True Fiction

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All the films in this section portray the twist and turns that life sometimes takes. Ruth Orkin: Frames Of Life by Mary Engel depicts the life and work of renowned photographer and filmmaker, Ruth Orkin (1921-1985). Narrated by Julie Harris, one of the many personalities that Orkin photographed, the film tells, among other stories, about how her most famous photograph, American Girl, originated. Utopia, by Frederick Rendina, chronicles the life of Miles, a wanna-be actor who lives in New York. One day, he receives a sarcastic and insulting note on his car. The writer holds him responsible for having hit his car a year earlier and having left in a cowardly manner. In Carey Schonegevel's Heartspace, three young strangers hit the road together in the new South Africa. Their differences, linked to their country's painful history, express themselves through silence rather than words. Every day can represent a real challenge when you are Chris Sheridan, stuck in a wheel chair following a plane crash, in the film Walk This Way. This honest and humorous story never tries to strike a sensitive chord, yet one cannot help thinking how much courage is involved to reconstitute one's life. Ram Prasad Devinevi's Colors of the Sun is the story of a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his grandmother in a busy street market in Madras, India. Thanks to some very eccentric and original characters, he finds his way back home safely. William Lebeda's animated The Shark's Fin or How Man and Woman Came To Live On Land is a charming and original creation story about how people went from living in the ocean to living on land. - Hayet Ennabli