EFA - Short Matters! (European Award Winners)

Under the heading Short Matters!, 15 EFA winners from European festivals are presented, all nominated for the European Film Awards 2013. The European Film Academy (EFA) is the organizer of this short film tour, with the intention of giving as many audiences as possible the opportunity to enjoy this panorama of young, contemporary European filmmaking. It was ultimately the Belgian/French DEATH OF A SHADOW (Dood van Een Schaduw) by Tom Van Avermaet which drew the longest straw and was awarded the EFA short film Grand Prix. The films are presented in three parts on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Contact: European Film Academy e.V. - Bettina Schwarz, e: bschwarz@europeanfilmacademy.org,
t: +49 308871670

->Part 1 / ->Part 2 / ->Part 3

Categories: Ani = Animation, Doc = Documentary, Exp = Experimental, Fic = Fiction, Mus = Music



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Del 1
Onsdag/Wednesday 10:00

DEU 2012 | Ani. | 14 min
Director: Jochen Kuhn

SUNDAY 3 (Sonntag 3)

Stevnemøte med forbundskansleren.

A blind date with the Chancellor.

Script: Jochen Kuhn | Camera: Jochen Kuhn | Music: Jochen Kuhn | Editing: Olaf Meltzer

Production: Jochen Kuhn, t: +49 16099166043, e: jochen.kuhn@gmx.com

BGR 2012 | Fic. | 30 min
Director: Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva

JUMP (Skok)

Den deprimerte gammelungkaren Gosho skal passe på den luksuriøse leiligheten til den rike fetteren Joro mens han er utenlands. For Gosho er dette en mulighet til litt ro og fred i luksus og rikdom.

Depressed old bachelor Gosho receives an offer from his rich cousin Joro to take care of Joro's luxurious penthouse while he is abroad. For Gosho this is a chance to have some peace and quiet in luxury and richness.

Script: Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva | Camera: Mikhail Boevski | Music: Hristo Namliev | Editing: Toma Waszarov

Production: Petar Valchanov, t: +359 885733928, e: petarfilm@abv.bg

ESP 2013 | Fic. | 12 min
Director: Chema García Ibarra

MISTERY (Misterio)

De sier at hvis du legger øret inntil nakken hans, kan du høre stemmen til Jomfru Maria.

They say that if you put your ear to the back of his neck, you can hear the Virgin Mary talk.

Script: Chema García Ibarra | Camera: Alberto Gutiérrez | Sound: José Marsilla | Music: Julio Posadas | Editing: Chema García Ibarra

Production: Chema García Ibarra, t: +34 605544045, e: chemagarciaibarra@gmail.com

RUS 2012 | Doc. | 20 min
Director: Sergei Loznitsa

LETTER

I en fjern landsby nordvest i Russland finner vi et sinnsykeasyl i et gammelt trehus. Stedet og pasientene virker uberørt av sivilisasjonen.

A remote village in the North-West of Russia. A mental asylum is
located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to
be untouched by civilization.

Camera: Pavel Kostomarov | Sound: Vladimir Golovnitski | Editing: Sergei Loznitsa

Production: Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova-Baker - Atoms & Void Bv, e: atomypustota.info@gmail.com

GBR, IRL 2012 | Fic. | 21 min
Director: Cathy Brady

MORNING

En skrekkslagen kvinne ønsker ikke å bli forstyrret, men dørklokka fortsetter å ringe, og den besøkende gir seg ikke før hun svarer.

A distraught woman doesn't want to be disturbed, but the front doorbell keeps ringing and the caller won't leave until she answers.

Script: Cathy Brady, Sarah Woolner | Music: Finn Mcnicholas

Production: Hemant Sharda - National Film and Television School, t: +44 1494731452, e: festivals@nfts.co.uk

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Del 2
Torsdag/Thursday 19:00

GBR 2013 | Fic. | 20 min
Director: Jamie Stone

ORBIT EVER AFTER

I bane rundt jorden. I en fjern fremtid. To funklende elskende overkommer alle odds og ofrer alt for å kunne dele et perfekt øyeblikk.

Earth's orbit. The distant future. Two star-crossed lovers overcome all probabilities and sacrifice everything they have in order to spend one perfect moment together.

Script: Jamie Stone | Camera: Robin Whenary | Sound: Jens Rosenlund Petersen | Music: Graham Hadfield | Editing: James Taylor

Production: Chee-Lan Chan - No Logo Films, t: +44 7986031036, e: chee-lanchan@mail.com

PRT 2012 | Fic. | 22 min
Director: Miguel Fonseca

THE WAVES (As Ondas)

Vakre portugisiske havlandskap sveiper foran meg. I disse bildene finnes min barndom, mitt tapte paradis. Det uendelige havet, stranden, menneskene, alle venter, alle dør forsiktig, trist, vakkert.

Beautiful, truly Portuguese seascapes sweep before my eyes. Tied up in these images was my youth, my lost paradise. The vast sea, the beach, the people, all waiting, all dying gently, sadly, beautifully.

Script: Miguel Fonseca | Camera: Mario Castanheira | Editing: Sandro Aguilar | Cast: Alice Contreiras, Andreia Contreiras

Production: Sandro Aguilar - O Som e a Fúria, t: +35 1213582519, e: furia@netcabo.pt

RUS 2013 | Doc | 12 min
Director: Cristina Picchi

ZIMA

En reise gjennom det nordlige Russland og Sibir, hvor mennesker lever i et av verdens tøffeste klima.

A journey through North Russia and Siberia where people have to cope with one of the world's harshest climates.

Script: Cristina Picchi | Camera: Saulius Lukoševičius | Sound: Henri d'Armancourt | Music: Shoefiti | Editing: Cristina Picchi

Production: Tanya Petrik - MiruMir Studio, t: +7 9096807310, e: info@cinetrain.net

ESP 2012 | Doc. | 26 min
Director: Sergio Oksman

A STORY FOR THE MODLINS

Etter å ha vært med i filmen Rosemary's baby flykter Elmer Modlin og hans familie til et fjernt land, og stenger seg inne i en mørk leilighet i tretti år.

After appearing in the film Rosemary's Baby, Elmer Modlin fled with his family to a far off country and shut himself away in a dark apartment for thirty years.

Script: Carlos Muguiro, Emilio Tomé, Sergio Oksman | Camera: Migue Amoedo | Sound: Iñaki Sánchez | Editing: Fernando Franco, Sergio Oksman

Production: Sergio Oksman, t: +34 915917657, e: soksman@gmail.com

BEL, FRA 2013 | Fic. | 15 min
Director: Bülent Öztürk

HOUSES WITH SMALL WINDOWS

22 år gamle Dilan må betale med sitt liv for sin forbudte kjærlighet til en ung mann i en nabolandsby. Hun har brakt skam over sin familie og må derfor bøte med livet, utført av hennes brødre. Og i samsvar med tradisjonen må drapet bli kompensert for.

22-year old Dilan pays with her life for her forbidden love for a young man in a neighbouring village. She has shamed the family and therefore must die at the hands of her own brothers. And as tradition will have it, the killing must be compensated.

Script: Bülent Öztürk & Mizgin Müjde Arslan | Camera: Hadewych Cocquyt | Sound: Thierry De Vries | Music: Saïd Henareh | Editing: Bert Jacobs, Pieter Smet & Jan Hameeuw | Cast: Mizgin Müjde Arslan, Seyithan Altiparmak, Emine Korkmaz

Production: Hanne Phlypo - Clin d'oeil films, t: +32 484974442, e: hanne@clindoeilfilms.be

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Del 3
Søndag/Sunday 18:00

BEL, FRA 2012 | Fic. | 20 min
Director: Tom Van Avermaet

DEATH OF A SHADOW (Dood van Een Schaduw)

Soldaten Nathan Rijckx døde i første verdenskrig. En merkelig samler fanget skyggen hans og ga ham en ny sjanse: et nytt liv for 10000 innsamlede skygger.

Soldier Nathan Rijckx died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shadows.

Script: Ines Van Impe | Camera: Stijn Van Der Veken, SBC | Sound: Yves De Mey | Music: Raf Keunen | Editing: Dieter Diependaele | Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Laura Verlinden

Production: Ellen De Waele

DEU 2013 | Exp. | 12 min
Director: Christoph Girardet, Matthias Mueller

CUT

Kroppen som et sår som aldri gror.

The body as a wound that never heals.

Production: Matthias Müller, t: +49 521178367, e: mueller.film@t-online.de

UKR 2012 | Fic. | 25 min
Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

NUCLEAR WASTE (Yaderni Wydhody)

Sergey og Sveta bor i Tsjernobyl. Han er lastebilsjåfør ved et anlegg for radioaktivt avfall, mens hun arbeider ved en stasjon for radioaktiv dekontaminering. Livet og arbeidet deres dikteres av en uforanderlig rytme.

Sergey and Sveta live in Chernobyl. He is a truck driver at a radioactive waste plant, while she works at a radioactive decontamination station. Their lives and work are dictated by an unchangeable rhythm.

Script: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Camera: Dmytro Sannykov | Sound: Sergiy Stepanskiy | Editing: Kristof Hoornaert | Cast: Sergiy Gavryluk, Svenlana Shtanko

Production: Volodymyr Tykhyy - Arthouse Traffic LLC, t: +380 675074518, e: ugb@gmail.com

CHN, FRA 2013 | Fic. | 15 min
Director: Hu Wei

BUTTER LAMP (La lampe au beurre de Yak)

En ung omreisende fotograf og hans assistent tar bilder av tibetanske nomader plassert foran forskjellige bakgrunner.

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant offer to photograph some Tibetan nomads in front of various backgrounds.

Script: Hu Wei | Camera: Jean Legrand, Stéphane Degnieau | Sound: Wu Shi, Liu Cheng | Editing: Hu Wei | Cast: Genden Punstok

Production: Julien Féret - Ama Productions, t: +33 6 26161595, e: contact@amaproductions.fr

EGY, PSE, GBR 2013 | Fic. | 20 min
Director: Omar Robert Hamilton

THOUGH I KNOW THE RIVER IS DRY

Han har vendt tilbake til Palestina. På sin reise gjennom landet gjenopplever han traumer fra fortiden og valget som sendte ham til Amerika - et valg mellom et pass for sitt ufødte barn og en trygg havn for aktivist-broren.

He has returned to Palestine. On his journey through the country he relives the trauma of his past and the choice that sent him to America - a choice between a passport for his unborn child and a safe haven for his activist brother.

Script: Omar Robert Hamilton | Camera: Omar Robert Hamilton | Sound: Basel Abbas | Editing: Omar Robert Hamilton | Cast: Kais Nashif

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