Awards of the International Competition 2009
Smáfuglar (Two Birds) |
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Rúnar Rúnarsson
Islande
2008 * 35 mm * 0:15:00
Two birds follow a group of young teenagers in a brillant summer night during a day that shifts from innocence to the tough reality of the adults' world. |
THE NIGHT AWARD
The "Night Award" is given to films that celebrate narrative ambivalence and evoke a certain enigma or mystery, films that ask questions rather than give answers.
Muro (The Wall) |
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Tião
Brésil
2008 * 35 mm * 0:18:00
Soul in the vacuum, desert in expansion. |
THE SIGNS AWARD
The "Signs Award" is given to films that treat an important subject in a compelling and surprising manner.
Weile Wangque de Jinian(Unforgettable Memory) |
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Liu Wei
China
2009 * DV * 0:13:00
A painful retourn on the recent events of the Chinese history: a photo evokes disturbing memories regarding the attempt to establish a democracy. |
Macabre Dance |
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Pedro Pires
Canada, Québec
2008 * 35 mm *0:08:00
Sometimes, when we think ourself perfectly inert, our
corpse becomes animated, express itself and dances a final macabre balley. The many spasms that shake our bodies are they only
erratic movements or do they echo the swirl and tumult of our past lives? |
Café Paraíso (Paradise Coffee) |
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Alonso Ruizpalacios
Mexique
2008 * 35 mm * 0:10:00
Two Mexican immigrants are cooks at "Coffee Paradise". While preparing dishes, the youngest of the two also prepares his heroic resignation with which he hopes to recover his youth, his dignity and even the love of a waitress ..
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The Journey |
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Ashish Shukla
India
2008 * DV * 04:26
A man escorts his dead son, on a last journey down along the river Ganges.
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Majken |
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Andrea Östlund
Suède
2008 * 35 mm * 0:28:00
Dolly is fed up with manners of the store Konsum: they pack vegetables in some plastic and have the insolence to claim themselves "Green". sheTherefore, she picks up her telephone and, in the other end of the line, there is Majken. |
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