Projects

3 DAYS TO FOREVER Indonesia (2005)
Director: Riri Riza

A BOY OR A GIRL? Palestine (2005)
Director: Sawsan Quaoud
Production Company: Smart Frame TV

AFRICAN TALES - THE TANZANIA SHORT FILM PROJECT, Tanzania (2002, 2003, 2005)
Project director: Imruh Bakari
Production company: Savannah Films
Films included:
THE WILL
Director: Neema Kambona

WORK FOR FREE
Director: Omari Semindu and Imruh Bakari

I AM TIRED
Director: Maria Sarungi Tsehai

ANOTHER MAN'S GARDEN, (O JARIM DE OUTRO HOMEM) Moçambique (2002)
Director: Sol Carvalho
Production company: Promarte

A THOUSAND HOUSES OF DREAM AND TERROR (2006)
Director: Atiq Rahimi
Production company: CRM-114

A TIME FAR PAST, Vietnam (2004)
Director: Ho Quang Minh
Production company: Giaï Phong Films Studio
Screened at: GFF 2005.

BAG 101, (CULIK) Indonesia (1999)
Director: Teddy Soeriaatmadja
Production company: Global Village
Additional information: The film premièred at the Jakarta international Film Festival in 2000.

BLACK (THE), South Africa (1999)
Director: Eddie Edwards
Production company: Big World Cinema
Screened at: GFF 2002
Additional information: The film had its local première in South Africa in July 2002. It was screened in competition at the Apollo Film Festival in September 2002 and at the Sithengi Film Festival in November 2002.

BLACK DESIRE, (KAMUKOLA) South Africa (2002/ 2004)
Director: Cathrine Kaseketi
Production company: Zebra X Films

BUNNYCHOW MEMOIRS, South Africa (2001)
Director: Jean and Zinaid Meeran
Production company: -
Development support.

COME ON YOUNG MEN, COME ON, Palestine (2005)
Director: Rebekah Wingert-Jabi

COUP DE PILON, Senegal (2000)
Director: Moussa Sene Absa
Production company: M.S.A Productions

DAM STREET, (BA SHANG JIE) China (2002)
Director: Li Yu
Production company: -
Development support.
Screened at GFF 2006.

DOG POUND, Uruguay (2002)
Director: Manolo Nieto
Production company:
Development support.
Screened at GFF 2006.

EARLY IN THE MORNING, Guinea (2005)
Director: Gahité Fofana
Production Company: Key Light
Screened at GFF 2006.

EXPIRATION DATE, Mexico (2001)
Director: Kenya Marquez
Production company: -
Development support.

FIRST RAINY DAY, THE, Vietnam (2006)
Director: Nguyen Phan Quang Binh
Production company: Vietnam Studio

FORGOTTEN, Kenya (1999)
Director: Dommie Yambo-Dotte
Production company: Dev. Through Media

HEADS OR TAILS (CARA O CRUZ) Ecuador (1999)
Director: Camilo Luzuriago
Production company: Grupocine
Screened at: GFF 2004.
Additional information: The film had its local première in Ecuador in May 2003 and got a lot of publicity. In Quito as well as in Guayaquil and Cuenca (the three main cities in Ecuador) the film was screened in digital format and it quickly reached an audience of about 20 000 viewers. Through the help of GFFF the film was also screened at Imagenes del Sur Film Festival (Malmö, Sweden) 2004.

HEREMIAS, Philippines (2004)
Director: Lav Diaz
Production company: -
Development support.

HOLLOW CITY, (NA CIDADE VAZIA) Angola (2003)
Director: Maria G João
Production company: Integrada Producöes Lda
Screened at: GFF 2005
Additional information: Through the help of GFFF the film was also screened at Cinemafrica Film Festival (Stockholm, Sweden) 2004.

JAVE VALLEY, (NARRADORES DE JAVÉ) Brazil (2002)
Director: Elaine Caffé
Production company: BCA Producoes
Screened at: GFF 2003
Additional information: As only Brazilian movie the film was selected for the competition of the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2003. It won the Fipresci Award at the Fribourg Film Festival in Switzerland and at the Recife Cinema Festival in Brazil it won a total of nine awards! Among them the Gilberto Freyre Award, given to films that investigates the Brazilian cultural roots. Göteborg Film Festival Fund supported the making of a DVD version of this film in 2003.

JUST SAY NO, Cameroon (2005)
Director: Cyrile Masso
Production Company: Malo Pictures
Screened at GFF 2006.

KALI SALWAR India (1999)
Director: Fareeda Mehta
Production company: Andaaz
Screened at: GFF 2002

LA CITÉ DE PLOMB, Tunisia (2006)
Director: Kaouther Ben H?nia
Production company: Familia Productions

LIFE , (JIYAN) Kurdistan (2002)
Director: Jano Rosebiani
Production company: -
Screened at: GFF 2002
Additional information: The film got world sales through the distribution company Media Luna Entertainment and has been screened at film festivals all over the world. Among others; the Minneapolis/ St Paul International Film Festival, the Singapore International Film Festival and the Washington DC?s international Film Festival. It was also released in the UK by the Rio Cinema and the Kurdish Film Festival Organizing Committee.

LOOKING AWRY, Palestine (2001)
Director: Sobhi al-Zobaidi
Production company: ReFugee Camp Productions
Screened at: GFF 2002
Additional information: Looking Awry has had over 200 screenings all over the world. Among others it has been presented at the Montpellier Film Festival, the World Wide Video and Film Festival, Arab International Film Festival in Doha, San Francisco Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival, ICA London and the Medfilmfestival.

LONELY IS THE NIGHT, Nigeria (2005)
Director: Didi Cheeka
Production company: Alternative Cinema Project
Screened at: GIFF 2007

THE MADNESS OF DIDI, Nigeria (2005)
Director: Didi Cheeka
Production Company: Alternative Cinema Project

MAMA AFRICA, Zimbabwe (1999)
Director: Several different female directors
Production company: Zimmedia
Screened at: GFF 2001

MY VOICE, (NHA FALA) Guinea Bissau (2000/ 2002)
Director: Flora Gomes
Production company: Fado Filmes
Screened at: GFF 2003.
Additional information: The film was presented at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 and won two awards there; the Prize Citta di Roma-arco Balleno and the Lanterna Mágica Award. Through the help of GFFF the film was also screened at the African Film Festival in Uppsala, Sweden in 2003.

OPERA JAWA, Indonesia (2006)
Director: Garin Nugroho
Production company: Set Film Work Shop
Screened at: GIFF 2007

PARAGUAYAN HAMMOCK (HAMACA PARAGUAYA) Paraguay (2004)
Director: Paz Encina Enmarcha
Production company: Audio Visual

PHOTOGRAPH, THE, Indonesia (2002)
Director: Nan Achnas
Production company: -
Development support.

PLAYING WORRIORS, Zimbabwe (2004)
Director: Rumbi Katedza
Production company: -
Development support.

PRICE OF FORGIVNESS (THE), (PRIX DU PARDON, LE) Senegal (2001) Director: Mansour Sora Wade
Production company: Les Films du Safran
Screened at: GFF 2002
Additional information: Together with the Hubert Bals Film Fund the Göteborg Film Festival Fund supported the making of a DVD version of this film in 2003. The film was also screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival and got worldwide distribution through the distribution company Mercure.

PURE COOLNESS, Kyrgyzstan (2005)
Director: Ernest Abdyjaparov
Production Company: Oy Art

RISE AND FALL OF RICHARD ONYANGO, Kenya (2003)
Director: Njeri Karago
Production company: -
Development support.

SAGKOSHI, Iran (2000)
Director: Bahram Beyzaie
Production company: Silkroad Productions
Screened at: GFF 2002
Additional information: The film got local distribution in Iran through the Fajr Film Fesival in 2002.

SCENERY (THE), China (1998)
Director: Zhao Jisong
Production company: -
Screened at: GFF 1999

SHADES OF ASH, (SUDU KALU SAHA ALU) Sri Lanka (2003)
Director: Sudath Mahaadivulwewa
Production company: Cine Shilpa
Screened at: GFF 2004

SILENT WATERS (KHAMOSH PANI/ VERU), Pakistan (2000)
Director: Sabiha Sumar
Production company: Vidhi Films
Screened at: GFF 2004
Additional information: Silent Waters was presented at Osian?s CineFan Festival in New Delhi in July 2004. The screening was a huge success and almost 2 000 people turned up to see it at a movie theatre holding only 600 seats. The film has won a number of awards and has also been screened at the Seattle International Film Festival 2004.

SNOW (SNIJEG), Bosnia (2004)
Director: Aida Begic
Production company: -
Development support.

SO DIE ANGELS, Senegal (2000)
Director: Moussa Sene Absa
Production Company: M.S.A Productions

SPIKLI, South Africa (2001)
Director: Muzi Sithebe
Production company: -
Development support.

SUZHOU RIVER, (SUZHOU HE) China (1999)
Director: Lou Ye
Production company: -
Screened at: GFF 2000
Additional information: Also appointed the Folkets Bio Christmas Movie of 2001.

TELEGRAM, Indonesia (1999)
Director: Slamet Rahardjo
Production company: Artcam
Screened at: GFF 2000
Additional information. The film was distributed in the Netherlands through Contact Film Distribution. Because of the political and financial situation in Indonesia the distribution there did not start until in 2002 but the première of the film in Jakarta was a big event since it was the first all Indonesian film produced in several years. The film has also been screened on Australian television (SBS) and distributed in France.

TO GET TO HEAVEN FIRST YOU HAVE TO DIE, Tajikistan (2006)
Director: Djamshed Usmanov
Production company: Elzévir Films
Screened at: GIFF 2007

VIRGIN COW (PARISHUDDHAYAYA PASU), India (2003)
Director: Murali Nair
Production company: Flying Elephant Films

YOU'LL REMEMBER ME (ME VAS A RECORDAR), Mexico (2003)
Director: Issa Garcia Ascot
Production company: -

Development support
In addition to these film projects the Göteborg International Film Festival fund has supported a number of diff erent work shops all over the world.
We have an extensive partnership with the Southern African Film and Television Market, Sithengi (Cape Town, South Africa),with the Pusan International Film Festival, the Ateliers de projets at the Carthage Film Festival (Tunisia) and Sarajevo International Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina). We co-operate with the Imagine project (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), the Amakula in the Field project (Uganda), the organisation Shashat (Ramallah, Palestine), the Rwanda Film Festival Training Programme (Kigali, Rwanda), Cinergia (Costa Rica) and Arcadia (Guatemala).
Among our earlier partners are the Cinemanila International Film Festival (Manila, Philippines), the Zanzibar International Film Festival (Tanzania) and TyPA - Teoría y Practica de las Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentine).