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Another Planet
Directed by: Ferenc Moldoványi
Production: Engram Film Productions, Hungary 2008, 95 min
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  9 May 20.15 Meeting with the director
10 May 16.30 Meeting with the director
13 May 16.45
 

Selected festivals and awards:
2008 – Hungarian Filmweek –  Best Cinematography Green Raven Best Documentary Award by NSJ; International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg – Special Award of the International Jury; Starz Denver Film Festival – Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary; Montreal World Film Festival; Pusan International Film Festival; CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival; IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
 
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On three different continents, children are filmed as they tell about their daily lives, and generally speaking, their stories are horrifying. One girl talks about how she was molested for the first time in a café when she was eight and has earned a living as a prostitute ever since. A boy was forced to be a child soldier and kill people. Elsewhere, a little boy polishes shoes every single day. On the other side of the world, children spend their days lugging around clay, which is used to make bricks. The children discuss their lives as if this is the way things were meant to be. Another Planet doesn't have a voiceover to link the stories together. We almost automatically become aware of the fact that the rest of the world allows these situations to continue. 'A shameful and anachronistic state of affairs', according to director Ferenc Moldovanyi. Moldovanyi presents the stories as the dreams of a little girl. Unlike in the dreams, this little girl appears to live in an unaffected, secure world, a contrast that the effect of the atrocities only reinforces.



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