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International Competition
Short Film
# 8 |
Friday June 15th 2007 / 6 pm
Goethe Institut
Paris |
Closer Apart |
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Victric Thng
Singapore
2005 /
Beta SP /
0:13:30 /
VOSTA
A roomful of strife. A bagful of doubts and dispute. A pair of young lovers found themselves in a strangled relationship, only to realise that sometimes to be apart is for the need to feel close .
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Sniffer |
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Bobbie Peers
Norway
2006 /
35 mm /
0:09:00 /
sans dialogue
Devoid of sunlight and the open sky, the members of society go about their routine without any hope of personal gratfication. One day, however, a man decides he das had enought...
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The Liberation |
Die Freisetzung |
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Ludwig Löckinger
Austria
2007 /
35 mm /
0:11:00 /
VOSTA
Robert Zeller has been working on the assembly line at the doll-factory for 18 years. His reaction to the lay-off ends his life known so far and destoys all perspectives on a new one.
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The Eye of Innocence |
LŽoeil de lŽinnocence |
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Tapsoba B. Joseph
Burkina Faso
2006 /
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0:07:00 /
VOF
Essakane is a village in the north of Burkina Faso, where thousands of men, women and children are looking for a better way of life. The children, like everywhere in the world, are just playing their games.
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A Tree in Tanjung Malim |
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Tan Chui Mui
Malaysia
2004 /
DV /
0:24:30< /
VOSTA
Scenes of the life of some adolescent in Malaysia, marked by insecurity, boredom, confusion ant tentations of approach.
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Torsia |
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Jaksa Boric
Croatia
2006 /
35 mm /
0:16:30 /
VOSTA
A man is received into a clinic with no documents. He is in a coma and is about to be operated. But the alleged Surgery has a bizarre purpose-to take out his spine and replace it with a smooth steel implant!
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Hope |
Umut |
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Mehmet Behadir Er
Turkey
2006 /
35 mm /
0:14:00 /
VASTA
An unguilty prisoner waits for his judge, beliving in his rights. He signs a paper of release...
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Head Shot |
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Dennis Heaton
Canada
2005 /
16 mm /
0:15:00 /
VO
What Todd thinks is an audition is actually a snuff film. And then he finds out they´re not going to give him the part...
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June 11th - 16th, 2007
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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