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Malaysia’s archaeological heritage stretches back more than a million years. This ancient culture has attracted world attention in exhibitions abroad and in the media for the last two decades. Sites all over the country have revealed their ancient secrets, providing important evidence on Malaysia’s earliest habitation sites. This documentary explores Malaysia’s most important sites and their link to the rest of the world. It showcases Southeast Asia’s oldest nearly complete Paleolithic human skeleton, the iconic Perak Man, whose discovery also has caught the attention of medical archaeology as probably the earliest example of a congenital deformity. It also demonstrates how Malaysia has been connected over thousands of miles and thousands of years with other cultures in south and east Asia and the Pacific.
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Length: 46 min.
Country: Malaysia
Language: English
Director: Harun Rahman
Producer: Novista Sdn. Bhd
Producer Web site: www.novista.tv
Distributor: National Film Development Corporation Malaysia
Distributor Web site: http://www.finas.gov.my/index.phpAwards/Selections:
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This amusing docu-drama tells the story of Cotos, a noble Gallic warrior living on his farm in the land of Eduens, what is now Central Burgundy. This is the time before the Roman invasion of Gaul. Cotos is going to the neighboring city of Bibracte to participate in an important vote and establish his son as a genuine warrior. Accompanied by Bus, the spear bearer, and Desprogiagos, the shield bearer, Cotos heads off on his journey, led by a mysterious and confusing voice that happens to be the documentary narrator.
Length: 16 min.
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles
Director: Pénélope de Bozzi and Matthieu Lemarié
Producer: Universcience Pubic Establishment of the Palace of Discovery and the City of Sciences and Industry
Producer Web site: www.universcience.fr
Distributor: Universcience Pubic Establishment of the Palace of Discovery and the City of Sciences and Industry
Distributor Web site: www.universcience.fr
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The film has been produced and screened for the exhibition about Gaul in la “Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie” in Paris, la Villette, 2011-2012
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The history of the Arslantepe (the Hill of Lions) archaeological site, located in Malatya, eastern Anatolia, dates back to the 5th millennium B.C. An Italian archaeological expedition, led by Professor Marcella Frangipane, has been excavating here for over thirty years, bringing to light important finds symbolizing the universality of Anatolian cultures. Beginning with the lion that symbolizes Arslantepe, this documentary film narrates the changes, transformations and discoveries that have taken place over the course of recent years and also the excitement on the part of both archaeologists and their local helpers over the new excavations being inaugurated in the western part of the site. Professor Frangipane accompanies us during this journey back through history, from Istanbul to Cappadocia and eastern Anatolia, all the way to the Euphrates River and the neighboring territories that shelter the remains of recently discovered Neolithic villages.
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Length: 57 min.
Country: Italy
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Director: Isabella Astengo
Producer: Rai Educational and Duna International Film
Producer Web site: www.arte.rai.it
Distributor: Duna International Film
Distributor Web site: www.arte.rai.itAwards/Selections:
European Environment Festival “Green Wave - 21st Century” (Kurdjali, Bulgaria, 27-29 September 2012)
