LAKESIDE DOC FESTIVAL
LDF 2017
Festival of International Documentaries
Constantin Hatz - Germany - 2014 - 39 mts
House arrest with an electronic bracelet instead of jail for a 27-year old…Was the
legal bargain a godsend…Read More
Babeth VanLoo - The Netherlands / Japan – 2015 - 90 mts
80 year-old Berkeley-based Kazuaki Tanahashi, a Japanese Zen teacher, known as
much for his extraordinary calligraphy works as for his activism for peace and
demilitarization. Read More
https://www.facebook.com/lionsroarbuddhism/videos/621347608028230/
Gueorgui Balabanov - Bulgaria, France – 2015 - 90 mts
A comical but disquieting slice of Bulgarian society, where labels have changed
since the Soviet era, but not the relationships of dominance. Read More
http://www.cinemadureel.org/en/archives/programme-2015/international-competition/et-le-bal-continue
Anastasia Novikova - Russia – 2015 - 22 mts
A sublime meditation on love, loneliness and the inexorable passage of time as an
old man, deep in the Russian countryside awaits a phone call from his wife, far away
in a hospital. Read More
http://www.traileraddict.com/the-conversation-2015/trailer
Alexandru Belc - Romania, Czech Republic – 2015 - 74 mts
A Don Quixote fighting digital progress with a solid 35 mm projection equipment that
is on the brink of failure - battling to preserve one of the last remaining cinemas in
Romania today. Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_08oErqqGOo
Yann Coridian, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - France – 2016 - 85 mts
A choreographer arrives in a hospital of Alzheimer’s patients and amidst the song and
dance, a reservoir of emotions awakens in Blanche. Read More
http://cineuropa.org/vd.aspx?t=video&l=en&rdID=313386&f=t&fmt=flv
Elisa Kubarska – Poland – 2015 - 72 mts.
The children of acclaimed alpinists - who died on K2, in Karakorum Mountains
- undertake an expedition to answer universal question: what is the price of passion.
In the summer of 1986, several dozen alpinists from all over Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO35ucIbWbw
Aleksandra Maciuszek – Poland – 2015 - 60 mts.
An old woman watches over a grown-up son with Down syndrome,
her only caretaker. One day, she falls ill.
Casa Blanca is a small fishing village on the Gulf of Havana. Read More
Paulina Skibińska - Poland – 2015 - 15 mts
Object is a creative and abstract image of a underwater search. The action takes
place in the dimensions of two worlds – ice desert and underwater.Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTDorX2wiys
Thomas Lüchinger – Switzerland – 2016 – 95 mts
The film BEING THERE – DA SEIN portraits four people from different cultures
giving care to dying people. By confronting their own mortality, they present ways Read More
http://being-there.ch/en/the-film/
Vandana Kohli – India – 2012 – 46 mts
An essay in film exploring the emotion, expression and root causes that drive us to anger.
World-renowned professors of Psychology, Sociology and Neurology from the US
UK and India, along with voices from amongst us, examine the cause and impact of Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTDorX2wiys
Pankaj Johar - India – 2016 – 80 mts
The film is the story of struggle for justice of Cecilia Hasda, a tribal woman from
West Bengal-India, whose daughter is trafficked and found dead in New Delhi. In a
country where thousands of tribal children get trafficked every year to cities Read More
http://www.ceciliathefilm.com/
