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International Competition '2010

FEATURE FILMS 1. (97')

Esther ROTS (The Netherlands):

Kan Door Huid Heen / Can go through skin 97 min.

A brutal assault changes Mariekes life. She leaves her familiar city rhythms for the solitude of a dilapidated house in an empty countryside. Her irrational fea...

FEATURE FILMS 2. (87')

Rene Bo HANSEN (Sweden / Germany):

Die Stimme des Adlers / The Eagle Hunter´s Son 87 min.

In the vein of international hits such as "The Weeping Camel", "The Eagle Hunter's Son" conveys poetry, rough beauty and genuine wisdom that appeals to children...

FEATURE FILMS 3. (85')

Urszula ANTONIAK (The Netherlands, Ireland):

Nothing Personal 85 min.

A young travelling woman and an older, educated, solitary man close a deal: food in exchange of work. But there is one condition: no personal contact, no questions...

FEATURE FILMS 4. (102')

Mika KAURISMAKI (Finland):

Haarautuvan rakkauden talo / The House of Branching Love 102 min.

Family therapist Juhani Helin, 35, and business trainer Paula Helin, 34, decide to divorce in a civilized manner and move to separate addresses after selling their common house...

FEATURE FILMS 5. (85')

Margaret CORKERY (Ireland):

Eamon 85 min.

A family holiday brings to a head the destructive love triangle between Eamon, a little boy with behavioral problems, his selfish mother Grace and his sexually frustrated father Daniel.

FEATURE FILMS 6. (88')

Jean-Paul LIILIENFELD (France):

La journée de la jupe / Skirt Day 88 min.

The movie follows a French literature teacher (Isabelle Adjani) in a high school in the middle of a bad neighborhood. Fed up with the continuous violence and la...

FEATURE FILMS 7. (95')

Andrei GRUZSNICZKI (Romania):

Cealalta Irina / The Other Irene 95 min.

"The Other Irene" is a woman that Aurel discovers little by little, when it’s already too late, as she returns from abroad in a sealed lead coffin. She pr...

FEATURE FILMS 8. (90')

George OVASHVILI (Georgia / Kazakhstan):

Gagma napiri / The other bank 90 min.

Little Tedo and his mother were forced to flee their native Abkhazia during the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. His father was seriously ill and had to stay behind in Abkhazia...

SHORT FICTION FILMS 1. (100')

Chema GARCIA IBARRA (Spain):

El ataque de los robots de nebulosa-5 / The attack of the robots from nebula-5 7 min.

Almost everybody is going to die very soon.

Pablo GONZALEZ (France / Colombie):

Esto es un revolver / This is a Revolver 22 min.

Alex and his brother Victor, live in Bogotá with their handicaped father. Victor is a trafficker of Hi-fi equipment for El Jefe, a local mobster. Alex decides t...

Martin COSTA (Spain):

La Tama 19 min.

Tama is a troubled teenager. Tired of constantly fighting with her mother, she takes off on a journey with no return.

Gilles CHARMANT (France):

La Prévention de l'usure / A Piece of Sound Advice 20 min.

Marie and Pierre are a young couple, being truly in love with each other. However, in her latest dreams, Mary sees herself in love with another man, a man with ...

M. TÓTH Géza (Hungary):

Mama 9 min.

Tale of a wordlwide hanging out.

Claire BURGER & Marie AMACHOUKELI (France):

C'est gratuit pour les filles / It's Free For Girls 23 min.

In a few days, Laetitia will obtain her professional hairstyle certificate. She and her best friend Yéliz, can concretiz...

SHORT FICTION FILMS 2. (101')

Felix STIENZ (Germany):

Betty B. & the The's 13 min.

Tobias B.'s life is not crowned with success. A short man with no work and no friends and no smile on his face. One evening he comes across to Betty B. the huge chanteuse of the Band: Betty B. & the...

Rene HERNANDEZ (Australia):

The Ground Beneath 20 min.

The Ground Beneath follows the emotional journey of a young teenager, Kaden, who lives a life of fear and threat. His friendship with Casey, the girl from school, and Lewis, a boy that spends time in ...

Salomé ALEKSI (Georgia):

Bedniereba / Felicitá 30 min.

Tamara lives and works in Italy. She takes care of an aged lady named Paola. Her job allows her to save up some money and support her children who live with their father in one of Georgia’s tiny villages...

Pawel FERDEK (Poland):

Szklana pulapka / Glass Trap 15 min.

Aquiring food, reproduction, defence and attack are the main reasons of fish behaviour. Fish in the shoal struggle for domination. A menacing appearance may be enough for victory,“ reads the narrator...

Tsvetelin YOLOV (Bulgaria):

Fugata 10 min.

One for All - All against One!

Jonathan ENTWISTLE (United Kingdom):

Cotton Stones 13 min.

Scott is struggling to look after his simple younger brother Ian in the bleak moorland landscapes of northern England. After Scott loses a bag of ecstasy pills and blames it on Ian, he finds himself f...

SHORT FICTION FILMS 3. (89')

Peter BESSON (USA):

True Beauty This Night 10 min.

Last night, Rhett Somers met the love of his life. Now all he has to do is convince her she's the one. Not an easy feat considering how they met.

Stefan MUNTEANU (Romania):

Cealalta fiica / The Other Daughter 25 min.

The long time ill father is gone. Two sisters are left alone. A different, silent family gathering is about to happen. The older sister comes back from abroad i...

Alexandra MONRO & Sheila MENON (United Kingdom):

No Way Through 7 min.

Imagine if London was controlled by the military and you had to go through specific checkpoints to go to school, go to work, visit your friends or go to the hospital...

Nata BELA (Russia):

Dolgaja progulka navsegda / Long walk to forever 16 min.

They had grown up next door to each other, on the fringe of a city, near fields and woods and orchards, within sight of a lovely bell tower...

David LAMBERT (Belgium):

Vivre encore un peu / Live a bit longer... 17 min.

As every day, in the middle of the night, while his lover Pierre sleeps in the floor, Nico works with his father baker. Suddenly, he collapses on the ground...

Jonas Matzow GULBRANDSEN (Poland):

Darek 14 min.

On New Year’s Eve the teenaged Darek visits his father who now lives with a new family.

ANIMATION FILMS 1. (94')

Pascale GUILLON (Germany / France):

Belleville 6 min.

An old whippet hound limps across a cemetary, a washer-woman with a peacock head drags along piles of dirty laundry and a staunchly religious sheep praying to Jesus suddenly starts praying to the picture of a narcist...

Jelena GIRLIN & Mari-Liis BASSOVSKAJA (Estonia):

Oranus 17 min.

On one day a man realises that everything has changed and that has nothing to do with the middle-age crisis. He begins to realise that he is living in the shit,...

Mike MARYNIUK & Matthew RANKIN (Canada):

Cattle Call 4 min.

Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Manitoba /Saskatche...

Vladimir LESCHIOV (Latvia):

Sparni un Airi / Wings and Oars 6 min.

A former pilot looks back over his life - The Earth, the Sky, the Woman - everything that took place on the journey from an air strip to an abandoned boat house.

Angela STEFFEN (Germany):

Lebensader 6 min.

A little girl finds the whole world inside a leaf.

Vessela DANTCHEVA (Germany / Bulgaria):

Anna Blume 9 min.

Anna Blume is a visual poetry about the lust of a man chasing a woman. The story takes on a surreal journey dictated by the mind of the poet. Lust and ingestion...

Alexis DUCORD & Nicolas PAWLOWSKI (France):

Felures / Cracks 9 min.

A man has, for his only passion, a flower in of pot, which he takes care of with much attention. Each evening, he can hardly wait for the lighting of the rever...

Cesar CABRAL (Brazil):

Dossiê Rê Bordosa / The Re Bordosa Dossier 16 min.

Envy? Ego issues? Malice? In 1987, Angeli, one of the most important cartoonists in Brazil, coldly murdered one of his most famous creations, the underground di...

Jérome BOULBES (France):

Masques 7 min.

Two masks are in face off before an assembly of worried onlookers. A signal is given and a strage dance begins, a ritual combat...

Jérémy CLAPIN (France):

Skhizein 14 min.

Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living exactly 91cm from himself...

ANIMATION FILMS 2. (103')

Jake ARMSTRONG (USA):

The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! 6 min.

A space bounty-hunter travels to a lonely planet to kill a terrible monster.

Pierre FOLDES (Hungary / France):

Mikrodramas / Microdramas 10 min.

Micro explorations of the lives of a few people, all sharing a common feeling of loneliness in the city.

Pierre-Emmanuel LYET (France):

Parade 7 min.

A character unshackles himself from the workings of his wild imagination in order to win over the woman of his dreams.

BERTÓTI Attila (Hungary / Romania):

Ariadné fonala / Ariadne's thread 9 min.

The basic elements of the sncient Greek myth are well-known: the labyrinth, the Minotaur, Theseus, Ariadne, and of course, the thread. Let the search begin!

Capucine (Japan):

Oedipe / Oedipus 7 min.

Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He blinded himself after having fulfilled a prophecy saying he would kill his father and marry his mother. Two thousand years later: what if the oracle com...

Kaspar JANCIS (Estonia):

Krokodill / Crocodile 17 min.

The story of a former opera star who must by the will of Fate work as a Crocodile in a styrofoam costume entertaining children in the children’s playroom of a shopping centre. This kind of life ...

Paul BOURGOIS (France):

L' Education sentimentale / Sentimental education 7 min.

The generation gap between an adult and a young child seems unsolutable.

Adamsky (Hungary):

Hip-Hop Tívímaci / The Real Hip-Hop MTV Bear 1 min.

It is viral video on the internet what makes a parody about the "Tévémaci", which is a 45 year old series in MTV(hungarian television). It is special case, beca...

BRITEON Communications Kft. (Hungary):

PunkTívímaci / The Real Punk MTV Bear 1 min.

It is viral video on the internet what makes a parody about the "Tévémaci", which is a 45 year old series in MTV(hungarian television)...

Edouard SALIER (France):

Four 16 min.

Four letters. 400 000 possibilities. Only one is real.

Miriam HARRIS & Juliet PALMER (New Zealand / Canada):

Soaring, Roaring, Diving 6 min.

Virginia Woolf wrote the words "soaring, roaring, diving..." in a letter where she was ruminating upon the joys and upheavals in life. In this mixed-media anima...

H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain) (France):

Logorama 16 min.

Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city… and even more in Logorama!

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS 1. (88')

Laurie HILL (United Kingdom):

Photograph Of Jesus 7 min.

Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage w...

Vladimir TODOROVIC (Singapore):

The Snail on the Slope 8 min.

The Snail on the Slope is a generative movie based on a book of the same title by Strugatsky brothers. The novel is set on an unknown planet, where humans have a base from which they are investigating...

RÉV Marcell (Hungary):

Tán / Maybe 4 min.

„It may be the false appeal of concern, Believing it's good for one that you're there. You may be in need of others to learn Whether about you they actually care.” Péter Závada: Maybe

Patrick BERGERON (Canada):

LoopLoop 5 min.

In a train going to Hanoi in Vietnam, the houses boarding the railroad are passing by. Using animation and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking t...

Oliver PIETSCH (Germany):

The Shape of Things 17 min.

Found Footage-Film about the representation of sleep, fear and human desires in movies. The thematic sequences of "The Shape of Things" project a variety of motifs, interspersing humorous and eroti...

Fjodor DONDERER (Germany):

Journey On A Train 17 min.

It is November, on the route Berlin – Köln – Bruxelles – London. „Journey On A Train“ is not only a documentation, a résumé of a journey. Images appear, thoughts, feelin...

Michel PAVLOU (Greece / Norway):

Interstices 4 min.

A series of scenes shot in the Paris metro, edited to the rhythm of the trains’ automatic doors. The kaleidoscopic effect of viewing through the windows of trains as they pass each other determi...

Maurice HÜBNER (Germany):

Make-Down 4 min.

Many different identities, fears, dreams and abysms lie in our subconscious. In “Make-Down” these facets find their way from the inner to the surface and come to life as vivid animated vis...

Olga ZIKRATA (Canada):

Sitka / Net 5 min.

Sitka ("Net" in Ukrainian) is composed of threads and ruptures into the folds of memory, love, and loss. Body, skin, touch, movement, man and woman, mother and son, memories are awash in a haptic erot...

Jörn STAEGER (Germany):

Reise zum Wald / Journey to the Forest 7 min.

A poetic exploration of the forest. As if in trance, the camera’s gaze glides over tunnel-like avenues of woodland monocultures, leading the viewer throug...

Peter VOLKART (Switzerland):

Monsieur Sélavy / Monsieur Sélavy - The Way it is 10 min.

On the move with Monsieur Sélavy. A film diary about the vicissitudes of existence and how to encounter them with dignity. A journey in which space and time coo...

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS 2. (86')

Peter GREENAWAY (The Netherlands):

Rembrandt's J'accuse 86 min.

Rembrandt’s J’Accuse is an essayistic documentary in which Greenaway’s fierce criticism of today’s visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt’s Night Watch...

WORLD AND IMAGES / DOCUMENTARY 1. (93')

Sergio BASSO (Italy):

Giallo a Milano / Made in Chinatown 75 min.

A ballad about the Chinese community in Milan. An Italian guy asks a Chinese girl’s hand in marriage. This triggers a domino-like plot of confrontations a...

Matej BOBRIK (Poland):

Tam gdzie slonce sie nie spieszy / Where The Sun Doesn't Rush 18 min.

A small village in the middle of nowhere where ordinary people live their lives day in day out. Time seems to stay still and life is suspended somewhere between...

WORLD AND IMAGES / DOCUMENTARY 2. (85')

Bernd GLAWATTY & Daniel SPONSEL (Germany):

Über das Meer / Taking the Sea 79 min.

The inhabitants of the North Sea are said to have a unique mindset: they are described as uncommunicative and unfriendly people...

Aline D'AURIA (Switzerland):

Jalalu's dawn 6 min.

For his birthday, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, an american musician and composer, gives a very special concert at dawn at the Bain des Paquis, in Geneva, Switzerland.

WORLD AND IMAGES / DOCUMENTARY 3. (84')

Milan URBAJS (Slovenia):

Kralj Matjaž / King Mathias 27 min.

King Mathias – Kralj Matjaž - ruled Carinthia in the early Middle Ages. During his reign the good times rolled: they say he gave mint gold coins to anyone who asked for help. Other envious emper...

KOVÁCS Kristóf (Hungary):

Malaccal teljes / Full of Grease 57 min.

Lajos Balogh lives in one of the most deprived region of Hungary, in the Ormánság. And the love for this region lives in Lajos Balogh. He is wedded to this regi...

WORLD AND IMAGES / DOCUMENTARY 4. (85')

TRENCSÉNYI Klára & Vlad NAUMESCU (Romania):

Drumul Pasarilor / Birds' Way 56 min.

Birds' Way is a creative documentary that guides us to a remote Old Believers‘ village in the Danube Delta, Romania - following the route of migrant birds...

Edgar BARTENEV (Russia):

Yaptik-Hasse 29 min.

The film tells about the Nenet’s family everyday life. Action takes place on Yamal Peninsula. The main family occupation is reindeer breeding. Even 4-years old boy never misses to catch the deer...

WORLD AND IMAGES / DOCUMENTARY 5. (79')

Bartek KONOPKA & Piotr ROSOŁOWSKI (Poland / Germany):

Mauerhase / Rabbit à la Berlin 39 min.

The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safest home....

Fiorella CASTANOTTO (Switzerland):

La marche de Reena / Salt in the Scars 17 min.

The saltpans of Marakanam in South India. While following Reena, a woman who earns her living collecting sea salt, viewers are challenged to consider the import...

Fabian DAUB & Andreas GRÄFENSTEIN (Germany):

Was übrig bleibt / Left behind 13 min.

In Waldenburg, situated in the Lower Silesian Coalfield, all mines are closed down. Lukasz and his elder friend Jacek ha...

Urszula PONTIKOS (United Kingdom / China):

China's Wild West 10 min.

40 times more valuable than gold, Hotan is one of the few places on earth to find Jade. Partly observational, partly impressionistic, the film describes a day i...

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