Lombardo Films works regularly with national and international networks and local television and is dedicated to support affiliated writers and directors not only throughout the production of their work, but also in the distribution of their films.

Lombardo Films attends the major international television markets. Our strength in the marketplace rests on our flexible approach with producers and in our well-established relationships with broadcasters and distributors in Europe and around the world.

CELEBRATION OF FLIGHT

A film about the love for flying and about the unique friendship between 78 years old Swede and 16 years old Carribean boy. They share their only dream: To build an airplane in the middle of the jungle of Dominica . With it, they are planning to take part in one of the world's biggest air shows for airplane designers in Florida and win a prize. For the boy, it is the beginning of all his dreams. For the old man, it is his very last dream. And it's the legacy of a father-and-son relationship.

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THE REAL DAKTARI

The Film tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Sue Hart, the first female wildlife vet in Africa and the role model for the world famous series Daktari. She embosomed not only the animals of the wild continent but also risked her life for the African people during Apartheid in South Africa. Today aged 79 she is looking for the right person who may step into her shoes. Will her work go on?

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SONBOL    

"Why can't you actually find a man?", Sonbol is asked by her mother. The answer is silence. Sonbol Fatemi is 35: she is single, has her own dentist surgery and besides a passion for rally races, competing against men. Sonbol lives in the holy city of Mashad, in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Living a life like this in Iran, means that she has to fight everyday. Against the sports administration, that wants to exclude the women from rally races. And not least, against her own doubts about god and if he is on her side.

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JUAN Y MEDIO

A place in Chile, right next to the Pan-American Highway, the „Panamericana“, is the site of the legendary trucker’s restaurant, Juan y Medio, which, in 1973, after its fabulous rise in the 1950es, became the stage for political quarrels and the object of a family dispute. Here is the beginning of the history of Norma, Juan, Hugo, Gladys, and Betty,brothers and sisters, who grew up in the Juan y Medio. After 30 years of silence, they go and try to speak about the past – with me, Norma’s granddaughter All of them are in their seventies now.They talk about their support for Pinochet, about their fear of socialism, about howthey defended their property. They talk about how the trucker’s strike against the government of Salvador Allende was organised in the Juan y Medio, and about the fight that started over the question of who should own the restaurant. Individual interests and political opinions become indistinguishable. The film confronts the controversial memories of these characters, showing that memory, here, more often than not is an area of repression. From lost memories and contradictions, the viewers have to assemble their own picture of the events. It is a picture of a divided family, and of a divided nation. When I asked my grandmother Norma to tell, together with her four brothers and sisters, the story of Juan y Medio, I hoped that maybe a reconciliation were possible. At the end of it, the five of them meet for a family photograph. They come together, but they do not find each other.

LAST BUS STOP

Imagine a village somewhere deep in Eastern Europe. For more than a hundred years, its nationality has changed in a season-like cadenza: one time, it belonged to the Habsburg Empire, then to Czechoslovakia, next to Hungary, then to the Soviet Union. In recent years things have grown even more complex. The artificial border the Soviets put down at the end of World War II straight through the village of Szelmenc, with its 1100 souls, divides the village over two states. Families on one side live in Slovakia, which by now has entered the European Union. On the other side, their relatives suffer from the unstable circumstances in the Ukraine. One solution would be to build a border crossing point, to reunite families after sixty years and to generate some economic structure. The film starts with the trip that the mayors of Little Szelmenc and Great Szelmenc made to Washington in 2004, where they urged the necessity of constructing a border crossing point at the congressional Human Rights Caucus. Two years later, it is indeed built - but who benefits from it?

IT NEVER HAPPENS AS EXPECTED! Lived Past In The Black Forest

It seems to be a long time ago but the era, the 43-minutes long documentary immerses in, is more contemporary than thought. Although it is not a story about nostalgia or glorification of the “good old times”, but a realistic image of the everyday life of four aged Black Forest protagonsits and their extraordinary, endangered profession. This generation was affected by work and acquittal, but these exponents still understand working as a kind of quality of life, despite age-related physical reduction and the dying away fitness. Viewer will experience them at their authentic employment and also as narrators, which can look back on eventful lives. 

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TULIA TEXAS

On July 23, 1999, undercover narcotics agent Thomas Coleman executed one of the biggest drug stings in Texas history. At the end of that blazing summer day, 46 residents of the small farming town of Tulia had been rounded up and thrown behind bars. Thirty-nine of those arrested were black. In the years to follow, troubling evidence about the undercover investigation and the police officer's past began to surface. "Tulia, Texas" is the story of a small town's search for justice, and the price Americans par the war on drugs.

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SONEROS DEL TESECHOACÁN

Along the Tesechoacán River, in the state of Veracruz, México, a tradition perdures: The Sound of the SON Music. Here, the old and young generations fight a battle against modernity, trying to keep their music, celebrations and way of life safe. Through the voices of his men and women, and the sound of their instruments, this story is told.

TRES PESOS

Unfolding in three chapters of rare intimacy and candour, Tres Pesos offers an insight into everyday lives of young Cuban reggaeton musicians. Living in the neglected outskirts of Havana, the musicians who rap and jam together share a relentless hunger for success despite the poverty of their daily existence. This exquisitely shot portrait is a counterpoint of observational scenes of young, marginal lives rarely seen on screen, raw musical improvisation and poignantly direct conversations. We are invited to share at close range the balance of day-jobs, family life and live performances. Tres Pesos reveals young people whose survival depends on music, offering the only way out for themselves and their families.

www.trespesos.net

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TO WHERE THE WORLD BEGAN

The cameraman and film producer Roman Teufel accompanies an artist and painter on his inspiring travels through West Africa, back to the roots of human civilisation - into the heart of the Sahara dessert. The Journey leeds along the river Niger, to the mysterious DOGON people and further to the secret town of Timbuktu. Then he escorts a caravan of the Tuareg across the Hoggar Mountains into the loneliness of the Sahara. Fantastic Landscapes, fantastic pictures in best HD Quality!

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MEGUMI

MEGUMI is a deeply moving film about the dramatic disappearance of the 13-year old Japanese schoolgirl Megumi Yokota on 15 November 1977. In the form of the actress Janica Draisma, the film maker visits the coastal town of Niigata from whence Megumi disappeared. Thirty years later, the family and the acquaintances of the girl are still stunned. The are still incredulous. Still filled with a sorrow they can't come to terms with. In the meantime it has become apparent that Megumi was kidnapped to North Korea to teach North Korean trainee spies to speak fluent Japanese.

The Parents of Megumi are convinced that their daughter is still alive, even though North Korea alleges that she has committed suicide. The film maker tells a poetic and emotional story. She was not primarily interested in the political side of the story. Hart breaking interviews with Megumi Yokota's parents, brothers and former head master show their never ending love for Megumi. Impressed by the hope and power of the parents, the film maker used elements of the feature film in order to make visible that also she came to believe that Megumi is still alive.

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www.mirjamvanveelen.com

MYANMAR - JOURNEY INTO A LOST ERA

Hermetically isolated almost a half century from the military regime, Myanmar, the further Birma, is hardly affected by the impact of globalisation. This involuntary conservation of a whole nation provides an opportunity to review into the past, like in an animated museum - permits a theatrical time travel. 

By doing so the traveller systematically is looking for values, which have been sacrificed the furious belief in progress elsewhere. Parallels of the own culture area's are being reflected. Without the aim of a whole portrait but with particular individual portraits, the film provides an insight into the ancient culture of South-East-Asia. Hardly a nation is affected by spirituality like Myanmar by the Buddhism. Nowhere else everything that happens is submitted to the Buddhist philosophy more than in Myanmar. That's why even the film cannot elude the superior impression of an intensively practiced belief - fascinating every foreign visitor - everything seems subordinate to.

The picture language is the power of the film, a kind of cinematic dream of a time which is on the point to disappear. A picture grave portrait of the mystic Myanmar, that gets along without the common conflicts and effects but impresses with atmospheric pictures. Although this country tempts to a romantically transfiguration, the film doesn't let a doubt of the elusory character of the magical sceenery.

YOU ARE MY AFRICA

The film "You are my Africa. A Black and White Love Story" is an autobiographical documentary about the filmmaker Helmut Schulzeck and his Kenyan wife Wangechi Schulzeck. Africa was for Helmut mostly for years Cape Town. There he met one day the Kenyan woman Wangechi Njenga. She became his "Africa". The film "You are my Africa" tells the story of loving each other and coming to terms with each other. It captures a gradual development and an adventure, in which two cultures clash and show only a limited understanding of and dealing with each other. How does Wangechi deal with Germany and how does Helmut with Kenya? How does Germany deal with Wangechi and how does Kenya with Helmut? The film gives answers to these questions at a personal level. Locations: Germany, Cape Town and the Kenyan Highlands in the Rift Valley area.

ICELAND - THE WORLD BEHIND

BALI'S REEF CONSTRUCTORS 

SEVEN BROTHERS

Seven brothers (born between 1929 and 1945) come to a neutral space to individually tell their family's story from Mülheim. Seven different paths in life attest to a rarely heard generation whose childhood ended or just began with the “Stunde Null“ in 1945. An intimate mosaic between the brothers emerges forming a type of family universe mirroring German history in an unusual way. 

A documentary experiment! Storytelling at its best!

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