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Wigwam (Shining Ray) The Bridge Breakers Rain We Are Building Philips Radio Creosote Komsomol (Song of Heroes) New Earth Borinage The Spanish Earth The 400 Million Power and the Land Indonesia Calling The First Years Song of the Rivers The Seine Meets Paris Before Spring Italy Is Not a Poor Country Travel Notebook A Valparaiso The Mistral Pour le Mistral Far from Vietnam The 17th Parallel How Yukong Moved the Mountains A Tale of the Wind Magnitogorsk, Forging the New Man		Far from Vietnam Loin du Viet-nam 1967 / France / color / 115 min / 35mm Directors' collective: Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agn�s Varda, Joris Ivens, with the collaboration of: Chris Marker, Michel Ray, Roger Pic, Marceline Loridan, Fran�ois MaspŽro, Jacques Sternberg, Jean Lacouture Editors: Chris MarkerÊMusic: Michel Fano, Michel Chapdenat, Georges Aperghis Commentary: Maurice Garrel, Bernard Fresson, Karen Bianguernon Production company: SLONancial problems was finished in 1965. In 1967 Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan went to Vietnam to prepare and film what became The 17th Parallel (1968). On the initiative of Chris Marker they participated in the collective production Far From Vietnam and sent material that Loridan had filmed in Hanoi to Marker. Their images show daily life in Hanoi under the constant threat of bombardment by Americans. Edited together with footage produced by other directors, the film was a gesture of solidarity with the Vietnamese and a statement of protest against the aggressions led by the United States. A TOPICS A Bird's Eye View of a Documentary Career HELEN VAN DONGEN Kees Bakker beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee