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International Competition
Short Film
# 1 |
Monday June 22th, 2009
/ 6 pm
Cinéma l’Archipel
Paris |
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Ammar Al Fakhuri
Jordan
2008 / DV / 0:04:00
Touches a simple human behavior to take the audience in simple short sequence of scenes that shows the fast life that people live and a one behavior..
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Maesmak |
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Georges Salameh
Greece, Italy
2008 / 0:20:20
A meditative exploration of one day spent in Rutba in late 2002, just before the invasion of Iraq. A Greek traveller, an English doctor and an Iraqi storyteller cross paths, their starting point the same
question: “Maesmak?” the Arabic phrase for ‘what is your name?’
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Edouard Salier
France
2008 / Beta SP / 0:16:30
Four letters. 400, 000. A single code.
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One day and Nothing |
Un Dia y nada |
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Lorenz Merz
Swirtzeland
2008 / 35 mm / 0:21:00
A place in the middle of nowhere, under a burning sun. Two old men waiting for a sign that comes from the sea. Children running around to discover themselves and the world. A young man fights desperately for the earth. A man takes an emotional boat ride on the Ganges river..Life fragments of three generations.
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The Journey |
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Ashish Shukla
India
2008 / DV / 04:26
A man escorts his dead son, on a last journey down along the river Ganges.
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Herstory |
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Angelika Wang Ken-Yu
Taiwan
2008 / DV / 0:08:00
Made with a great deal female pleasure. With plenty of giggling, one could imagine. Almost tearingly. Three women of different ages talk about sex. They also visibly enjoy it. And in the free talking and laughters, there is much hidden reality.
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Berlun |
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Ezgi Kilinçaslan
Germany
2008 / 0:06:30
This video montage of more than 250 camera phone snapshots illustrates an Istanbul student`s confrontation with the strangely provincial and orientalistic projections of Berlin`s inhabitants.
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June 22th - 27th, 2009
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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