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OLIVA OLIVA

14.07 - 12.00 Nairi Cinema, Small Hall
14.07 - 20.00 Nairi Cinema, Small Hall
2005, France, 70 min.

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Documentary Films

Script/ Dir./Dir. of Phot./Sound/ Edit.: Peter Hoffmann.

This is a journey into the lives of Spanish honeybee keepers in the extreme south of Spain. Hoffmann shot this film over a period of two years, without crew or even a sound man. Alone with a Super 8 film camera, he joined Oliva’s family, expecting to film the traditional honey production before the expropriation of their farm. But day after day, this burlesque adventure is becoming a road movie across the remotest part of Spain, following Bunuel’s footsteps and his mystical film Las Hurdes.

Awards
Grand Prix, Prix Best Sound (Festival International Documentaire De Marseille 2005).

Peter Hoffmann

Born 1957, Bad Godesberg, Germany.
In 1979-87 he studies of Art at Fachhochschule Hannover. Free artistic activities. Experimental and documentary short films. Since 1991 a collaborator of the non-commercial and independant cinema “Kino im Sprengel” in Hannover. Film-concerts. Different jobs, officially unemployed.

Filmography (selected)
Abscheuliche Auffuhrung der Selbstentlarvung (1991), Alle Autos der Nordstadt (1992), Ein Platz fur Biere – das Bier in mir (1992), Ohrenklingen (1994), Musik Pausen Film (1996), L’annee derniere а Rasigueres (1997), Oliva Oliva (2005).

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Script/Dir.: Marco Bellocchio, Dir. of Phot.: Alberto Marrama, Compos.: Ennio Morricone, Prod. Design.: Gisella Longo, Edit.: Silvano Agosti, Prod.: Enzo Doria.
Cast:. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Stefania Troglio, Jeannie McNeil.

On a rural estate live three brothers, a sister, and their blind, religious mother. Three of the siblings have epilepsy, the fourth and eldest, Augusto does not, and he's about to break away from the family: he's in love with Lucia and planning to move to the city. Augusto's sister Guilia tries to frustrate the lovers, while another brother, Alessandro, hatches a far-reaching plot to free himself of his mother's demands and other family responsibilities, to give Augusto the wherewithal to leave with Lucia, and, perhaps, to pursue incestuous impulses with his sister.

Awards
Silver Ribbon - Best Original Story, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1966; Silver Sail, Locarno IFF, 1965.

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Documentary Films

Script/Dir./ Dir. of Phot./Prod.: Cristobal Vicente, Compos.: Carlos Canales, Toto Alvarez, Sound: Mario Diaz, Rafael Huerta, Cristobal Vicente. Edit.: Cristobal Vicente, Carlos Klein.

This film presnts a record of the last working year of the old prison of Valparaiso, which closed in 1999. It is a homage to the prison and to the values and customs of the men, who have secretly lived within it during its 150 year history.

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