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Nyon Film Festival 2009
Jared Bloch
Visions du Réel Film Festival
Peter Kerekes’ film, “Cooking History,” opens with an elderly German baker and World War II veteran proclaiming, “German bread is the best in the world.”
The film then cuts to the baker and three other war veterans trekking through the forest and singing battle hymns.
photo courtesy of Visions du Réel 2009
Nyon film festival 2009
by Jillian Hudson
The very essence of waiting and wanting seep through the screen in Bettina Haasen’s, “Hotel Sahara.” Heart-stopping cinematography coupled with a haunting soundtrack made this a film to remember. Haasen gives a voice to the dreams and desires of Africans in the westernmost point in Mauritania where they wait to attempt an illegal crossing to Spain by sea.
Nyon Film Festival 2009
Jared Bloch
The sound of dogs barking throughout sets the tone for this bleak film by Mathias Montavon and Marianne Thivillier. A bombed out or otherwise disintegrated Georgian infrastructure in a nameless city, serves as backdrop for the poetic text provided by Thivillier via a narrative voice.
Amazingly, according to Thivillier, the text was largely the product of spontaneous musings on the themes of war and destruction and was not written specifically as a counterpart to the imagery in the film, which is at least as bleak as the text. The dog howls add perfectly to the narrative depicting human regression to a feral state.
photo, courtesy of Visions du Réel 2009
Nyon film festival 2009
by Jillian Hudson
”Spaghetti alle Vongole” was an excellent first attempt for director Lila Ribi. The camera captures her father’s severe depression and his difficulty in communicating with his daughter. Ribi manages to convey her feelings of disappointment and sadness at the lack of a father during her childhood as well as her desperation to establish a relationship with him now.
The sadness and the frustration are palpable in the intimate scenes in her father’s kitchen where it’s just a girl asking her father to let her in to his life. It was a very brave move for Ribi to take on a project that hit so close to home. If her father had been willing she could have taken the story even further.
photo, courtesy of Visions du Réel 2009
Nyon film festival 2009
by Jillian Hudson
Yu Guangyi’s documentary “Survival Song” is a shockingly candid view into the lives of a Chinese working class family who has been forced to live in poverty and misery in the name of a new and modern China.
photo provided by Visions du Reel 2009
photo provided by Visions du Reel 2009
Nyon film festival 2009
by Jillian Hudson
”Cash and Marry” is the humorous portrayal of a man’s search for an EU (European Union) bride at all costs. Director and main character Georgiev Atanas calls upon his Bosnian friend Marko who is currently living in Vienna, Austria to help him find a bride who will give him papers to live and work in the EU.
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This post appeared on brandingthroughpeople. Author Ago Cluytens has previously shared posts from his marketing blog with GenevaLunch.com
“Oh Father, I have sinned. It has been several weeks since my latest post.”
Lately, I have been experiencing a severe case of writers’ block, which has caused me to interrupt my usually steady flow of blog posts. For those of you that are regular followers of this blog, I sincerely apologize. I guess I could tell you that a lot has been happening in my life lately, but that does not justify not posting for such a length of time.
Still, sometime good came out of it: this morning, I started reflecting on the importance of being trustworthy and dependable in business (and personal) relationships. Recently, I have experienced several moments where people have been extremely reliable, but unfortunately also a few where they turned out to be completely the opposite.
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by Ago Cluytens, on brandingthroughpeople.com
Ago Cluytens is the global head of marketing for a major international financial institution. His current responsibilities span across marketing, internal and external communications, branding and PR.
On brandingthroughpeople.com, Ago shares insights into how companies can create brand engagement through motivated and engaged employees – where marketing meets human resources.
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I had an interesting conversation last week, during which I was forced to spend about ten minutes explaining why I did not agree with the statement that the finance industry was full of corrupt and money-grabbing nihilists that felt no sense of remorse about “what they did”.
It got me to thinking: why is it that the actions of an isolated few taint the perception of so many ? Even in Geneva, formerly known as the “Mecca of Private Banking”, the phrase “I work in finance” seems to have lost much of its previous lustre.
Election night coverage back in the UK in 1997 was so delightfully British. Whatever side of the political fence you were on, anyone who stayed up late to watch the results couldn’t have failed to be amused. Amongst the other candidates a seven foot transvestite candidate, “Miss Money Penny’s Glamorous One Party”, towered over the others as the returning officer announced the results. She/he wasn’t the only quirky candidate that night, there were others represented up and down the country.
So when I was invited by an American to go to a U.S election watching party in Geneva on Tuesday night, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Would there be anything equally surreal, would it be momentous, would it be serious, who would be there?
Fashion and fun at the start
Moving to a new country can be daunting. There are a lot of issues to be dealt with. Unpacking of boxes, official paperwork, a new language, learning the ropes of a new job, settling children into school, discovering the nuances of the country, all these and more can make it a stressful time.
So sometimes it’s good to get together with others in the same situation, whether it’s to ask advice on where to find the local déchetterie, or how to make a good fondue. Meeting folk who are going through, or have gone through the same situation, can be helpful and often cathartic.
