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Annie de Francia

Annie from France. 2009. 35mm. 30’6’
Country: France
Direction: Christophe Le Masne
Screenplay: Christophe Le Masne, Nanou Garcia
Production: Glaski Productions
Cast: Nanou Garcia, Fanny Lefebre, Anita Le Masne

Annie de Francia is a roadtrip: two sisters and their mother drive through Spain to go to the wedding of some cousin they’ve never met. For Annie, the mother (the daughter of a Spanish political refugee who had gone into exile in France) that trip is a way to renew with a family she has never known and to show to her daughters, their true roots…

Arena

Arena. 2009. 35mm. 16’
Country: Portugal
Direction: Joâo Salaviza
Screenplay: Joâo Salaviza
Production: Filmes do Tejo
Cast: Carloto Cotta, Rodrigo Madeira

Mauro is under house arrest. Tattooing helps him while away the time. Three local kids taunt him through his window. Outside, the midday sun beats down.

Bingo

Bingo. 2008. Betacam digital. 28’
Country: Netherlands
Direction: Timur Ismailov
Screenplay: Timur Ismailov
Production: NFTA (Netherlands Film & TV Academy)
Cast: Sergiu Voloc, Dimitri Bilov, Mark Zak, Yasar Ustuner

Bingo is a young gypsy from Moldova who came to the Netherlands in search of better fate. In order to survive as an illegal immigrant he works for a demolition company together with Sergei, a former boxer from Russia, and Umar, a biology teacher from Grozny, Chechnya. The three men are hired by Sait, a shady Turkish labour subcontractor.

Circo de Columbo

Circo de Columbo. 2008. 35mm. 3’40''
Country: Denmark
Direction: Jesper Vidkaer Rasmussen
Screenplay: Jesper Vidkaer Rasmussen, Mads Koudal
Production: Aarhus Filmworkshop
Cast: Mads Koudal, Thorbjorn Carl Hjalage

Circo de Columbo is a story about two small-time circus clowns working below-their-talent birthday acts. They feel that their career has come to a dead end. Or at least one of them does... and he wants out...

Das paket

The package. 2009. 35mm. 9'
Country: Germany
Direction: Marco Gadge
Screenplay: René Jacob
Production: Magentafilm
Cast: Michael Schrodt, Thomas Dehler, Thang Ngo Le Buc

The two harderned gangsters Klaus and Bernd have to supply again. One package. It has get in time in this kind of business and the date should be always are kept. But this is not always.... And so Bernd and Klaus realize that a small traffic light becomes a big problem.

Diagnoz

Diagnosis. 2009. 35mm. 14’40''
Country: Ucraine
Direction: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Screenplay: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Production: Myrek Films
Cast: Maksym Kushov, Olersandr Semyshkur, Volodymyr Gubernachuk

When drug courier Petia and his pregnant girlfriend got into a militia raid, he did not suspect that his conflict with the law was not the least serious problem of his life.

Ich bin's Helmut

It's me. Helmut. 2009. Betacam digital. 11'40''
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Direction: Nicolas Steiner
Screenplay: Nicolas Steiner
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cast: Matthias Zelic

Helmut is celebrating his 60th birthday. He's actually only turning 57, but his wife Gertrud has got her maths wrong. While the facade of petit-bourgeois domesticity is gradually flaking, old friends come by and offer some well-meaning advice – a bizarre declaration of love to transience.

Jade

Jade. 2009. 35mm. 15'
Country: Great Britain
Direction: Daniel Elliott
Screenplay: Daniel Elliott
Production: Third Films
Cast: Aisling Loftus, Michael Socha, Jonny Phillips

Jade, caught in a dilemma of her own making, struggles to choose the right path. It becomes apparent to her, though, that she may have no choice at all.

Jóel

Joel. 2009. Betacam digital. 14'
Country: Iceland
Direction: Hlynur Pálmason
Screenplay: Hlynur Pálmason
Production: Hlynur Pálmason
Cast: Saevar Knutur Hannesson

Young Joel doesn’t quite fit in anywhere so he desperately tries to make friends with a local motorcross gang. On a bright summer night Joel gets the chance to get accepted into the gang, but without knowing what kind of sinister process lies ahead.

Le gouter

The afternoon snack. 2008. Beta SP. 15'45
Country: France
Direction: Bruno Vaussenat
Screenplay: Bruno Vaussenat
Production: Piment bleu
Cast: Maurice Chevit, Marc Chapiteau, Morgan Rouchy, Olivia Brunaux, Luc Gentil

A 9-year-old boy is sent home because he fought with another boy at school. His father asks his grandfather to look after him. The latter then prepares him a great snack and decides to teach him how to defend himself. But he is also about to give away a family secret that had been hidden for years.

Mei Ling

Mei Ling. 2009. 35mm. 15’
Country: France
Direction: Stephanie Lansaque, François Leroy
Screenplay: Stephanie Lansaque, François Leroy
Production: Je suis bien content
Cast: Animation

Marco, a 10-year old boy who has a passion for insects, is convinced that his neighbour has killed his wife and has buried her under his garden, the evidence being a large ant-nest he has been carefully examining for a while.

Rosenhill

Rosenhill. 2008. Betacam Digital. 29’30”
Country: Sweden
Direction: Johan Lundborg, Johan Storm
Screenplay: Johan Lundborg, Johan Storm
Production: Migmafilm
Cast: Margreth Weivers, Bertil Norström, Carina M. Johansson

Rosemarie moves into Rosenhill, a residential home for the elderly. She is very uncomfortable in her new surroundings and finds the other residents unpleasantly confused or unsociable. However, it is not until she one night accidentally discovers what the staff are up to that the nightmare truly begins.

September

September. 2008. Betacam SP. 20’
Country: Gran Bretaña
Direction: Esther May Campbell
Screenplay: Esther May Campbell
Production: Met Film Productions
Cast: Nick Aaron

In an in-between world of flyovers, grass verges and dead-ends, where the motorway hum serves as a constant reminder of the speed of other lives, Marvin is not going anywhere. Into this corner of English countryside and motorway services arrives an extraordinary adolescent, changing his world forever..

Tarantyno

Tarantyno. 2009. Betacam SP. 17’15”
Country: Romania
Direction: Mircea Nestor
Screenplay: Mircea Nestor
Production: Mircea Nestor
Cast: Bogdan Cotle, Antonia Ionescu, Constantin Di

In-between an irritating big brother, an ever-absent father and an attractive girl who fails to fall for his charm, Tarantyno decides to take what he wants. A brutally comic story about a ''brutally'' lacking young man.

Three in a boat

Three in a boat. 2009. Betacam digital. 6’
Country: Romania
Direction: Razvan Muraru
Screenplay: Razvan Muraru
Production: Rey Muraru
Cast: Nora Covali, Cezar Antal, Bogdan Mihaila

When a man takes a woman out, in a small boat, on a lake, in winter, you can be sure he has a plan. What was she thinking?

TV

TV. 2008. Betacam digital. 12’30”
Country: Italy
Direction: Andrea Zaccariello
Screenplay: Paolo Rossi, Andrea Zaccariello
Production: Gianluca Mainqua
Cast: CMichela Cescon, Antonio Cantalupo, Michela Scrocca, Antonella Longo

A man with debts upwards of *200,000 euro. A woman working for a debt collecting agency, washed out, lonely...The encounter. He with his hard luck story, telling it on the chance of obtaining a reprieve, a postponement. A film about a show, a film about TV itself and it's viewers. Installments, debts, love and death....it's all there !

Uerra

War. 2009. 35mm. 16’
Country: Italy
Direction: Paolo Sassanelli
Screenplay: Antonella Gaeta, Paolo Sassanelli
Production: Mood Film SRL
Cast: Dino Abbrescia, Totò Onnis

Italy summer of 1946. Paolo hopes to receive his pension from the trade unions. Luigi reminds him of his Fascist past. Their discussion becomes heated when Paolo loses at cards again. His little boy Antonio faces father’s humiliation in silence.

Selected films