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International Competition
Short Films
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Saturday, November 28, 2015 / 8 pm
Maison des étudiants Suédois
Cité Universitaire de Paris
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A Long Way From Home
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Jay Rosenblatt
United States
2014 | 0:02:57
A hand processed celluloid invocation of Jesus’ last hours that hints
at the relationship between the spirit and the flesh. Had there been
actual footage of the crucifixion dug up by archaeologists, it might
have looked like this.
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Natural History
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Storia natural |
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Júlio Cavani
Brazil
2014| 0:12:00
A man finds a mysterious organic object at the top of the highest tree
of a forest.
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Trials, Exorcisms
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Provas, Exorcismos |
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Susanna Nobre
Portugal
2015 | 0:24:40
A train passes through the town of Alhandra, between the hills and the river. Óscar, who has spent twenty-five of his forty-eight years working at the same factory, is waiting to hear the court’s verdict on his employer’s insolvency claim. With production at a standstill and salaries overdue, Óscar and his co-workers continue to show up everyday for work, hoping to keep their jobs. But when the closing of the factory is confirmed, Óscar makes peace with the world again when he's hired by the factory next door.
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A Random Act of Kindness
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Andrei Gruzniczki
Romania
2015 | 0:27:300
A couple tries to rescue a stray dog run over by a car, amidst
general indifference. A certain social understanding of what is good,
a certain model of social responsibility that is catching on now tugs
at them, and they respond. They collect the dog off the street and
take it to a private clinic. The dog is too badly hit and cannot be
saved. However, the two wannabe rescuers come to be involved, both
financially and emotionally, in euthanizing the dog. They feel abused.
Moreover, they have to also take care of the dog’s “funeral”, since
that is the law. In the end, they come to feel “punished” for the good
deed they attempted to do. Revolted, they throw the dog onto a heap of
garbage.
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The Silent
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Toni Tikkanen
Finlande
2015 | 0:07:27
A little girl's journey from a world of nightmares to the nightmare of
reality using dream logic and aiming to touch the viewer on an
subconscious level.. A family's life is thrown into turmoil after an
event that tears the family apart. The Silent is a short film, that
lies heavily on atmosphere and subtle storytelling.
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Catalina and the Sun
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Catalina y el Sol |
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Anna Paula Hönig
Argentina, France, Germany
2015 | 0:16:00
Once upon a time there was a girl named Catalina. Every day she
offered a tale to the Sun Tata Inti for he would always shine in the
sky. Old legend from Jujuy, Argentina.
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November 26 - December 6, 2015
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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