Audience Award:
The audience selects the best film in these programmes
of new international shorts, and the winner is awarded EUR 500 given by Minimalen.
Don Quixote Award:
The Don Quijote Award is a prize from the International Federation of Film Societies, and consists of a plaque and diploma and the promotion of the film all over the world among film societies. The FICC jury is composed by three film society activists from around the world.
THE FICC JURY:
AGNIESZKA ZAJĄC
(b. 1984, Poland), programmer for International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima in Cracow since 2008. Studied art history. Currently a film directing student at Wajda School and working on her first documentary film. Has a.o. contributed to Cracow Summer Animation Days and the ETIUDA contest, and since 2010 co-managed Film Discussion Club Rotunda in Cracow.
ANIL KUMAR JAIN
(b. 1954, India), a film society activist. Presently Secretary of Federation of Film Societies of India (Northern Region) and President of Tasveer-a Film Society. As a film critic he has covered international film festivals in India and organised Open Forum. He has been organising The European Film Festival for 6 years in nearly 10 cities of India, and been a jury member at Fribourg Int. Film Festival, Switzerland.
RENATE KROKEN
(b. 1976, Norway) has a Master's degree in film studies from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). While working as a railway conductor at the Norwegian State Railways in the day time, she has since 2013 been a board member at the Trondheim Film Society, where she has gotten experience working as an editor within film selection and programming.
To bamser går på jakt etter enhjørninger, favorittviltet
deres.
Two teddy bears go hunting unicorns, their favorite prey.
Script: Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero | Animation:
Alberto Vázquez, Giovanna Lopalco | Editing: Iván Miñambres | Sound: Víctor García | Music: Víctor García
Production, contact: Pedro Rivero − Abrakam Estudio,
t: +34 944703815,
e: info@birdboy.net
FRA 2014 | Fic. | 30 min
Directors: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
AS LONG AS SHOTGUNS REMAIN
(TANT QU'IL NOUS RESTE DES FUSILS À POMPE)
Det er fordømt varmt. Gatene er merkelig tomme.
Palmene lider og haglgeværene gråter. Joshua vil helst dø, men ønsker ikke å forlate broren Mael.
It's damned hot. Streets are oddly empty. Palms are suffering
and shotguns crying. Joshue wants to die but doesn't want to
leave his brother Mael alone.
Script: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | Camera:
Raphaël Vandenbussche | Editing: Vincent Tricon
Production: Le G.R.E.C., e: info@grec-info.com
Contact: Caroline Poggi,
e: poggicaroline01@gmail.com
USA 2014 | Exp. | 15 min
Director: Deborah Stratman
HACKED CIRCUIT
Et koreografert portrett av foley-prosessen i én enkelt
tagning, som avslører flere lag av fabrikasjon og lydpålegg.
A single-shot, choreographed portrait of the Foley process,
revealing multiple layers of fabrication and imposition.
Det er i august, tidlig om morgenen. Seks år gamle
Margaux våkner. Hun går til vinduet og ser faren som
pakker sammen og stabler esker i bilen.
Moren sover fremdeles.
It is August, early in the morning. The 6-year-old Margaux
wakes up. She comes to the window and sees her father
packing up and putting boxes with things into his car.
Her mother is still asleep.
Script: Jenna Hasse | Camera: Roland Edzard |
Editing: Thomas Marchand | Cast: Clarisse Moussa,
David Lemoine, Jenna Hasse
NED 2014 | Ani. | 2 min
Director: Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke
Blaauw
A SINGLE LIFE
Når Pia spiller en mystisk vinylsingle blir hun plutselig i
stand til å reise gjennom livet sitt.
When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly
able to travel through her life.
Production: Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw
Contact: Ursula van den Heuvel,
KLIK! Distribution Service,
e: ursula@klikamsterdam.nl
USA 2014 | Fic. | 28 min
Director: Jennifer Reeder
A MILLION MILES AWAY
Melankoli som en overlevelsesstrategi i den amerikanske
Midtvesten: en voksen dame (dirigenten) som står på kanten av stupet og en flokk med tenåringsjenter (koret)
gjennomgår samtidig en overnaturlig oppvåkning.
Melancholy as a survival strategy in the American Mid-West:
an adult woman (the conductor) on the edge of failing and a
pack of teenage girls (the choir) simultaneously experience a
supernatural version of coming-of-age.
Script: Jennifer Reeder | Camera: Christopher Rejano |
Sound: Paul Dickinson | Music: Jenne Lennon |
Editing: Mike Olenick | Cast: Kelsey Ashby-Middleton, Jennifer Estlin
Production: Steven Hudosh,
e: stevenhudosh@gmail.com
Contact: Jennifer Reeder,
t: +1 3124989493,
e: thejenniferreeder@gmail.com
Rektoren Simon får beskjed om at hans 18 år gamle datter,
som har et friår i Kenya, er blitt drept av en krokodille.
Simon, a middle-class headmaster, receives news that his
18-year-old daughter, Penny, has been killed by a crocodile
while on a gap year in Kenya.
Script: Robin French | Camera: David Ungaro | Sound:
Doug Haywood | Music: Tara Créme | Editing: Nicolas
Chaudeurge, Paul Hardcastle | Cast: Lucinda Raikes,
Michael Gould, Alex MacQueen
Production, contact: Ohna Falby − Life To Live Films,
t: +44 7768512689, e: ohnafalby@gmail.com
ITA 2014 | Ani. Exp. | 9 min
Director: Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
BEAUTY
En kort historie om de viktigste følelsene i livet,
fra fødsel til død, kjærlighet og seksualitet gjennom
smerte og redsel.
A short story on the most important emotions in life, from
birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear.
SVN, DEU 2013 | Ani. | 13 min
Director: Špela Cadež
BOLES
Filip bor i et fattig nabolag. Han drømmer om å bli forfatter
med tilhørende luksusliv i en rikere del av byen. En dag
banker naboen på døra, den aldrende prostituerte Tereza.
Hun vil ha hjelp til å skrive et brev til forloveden.
Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood. He dreams of writer's glory
and a luxurious lifestyle in a richer part of town. One day, his neighbour Tereza, an aging prostitute, asks him to help her
write a letter to her fiancé.
Production, contact: No History,
e: boles@spelacadez.com
GER 2014 | Ani. | 3 min
Director: Sonja Rohleder
WALK THE DOG (DAME MIT HUND)
En kvinne går tur med hunden i parken, og støter borti
en mann hun helst vil unngå.
A woman walks her dog in the park, where she bumps into a man she'd rather avoid.
FRA 2014 | Fic. | 8 min
Director: Clément Tréhin-Lalanne
AÏSSA
Aïssa kommer fra Kongo og oppholder seg for tiden i
Frankrike. Hun hevder hun er et barn, men myndighetene
tror hun er over 18.
For å kunne avgjøre hvorvidt hun får opphold i landet må
hun gjennomgå en legeundersøkelse.
Aïssa is Congolese and is presently residing illegally on French
territory. She claims to be a minor, but the authorities believe
she is over 18.
In order to establish whether or not she can remain in the
country, a doctor must give her a physical examination.
De følgende bildene er hentet fra flere år med
resirkulering fra et søppelanlegg utenfor Beijing.
The following images were sourced over the years from
a recycling zone on the outskirts of Beijing.
Production, contact: Lei Lei, e: milk527@gmail.com
BEL, FRA 2013 | Doc.Fic. | 28 min
Director: Olivier Smolders
LA PART DE L'OMBRE
Den 4. januar 1944, samme kveld som det ble arrangert en
viktig retrospektiv utstilling av arbeidet hans, forsvant den
ungarske fotografen Oskar Benedek.
On January 4th, 1944, on the same evening as the private
viewing of an important retrospective of his work, the
Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek disappeared.
EST 2014 | Ani. | 16 min
Directors: Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn
PILOTS ON THE WAY HOME
Etter å ha mistet flyet sitt innser tre piloter at de
er fullstendig strandet, midt i ørkenen.
Having lost their plane, three pilots find themselves
inexplicably stranded in the middle of the desert.
Script: Priit Pärn | Animation, editing: Priit Pärn, Olga
Pärn | Sound: Olivier Calvert | Music: Robert Marcel
Lepage
Production: Kalev Tamm − Eesti Joonisfilm,
t: +372 6774228,
e: kalev@joonisfilm.ee
Contact: Elise Labbé,
Office National du Film du Canada,
t: +1 5142839133,
e: distribution@onf.ca
Production: Xacio Baño − Rebordelos,
t: +34 606555524,
e: xaciorb@gmail.com
Contact: Josep Prim Armengol,
Marvin & Wayne – Short Film Distribution,
t: +34 934863313, e: info@marvinwayne.com
USA 2014 | Fic. | 18 min
Director: Dustin Guy Defa
PERSON TO PERSON
Når han våkner opp morgenen etter festen oppdager
mannen en fremmed som ligger besvimt på gulvet.
Resten av dagen bruker han til å få henne til å dra.
Waking up the morning after hosting a party, a man discovers
a stranger passed out on his floor.
He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.
Script: Duston Guy Defa | Camera: Adam Ginsberg |
Sound: Sean Dunn | Cast: Bene Coopersmith, Deragh
Campbell
Production, contact: Alex Lipschultz,
e: alex.lipschultz@gmail.com
GRE, USA 2014 | Ani. | 10 min
Director: Nassos Vakalis
DINNER FOR FEW
Under middagen fôrer "systemet" de få som idiotisk nok
bruker alle ressursene mens resten må overleve på smuler.
Det er uunngåelig at kampen for det som er igjen leder til
katastrofale endringer.
During dinner, 'the system' feeds the few who foolishly consume all the resources while the rest survive on scraps.
Inevitably the struggle for what remains leads to
catastrophic change.
Script, editing: Nassos Vakalis | Animation: Eva Vomhoff,
Nassos Vakalis | Sound: Ioannis Glannakopoulos |
Music: Kostas Christides
London virker mindre ensomt når Lucy møter en amorøs
kosmonaut på Chatroulette.com.
London seems a little less lonely when Lucy meets a libidinous
cosmonaut on Chatroulette.com.
Script: Oli Fenton | Cast: Bec Hill, Stewart Lockwood
Production, contact: Ben Aston,
e: info@benastondirector.com
GBR 2014 | Fic. | 20 min
Director: Adrian Sitaru
COUNTERPART
En ung eiendomsmegler bor sammen med kjæresten,
en tidligere stripper. Mesteparten av tiden bruker de på å sole seg eller ha sex. Men noen følger med fra leiligheten
tvers over gata.
A young estate agent lives in a flat with his girlfriend, a former
stripper. They spend most of their time sun-bathing or having
sex. But someone is watching them from a home across the
street.
Script: Adrian Sitaru | Camera: Jose Ruiz | Editing: Ilinca
Calugareanu | Cast: Tom Holloway, Mark Arnold, Sarah
Barker
Production, contact: Mara Adina − Vernon Films,
t: +44 7585938274,
e: mara@vernonfilms.co.uk
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