films made by students
Jury Award: A Brief History of Auroville
Director, Script, Camera: Transition School 5th Grade
Kilan, Swaranapoorani, Auropradeepa, Arjunan, Mathan, Madhan
watch online: http://vimeo.com/58237249
This film is not only historically relevant to Auroville, but it is a good animation. Well done!
Cinema Paradiso Award: Practice What You Preach
Director, Script: Victoria Cortés
This film has a very good concept, is technically brilliant and is of international cinema caliber.
Wisdom Award: Fruit of Technology
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Yam Yardeni
Producer: Yardeni Productions
watch online: http://vimeo.com/75626682
A very intelligent and impactful film which shows the brilliance of a young child.
Creativity Award: Grounded
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Deepanam School 5th Grade
Arun, Florian, Raul, Aron, Bouthan
watch online: http://vimeo.com/75626683
With catchy music and amazing energy, this film is experimental & creative in its concept, its imagery, and its titles.
MONGBRA Award: Grounded
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Deepanam School 5th Grade
Arun, Florian, Raul, Aron, Bouthan
watch online: http://vimeo.com/75626683
33 votes
AUDIENCE VOTE Runner up: The Other Half
TLC film by Yam, Eden, Jalin, Abha, Veerle, Jasmine, Zohar, Surya
watch online: http://vimeo.com/58237250
29 votes
films made by Aurovilians
Jury Award: Auroville Botanical Gardens
Director, Script: Michel Gronoff
Producer: Auroville Botanical Gardens Video Production, Paul Blanchflower
Camera, Editing: Christoph Pohl
Sound: Christoph Pohl, RV
Assistant Director: Claire
Cast: Wazo, Satyamoorthi
watch online: http://vimeo.com/avbotanicalgardens/videos
The voice of an Aurovilian comes across with what is being generated here; a humorous and appealing film.
Cinema Paradiso Award: Metroxical New York
Director: Kousalya Jeganathan, Mohandass Radhkrishnan
Producer: Accessible Horizon Films, Ramesh Mourthy, Raghu Jeganathan
watch trailer online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpkwCAmF5R0
A film with great cinematography, insight and impact; an international film.
Wisdom Award: Qualities & Realities Series
Director, Producer, Sound, Editing: Juan Felipe Rodriguez Aguiló
Concept films which profile different experiences of being and doing as an Aurovilian. Can reach varied audiences.
films made about Auroville
Jury Award: Die Welt Bürgerin (The World Citizen)
Director, Script: Cosima Lange
Protagonist: Isa Cayetana Prieto
link: http://www.junifilm.de/filme/die_weltbuergerin.html
A film that tells the story of an Aurovilian experience – the space, the relationships, the nurturing. Technically well made and leaves a touching impact. Has an international appeal.
Cinema Paradiso Award: Svaram, The Visceral Sound
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Premjit Ramachandran
watch short version online: http://vimeo.com/38483004
A film about the Auroville community and the artist with his music, his ceations and the interactions with the local space. The sounds and movement of the film gives a sense of the experiment that creates Auroville. It is an expression of a divine experience.
Wisdom Award: On Education…In Auroville
Director, Producer: Iona van Ginneken, Virgile van Ginneken
Co-production: OutreachMedia
watch online: http://vimeo.com/70175631
This is a film that shares the energy, enthusiasm, pedagogy and participation of the way knowledge is gained and given in Auroville. It is an inspiring film.
films that develop the theme of Human Unity
Jury Award: YOM ECHAD ACHARI HA-SHALOM (ONE DAY AFTER PEACE)
2012, Documentary, English / Hebrew with English subtitles, Israel, 86 min
Director: Erez, Miri Laufer
link: http://onedayafterpeace.com
Can the means used to resolve the conflict in South Africa be applied to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?
If forgiveness at this level is possible for the human heart, then there is still hope!
Cinema Paradiso Award: THE COURAGE OF NEIGHBORS: STORIES FROM THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE
2013, Documentary, English / Kinyarwanda with English subtitles, Rwanda, 3 min
Director: Iara Lee
Producer: Caipirinha Productions, Iara Lee
link: http://films.culturesofresistance.org/node/387
What is it to save a stranger’s life when you risk your own, and blood crazed people stalk your home, looking to kill some more? And you do that again and again.
Wisdom Award: MAMA AFRICA
2011, Documentary, English / French with English subtitles, Germany, 88 min
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Producer: Starhaus Filmproduktion GmbH, Rainer Kölmel
link: http://www.starhaus.de
“There are some people who like me, and some, who don’t. The ones who don’t, say of me, “There she goes again, singing politics”. But I have a good answer. I don’t sing politics. I only sing the Truth”. It is a unifying truth, spoken in song, with a heart that seeks only an embrace, with anger only at the separation.
Wisdom Award: ONE DAY, EVERYTHING WILL BE FREE
2013, Documentary, English / Creole with English subtitles, USA, 83 min
Director, Producer, Script, Camera, Editing: Joseph Redwood-Martinez
link: http://onedayeverythingwillbefree.com/
It’s a wonderful film about a great attitude, that of service, or, ‘Seva’, as Aviram puts it. Caring for the Earth in places where it’s most wounded and bringing it back to life, making it a personal cause and it’s own reward, making it possible for others to experience this ‘giving’, of themselves, to inspire the present and to work towards a future, full of well being for the generations to come, this is what we see in this film about ‘Sadhana Forest’, Haiti.