Country:United States of America, Uganda

Director:Kimi Takesue

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

Takesue films all her encounters with the cultural scene in Kampala and at Hope North in Northern Uganda, while reflecting on the phenomenon of the documentary.

Country:Switzerland

Director:Ayten Mutlu Saray

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

Two women roam around Turkey looking for the village of Zara. On the way, reality, memory and fantasy increasingly become entangled…

Country:Russia

Director:Alexander Sokurov

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

This is an intimate portrait of Emperor Hirohito at the end of his tether. As Japan nears defeat at the end of World War II, is Hirohito's future as an Emperor or a war criminal?

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Stephen Frears

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

Frears’ intimate sense of realism and Morgan’s slyly witty reality-mimicking script combined to uncanny effect in this dramatization of the private life of Queen Elizabeth.

Country:Italy

Director:Roberto Rossellini

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

The events that lead to the all encompassing power and abundancy of Louis XIV, French king of the sun, in a tale of betrayal and deceit.

Country:Belgium

Director:L. Vanderkeybus

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

In December 2008 a group of people went from Belgium to Soweto to create a “Murga”, a parading band, together with South African people.

Country:Germany

Director:Maria Arlamovsky

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

In this film people tell how soldiers use rape during times of war as a weapon to break the enemy. Then the floor is given to the perpetrator, who denies his actions.
Jonathan Stack The Road to Redemption (U.S.A./Libera, 2009, 25 min.)
Shaw describes the female survivors of the civil war in Liberia, the feelings of guilt, shame and the will to survive.

Country:Japan

Director:Masaki Kobayashi

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty.

Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Bonderchuk

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

Leo Tolstoy’s monumental novel is captured on film with total fidelity intertwining a love story and the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleons armies.

Country:South Korea

Director:Wong Kar-Wai

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

Wong Kar-Wai returns to a film from his past to finish it differently. A swordsman has found some magic wine that causes one to forget the past...