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International Competition
Short Film
# 5 |
Wednesday, April 2th, 2008 / 6 pm
Cinéma Archipel
Paris |
The Island of Good Life |
A Ilha de Boa Vida |
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Tomaz Gomez
Portugal
2007 / 35 mm / 0:25:00 / Without dialog
In Bombay, the street is home to ist inhabitants. Those who remain stationed, those who despite besieged were able to run away, those who keep continually coming back. Sequences of pictures in time lapse, together with street sounds of the daily life and the most revealing aspect: the migration.
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Farewell packets of ten |
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Ken Wardrop
Irland
2007 / 35 mm / 0:03:00
Two heavy smoking ladies of an older age refecting about young smokers and returning to memories of their youth adventures.
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Headcharge |
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Almagul Menlibayeva
Kazakhstan
2007 / DV / 0:13:00 /
Without dialog
There is a belief in Central Asiat hat eating the internal organs of one’s totemic animal will increase a corresponding power within oneself. This belief is reflected in this movie, illustrated in the actions of a group of urbanite Kazakh girls who eat and feed one another the sheep’s head. The caused headache provkes transformations...
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Bennys Gym |
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Lisa Marie Gamlem
Norway
2007 / 35 mm / 0:25:00
Story about the difficult start of a friedship between the 11-year-old shy Alfred and the provoking and rude Benny, who hides his sensibility.
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731: Two Versions of Hell |
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James T. Hong
China, United States
2006 / DV / 0:27:00
The story of Unit 731, a Japanese laboratory in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese occupation. The structure and cutting however make it clear that every story has more than one side. A painstaking study of truth and political manipulation.
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The Fourth Fund |
El Cuarto del Fondo |
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Leticia Jorge et Ana Guevara
Uruguay
2007 / 35 mm / 0:10:13
A yound woman and her grand mother preparing carefully to go out: a meeelancholical reflexion of the state of being of the human (feeemale) body.
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March 31th - April 5th, 2008
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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