15 July. 2011. 35mm. 12’
Country: Romania
Direction: Cristi Iftime
Screenplay: Anca Buja, Cristi Iftime
Production: UNATC
Cast: Lucian Iftime, Coca Bloos, Adrian Titieni, Lorena Zabrautanu
Bianca takes Florin to her hometown for a relaxing week-end.
Her father doesn’t answer the phone, so she pushes Florin into paying a visit he’s not in the mood for.
Bad Gones. 2011. Super 16. 13’
Country: France
Direction: Stéphane Demoustier
Screenplay: Stéphane Demoustier
Production: Année Zéro
Cast: Cyril Troley, Matteo Liortet
A father takes his son to Gerland Stadium to see an Olympique Lyonnais football match. But the tickets are too expensive for him. He can't afford the tickets. How will he get out of this humiliating situation?
Nice travel. 2011. 35mm. Beta SP, Digital Betacam 16’
Country: Switzerland
Direction: Gerd Gockel
Screenplay: Gerd Gockel
Production: Hochschule Luzern
Cast: animation
Dozens of people climb an old truck for the wild journey trough the desert and the ocean. Not everybody achieves Europe, where an ambiguous end is waiting.
Cinderela. 2011. 16mm. 11’
Country: Brazil
Direction: Magali Magistry
Screenplay: Magali Magistry
Production: Caiman Produtions
Cast: Clara Choveaux
A heartbroken Rio de Janeiro bartender, Luiza, has to suffer the cruelty of watching her former lover and his fiancée celebrate their engagement.
As the caïpirinha flows and the carioca funk blares, Luiza is pushed closer to the edge. Just how far she’ll go to spend one more night with the man she loves?
Cross-country. 2011. Digital Betacam, Beta SP, 35mm. 15’
Country: France
Direction: Maryna Vroda
Screenplay: Maryna Vroda
Production: Les 3 lignes
Cast: Egor Agarkov
First a boy is forced to run. Then he runs on his own. Then he watches another one run.
Beast. 2011. HDCam. 20’
Country: Hungary
Direction: Attila Till
Screenplay: Attila Till
Production: Laokoon Film
Cast: Szabolcs Thuróczy, Móni Balsai
István Balogh Hungarian farmer has total control over his wife, family and slave. The characters meet their tragic fate through their extreme relationships.
This film has been inspired by memories of people who have survived such situations.
In search of a donkey. 2011. 35mm. 15’
Country: Switzerland
Direction: Maria Nicollier
Screenplay: Maria Nicollier
Production: Rec Production
Cast: Shoichiro Akaboshi, Shohei Sekimoto, Yuki Okamoto
3 japanese hunters want to eat Igor, a little donkey. But slaughtering and devouring Igor proves much more difficult than they expected.
The last guest. 2011. HDV. 15’
Country: Austria
Direction: Markus Engel
Screenplay: Michaela Schwarz
Production: Sandra Schuppach
Cast: Simon Schwarz, Werner Brix
Late at night in a Viennese bar: Peter, the bar man, is having a final drink with his last customer Andi. But what starts as a mundane conversation among friends quickly turns into a situation of life and death.
The strange ones. 2011. HDCam. 15’
Country: France-USA
DireDirectionción: Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliff
Screenplay: Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliff
Production: AD Astra Films
Cast: David Call, Tobias Campbell, Merritt Wever
A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is quite what it seems to.
The white mosquito. 2011. Beta SP, Digital Betacam, HDCam, 35mm. 15’
Country: Germany
Direction: Marco Gadge
Screenplay: René Jacob, Marco Gadge
Production: Martin Lobst
Cast: Carsten Strauch, Thomas Koch
In a quiet provincial town, two policemen named Schraube and Wattner are leading a contemplative life. This changes immediately, as mayor Billing has an ominous idea.
Repressed. 2010. HDCam. 14’
Country: Suecia
Direction: Jimmy Olsson
Screenplay: Jimmy Olsson
Production: Andreas Emanuelsson
Cast: Dan Andersson, Cameron Silverek, Suzanna Dilber, Mari Götesdotter
Kristoffer is on the night bus with some friends on their way home after a party. They are talking about a certain memory. All of a sudden two youngsters boards the bus, a boy and a girl and they are really drunk. Kristoffer sees them and something he had repressed comes back to him.
A summit Gig. 2011. DSLR Camera. 5’
Country: Switzerland
Direction: Lukas Egger, Bernhard Bamert
Screenplay: Lukas Egger, Bernhard Bamert
Production: Viragefilm
Cast: animation
After the abrupt cancellation of their concert, 3 musicians go on a spur-of-the moment mountain tour. A summit concert, you might say, on the back of a giant cow, and a helterskelter tour through Swiss folklore stereotypes which ultimately brings them a degree of satisfaction.
Girder. 2011. DSLR Camera. 20’
Country: England-USA
Direction: Thomas Leveritt
Screenplay: Thomas Leveritt
Production: No Step
Cast: Moti Margolin, Nick Vergara, Brenna Palughi
A short film based on Charles Ebbetts 1932 photograph of 11 ironworkers having lunch on an I-beam high above Manhattan.
At the end of lunch, the man on the end of the girder refuses to move, because he's found out that one of the men there (he doesn't know who) has been fooling around with his old lady.
Grey foxes. 2010. 35mm. 22’
Country: Germany
Direction: Robert Kellner
Screenplay: Samuel Schultschik
Production: Hamburg Media School
Cast: Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Michael Hanemann, Thomas Heinze, Johanna Mertinz, Ingrid Stein
When faced with the world financial crisis a quartet of pensioners adopt other measures to gain their lost money. Based on a true story.
Winter frog. 2011. 35mm. 17’
Country: France
Direction: Slony Sow
Screenplay: Slony Sow
Production: Nompareille Production
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Eriko Takeda, Sabine Leonel
Benjamin,winemaker, sees his wife die in his arms following a long illness. Only one way for him: death. But a young Japanese woman, coming specially to taste his wine, will gently bring him to mourn the death of his wife by a series of symbols and exchanges between two cultures.
My bow breathing. 2011. Beta SP, Betacam Digital, 35mm. 11’
Country: Italy
Direction: Enrico Maria Artale
Screenplay: Enrico Maria Artale
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Cast: Giulia Bertinelli, Roberto Antonelli, Michele Botrugno, Gianluca Vicari
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.
It is miracul'House. 2011. HDCam. 18’
Country: France
Direction: Stéphane Freiss
Screenplay: Stéphane Freiss
Production: V2LAM Productions
Cast: Stéphane Freiss, Laurent Gerra, Christophe Bouisse, Nicole Gueden, Françoise Lepine
Lying on her hospital bed, Alice asks to be examined by Doctor House. Her son, Christophe, is desperate to cure her from a disease that confines her to bed. Searching a way to fulfill her wish, Christophe thinks of Stephane Freiss as a likely double of Hugh Laurie, and Laurent Gerra to imitate the french voice of House.
Together they'll come up with the oddest scenario... but of course nothing will happen as planned....
Kavinsky. 2011. DSLR Camera. 13’
Country: Switzerland
Direction: Daniel Schraner
Screnplay: Manuel Haefele, Bertrand Fan, Daniel Schraner
Production: EMH Films
Cast: Erhard Hartmann, Christoph Wilke
Sven, a young man, wants to take his new russian girlfriend out to dinner. He picks her up at her
parents’ house, where he has to face up to her father. Mr. Kavinsky is sceptical of Sven.
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My sweetheart. 2011. Beta SP, HDCam. 22’
Country: France
Direction: Daniel Metge
Screenplay: Daniel Metge
Production: Les Films du Cygne
Cast: Salomé Stévenin, Miss Ming, Grégory Givernaud
''Romain is my sweetheart. We kiss with tongue. We gonna get married and have kids. We even gonna have sex. But that is forbidden at the center. So, on Saturday, my little sister is gonna take us by car for a week-end in the countryside''.
Hell. 2011. HDV. 20’
Country: Portugal
Direction: Carlos Conceiçao
Screenplay: Carlos Conceiçao
Production: Blackmaria
Cast: Ricardo Sá, Gonçalo Waddington, Maria Leite, Maria Albergaria, Martim Barbeiro
In a modern house, a young man has the job of keeping the swimming pool clean. He will eventually be involved in compromising.
Orpheu's Pony. 2011. HDV. 4’
Country: Germany
Direction: Michael Fragstein
Screenplay: Michael Fragstein
Production: Büro Achter April
Cast: animation
Orpheus´ metamorphotic walk through the lost and found land.
Followed strange thoughs and memories.
Followed my hand.
Oshima. 2011. 35mm. 30’
Country: Germany
Direction: Lars Henning
Screenplay: Lars Henning
Production: Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Cast: Devid Striesow, Yuki Iwamoto, Nina Fog
An exhausted Japanese business traveller finds himself stranded at a German airport. It appears that a German businessman and his translator are expecting Mr. Oshima, and he spontaneously decides to let them take him to the unknown city. During his surreal night-time odyssey he gradually loses his grip on reality, until he finally disappears, leaving no trace except for this story.
Paris Shangai. 2011. Super 16. 25’
Country: France
Dirección: Thomas Calley
Screenplay: Claude Le Pape, Thomas Calley
Production: Little Cinema
Cast: Franc Bruneau, Constantin Langevin
While starting a 20.000 km bike trip, Manu comes across Victor, a teenager at the wheel of a stolen car.
Manu likes travelling, wide-open spaces and meeting people. Victor doesn’t.
Practice makes perfect. 2011. HDCam. 10’
Country: France-Canada
Direction: Benjamin Schuetze
Screenplay: Benjamin Schuetze
Production: Eaux Vives Produccions
Cast: Piet Suess, Matt Ellis, Jeremy Shuetze, Benjamin Schuetze, Christopher Lovick
Five men live together in a one room apartment in identical business suits. They are a well oiled machine perfectly synchronized in their morning routine. All of this in preparation for their work; sitting around a typewriter creating an account of an afternoon in Paris with the woman of their dreams. But they are a long way from Paris.
Salvatore. 2011. DSLR Camera. 14’
Country: Italy
Direction: Fabrizio Urso, Bruno Urso
Screenplay: Fabrizio Urso, Bruno Urso, Giuseppe Consales, Ture Magro
Production: C4 Productions
Cast: Adele Tirante, Ture Magro
In the heart of Sicily, Alfio and Maria dream of escaping their blue collar circumstances. They struggle to survive in a society tainted by unemployment and job insecurity. Here, the right to start a family is a privilege that a worker can’t access without running the risk of losing his job.
Secret of confession. 2011. DSLR Camera. 10’
Country: Scottland
Direction: Agata Jagodzinska
Screenplay: Agata Jagodzinska
Production: Queen Margaret University
Cast: Stanislawa Jagodzinska, Natalia Jaroszewska, Piotr Lukowski, Michal Rybacki
An old woman outraged by teenage promiscuity decides to act like God.
The Voorman problem. 2009. DSLR Camera. VOengl. 12’
Country: England
Direction: Mark Gill
Screenplay: Baldwin Li, Mark Gill
Production: Honlodge Productions
Cast: Martin Freeman, Tom Hollander, Simon Grfiffiths, Elisabeth Gray
Doctor Williams is called in to examine the enigmatic Mr Voorman, a prisoner with a peculiar affliction: he believes he is a God.
