La buena vida - The good life

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Movie
Original title La buena vida - The good life
Country of production Germany , Switzerland
original language Spanish ,
Wayúu language
Publishing year 2015
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Jens Schanze
script Jens Schanze (concept)
production Judith Malek-Mahdavi ,
Frank Matter ,
Jens Schanze
music Rainer Bartesch ,
Victor Moser
camera Börres Weiffenbach
cut Bernd Euscher
El Cerrejón in northern Colombia, with 700 km² the largest open-cast coal mine in the world

La buena vida - The good life is a German documentary film by Jens Schanze from 2015. The film focuses on the relocation of European coal production to Colombia , where an indigenous group is suffering from the consequences of resettlement. The cinema release in Germany was on May 14, 2015.

content

Jairo Fuentes is the young leader of the Wayúu community Tamaquito, which lives in the forests of northern Colombia. So far they have been able to live from what nature has given them, but their village is threatened by the huge El Cerrejón open-cast mine , in which hard coal is mined for energy production in Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain. In a resettlement process organized by Colombia's largest coal company, Cerrejón, the residents of Tamaquito are to move to a new village where they will benefit from running water and modern accommodation.

The film accompanies the process and questions the excessive coal extraction against the background of the European striving for prosperity. According to its own statement, the Cerrejón Group organizes the resettlement of the village community of Tamaquito in accordance with the standards of the World Bank . But the Wayúu's new home reveals itself to be desolate and barren, the promised water connection dries up after a few days. The attempt by Fuentes to draw attention to the situation in his village at the shareholders' meeting of the raw materials giant Glencore , which is involved in Cerrejón , remains unsuccessful.

criticism

The film service judges that the long-term documentary observation is visually impressive. The magazine Epd Film particularly emphasizes the presentation of the “socio-technical measures of corporate and state representatives”, the “eviction bureaucratically correct (“ those present confirm the transparency of the process according to the standards of the World Bank ”) and with the concentrated use of stupid workshops and want to handle euphemisms with as little resistance as possible ”.

Awards

When DOK.fest Munich , the film was nominated in the section "DOK.international". In addition, it received the rating "particularly valuable" from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . The statement of the jury stated that the “touching documentary takes sides by accompanying its actors and letting them speak for themselves”. In this way, "Jens Schanze succeeds in making the politically explosive approach of an international coal company against the indigenous population of Colombia public and denouncing it". In January 2016 the film received the Bavarian Film Award . "In almost five years of work, the director achieves the almost impossible: With a cleverly placed dramaturgical bracket, he gets the viewer to grapple with the existential needs of an indigenous South American people," said the jury's statement. List of awards:

  • Bavarian Film Award 2015 as best documentary film
  • Gate of Freedom Award, Gdańsk DocFilm Festival 2016
  • Dekalog Film Award of the Guardini Foundation 2016
  • Audience award of the eco film tour 2016
  • Shortlist European Film Award 2015
  • Naturfilmfestival Neustrelitz 2015: Best Film
  • Best Documentary, Boston Latino International Film Festival
  • Grand Prix du FREDD Festival Toulouse 2016
  • Prix ​​Fedevaco, Festival du Film Vert 2016
  • Best film in the category “Environment and Threatened Peoples”, Festival de Cine de Barranquilla 2016
  • Preselection of the German Film Award 2015
  • Robert Geisendörfer Prize 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for La buena vida - The good life . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 862 K).
  2. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed September 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ La buena vida - The good life. Film service , accessed on September 11, 2015 (short review).
  4. ↑ Silvia Hallensleben: Review of La Buena Vida - The good life. Epd Film , April 17, 2015, accessed September 28, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database, accessed September 11, 2015 .
  6. ↑ La buena vida - The good life. German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) , accessed on September 28, 2015 (jury statement).
  7. ↑ Awarding of the 37th Bavarian Film Prize. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Press release 3sat. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Gdansk Docfilm Festival. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
  10. ^ Guardini Foundation. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Awards of the Festival Ökofilmtour 2016. Accessed on October 15, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Cineuropa EFA Documentary Selection 2015. Retrieved on October 15, 2016 (English).
  13. ↑ Press release Neustrelitz Nature Film Festival. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
  14. ^ Awards Boston Latino International Film Festival. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Palmares 6th Fredd Festival Toulouse. Retrieved October 15, 2016 (French).
  16. ↑ COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE DE MARS DU FESTIVAL DU FILM VERT 2016. Accessed on October 15, 2016 (French).
  17. ^ Winner of the Festival de Cine de Barranquilla. Retrieved October 15, 2016 (Spanish).
  18. ↑ German Film Academy announces 2015 preselection. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Press release on the jury's decisions 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; accessed on October 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.robert-geisendoerfer-preis.de