East Silver

East Silver is the first documentary market dedicated exclusively to Central and Eastern Europe. Its main goal is to provide an annual overview of new documentary releases, and to create a comprehensive catalogue and a digitized video library, accessible to a broad circle of film professionals – broadcasters, major film festivals, sales agents – throughout the year. East Silver's activities also include the East Silver Caravan, the East Silver TV Focus, Silver Eye Awards, and East Silver Online Streaming, all designed to provide distribution support. 
 
Thanks to the substantial help of East Silver we have chosen three documentary films, produced in 2012 and 2013: “Kino Svet” (“Cinema World,” Slovakia 2012), “Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo" (“727 Days Without Karamo,” Austria 2013),  "Sol, maslina, kamen" (“Salt, Olive, Stone,” Croatia 2013). They differ thematically, but each of them touches upon the very important aspect of living in modern Europe: technological changes in relation to the individual and society, emotional complications arising from the regulations of immigration law, life in turmoil, and the few areas free of civilisational commotion. It is worth mentioning that “Die 727 Tage ohne Kamaro” has been screened at this year's Berlinale, and all three films are Polish premieres.
 
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Filmy poprzednich edycji

  • Cinema World / Kino Svet28'

    The documentary “Cinema World” tells us a story of one of the last village cinemas in Slovakia. Real life stories and memories of local villagers give us a look into the history of this cinema and show us its importance. Not only has the viewer an opportunity to be a witness of the cinema's celebration in the memories of people, but he can also witness the closure of this cultural village temple. Even though the cinema was a significant part of the village for over half of the century, villagers will have to give it their last goodbye. The trigger in this scenario is the digitalization of cinemas in Slovakia. Village Očová decided not to take a part in this action. Unfortunately, this means sending their cinema straight to execution. Will the last goodbye carry the smell of sadness or pride? That is the question.

     

     

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  • Salt, Olive, Stone / Sol, maslina, kamen20'

    Summer in the city. Promenades, beaches, boats, everywhere semi-naked sun-worshippers with sun protection. Not far away there is the magic quiet of a salt-pan and the archaic labour in the ponds. In an ancient olive grove the tree trunks embrace the stones in their soil. The olives are harvested to be packed in sea salt, and to yield oil, some of it for sunscreen products. Stones are dug from the earth and stacked to form shelters for man and beast or to mark the boundaries of pastures and fields. Salt, olive and stone are the last three bastions of a paradise sought by holidaymakers, but spared because unfound. Or does the tourists’ sun-tan oil get into the sea salt as they bathe?

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  • Reaching the Stars / Sięgnąć gwiazd25'

    POL 2011, 25'

    A documentary about the Polish meteorological rocket research programme of the 1960s and 1970s, composed of archive material from the National Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, which were found after an arduous search. Films made with amateur cameras in laboratories and at launch sites (including the Rożnowskie Lake, in the Błędów Desert and at the former German bases near Łeba and Ustka) have been complemented with an original score (prompting nostalgic-nervous associations with the educational films of era of the People's Republic of Poland) and a commentary relating to the poetics of 1960s cinema.

     

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  • The 727 Days without Karamo / Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo80'

    There are couples whose love is put to special tests. If one of the partners is from out of Europe, the lovers are confronted with the regulations of immigration law. The author presents numerous aspects of this situation, creating a surprising and moving story of love that tends to defy borders.

     

     

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  • Born for the Reich / Urodzeni dla Rzeszy56'

    POL 2011, 56'

    Between 1938–1945 a sanatorium in Połczyn-Zdrój (or Bad Polzin, as it was called during its German period) was one of the many centres of the Lebensborn (Spring of Life) organisation, which existed in the Third Reich and the occupied countries. It was founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1936. It functioned within the structures of the SS. Its aim was to give birth to and raise precious Aryan children through: caring for unmarried Aryan mothers, impregnating Aryan women – German and of occupied countries – by the police or SS officers, taking the children who met Aryan requirements away from their parents living on the occupied territories. Today people who, in their childhood, experienced the sick ideas of Heinrich Himmler meet in Połczyn-Zdrój.

     

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