How much would you sacrifice to fight for what you believe in? A CAMBODIAN SPRING is an intimate and unique portrait of three people caught up in the chaotic and often violent development that is shaping modern day Cambodia. Shot over 6 years by Christopher Kelly, the film charts the growing wave of land rights protests that led to the ‘Cambodian Spring’ and the tragic events that followed.
Pierre, a thirty-five-year-old dairy farmer, has taken over his parents’farm and devotes twenty-four hours a day to his cows. They are all for him so when an epidemic breaks out, threatening his herd, he gets terribly anxious. Even the assurances of Pascale, his veterinarian sister, that everything is fine, do not soothe his anxieties. And – quite unfortunately – his fears prove founded since one of his animals gets infected. The shock is severe because one cow touched means that his whole herd will be slaughtered. But Pierre is not going to let that happen.
British film icon Michael Caine narrates and stars in ‘My Generation’, a vivid and inspiring story of his personal journey through 1960s London. Based on personal accounts and stunning archive footage this documentary sees Caine travel back in time to talk to The Beatles, Twiggy, David Bailey, Mary Quant, The Rolling Stones, David Hockney and other star names.
The film has been painstakingly assembled over the last six years by Caine working with producer Simon Fuller, writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and director David Batty. Telling the story of the birth of pop culture in London through the eyes of the young Michael Caine, and using carefully intercut audio of Caine’s conversations with his co-stars blended with unseen archive material to take the viewer back to the heart of the 1960s.
“For the first time in history the young working class stood up for ourselves and said, we’re here, this is our society and we’re not going away!” (Michael Caine)
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 – Journey Strand.
Pierre, a thirty-five-year-old dairy farmer, has taken over his parents’farm and devotes twenty-four hours a day to his cows. They are all for him so when an epidemic breaks out, threatening his herd, he gets terribly anxious. Even the assurances of Pascale, his veterinarian sister, that everything is fine, do not soothe his anxieties. And – quite unfortunately – his fears prove founded since one of his animals gets infected. The shock is severe because one cow touched means that his whole herd will be slaughtered. But Pierre is not going to let that happen.
British film icon Michael Caine narrates and stars in ‘My Generation’, a vivid and inspiring story of his personal journey through 1960s London. Based on personal accounts and stunning archive footage this documentary sees Caine travel back in time to talk to The Beatles, Twiggy, David Bailey, Mary Quant, The Rolling Stones, David Hockney and other star names.
The film has been painstakingly assembled over the last six years by Caine working with producer Simon Fuller, writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and director David Batty. Telling the story of the birth of pop culture in London through the eyes of the young Michael Caine, and using carefully intercut audio of Caine’s conversations with his co-stars blended with unseen archive material to take the viewer back to the heart of the 1960s.
“For the first time in history the young working class stood up for ourselves and said, we’re here, this is our society and we’re not going away!” (Michael Caine)
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 – Journey Strand.
Detour Cinema Roma, Via Urbana 107 Roma March 16, Friday 2018 h8.30pm ON THE ROAD Film Festival PREVIEW 2018 Screening and Q&A with director, Maged El Mahedy, known for winning the Best Documentary Award at the Torino Film Festival, Amnesty International take part in the screening event, with the introduction of Laura Renzi, person responsible on […]
What would you do if your income were taken care of? Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before – intense discussions are taking place in all political and scientific camps. FREE LUNCH SOCIETY provides background information about this idea and searches for explanations, possibilities and experiences regarding its implementation.
Mondovisioni. As in the past, Cine Detour is showing these international documentaries in 2018. 6 extraordinary, informative and highly-topical films regarding human rights, chosen from the most prestigious international festivals. Mondovisioni presents the complexity of the world we live in: “how it is”, moving, profound, exemplary stories. This new edition takes us to Brazil to denounce the evangelical turn in national politics through the battles of the young gay parliamentarian Jean Wyllys, in Finland to see fear and European racism from a new and worrying perspective. Then to India with the ground-breaking political phenomenon of the Party of the Common Man and its leader, the committed anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal, and to Africa to tackle Female Genital Mutilation with the courageous young activist Jaha Dukureh.
Three young chinese, three distant and diverse existences caught in a same tension: the search for one’s own identity and the sense of “being” in a present of continuous transformation. All of them was born in China after 1989, the end of all the revolutions. On their shoulders lies a contradictory history and the suffering of the continuous transformation, from the fall of the imperial to the modern era, that began from the First Shot, back in 10.10.1911.
Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider’s view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society.