Penny Lane
USA
2010 | Digital | 0:16:00

In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Each spacecraft carries a golden record album, a massive compilation of images and sounds embodying the best of Planet Earth. According to Carl Sagan, “[t]he spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.” While working on the golden record, Sagan met and fell madly in love with his future wife Annie Druyan. The golden record became their love letter to humankind and to each other. In the summer of 2010, I began my own hopeful voyage into the unknown. This film is a love letter to my fellow traveler.

Links:
http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2011/12/22/the-voyagers (Film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VwsYjGSAtM (Statement)

Jakub Piatek
Pologne
2010 | Numerique | 0:11:00

Tables screwed to the floor. One hour that must suffice for two weeks, sometimes even a month: the visiting room of a Polish jail. On one side: husbands, sons, fathers; on the opposite: children, wives, mothers. The film depicts the world of a mother who comes to visit her son: her devotion, her solitude, and her constant waiting.

Links:
http://www.wajdastudio.pl/en/filmography/matka (Additional Information)

Marc Isaac
Royaume-Uni
2011 | Numerique | 0:58:30

Inside a North London magistrates’ court, judges hear an endless litany of criminal cases, from the hapless to the horrifying. Outside the court, filmmaker Marc Isaacs waits with a camera. Over four seasons he speaks to people on their way in and out of the building, sympathetically documenting their stories. Frenchman Michel, who has been troubled most of his life, is up for carrying a weapon. He planned to use it against a security guard, but ended up remorsefully handing himself over to police before committing the crime. Alcoholic Mark has repeatedly breached his parole, by coming into contact with the son whom he desperately misses. Isaacs’ subjects are not big time criminals, but vulnerable repeat offenders who tell very candid, often moving stories. Not surprisingly, drug and alcohol abuse lay at the heart of much of these tales of woe, with addicts often looking to the justice system for more help than it can provide.

Links:
http://www.marcisaacsfilms.com/main.html (Extrait)

An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world.. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.