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International Competition Short Film No. 10
Cinéma La Cléf -- 34, Rue Dauberton -- 75004 Paris / October 15th -- 10 pm |
Lebenswelt |
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Director: Elias Brossoise
Mexiko
2010 | Digital | 0:30:00
A Nahua woman and a group of local mixed blood people who feel threatened by her presence, Subcomandante Marcos invoking voices from the past, a Japanese archaeologist looking for traces of the Aztecs, a murdered girl's funeral procession, the garbage dump of Tlatel in Chimalhuacán as the backdrop. 'Lebenswelt' is an exploration of our lives permanently colonized by instrumental reason in a world that is dealt to us a priori, conformed by limits that cannot be transcended and where unjustifiable powers get legitimized. |
My Father (Por) |
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Director: Towira Pimpaka
Thailand
2010 | Digital | 0:22:00
In a rural Thai village, a small family’s Father is forced to quit his job as a train station janitor because of his protest letter to the authority. As the family is struggling to make ends meet, he refuses to keep his mouth shut in order to just get on with their daily lives. Instead, he decides to head off to Bangkok in search of justice and joins the mass rally. After the 19 May 2010 incident in the capital, father returns to his quiet hometown not only as a loser, but also with a deep wound in his heart from his failures. |
Drexciya |
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Director: Akosua Adoma Owusu
Ghana, USA
2010 | Digital | 0:12:00
Based on a myth about an undersea continent as told in the music by detroit band Drexciya. The primarily visual images are related to an experimental film tradition of observation. The result is an intense look at the pierce of Africa with a visible colonial past. |
Deafness (Glukhota) |
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Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskij
Ukraine
2010 | Digital | 0:10:00
A ten-minute episode in the lives of the pupils at a deaf-mute boarding school is reconstructed in real time. |
Betisoare rock n'roll |
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Director: Cristian Pascariu
Romania
2010 | Digital | 0:14:00
A deaf woman tries to reconnect with her rock star son after abandoning him 35 years ago, while she goes to his rock concert she has to face her fears and a world who doesn't understand her. |
Liberdade |
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Director: Gabriel Abrantes, Benjamin Crotty
Portugal
2011 | Digital | 0:17:00
Set in the area surrounding the Angolan capital of Luanda, 'Liberdade' follows a young couple, Betty a seductive but domineering Chinese immigrant and Liberdade, a troubled young Angolan. When Betty tries to take the relationship to the next level Liberdade must go beyond his physical and psychological limits. |
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October 13th to 16th 2011
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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