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International Competition
Short Film
# 3 |
Saturday October 12th / 2 pm
Résidence Lucien Paye
Cité Universitaire / Paris
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Sebastian Mez
Germany
2012 | 00:25:40
Driven by dolor, a man returns to Sao Paulo after living for years in the desolate countryside. The big city, a place he had left long ago and that he now hopes will help him forget his current pain and find something to make life worth living again. It is the effort of a man desperate to kill off an increasing sense of inner emptiness, and to render life fulfilling once again.
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Something will turn up |
Ça finira par s'arranger |
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Thanos Psichogios
Greece
2012 | 0:13:00
Based on the book that won the 2011 Greek State Award for Short Story, by writer Christos Economou, ‘Something will turn up’ is the story of Nicky, a woman living in modern-day Greece, who despite facing a financial impasse, struggles to remain hopeful and maintain her dignity. |
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Presque vu |
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Cecilia Araneda
Canada
2013 | 00:04:10
Lush hand-crafted film footage and HD images combine to reveal a mysterious past through remnants of a memory that is almost remembered, but which never fully develops. A girl speaks, but her words cannot be understood.
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Padpoles |
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Ivan Tan
Singapour
2013 | 00:12:00
As an unusually heavy monsoon threatens to flood the eastern part of Singapore, two families are forced to stay indoors and confront their fractured relationships. |
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Night Shift |
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Zia Mandviwalla
New Zeland
2012 | 00:15:00
Salote, an airport cleaner starts another long night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job and gleans her survival from what others leave behind. No one would usually spare her a second glance.
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Impulse |
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Reinhold Bidner, Georg Hobmeier
Austria
2013 | 00:03:40
A performative and audiovisual experimental film: currents of electricity and its production were analyzed and introduced into a human host via electrodes. The resulting impulses and physical motions were recorded in the powerplant Wien Simmering. The visual material was then edited and mixed with Max Bense's text "technical existence" (written in 1949), where the philosopher Bense adresses ethical question concerning mankinds uneasy relationship with machines and technology. |
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Spectography of a Battle Field |
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Fabio Scacchioli
Italy
2013 | 00:04:50
The fragile space between violence and desire, illusion and cinema, reality and dream.
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October 10th - 20th 2013
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.
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