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Short Film
Competition
# 5 |
Tuesday June 28th, 2016 / 6.30 pm
Filmhaus
Saarbrücken / Germany
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Ferris Wheel |
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Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
Thailand
2015 / 0:24:00
A stateless woman crosses the river between Thailand and Myanmar with her 5-year-old son to find a job in the city. On their journey, they meet a mysterious monkey mascot who takes them to an unexpected destination with a colourful ferris wheel.
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Letter from Korlai |
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Aman Wadhan
India
2015 / 0:22:30
On India's Konkan coast, in the village of Korlai, a sense of quaintness pervades its Portuguese heritage, the Creole, the faces, and the fort. The filmmaker had visited this place once, as did his friend, of whom nothing is ever said. Years later, an assignment brings the filmmaker back to Korlai. Memories revive but what compels his wayward excursion this time is the elemental and the immemorial wherein his solitude finds refuge. In the time of yellow grass, with steps receding and prayers unanswered, a desire for oblivion forks the search for images of exile and belongingness. This experience surfaces through grainy 16mm images and an elegiac voice-over which retrace a sense of remembrance, loss, perception, and time intersecting with an inner self and with history. A letter for Korlai also becomes a letter to a dear departed; and in reading this letter, in seeking a new way of inhabiting the world, a vision of Korlai emerges that is both attentive and phantasmagoric, a series of possible angles and tributaries that the viewer and traveller might possibly take.
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2183 Days |
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Natasha De Betak
India
2015 / 0:25:15
Rare and unique cinematic observation by Natasha De Betak; She has
been filming a holy man, Nagnath Baba, since last five years who has
been on a hunger strike to save the sacred river Ganga. Year after
year, his body crumbles. He is haunted by both dreams and nightmares.
His sacred existence takes surreal shape. Life continues to flow
around his body; temple, prayers, rituals… Then one day his hunger
strike reaches climax and he dies. Expressionism and poetry meet to
create a sublime journey of an unusual soul.
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Celebration |
Celebratión |
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Juan Barreda
Mexico
2015 / 0:19:00
Gustavo confronts the old age loneliness growing laceleafs. One morning, he finds a turkey that will change his lonely routine.
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0068 Sniper's Nest |
Dispozitiv 0068 |
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Radu Barbulescu
Roumania
2015 / 0:19:00
A sniper is planted inside the apartment of a half-paralyzed old lady. He keeps the area secured for the ongoing NATO Summit until suddenly, the old lady makes the sniper a request that will change their lives.
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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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