COMPETITION PROGRAMMES 2010

I INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
"LANDSCAPE WITH A FALL OF PUMPKIN, GIRL AND CATAFALQUE"

ODE TO LIFE. ODE TO JOY. QUOTIDIAN JOYS, CHEERFUL GRIEF, EXPRESSIVE MONOTONY, MASTERS' CURSES. GREAT DREAMS OF SMALL PEOPLE. SMALL FORTUNES OF GREAT PEOPLE. MUSIC FORM A HEARSE – THE DEAD DRIVER'S INSPIRING TRIBUTE TO ALL STREET BUMS, FREAKS, AND LOSERS.

GLEBS FILM
Germany, 2009, 27:25
Director: Christian Hornung
Director of Photography: Karsten Krause
Producer: Christian Hornung

Gleb runs a small hair salon in Hamburg-Altona. It’s the only shop in the street, and for many of his elderly clients the visit of the salon is the highlight of the day. The solitude of these people preoccupies Gleb, but simultaneously it stimulates his vivid imagination. While giving perms and darkening eyelashes, he tells his customers about his idea of a film which involves an unhappy man, a lonely woman, and a hairdresser for whom, of course, a very special part is reserved. Thanks to the great interest of Gleb’s listeners, the story often takes surprising turns. At the same time it provides the frame for a cinematic portrait of a passionate storyteller.

AARGH
Germany, 2010, 15:00
Director: Philip Hillers
Director of Photography: Jan Zabeil
Producer: Sirkka Kluge

Aargh. Once a successful actor and a true shooting star in Japan. Today he is beginning his new job at the Berlin zoo. What has happened? He is accompanied by the film crew on his first day of work at the Zoo where he is faced with new colleagues and challenges on the one hand and fighting prejudice and overcoming obstacles on the other.

UP TO NOTHING
France, 2009, 22:00
Director: Martin Morgann
Director of Photography: Maurizio Tiella
Producer: Jérémy Durand

Regis Morin's doormate desapear. Deep moment of doubt...

FAITHFULLNESS
Ukraine, 2009, 04:07
Director: Olena Maksymenko
Director of Photography: Denis Svojak
Producer: Kiev National University of Culture and Arts

One-cadre story about human feelings in the point of apogee.

CONCERTO CRASSO
Switzerland, 2009, 01:20
Director: Rolf Hellat
Director of Photography: Jan Mettler
Producer: Rolf Hellat

The Senior Orchestra Zurich is practising an unusual music piece...

NEVER DRIVE A CAR WHEN YOU’RE DEAD
Germany, 2009, 09:55
Director: Gregor Dashuber
Director of Photography: Gregor Dashuber
Producer: Julie Lamarre for Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) "Konrad Wolf"

The awkward hero stumbles over a long forgotten piano.
Music leads him from his rund down existence out into the city life.
There he plays a last funeral march to all the deadbeat figures on the sidewalk.

II INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
“THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS”

TESTIMONY TO THE ALL-ENCOMPASSING STRENGTH OF THE ABILITIES OF MAN. OUTRAGEOUS CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. PEOPLE'S THIRST OF LOVE AND INABILITY TO LOVE. IDENTITY WITHIN A MASK OF A BEAR. COURAGE, DARE, BATTLE FOR ONE'S LIFE AND ITS PRICE. THE QUIET HEROES AND LOSERS.

SCRATCHES
Sweden, 2008, 22:00
Director: Gabriela Pichler
Director of Photography: Harry Tuvanen
Producer: Mirja Hildbrand & Tobias Åkesson

Youngsters and Kids on a deserted Factory lot were there is nothing to do but hanging around – and longing for Love (but without showing your true feelings). The Film tells a collective Story about a group of Kids passing time just like any other day …almost.

MY HEART, MY BAD
Finland, 2009, 24:31
Director: Mari-Kaisu Mononen
Director of Photography: Arsen Sarkisiants
Producer: Kaisu Mononen

My Heart, My bad is a comedy about sorrow. Young woman Essi wonders should things that are found useless be tossed?

DID MICHAEL KNIGHT END COLD WAR?
Chech Republic, 2009, 20:52
Director: Štěpán Altrichter
Director of Photography: Cristian Pirjol
Producer: Olaf Held, Štěpán Altrichter

A young Czech boy, his favorite TV series Knight Rider, and a BMX bike. The true story of the Czech Revolution of 1989.

CACTUS
Denmark, 2008, 30:00
Director: Anna Treiman
Director of Photography: Dror Kasinsky
Producer: Mads Damsbo

Helene harbors a secret sexual fantasy of being raped. She hires a gigolo to fulfill her fantasy, but the rape does not go according to the scenario. Faced with unforeseen complications to her plan, Helene must confront the true nature of her desire.

KAVI
USA, 2009, 19:00
Director: Gregg Helvey
Director of Photography: John Harrison
Producer: Gregg Helvey, Guneet Monga, Harish Amin

The 2010 Oscar nominated short film, 'Kavi', is about a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been told, or fight for a different fate even if he's unsure of the ultimate outcome.

ECHO
Poland, 2009, 14:30
Director: Magnus von Horn
Director of Photography: Malgorzata Szylak
Producer: The Polish National Film School - Emilia Puszczynska

Two boys have murdered a young girl. Through crime reconstruction and meeting the family of the victim they now have to relive the brutal crime they committed and confront the feelings they felt and still feel.

III INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
„PORTRAIT X”

PULSING SILENCE. INHALE, EXHALE. FRAGILITY OF LIFE. INVISIBLE SPACE. ALL WORLD IN A LEAFE OF TREE. IMPERMANENCE OF A MOMENT AND ETERNATY. PORTRAIT THAT PRESENTS AND HIDES THE INEVITABILITY.

ANTHEM
Israel, 2008, 36:00
Director: Elad Keidan
Director of Photography: Ziv Berkovich
Producer: Shelly Ben Shahar

Sometimes even the most unassuming of days takes a surprising turn, as one middle-aged suburban bachelor finds out when he sets out to buy milk in a Jerusalem neighborhood.

PROTOPARTICLES
Spain, 2009, 07:00
Director: Chema Garcia Ibarra
Director of Photography: Alberto Gutierrez
Producer: Chema Garcia Ibarra, Leonor Díaz Esteve

The experiment was almost a succes: protoparticles exists.

WOULD YOU KILL A MAN?
Spain, 2009, 03:42
Director: Enrique Piñuel
Producer: Natalia Piñuel

The capital punishment is still present in more than 50 countries of the whole world, with next to 2.500 executed ones every year. The work reflects already not only on the topic of the one who must die, if not on whom he has right to kill.

HOMELAND
Czech Republik, 2009, 06:25
Director: Juan de Dios Marfil
Director of Photography: Juan de Dios Marfil
Producer: Hanka Trestíková

Where there´s a will, there´s a way.

LEBENSADER
Germany, 2009, 06:00
Director: Angela Steffen
Director of Photography: Angela Steffen
Producer: Eva Steegmayer

A little girl finds the whole world inside a leaf.

IT’S ME HELMUT
Germany, 2009, 11:20
Director: Nicolas Steiner
Director of Photography: Clemens Baumeister
Producer: Anna-Luise Dietzel, Nicolas Steiner

Helmut is celebrating his 60th birthday. Actually, he is 57. His wife, Gertrud, miscalculated. While the facade of his narrow-minded domesticity is crumbling, old friends pass by, facing Helmut with his past - a bizarre declaration of love to transience.

THE COUNTREPART
Hungary, 2008, 13:45
Director: Nemes Laszlo
Director of Photography: Matyas Erdely
Producer: Andras Muhi, Agnes Havas

In difficult times and in an awkward place, separated by the world, two old friends meet again.

BOUNDARY
USA, 2009, 16:46
Director: Devin Horan
Director of Photography: Devin Horan
Producer: Devin Horan

A document of a landscape and its inhabitants near the Latvia-Russia border.