Competition
Call for Entries
International Selection Committee
International Jury
Selection
Competition
Competition1 8/21thu
Competition2 8/22fri
Competition3 8/23sat
Competition4 8/24sun
Winners
 

Competition2 August 22nd, Friday.


16
Rainy Days
screen 2014/8'17"
Country:Canada/ Latvia

Directed by: Vladimir Leschiov
Produced by: Vladimir Leschiov (Ludhod), Marc Bertrand (National Film Board of Canada)
Distributed by: National Film Board of Canada
During a rainy day, an old Japanese man boards a ferry heading towards an unknown island. As he looks out over the water, the falling rain leads him back in time towards two moments from his past. The only constant is the rain, a woman and Mount Fuji.

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17
Through the Hawthorn
screen 2014/8'23"
Country:U.K.

Directed by: Anna Benner, Pia Borg, Gemma Burditt
Produced by: Anna Benner, D R Hood

Sam has stopped taking his medication - he still doesn't think he is ill. His mother is fraught after finding Sam naked in a freezing lake in the middle of the night. The doctor thinks Sam should try a different medication. Three characters, three perspectives, three directors: A triptych exploring three very different senses of reality.

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18
FIRST LIGHT
screen 2013/11'00"
Country:U.K.

Directed by: Wing Yan Lilian Fu
Produced by: Rob Darnell (NATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL)
Distributed by: Hemant Sharda (NATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL)
Daniela lives in a city that's always building, moving, climbing. As a humble employee and resident of the city, she never knows where her house will be taken next but when she opens her door one evening to find her house gone. She must follow a journey that leads to parts of the city she's never known before.

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19
A Tangled Tale
screen 2013/5'29"
Country:U.S.A.

Directed/Produced by: Corrie Parks


In this unusual romance, hand-tinted sand, becomes a metaphor for two souls as they join and separate. A lonely fish, hooked by as angler's line, encounters another in the same dire situation. As the two struggle, the physical connection moves deeper. Is it love or merely a will to survive?

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20
THE BEAST
screen 2013/8'12"
Country:France

Directed by: Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka
Produced by: Daniel Sauvage (CAIMANS PRODUCTIONS), Jérôme Barthélemy (CAIMANS PRODUCTIONS)
Distributed by: Annabel Sebag (AUTOUR DE MINUIT)
A young woman touches herself. From her pubic hair, a huge beast is born, whose body both merges with and abuses her own.

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21
CARROTROPE
screen 2013/7'50"
Country:Portugal

Directed by: Paulo D'alva
Produced by: Rodrigo Areias (BANDO À PARTE)
Distributed by: Salette Ramalho (AGENCIA - Portuguese Short Film Agency)
Carrotrope is a new optical toy. It represents the cyclic movements of life. Meanwhile, a man drinks and the time passes at 24 frames per second.

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22
High Wool
screen 2013/2'21"
Country:Germany

Directed/Produced by: Nikolai Maderthoner, Moritz Mugler
Distributed by: Sigrid Gairing (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

A duel in a town made of strings.

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23
LONELY BONES
screen 2013/9'20"
Country:France

Directed/Produced by: Rosto (Studio Rosto A.D.)
Produced by: Nicolas Schmerkin (Autour de Minuit Productions)
Distributed by: Autour de Minuit Productions
A short hallucinative film about making dreams and making sacrifice:
"Hail! To all the souls-O Hiding on rotting floors Little did they know that they would make today"

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24
Grace Under Water
screen 2014/7'43"
Country:Australia

Directed/Produced by: Anthony Lawrence (Plasmation)


Lou is losing the cold war with her stubborn and enigmatic stepdaughter Grace when an unexpected challenge arises from the depths of a warm, dreamy afternoon at the local pool.

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25
CONFUSION THROUGH SAND
screen 2013/11'59"
Country:U.S.A.

Directed by: Danny Madden (ORNANA)
Produced by: Jim Cummings (ORNANA)

A nineteen year old kid finds himself alone in a hostile desert, scared as hell and trained to react.

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26
The Swallow
screen 2014/5'19"
Country:China

Directed by: Xi Chen, Xu An
Produced/Distributed by: Xi Chen

Three women, three generations. This is a Chinese family without love in 1940s.

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27
Man on the chair
screen 2014/6'53"
Country:France/ Republic of Korea

Directed by: Dahee Jeong
Produced by: Ron Dyens (Sacrebleu Productions)

Man on the chair questions seriously the existence while it only shows animated pictures of my hands. "am I not a picture drawn by someone else?"

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28
A RECIPE FOR GRUEL
screen 2013/10'24"
Country:U.K.

Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Sharon Smith


Life, one meal at a time.

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29
Argument
screen 2013/3'39"
Country:Russia

Directed by: Alexander Ilyash (Studio Animos)
Produced by: Tengiz Semyonov (Studio Animos)

People often make arguments out of nothing. Even though the cause of a quarrel is already forgotten they can keep being angry at each other and make up new reasons for another row, and the situation may never end.

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30
Hipopotamy
screen 2014/12'29"
Country:Poland

Directed by: Piotr Dumała (FUMI Studio)
Produced/Distributed by: Piotr Furmankiewicz (FUMI Studio), Mateusz Michalak (FUMI Studio)

A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men, who, at one point decide to approach them, in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.

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