„Homesick Eyes“ provides a human face to economic migration – individuals have left their homes in Thailand and the Philippines for temporary work positions in Taiwan. While providing their families with necessary support, they experience great loneliness and deep longing for home. However, the sources of joy that make life in such conditions bearable are also revealed.
In this impressive portrait of an unemployed New Yorker, a woman becomes more and more alienated and finally expires in her loneliness. Told without indulgence or melodrama, the film follows the desperate search for love and company in a large city.
Dora, a retired school-teacher, grows in humanity as she hesitantly, but surely, accepts responsibility for an orphaned nine-year-old boy. With a very simple story we are introduced to wonderfully textured characters that encourage their nation of Brazil to journey towards compassion.
In „Cinema Alcazar“, an abandoned cinema has become the home of an abandoned grandmother, symbolic of the whole Nicaraguan people. We commend Florence Jaugey for presenting this film with such limited resources, itself a symbol of continuing life amidst great human hardship.
Festival films
Jury
The Jury awards its main Prize in the official competition, and further a Prize both in the Panorama and in the International Forum endowed with DM 5.000 each.