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Competition International Short Films
# 2 |
Thursday 5 October 2017 / 10 pm
Maison du Mexique
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris |
Imprisoned |
Vezeni |
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Damian Vondrasek
Czech Republic
2016 | 0:27:00
An offer of a job as a prison educator could help unemployed teacher
Jakub resolve a difficult family situation. His father-in-law
exacerbates his already low self-confidence, and the man most
certainly imagined a different kind of son-in-law. The claustrophobic
feelings Jakub experiences at the prison, however, lead him to a
single question: Does he want to control others the rest of his life
or be controlled by them?
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Dirty Clothes |
Haine negre |
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Octav Chelaru
Romania
2017 | 0:21:00
An orthodox priest preaches about the sin of hypocrisy, only to find
out that he’s not far away of committing it himself while trying to
protect his son.
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Cloud Kumo |
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Yvonne Ng
Japon, USA
2016 | 0:14:49
"Cloud Kumo" is an experimental film that recounts the devastation of Hiroshima
atomic bombing when Satoko Ishii, a real atomic bomb survivor revisit
the darkest days of her life. Rejko, her granddaughter who suffers
from the genetic radiation poisoning draws strength from Satoko to
choreograph dance performance based on her life story. Together they
face the future with hope and perseverance.
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Belle Ville |
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Jung Won-hee
South Corea
2016 | 0:26:00
Sun-haw is a Chinese-Korean woman who works illegally in a Korean
hostel in Paris. She expects her twin sister, who has just get a
tourist visa to come in France. Sun-haw has planned everything: with
her sister’s passport, she will finally be able to exchange her place
and meet again her sick son she’s let in China. But the departure day,
nothing goes as planned.
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5 - 15 october 2017
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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