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International Competition
Short Films
No. 6 |
Wednesday December 10th, 2014 / 3 pm
Cité Universitaire de Paris
Collège d'Espagne |
The Fish and I |
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Babak Habibifar
Iran
2014 | 0:06:00
A blind man find an unusual way to save his fish.
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Summer of Love |
Lato milosci |
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Marcin Filipowicz
Polen
2014 | 0:23:00
Closed in one time and place, this story is about decisions which, once made, become irreversible. A boy rents a wooden cabin in the mountains for his beautiful girlfriend and it becomes a place of her ‚summer of love’.
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A Day in Eden |
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Assai Ghawami
USA
2013 | 0:11:00
Yuri, a permanent resident at Eden Nursing Home is rebelling against the humiliating treatment by the nurses. His last bit of dignity seems lost, when he meets Fereshde, a Muslim volunteer, who finds him in an embarrassing situation. Fereshde, herself is rebelling against the conservative constraints put on her by her family. She wants to do the right humane thing, what Yuri needs however, conflicts with her duties as a Muslim.
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Anamnesis |
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Ben Goodger
Great Britain
2013 | 0:24:50
Following the death of his girlfriend Sophie, Luke, a young scientist, is working on Anamnesis, a project funded by a powerful corporation developing memory retrieval technology. Harnessing the sublime properties of a recently discovered substance, he secretly uses this technology to repeatedly revisit the day she died. Wracked by guilt and regret his obsession drives him towards self- destruction until one day a startling epiphany presents the possibility of a new beginning.
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Documentary Underground Romance Psyche |
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Nikita Bulgakov
Russia, Ukrania, USA
2013 | 0:12:15
This story looks like a myth. They are from different worlds: he is from USA, she is from Russia, he is young, she is older than him by 10 years. Traveling in a foreign for both of them country they meet each other. Everyone experiences this love in their own way, which we learn from their diaries...
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Thin Arms |
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Sandeep Ray
India
2014 | 0:09:20
A woman in her eighties undergoes debilitating medical treatment. This short, intimate film lingers on her isolation, hospital visits, growing fatigue and an obsession with the mango tree outside her window.
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December 8th-11th, 2014
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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