Dar Fur: War for Water Tomo Kriznar, Maja Weiss
domenica 13 sett, h 20.30, Teatro Studio
Dar Fur: War for Water
Paese/Country: Slovenia
Anno Produzione Film: 2008
Formato/Format: 35mm
Durata/Running Time: 89'
Produzione/Production: Bela Film
Produttore/Producer : Ida Weiss
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Tomo Kriznar, Maja Weiss
Montaggio/Editing: Peter Braatz
Fotografia/Cinematography: Tomo Kriznar
Sound Editor: Julij Zornik, Johanna Herr
Musica/Music: Chris Eckman
Distribuzione/Distribution: Bela Film
Dar Fur. War for Water ci fa conoscere da vicino i gruppi ribelli pi? importanti del Darfur. Sono guerriglieri che lottano fra di loro per le ultime risorse di acqua e combattono ogni giorno contro altri ribelli o contro le milizie armate del governo del Sudan. Il documentario mostra interi villaggi bruciati e la drammatica situazione nei campi profughi. Saliamo nelle alture del Jebal Marrah, zona di ancestrale bellezza e unica zona fertile della regione, grazie al passaggio delle acque del Nilo. Qui donne e bambini cercano rifugio dalla guerra, qui si cela un enorme bacino idrico. Nella desolante pianura desertica vediamo arrivare gruppi di ribelli stipati su grandi pick-up, con i turbanti che svolazzano intorno alle mitragliatrici. Sotto un albero, in una tenda, in mezzo al nulla, ascoltiamo le loro verità su questa guerra. Tomor Kriznar, il regista, per aver realizzato questo film e per la sua lotta per la verità, Ë stato arrestato e condannato - una storia che ci racconta di persona.
Dar Fur, War for Water allows us to get to know Darfur's most important rebel groups. They fight for the last water resources, daily battling against other rebels or the Sudanese government's armed militia. The documentary shows entire villages set on fire and depicts the dramatic situation in refugee camps. The audience is led up the hills of Jebal Marrah, through a wonderful ancestral area that is the only one in the region to be made fertile by the Nile. There, women and children seek refuge from war by a huge water basin. In the dreary desert plain, we witness the arrival of rebel groups crowded on big pick-ups with their turbans flapping around the machine-guns. Resting under a tree, in a tent, or in the middle of nowhere, we listen to their truth on this war. Filmmaker Tomo Križnar was arrested and sentenced for making this film and fighting to disclose the truth - yet that is a story he gets to tell us directly.
Tomo Kriznar, Maja WeissAnno di Nascita/Date of Birth: 1954 (Tomo Kriznar) / 1965 (Maja Weiss)
Paese/Country: Slovenia
Biografia/Biography:
Tomo Kriznar
Tomo Kriznar is a peace activist, writer and special envoy of the Slovene president for Darfur in Sudan.
Tomo Kriznar was born in Jesenice, Slovenia. He entered the Sudanese Darfur region in February 2006 via the neighbouring Chad, with the help of Darfur rebels and without a valid visa. He was arrested on 20 July 2006. On 14 August, the criminal court of Al-Fashir in Northern Darfur convicted Krisnar of "publishing false news, espionage and entering Sudan without an entry visa" and sentenced him for two years imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 dinars (2,400 USD). His photography equipment and films were confiscated.
The Slovene government urged Sudan to pardon Kriznar. Slovene president Janez Drnovöek addressed a special letter to his Sudanese colleague Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir and sent another special envoy to Sudan. On 2 September, al-Bashir agreed to pardon and release Tomo Kriznar. Kriznar returned to Slovenia on 5 September; but he had to leave photography equipment and films - that contain documentations of mass graves according to him - in Sudan.
Maja Weiss
Maja Weiss was born in Novo mesto, Slovenia.
She studying film and TV directing at AGRFT, Ljubljana, and from 1988 to 1993 she is the assistant director at 5 full-length fiction films.
Working as a freelanced screenwriter and director of documentary and fiction genres for TV Slovenia and independent productions-
After a period in Berlin in 1995 she back in Slovenia and working on several projects. In March 1996 interviewing Margarethe Von Trotta in Paris and in 1977 she direct the First Marathon of Slovenian Women's Film and Video. In 1998 co-founder of the film production company Bela Film and in 2000 directing her first full-length fiction film. From 2005 she is the President of Slovenian Filmmakers Association.
Filmografia/Filmography
Tomo Kriznar:
Nuba, cisti ljudje , Slovenia, 2000, doc
Dar Fur: War for Water , Slovenia, 2008, doc
Maja Weiss:
Adrian, Slovenia, 1998, cm
Cesta bratstva in enotnosti (The Road of Fraternity and Unity), Slovenia, 1999, doc
Nuba, cisti ljudje, Slovenia, 2000, doc
Varuh meje (Guardian of the Frontier), Slovenia/Germany/France, 2002, ft
Instalacija ljubezni (Installation of Love), Slovenia/Germany, 2007, ft
Dar Fur: War for Water, Slovenia, 2008, doc
