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Asia-Africa Kappa Productions
Asia-Africa Kappa Productions produces documentary films across Asia and Africa continents.
Website: http://asia-africa-productions.weebly.com |
Dadaab - Two Decades of Waiting
This is new and shorter film dealing with the plight of mainly Somali refugees at Dadaab refugee camp in Northern Kenya.
One Flew Over Dadaab
Director and Writer: Andre Vltchek
Editor: Takeshi Hata
Camera: Satya Sivaraman, Andre Vltchek
Production Manager: Yayoi Segi
Music Performed by Yuan Sheng
(c) UNESCO/Asia-Africa Kappa Productions 2012
Terlena - Breaking of a Nation
Terlena = to forget, to be off guard
"Terlena - Breaking of a Nation" is a documentary about Indonesia and its people who are unaware of their recent history. The society still believes the propaganda created by one general and his army. This independently produced documentary gives voices to those silenced during the dictatorship of Soeharto (1965 - 1998).
September 30, 1965, seven high ranking Indonesian officers were killed over night. The Communist Party of Indonesia - PKI - was immediately blamed for the event and the army led by General Soeharto started a manhunt. Countless arrests and mass killings followed. Members of the Communist Party, nationalists, religous groups, ethnic Chinese and anybody who supported President Soekarno were targeted. All adversaries to Soeharto's "New Order" were to be destroyed.
These events were linked to the global struggle of the cold war, but what started as a political plot to gain power in Indonesia, quickly turned into a human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands were killed and those who didn't lose their lives were imprisoned and stigmatized as traitors for life.
The documentary "Terlena - Breaking of a Nation" takes an in-depth look at the effects of Soeharto's dictatorship both on a cultural and personal level. How has the culture been altered? What are the consequences for Indonesian society in the long term? People from the country's cultural and scientific community share their ordeals and views.
Voices are reaching out from a prolonged silence, and these voices are Indonesian. It is time to rewrite the history of Indonesia!
"Terlena - Breaking of a Nation" is a documentary about Indonesia and its people who are unaware of their recent history. The society still believes the propaganda created by one general and his army. This independently produced documentary gives voices to those silenced during the dictatorship of Soeharto (1965 - 1998).
September 30, 1965, seven high ranking Indonesian officers were killed over night. The Communist Party of Indonesia - PKI - was immediately blamed for the event and the army led by General Soeharto started a manhunt. Countless arrests and mass killings followed. Members of the Communist Party, nationalists, religous groups, ethnic Chinese and anybody who supported President Soekarno were targeted. All adversaries to Soeharto's "New Order" were to be destroyed.
These events were linked to the global struggle of the cold war, but what started as a political plot to gain power in Indonesia, quickly turned into a human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands were killed and those who didn't lose their lives were imprisoned and stigmatized as traitors for life.
The documentary "Terlena - Breaking of a Nation" takes an in-depth look at the effects of Soeharto's dictatorship both on a cultural and personal level. How has the culture been altered? What are the consequences for Indonesian society in the long term? People from the country's cultural and scientific community share their ordeals and views.
Voices are reaching out from a prolonged silence, and these voices are Indonesian. It is time to rewrite the history of Indonesia!
Tumaini
Documentary film about humanitarian tragedy in Western Kenya - part of the country plundered by HIV/AIDS epidemic, draught and unemployment - this film being produced for UNESCO is depicting brave attempt of Bethzatha Orphanage to reverse sad lot of the local children."
Chile Between Two Earthquakes
Chile Between Two Earthquakes is 8 minutes documentary film from the country hard hit by the earthquake, tsunami and election of the new right-wing government. Filmed and directed by Andre Vltchek and edited by Vincenzo Cavallo.
Link to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krn2JibS2s
IN THE FINAL STAGE OF EDITING
Rwandan Gambit
Groundbreaking 150 minute documentary film about post-1994 Rwandan dictatorship and the genocide in neighboring Congo that took between 6-10 million lives.
WORK IN PROGRESS
150 minute documentary/debate between Andre Vltchek and Noam Chomsky about the state of the world and tens of millions of lives lost between Hiroshima and now as a result of Western imperialism.
Feature documentary film about the plight of Dalit children from Tamil Nadu state of India and their dialogues with world leading progressive intellectuals.
Djokopekik
Feature documentary film about the greatest Southeast Asian Marxist painter.
Singing Communists of Asia
From East Timor to Japan, this feature documentary film depict the communist movements of Asia Pacific from those victorious ones in Vietnam and China to the destroyed and banned ones in Malaysia and Indonesia through the old and new communist and revolutionary songs.
Collapsing Indonesian Infrastructure
Collapsing Indonesian Infrastructure: planes falling from the sky, ferries sinking, entire villages collapsing. Is nature really to blame or is this result of unbridled corruption, mismanagement and market fundamentalism?
