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Short Film Competition
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Sonday June 26, 2016 / 6.30 pm
Kino Achteinhalb
Saarbrücken / Germany
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The Reflection of Power |
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Mihai Grecu
France
2015 / 0:09:00
This film is a rare glimpse into one of the most secret places of the world, Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Slowly, an unexpected natural phenomena devours this strange city. But the city's atmosphere of eternal celebration never changes no matter how obvious the nearing end is. The people keep absurdly demonstrating the same preset patriotic behaviour.
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Behemoth - or the Game of God |
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Lemohang Jeremih Mosese
Lesotho,
Germany
2015 | 00:13:00
An itinerant preacher proclaims to people that their god is in the very coffin he is dragging along.
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The Atom Station |
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Nick Jordan
Great Britaiin
2015 | 0:13:00
The Atom Station, a short film centred upon the industrial and natural landscape of Iceland; interfusing the cultural, economic and ecological forces that shape the island. From vaporous hot springs and lava fields to the peculiar structures of geothermal power stations, the film combines Iceland's dramatic and volatile terrain with two corresponding voice-overs from the past and present: poet W.H. Auden, reading ‘Journey to Iceland’ (1937), and environmental activist Ómar Ragnarsson.
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Continental Drift |
Mohadeshiyo Probaho |
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Nayeem Mahbub
Bangladesh,
Belgium
2015 | 0:06:15
A man rages at memories of war, border crossings, beatings and
asylum, at the hard years finding his place in a foreign land. He
rages at the cosmic cruelty of having gone through all this for his
loved ones, who died crossing the sea before they could join him.
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Father |
Mama |
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Davit Pirtskhalava
Georgia
2015 | 0:25:00
Lado is nineteen when his father comes back home unexpectedly after a
very long absence. The young man tries desperately to get some answers
from his parent, but in vain. When his father leaves again, Lado goes
back to his life of crime, together with his younger brother. He is
left to answer the questions their father would not hear.
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Over |
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Jorn Threlfall
Great Britain
2015 | 0:14:00
Over presents a crime scene. During the course of 9 wide shots told in reverse order, we watch an intriguing story unfold. What has happened in this quiet neighbourhood? A murder, a hit-and-run, an accident? The reality is both profound, and deeply unexpected.
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The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music |
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The Propeller Group
Vietnam
2015 | 0:14:00
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music is a visual and musical journey through the fantastical funeral traditions and rituals of south Vietnam. It attempts to engage in dialogue with funerary traditions that pulsate in the same vein throughout the global south. The film merges documentary footage of actual funeral processions with stunning re-enactments that bring the film into the realm of the abstract, poetic and metaphorical - a rumination on death and the lives that pay homage to it.
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June 24 - 29, 2016
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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