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International Competition
Short Film
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Monday, March 31th, 2008 / 8 pm
Cinéma Archipel
Paris |
Le Pas-Homme |
El No-Hombre |
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Rodrigo Iturralde
Mexico
2007 / DV / 0:09:00
The interior thought of an aged writer demonstrate himself to have become a stranger to his own specie and its sorroundings. As a stranger to the specie, he will try to find a way back to become a human being again.
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Zero Moon |
Luna Zero |
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Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2007 / DV / 0:10:30 /
Sans dialogue / Without dialogue
“Project Apollo" planned, from 1961 to 1972, a long series of human spaceflight missions, turning into a real conquest, one of the greatest dreams in history. Since then, no American has ever landed on the moon again, but on this side of the outer space, the adventure is keeping on...
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Plot Point |
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Nicolas Provost
Belgium, China
2007 / HD / 0:15:15 / without dialog
Partly made with a hidden camera "Plot Poit" captures a symphony of movements in New York and creates on the same time possible stories and a permanent tention of somethin which can arrive.
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Dreznica |
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Anna Azevedo
Brazil
2008 / 35 mm / 0:14:00
Dreznica is the place where snow and sea touch, where days are filled with stars and nights with sun. This place is only visible by the blind ; a lyrical voyage through images and impressions based on memories and dreams of blind people, made with Super 8 found footage dating from the seventies.
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Three of us |
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Umesh Vinayak Kulkarmi
India
2008 / 35 mm / 0:14:00
An observation without sentimen-tality of the everyday life of a very unusual family. The mother cooks, the father distributes the newspaper, the son reads it with the help of a magnifying glass that he holds with his foot.
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Waves |
Valuri |
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Adrian Sitaru
Romania
2007 / 35 mm / 0:16:30
At the seaside, on the beach, two people experience extreme situations. A beautiful Western mother asks a gypsy boy to look after her 4 year-old baby; a husband and father fights ennui by flirting with the same beautiful foreigner while teaching her how to swim. Butt he story takes a different course when the beautiful mother disappears in the waves...
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Wolkengestalt |
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Silvia Maglioni et Graeme Thomson
Italy
2007 / DV / 0:13:00 / VOSTF
Goethe’s meteorological observations from September 11, 1819 descend on the clouds of the present day from an ambivalent outside, an off-screen that is dissociated and plagued by doubt. Under the constant threat of global war, the word has withdrawn into itself and the images-temps become an opaque, ineluctable overcast, clouded by abrasive, endlessly echoing sounds.
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March 31th - April 5th, 2008
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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