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The library of MKC Prague also includes a collection of feature and documentary films from all over the world. These films are related to intercultural relations, other cultures, ethnic and national minorities, multicultural education and intercultural collisions.
Below is a list of the newest DVD films in our library:
- Navarasa (directed by Santosh Sivan)
Mumbai : SONY BMG, 2006. -- 1 DVD (95 min.) . -- The film is in Tamil, with English subtitles.
The film revolves around the story of a young girl Shweta (P. Shwetha) taking her first steps towards adulthood. Ready for the adventure, the thirteen year old is upbeat, however soon discovers that every night, her uncle Gautam (Kushboo) transforms himself into a woman to lead a completely different life. When Shweta confronts Gautam on the matter, Gautam tells her he wishes to run away and marry Aravan at a local festival, the Koovagam Festival. The festival is held annually where people of the third gender regularly meet to re-enact the story of Aravan, a character from the epic Mahabharata. Shweta decides to find her uncle and bring him back home, and along the way, she makes new friends of the third gender, and discovers a whole new culture. - Six Viewpoints on Migration and Integration : multimedia proceedings from the final conference of the project Put yourself into Integration! From 29-30 May 2008 (document by European Contact Group in the Czech Republic)
Prague : European Contact Group in the Czech Republic, 2008. -- 1 CD-ROM + 1 DVD. -- Contains also a DVD documentary on the project Put yourself into Integration! - Who will teach me the half of the character (documentary film by Martin Ryšavý)
Praha : Mild production, 2006. -- 1 DVD (92 min.).
The document “Who Will Teach Me the Half of the Character” follows the footsteps of former Czechoslovak – Vietnamese cooperation and seeks to sum up its importance, regardless of its close political aspects, for lives of few particular Vietnamese citizens and also to report on contemporary Vietnam through experience of local people, who surprisingly aren’t separated from Czech by language barrier. On the basis of Agreement of cultural cooperation between Czechoslovakia and Vietnam from 1950’s, few dozens of Vietnamese students were annually given scholarships on Czechoslovak universities. This cooperation was terminated after 1989, but Vietnamese students still remember their teachers and socialist Czechoslovakia, which gave them opportunity to achieve education in the times, when most of their fellow citizens and relatives were sorely affected by aftermath of war with French and Americans. There may be no other country in the world with a group of Czech speaking native citizens of comparable size and regarding this fact, the document can be considered a unique evidence of this extraordinary phenomenon at least for Czech spectator. And only thanks to this phenomenon, the film staff could visit the variety of places in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnamese countryside with and speak of the experience with surprising obviously and immediacy. The appraising and generally festal mood of the document is supported by the fact that it was filmed during 30th anniversary of ending of Vietnamese – American war and jubilee of ancient Vietnam king dynasty of Hung. In film people speak mainly in Czech and Slovak language and there are also Vietnam and English subtitles. More information you can find here. - My life is my favourite video
The film tells a story of Ren Liping, who was born in China and at the age of 17 sent by her parents to France with smugglers. They wished her a better life. What does the life of irregular migrants in Paris really look like? This DVD gived to our film collection RESF (Réseau Education Sans Frontieres). - At home. Here and Now
Documentary film about lifes of three foreigners in the Czech Republic. Raisa is from Chechnya, Ivan from Ukraine and Oxana was born in Siberia. They live in the Czech Republic and they would like to find well-paid job, happiness and freedom. How they like living in our country? How can we help them to feel better in their new home? This film gived to our film collection IOM - International organization for Migration. - Ghosts (directed by Nick Broomfield)
This film based on a true story. It is disturbing portrayal of a secret world that is all around us. Ai Qun, a young Chinese girl from Fujian, China, borrows 25,000 USD to pay Snakeheads to smuggle her into UK illegally so she can support her son and family back to China. Once in the UK she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers that are the bedrock of its food supply chain, construction and hospitality industries. She lives with eleven other Chinese in a two-bedroom suburban house. With illegally forged work permits, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. In their search for better paying jobs to repay their debts they end up cocling in Morecambe Bay at night. On February 5th 2004 twenty three Chinese drowned in Morecambe, their families in China are still paying off their debts. This film gived to our collection Barbora Jirsová.
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