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THE FILMS:

Alerik
Is a story of a unique teenage boy who after the death of his guardian, when having no another choice, joins the army and immediately is sent to war. The story takes place in a day just before Alerik is recruited as a soldier. In the trenches of the battlefield, just as the worst is about to happen, a transformation occurs, his imagination mixes with reality and he becomes a character from his dreams.

Drifter
The young rebel, Ricsi, lives his life on the edge. 'Trouble' is his middle name. He is unruly, restlessly scaring up problem after problem. Driving cars without a license, theft and escaping from the cops are all just part of his daily routine, much for his parents' despair.

The Chicken
As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realizes the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to. While trying to bring back the missing chicken, Selma's mum becomes a target of a sniper shoot.


THE SPEAKERS:

Ally Derks
After studying Dutch literature and film and theater Ally Derks became the coordinator of Festikon, a yearly educational Film and video festival in Hilversum. With the help of the Netherlands Film Institute, Ally Derks started the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 1988. Since 1989 she is the director of IDFA. Besides the selection of the yearly competition program she was responsible for different retrospects focused a/o on Cuban, Kazach, Lithuanian, Palestinian/Israeli and Polish documentaries.
Ally Derks is also the director of the IDFA Bertha Fund and head of the selection committee of the IDFA Bertha Fund, a Fund that supports documentary filmmakers in developing countries.
Ally Derks has been on many juries, amongst others in Sundance, Krakow and St. Petersburg, and has won several awards for her contribution to the documentary field.

Charles Tesson
Charles Tesson is the Artistic Director of Critic’s Week at Cannes Film Festival since 2012. He is also a film critic in Cahiers du cinéma where he began in 1979, and a former editor of this magazine (1998-2003). He is also professor of cinema, history and esthetics, at la Sorbonne nouvelle (University of Paris III). He wrote several books and essays on cinema, including "Satyajit Ray" (1992), "Luis Bunuel" (1995), "El" by Luis Bunuel (1996), "Photogénie de la Série B" (1997), "Théâtre et cinéma" (2007) and "Akira Kurosawa" (2008). He directed a few special issues for Cahiers du cinéma, including "Made in Hong Kong" (1984) with Olivier Assayas and "Made in China" (1999), and codirected the book "L’Asie à Hollywood" (2001).

Jasmila Žbanić
Born in Sarajevo in 1974, Jasmila Žbanić is a graduate of her native city’s Academy of Dramatic Arts, Theatre and Film Directing Department. Before filmmaking, she also worked as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee Delong workshop.
Her feature debut "Grbavica" won the 2006 Berlinale Golden Bear (as well as the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Peace Prize), the AFI (American Film Institute) Fest Grand Jury Prize, Grand Prix Odyssey of the European Council and was sold to 40 territories with great success. "On the Path", Jasmila’s second feature film, premiered at the 2010 Berlinale, in the Competition section. The film had worldwide distribution on 25 territories and won numerous awards including Filmkunstfestival Schwerin Award for Best Director, Golden Apricot IFF Yerevan – FIPRESCI Prize, Pula Film Festival 2010 – Golden Arena for Best Director, Nomination – European Film Award for Best Actress. Jasmila’s third feature, "For Those Who Can Tell No Tales", made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and won the 2013 Femme de Cinema Award at Les Arcs European Film Festival. All her films were produced through Deblokada, an artists’ association founded by her.
Jasmila Žbanić’s films and video works have been displayed at dozens of art exhibitions worldwide such as Manifesta 3, the Istanbul Biennial, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation and the New Museum in New York. She is the recipient of the 2014 KAIROS Prize, which honors European artists whose work is judged to have a major cultural and social impact.