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Shortcut to Justice selected for the Festival Cinéma du Sud
We are happy to announce, that Shortcut to Justice has been selected for the Festival Cinéma du Sud. The film will have its Luxembourg-premiere on the 12th of October in Cine Utopia.
Shortcut to Justice at Flying Broom Festival
At Flying Broom International Women´s Film Festival Ankara, one priority programme was dedicated to Shortcut to Justice and to the topic "Justice of Women". In the following workshop, held by director Sybille Fezer, it was intensively discussed how the example given by the film´s heroines, the "Women for Justice", can set a precedent in Turkey.
Shortcut to Justice at LIDF
At London International Documentary Festival, Shortcut to Justice was presented in the priority programme "Women and Justice". The film was given a very warm welcome by the London audience at sold out Free Word Centre and was intensively discussed in the following panel discussion.
Shortcut to Justice inspires Liberia
The Liberia premiere of Shortcut to Justice was a great sucess. The audience in Monrovia was so enthusiastic about the film and its heroines, the "Women for Justice", that now such women´s courts will also be founded in Liberia. We are speechless (and very happy!).
"Hurriyet" covers Shortcut to Justice
Shortcut to Justice (in turkish: "Kisa Yoldan Adalet") found entrance into the feature of "Hurriyet", the newspaper with the biggest circulation in Turkey and also Germany. We feel honoured.
Solidarity with the Autonomous Center - Brigadistas in Cologne
Finally, there is a positive development in the scandal struck city Cologne. That´s why we want to support the recently founded "Autonomous Center" by showing our film Brigadistas.
Shortcut to Justice on the Flying Broom
The festival tour continues. We are very happy to announce, that Shortcut to Justice now has been selected for Flying Broom International Women´s Film Festival in Ankara /Turkey. One of the film festivals - and the only women´s film festival worldwide - where a FIPRESCI - Prize is awarded.
London Calling
We are happy to announce, that Shortcut to Justice has been selected for The London International Documentary Festival 2010 (LIDF).
Reviews about Shortcut to Justice
The renown film magazines "Film India Worldwide" and Filmreporter.de have published reviews about Shortcut to Justice. We feel honoured.
Arthouse instead of Cinemaxx
The women´s and human rights organization TERRE DES FEMMES was absolutely right with the decision, to remove the Film Festival "Women´s Worlds" after 7 years from Cinemaxx back to Arthouse-Cinema; a cineastic commitment that Roadside Dokumentarfilm is glad to support. In the well filled "Filmhaus-Cinema", Shortcut to Justice met a very interested audience, that also took the chance to discuss intensively with the filmmakers.
International Women´s Day
On the occasion of International Women´s Day, Shortcut to Justice will be shown in Germany from the North to the South, in Oldenburg, Bielefeld and Heilbronn.
Equal Pay Day
Shortcut to Justice gives now also a political guestplay. During "Equal Pay Day" the film will be shown in Wiesloch/Southern Germany by the city mayor, Ms. Hänsch.
Doublefeature - Ganesha in Hamm and Shortcut to Justice
On 25th of January, venerable "Filmmuseum Düsseldorf" was the starting point of a trip, that stretched from the "Ruhr-Region" in Germany to the northwest of India. A cineastic journey that put the often maintained differences between the cultures into perspective.
Shortcut to Justice selected for Women´s Film Days
Women´s Film Days Oldenburg and Terre Des Femmes-Women´s Film Days Bielefeld now have selected Shortcut to Justice for their program. The film will be shown there on International Women´s Day.
Brigadistas in Amsterdam and NewYorck
Being already incorporated into the International Institute for Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam, Brigadistas has now also been incorporated into NewYorck-Archive in Berlin. We feel honoured.
Opening of Ruhr.2010 - Congratulations!
We are glad to announce that the Ruhr Area - the homebase of Roadside Dokumentarfilm - has now been appointed as Cultural Capital of Europe.
Shortcut to Justice on Duty for Human Rights
Amnesty International, the 1000 PeaceWomen around the Globe and the women´s and human rights organization medica mondiale have already used Shortcut to Justice for their work.
We are glad that now the catholic human rights organization Misereor does the same.
Merry Christmas - Happy New Year
Roadside Dokumentarfilm wishes everybody a merry Christmas and a happy new year with many new and good documentary films made by us and our colleagues all over the planet, which contribute to the efforts to make the planet a better place. Together we can make a change.
Germany Tour - From Konstanz to Kiel and Back Again
Within the last year, Shortcut to Justice travelled from the Suisse border to the Northern Sea and back 2000 km all over Germany and made a stop over in many cities. Roadside Dokumentarfilm
wants to thank all our viewers for their interest in our film and for the may interesting talkings and discussions.
Shortcut to Justice at the Seaside
After the guest performance of Shortcut to Justice at fe:motion Film festival Kiel, the film was topic of a panel discussion to which Amnesty International, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation and German-Indian-Society had invited. Human rights expert Dr. Gottlob (Amnesty International) and the Asia experts Prof. Kulke and Prof. Brinkhaus (Christian-Albrecht-Universität of Kiel) intensively analysed the film and had a lively discussion with the strongely interested festival audience.
Moving Docs at Human Rights Film Festival Move It! in Dresden
Not only in Leipzig but also in Dresden the heart of documentary film was beating at the end of October. "Undercover in Tibet" with Tash Despa, Shortcut to Justice and the DOK Leipzig price-winning film "Rich Brother" were only some of the documentaries, which were acknowledged with strong interest by the audience. The screening of Shortcut to Justice was also sold out and Dresden-audience acknowledged the film with lots of applause.
Shortcut to Justice meets the "1000 PeaceWomen"
Venerable 1000 years old Kilians Church in Heilbronn/Southern Germany will be the home of Shortcut to Justice during the mid of November. The film will be presented there in the exhibition 1000 PeaceWomen which is on its World Tour at present.
Shortcut to Justice selected for International Human Rights Film Festival Document 7
The international festival tour of Shortcut to Justice is continuing in Scotland. In October, Shortcut to Justice will be shown on the International Human Rights Film Festival Document 7, in Glasgow.
Shortcut to Justice selected for Medimed 2009
In October, Shortcut to Justice will be presented to the international professional audience at Medimed 2009, the ambitious high quality documentary film market in Southern Europe.
Shortcut to Justice selected for Gouangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
Next stop on the international festival tour of Shortcut to Justice will be Gouangzhou in China, were the film will be running in the competition on the Gouangzhou International Documentary Film Festival. After the festival, Shortcut to Justice will start its China-Tour.
Brigadistas in Berlin
Berlin Cinema Central was sold out again, when the Roadside-Film Brigadistas was shown there together with the reading auf Gerhard Hoffmann's autobiography.
92-years old Gerhard Hoffmann, who in his long life went along with everything from Spanish Civil War and Second World War to Sandinista-Nicaragua, answered all questions of the public. It was a moving meeting, which left nobody untouched in the international audience.
Shortcut to Justice Tour Continues
After having performed in Hamburg, Shortcut to Justice makes a stop over in the North again. Shortcut to Justice will be shown on the 2. Frauenfilmwoche Kiel - fe:motion, in the cinema Die Pumpe.
Announcement - Doublefeature: Brigadista meets Brigadistas - Reading and Showing
On Thursday the 10th of September 2009, Gerhard Hoffmann will read from his recently published autobiography Barcelona - Gurs - Managua, on bumpy roads through the 20th Century. Before the reading, there will be the showing of Brigadistas by Daniel Burkholz, telling the story of the last still living volunteers, who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
The 90 years old Brigadista Gerhard Hoffmann has always been fighting against opression and injustice. Being a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, he defended the republic, in the French Resistance and in the US-Army he liberated Europe from the Nazis and in Nicaragua and Cuba he fought for a better society.
Shortcut goes to Bollywood
The next station of Shortcut to Justice'sFestival journey will be the Bollywood and beyond Film Festival in Stuttgart - definitely the Mecca of Indian Movies in Germany.
Shortcut to Justice on the ´Move it - Festival
In October, Shortcut to Justice will be welcomed on the Move It - Development Politics Film Festival in Dresden.
Leipzig - Brigadistas goes East
In May, Brigadistas meets the award-winning movie Die Frau des Anarchisten (The Anarchist´s Wife) by Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr at the Schaubühne Lindenfels (Leipzig). A genre cross-over encounter of to moving films.
Germany Tour of Brigadistas continuing
Hamburg´s biggest cinema, the Metropolis, was (in spite of the beautiful spring weather) frequented well, when Brigadistas was shown their on the 19>th of April. The Hamburg audience again warmly welcomed the film and took the chance, to have a long and intense discussion with the director Daniel Burkholz.
India performing in Cologne
In spite of the the not really weak concurrence by “Slumdog Millionaire”, the Cologne Audience found its way to the showing of Shortcut to Justice in the cinema “Filmpalette”. medica mondiale front-women Karin Griese was competently leading through the evening and inspired the discussion between the audience and the film makers. Roadside Dokumentarfilm says heartily thank you to medica mondiale and the “Filmpalette” for this successful event.
Konstanz Filmfestival
On International Women´s Day Scala Cinema Center was the spot to go for the audience, when Shortcut to Justice was shown there on the Filmfestival Frauenwelten. The Festival audience was strongly impressed by the charismatic “Women for Justice”, being the heroines of the film.
Brigadistas selected for CineFiesta
A cineastic fiesta is waiting for Brigadistas on the Spanish Youthfilmfest CineFiesta, where the film will be shown in Potsdam/Germany on the 10th of July.
The Festivaljourney of Shortcut to Justice continues
Shortcut to Justice was now selected for the Vienna Filmfestival Frauenfilmtage and also for the Filmfestival Frauenwelten in Konstanz/Germany.
English version of Brigadistas available
Additional to the german [link] and the spanish [link] version of Brigadistas, Roadside Dokumentarfilm now offers also an english [link] version of the movie.
Homepage Update - English version available
Starting now, our homepage is also available with all information in English.
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Shortcut to Africa - Lead-up for the International Tour
The international tour of Shortcut to Justice is starting on the 3rd of February 2009 in Fishtown, in the rainforest of Liberia. The inhabitants of the surrounding villages are invited to the screening.
Roadside Dokumentarfilm is proud that the Village-Eldest and also the German ambassador, Mrs. Ilse Lindemann-Macha, will be guests of honour of this event.
Leipziger Frauenfilmfestival (Women´s Filmfestival Leipzig)
The audience was sent to hot and cold baths at the Women´s Filmfestival Leipzig. The movie Shortcut to Justice - empowernd and full of hope - crashed hard against the deeply moving and terrible description of the situation in Congo, given by Im Schatten des Bösen (In the Shadow of Evil).
But festival-leader Inge Bell, who was also moderating the discussion with the moviemakers and the audience, perfectly succeeded in tieing together these threads. That´s why all participants could experience an impressing event.
Shortcut to Justice again in Berlin
In spite of the hard competion given by christmas-markets and Santa Claus, well known Berlin Cinema Central was again filled with a big audience. Thanks to the the very good moderation of Bettina Wegner there was an engaged and exciting discussion between the audience and the moviemakers Daniel Burkholz and Sybille Fezer after the movie.
Shortcut to Justice on Human Rights Filmfestival
A very warm welcome was given to Shortcut to Justice by the audience at the Filmfest Frauenwelten in Tübingen. "How do this women succeed in fighting the violence so succesfully? What do these people in India have, that we are lacking?"
With this question festival-leader Irene Jung was opening the dicussion after the movie to build a bridge from the courageous engagement of the women for justice to the situation in countries like Germany. This question was the engine of an enageged discussion between the directors Daniel Burkholz and Sybille Fezer and the audience. Unfortunately it was not possible to find the answer.
Brigadistas in Barcelona
"The Brigadistas will leave us, but Burholz` movie will remain", Franz Lindentahl wrote last year in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. But even Mr. Lindenthal didn´t think, that this would happen so quickly. Many of the men and women, we had the possibility to meet two years ago in Barcelona, died in the meantime. The last living Brigadistas where now honoured in Barcelona with the presentation of the documentary movie Brigadistas.
We are glad that we could give something back to these men and women who made an important contribution to the realization of Brigadistas. |
