THE SONG OF OTHERS by Vadim Jendreyko will be screened at Porto/Post/Doc in the section "Europe does not Exist, I have been there" and will be discussed in the presence of the director.

• Thursday, November 28th at 14:15 pm at the Batalha Centro de Cinema Room 1

Porto/Post/Doc is focusing on the Georgian director Salomé Jashi. Her films are a poetic approach to everyday life and show ordinary people, forgotten places, the slow and imperceptible passing of time in her home country. TAMING THE GARDEN will be shown as part of the programme.

• Wednesday, November 27th at 22:00 pm at the Batalha Centro de Cinema Room 1

Three documentaries from Mira Film will be screened at this year's International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).

The film ON THE BORDER by Igor Hauzenberger and Gabriela Schild will celebrate its world premiere in the presence of the director and the main protagonist. The film is a portrait of the Tuareg city of Agadez in Niger and traces the daily efforts of three city dwellers to combat social and political grievances.

The documentary A SISTERS' TALE by Leila Amini will also be screened in the Best of Fests section. It celebrated its world premiere as the opening film of the Semaine de la Critique at the Locarno Film Festival and its US premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film depicts the emancipatory journey of a young mother who decides to pursue her lifelong dream of singing despite the far-reaching restrictions on women in Iran.

REAS by Lola Arias, which has already been included in the program at more than 50 festivals, will also be shown at the IDFA. The film reinvents the film musical as a collective work: the performers dance and sing about their true past in prison. They revive their lives as fiction and dream up a possible future for themselves in their imagination.

The documentary MUTTERLAND by Miriam Pucitta celebrated its Swiss premiere at the Solothurn Film Festival. Now there is another opportunity to see the film in the presence of the director:

• Friday, 20 September at 7 pm at the Missione Cattolica di Lingua Italiana Berna (Catholic Church of the Bern Region)
• Saturday, 21 September at 7.30 pm in the Parrocchia San Pio X (Italian parish of St. Pius X)

Together with her daughter, Miriam sets off in search of her roots in Switzerland. The story of a family of migrant workers from Italy.

Both performances are in Italian and will be shown with Italian subtitles.

Hercli Bundi is moving to the Zurich Film Foundation on September 1st 2024, which he will head as Managing Director. In mid-August, Hercli Bundi terminated all his shareholdings and activities at Mira Film Zurich, Mira Film Basel and the distribution company Vinca Film and transferred his company shares to Vadim Jendreyko.

Hercli Bundi and Vadim Jendreyko founded Mira Film in 2002. As a producer, writer, director and editor, Hercli Bundi has made a significant contribution to establishing Mira Film as an international co-producing film production with an extensive track record and integrating it into a creative network. We would like to thank Hercli Bundi for his commitment and wish him all the best for the future.