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Director: Nenad Mikalacki
Title in English: At Home
Original title: Zu hause
2011/ Germany/ 35mm/ 19’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Felix Wernitz and Nenad Mikalacki; Photography: Tudor Mircea;
Editing: Andreas Schultz; Music: Sebastian Fisher; Sound: Phillip Sellier; Leading actors: Angelika Bender, Burak Yigit, Darko Ninic; Producer: Nenad Mikalacki
Synopsis:
An elderly lady goes from Germany to Eastern Europe to find and visit the house of her childhood. Parallely, two deported boys, now back in Serbia, are trying to survive in totally different living conditions. They say that they can help her find this house
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Director: Arian Mustafa
Title in English: Basement
Original title: Bodrumi
2011/ Kosovo/ HD/ 23’08’’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Arian Mustafa; Editing: Latif Hasolli; Leading actors: Hazir Sh. Haziri, Lulzim Guhelli, Albulena Bardhi; Producer: H&H- Arian Mustafa
Synopsis:
The story takes place during the time of the last war in Kosovo, within the basement of a house, which turns out to be the home of a Serbian policeman. He holds isolated an Albanian doctor called Agron. Agron`s only goal is escaping from the basement and joining his family. But he will be faced with staggering psychological challenges from the Serbian policeman who keeps Agron within the basement through violence, for a very special reason, the birth of the baby from his woman, who discovered the very end with the truth about the bitter fate of Agron.
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Director: Anna Gigante
Title in English: Black Line
Original title: Linea Nigra
2010/ Italy/ 35mm/ 15’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Anna Gigante; Photography: Pasquale Mari; Editing: Jacopo Quadri; Sound: Fabio Felici; Leading actors: Anna Gigante, Ivan Franek, Patrice Bricaire; Producer: Mario Mazzarotto
Synopsis:
A house immersed in nature. A five-year-old boy’s clothing draped on a clothes line. A tiny table where the child draws; his blue bike. A woman so pregnant she is days away from giving birth.
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Director: Ludwig Löckinger
Title in English: Daschka
Original title: Daschka
2011/ Austria/ HD/ 16’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Florian Brüggler; Photography: Oliver Schneider; Editing: Alarich Lenz; Sound: Claus Benischke ; Leading actors: Maria Fliri, Andreas Puehringer, Gottfried Neuner; Producer: Danja Katzer
Synopsis:
During a walk, a man witnesses a car crash which remains unexplained. In the car, he does not find any driver but an inanimate child. Insprired by Sigmund Freud’s 'The Interpretation of Dreams.
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Director: Piotr Subbotko
Title in English: Glasgow
Original title: Glasgow
2010/ Poland/ HD/ 30’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Piotr Subbotko; Photography: Wojciech Staroń; Editing: Agnieszka Glińska;
Animation: Zbyszek Ugielski; Music: Krzysztof Ścierański; Sound: Małgorzata Staroń; Leading actors: Rafał Garnecki, Sandra Korzeniak, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Aneta Thuong Majchrzak, Adam Graczyk, Filip Garbacz, Jowita Budnik, Marcin Tyrol; Producer: Katarzyna Ślesicka
Synopsis:
„Glasgow” is the story of a 12-year-old boy Damian, who is convinced that his father is a well-known football player in the club Celtic Glasgow. During the holidays, the boy tries to earn enough money to afford a trip to Scotland, so he helps a retired man Miecio in household repairs. He falls in love with a 15-year-old pregnant girl Monika, wants to take care of her child and take both of them to a better world.
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Director: Kast Hasa
Title in English: Home
Original title: Home
2011/ USA/ DVCAM/ 13’07’’/ Fiction
CREDITS
Script: Kast Hasa; Photography: Royald Elezaj; Editing: Kast Hasa; Music: Kast Hasa; Sound: Elvis Ikonomi; Leading actors: Nikolla Lena, Klevis Bega; Producer: Kast Hasa;
Synopsis:
An Albanian family prepares for the homecoming of their son who had gone overseas in search of a better life. His arrival unexpectedly marks the beginning of a new and difficult chapter in their lives.
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Director: Simon Ellis
Title in English: Jam today
Original title: Jam today
2011/ UK/ Red/ 14’35’’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Simon Ellis; Photography: David Procter; Editing: Simon Ellis; Sound: James Ian Gray; Leading actors: Oliver Woollford, Jonny Phillips, Helen Barford; Producer: Jonas Blanchard
Synopsis:
Impatient to grow and become a man, eleven year-old Robert is stuck on a boating holiday with only his parents and his curiosity for company.
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Director: Piers Thompson
Title in English: Lin
Original title: Lin
2010/ UK/ HD/ 25’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Piers Thompson; Photography: Alexander Krumov; Editing: David Wigram;
Sound: Doug Haywood; Leading actors: Lin Clifton, Vesela Kazakova, Alexandar Lubenov Iliev, Valeri Kyrorlinski; Producer: Piers Thompson
Synopsis:
A woman arrives at a port town in an unknown country at dawn. Her recounted stories begin to contradict themselves as she travels across the landscape. She is searching for something, a shape or a structure, which we are not even sure exists. Along the road she is eventually forced into initiating the process of self-reckoning. As her artifice begins to fall away she finds herself continuing her journey but now with a sense of resolution.
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Director: Erik Rosenlund
Title in English: Out of erasers
Original title: Sudd
2011/ Sweden/ HD/ 15’/ Fiction/ B&W
CREDITS
Script: Erik Rosenlund; Photography: Jonas Rudström; Editing: Erik Rosenlund;
Music: Martin Willert; Sound: Seamus Deivert; Leading actors: Frida Jansdotter, Björn Söderbäck; Producer: Daniel Wirtberg
Synopsis:
As the world transforms, you´re the last one to find out.
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Director: Aimee Powell
Title in English: Shades of Beige
Original title: Shades of Beige
2010/ UK/ 35mm/ 16’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Aimee Powell; Photography: Luke Bryant; Editing: Matthew McKinnon; Music: Paul Lambert; Sound: David Pringle; Leading actors: Michelle Dockery, Edward Hogg; Producer: Aimee Powell and Ian Beaumont
Synopsis:
Jodie (Michelle Dockery) and her brother Brian (Edward Hogg) have shared an unusually close bond since their infancy but when he is convicted of child abuse it begins to unravel. The fragmented narrative jumps between the comforting world of their past and their struggle to salvage their lost idyll.
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Director: Jane Gull
Title in English: Sunny boy
Original title: Sunny boy
2011/ UK/ HD/ 11’14’’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Jane Gull; Photography: Justin Brown; Editing: Benjamin Gerstein; Music: Audio Network; Sound: Bennet Maples; Leading actors: Darren Kent, Lewis Nicolas, Tara Hodge, Vanessa Goodliffe, Michael Arbin, Anton Stevens, Jo Wickham, Amber Streamer; Producer: Emma Curtis
Synopsis:
Danny and his overprotective father live in a world of darkness. The boy has a rare skin condition that prevents him from being a regular teenager.
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Director: Burbuqe Berisha
Title in English: The elevator
Original title: Ashensori
2010/ Kosova/ 27’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Burbuqe Berisha; Photography: Saimir Karahoda; Editing: Agron Vula;
Music: IlirOs; Leading actors: Donat Qosja, Xhevdet Jashari, Fatmir Spahiu, Rabije Kryeziu, Kumrie Hoxha, Albulena Kryeziu, Vedat Haxhiislami, Annamorea Tjara Nixha, Bek Llolluni; Producer: Burbuqe Berisha, Shkumbin Istrefi
Synopsis:
The story takes place in an apartment building, where the main character - a writer - encounters different kinds of odd and noisy characters that interfere with his ability to create. Frustrated, the writer resorts to cutting power in the whole building, disabling the elevator. However, the residents now resort to other ways of making their incessant noise. Finally, the writer decides to close the building, so nobody can move.
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Director: Jalal Saedpanah
Title in English: The sound of rain
Original title: Sedaye Baran
2011/ Iran/ Dvcam/ 26’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Jalal Saedpanah; Photography: Amir Alivaisi; Editing: Loghman Sokhanvar;
Sound: Farid Sedaghat ; Leading actors: Farshid Gavili Musa Faizi;
Producer: Documentary & Experimental Film Center
Synopsis:
Yadi Is Cage maker & he live alone in up of the Roof in his cabin. He train some birds. Young Mongolia boy loves yadi's birds but yadi keep him away from the birds. finally one day he presonid in his cabin, During the challenge with the boy...
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Director: Bartosz Kruhlik
Title in English: Vanishing
Original title: Znikniecie
2011/ Poland/ HD/ 20’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Bartosz Kruhlik; Photography: Daniel Wawrzyniak; Editing: Grzegorz Szczepaniak; Music: Andrzej Strzemzalski; Sound: Marcin Bulus-Trando; Leading actors: Sylwia Juszczak, Adam Sobinski, Kuba Lisiak;
Producer: PWSFTViT
Synopsis:
Housing estate. 35-year-old Iwona takes care of the house during her husband’s absence. She tries to make up with her son Michal and at night spends her time all alone. One day, Michal doesn’t come back home for the night. None of his friends now where he is. The husband doesn’t answer the phone.
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Director: Daniel Mulloy
Title in English: Baby
Original title: Baby
2010/ UK/ 35mm/ 25’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Daniel Mulloy; Photography: Lol Crawley; Editing: Dan Robinson; Music: Alexander Balanescu, Benny Di Massa; Sound: Sam Auguste, Victoria Franzan;
Leading actors: Arta Dobroshi, Daniel Kaluuya; Producer: Ohna Falby
Synopsis:
A young woman intervenes when she witnesses men mugging a girl. Now one of them won't leave her alone.
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Director: Mishel Koçiu
2011/ Canada-USA/AVCHD/ 29'19"/ Fiction/ Colour, B&W
Title in Eglish: Bird Poop
Title in Albanian: Glasa
CREDITS:
Script: Herion Mustafaraj & Mishel Koçiu; Photography: Mishel Koçiu; Editing: Sibora Kokonozi; Original Music and Performer: Elton Deda;
Sound Department: Ing. Erjon Zaloshonja, Ivi Abazi; Set Decoration: Altin Matheo Rizi; Leading actors: Herion Mustafaraj, Nikolin Gjoklaj; Cast: Kristen Lucas, Evis Kurti, Flint Beverage, Praq Rado, Dea Spiro and Tina; Producer: Mishel Koçiu, Herion Mustafaraj; Special Thanks: Ministry of Communication, Bujar Kokonozi, Driton Sahiti, Elvis Themeli, Andis Gjoni, FDNY & NYPD.
Synopsis:
Harry a reputed financial adviser, comes back home unexpectedly and catches his wife and her lover in his bed. Nick a real estate developer and pathological gambler, with many suicide attempts behind him, wants to kill himself once again, after a new loss of $2 millions on a horse race bet. They are both in the crossroads of their lives when they meet in the streets of New York just minutes before Harry being involved in a tragic accident. Nick regains control of his life and helps Harry back to life. He offer a job to Harry as a doorman in his building. Harry faces his new life, full of irrational fears and paranoia. And the blame is on the BIRD POOP!
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Director: Laura Bispuri
Title in English: Blondie
Original title: Biondina
2010/ Italy/ 16mm Super/ 10’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Laura Bispuri, Filippo Bologna; Photography: Vladan Radovic;
Editing: Andrea Maguolo; Music: Nando di Cosimo; Sound: Gianluca Scarlata, Ignazio Vellucci; Leading actors: Anita Caprioli, Anna Celeste Cuppone;
Producer: Andrea De Micheli
Synopsis:
In a powerfully evocative landscape the conflict between Blondie, a constantly escaping girl, and her mum, who asks her to be a bit tidier, takes place. Blondie fights with her and with school, proposing her own world once more. She helps people in need and destroys those rules that don't fit her, till her mother gets close to her in a sort of ballet which makes them similar and partners at last.
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Director: Julio Soto
Title in English: Dissection of a storm
Original title: Diseccion de una tormenta
2010/ Spain/ Red/ 18’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Julio Soto& Alfonso De La Puente; Photography: Alvaro Martin Blanco; Editing: Julio Soto; Music: Rafael Arnau; Sound: Jinglebox; Leading actors: Cristina Piaget; Producer: Adriana Malfatti
Synopsis:
A woman called D, seeks shelter from a tormenting past in a sanatorium in the middle of the mountains. The obsession she runs away from is death. But death has taken for her an unusual shape: her own hair. In the sanatorium she will get to know the Director and the other patients who all share the same obsession for hair. The arrival of a powerful storm will begin to surface the fear of past memories and the inmates prepare for the storm's final assault. Will this storm be the cure that everyone is seeking or will it, on the other hand, bring the destruction that D anticipated?
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Director: Petrit Domi
Title in English: Greetings From Prishtina
Original title: Përshendetje nga Prishtina
2011/ Kosovo/ HD/ 9’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Rrahman Fetahu & Petrit Domi; Photography: Petrit Domi; Editing: Patrik Domi; Music: Visar Kuqi; Sound: Patrik Domi; Leading actors: Rrahman Fetahu; Producer: Petrit Domi & Rrahman Fetahu
Synopsis:
By understanding the new reality in a postwar Kosovo, a young serbian, disappointed of his former political leaders decides to retaliate against those he loved the most ... In a depressed, drunk and chaotic situation……. he finds the unique way to revenge.
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Director: Pedro Pires
Title in English: Hope
Original title: Hope
2011/Canada/ HD/ 11’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Pedro Pires; Photography: Pedro Pires; Editing: Pedro Pires; Music: Robert M. Lepage; Sound: Bernard Gariepy Strobl; Leading actors: Bill Croft, Lucas Silveira, Vincent D'abrouzze; Producer: Phoebe Greenberg
Synopsis:
The fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surrenders to a stream of consciousness, mixing death, brutality, and finally, one last gesture of hope. The film is based on the award winning play Jimmy, créature de rêve by Marie Brassard.
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Director: Güclü Yaman
Title in English: Journey Of No Return - Last Stop Frankfurt Airport
Original title: Reise ohne Rückkehr - Endstation Frankfurter Flughafen
2010/ Germany/ HDTV/ 25’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Güclü Yaman; Photography: Susanne Dzeik, Ben Mergelsberg; Editing: Güclü Yaman; Sound: Güclü Yaman; Leading actors: Aljoscha Zinflou, Christian Wewerka, Ali Bulgan, Marcel Miller, Michel Keller, Yüksel Yolcu, Jean- Theo Jost, Christian Kahrmann, Claudia Daseking, Sonja Kerskes, Ivan Anderson, Carsten Lepper, Florian Klein,Belinde Ruth Stieve, Meriem Sahra Userli, Andrea Rea Kurmann, Mehmet Kilic; Producer: Güclü Yaman
Synopsis:
This film is based on the true story of a Sudanese refugee, Aamir Ageeb. He wanted to report the theft of his jacket to the police. But at the police station everything goes completely different to what he imagined. He was labeled as a illegal person. His journey has already begun.
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Director: Enrico Maria Artale
Title in English: My Bow Breathing
Original title: Il respiro dell'arco
2011/ Italy/ 35mm/ 10’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Enrico Maria Artale; Photography: Luca Frondoni; Editing: Paolo Landolfi;
Music: Gherardo Chelazzi; Sound: Paolo Testa; Leading actors: Giulia bertinelli, Roberto Antonelli, Michele Botrugno, Germano Gentile, Nicola Canal, Gianluca Vicari; Producer: Csc Production
Synopsis:
A girl tries to attune her breathing to the movements of her bow, arrow after arrow. But her sporting talent hides her need to retrieve a primitive, violent instinct, an archetype.
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Director: Dan Sachar
Title in English: Overture
Original title: Overture
2011/ Israel/ HD/ 30’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Kai Mark, Dan Sachar; Photography: Hagai BenKuzari; Editing: Alon Hershkowitc; Music: Dror Shiman; Sound: Dror Shiman; Leading actors: Miko Ben Porat, Nili Sachar; Producer: Guy Lahav
Synopsis:
The abstract story about a lone survivor lost in a dying world. A man struggles to connect pieces from his daily scavenging routine and bits from his repressed memory. When a woman appears in his desolate forest world, she's intent on making him face his past and consequent fate.
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Director: Alexis Fortier-Gauthier
Title in English: Snowbound
Original title: Dans la neige
2011/ Canada/ 35mm/ 15’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Geneviève Simard; Photography: Philippe Roy; Editing: Nicolas Roy;
Music: Sébastien Tremblay; Sound: Martyne Morin, Patrice Leblanc; Leading actors: Ariane Legault, Amélie Dallaire, Christopher Parent; Producer: Mathieu Denis
Synopsis:
Vicky, 13, her figure stuck between childhood and adolescence, secretly bears a heavy burden. When her mother discovers the nature of her troubles, Vicky takes an unsettling decision, in a desperate attempt to reclaim the childhood she has already lost…
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Director: Damian John Harper
Title in English: Teardrop
Original title: Teardrop
2011/ Germany/ 16mm/ 15’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Damian John Harper; Photography: Friede Clausz; Editing: Lena Hatebur; Animation: René Doner; Music: Tina Rupp; Sound: Gregor Bonse; Leading actors: Neal Kodinsky Damion Omar Lee Connor J Smith Julio Cesar Pérez Neev Bar-David Ron "Necro" Braunstein Glenn Fleary Justin Harris De-Anne Dawkins Vito Baltrusaitis; Producer: The University of Film and TV "Konrad Wolf"
Synopsis:
One afternoon Dan is brutally jumped by a gang in his neighborhood. The leader of Dans crew demands that he murder his punisher and earn his official "membership" into the crew: a teardrop tattoo under his eye. Dan stands at the most important crossroads in his life. Will he go through with the killing?
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Director: David Easteal
Title in English: The father
Original title: The father
2011/Australia/ 16mm Super/ 16’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: David Easteal; Photography: Ari Wegner; Editing: Peter Sciberras; Sound: Nick Batterham; Leading actors: John Brumpton, Richard Davies, Finn Woodlock; Producer: David Easteal;
Synopsis:
Haunted by his past, a man searches for forgiveness. Getting it however, may come at a cost.
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Director: Jonada Jashari
Title in English: The stone on the Shore
Original title: The stone on the Shore
2011/USA/ 35mm/ 22’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Jonada Jashari; Photography: Yousef Linjawi; Editing: Ericka Concha; Music: Andres de la Torre; Sound: Ericka Concha; Leading actors: Andy Scott Harris, Anna Lodej, Katie Johann; Producer: Amir Zoveini
Synopsis:
The Stone on the Shore dramatizes the triumph of the soul over the pain of grief. It is the story of a twelve- year- old boy whose harmonious life is silenced by the death of his mother. While living with his aunt, the boy is unable to experience emotional release until he finally faces his suffering.
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Director: Daniel Vogelmann
Title in English: Wilt
Original title: Welk
2011/ Germany/ HD/ 21’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Lukas Becker, Mathias Brod, Daniel Vogelmann; Photography: Kaspar Kaven; Editing: Mario Hirasaka; Music: Jakob Klotz ; Sound: David Wasielewski;
Leading actors: Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Léonie Thelen, Maria Pletz; Producer: Mathias Brod
Synopsis:
They live in a house near the woods. Year after year. He roams the forest, collecting plants. She stays home, smoking pot. Day after day. But they are not alone: something is living in the woods. Something that suddenly enters their lives, appealing and appalling at the same time, dangerous and beautiful. Everything changes.
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Director: Bartlomiej Zmuda
Title in English: Barbakan
Original title: Barbakan
2011/ Poland/ 35mm/ 21’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Lukasz Ludkowski; Photography: Ernest Wilczynski; Editing: Weronika Blawut; Music: Kamil Kopczynski, Marta Kacprzyk; Sound: Ewa Bogusz ;
Leading actors: Marek Kossakowski,Anna Próchniak,Andrzej Mastalerz,Wojciech Bartoszek; Producer: Mariola Gawinek
Synopsis:
Based on a true story. Emil B.(21) is coming back home from work In Germany. In Poland, there is Anna (18) waiting for him. Emil’s arrival is supposed to solve their economic problems. Unfortunately, something wrong happens during Emil’s trip. Emil continues his journey anyway - on a train called “Barbakan”. There is still a lot that can happen during the next couple of hours…
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Director: Maya Zack
Title in English: Black And White Rule
Original title: Black And White Rule
2011/ Israel/ HD/ 17’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Maya Zack; Photography: Stanislav Levor; Editing: Pim Zwier;
Music: Ophir Leibovitch ; Sound: Gilad Leshem; Leading actors: Lana Ettinger, Dmitry Paley; Producer: Dana Kolton
Synopsis:
Black & White Rule video deals with the human attempt to impose order and form onto reality through training and discipline procedures. On an over-sized chess-board two poodle dogs submit to the orders of their trainer while through the use of a Camera-Obscura their actions are being monitored and registered by a clerk in her office located along side the chess-board. At a certain moment the orderly routine is disrupted... a unique visual experience and a homage to the art of drawing.
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Director: Andrew Mcvicar
Title in English: Compulsion
Original title: Compulsion
2011/ UK/ HDV/ 14’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Andrew McVicar; Photography: Damien Pawle; Editing: Ben Wilson;
Sound: Andy Ludbrook; Producer: Samm Haillay
Synopsis:
The first cut is the deepest.
Filmography:
Having spent most of my early life in the Middle East I returned to the North East of England to study Literature & Film. I made a short documentary at a workshop led by Abbas Kiarostami in southern Italy, and then directed a dramatic short titled Breathe For Me. This film premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival and went on to play many other European festivals. Lamb was my next project, premiering at Encounters and playing Oberhausen, Krakow, Brest and Hamburg amongst other international festivals, gaining the Special Mention of the Jury at Nice Film Festival 2009 and inclusion in Oberhausen?s Best of the Festival DVD selection. I work with Duane Hopkins and Samm Haillay at Third Films, in project development and production of feature film and moving image gallery installation work. |
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Director: Dahci Ma
Title in English: Ghost
Original title: Ghost
2011/ South Korea/ HD/ 10’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Dahci Ma; Photography: Sunhyuk Kim; Editing: Limpyo Go;
Music: Youngkyu Jang; Sound: Myunghoon Jung; Leading actors: Taeyoung Kang;
Producer: Jay Jeong
Synopsis:
It is a film about a man hiding out in an empty house. The man, who is chased by police, is caught up in a fantasy with extreme hunger and anxiety. However, what he faces at the end is the darkest side of himself.
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Director: Raphael Wallner & Stefan Elsenbruch
Title in English: Here, Now And Tomorrow
Original title: Ab Morgen
2010/Germany&Bosnia/ DVCPRO/ 23’30’’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Raphael Wallner & Stefan Elsenbruch; Photography: Fabian Spang; Editing: Daniel Falk; Music: Philipp F. Koelmel; Sound: Clemens Becker; Leading actors: Anno Koehler, Helmfried von Luettichau, Adem Smailhodzic, Sabina Sidro, Andreas Wimberger, Gordana Heyden-Gueli, Florian Puscher, Cosima Lucia Muck, Natalya Nepomnyashcha; Producer: Raphael Wallner & Stefan Elsenbruch
Synopsis:
The story of a man, who buys another man’s life, to save his own. Christoph is critically ill and travels abroad to buy the kidney of a living donor. Lost in a foreign city and totally unknown situation, he finally undergoes the surgery, where the donor is killed by accident. Full of doubts, Christoph is plagued by his bad conscience and the thought of having destroyed another man’s family. A film about conscience, morality and humanity.
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Director: Babak Amini
Title in English: I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere
Original title: Dost dashtam kasi jai montazeram bashad
2011/ Iran/ HD/ 30’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Babak Amini; Photography: Ashkan Ashkani; Editing: Atefeh Khademolreza;
Sound: Mehrdad; Leading actors: Bita Saharkhiz, Sima Khezrabadi; Producer: Sadegh Hosseini
Synopsis:
Maryam, a 26 years old girl, working in an old woman house as a nurse in Tehran, she is living with her cotenant Bahar,. She got the temporary marriage with a son of the old woman but it`s secret and also the man has an official wife and a small daughter. Maryam is pregnant around 3 months but did talk about it to her temporary husband but he knows after 3 months and asks Maryam to abort it but Maryam wants to keep it and their challenge is goes on.
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Director: Giampietro Balia
Title in English: Just The Three Of Us
Original title: Ainult Meie Kolm
2011/ Estonia/ HD/ 29’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Alise Zarina; Photography: Karlis Jaunzems; Editing: Giampietro Balia;
Music: Ivan Cancialosi; Sound: Indrek Soe; Leading actors: Jaune Kimmel, Kersti Heinloo, Epp Eespäev, Märten Metsaviir; Producer: Reinis Kalvins
Synopsis:
Following the death of their father, Liisu and Andres find out they’ve been abandoned in early age by their biological mother. After meeting her for the first time since they can remember, they try to get to know her.
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Director: Maya Vitkova
Title in English: My Tired Father
Original title: My Tired Father
2011/ Bulgaria/ HD/ 14’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Radu Jude, Maya Vitkova; Photography: Krum Rodriguez; Editing: Kevork Aslanyan; Sound: Ivan Andreev; Leading actors: Daria Vitkova, Anna Vitkova, Emil Vitkov; Producer: Emil Vitkov, Maya Vitkova
Synopsis:
8-year-old Daria thinks she hears a mouse in the middle of the night. But when she wakes up her father for help, bigger family problems come to light.
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Director: Fernando Franco
Title in English: Room
Original title: Room
2011/ Spain/ 35mm/ 18’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Fernando Franco; Photography: Daniel Sosa; Editing: Fernando Franco; Sound: Nacho R. Arenas; Leading actors: Nuria López; Producer: Ferdydurke
Synopsis:
Ana is in the room.
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Director: Etienne Desrosiers
Title in English: Steam is steam
Original title: Steam is steam
2011/ Canada/ 35mm/ 11’/ Fiction/ B&W
CREDITS
Script: Etienne Desrosiers, Thomas Waugh; Photography: Stefan Ivanov; Editing: Christof Flambard; Music: Michel Drapeau; Sound: Luc Mandeville; Leading actors: Jake McLeod, Shayne Devouges, John Dunn-Hill, Jason Blicker; Producer: Etienne Desrosiers
Synopsis:
Montreal 1952, teenager Samuel brings his friend Julien to the neighbourhood steam bath for his weekly routine with Dad. Julien’s first time will be a day to remember.
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Director: César Esteban Alenda, José Esteban Alenda
Title in English: The child will die
Original title: Matar a un niño
2011/ Spain/ 35mm/ 9’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: José Esteban Alenda, César Esteban Alenda, Victoria Ruiz; Photography: Tom Connole; Editing: César Esteban Alenda; Music: Sergio de la Puente; Sound: Javier Cepeda ; Leading actors: Roger Princep, Roger Álvarez, Cristina Marcos, Manolo Solo; Producer: Solita Films
Synopsis:
It is Sunday. A beautiful dawn on a doomed day. At ten o´clock, a happy child is going to die.
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Director: Renzo Carbonera
Title in English: The Hemingway 's Pen
Original title: La penna di Hemingway
2011/Italy/ Digital Beta/ 17’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Renzo Carbonera, Pietro Spirito; Photography: Luca Coassin; Editing: Luca Immesi, Giulia Brazzale; Music: Adriano del Sal, Mauro Zanatto; Sound: Francesco Morosini; Leading actors: Christiane Filangieri, Sergio Rubini, Cosimo Cinieri, Francesco Barilli; Producer: Chiara Valenti Omero
Synopsis:
Life can make you dependent on things and fragile - something Claudia found out when she went back to Lignano following the death of her father - whom she hadn't seen for years - and got caught up in the mystery of a pen that had once belonged to Hemingway.
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Director: Azad Mohammadi
Title in English: The Sunset Of Snail
Original title: Ghorobe Halazon
2011/ Iran/ Dvcam/ 18’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Azad Mohammadi; Photography: Mohammad Rasouli ; Editing: Emad Khodabakhsh; Sound: Farid Sedaghat; Leading actors: Pourya Amini Raya Nasiri;
Producer: Azad Mohammadi
Synopsis:
The janitor of useless automobile garage gets to know a woman...
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Director: George Buzoianu
Title in English: You Are Divorced
Original title: Va declar divortati
2010/ Romania/ HDTV/ 22’/ Fiction/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: George Buzoianu & Alexandra Morariu; Photography: Alexandru Durac; Editing: Maxi Pop; Music: Jerry Lee Lewis; Sound: Liviu Lupsa; Leading actors: Radu Gabriel, Marius Florea Vizante, Gianina Corondan, Eduard Haris, Magda Catone;
Producer: Alexandra Morariu
Synopsis:
The short-feature is picturing (in a comic way) the relationships between women and men as well as the emotional conflicts that inerent show up in a couple. The main characters Nina and Vlad choose to divorce after 25 years of marriage but the financial situation requires them to continue living under the same roof. The hole picture of the family is complet by their daughter, Dana, who is expecting a baby, and their son, Radu, who is in a relationship with an older woman.
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