Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, a Danish documentary film project, directed by Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller, that won the DokMa 2009 Trinagle Muscle Award, is now nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this years Academy Awards. Inside Burma, hidden from the repressive military regime that has ruled the country for many decades, courageous journalists - Burma VJs - secretly videotape events around them and smuggle the tapes out of the country to foreign news agencies. Directors of Burma VJ edited the immense video material into a fearceful and important historical document of our time. Let the Oscars keep alive the memory of the journalist that died on their mission...

Official film site:
http://burmavjmovie.com/

Oscars' nominations:
http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees/burma-vj/3212

• MED SANJAMI / Between Dreams

• NASVIDENJE, KAKO STE? / Doviđenja, kako ste? / Goodbye, How Are You?
  

•  BURMA VJ: POROČANJE IZ ZAPRTE DRŽAVE / Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land / Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

• 4 ELEMENTI / 4 Elements

 Winners of the Slovenian special category - DokMa 2009:

• ŠENTILJ-SPIELFELD, MEJNI PREHOD, KI GA NI VEČ

• MOSTAR UNITED / Mostar United

• OTROCI / Letter to a Child

Školjka trikotničarka                            Lokvanj

With concert: Žoambo Žoet Workestrao and Anti-smoking party RŠ today, 3. november 2009 at 23.00

Program:

Friday, 30. october at 21h, Kino Partizan

Mulc - frača , Kolja Saksida, Slovenija 2009, 10 min

Babice revolucije , Petra Seliškar, Slovenija 2006, 96 min

Saturday, 31. october at 21h, Kino Partizan

A.I.M. , Enis Čišić, Bosna in Hercegovina 2009, 6 min

Nebo je visoko, zemlja pa trda , Rudi Uran, Slovenija 2008, 73 min

Sunday, 1. november at 21h, Kino Partizan

Restart (Zagreb - Hrvaška) - Izbor filmov Restart produkcije

Ghosts of Cité Soleil , Asger Leth in Miloš Lončarević, Danska 2006, 85 min

2009/11/2-8 - Kino Partizan, Maribor

Dokus is a modular educational programme established for and by people that are motivated in film and have a wish to be competent to articulate their content audiovisually. The concept of this workshop is aimed at bringing participatory/community media literacy to young noncommercial and cultural producers/trainers (freelancers, workers, organisations), NGOs, community and socially depriviledged groups or their representatives. The workshop (up)holds courses in project development and preproduction, short film and audiovisual production, postproduction and promotion research opportunities. DokMa 2009 -

Please send a motivation letter to apply: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . We accept applications until October, 30th, 2009.

Mentor: Marko Cvejić (Mandragorafilm - Zrenjanin, Serbia)

                                      Marko Cvejić                             

http://www.myspace.com/markocvejic

http://www.mandragorafilm.com

The 6th International Documentary Film Festival Maribor - DokMa 2009 will take place between November, 2nd-8th, 2009, at two main venues.
Due to another successful reopening of basic cinema structure in the centre of Maribor we are proud to announce film programme in Kino Partizan, the City Cinema, and at the Cultural Centre Pekarna, Gustaf Hall, Maribor, as well as DokMa SkyLine events in the Tower 3 and NightLine events all over Maribor. Festival also presents DokMa Preevents in the weeks October, 5th-11th, and October, 19th-25th, and the DokMa Antenna screenings in Celje, Ljubljana and Koper.