The Lie. 'Compensation' for Gypsies (Sinti) in Germany / Das falsche Wort. Die "Wiedergutmachung" an Zigeunern (Sinte) in Deutschland
Film by: Melanie Spitta and Katrin Seybold
FRG, 1987, 85 min with English subtitles
Lies and Lies that's part of the foundation fabric of the society. There was never appropriate neither apology nor compensation of the horror that was and still is in a different devilish and deceitful manner in Europe toward the Roma people. This documentary deals with the persecution of German 'gypsies' during National Socialism and the reparations after 1945. With the help of newspaper articles, pictures, documents and material assembled by the 'racial researchers' it proves that the persecution of Sinti (and Roma) started as early as 1936, and not – as was later believed – in 1943. After the war, evidence was kept under lock and key in order to prevent or at least postpone reparations. Only in 1981, after Sinti protests, could the files be examined.
Porraimos
Europe’s Gypsies in the Holocaust
a documentary by director/producer Alexandra Isles
56 minutes
A discussion with the filmmaker follows the screening.
Gypsies
the Most Persecuted Minority in Europe Today…
the Forgotten Victims of Nazi Oppression
Filmmaker Alexandra M. Isles made many visits to the Museum’s archives to research visual documentation of the experience of Roma and Sinti (Gypsies) under Nazi rule. Much of what she found ultimately became part of her film Porraimos, which means “the devouring” in Romani. Under the Nazis, Roma were forced to settle and were subjected to medical experiments, sterilization, and deportation to concentration camps.
Interviews, film and photographs from the Nazi Department of Racial Hygiene, and other archival material help tell the story of the tragic fate of the Gypsies during the Holocaust. Like the Jews, Gypsies were viewed as inherently tainted and were persecuted, in large part due to the pseudoscience of eugenics. Gypsies during the Nazi era lost their civil rights, were forced to register, and, in keeping with the Nazi strategy of liquidation, were then segregated into ghettoes and camps for ultimate extermination.
A BLUE HOLE IN THE SKY
A piece of history that everybody has always kept silent about up till now.
a film by BOB ENTROP
105 minutes/ In Dutch English subtitled
Filmed in The Netherlands, Germany, France and Poland.
Americas Premiere.
This probing film tells the touching story of twelve people who survived the second World War and talk about it for the first time, thus breaking a taboo. Through sometimes violent and also beautiful images and stories, the spectator is sucked in by a piece of history that everybody has always kept silent about up to now.
Taking into account that the war is taboo and is never discussed, most certainly not in front of a camera, Bob Entrop has been able to make a unique and special film. As a result of a growing trust and the friendships that have development in the past few years between the Sinti and Roma and filmmaker Bob Entrop, they were willing to go public with their story for the first time.
This film is a journey through time. In the present, we travel with three people to Auschwitz, and at the same time we travel with the others back into the past, to the time in which almost a million Sinti and Roma, gipsies, were murdered..
Script and camera Bob Entrop
Research Lalla Weiss
Camera-assistant Arda Nederveen
Sound Kees van Gool
Wouter Weber
Editing Xandra Schipperheijn
Bob Entrop
Music and mixage Jeroen Goeijers
Production Nicole Neefs
Editorial board RVU Televison
Director Bob Entrop
Produced and released by SOL FILMprodukties © 2007
Hidden Sorrows.
The persecution of Romanian Gypsies during WWII.
a film by Michelle Kelso
56 minutes/ In Romanian with English subtitled.2005
Americas Premiere.
This documentary chronicles the rarely told narratives of Gypsy survivors of Nazi persecution in Romania as they remember their experiences during WWII in the context of their lives today. During WWII, Gypsies were slated alongside Jews and other populations for extermination. In each country occupied or allied with Nazi Germany, their fate was similar.Far too many Roma are supposed to have perished due to systematic extermination, forced marches, starvation, exposure, diseases, and abuses. Romania, The Gypsies' experience critically altered their lives. Survivors share with viewers their shocking deportation from Romania to camps where they fought to survive by any means necessary. Hidden Sorrows reveals the continued struggle of Gypsies for equality in a society that views them as second-class citizens. It examines the present impoverishment of the survivors and their descendants as well as discrimination facing them daily.
This is about the nowadays social conditions of Gypsies in Romania linked to the reparations granted to survivors for their suffering. It is explained that the Swiss bank, that helped financing the Nazi regime, granted only 55 years later (in 2000) 770 dollars to 152 Roma survivors (as humanitarian assistance and not as reparation), and that in 2001 the German government granted 1300 people 500 dollars. Many applications were rejected for lack of archival documents.
The Pig Farm
A memorial at a former Roma internment camp during the Holocaust,
now the site of a pig farm.
a film by Michelle Coomber
3 minutes/ Czech Republic / England. Czech with English subtitles.
World Premiere
Between 90 to 95% of Roma in the Czech Republic were killed during the Holocaust.
Two major camps were used to house the Roma before sending them to Auschwitz. One of these, Holdonín is now a recreational center. The second, Lety, is now the
site of a pig farm. Every spring, on international Roma Day, there is a gathering to remember those killed. In 2007, the country’s first Roma priest, Father
David Dudas conducted the memorial service at Lety.
Watch the trailer
STERILE DREAMS
Filmed, edited, directed and produced by: Jehan S. Harney
producer _ 2nd unit director_1st camera person : Libuse Rudinska
Czech Republic. 2007. Czech with English subtitles. 50 minutes
This is the first film to ever explore the world of minority Roma
women who can't have children anymore after doctors sterilized them without their knowledge or consent in Czech public hospitals.
The 50-minute documentary explores the world of Elena, her friend, neighbor, and cousin, whose lives have been scarred by their illegal
sterilization. How they all cope with their sterile reality mirrors the fate of more than 80 victims whose cases were already
investigated and supported by the Czech Ombudsman, and countless others in Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. Since the release of the
film in August 2007, only one victim was compensated and no doctors were reprimanded.
A discussion with the filmmaker follows the screening.
www.jehanharney.com/steriledreams/film_info.html
Trial of A Child Denied
An investigation into the coerced sterilization of Roma women in the Czech Republic.
World Wide Premiere
Producer : Dana Wilson
Director Michelle Coomber
Czech with English subtitles. 25 minutes
Czech Republic / England
When Helena Ferenciková was 19 years old and in the throes of labor with her first child, she was told to sign a document. Only afterwards did she realize she
had authorized her own sterilization. Eleven years previously, the same happened to Elena Gorolová. Both women are fighting for justice.
www.mortalcoilmedia.com
www.trialofachilddenied.org
www.danawilson.ca
ONE SQUARE MILE
Film by: TONY COLL & SIMON EVANS
England 21 minutes
Executive producer
South West Alliance of Nomads and South West Planning Aid
Producers TONY COLL and SIMON EVANS
World Premiere.
A quarter of Gypsies and Travellers in England have nowhere legal to stay. One square mile of land, out of an island of 93,000 square miles, is all it would take to fix the problem. In this DVD, Gypsies and others talk about their plight and appeal for understanding.
Tony Coll is a film-maker, scriptwriter and former BBC journalist. Simon Evans is a film-maker, photographer and historian of Gypsy life and culture.
Tony Coll & Associates Ltd
www.openproductions.co.uk
www.gypsytravellerhelp.org
www.planningaid.rtpi.org.uk
"Roma Roma!"
Roma Student Directors:Dennis Glowacki,Kevin Paczkowski,Patryk Kalina
Producers: Elliott Tucker (FilmforHumanity),
Dan Lyndon (Henry Compton School)
England 27 mins.
A colourful exploration into Roma life in London,
made in collaboration workshops with 3 Roma students from Henry Compton School in West London. The students lead us into a snapshot of
their world and family, sharing a festive Roma outdoor meal & dance in a local park.
Film For Humanity is a collective of aspiring filmmakers and artists as well as established industry professionals.
It is dedicated to nurturing up-and-coming talent, particularly from marginalized or underprivileged groups,
giving them the opportunity to develop their own voice and employment skills by training them in all aspects of
filmmaking and multi-media.Our central objectives include the promotion of social equality as well as the celebration of
diversity & dialogue. Our projects endeavor to promote the struggle for humanity in these times of turbulent conflict.
We believe that film can illuminate the mental horizons of filmmakers and audiences alike.
Camera: Sky Neal, Nico Mensinga
Editing: Sky Neal, Elliott Tucker Roma
Producer: Valdemar Kalinin
Music: Darren Turze, Tziganiadahttp
www.filmforhumanity.org.
Watch the trailer
Guca
Film by: Milivoj ilic
Executive producer: Adam Docker,
Julien Mignonac, Ces Terranova, Milivoj ilic
Cinnematography by: Adam Docker Editor: Anja Siemans
Featuring Boban Markovic
Music By: Dejan Petrovic Veljko Ostojic
and
Boban Markovic
Serbia 2006. with English subtitles. 71m.
Guca is the name of a small village in Serbia which for over 40 years has been home to the national trumpet festival.
Once a small local affair, it now pulls crowds of over 200,000 and is legendary across the Balkans. Milivoj ilic's account of the place, the people and the
competitors is as exuberant, joyous and noisy as the festival itself. The film captures the brilliance and the machismo of the performances at a festival where
young men do battle with brass bands. The film follows two young players, the main rivals for the coveted 'Golden Trumpet', both of whom learnt as boys from fathers
who have also competed in a country where mastering traditional playing is still held in high esteem.You'll never look at a trumpet the same way again.
www.gucafilm.com
www.myspace.com/gucafilm
"The Roma One Minutes project."
UNICEF
consultant: Chris Schuepp
Bulgaria_ 20 mins.
Short one minute films made by young Roma in Montana (Bulgaria) as part
of the international OneMinutesproject which is organized by UNICEF in collaboration with the Sandberg Institute, the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and local NGOs ,
in the case with the young Roma
it was the Sham Foundation and Amalipe.
22 Roma children from Bulgaria, Romania and Macedonia framed life in all its colors, shadows, suns, rains, tears,
smiles, feelings and perceptions on a film tape during
the workshop for OneMinuteJr videos which took place in Montana, Bulgaria, from April 3-7, 2006.
www.unicef.org
www.amalipe.com
www.theoneminutesjr.org
"Trapped: The Forgotten Story of the Mitrovica Roma"
Americas Premiere.
A film by Katalin Bársony
Produced by: Mundi Romani:
Co-produced by: the Romedia Foundation and Duna Television Hungary
(Hungary, 2008, 30 mins, in Hungarian/Roma/Serbo-Croatian/English with English subtitles)
The Roma are newly independent
Kosovo’s second largest minority after the Serbs and the victims of the gravest human tragedy taking place in front of our eyes in Europe today.
In the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, the most dangerous place in Europe right now, Roma men, women and children trapped in heavily polluted refugee
camps located a mere kilometer from their own destroyed homes are slowly dying from lead poisoning. Between the fires of Albanian and Serbian nationalism and
ignored by international organizations, the Roma, a formerly prosperous minority in Tito’s Yugoslavia, are the real losers of the Balkan wars.
This documentary takes you to the Mitrovica refugee camps where they have been trapped among highly toxic wastes for 9 years now as the ethnic, economic and
health dimensions of the problem are explained by the victims of this tragedy. This is a rare occasion to really hear the voice of the Roma, the forgotten minority
of the newest country in Europe.
Editor-in-chief, reporter
Katalin Bársony
Cinematography
Sándor Cs. Nagy
Nándor Hevesi
István Komár
József Nagy-Bozsóky
Translation
Gyula Vamosi
Editor
Péter Kohut
Producer
Judit Ordódy
Agnes Daróczi
Line producer
Zsigmond Kemény
Sound
Balázs Balogh
István Perger Jr.
Expert
Ágnes Daróczi
Marion Kurucz
www.dunatv.hu/mundiromani
Granada - the Maya Family.
Americas Premiere.
A film by Katalin Bársony
Produced by: Mundi Romani:
Co-produced by: the Romedia Foundation and Duna Television Hungary
(Hungary, 2008, 27 mins, in Spanish/English with English subtitles)
we travel to Granada, in Andalusia, Spain,
to discover the amazing world of the Roma living in one of the most beautiful cities in the world and the story of the most famous flamenco family,
the Maya family, who still make their living off their traditional craft. Modern flamenco and international success have brought international recognition
to the Maya family and consequently to traditional Romani flamenco. We follow Mario Maya, pioneer of the family as he shows us the ancient Romani district on
the Albaicin hill facing the Sierra Nevada mountains and the famous Alhambra and tells us about the story of the Gitanos (Spanish Roma) in Spain, his childhood,
his journey towards international recognition as the best flamenco dancer in the world.
We get an insight into an evening with the Maya family in the Sacromonte caves where the whole family regularly reunites to further the flamenco tradition together.
There we discover the new Maya generation of dancers, singers and musicians who have followed in the footsteps of their famous uncle and breathe new life into the
Gitano folklore that has become so popular across the world. We get to understand how flamenco is an art of the marginalised, how its inspiration comes from centuries
of persecution of the Gitanos in Spain.
www.dunatv.hu/mundiromani
Saintes Maries de la Mer - the Pilgrimage
Americas Premiere.
(Hungary, 2008, 27 mins, French with English subtitles)
A film by Katalin Bársony
Director: Sándor Cs. Nagy
Produced by: Mundi Romani
Co-produced by: the Romedia Foundation and Duna Television Hungary
(Hungary, 2008, 27 mins, in Spanish/English with English subtitles)
Roma’s Pentecost pilgrimage in honor of their patron saint, Saint Sarah.
As we follow the singing procession our viewers
discover the traditions and legends surrounding the feast as well as the history and current situation of the Roma in France. Our protagonist, Esmeralda,
tells us about their struggle for the recognition of their minority status, their distinct ethnic identity and their most basic human rights. As the film unfolds,
we get an insight into the similarities and differences among Europe’s Roma as regards language, culture, religion or even music.
Editor-in-chief, reporter
Katalin Bársony
Cinematography
Sándor Cs. Nagy
Nándor Hevesi
Translation
Anita Czinkoczi
Marion Kurucz
Editor
Péter Kohut
Producer
Judit Ordódy
Agnes Daróczi
Line producer
Zsigmond Kemény
Sound
Balázs Balogh
Expert
Ágnes Daróczi
Marion Kurucz
GYPSY MUSIC HURTS
A film by Bob Entrop about Nello Weis Mirando
Americas Premiere.
80 minutes/ English subtitled
Filmed in the Netherlands and France. Dutch spoken.
filmmaker Bob Entrop followed Nello Weis Mirando, the extraordinary violinist of the Royal Gipsy Orchestra Tata Mirando. Extraordinary because Nello, due to a congenital spinal defect, plays the violin with only two and a half fingers.
The film shows also his fight against his disease and his last hope for an operation.With different performances and his specific way of teaching music. He wishes a life without music for his children, because music means suffering and a lot of hard work. He is addicted and has no choice. With different concerts in theatres and restaurants and the celebration of his 50th birthday with al kind of musicians. A film about passion, tragedy, hard work, suffering, humour, cooking and a new start.
Script, camera and director Bob Entrop
Sound Wouter Weber
Kees van Gool
Jeroen Goeijers
Camera assistent Arda Nederveen
Editing Xandra Schipperheijn
Bob Entrop
Music and mixage Jeroen Goeijers
Production leader Nicole Neefs
Produced en released by SOL FILMprodukties © 2007ditor-in-chief, reporter
NO PLACE OF THEIR OWN
A film by Bob Entrop
Americas Premiere.
90 minutes/ English subtitled
Filmed in the Netherlands . Dutch spoken.
The film portrays the daily life in several Sinti (gipsy) camps in the Netherlands in a very special and compelling way, with the colourful Schäfer family more or less occupying the centre stage. In a parallel narrative, a large group of people passes in review.
The Schäfer family is the connecting thread, and every time someone new presents him or herself, he or she determines how the story continues. Against the colourful background of campfires, food and music, the spectator has the chance of finding out how the Sinti deal with their elders and disabled.
Religion plays an important part, and the Catholic Church with its pilgrimages and the Pentecostal Church with its massive part-song and baptismal ceremonies are inextricably bound up with being Sinti.
The times that most of them couldn't read or write are slowly changing. Still, those who receive secondary education are thin on the ground. Why go to school if you can't find a job all the same, because the distrust and discrimination are still there.
Sinti and Roma who want to start their own business stumble on rules and thousands of regulations. And yet, they also feel that a Sinti can sit behind a desk..
With: PAULUS SCHÄFER, ROSITA SCHÁFER, HANNES WEISS, HEIDY WEISS, LALLA WEISS, ANDREAS SCHÄFER,
BLUMA SCHATTEVOET.
Script and camera Bob Entrop
Research Caroline Huber
Marijke van der Putten
Arda Nederveen
Lalla Weiss
Camera-assistant Arda Nederveen
Sound Kees van Gool
Wouter Weber
Jeroen Goeijers
Mark Wilders
Editing Haukje Heuff
Bob Entrop
Music and mixage Jeroen Goeijers
Production Nicole Neefs
Editorial board RVU Televison
Director Bob Entrop
Produced and released by SOL FILMprodukties © 2007
MUSICIANS FOR LIFE
A film by Bob Entrop
Americas Premiere.
90 minutes/ English subtitled
Filmed in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Czech. Dutch spoken.
A film about the intriguing world of the Sinti and Roma (gypsy) music. We go on a journey with three characteristic and totally different musicians and discover how music is interwoven with their daily life. Not only their life as a musician is portrayed, but also their private lives, motives, disappointments and highlights.
Music is a matter of survival, and anyone who listens well to the tones, can hear the sounds of a colourful nation. With the Basily's, we filmed in the world-famous jazz club of Prague, in a tent on the Parade and in their own clubhouse at the camp in Rijswijk (the Netherlands).
We were there when Paulus Schäfer, the Gipsyband and the Rosenbrg Trio performed together, witnessing a jam session in the dressing room that was every bit as good as the concert itself.
With Roger we pay a visit to his in-laws in Germany, where he sings a moving song together with his demented father-in-law while sitting round the campfire. Roger is a composer, and has been working for years on a requiem in memory of those who died in Auschwitz.
On Roger's fiftieth birthday, in a castle in Belgium, all musicians come round to play, eat, sing and dance together.
With
PAULUS SCHÄFER EN DE GIPSYBAND, ROGER MORENO EN HET TRISKA TRIO, TUSCI EN POPY BASILY EN HUN FORMATIE.
Script and camera Bob Entrop
Camera-assistant Arda Nederveen
Sound
Kees van Gool
Wouter Weber
Jeroen Goeijers
Anneke Huber
Editor
Haukje Heuff
Bob Entrop
Music and mixage Jeroen Goeijers
Production
Nicole Neefs
Arda Nederveen
Anneke Huber
Editorial board RVU Televison
Director Bob Entrop
Produced and released by SOL FILMprodukties © 2007
DE WITTE RAAF_THE WHITE WHALE
A film by Bob Entrop
Americas Premiere.
70 minutes/ English subtitled
Filmed in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Czech. Dutch spoken.
Lalla Weiss is an assertive Sintezza (gypsy woman), who has been married a couple of years to Kees, a thoroughbred Dutchman from Amsterdam. She no longer lives in a caravan, but in a stone house, which took quite some adjusting in the beginning.
Having built up a relationship of trust with Lalla as a mother and as the spokeswoman for the Sinti and Roma, filmmaker Bob Entrop has been able to follow her for a year in The Netherlands and abroad: During the International Gipsy festival in the Netherlands and the Django Reinhardt festival in France, visiting a Roma Family and School project in the Czech Republic, as a keynote speaker at the OSCE in Austria, with her uncle at the 60 years 2th World War memory day in Westerbork and as a mother with her family.
Lalla has shown him things that were hardly unknown and recently not done.
A film full of passion, music, dance, history, daily life and 2th World War memories.
Music is a matter of survival, and anyone who listens well to the tones, can hear the sounds of a colourful nation. With the Basily's, we filmed in the world-famous jazz club of Prague, in a tent on the Parade and in their own clubhouse at the camp in Rijswijk (the Netherlands).
We were there when Paulus Schäfer, the Gipsyband and the Rosenbrg Trio performed together, witnessing a jam session in the dressing room that was every bit as good as the concert itself.
With Roger we pay a visit to his in-laws in Germany, where he sings a moving song together with his demented father-in-law while sitting round the campfire. Roger is a composer, and has been working for years on a requiem in memory of those who died in Auschwitz.
On Roger's fiftieth birthday, in a castle in Belgium, all musicians come round to play, eat, sing and dance together.
Camera, director and producer Bob Entrop
Camera-assistant
Arda Nederveen
sound
Kees van Gool
Jeroen Goeijers
Wouter Weber
Gertjan Miedema
Editor
Xandra Schipperheijn
Bob Entrop
Music and mix:
Jeroen Goeijers
Production
Nicole Neefs
Anneke Huber
Director Bob Entrop
Produced and released by SOL FILMprodukties © 2004
The Last Hole on the Flute
A film by Vava Stojadinovic
Americas Premiere.
54 minutes/ Serbian with English subtitled/2005
In Serbian a 'Last Hole on the Flute' is a looser. Gypsies use it amongst
themselves when they are disappointed in their own life.Last Hole on the Flute examines the life, work and traveling of Romany musicians in the
far south of the Balkans. Director Vava Stojadinovic presents a highly stylized and visually engaging record of the dynamics of a minority group
within a larger society, which moreover is itself filled with internal contradictions and cultural collisions. Taking in styles ranging from high
energy festival brass bands and languid trumpet laments to street breakdancing, ethno-disco and topical rapping, the film is also a dizzying and
inspiring survey of unbridled creativity in the midst of one of the most impoverished regions in Europe.
Director
Vava Stojadinovic
Camera
Vava Stojadinovic
Sound recording
Boban Bajic
Editing
Stella van Voorst van Beest
Vava Stojadinovic
Mix
Ranko Paukovic
Producer
Denis Vaslin
Funding
Dutch Film Fund
Rotterdam Film Fund
Sales:
Festival & Markets: Docs for sale, IDFA 2005
www.volyafilms.nl/main/films/TheLastHole.html
www.vavafilms.nl
The Curse of the Hedgehog
A film by Dumitru Budrala
NY Premiere.
93 minutes/ In Romanian with English subtitled/2004
The filmmaker goes beyond stereotypes, following an extremely poor Baesi Roma family from the mountains in their survival winter trips.These winter tours are survival trips for them, as they have no other income whatsoever. However, the film is more than the story of their struggle to survive.
The film follows the life of an extended Roma family for a whole year. They belong to the “Baiesi “ group of Roma, who live in extreme poverty.It's an extraordinary documentation of a family, a community and its traditions.
Dumitru Budrala
Founder and director of ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL. He is an anthropologist, filmaker and photographer, and director of the ASTRA FILM Studio (visual anthropology department of the ASTRA Museum in Sibiu), and the president of the Visual Anthropology Foundation. He is the author of several award-winning documentary and anthropological films (his latest film is The Curse of the Hedgehog), and of books and articles based on his research work in Transylvania.
Suspino: A Cry for Roma
A film by Gillian Darling Kovanic
NY Premiere.
72 minutes/ In Romanian with English subtitled/2003
SUSPINO - A CRY FOR ROMA takes an unflinching look at the persecution that continues to plague Europe's largest and most vilified minority.
With the fall of communism and rise of right-wing nationalism, the Roma (or Gypsies as they are pejoratively called) have become scapegoats for
Eastern Europe's nascent democracies. Because of violent conflicts and discrimination, tens of thousands of Eastern European Roma are fleeing their
countries. The film focuses on Romania where Europe's largest concentration of Roma are considered 'public enemies', and Italy, where the Roma are
classified as nomads and relegated to living in camps. Here they are denied basic human rights available to refugees and foreign residents. Aiming to create a "Gypsy-free" Romanian town, a mayor tries to move local Roma into an abandoned chicken farm, encircled with barbed wire and
patrolled by guards with dogs. A Roma family gathers in a Transylvanian graveyard to mourn the death of 3 brothers
murdered in an earlier pogrom that also saw the destruction of 21 of their houses. In a squalid trailer camp ten
kilometers from Vatican City, a young Roma couple that fled persecution in Romania is trying to build a new life.
Instead they end up begging to feed their children. Their nightmare worsens when the mayor of Rome decides to bulldoze
the camp to the ground. A Romanian Roma activist seeking asylum in Canada tells a heart-breaking story of a pogrom against
his community back home, and explains that this international human rights crisis has its roots in 500 years of slavery in Eastern Europe.
Romania has joined the European Union in 2007
Although it was supposed to improve it's treatment of minorities, especially the Roma. But what
hope is there for the Roma when gatekeeper countries like Italy are also in flagrant violation of human rights conventions
Producers
Gillian Darling Kovanic
Rudi Kovanic
Director and Scriptwriter
Gillian Darling Kovanic
Cast
Emilian Niculae
Ion Degeratu
Hermina Degeratu
Stefano Montessi
www.bullfrogfilms.com
Gitanos sin carpa
Gypsies Without Tents
A film by Ivan Tziboulka
NY Premiere.
Chile, 62 minutes/ In Spanish with English subtitled/2004
GYPSIES WITHOUT TENTS portrays the lives of Chile’s estimated 15 – 20,000 Romanies (Gypsies) by documenting the stories of three families and their everyday struggles to reconcile their traditional culture with the advantages offered by cultural assimilation. The film brings us into the families’ homes, their places of worship, the children’s schools, and the markets where the men trade, where the protagonists speak, in the Romani language as well as Spanish, about their lives and their concerns as Chileans and as Romanies. We are shown through the experiences of the subjects themselves the shifting terrain that is Romani identity in the Americas.
www.lasamericasfilms.org
"Where Did This Urban Transformation Come From?"
"Nereden Ciktibu Bu Kentsel Donusum?"
Americas Premiere.
A film by Braxton Hood
Turkey / Turkish with English subtitles / 13 minutes
“Where Did This Urban Transformation Come From?" is a short
documentary telling the displacement story
of Romani Gypsies living in Istanbu, Turkey, as they are forced to vacate their homes under the pretext of
an "Urban Renovation" project by the district's municipal administration. The eviction is expressed
by narratives from the lives of local inhabitants.
Cymbalom Legacy
The soundscape of Miklós Lukács
A film by Mano Camón
The Netherlands / 45 min. Hungarian with English subtitled
Produced by Steve Weiss Music (U.S.A.) in co-production with Amaní Productions (the Netherlands).
A unique and ancient instrument, and the music of Hungarian cymbalom virtuoso Miklós Lukács.
Miklós is a Roma, whose radical way of blending traditional gypsy tunes with classical harmonies, contemporary jazz and popular music is taking him and his cymbalom into new and exciting musical territory. Unsatisfied with the archaic approach the cymbalom is known for, Lukács is expanding the horizon of this ancient instrument by dedicating himself to an exploration of what he likes to call his “infinite treasure chest".
www.amaniproductions.eu
www.myspace.com/manocamon
Djangomania!
Film by : Jamie Kastner
Canada 56 minutes
Djangomania! is a personal journey into a bizarre new obsession, a forgotten genius, and the tangled soul of gypsy jazz.
The world is suddenly rife with diehard fans of a 50-year-dead gypsy jazz legend. Who was Django Reinhardt and why are these new fans disabling their fingers
and growing mustaches to emulate him?
filmmaker Jamie Kastner conducts a musical world tour ranging from Oslo to Tokyo (where he discovers dueling Django tribute bands). Both a celebration of the
man Duke Ellington said was the only non-American to make an impact on jazz, and an investigation into the nature of fandom, DJANGOMANIA! is a delightful salute to Django and his art
www.cave7productions.com
" Special sneak Preview"
"Searching for the 4th Nail"
Film by : George Eli
Executive producer
Jasmine Dellal / Little Dust Productions
USA 55 minutes
A discussion with the filmmaker George Eli, sons Alex and Christopher Eli,
and Producer and Editor Nikhil Melnechuk follows the screening.
Filmmaker George Eli embarks on a journey across America to find the
origins
of his people's traditions
so that he can teach his sons what it means to be Gypsy.
" Special sneak Preview"
" Special sneak Preview"
"ROMANISTAN"
Film by : Guy-Laurent Winterstein
USA 25 minutes
ROMANISTAN is a testimony of the Romani life today in Europe,
the Middle East and Asia, reported by a true Rom.
This is Chapter 1_"France. "
A discussion with the filmmaker Guy-Laurent Winterstein follows the screening.
" Special sneak Preview"
"Jan Yoors weaving two worlds"
Film by : whirlwind creative
USA 14 minutes
David Doore - Video editor
Jan Yoors (1922-1977) a Human right advocate, a photographer and The author of "The Heroic Present: LIFE AMONG THE GYPSIES"was born in Antwerp, Belgium to a cultured, liberal family of artists. At the age of twelve he ran off with a Gypsy tribe and lived with the kumpania on and off for the next ten years. (His memoir of this period, "The Gypsies", was published in 1965 and remains a seminal work on the subject).This film deals with the Journey and the life of Jan Yoors.
A discussion with David Doore and Kore Yoors follows the screening.
www.janyoors.com
www.whirlwindcreative.com
The Gypsy Caravan.
Director/Producer/Writer:
Jasmine Dellal - Little Dust Productions
109 minutes
Part concert film and part sociological study, this documentary travels between concert venues and cultures to give a rare insider look at Gypsy music. With Macedonian diva Esma Redzepova, traditional Indian troupe Maharaja, Romanian groups Fanfare Ciocarlia and Taraf de Haïdouks and the Antonio El Pipa Flamenco Ensemble.
A discussion with the filmmaker follows the screening.
www.gypsycaravanmovie.com
