Amazonas o Jogo da Bola
Ethnography & Society Doc
Director
Chicão Fill
Producer
Jean Robert
Country
Brazil
Location
Amazonas, Brazil
Genre
Documentaries
Synopsis:
The film tells the story of
football in the Amazon
since the beginning of the
first record in Brazil of a
ball game in the thirteenth
century reported by a European, through a ball game
of Cambebas Indigenous in
the Amazon. Which will lead
to evolution of English rule
Football Ball. A chronology
of time through the cap-
ital of Manaus in the late
nineteenth century, being
the pioneer city in Brazil to
receive the Football which
originated the first centenary championship in the
Amazon, where we will
highlight the decades of
football glory in Manaus...
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Arnold Rikli - Water, Air, Sun
Biographies
Director
Amalija Jelen Mikša
Producer
Janko Badovinac
Country
Slovenia
Location
Slovenia, Switzerland
Genre
Documentaries
Synopsis:
Arnold Rikli, the healer,
broke away from his stern
father, a wealthy Swiss factory owner and politician
from Wangen an der Aare,
to Austrian Carinthia. His
father’s cotton dye house,
which used the typical Turkey red, brought the family little luck. Contact with
harmful chemicals resulted
in a severe illness, but Rik-
li successfully overcame
the ailment by following
a simple piece of advice
the Corinthians gave him:
“Bled will help you heal and
regain your strengths.” Exactly 160 years ago he discovered the breathtaking
beauty of Bled...
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