Festival 2009You live and burn

YOU LIVE AND BURN SĂ ARZI CA O LUMÂNARE
Documentary Specifications	Biography / Biografie
Official Website YOU LIVE AND BURN SĂ ARZI CA O LUMÂNARE Elaa ja palaa Iiris Harma Finland 2007 69 min. Director: Iiris Harma Photography: Visa Koiso-Kanttila Editor: Tuula Mehtonen Production Company: Visa Koiso-Kanttila / Guerilla Films Ltd. World Distribution & Sales: Guerilla Films Ltd. Address: Visa Koiso-Kanttila / Guerilla Films Ltd., Kiuastie 7b, Espoo, 02770, Finland Tel./ Fax: 00358405062675 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Website: www.guerillafilms.fi	IIRIS HARMA Master of Arts. Documentary film, Ethnology and cultural studies. Studii de film documentar, etnologie şi cultură.
	Filmography / Filmografie
	2004 - Tomorrow’s Memories

Synopsis / Sinopsis

You Live and Burn is a gritty and powerful documentary film about two Roma siblings on the verge of adulthood in Finland. The film is a story about the search one's identity and about finding one's path in life. For the main characters of the film, Mirella and Benja, Romani culture represents shackles that prevent them from getting on with their lives. These two young people question the rules and regulations that the mother of the family still swears by. You Love And Burn fights for the right to listen to one's heart and for the right of expression.

Un documentar fără menajamente despre viaţa, în Finlanda, a doi tineri romi, frate şi soră, aflaţi în căutarea propriei identităţi şi luptînd să-şi facă un drum în viaţă. Mirella şi Benja se simt încătuşaţi de cultura căreia îi aparţin şi se revoltă împotriva legilor şi regulilor pe care mama lor se străduieşte să le impună. Să arzi ca o lumînare este ca un strigăt pentru dreptul fiecăruia de a-şi urma glasul inimii şi a se putea exprima liber.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Programming / Programare
Thursday 29 - Hall A - 21h50 / Joi 29 - Sala A - 21h50
Sunday 01 - Hall B - 17h00 / Duminica 01 - Sala B - 17h00

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

ASTRA FILM manages an extensive documentary film collection with public screening facilities. The ASTRA FILM archive started in 1990, and it has collected since thousands of documentaries produced in over 70 countries.

Due to our focus on the Eastern European and Romanian production, the ASTRA FILM archive holds a unique collection of documentaries documenting the issues of post-communism and transition in the region.