DANISH DOCUMENTARIES AT DIALEKTUS FILM FESTIVAL
10 April 2007. - www.skandinavhaz.hu

The films of Esben Hansen and Pila Rusjan Zupan can be seen at the first International Dialektus Festival, where the most creative and sensitive documentary films of Europe are competing for 4 days to win the Golden Deer Prize.

The Entrance is free!

This year there were more than 300 documentaries submitted from 28 European countries, therefore the jury had a difficult task. Almost all documentaries were really interesting and remarkable. But we had to make a hard decision of the films that can take part in the festival program, which has limited time for film screenings. The festival is a real public event for a wide audience; in addition to the splendid selection of documentaries the program offers also concerts, exhibitions and discussions with filmmakers.

This year two Danish films are in the competition program:

Documentary and anthropological film session, in competition

This Work of Mine
Screenings: 2007.04.11. 17:00 & 04.14. 10:00
Denmark
2006
28’

director: Esben Hansen
producer: Esben Hansen
editor: Mette Esmark
sound: Paw Andersen, Steen Bondrop
main character: Alberto Cairo
distributor: Aarhus Filmworkshop

Alberto Cairo is an Italian physiotherapist, who is helping mine victims and disabled people in an orthopaedic center in Kabul, Afganistan. ’This Work of Mine’ depicts one of Alberto’s hectic and conflict-ridden workdays. The film also tells the story of two disabled Afghans, the old grandma Fatima, who has travelled several days to get a treatment, and the 8 year old boy Mehdi, who has lost a leg and most of his family. Esben Hansen was born in 1978 in Middelfart. He studied audiovisual communication in Valencia, arts in ethnography and social anthropology at Aarhus.

Student competition - Our guest: Pila Rusjan Zupan

Being yourself
Screenings: 2007.04.11. 15:00 & 04.13. 15:00
Denmark
2005
9’

director: Pila Rusjan Zupan
expert: Audrius Stonys
producer: Anna Michailidis
cinematographer: Aura Solis
editor: Pila Rusjan Zupan
sound: Liv Gunda Skree
co-worker: David Auby Johansen
distributor: European Film College

How do people act when they are alone, how do they act when they know they are being filmed and how when they are told to be themselves. The film consists of three different parts of the same event - a casting for being yourself. First the participants are filmed with secret cameras in the waiting room, then in casting room sitting in front of the camera and when "the director" enters instead of giving a normal task, they are asked to be themselves.

Related links:
Dialektus Film Festival