BAJESDOC, RECLAIM THE SCREENS!
Free Alternative Documentary Festival
Bajesdoc is a free alternative documentary film festival in Bajesdorp and other autonomous locations in Amsterdam Oost. With dozens of inspiring documentaries related to environment, politics, human-rights, and various social struggles here and over the world, discussions/debates with some of the movie makers will sometimes follow the screenings...Bajesdoc is made possible by a group of international volunteers engaged in alternative neighbourhood initiatives.
Dates: December 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th. the movies are there.
Location: Bajesdorp, Joe's Garage, De Valreep, in Amsterdam Oost. Adresses and maps are to be found there.
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| Afgekraakt | |||||||||||||||||||||
 |  | By Steyn de Leeuwen. Netherlands 2010. 35 min. Dutch, English. Steyn de Leeuwen picks his last chance to legally squat in Amsterdam before the planned enforcement of the squatting ban. With his cameraman, he integrates a group of housing activists who take over the vacant Fire Station on Weesperzijde in Amsterdam Oost. The movie will be presented by the film maker himself. |
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| Tres Historias y un unvaso de leche | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Pablo Fraguas & Alvarro Porro, Paraguay, Colombia, Spain Three tales and a glass of milk focuses on one everyday cause of environmental problems: the present model of agriculture and husbandry, the patterns of food consumption it generates. This documentary presents an integrative perspective of what environment is, and how social and environmental problems feed on each other. |
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| Dark Days | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Mark Singer. USA, 2000. 81 min. English. The film follows a group of people living in an abandoned section of the New York City underground railway system, more precisely the area of the so called Freedom Tunnel. |
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| Videocracy | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Erik Gandini. Italy, 2009. 85 min. English. In Italy, for thirty odd years, the image has been controlled by one man. TV-magnate and Presidente Silvio Berlusconi has influenced the content of commercial television in a way never before done in Italy. His TV-channels, with their young skimpy-clad girls, are seen by many to mirror his own taste and personality. In Videocracy, Italian-born director Erik Gandini portrays the consequences of a TV-experiment that Italians have been subjected to for 30 years. Gaining unique access to the most powerful media spheres, he unveils a remarkable story, born out of the scary reality of "TV-Republic" Italy. Screening will be followed by a discussion with Silvio Berlusconi. |
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| Geen Woning, Geen Kroning | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Lorelei Heyliger, Netherlands, 2011. 15 min. Dutch. Documentary made with archive footages shot on April the 30th 1980, a date remembered by the Dutch as the coronation of Queen Beatrix and... massive squatter's riots that occured simultanuously a few blocks away. It's a nostalgic and resumed summary of the events that made April the 30th 1980, a legendary date. Furthermore it shows how different a protest (which later on becomes a riot) is held by both police and demonstrators. The movie will be presented by the maker. |
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| Killing Fields, the Battle to feed factory farms | |||||||||||||||||||||
| | By Lucas Silva, Victor Burgos. Paraguay, Brazil, 2009. Spanish, English. Few people realise that a hidden chain of destruction stretches from factory farms in Europe to the forests of South America- where huge soy plantations are wiping out wildlife and making climate change worse. Indigenous people are being evicted to make way for soy plantations unable to grow their own food and forests are being cleared. Many of the soybeans are genetically modified and massively increase the use of pesticides- resulting in the poisoning of rural communities, water resources and the natural environment. Meanwhile in Europe.... This screening will be ponctuated by the intervention of ASEED. |
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| Tierra de Mujeres | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Adriana Estrada, Mexico, 2003. 57 min. Spanish, English. Being indigenous in Chiapas, Mexico, generally means being poor and discriminated because of your dress, language, music, traditions and culture. And it's even harder for indigenous women because they often have no rights even within their own society. Chiapanecan women organize in cooperatives, in religious women's groups, in theatre projects and take responsibility for their own lives. Step by step they strike back in daily life, defend their villages against military incursions. |
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| Village Without Women | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Srdjan Sarenac. Serbia, 2010. 83 min. English, Serbian. In southwest Serbia, atop mountain and four kilometers from the nearest road, the jankovic brothers hold down the fort in the womanless village of Zabrdje.Dragan. Zoran and Rodoljub, along with their neighbor, Velimir, represent the entire population of what was once a vibrant rural community. They live in tough conditions. No running water, no roads, not even a hint of a woman's touch. With the war wounds from Kosovo still present, Serbs and Albanians are far from healed. |
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| Table, Bed, Chair | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Robert Hack, Jacob Prayer, Netherlands The film combines insights into the history of the squatter movement and its particularly well developed autonomous structures and practices with a focus on the extraordinary in the Netherlands. Explosive archival footage traces the historical roots of the movement to its climax in the volatile years of the 1980s when up to 10.000 krakers lived in squatted houses in Amsterdam. |
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| Donde el aguila se paro | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Juan Lopez Maas, Sean Glavey, Jan Diedreden. Mexico, 2009. 15 min. English, Spanish. Writers from the Plaza Santo Domingo in Mexico City tell stories about their lifes. This documentary focus on everyday life, birth, youth, love, struggle and death in the capital of Mexico. |
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| A day in her life | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | by Voices of Women Media, 18min., NL 2010 A compilation of self portraits from different Red Light district sex workers in Amsterdam. Multimedia workshop set up by Voices of Women Media. "Our goal is to use media to create a more humanised and multi-faceted picture of the sex industry. We want to show this industry as a complex fabric, composed both of women workers who are entitled to demand their rights as workers and women who have been forced into the industry. Speaker: Voices of Women Media |
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| Spirit of Squatters Collective | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | Various works of video collective from Amsterdam, Netherlands The Spirit of Squatters Collective reports good (and bad) things that are happening around us. Documenting everyday activism and squatting actions on a arm's length... Presented by the collective. |
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| Terminator Seeds | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Nina Rota, USA, 6 min. A short documentary film about the terminator seed, bio-engineerd seed designed to not cultivate a second crop. Do you know what's in those potato chips you are eating? |
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18:00 | VOLKSETEN! Organic, dumpster-dived, all at once and all together |
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| Into the Fire | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Dan Dicks, 127min. English, Canada 2010 The whole world is watching. World leaders and activists from around the world gathered for the G20 Summit. With over 19,000 police officers and security personnel on hand, the results lead to over 1100 arrests, martial law in downtown Toronto, and the most massive violation of civil liberties in Canadian history. |
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| Antifa: Chasseur de Skins | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Marc-Aurele Vecchione. France 2008. 65min, French, English. A French documentary on how gangs in Paris in the 80's and 90's generated a backlash against the Neo-nazi skinhead subculture, and by doing so earned themselves the nickname Chasseurs de Skins or 'Skinhead Hunters'. The documentary also portraits the uprising of nationalism within the skinhead culture and Front National. |
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| The Story of Stuff | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Anne Leonard, USA 2008. 21 min. English. From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. |
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| Manufactured Landscapes | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Edward Burtynskt. China, 2006. 90 min. English. Manufactured Landscape is the striking documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky in which he creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris., documenting the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. |
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The Fortress | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | Fernand Melgar, 2008, Switzerland, 100') french with english subtitles. LA FORTERESSE Women, men and children, Roma, Togolese, Georgians, Kosovars or Colombians arrive each week at the swiss border. They escape war, dictatorship, persecutions or economic and climatic chaos. After a journey where they often put their lives at risk, they are brought to one of the 5 administrative transit camps such as the one situated in the town of Vallorbe. Deprived from their freedom to move and to act by force, they are waiting, while being jailed, for the swiss authorities to decide of their future... Introduced and followed by discussion with the Anarchist Black Cross Amsterdam. |
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| Los Meandros | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Ulloque Franco, Manuel Ruiz Montealegre. Colombia, 2010. Spanish, English. Meanders is a visual and narrative journey along the Guaviare, a social and cultural mosaic, a stage on which the armed conflict and the drug trade unfold, revealing the perception of the indigenous and farming communities residing in the Colombian Amazon regarding their own territory. Opposing the media's narrative, which doesn't recognize the communities perception on their own lands, during this odyssey the people and the images reveal the logic of the war, the logic of illegality and the cultural thinking of the communities that live in the Guaviare. Meanders show the sinuous path that brings the communities together and sets then apart. The contradictions, the animosities and similarities across the land's cultural mosaic are allegories to each of the river's turns. |
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| Taste the Waste | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | By Valentin Thurn, Germany, 2010. 55 min. German, English. In an investigation that circles the globe, Taste the Waste examines the widespread causes of this massive squandering, interviewing everyone in the food chain from consumers to food producers to politicians and administrators as Thurn uncovers the truly shocking scale of food spoilage. Our desire for perfect produce, for constantly available items no matter the season, is key, as Turin uncovers a system that seems perversely dedicated to daily destroying half of its product. |
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| Direkte Aktie | |||||||||||||||||||||
 | | Short movies, Netherlands Direkte Aktie is a mini-series of shorts which presents itself as a practical tool-kit to whoever's willing to take (subversive) action. |
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| Gadhimai - Goddess of Blood | |||
 | | Anttu Rantala and Pawel Skawinski, 26min, English; Nepali.
Speaker: Aicha Boele | |
