2008 Films

Breadmakers / Alone in Four Walls

• Breadmakers

  
  2007. United Kingdom. 11 mins. Directed by Yasmin Fedda. Produced by Robin Mitchell.

  Spend a morning at the Garvald Bakery, where a team of workers with mental disabilities prepares bread for all of Edinburgh. In its eleven minutes, the film offers an ample look at their communal enterprise. One by one the chores are accomplished, from kneading the dough to painting the package labels to cleaning the dishes, as each participant contributes to the rhythm of this choreographed effort. ST

• Alone in Four Walls

  
  2007. Germany. 85 mins. Directed by Alexandra Westmeier. Produced by Inigo Westmeier, Alexandra Westmeier.

  This film observes Russian teenage boys who have been sent to a locked reform school for a range of crimes, from the petty to the heinous. “They’re animals, not children,” we hear, and yet they are made endearing and frankly beautiful under the filmmaker’s inquiring gaze, bringing to mind characters from Charles Dickens’s nineteenth-century London. As the film takes us into the minutiae of their daily lives and gives us a haunting sense of their past and future, it suggests there might be good reason for these boys to prefer the regimented routine of their confinement to the anarchy of the homes they left behind. NK

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