FEC Cambrils - Reus - X Festival Europeu de Curtmetratges. Del 5 al 16 de mar�?§ de 2008.

15 minuten wahrheit

Shit I 2007. HDCam. 18’
Country: Germany
Direction: Nico Zingelmann
Screenplay: Nico Zingelmann
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cast: Herbert Knaup, Christoph Bach, Andrea Sihler

50 years old Georg Komann and his colleges surprisingly get laid-off by their company, without even getting a decent compensation. Knowing that noone will rehire over-fifty-years-olds, they need a good plan to avert their personal and financial ruin. Komann risks everything by asking his boss for a conversation that could change his life in any direction - a personal call of 15 minutes.

Bildfenster/Fensterbilder

Framing I 2007. 35mm. 6’
Country: Germany
Direction: Bert Gottschalk
Screenplay: Bert Gottschalk
Production: Bert Gottschalk

Single frames of 8 millimetre films are compared to the windows of house facades in a big city. Film cameras shoot 24 single frames per second: story-telling pictures. Looking at a single picture of a film is like looking through a window of a house facade. In both cases one can see only an extract of a happening...

China, China

China, China I 2007. 35mm. 20’
Country: Portugal
Direction: Joâo Pedro Rodrigues, Joâo Rui Guerra da Mata
Screenplay: Joâo Rui Guerra da Mata
Production: Blackmaria
Cast: Chen Jie, Chen Jia Liang, Luís Rafael Chen

China walks towards the Martim Moniz district, in Lisbon. When she passes the children scream: ''China, China!''. China is going to fly. To escape far away at dawn. She just wants to be happy. But China drinks her own poison. She drinks it all. Sometimes the air seems loaded with evil and the purgatory is a kindergarden.

Dog days

Dog days I 2007. 35mm. 16’
Country: France
Direction: Geoffroy de Crecy
Screenplay: Geoffroy de Crecy, Yann J.
Production: Dummy Productions

Grace, the newborn of an American upper-class family, is exchanged with Doug, the little baby dog of a « white trash » American family.

Hors-Jeu

Offside I 2007. 35mm. 8’
Country: Belgium
Direction: Maïa Martins
Screenplay: Maïa Martins
Production: PBC Pictures
Cast: Anaïs Petry, Gaël Maleux, Rita Bento dos reis, François de Saint Georges

Mathilde has a new lover, a sports journalist. Everythingwould be great if he did not systematically comment on their lovemaking like an olympic event....

Hundefutter

Dogmeat I 2007. Digibeta. 15’
Country: Germany
Direction: Till Kleinert
Screenplay: Till Kleinert
Production: HFF Konrad Wolf
Cast: Max Kurz, Daniel Fripan

A summer's mid-day in a suburban countryside. Chris and Raffi, 16-year-old boys, rebel against their boredom. Raffi incites Chris to break into the house of an old woman. Instead of stealing something valuable, seeing the sleeping lady Chris gets the bold idea to steal the denture right out of her mouth. A decision with unexpected consequences...

Il diavolo

The devil I 2006. 35mm. 17’
Country: Italy
Direction: Andrea Lodovichetti
Screenplay: Andrea Lodovichetti, Enrico Vannucci, Serena Cervoni
Production: Centro Sperimentale di cinem.
Cast: Angela Goodwin, Pietro Bontempo, Ida Eccher

An old peasant woman is at death's door. Her son refuses to give her assistance and decides to put her in the care of Donna Cesira, for a fixed payment. Donna Cesira believes she's struck a fine deal, but the days pass and the old woman won't die...

Koest

Doggie I 2007. Beta SP. 8’
Country: Netherlands
Direction: Simone van Dusseldorp
Screenplay: Mieke de Jong
Production: Lemming Films
Cast: Marcel Musters, Sem Kleijne Snuverink

When little Dédé tells something, nobody ever listens. At school he is the smallest and at home the baby twins make a lot of noise. His parents hardly have time for him.One day, Dédé finds a dog, who walks him home and becomes his friend. But Dédé's father discovers the dog and sends him to a dog pound.

La leçon de guitarre

The guitar lesson I 2006. 35mm. 17’
Country: France
Direction: Martin Rit
Screenplay: Martin Rit, Mariette Desert
Production: Sunday mornig Productions
Cast: SergeRiaboukine, Sébastien Morin, Pauline Morand, Luc Moullet

Michel, is around forty years old and is not doing much with his life. When he comes up an ad saying « young man gives guitar lessons for beginners », he decides to get started.

Même pas mort

Tomboy I 2007. 35mm. 15’
Country: France
Direction: Claudine Natkin
Screenplay: Claudine Natkin
Production: Kazak Productions
Cast: Chloé Jager Berger, Marty Simeon, Marjorie Piat, Renaud Gouyet

Chloe is ten years old. She plays soccer, spits, never cries and she can't stand other girls, the cry-babies. One day, Marie, a pretty and perky little blonde girl, takes part for the first time in the games Chloe plays with the boys. Her femininity unsettles Chloe's self-confidence and the balance of this little group of children…

Na soncni strani Alp

On the sunny side of the Alps I 2007. 35mm. 15’
Country: Slovenia
Direction: Janez Burger
Screenplay: Janez Burger
Production: Jozko Rutar
Cast: Ibrahim Nouhoum, Kany Michel Obenga, Samuel Camara, Dado Kebe Nouhoum

Two typical Slovenian families live in an Alpine idyll, until one of them buys a new car…

Ni oui ni nom

Bunny games I 2007. 35mm. 28’
Country: Belgium
Direction: Delphine Noels
Screenplay: Delphine Noels
Production: Versus Production
Cast: Fabrice Rodriguez, Anne Coesens, Margaux Climent, Pauline Denis, Corentin Loret

An ordinary Sunday morning. The parents, Paul and Estelle, would like to stay in bed. The children, Camille and Louise, grow impatient and argue. The family gets into the car for its Sunday outing. The situation becomes increasingly tense and the rabbit won't help things…

Plus ou moins

More or less I 2007. 35mm. 19’
Country: France
Direction: Gianguido Spinelli
Screenplay: Gianguido Spinelli
Production: Sensito Films
Cast: Serge Kribus, Erico Takeda, Jacques Boudet

In love till obsession with the femine voice of his watch made in Japon, a forty-year old man spends most of his time listening to 10 o'clock. Until the day when after having played too much, his toy breaks…

Prof Nieto Show (Ep 1)

Prof Nieto Show (Ep 1) I 2006. Beta SP. 4’
Country: France
Direction: Luis Nieto
Screenplay: Luis Nieto, Nicolas Schmerkin
Production: Autor de minuit
Cast: Prof Nieto, Patrick

”We will study today a small bug with a very specific behavior …”

Tanghi argentini

Tanghi argentini I 2006. 35mm. 13’
Country: Belgium
Direction: Guido Thys
Screenplay: Geert Verbanck
Production: Another dimension of an idea
Cast: Dirk van Dijck, Koen van Impe, Hilde Norga

Despite the faceless and cold atmosphere at his work place, an office clerk tries to make his colleagues happy. Instead of the classical cliché Christmas gifts, he wants to give his colleagues something real and precious.
Tanghi Argentini is a modern fairy tale.

Un bisou pour le monde

A kiss for the world I 2007. 35mm. 10’
Country: France
Direction: Cyril Paris
Screenplay: Frédéric Hazan, Cyril Paris
Production: U+ME
Cast: Chloé Lambert, Sami Aeda

A duel explodes between a teacher dans one of her pupils. Their only weapon are imagination against authority… Childhhod is stronger…

Valuri

Waves I 2007. 35mm. 16’
Country: Rumania
Direction: Adrian Sitaru
Screenplay: Adrian Sitaru
Production: ADDA-CNC
Cast: Sergiu Costache, Adrian Titieni, Karen Wallet, Clara Voda, Roberto Bors, Vlad Voda

At the seaside, on the beach, two people experience extreme situations. A beautiful Western mother asks a gypsy boy to look after her 4 year old baby; a husband and father fights ennui by flirting with the same beautiful foreigner while teaching her how to swim. But the story takes a different course when the beautiful mother disappears in the waves...

Voix de garage

Dead end I 2007. 35mm. 17’
Country: Belgium
Direction: Samuel Tilman
Screenplay: Samuel Tilman, Fabricio Rongione
Production: Eklektik Productions
Cast: Fabrizio Rongione, Labina Mitevska

Marco and Eva meet up in a garage courtyard to share the objects left over from their defunct relationship. But they have different takes on their separation and their expectations regarding this last encounter differ considerably…

Zudusi sniega

Lost in snow I 2007. 35mm. 8’
Country: Lituania / Sweden
Direction: Vladimir Leschiov
Screenplay: Vladimir Leschiov
Production: Inga Praulina

In winter some people go ice fishing. Excitement intensified by freezing temperatures and strong drinks lead to unpredictable consequences.

Selected films