New York
Roma / Gypsy human rights film festival.
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The
Special Event and Side films:
Friday,
October 2 ,
7:15 P.M. - 8:05 P.M.
The Forgotten Holocaust.
BBC1 1989 Inside Story.
Friday, October
2 ,
7:15 P.M. - 8:05 P.M.
Dir George Case.
Historical Consultant Michael Stewart.
50' minutes
In this BBC film the history of the persecution and genocide of the
European Roma, SInti and Gypsies is documented through interviews with
survivors in Germany, Hungary, Austria Poland, France and the Netherlands.
Beautifully shot, the film evokes the growing threat to European Roma
as the Nazis turned their attention to other 'racial aliens' beyond
the Jews. The film is based around a series of long interviews with
survivors and also contains generous footage from Moholy-Nagy's rarely
seen 1932 film Gypsies in the City (Grossstadtzigeuner).
A
lecture by: Professor Michael Stewart follows
the screening.
8:10 P.M. - 9:40 P.M.
"The
Persecution and Genocide of the European Roma
How, why, where and who? 90 mins"
A discussion with Professor Michael Stewart follows
the screening.
Porraimos
Tuesday,
October 6
6:00 P.M.-6:56 P.M.
7:00 - 7:30
A discussion
with the filmmaker follows the screening.
Porraimos
Europe’s Gypsies in the Holocaust
a documentary by director/producer Alexandra Isles
56 minutes
A discussion with
the filmmaker follows the screening.
Gypsies…
the Most Persecuted Minority in Europe Today…
the Forgotten Victims of Nazi Oppression
Filmmaker Alexandra M. Isles made many visits to the Museum’s
archives to research visual documentation of the experience of Roma
and Sinti (Gypsies) under Nazi rule. Much of what she found ultimately
became part of her film Porraimos, which means “the devouring”
in Romani. Under the Nazis, Roma were forced to settle and were subjected
to medical experiments, sterilization, and deportation to concentration
camps.
Interviews, film and photographs
from the Nazi Department of Racial Hygiene, and other archival material
help tell the story of the tragic fate of the Gypsies during the Holocaust.
Like the Jews, Gypsies were viewed as inherently tainted and were persecuted,
in large part due to the pseudoscience of eugenics. Gypsies during the
Nazi era lost their civil rights, were forced to register, and, in keeping
with the Nazi strategy of liquidation, were then segregated into ghettoes
and camps for ultimate extermination.
Saturday, October
3
6:40
p.m. - 7:40 p.m.
Hidden Sorrows.
Hidden Sorrows.
The persecution of Romanian Gypsies during WWII.
a film by Michelle Kelso
56 minutes/ In Romanian with English subtitled.2005
Americas Premiere.
This documentary chronicles the rarely told narratives of
Gypsy survivors of Nazi persecution in Romania as they remember their
experiences during WWII in the context of their lives today. During
WWII, Gypsies were slated alongside Jews and other populations for extermination.
In each country occupied or allied with Nazi Germany, their fate was
similar.Far too many Roma are supposed to have perished due to systematic
extermination, forced marches, starvation, exposure, diseases, and abuses.
Romania, The Gypsies' experience critically altered their lives. Survivors
share with viewers their shocking deportation from Romania to camps
where they fought to survive by any means necessary. Hidden Sorrows
reveals the continued struggle of Gypsies for equality in a society
that views them as second-class citizens. It examines the present impoverishment
of the survivors and their descendants as well as discrimination facing
them daily.
This
is about the nowadays social conditions of Gypsies in Romania linked
to the reparations granted to survivors for their suffering. It is explained
that the Swiss bank, that helped financing the Nazi regime, granted
only 55 years later (in 2000) 770 dollars
to 152 Roma survivors (as humanitarian assistance and not as
reparation), and that in 2001 the German government
granted 1300 people 500
dollars. Many applications were rejected
for lack of archival documents.
Saturday,
October
3
7:45 P.M.-
9:45 P.M.
Lecture By
Ian Hancock
The Honorable
Ian F. Hancock, Director of the
Romani Archives and Documentation Center and former
Roma representative to the UN Economic and Social Council And Member
of the International Romani Parliament. Ian Hancock , he is Professor
at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor
of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972.
Professor
Hancock has published more than 300 books and articles concerning the
Romani people and language (particularly the Vlax dialect). These works
analyze the Romani people not only through Romani linguistics but also
through history, anthropology, and genetics.
Special
Event and Side films.
Please joint us Thursday evening for a very special
musical event with:
Rom/Gypsy Hungarian group "TheCosmo Gypsy & Horvath Duo"
Thursday,October 8.
Our Garbage Dump, Our Hell and Heaven is a dramatic collage in
which I try to fathom why it is still hard for us humans to see
we miss so much by hating. It is also a real cry for help from the people
of Pata-Ratului, Transylvania, Romania, who live on a garbage dump that
shuts down in a few months because it doesn't meet European Community
ecological standards. Thus soon the Roma settlement will be buldozered
down and its people will be displaced. Some of its scenes are based
on interview.
A work-in-progress written by Ella Veres
Directed by Alicia Kaplan
Performed by Jessica Carmona, Elliot Crown, Jan Daria, Skye
Puppetry by Peter Bullow
This work-in-progress is presented by The New York Roma/Gypsy Human
Rights Film Festival as a public reading to be followed by a discussion.
Play Premiere Sunday October 4, 2009 @ 5 p.m.
Mehanata Bulgarian Bar
113 Ludlow St. NY
"BAKLAVA"
Thursday,October 1
7: 15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. 106 minutes.
Banned in
Bulgaria under accusations of promoting drug use, pornography and homosexuality,
the commotion generated by “Baklava” led to an investigation
of the Bulgarian government and an impending trial against the director
and producer Alexo Petrov. But beyond all the internet buzz, political
ruckus and conservative outcries, Baklava’s real aim is to depict
the creepy life and dangerous living conditions of Bulgarian orphans
and abandoned children, through the story of two brothers reunited in
a hunt for a mysterious buried treasure. Full of dream segments and
surrealistic moments, Petrov’s confronting film shows the confusion
generated by the social transition that the Bulgarian people are going
through nowadays and their problematic search for a new identity.
"BAKLAVA"
Film by: ALEXO PETROV
Canada / Bulgaria : 106 minutes
A
discussion with the filmmaker follows the screening.
baklava-full
Cast
www.lostvulgaros.com
myspace.com/alexopetrov
Something
terrible happens again on the Balkans. Censorship, political persecution,
trials in absentia, film prohibition –
all those words known from the near past behind the iron curtain…Read
more \
Train
of Freedom.
Monday,October 5
6:30
P.M. - 7:20 P.M.
USA, Kosova 50 mints
Executive producer : Petrit Pula, Karina Correa
Director: Karina Correa
A
discussion with the filmmaker follows the screening.
Train
of Freedom is a documentary about post-war reconciliation in Kosovo
presented through a journey in the country's railways.
Today, the train aims to reconcile and integrate the different ethnic
groups that were affected by the war. It is one of the very few places
in Kosovo where Albanians, Serbs, Gypsies Romas and Ashkalis share a
common place. Meet the people, hear their stories and learn first hand
the hopes and challenges of this new nation.
www.trainoffreedom.com/trailer
petritpula@gmail.com
Guca
Thursday, October 8
7 :45 -8:
Guca
Film by: Milivoj ilic
Serbia 2006. with English
subtitles. 71m.
Executive producer: Adam Docker,
Julien Mignonac, Ces Terranova, Milivoj ilic
Cinnematography
by: Adam Docker Editor: Anja Siemans
Featuring Boban
Markovic
Music By: Dejan Petrovic Veljko Ostojic
and
Boban Markovic
Guca
is the name of a small village in Serbia which for over 40 years has
been home to the national trumpet festival. Once a small local affair,
it now pulls crowds of over 200,000 and is legendary across the Balkans.
Milivoj ilic's account of the place, the people and the competitors
is as exuberant, joyous and noisy as the festival itself. The film captures
the brilliance and the machismo of the performances at a festival where
young men do battle with brass bands. The film follows two young players,
the main rivals for the coveted 'Golden Trumpet', both of whom learnt
as boys from fathers who have also competed in a country where mastering
traditional playing is still held in high esteem.You'll never look at
a trumpet the same way again.
Watch
the trailer
The
film BAKLAVA will
screen one more time.
Due to the many requests to show the film
"BAKLAVA"
again:
Special Event and Side films.
"BAKLAVA"
Saturday,October 10
7: 15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. 106 minutes.
Banned in Bulgaria under accusations of promoting drug use, pornography
and homosexuality, the commotion generated by “Baklava”
led to an investigation of the Bulgarian government and an impending
trial against the director and producer Alexo Petrov. But beyond all
the internet buzz, political ruckus and conservative outcries, Baklava’s
real aim is to depict the creepy life and dangerous living conditions
of Bulgarian orphans and abandoned children, through the story of two
brothers reunited in a hunt for a mysterious buried treasure. Full of
dream segments and surrealistic moments, Petrov’s confronting
film shows the confusion generated by the social transition that the
Bulgarian people are going through nowadays and their problematic search
for a new identity.
Saturday,October
10
Oracle
Film By: Todor Madolev
This is not a film about prophecies, but painful waiting for a new phenomenon
to be born, powerful like our worship to Granny Vanga and Reverend Stoyna
– both blind world-famous prophets, ORACLES from the Balkans.
This film-impression is for the young people.
Already for 20 years we live in a time of complicated transition and
spiritual impoverishment.
The pop-folk culture and chalga, impudence of the new riches and the
irresponsibility of overweening politicians rule.
Democracy and totalitarianism still contend.
The past has bequeathed to the younger generation its ugly monuments
and obscure symbols.
Our heroine is 11 years old – the years in which Vanga has lost
her sight, but has begun to see more profoundly.
SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN! But is it necessary a part of our senses be taken
away to begin really to see?
Light, beauty and youth can help us to turn our backs on the past and
to see the future, to understand that it is already PRESENT ...
