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Jos de Putter
Feature documentaries  
  • A way to B
  • See no evil
  • Solo; out of a dream
  • Beyond the game
  • How many roads
  • Alias Kurban Saïd
  • Dans Grozny dans
  • The making of a new empire
  • Solo; the law of the favela
  • It's been a lovely day
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  • Jos de Putter
    Feature documentaries  
    • A way to B
    • See no evil
    • Solo; out of a dream
    • Beyond the game
    • How many roads
    • Alias Kurban Saïd
    • Dans Grozny dans
    • The making of a new empire
    • Solo; the law of the favela
    • It's been a lovely day
    Mid-lengthTelevisionCreative ProducerVisual artsAwardsPublicationsContact
    Jos de Putter
    Feature documentaries  
    • A way to B
    • See no evil
    • Solo; out of a dream
    • Beyond the game
    • How many roads
    • Alias Kurban Saïd
    • Dans Grozny dans
    • The making of a new empire
    • Solo; the law of the favela
    • It's been a lovely day
    Mid-lengthTelevisionCreative ProducerVisual artsAwardsPublicationsContact
    Jos de Putter
    Feature documentaries  
    • A way to B
    • See no evil
    • Solo; out of a dream
    • Beyond the game
    • How many roads
    • Alias Kurban Saïd
    • Dans Grozny dans
    • The making of a new empire
    • Solo; the law of the favela
    • It's been a lovely day
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      Dans, Grozny dans

      The damned and sacred

       

      (2002)

    • Year: 2002
      Format: 35 mm
      Runtime: 1 hr 14 min (74 min)

       

      Portrait of a traditional youth dance group from Grozny, Chechnya, on tour in Europe. Images of daily life in ruined Grozny combined with poetic visuals of performances. The art of survival.

        

      The creation of art within the rubble of war is the focus of this moving Dutch documentary on a children's dance troupe from strife-torn Chechnya. Bombed-out streets and the ruins of homes were the children's training grounds, with dances practiced underneath fighter jets and sniper fire, but a summer tour of Europe finds them in a different world of ornate concert halls and applauding crowds. "Remember, you represent Chechnya," their leader stresses to his young charges (some all of six years old), underlining the troupe's importance as cultural ambassadors to audiences more used to images of Chechens as violent terrorists than as twirling, costumed dancers. "We are not exterminated yet," he declares later, a statement that captures his troupe's other role: to use their artistry to give hope and resilience to a culture now under threat of both political and literal extermination.

       

      Awards:

      Best Documentary Award, Chicago Int. Doc Festival, 2003

      Best Documentary Award, Festival ‘Message to man’ St. Petersburg, 2003

      Miglior Lungometraggio (best film) Cinemambiente Torino, 2003

      Copenhagen Dox Award, (best film), Copenhagen, 2003

      Best film at Festival des films sur l’art, Montreal, 2004

      Best film Music and Arts Documentaryfestival, Rome, 2005

      Mention spéciale du jury, Nyon,

      Special mention Tribeca filmfestival.

        

      Festivals:

      Selected in European Docuzone: release in 175 theatres

      Other festivals: IDFA, IFFRotterdam, London, Praag, Durham, New York-Tribeca Filmfestival, Hotdocs-Toronto, Munchen, Marseille, Seoul, Montreal, Vancouver, Tokyo, Bombay, Sheffield, Washington, Chicago, Berkeley.

      Sales: Idéale Audience, Paris

        

      Written & directed by Jos de Putter

      Director of photography: Vladas Naudzius

      2nd camera: Masha Novikova

      Edited by Stefan Kamp

      Sound recording: Tom D’Angremond

      Original music by Vincent van Warmerdam

      Sound design: Michel Schöpping

      Produced by Frank van den Engel

       

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