Welcome
DOCKANEMA is a Documentary Film Festival in Mozambique and the third edition will take place from 12 to 21 de September 2008 in Maputo.
Documentary filmmaking in Mozambique reached a very high level in the past and it is essential to keep it alive, in the name of collective memory and of individual cultural affirmation in the world at large. DOCKANEMA is intended to be an opportunity for meetings, discussions and contacts and a reflection on the present and the future.
The Festival shows dozens of films in various cinemas, and from last year also takes them to other cities in the country. This sample includes films that have won international prizes, some very polemical that have also been commercially successful. The documentaries come from every continent and from a great variety of countries, which normally do not reach interested audiences, most particularly filmmakers in Mozambique.
DOCKANEMA reaches a huge and growing audience, with its showings in the townships around the Mozambican capital and in other cities in the country. It wants to stir up a public that has become used to being passive when faced with the commonplace and cultural sameness of television, offering alternative views of the world.
Parallel with the film shows, DOCKANEMA promotes formal and informal discussions around the situation of the documentary in Mozambique, the resources available to filmmakers and the role of the various parties in this process (State-TVs, backers and cooperation, writers, technicians, etc.). For this reason, Dockanema invites directors and other people involved in the films in the programme to interact with the Mozambican public.
Filme de abertura / Opening screening:
Stranded: I Have come from a plane that crashed on the mountains,
de Gonzalo Arijón, Uruguai / França, 2007, 127'
Prémio JORIS IVENS (IDFA 2007)
Winner JORIS IVENS Award (IDFA 2007)
DATA / DAY: Sexta-feira 12 Setembro / Friday 12 September – 19h
LOCAL / PLACE: Centro Cultural da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Trinta e cinco anos depois, a história da queda do voo 571, na cordilheira dos Andes, não perdeu seu componente dramático. Jogadores de um time de rúgbi uruguaio, os 45 passageiros originais planejavam apenas passar um fim-de-semana no Chile. Uma tempestade no caminho transformou sua jornada numa drástica prova de resistência ao frio e à fome por 72 dias, que passou pela dificílima decisão de comer a carne dos companheiros mortos. Velho amigo dos sobreviventes, o director Gonzalo Arijon convence-os a revisitarem com suas famílias o cenário do acontecimento mais marcante de suas vidas, reconstituindo sua provação em sequências re-encenadas. A fotografia é assinada pelo uruguaio radicado no Brasil César Charlone (indicado ao Oscar por “Cidade de Deus”).
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Thirty-five years on, the story of the flight 571 crash in the Andes has not lost impact. The 45 passengers on board - mostly players of a Uruguayan rugby team -were en route to Chile to spend the week-end. A snow storm on the way turned their journey into a prolonged endurance test to freezing temperatures and hunger for 72 consecutive days. They were also forced to make a life or death decision to eat their dead friends in order to survive. As an old friend of the survivors, director Gonzalo Arijon convinced the group to visit the scene of the crash with their families and reenact their ordeal in a series of restaged sequences. The film's photography was shot by the Uruguayan cinematographer living in Brazil, César Charlone (an Oscar nominee for "City of God").
