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Food Fight When we walk into a supermarket, we assume that we have the widest possible choice of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system has been co-opted by corporate forces whose interests do not lie in providing the public with fresh, healthy, and sustainably-produced food. Fortunately for America, an alternative emerged from the counter-culture of California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, where a group of political anti-corporate protesters - led by Alica Walkers (who later founded Chez Panisse) - voiced their dissent by creating a food chain outside of the conventional system. The unintended result was the birth of a vital local-sustainable-organic food movement, which has brought back taste and variety to our tables. |
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 "Terrifically entertaining. Compelling and extremely funny." (Los Angeles Times) See the trailer: Quicktime / Flash |
No Impact Man (USA, 2009, 92 mins.) Asian Premiere A guilty New York Liberal decides to practice what he preaches for one year. He turns off the electricity, stops making garbage, gives up TV, taxis & take out, and becomes a walking, bicycling, composting, tree hugging, polar bear saving, local food-eating citizen, all while taking his baby daughter and caffeine loving retail-obsessed television-addicted wife along with him. No Impact Man presents an intimate emotional portrait of a couple struggling through a severe and protracted change in their lifestyle. How do they cope with the constant stress and intermittent crises of this new way of living? Or, perhaps, |
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"Brings together Myanmar’s classical music and contemporary Western music" |
Voice over the Bridge (Myanmar, 2008, 24 mins.) Asian Premiere A documentary of unexplored and remote Myanmar, where Khing Zin Shwe and Shwe Shwe Khaing share their lives and passions through their stories and voices. Voice Over The Bridge follows the lives of these two vocalists and their music. The Great Songs praising the King were first heard in the ancient 13th century kingdoms of Myanmar. Centuries later, Khing Zin Shwe and Shwe Shwe Khaing sing the Great Songs from an ancient past, in a musical collaboration with contemporary western musicians. |
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¡¡¡ SPECIAL FEATURE - TO BE ANNOUNCED FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE FESTIVAL !!! |
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¡¡¡ Live music between 18.00 and 19.00 // First Screening at 19.00 !!! THE LATEST: Sam Panacea (Japan) will jam at the PFF on Saturday evening |
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