bulgaria, 1975, Bulgarian, 141 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Dossier on general Vlasov / Досье на генерала Власова [FL 353]
Film introduces the story of general Vlasov, one of the great Soviet military leaders, who fought on the Moscow front, received the highest Soviet military awards and was made “Hero of the Soviet Union”. After being taken prisoner, he created a "Russian Liberation Army" (ROA) of hundreds of thousands of Soviet prisoners who fought on the Nazi side. After the end of the World War II all of those who remained in the Soviet Union were arrested and sent to concentration camps, while the memory of the ROA was completely suppressed. The film puts together fragments of personal memories and remaining documents, trying to reconstruct the scope of the phenomenon and the destinies of the participants. L. Danilov, Soviet Union, 1990, Russian, 58 min, documentary film, VHS

Double of Yesterday Meets Tomorrow, The / Le Double d'hier a rencontre demain [FL 1106]
Jean Rouch among his friends before the premier of his last film " Le rêve plus fort que la mort " in Niamey during the retrospective devoted to the Nigerian cinema. The shooting took place four days before Rouch's tragic death on a road to Tahoua in Nigeria. The last moving images of the great director and his African 'family.' Luc Riolon and Bernard Surugue, France, 2004, 10 min, VHS

Double, The / Двойникът [FL 77]
Assistant professor Denev is a talented scientist who cannot properly manage his time, caught between his scholarly and public activities. Suddenly he comes up with the idea of bringing his look-alike cousin Ivan from the countryside. Ivan appears on the committee boards and wherever his cousin’s presence is required, while Denev attends to his research work. With uncertainty at first but gradually gaining confidence Ivan takes up his new role and his determination to gain material benefits at every occasion becomes threatening. When at last the double seduces his cousin's colleague, who had been attracted to the scientist, the latter finally tries to put the record straight and chase the double from his life. Nikolai Volev, Bulgaria, 1979, Bulgarian, 100 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Down with the masks / Dolje s maskama [FL 857]
A simple but vivid documentary about an initiative on February 20th 1998 to hold a union strike on the main square of Zagreb. The aim of the film was to depict reactions of common people, avoiding the typical style of the TV documentaries at the time, which were mainly focused upon the conflict between demonstrators and police. Mladen Petricic, Croatia, 1999, Croatian, 27 min, art documentary, VHS

Dr. Caligari / Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [FL 756]
A milestone of the silent film era and one of the first "art films" to gain international acclaim, this eerie German classic from 1919 remains the most prominent example of German expressionism in the emerging art of the cinema. Stylistically, the look of the film's painted sets--distorted perspectives, sharp angles, twisted architecture--was designed to reflect the splintered psychology of its title character, a sinister figure who uses a lanky somnambulist as a circus attraction. But when Caligari and his sleepwalker are suspected of murder, their novelty act is surrounded by more supernatural implications. With its mad-doctor scenario, striking visuals, and a haunting, zombie-like character at its center, Caligari was one of the first horror films to reach an international audience, sending shock waves through artistic circles and serving as a strong influence on the classic horror films of the 1920s, '30s, and beyond. It's a museum piece today, of interest more for its historical importance, but "Caligari" still casts a considerable spell. Robert Wiene, Germany, 1919, (silent), 46 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Dr. Todt, Mission & Achievement / Dr. Todt: Berufung und Werk [FL 784]
At the time of his death in 1942, Dr. Fritz Todt was among the most powerful men of the Third Reich. By training a civil engineer, Todt first caught Hitler's attention in 1932 by emphasizing the importance of road building for national economic recovery. Upon taking power, Hitler made Todt responsible for what would become Germany's great Autobahn project. Every aspect of Autobahn construction--its design, aesthetic (to harmonize with the German landscape), and model role in National Socialist labor relations--was stamped with Todt's personality. As was his other great achievement, the building of the massive network of bunkers and fortifications known as the West Wall--described here as the first battle in the war against France. With the outbreak of war, Todt's organization provided German troops an exemplary corps of engineers, filling out Germany's expanding imperium with new roads, bridges, aircraft fields, and fortifications. All of this is lavishly documented in this film, which supplies extensive and often rare footage of Todt's life and work, concluding with remarkable footage from his state funeral inside the Chancellory in Berlin.Germany, 1943, German/Subtitles: English, 37 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Dream Brigade / Álombrigád [FL 95]
Story of a "worker's brigade" attempting to produce a play by a Soviet writer on the Hungarian stage. Their conversations about censorship and brutal law enforcement may have had something to do with the difficulty the film had being released. András Jeles, Hungary, 1985, Hungarian/Subtitles: English, 107 min, fiction film, VHS

Dreaming By Numbers / Die Träume Neapels [FL 1043]
Naples has many neighborhoods with small betting shops. The daily customers don’t pick numbers at random: some play the numbers which correspond to the dates of birth or death of relatives, others play the numbers of their dreams. Dreams are translated into numbers with the help of the Italian numbers book Grimas and by the knowledgeable owners of century-old lottery offices. A "reasoned bet" happens, for example, when someone has had a dream about his father stepping into a bucket of water. The lottery vendor takes the book out: father is 81, foot is 53, water is 39 and bucket is 4, so these are the numbers to bet on. When a regular customer's brother gets murdered, people even use this incident to stake their bets. The obsession with numbers sometimes reaches hilarious proportions ("which numbers can be derived from a dream about a cockroach with a limp?"), but behind the gambling, there are often tragic stories. A historian sees parallels with Pythagoras' theory of numbers, which is kept alive in Italian popular culture. Anna Bucchetti, Netherlands, 2005, Italian/Subtitles: English, 75 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Dreaming of Space / Космос как предчувствие [FL 804]
The film is set in 1957 in a small port town on the edge of the Soviet empire. The bright beaming eyes of Konyok and Lara - a simple-hearted restaurant cook and his waitress girlfriend - follow the movement of the first sputnik with delight. The film’s main protagonist is a “simple Soviet man.” His alter-ego, friend-enemy, the mysterious Gherman with a strange name and even stranger behavior appears out of nowhere and is prepares to escape from the Soviet Union. He practices sports, swims in icy water, learns a single English phrase about political asylum, and finally seduces Konjok’s girlfriend in order to gain access to foreign ships. Alexei Uchitel, Russia, 2005, Russian/Subtitles: English, 86 min, fiction film, DVD-ROM

Dreams from the railway station / Snovi na peronu djetinjstva [FL 867]
A film about the life of the children who live, sleep and “work” at Zagreb's main railway station. It tells the story of their every day life and of their dreams, which will probably never come true. Silvio Mirosnicenko, Croatia, 2001, Croatian, 32 min, art documentary, VHS

Dream / Мечта [FL 191]
Psychological drama. Anna, a young peasant girl looks for work in one of the towns of Western Ukraine. She rents a room in a cheap hotel named "Dream". Working as a waitress, than as a maid, she is exploited and mistreated by her employers. Mikhaiil Room, Soviet Union, 1941, Russian, 100 min, fiction film, VHS

Drifter [FL 1545]
The ordinary life of three young homeless people who live by Berlin’s Bahnhof Zoo station. Aileen (16), Angel (23) and Daniel (25) escaped from the remnants of their families and the confines of their small towns to the anonymity of the metropolis. They work as prostitutes to support their drug addiction. At night, they find shelter in halfway houses, in the homes of acquaintances or with regular clients. They have hopes and dreams and a vague plan for their lives, but one which remains a construction site, much like their world: a universe of transitions, unstable in-betweens, the highways, the back ways, the stores, niches, and places of transit. Sebastian Heidinger followed these young people for a period of nine months. The camera soberly and persistently records their unbearable reality – from shooting up heroin in the station toilets, and looking for a place to sleep, to their contacts with “customers” and emergency doctors. A film about a hopeless present and a future that is not much brighter. Sebastian Heidinger, Germany, 2007, German/Subtitles: English, 80 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Drink to Forget / Bere per dimenticare [FL 1443]
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and other dictators appear on the labels of wine bottles sold in Italy. “Drink to Forget" attempts to unravel the complex emotional, ethical and legal issues raised by the selling and buying of these images through interviews with various actors including the producers and buyers, legal experts, politicians, partisans and members of Italy's Jewish community. M. Calabresi, P. Heeren, C. Molino, Italy, 2006, Italian/Subtitles: English, 40 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Drinking water and freedom III / Pitka voda I sloboda III [FL 851]
Drinking Water and Freedom III is a documentary film whose story spans twenty-seven years, telling of the destiny of two stone memorial tablets and a brass water faucet, representing the everlasting change in the political reality of the area. Nevertheless, is the change for real? Rajko Grlic, Croatia, 1999, Croatian, 15 min, art documentary, VHS

Driver For Vera, A / Voditel Dlya Very [FL 1010]
During the Khrushchev “thaw” in Russia, an ambitious limousine driver, Viktor, serves an army general and his pregnant and unmarried daughter, Vera. The background scenery (Moscow and Sevastopol of the early 1960's) is spectacular and the music is extremely powerful. In the geopolitical background there is the power struggle between the figures of the police, the army, and the special services, a struggle that ensued in the power void after Stalin's death. Career, ambition, love, sex, power, violence, birth and death are a devilish mix in the film's shockingly realistic story line. Pavel Chukhraj, Ukraine, 2004, Russian, 110 min, fiction film, VHS

Driving Me Crazy [FL 1246]
Both uproariously funny and unerringly cautionary, Broomfield's behind teh scenes document of the making of a musical becomes a ceremonius unmaking-of as egos, budgets and general calamity conspire to ruin the best efforts of all involved in teh New York rehearsals for an extravagant, glitzy production. Nick Broomfield, United Kingdom, 1988, English, 85 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Drugdje [FL 1409]
There are over a billion of them in their motherland. There are ten thousand of them in Serbia and several hundreds in Zagreb. Can they become somebody more than numbers and strangers identified by the red lanterns here, in the small Croatian town located somewhere between East and West? It is difficult to give a straightforward answer to this question now. The Chinese started to come to this place in 2002. Some of them stayed, set up home and stayed here for good but new ones continually appear who simply come and go. It is easier for the Croatians to accept the former ones; some accept the latter, some do not. The Chinese seem to be glad. They give their children Croatian names and set up businesses. They are most happy because they do not need to work all the time here. They have free Sundays, they work shorter on Saturdays and they can take a month or two of holidays and spend this time in China. Natalija Zupan, Croatia, 2005, Croatian, Serbian/Subtitles: English, 20 min, documentary film, DVD-ROM

Dybbuk, The / Dybbuk, Ha- [FL 880]
Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession. Inspired by S. Ansky's ethnographic research of Jews living in the Polish-Russian countryside just before the first World War, The Dybbuk reflects Ansky's deep perception of the shtetl's religious and cultural mores, as well as his insightful appreciation of its hidden spiritual resources. The film's exquisite musical and dance interludes evoke the cultural richness of both pre-WWI shtetl communities and Polish Jewry on the eve of WWII. This movie is, in a loose sense, a ghost story with a familiar theme: malevolent fate works through human passions, destroying our protagonists, who do not realize until too late what lies ahead. A young man and young woman, promised in marriage before they are even born, fall in love with one another on their own volition. The girl's father, seeking out a wealthier son-in-law, tries to wriggle out of the deal. In desperation, the boy kills himself--whereupon his soul is transferred to the girl during the wedding ceremony. It is up to the Wonder Rabbi (A. Morewski) to sort things out. Michal Waszynski, Poland, 1937, (silent), 125 min, fiction film, VHS