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ROAD TO RAINBOW

By Mo Asumang

Germany 2010, 82 and 52 min
Original Language: English with German and French Subtitles

A documentary that takes the audience to a trip through South Africa searching for the verification of the so called Rainbow Nation by replacing the apartheid era. Honest interviews from all of the strata of society and pictures of the vicinity of crime and security offer a look behind the curtain of the Nation of Soccer World Cup 2010.

The power of speech

By Francisco Hervè

Chile 2009, 75 min
Original Language: Spanish with English, French and Arab Subtitles

JURY PRICE FIDOC 2009

In order to make Chile a "world-class" country the government announced a modernization plan for the transportation system that would ban small retailers from carrying out their trade on the buses. 2000 retailers got together and as a guild they organized their resistance: Attacking modernization with modernization.

WE'RE LIVIN' ON DOG FOOD

By Richard Lowenstein

Australia 2009, 94 min
Original Language: English

Melbourne, Rotterdam

An inside look in Australia’s post-punk music scene of the 70's, with making-of-scenes from the cult feature DOGS IN SPACE and interviews among others with Michael Hutchence (INXS) and Rowland S.Howard.

MAMACHAS DEL RING

By Betty M Park

USA 2009, 75 min and 52 min
Original Language: Spanish with English Subtitles

Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI), Montreal World Film Festival, Rome Film Fest, São Paulo Film Festival, Slamdance

Set in the heights of the Bolivian Andes, Mamachas del Ring is the story of Carmen Rosa the Champion, a cholita and wrestler who struggles to make it on her own in the male-dominated world of Bolivian professional wrestling.