
There are films which defy with persistence our willingness to forget quickly. Another Planet is such a film. -International Jury of the International Film Festival of Mannheim-Heidelberg
In Competition DOCNZ 2009
Australasian Premiere
Masik Bolygo
Hungary, Belgium, Finland 2008 / 96min. / Spanish, Lingala, Swahili, Khmer, Raramuri with English subtitles.
Director/Producer Ferenc Moldovanyi.
WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR PLANET?
In a labour of love, Hungarian director Ferenc Moldoványi has weaved seven stories from Mexico, Congo, Ecuador and Cambodia that challenge us to consider our future. Child labourers, child soldiers and very young prostitutes represent a generation born into a hard and short life in poverty, while they offer their own take about a possible future — and in one example also a look at deeply disturbing and symbol-laden visions of the end of the world.
Moldoványi worked for over five years to accomplish this touching and just as much disturbing masterpiece. With its artistic forms of expression and its deep spirituality it transcends the limitations of documentary film. The film is cinematically beautiful and leaves us catching our breath as we wonder what it is we are doing to our future generations?
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19-Dec-2008 A documentary on a few stories around the world, of children and teenagers making a living at the bottom rungs of the economic and social ladder. It is bloody real, and…
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| 11:15am | Rialto Newmarket |
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| 8:30pm | Rialto Newmarket |
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