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International Competition
Short Film
# 10 |
Friday 18th October / 9 pm
Résidence Lucien Paye
Cité Universitaire / Paris
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Karuzela |
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Marcin Kaminski
Poland
2012 | 00:16:00
The ninth contingent of the Polish Military force in Afghanistan arrived in 2012. A Polish sapperis killed during routine patrol and the news quickly spread to the Polish base. How will the soldiers react to the terrible news? Will it be possible to hold back the rising tide of violence? A penetrating observation of war’s reality and the day-to-day lives of all the actors on that stage, including all hapless innocents.
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Anca, About Guild |
Anca, despre vina |
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Ioana Turkan
Roumania
2012 | 0:17:30
In 1990, Anca of only 4 years old is left by her mother to take care of her little brother: who has a fever. Desperate, she decides to do something in order to make his temperature calm down. 11 years later Anca, a young married woman, can't remember completely what happened on that day and she wants to know where her mother was.
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Phone Call from Cairo |
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Yiotis Vrantzas
Greece, Egypt
2012 | 0:05:00
"Phone Call from Cairo" is made by material shot in Cairo one year before the Tahrir rebellion using a small photo camera. Although the situation in Egypt did not seem to be good, my friend used to believe that the Egyptian people was far from revolting. After two years I had to make this phone call to my friend and face the challenge to compose my pictures from Cairo. |
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Living Still Life
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La Résurrection des natures mortes |
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Bertrand Mandico
France
2012 | 00:15:30
In a world in decay, a woman collects her dead animals and restores them to life by filming them images by image.
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Trapped Water |
Phansa Paani |
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Nishant Sharma
India
2013 | 00:12:30
Phansa Paani is a story of man's struggle with his thoughts & ideas. Protagonist, a successful person, subjects himself a confinement inside a public toilet to introspect & question the way society influences in shaping what he is. Director uses poetry, metaphors to explore virtual & real spaces. |
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Aposiopesis |
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Jagoda Szelc
Poland
2012 | 00:06:13
Aposiopesis is a musical term denoting a long pause. It is used to express the state of separation and death. In aesthetically pleasing, bright, but cold interior of a huge house the character noiselessly performs the same rituals every day. In the context of losing a close person they acquire an ultimate dimension. |
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Dali |
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Daniel Villela
Brazil
2012 | 00:05:00
Dali is a character on the fringes of society who walks between two distinct realities. Her gaze underscores the incoherence of the current world. In what direction are we going? As we turn mountains into citys, Dali transforms stones into balloons. An announcement of lightness to the human condition. |
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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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