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06/02/10 | Panorama

With the desire to continue growing, we are opening a new non-competitive section where we will provide space for sessions of short films grouped by theme, genre or country, and which will enable us to show short films that are not in the official section of the festival, in an informative way.

Panorama Cambrils:
Kimuak_The best short films from the Basque Country.
Kimuak is a programme (organism) made up of the Department of Culture of the Basque Country and the Filmoteca Basca that is in charge of selecting the best Basque short films made each year. This initiative has meant that Basque cinema has been taken to and promoted at many festivals, and currently the majority of autonomous regions are following the same model to export their filmmaking products.
Kimuak has been loyal to the festival since its beginnings, and has not only registered all its short films at the FEC Festival each year, it has also always continued with more than one short film selected for the official competition. Curiously, this year is the first time that there is no Kimuak short among those selected, so we make full use of this event to inaugurate the section. From the organisation we have made a selection of Kimuak shorts that have been shown in recent years at the Festival, those that have won a prize or those that have left a mark and an unforgettable memory.

...Ya no puede caminar (Luiso Berdejo 2001. 13') 1st award IV FEC Festival
7:35 de la mañana (Nacho Vigalono 2003. 8')
Choque (Nacho Vigalondo 2005. 10')
La guerra (Luiso Berdejo, Jorge Dorado. 10') Special mention VIII FEC Festival
Sintonía (Jose Mari Goenaga 2005. 9') 1st spanish award, Bigas Luna award VIII FEC Festival
On the line (Jon Garaño 2008. 12') 2nd spanish award XI FEC Festival

Panorama Reus: the best Swiss short films.
Surrounded and influenced by all its neighbours, Swiss filmmaking struggles to maintain its own identity. The fact is that Switzerland does not have a big film industry and, like the majority of small countries, depends to a large extent on subsidies. Its films are also not very well known, despite the fact that directors such as Jean-Luc Godard or Alain Tanner have come from there. In recent years, however, the FEC Festival has received a large number of short films from this small county (more than 50 in the present edition).

The Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (International Festival of short films of Winterthur), along with Cathrin Michael, have made a selection of the most representative Swiss short films of the last few years.

Frohe ostern (Ulric Schaffner 2005. 12')
Terra incognita (Peter Volkart 2005. 15')
Beckenrand (Michael Koch 2006. 19')
Il neige a Marrakech (Hicham Alhayat 2006. 15')
Un día y nada (Lorenz Merz 2008. 21')

*Kindly supported by Swissfilms

09/02/09 | Aula de cinema (Cinema Class)

Special session for 6th-form, university and post-graduate students, with the presentation of the Festival, an introduction to the world of cinema and short film and the showing of a selection of short films taking part in the Festival. Moreover, students have the possibility of continuing working after the class through exercises set by the teachers.

09/02/09 | closure

Cambrils:
Prize-giving ceremony, presented by the actress Anna Barrachina, where the short film winners of the state-wide competition will be announced. There will also be projections of the winning short films + two guest short films from outside the competition: El bache by Juan Caunedo (Madrid/Cuba 2009. 11'), a comedy betwen fiction and reality about the workers in Cuba , and Manual práctico del amigo imaginario (abreviado) by Ciro Altabás (Madrid 2008. 19'), short film wich has a lot of awards, specially prizes from the audience, in all the festivals where it has been.

Reus:
Prize-giving ceremony, presented by the actress Anna Barrachina and the journalist Jordi Gil where the short film winners of the European competition will be announced, as well as the winners of the Microfilms competition. The session will be completed with the projection of the winning short films + two short films from outside the competition: Matagalpa by Stéphane Bergmans (Belgium 2008. 13'), a fantastic comedy about the charity organizations, and Istället för Abrakadabra by Patrik Eklund (Sweden 2008. 22'), for most of the people, the best european comedy of the year.

09/02/09 | A la carte short films

At this edition, more than 2.500 short films have registered for the FEC Festival from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy , Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. Almost all the short films received can be seen at both Cambrils and Reus in DVD format.

09/02/09 | D.O.Films

Indeed, after a first pilot trial, comes the consolidation of a section that for some time we were working on; the fact is the FEC Festival has the best short films in Spain and Europe, but we wanted to give a space to showing autochthonous films. At the last edition we finally found the way of filling the void that had been left between the official competitive section (where films made by cinema professionals take part and which often surpass 30,000 euros in budget) and the Microfilms competition, designed exclusively as weekend cinema, and suitable for all the participants who have a home video camera. The D.O. Films section, then, provides a space for all those short films by directors from Camp de Tarragona. However, after seeing the films presented for this second competition, we no longer considered the D.O. Films section as a space of amateur cinema, but as professional as the rest.

D.O.Films Cambrils
El pla de Zip, Nuria Queralt, Elias Daura (Tarragona 2009. 8'20'')
La visión, Josep Manel Garcia (Vila-Seca 2009. 6'44'')
El cuento mas antiguo del mundo (anim), Jaume Rofes (Reus 2009. 11')
Carcassone, Egon Wiehoff (Cambrils 2008/2010. 8')
Homo Terra Altus, Toni Aguiló (Reus 2010. 15')
Sobre els sonets de Shakespeare (exp), Jesús Llungueras (Reus 2009. 25')

D.O.Films Reus
Trailer Epopeye, Martí Inglada, Joseba Cristià (Reus 2009. 2'30”)
Phobics, Rosa Maria Anguera, Santi Nogués (Reus 2009. 19')
Frente Gótico (animació), Jaume Rofes (Reus 2009. 7'20'')
Conviure amb l'enemic (doc), Dani Gutiérrez (Tortosa, 2008. 17')
Bigas Luna, la mirada entomòloga (doc), Sergi Rubió (Torredembarra 2009. 25')

09/02/09 | Drugmetratges (Shorts about drugs)

Drugmetratges session is in its fourth edition and has come of age. This is a session aimed at schoolchildren that includes a talk and a projection of short films.

Drugmetratges is a space designed for general dialogue and debate around the social phenomenon of the different uses of drugs and also about addictions. The aim is to encourage debate in a critical and participative way.

Experts from the Reus Municipal Drug Plan, in collaboration with the organisers of the Festival, will show a selection of short films with drugs as the subject matter to young people from different schools in the city and then debate the contents of these films from a neutral perspective.

The innovative nature of the short film format is often used to deal with less commercial questions or in which the author has more creative freedom. This is extremely useful for the professionals from the sphere of drug dependency who find in the language of film the opportunity to leave the more traditional settings of preventive intervention and enrich their experience on a mutual basis.

09/02/09 | Exhibition: Poster FEC

FEC A short film is a small piece of work that brings together the creativity of some people, often in an unselfish way, and sometimes with professional participation. You normally don't see it, but the video tape or 35 mm film that contains a film is usually accompanied by a graphic image that has the commercial function of the product. The poster (which also becomes the DVD cover or promotional image for the press) is the face of the short film and often explains the aesthetic intentions and contents of what can be seen in the film. For this reason, this year we have thought it appropriate to exhibit the posters of all the films selected to compete, in an initiative that we hope will continue in coming festivals. In the Cultural Centre of Cambrils one will be able to see all the posters for the state-wide films, while in the Santa Llúcia hall in Reus the posters for the European shorts will be on show.

09/02/09 | night festival

We try to make sure that the festival does not end when leaving the showings, so we continue the evenings with music, DJs and cinema ambience in the Black in Cambrils, and the Suau in Reus (3rd & 4th Dj Mimetik, 5th Dj Luís García & 6th Dj Pegatas-Apolo BCN). As from midnight.

09/02/09 | Microfilms

The Microfilms competition is now in its 7th edition, and bigger than ever. In the past edition, over 50 microfilms took part, and that means cameras, ideas, directors and many friends making a short film (in length), but above all, it means a great weekend of festival and cinema. The fact is, although being an official section, along with the state-wide and European competition, the microfilms are designed to be great fun, even though the result is often fully professional. This is the competition aimed at amateur filmmakers and film lovers in general, who make a short film of one minute based on a given subject and in no more than a weekend. The result is absolutely fresh short films of one minute free of any hang-ups.
This year the competition is increasing the amount of prize money: the first prize for the best microfilm is of 1,000 euros, and the second prize, of 500 euros.

09/02/09 | Nice to meet you

We organise a meeting in Cambrils with the directors taking part in the state-wide competition and another in Reus with the European directors, and invite anyone who wants to know close-up the experience of making a short film or who is just curious to meet the authors of the stories presented. This is now a classic section of the FEC Festival and makes the festival a much warmer event than just a simple projection of short films shown consecutively.
Those attending the course have the opportunity of talking with the filmmakers in person.

09/02/09 | Competition sessions

From all the short films registered in the festival, a committee will have made a choice, based on the premises of artistic quality and philosophy of the festival. All the state-wide short films selected compete for the FEC prizes in Cambrils. Afterwards, the winning state-wide short films go on to compete directly in the European section that takes place in Reus.
Clearly it is not the only choice or the best, but year after year the FEC has gradually created a style and identity through its selection, and has become a mark of quality for both the directors selected and for the festival itself.

09/02/09 | Trajectes (routes)

For the second time, the FEC Festival proposes a creative filmmaking workshop aimed at secondary school students. The workshop is undertaken during January and February and the resulting films are shown at the Festival. This was the missing piece of the FEC (which already had sections dedicated to the youngsters, Minicurts, and to university students M'agraden curts!. Thus we continue with the workshop, and we multiply it, since this year one is being done in Cambrils, with students from the Mar de la Frau secondary school, and one in Reus, with the Gabriel i Ferrater secondary school. We hope that from the workshop all the schools in the Baix Camp county will end up benefiting.

n the shooting, all the students take turns in the different filming tasks -directing, director's assistant, camera, script, sound recorder, etc.- and jointly prepare the editing.

The workshop, organised by the A Bao A Qu Association and which is led by the producer and film editor Meritxell Colell, provides a practical and reflexive approach to the cinema and its creative stages: idea, script, planning, filming and editing. Furthermore, the work involves the participants being able to develop creativity with the expressive means of the cinema and, at the same time, rediscover their own environment through this filmmaker's eye. When they are behind the camera and are looking to choose a location and a way of filming it, they are seeing the reality that surrounds them in a different way from the way they usually do.

This look, alert to reality and its small daily transformations, means that every corner and every thing can contain a host of stories.