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BACK PASSING PASĂ ÎNAPOI
Documentary Specifications	Biography / Biografie
trailer not available / Official Website BACK PASSING PASĂ ÎNAPOI Mala Domov Jaro Vojtek Slovakia 2008 29 min. Director: Jaro Vojtek Photography: Tomas Stanek Editor: Marek Sulik Production Company: Marko Skop & Jan Melis / Artileria World Distribution & Sales: Marko Skop & Jan Melis / Artileria Address: Marko Skop & Jan Melis / Artileria, Drobneho 23, Bratislava, 841 01, Slovakia Tel./ Fax: 00421903789198 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Webpage: www.artileria.sk	JARO VOJTEK Documentary film direction studies. Studii de regie de film documentar.
	Filmography / Filmografie
	2007 - Slovak dream 2005 - Here we are 2003 - Crazy Man 2001 - Unwanted children 2001 - Fish Tank 2000 - Once in the East 1996 - She Does Not Know Me, I Don´t Know Her. 1996 - Stone by Stone 1995 - Hair II 1995 - Storm 1994 1995 - If the bell’s toll were magic 1993 - Blind belief
	Awards / Premii
	Slovak documentary IGRIC, Slovak Film Union Best dok. Film, Alma Ata (2007) Best Documentary Slovak Film, Shaken´ Star Ex-aequo Prize of Slovak Film Journalist, IGRIC; Slovak Film Union Jurry Prize; MFF Etnofilm Cadca Grand Prix, International documentary films Lublin (2007) Prize of Minister of Culture, International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World, Prague (2006) Best European film, Astra Film Festival, Sibiu (2006) Grand Prix, Academia Film Olomouc (2006)

Synopsis / Sinopsis

Vlado Sendrei is a musician. He is also an activist. He organizes community activities. He is a singer and an agent for a Gypsy music band. He is also a former football player and coaches the local team. One day, they get an invitation to a tournament in Serbia. The event is a protest against racism, therefore the invited teams must be multiethnical. One of the players is David, a young man of Romani origin, whose father – a former guitar player – sold his instrument and his golden jewels in order to pay for his son’s journey, and for a pair of sport shoes. Finally, the team is ready to set off. The young football players (childred coming from orphanages and from juvenile penitenciaries) are about to experience the journey of their lives. The author travels along, exploring the effects of racism, as well as possible ways to fight against it.

Vlado Sendrei, muzician și activist rom din Slovacia, organizează munca în slujba comunității din orașul său, este cântăreț și impresar al unui grup de muzică țigănească și, în calitate de fost jucător de fotbal, antrenează echipa locală de tineret. El primește invitația de a participa, împreună cu o echipă multietnică, la un turneu din Serbia, dedicat luptei împotriva rasismului. Unul dintre jucătorii selecționați este David, fiu al unui chitarist rom, care își amanetează instrumentul și bijuteriile din aur pentru a-i putea plăti drumul și pantofii de sport. Bizara echipă (din care mai fac parte orfani și copii de la casa de corecție) pornește într-o călătorie care ar putea deveni pentru tinerii fotbaliști cea mai interesantă experiență a vieții lor, iar regizorul Jaro Vojtek își urmărește pretutindeni subiecții, interesat de cum se poate manifesta discriminarea rasială și cum se poate lupta împotriva ei.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Programming / Programare
Monday 26 - Hall B - 22h50 / Luni 26 - Sala B - 22h50

Films in Europa Competition / Filme in Competitie - Europa
AGAINST BLOOD JUSTICE , Nathalie Rossetti & Turi Finocchiaro, France
ALYOSHA , Meelis Muhu, Estonia
AT HOME ANYWHERE , Judith Vrerinks, The Netherlands
BACK PASSING , Jaro Vojtek, Slovakia
BERLIN, KREUZBERG 36 , Angeliki Aristomenopoulou, Greece
THE FLOWER BRIDGE , Thomas Ciulei, Romania
IVETKA AND THE MOUNTAIN , Janecek Vit, Czech Republic
LOOK AT THE LIFE THROUGH MY EYES , Marija Dzidzeva, Croatia
LOST IN TRANSITION , Thom Vander Beken, Belgium
LOST WORLD , Gyula Nemes, Hungary
MY CLASS - FROM RUSSIA WITH RELATIVITY , Ekaterina Eremenko, Germany
PEACE FOR ALL , Elizabeta Koneska, Macedonia
PEOPLE DREAMS ACTIONS , Andreas Stiglmayr, Germany
ROUGE NOWA HUTA , Blandine Huk & Frederic Cousseau, France
SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK , Arto Halonen, Finland
SINGING , Rossella Schillaci, Italy
SOUL , Marina Anedda, Italy
YOU LIVE AND BURN , Iiris Harma, Finland

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

film screenings

AFF09 Film Program (.pdf)

Mo.26 | Tu.27 | We.28 | Th.29

Fr.30 | Sa.31 | Su.01

events

Mo.26 - Su.01

FILM ARCHIVE

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