SATURDAY, JANUARY 30th – FILM SCREENINGS
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL

1:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Pavillon J.-A.-DeSève, 2332 boul. Édouard-Montpetit, 6th floor, Centre d’essai
Édouard-Montpetit metro or 51 bus
Map

Trippes modernes

1:00 p.m.
Vendemos recuerdos (Memories for sale)
Carolina Corral Paredes, UK, 2009, Spanish with Eng. subt., 25 min
Carlos is an enthusiastic tour guide and Doña Rosa is an indigenous old woman that sells crafts in the market. They both are dedicated to provide what curious tourists might be looking for in an indigenous and picturesque region in southern México.

1:25 p.m.
Domace je najbolje (C'est meilleur fait maison)
Slaven Žimbrek, Croatie, 2009, Croatian with French subt., 28 min
A graphic presentation of Croatian traditional pig slaughter festivity, which has recently become illegal in Croatia as a result of the country's preparation for the membership in the European Union. Although this dying tradition is presented with a touch of dark humor and irony, the film is also a criticism of Croatian government's policy of hasty adoption of the EU laws without thinking about potentially devastating consequences for Croatian family farms.

1:55 p.m.
Itchombi
Gentille M. Assih, Togo, 2009, French, 52 min
Déou, a Togolese student living in Dakar, returns home to undergo the traditional circumcision ceremony, following the wishes of his father. To protect himself against possible contamination by Aids or other sexually transmissible diseases, Déou asks that measures of hygiene be respected. How will this request be perceived by other members of the community? Can Déou be initiated and become a man amongst his family without fearing for his physical integrity?

2:50 p.m.
Discussion and question & answer with the director of Itchombi, Mrs. Assih.
Followed by a coffee break

Agents de rencontre

3:15 p.m.
La boda de Mawla (Mawla's wedding)
Zoltan Enevold, Spain, 2009, espagnol/bengali avec s-t. ang., 53 min
Mawla, a young man from Bangladesh living in Madrid (Spain), dreams of having a family. After seven years he decides to go back to his country for the first time in order to find a bride and get married. Winner at ALCANCES 2009 (Medium Length Documentary Section), SPAIN.
http://www.eltercerojo.tv/la_boda_de_mawla.html

4:08 p.m.
Esperando Mujeres (Waiting for women)
Estephan Wagner, UK, 2008, Spanish with Eng. subt., 29 min
In the remote spanish village of Riofrio, the women have left many years ago. Only men are left without the slightest possibility to find a relationship. Not bearing the disastrous situation any longer, they organize a busload of single women to come from Madrid into their loneliness. But having never learned how to deal with women, beside their mothers and some motorway prostitutes, the event goes terribly wrong. Waiting for Women is a heart-warming film about love and solitude, about gender, migration and hope.
http://www.wagnerdocs.com/sinopsis.html

4:37 p.m.
Ho fatto il mio coraggio (I got up my courage)
Giovanni Princigalli, Québec, 2009, Italian with French subt., 50 min
During the 50s and 60s, many Italian men moved to Montreal as migrant workers, many of which were women from poor villages of Southern Italy coming to marry an Italo-canadian, met through a letter or a picture. Now older, men and women tell us about the story of Italians in Montreal, and the life of migrants.

5:36 p.m.
Discussion and question & answer with the director of Ho fatto il mio coraggio, Mr Princigalli.
Followed by a coffee break

Les à-côtés

6:00 p.m.
Celui qui marche plus vite que son ombre
Elisabetta Vernier, France, 2009, French with Eng. subt., 28 min
Jacques, homeless since 1988, lives in one of the six tents across from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. In May 2008, he is forced to move from the spot where has been living for seven years, he must start looking for a place to stay once more.

6:28 p.m.
In pursuit of happiness
Ray Ono, UK, 2009, Japanese with Eng. subt., 30 min
Tokyo life as rarely seen on mainstream media. This short film takes you into the lives of men who live on the overskirts of the city. Around 300 men live along the Tama River in huts.

7:00 p.m.
Les à-côtés - Discussion with Nelson Arruda, consultant in ethnology and Simon Couturier, photographer.
Société parallèle - Photo exhibit in the hall, by Simon Couturier.
http://www.simonc.net/
Dinner break – a glass of wine and a few bites will be served.

Contre-temps

8:00 p.m. Rules & Rebels: a Portrait
Ronnie Smith, Norway, 2008, norvégien avec s-t. ang., 28 min
Portrait d'un style musical d'avant-garde nommé « Open form ». À travers les yeux d'une artiste de ce genre, nous entrons dans une sous-culture musicale dont les codes esthétiques et artistiques sont loin de la norme. L'objectif de ce projet est de présenter un collage qui inclut l'aspect visuel, oral et textuel afin de rendre ce phénomène plus accessible.

8:30 p.m. Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam
Omar Majeed, Canada, 2009, English with French subt.., 80 min
A musical scene inspired by a Muslim Punk manifesto called The Taqwacores (taqwa for piety, core short for hardcore). This film follows Michael, the writer, and his band of Muslim punks as they journey across the U.S. and Pakistan, transforming their worlds, their religion and themselves through the spirit of Taqwacore. With mohawk sufis, indonesian skaters, Shi'a skinheads, burkas and mullahs, this is a new look at Islam.
http://www.taqwacore.com/

9:50 p.m.
Short discussion and closing comments