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International Competition
Short Films
No. 8 |
Wednesday December 10th, 2014 / 9 pm
Cité Universitaire de Paris
Collège d'Espagne |
Noah
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Patrick Cederberg and Walter Woodman
Canada
2013 | 0:17:00
NOAH captures the romantic perils of being a teenager online.
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Vegas |
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Lukasz Konopa
Great Britain
2013 | 0:25:00
In the middle of the Mojave Desert, a city of neon shimmers like a mirage. But the closer you get, the more you see through the false image. The glitz, glamour and gambling are all just smoke and mirrors. At the peak of the economic crisis, three Las Vegas residents find their luck has run dry and struggle just to get by.
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Inflammable |
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Samuel Plante
Canada
2013 | 0:14:00
Richard is caught in a world crumbling under the weight of growing anger and violence. In desperation, he quits his job and leaves his family, trying to escape the growing danger, only to find himself in a face-to-face collision with his own anger. |
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Voiceless |
Sin Repuesta |
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Miguel Parra
Espagne
2013 | 0:11:00
Pressure is everything that Lola feels in her everyday life, but somehow she is able to accomplish her work without much thinking: she is a call center operator who works for a financial entity and from her tiny workspace her task is to call debtors to remind them that when it comes to money, there is no place to hide. The telephone allows her to set some distance, but one day everything goes out of control, leaving her completely speechless. |
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My father's Truck |
Xe tai cua bo |
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Mauricio Osaki
Brasil, Vietnam
2013 | 0:16:00
A coming-of-age road film about 10-year-old Mai Vy, as she skips school one day to help her father with his truck-for-hire. In the countryside of Northern Vietnam, Mai Vy is soon confronted with some harsh realities as she learns how things really are, outside the classroom.
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mYth |
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Spiros Alidakis
Greece
2013 | 0:19:00
A synthesis of Myths (mostly greeks) about creation and fall, journey, initiation, breaking the circle of life and rebirth. |
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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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