"Founded in the Philippines in 1904 by the american colonial administration , Iwahig is a penal farm almost completely self-sufficient and self-managed by its inmates serving long sentences who have become farmers, fishermen, watchmen?

After being tested for several months, they can move freely within the 38,000 hectares of jungle, mountains and wild prison coastline and bring their families to live with them. No fences separate them from the neighbouring villages where they are used to going for a walk.

Their hierarchical organization, based on promotion by merit and seniority, allows for minimum intervention by the penitentiary staff.

Alejandro, chief of the inmates, plunges us into this universe through the portraits of a few fellow prisoners :

Toting who goes fishing on the open sea without a guard tells us about his past.

Denelyn and Jenelyn, two adolescents whose father is serving a life sentence and are trying to help the family survive.

Rodrigo, a young inmate beaten by a prison employee.

A prison system unique to this world, Iwahig opens up new horizons."

"Alexandre Leborgne: Born in 1973, France ? Anthropologist specialized in Philippines? languages and cultures.

He discovered the Iwahig prison when crossing it by bus to reach an ethnic group where he was studying chamanism.

First Film

Pierre Barougier: Born in 1971, France ? Cinematographer ? graduated from ENS Louis Lumi?re.

2001: Radio la Colifata, 52 mn. , DV cam

A radio made by patients from a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires (Documentary).

2004: D?sirs d?Ecole, 52 mn. , DV cam

A year in an alternative school following the Freinet pedagogy in France (Documentary)."

"HOW MANY ROADS gives a special view on forty years of contemporary American history through the experiences of various fans of Bob Dylan. Dylan?s lyrics appear to have a sometimes funny, sometitmes dramatic, but always far-reaching impact on people?s lives and convictions.

This documentary is made up of 11 separate portraits of people whose lives, due to the influence of Dylan?s words, took a surprising or decisive turn. They seem to be very ordinary people: a teacher, an accountant, a housewife and a student. They are of various ages, religions and convictions. But they all have one thing in common: without Dylan they would be entirely different from what they now are. Each portrait is connected to a line in one of Dylan?s songs. The documentary is thus compiled like an album consisting of varying songs that nevertheless form a unity.

HOW MANY ROADS is a road movie through both todays? American landscape and the poetic landscape of Dylan?s songs."

Jos de Putter (1959) studied political science and literature, and worked several years as a film critic before he made his first documentary in 1993. IT?S BEEN A LOVELY DAY, about the last year of his parent?s work and life on their traditional farm, was hailed internationally as a film in the purest documentary tradition. One year later, SOLO, THE LAW OF THE FAVELA, focusing on the dreams of teenagers in the slums of Rio de Janeiro to become soccer stars, won the prestigious Joris Ivens Award at the Amsterdam Documentary Filmfestival. Many other awards followed for films as THE MAKING OF A NEW EMPIRE (1999, the Godfather-like story of a Chechen warlord), Dans, Grozny Dans (2002, following a tour of a Chechen children?s dance troupe) Brooklyn Stories and Alias Kurban Sa?d (2004, about five different families who claim to be the heirs of a mysterious writer). In 2005, de Putter was honored with a retrospective of all his films in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones ? just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.

Born in Istanbul in 1959. After graduating from Bosphorus University, he studied filmmaking for two years at the Mimar Sinan University of Istanbul. In 1995 he directed the short film Koza which was in competition at the Festival de Cannes. His feature film debut, Kasaba, won the Caligari Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998. He also directed Mayis Sikintisi (Clouds of May) which was shown in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in 2000. In 2003 his film Uzak (Distant) was awarded the Grand Prix and Best Actor prize at Cannes.

In the past 70 years, Interdom, an elite boarding school in the former Soviet Union, educated children from all five continents in the communist ideology. They were children from conflict areas or children of political leaders. They all have one experience in common: the collapse of communism has altered the direction of their predetermined fates. After 14 years they meet again in Russia for the school?s 70th anniversary. The film reflects the events of world politics from a very personal perspective.

Nasir Al-Jezairi was born in 1971 in Iraq. In 1979 his family escapes Saddam Hussein to Lebanon. The war in Beirut in 1981 forces his parents to send him to a boarding school in the Soviet Union. In 1989 Gorbatchov?s Perestroika puts an end to his time there. Since then, Nasir lived, studied and worked in Munich, London and Berlin. Interdom is his first independent film after working on various TV and Film productions.

Encompassing a single, fateful evening in the sprawling metropolis of Sao Paulo, Brazil, JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT is a gritty, crime thriller which centers around an illicit transaction gone awry?Two Americans in exile?Rosso (Scott Glenn) and his son, Paul (Brendan Fraser)?have been carving out a living of sorts, operating a run-down nightclub-brothel. But, they both harbor dreams of getting out of the racket once and for all. One night, it seems their prayers are answered when a customer leaves behind a suitcase containing the means for them to change their fates. Rosso will take his beautiful, young wife Angie (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and their 5 year-old son Lazare to start over in a new city, far away. Paul will escape his mounting debts, an escalating coke habit, and finally be rid of his father (who he despises and blames for all of his problems). All will depend on one person?a Nigerian immigrant named Wemba (Mos Def)?who must make his way safely, trafficking the cash through the perilous, nocturnal underworld of Sao Paulo.

Eric Eason is a New York City-based filmmaker whose first feature Manito won the Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and 14 other awards at festivals around the world, including the American Express Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2002 Tribeca Film Festival. Manito, released theatrically in 2003, went on to win the Gotham Award and receive three Independent Spirit nominations.

Ventura, a Cape Verdean laborer living in the outskirts of Lisbon, is suddenly abandoned by his wife Clotilde. Ventura feels lost between the dilapidated old quarter where he spent the last 34 years and his new lodgings in a recently-built lowcost housing complex. All the young poor souls he meets seem to become his own children.

Pedro Costa was born in Lisbon and studied at the Escola Superior de Cinema. He made his feature directorial debut with The Blood, which played at the Festival in 1990. His subsequent features include Casa de Lava (94), Bones (97), In Vanda's Room (00) and O? g?t votre sourire enfoui? (co-director, 01). Colossal Youth (06) is his most recent film.

"1987 Cartas a J?lia (short)

1990 O Sangue

1994 Casa de Lava

1997 Ossos

2000 No Quarto da Vanda

2001 O? g?t votre Sourire enfoui?

2002 6 Bagatelas (short)

2003 The End of a Love Affair (short)

2006 Juventude em Marcha

2006 Ne Change Rien"

A man meets a woman who straightens out his chaotic life. The woman looses her memory and her commemoration of him. He fights for her, but is at risk of reverting into the patterns of his past. And other mothers have got pretty daughters, too. So far so good?.

Fabo is a marauding emotion fen fire, such as flutter by the thousands through nocturnal cities: he has problems without women and alcohol, and with them his problems even seem to multiply. But the painful acquaintance with his dream woman Tami also reveals the solid sides of the hardcore romantic: wife, house, tree, children welcome. And because Fabo is able to enjoy this new life, fate hits him the harder in the hour of his largest bliss?

A film about bereavement and the fight for love, about male bonding, alcohol and crashes from different heights.

Windows, bath tubs and cars are used for other purposes than the intended and every ?dirty? word is just an expression of love and closeness. Dirty and hokey?

It is like Bukowski in an Edward Hopper painting, that has been fallen off the wall years ago?.

And the best: it is not a comedy!

Freelance photographer since 1993, focus puller and still photographer for several film productions (e.g. TATORT, JULIETTA, SCHERBENTANZ).

1997-2004 studied at the Filmakademie Baden-W?rttemberg film direction and works as a film director since then.

2005 KAHLSCHLAG

2003 DER TYP

2000 RILLENFIEBER

Bernd's car breaks down. The road is deserted. Frighteningly so. He contacts a towing service. He waits. He sleeps. Suddenly there?s a knock on his window. It?s Klytaemnestra on crutches, asking for a lift. But obviously he can?t help her. Quite annoyed, she limps away. On the spur of the moment Bernd follows her, trying to gain her trust. Very unexpectedly she kisses him.

Together they move on, but Klytaemnestra?s husband appears, trying to bar their way. But Bernd knocks him down to save her. They get into the husband?s Jeep and drive into the night, when a tractor, with a trailer full of pigs, blocks the road. It?s Klytaemnestra?s son, he came to stop her. The animals panic, when a shot goes off. Bernd looses consciousness. He wakes up and looks around. Klytaemnestra is gone. He is alone ? except from some pigs romping about in the grass.....

Florian Schoenherr

Born 29th of October 1965 in Basel (Switzerland)

1996 Stipend of ?Evangelische Medienakademie? (Protestant Media Academy)

Move to Athens and establishment of the videoproduction company OFZOE

till 2000 author for different newspapers

2001 Move to Frankfurt

2002 Work experience for direction (Miguel Alexandre, ?Weil ich gut bin?)

Cooperation for Annette Ernst ( Kiss and Run)

Documentary - Treatment

(Der olympische Kampf der Griechen gegen ihre Natur)

Stipend ?Drehbuchwerkstatt M?nchen? (Screenplay Workshop Munich)

2003 Klyt?mnestra Pocket, screenplay for shortfilm

Bonanza, screenplay for shortfilm (Screenplay Workshop Munich)

Schmerzgrenzen, screenplay (Screenplay Workshop Munich)

Black Man White, Movie - Treatment

DoP, Tabaluga TiVi ? Reihe Verschenktes Gl?ck Sch?lerhilfe Bosnien,

BSB-Film Mediaproduction for ZDF (Public Channel of German Television)

Director, Klyt?mnestra Pocket, Shortfilm, 20min

"Kristall creates a melodrama inside seemingly claustrophobic mirrored cabinets.

Like an anonymous viewer, the mirror observes scenes of intimacy. It creates an image within an image, providing a frame for the characters. At the same time it makes them appear disjointed and fragmented. This instrument for self-assurance and narcissistic presentation becomes a powerful opponent that increases the sense of fragility, doubt, and loss twofold."

"Christoph Girardet was born in 1966 in Langenhagen and studied in Braunschweig. Between Hanover and Rome, he has been working as a video, film and installation artist since 1987. A selection of his works includes: Schwertkampf (1991), Release (1997), Scratch (2001), Delay (2001), 7:48 (2001), Absence (2002), and Fiction Artists (with Volker Schreiner, 2004), among others.

Matthias M?ller was born in 1961 in Bielefeld and studied in Bielefeld and Braunschweig. He has been working as a filmmaker, video artist, photographer and independent curator since 1981. He is currently teaching at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. A selection of his works include: Aus der Ferne ? The Memo Book (1989), Home Stories (1990), Sleepy Haven (1993), Alpsee (1994), Vacancy (1998), nebel (2000), and Album (2004), among others."

And what if Ulysses, on his return from his time travel, had only found undecipherable scribbles, broken pieces, sombre and shifting landscapes, memories scratched like splinters (of his world and his life)? His own room has become hardly recognisable to him, with his television still switched on, the cooker, the window and his wife sleeping. A disturbing disorder has established itself all around in which eyes and ears seem in a constant state of waiting, as if they are prisoners of these fragments of a reality so gripping, obtuse, impossible to avoid and yet lying, fleeing, opaque. The spectator of the white she- camel than might have a premonition about what it means to be ?a stranger in the world?, like solitary weight, but also like tension of discovery, like desire to retrieve his past, like a longing to find a viable place. However, only few things will come to his rescue. A truck disappears in the landscape like a ship in the see. A woman in a flowery dress bathes in a see of blood. A child watches us with stunned eyes. The carcass of a torn strange soviet machine lies on the ground. Hereby, Xavier Christiaens has invented a new way of remembering, to turn back time by single jolts, by upheaval, by negative ?apparitions?, declaiming time like a song that is said backwards. And there is something slightly monstrous in his film. It is a part common to all strong works that do not leave the spectator in peace. But what a reward it is when at regular intervals along that road moments of unimaginable grace suddenly appear. There are ?apparitions? in the white she-camel of the kind we rarely get a chance to see in cinema.

Belgian self-made filmmaker born in 1963, former assistant of Bruno Dumont and Benedicte Lienard. His first and foremost poetry film - ?the taste of koumiz? (2003) recalls the aesthetic universe of Alexander Sokourov. It has been selected in more than twenty international festivals and won two prizes. It was broadcasted on the Belgian national Channel RTBF.

The white she-camel is his second film produced with his wife Sandrine Blaise.