FDF

The festival proffers a diversified insight into the contemporary documentary film output, the increasingly incisive and universally embraced art form. Political and socially engaged documentaries, profiles, films on myths and cultural icons as well as intimate portrayals.

Highlights:
Documentaries tackling two English music icons (Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten by: J. Temple; Joy Division by: G. Gee); a lucid portrayal of the legendarily strict and reclusive Cartusian Order within Grande Chartreuse monastery in the Swiss Alps (Die Grosse Stille; by: P. Groening); film addressing the victims of the Pinochet monocracy in Chile (Calle Santa Fe; by: C. Castillo); Is it possible to portray democracy? Yes! (State Legislature, by: F. Wiseman); film on the phenomenon of dust, the smallest unit of matter to become a film character (Dust; by: H. Bitomsky); and "trainspotting" the American way (RR; by: James Benning).

Topic: "Death of a Worker" or the subjugation of the labour movement from the USA to China, late 19th century through the beginning of the 21st century.

Retrospective: Nicolas Philibert, a poetical French cineast, who, in 2002, with his Etre et avoir boosted the public interest in documentary film. Featured will be six of his works.