EN - As a politically engaged filmschool student, Ike Bertels saw a BBC-documentary about Mozambique’s liberation movement FRELIMO. She was touched by the image of three guerilla girls, her age, sitting in the grass, cleaning their rifles. They were risking their lives in a ten year liberation struggle against the Portugese colonisers. This image stayed with her: who were they? what had driven them to leave their families? what became of them?
Director Bertels traced them down – Monica, Amelia and Maria – and filmed them. First in 1984 – about ten years after this country’s Independence – then again in ’94. She gained their trust, became friends and was invited to share the milestones in their lives. She became the outsider insider in Monica’s, Amelia’s and Maria’s world, all the time wondering what was happening with the ideals of the revolution. Were they indeed helping to shape the new Mozambican society?
Today, three decades after their first enounter, Bertels visits hem again. Now the guerilla grannies struggle with their next generations trying to find out how to live in a globalised world.
Info
| Title | Guerrilla Grannies - How To Live In This World |
|---|---|
| Status | Completed |
| Production | Minority Flemish |
| Category | Docs |
| Year of production | 2012 |
| World première / first public presentation | 2012-09-30 |
Credits
| Cast | Amelia, Monica, Maria |
|---|---|
| Photography | Joao Ribeira |
| Sound | Armanda Carvalho |
Technical specs
| Running time film | 80' |
|---|---|
| Release format | DCP |
| Colour | Colour / black & white |
| Available in | 2D, 3D |
Partners
| Main producer | Rolf Orthel |
|---|---|
| Main production company | DNU Film |
Festivals
2012: IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (NL)
IDFA: Dutch-Flemish gathering to pitch region
Documentary producers from the Dutch-speaking part of Benelux – The Netherlands and Flanders – will be teaming up this Wednesday to pitch the region as an attractive co-production partner. The event marks the first joint outing for the two producers’ associations, DPN (Documentary Producers Netherlands) and Flanders Doc. Among other things, the presentation, which is part of the IDFA Forum, will look at funding opportunities available in both The Netherlands and Flanders.
This year’s IDFA features a number of co-productions with minority Flemish input: The Gatekeepers by Dror Moreh (co-prod: Anna Van der Wee for Wild Heart Productions) in Feature-length Documentaries competition; Mussels In Love by Willemiek Kluijfhout (pictured left) (co-prod: Bram Crols and Mark Daems for Associate Directors); Anton Corbijn Inside Out by Klaartje Quirijns (co-prod: Savage Film); Guerilla Grannies – How To Live In This World by Ike Bertels (co-prod: Ellen De Waele for Serendipity Films); and The Only Son by Simonka de Jong (co-prod: Eric Goossens for Off World).
IDFA: Flanders docs out in full force
Five documentaries as well as two projects from Flanders have been selected for this year’s 25th IDFA. The five docs are Rain by Gerard-Jan Claes and Olivia Rochette, The Sound of Belgium by Jozef Devillé, Expecting by Fabio Wuytack, Snake Dance by Manu Riche and Patrick Marnham, and The Wave by Sarah Vanagt and Katrien Vermeire. Projects from two Flemish documentary makers –The Shadow World by Johan Grimonprez and White Elephants by Kristof Bilsen – are also selected for the IDFA Forum.
Rain by Gerard-Jan Claes and Olivia Rochette features in the First Appearance competition and follows a ballet production from initial auditions right up to opening night. Producer is Bart Van Langendonck for Savage Film. In Expecting (pictured left), which is selected for the IDFA Panorama, director Fabio Wuytack portrays an Afghan-Kosovan refugee couple as they struggle through their daily lives. The Sound of Belgium by Jozef Devillé and produced by Visualantics is part of the Music Documentary competition and explores the rich, untold story of Belgian dance music.
Flanders docs bonanza at 25th IDFA
Five documentaries from Flanders as well as five co-productions are selected for this year's 25th edition of IDFA (14-25 November). The five are: Rain by Gerard-Jan Claes and Olivia Rochette, The Sound of Belgium by Jozef Devillé, Expecting by Fabio Wuytack, Snake Dance by Manu Riche, and The Wave by Sarah Vanagt and Katrien Vermeire. Projects from two Flemish documentary makers, The Shadow World by Johan Grimonprez and White Elephants (working title) by Kristof Bilsen, can also be found in the IDFA.
Rain by Gerard-Jan Claes and Olivia Rochette features in the First Appearance competition for first documentaries. On 25 May 2011, the world-renowned Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris presented Rain, in its first ever performance by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes followed the rehearsal process from the auditions to the opening performance. Producer is Bart Van Langendonck for Savage Film.
VAF goes for young talent
The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) approved funding for 15 projects, of which 12 feature films, two feature-length documentaries and one animated short. The list includes a number of debut features supported by experienced production companies such as a.o. Minds Meet, Savage Films and Caviar.
Four projects received script support in this round: Lampedusa, Senne Dehandschutter’s feature debut, is the gripping story of a journalist travelling from Libya to Europe with a group of African refugees. Dehandschutter already received good press for his graduation short, Fertilize. Tack is the new feature project by Erik Lamens (S&M Judge) about the life of Sylvain Tack and his 70s pirate radio station Mi Amigo. Peter Krüger, who recently grabbed the Grand Prize at FIFA in Montreal with his doc Antwerp Central, received support forContinental Drift. Finally, Alex Stockman (Pulsar) can start working on his new feature, Electric Blue.
Last edited on 14 November 2012