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For more than 10 years, Dutch director Leonard Retel Helmrich has been returning to the homeland of his parents to observe and record the transformation of Indonesia in the turbulent years of economic and cultural globalization. The Dafilms portal presents all of the three parts of his famous documentary trilogy, including the latest film Position among the Stars. On the backdrop of the tension in Indonesian society, Helmrich’s camera follows the Sjamsuddin family living their daily lives of work and worries, mutual love and hatred. In the week from May 21, you can watch the first two parts of the trilogy; The Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon; for free.
The Arrivals // Les Arrivants (Orig.)
DIR:
Claudine Bories,
Patrice Chagnard
2009 /
France
/ 111 min
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The first shot of the film establishes its agenda: the arrival of the Indian elephant god in the streets of Paris. The elephant god – a symbol of power and wisdom – is a well-chosen metaphor for the clash of foreign cultures that is part of the daily life of the CAFDA, a municipal reception centre for asylum seeking families. For both sides must show power and wisdom – the social workers who are constantly at risk of collapsing under the sheer number of new arrivals, and the asylum seekers who are forced to comply with an administrative logic that must seem as alien and incomprehensible to them as life on the moon. They come from the Congo, Chechnya, Sri Lanka or Ethiopia. They come with or without documents or luggage, brought in by immigrant smuggler gangs or have entered the Schengen area with a tourist visa. Observing both sides’ predicaments with sympathy and understanding, the film accompanies the CAFDA’s Sisyphus work and offers an authentic picture of persecution, political oppression and human misery outside Europe. “You will feel good in France”, an employee calms an excited mother, “there is no war here.” One would like to see this attitude in the German aliens departments who proudly point out the sinking number of asylum seekers in the country.
(Catalogue DOK Leipzig)
About
| Director | Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard |
|---|---|
| Screenplay | Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard |
| Dir. of Photography | Patrice Chagnard |
| Editing | Stéphanie Goldschmidt |
| Music | Pierre Carrasco, Ali Farka Touré |
| Sound | |
| Duration | 111 min |
| Year | 2009 |
| Country | France |
| Colour | Colour |
| Tags | emigration, institution, observational, social issues, society |
| Production |
Les Films d`Ici
Les Films d`Ici
Address: 62 bld Davout City: 75020 Paris Country: France Web: www.lesfilmsdici.fr E-mail: Phone: +33 1 44 52 23 23 Fax: +33 1 44 52 23 24 |
| Distribution |
Doc & Film International
Doc & Film International
Address: 13, rue Portefoin City: 750 03 Paris Country: France Web: www.docandfilm.com E-mail: Phone: +33 1 427 789 65 Fax: +33 1 427 736 56 |
| Festivals |
DOK Leipzig DOK Leipzig |
| Awards |
Golden Dove 2009 Golden Dove 2009 |
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