CINE TRANS EUROPE is the name of the one of a kind partnership between five festival, which resist to a cinema which keeps repeating the same kind of emotions and concepts, incapable to stop with dominating and reductive interpretations. This collaboration, started in April 2009, continues in Paris and in all the other partner festivals: Barcelona, Amsterdam, de Cork and Osnabrück.

Todd Herman
United States
2007 / 0:16:00

Somewhere between mourning and nurturing, Todd Herman's film Cabinet maps an iconography of absence and what remains in memory and imagination.

Patrick Jolley
Ireland
2008 / 0:11:00

Tedium breeds its own reverie. Repetitions erode sense of place and make buildings seem less substantial. The logic of these displacements causes things to come adrift and cause events of small destruction.

Ian Helliwell
Great Britain
2007 / 0 :03:00

Naturally decayed found super-8 footage of children’s and adults games, has been cut up and spliced back together to reveal new rhythms and connections.

Jim Finn
United States
2008 / 1:02:00

In the late 1960’s Kim Jong 11 guaranteed his succession as the Dear Leader of North Korea by adapting his father’s Juche (pronounced choo-CHAY) philosophy to propaganda, film and art. Translated as ‘self-reliance’, Juche is a hybrid of Confucian and authoritarian Stalinist pseudo-socialism. The film is about a South Korean video artist who comes to a North Korean art residency to help bring Juche cinema into the 21st century. Inspired by the real-life story of the South Korean director kidnapped in the 70s to invigorate the North Korean film industry. The story is told through the films she made at the residency as well as the interviews with a Bulgarian filmmaker, and even a brief science fiction movie.