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International Competition
Short Film
# 6 |
Wednesday, April 2th, 2008 / 8 pm
Cinéma Archipel
Paris |
Everything is fine |
Baardygy jakshy |
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Akjol Bekbotov
Kyrgystan
2007 / DV / 0:16:30
Two streets kids in Bishkek (the capital of Kirghizia) try to keep their heads above water. They only just manage until a fatal incident takes place.
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Crying While Being Killed |
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Maria Manganari
Grece
2007 / 35 mm / 0:20:00
A woman is observed. Her deranging secret is her grief. Very quickly she gets a subject for the medias. But as she starts to observe herself, things begin to change...
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Europa |
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Pedro Caldas Portugal
2007 / 35 mm / 0:19:00
Somewhere in Europe, it is night. A woman and two men are in a van. A labyrinth of highways. Brought in an abandonned warehouse, the woman gets raped.
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At home |
Acasá |
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Paul Negoescu
Romania
2007 / DV / 0:14:00
A taxi driver on Christmas Eve in Bucharest picks up a customer who works in Spain and has now come home to celebrate Christmas. This man has an eager audience to listen to the stories about working abroad. When the taxi driver drops him off at his home, he realises that emigration also has ist down side.
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27,000 Days |
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Naveen Singh
United States
2007 / DV / 0:10:00
Writing a letter to his long-lost son and under the influence of a brain tumour, a dying man is confronted with suppressed emotions and the consequences of his behaviour in the past. A fragmented, intriuing story about dysfunctional relations.
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Wing, the Fish That Talkes Back |
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Ricky Rijneke
Netherlands
2007 / 35 mm / 0:13:00
Between phantasm and reality: little girl Wing tries to find a possibility to bring her gandmother back to China. A funny look to the cruality of childhood. |
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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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