Inequality and Conflict - Beyond Us and Them (2019)


This is the story of people struggling for inclusion beyond the notion of 'us and them'

Synopsis:

Across the globe, social groups are targets of prejudice, women are excluded and troubled pasts unaddressed. The eruptive potential of inequality is widely underestimated and disguised by simplifications. This is the story of people struggling for inclusion beyond the notion of 'us and them'.

 

Format/Lenght:

DCP 2K; 68min

 

Filming in:

Nigeria, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Switzerland

 

Production Time:

January 2018 - November 2019

 

Context:

Under the umbrella of the 'Research for Development' (R4D) programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), we're currently in the early preproduction phase of a joint-collaborative project with research teams from the Université de Lausanne, Université de Genève and the ETH Zurich for a documentary film about 'Social Conflicts'.

 

The involved research projects of the R4D program are:

- »Ethnic power relations and conflict in fragile states«, ETH Zurich.

- »The gender dimensions of social conflict, armed violence and peacebuilding«, Université de Genève.

- »Fostering pluralistic memories and collective resilience in fragile transitional justice processes«, Université de Lausanne.

http://www.r4d.ch/


Filmstills

Further Filmstills

Credits

R4D PROGRAMME / PRODUCTION TEAM / EQUIPO DE PRODUCCIÓN

LEAD FILMMAKER / DIRECTOR DE CINE
Jeanine Reutemann

ASSISTANT FILMMAKER / ASISTENCIA CINEASTA
Tim Reutemann

PRODUCTION TEAM SWITZERLAND / EQUIPO DE PRODUCCIÓN SUIZO
Christelle Rigual, Graduate Institute Geneva
Seraina Rüegger, ETH Zurich
Sandra Penic, University of Lausanne

PRODUCTION TEAM LEAD GUATEMALA / EQUIPO DE PRODUCCIÓN GUATEMALA
Ricardo Sáenz de Tejada, Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala

PRODUCTION TEAM LEAD NIGERIA /EQUIPO DE PRODUCCIÓN NIGERIA
Mimidoo Achakpa, Women's Right to Education Program

PRODUCTION TEAM LEAD SRI LANKA / EQUIPO DE PRODUCCIÓN SRI LANKA
Sumedha Jayakody, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka

ENABLERS / HABILITADORES
Claudia Zingerli, Swiss National Science Foundation
Remko Berkhout, Companions

CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) / CAST (EN ORDEN DE APARICIÓN)
Amina Ahmed
Juana Sales Morales
Rigoberto Juarez
Ricardo Sáenz de Tejada
Zuraida
Fernando Linares
Elisabeth Prügl
Lars-Erik Cederman
Dung John Hywre
Tor Iorapuu
Mabel A. Ade
Alejandro Quiñonez
Christelle Rigual
Arifah Rahmawati
Wening Udasmoro
Marta-Juana López
Janet Adeyemi
Pauline Tallen
Leocadio Juracán
Ramila Usoof-Thowfeek
Stephen Reicher
Neloufer De Mel
Guy Elcheroth
Mario Gomez
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
Nils Rosemann

VOICE ACTING TESTIMONIES / TESTIMONIOS DE ACTUACIÓN DE VOZ
Asma Azhar
Neha Joshi
Shafiya Rafaithu
Yathursha Ula Kentheran

RESEARCH TEAM NIGERIA / EQUIPO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NIGERIA
Mimidoo Achakpa
Amina Ahmed
Mabel A. Ade
Dung John Hywre
Christelle Rigual
Elisabeth Prügl

RESEARCH TEAM GUATEMALA / EQUIPO DE INVESTIGACIÓN GUATEMALA
Ricardo Sáenz de Tejada
Marta-Juana López
Alejandro Quiñonez

RESEARCH TEAM SRI LANKA / EQUIPO DE INVESTIGACIÓN SRI LANKA
Neloufer De Mel
Ramila Usoof-Thowfeek
Sumedha Jayakody

RESEARCH TEAM INDONIESIA / EQUIPO DE INVESTIGACIÓN INDONESIA
Arifah Rahmawati
Wening Udasmoro
Christelle Rigual
Elisabeth Prügl

FOOTAGE NIGERIA, GUATEMALA, SWITZERLAND / FOOTAJE NIGERIA, GUATEMALA, SUIZO
Jeanine Reutemann

FOOTAGE JOS / FOOTAJE JOS
David Ardill

FOOTAGE INDONESIA / FOOTAJE INDONESIA
Yosef Anggi Noen

FOOTAGE SRI LANKA / FOOTAJE SRI LANKA
Mahinda Perera
Pandula Godawatta
Palitha Perera
Vishwajith Karunarathna

ARCHIVE MATERIAL GUATEMALA / MATERIAL DE ARCHIVO GUATEMALA
Edgar Barillas (16mm Footage)
Escuela de Historia Antigua

DATA VISUALIZATION / VISUALIZACIÓN DE DATOS
Ethnic Power Relations, ETH Zurich on ethnic groups’ access to state power and their settlement patterns
https://icr.ethz.ch/data/epr/ by Luc Girardin 

ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE / FOOTAJE ADICIONAL
envato licence
UNW WPS Documentary
youtube (fair-use research)
Drone shot building ETH Zurich

PRODUCTION SUPPORT GUATEMALA / SOPORTE DE PRODUCCIÓN GUATEMALA
Alejandro Quiñonez
Angélica Caal
Dámaris Ruyan
Enrique Maldonado
Jennifer Ajcá
Silvio Ruile

COLLABORATORS GUATEMALA / COLABORADORES GUATEMALA
Olga Pérez
Artemis Torres Valenzuela

POLICY SPARRING PARTNERS / SOCIOS POLÍTICOS RETROALIMENTACIÓN
Martin Roch, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Participants of SDC pre-screening, Bern, Switzerland, May 2019

PRE-SCREENING FEEDBACK / RETROALIMENTACIÓN DE LA PELÍCULA
Participants of Synthesis Dialogue Event in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 2019
Participants of SDC f2f documentary pre-screening event in Geneva, Switzerland, June 2019

SUBTITLES AND TRANSLATIONS / SUBTÍTULOS Y TRADUCCIONES
Corinne Amman
Agustina Donnola
Carmenza Robledo

EDITORS / EDITORES
Jeanine Reutemann
Claudia Zingerli

SOUND MIX / MEZCLA DE SONIDO
René Zingg, Soundville

MUSIC / MÚSICA
Scott Buckley (cc licence)
‘Ascension‘
‘Borealis‘
‘Monomyth - The Call‘
‘Monomyth - The Distant Sun‘
‘Omega‘
‘Patagonia‘
‘Tears of a Distant Sun‘
‘Titan‘

Remy Bourgeois (jamendo licence)
'Aube'
'Few minutes of us'

Earth and Moon (jamendo licence)
‘This Mountain of Mine’

Gaetano Fontanazza (cc licence)
'Emotional Scanner'
'Never be afraid of the dark'
'Tell the tale'
'The longing beach'

R4D PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS / R4D INVESTIGADORES PRINCIPALES
Elisabeth Prügl
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland (GSDC)
'The Gender Dimensions of Social Conflict, Armed Violence and Peacebuilding'

Lars-Erik Cedermann
ETH Zurich
'Ethnic Power Relations and Conflict in Fragile States' (EPR)

Guy Elcheroth
University of Lausanne
'Fostering Pluralistic Memories and Collective Resilience in Fragile Transitional Justice Processes' (PMP)

REVIEW PANEL / PANEL DE REVISIÓN
Dirk Messner
Francisco Gutierrez
Gerald Schneider
Marjo de Thejie
Ana Cascao
Norbert Ropers

IMPLEMENTATION / IMPLEMENTACIÓN
Redmorpheus GmbH

FUNDING AND PROJECT LEAD / FINANCIACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DEL PROYECTO
Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Switzerland
Swiss National Science Foundation

2019


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