Films

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

THE MARK OF CAIN
Director: Marc Munden
Cast: Gerard Kearns, Matthew McNulty, Leo Gregory
UK / 2007 / 35 mm / color / 1h30
Shane Gulliver and Mark Tate (Treacle) are two ordinary 18 year-olds serving with the British Army in Iraq. Their platoon is struggling to maintain the uneasy peace of 2003. When the popular company captain is killed on patrol by a roadside bomb, morale in the platoon hits rock bottom. Acting on orders they round up several suspects from house-to-house searches. That night feelings at the camp are running high and as the chain of command is weakened events spiral out of control. The lads end their tour of duty and return to England full of stories but also shaken by their experiences. Iraq comes back to haunt them when Wayne's jilted girlfriend, Shelley, decides to get her own back on him by giving photos of the events in Iraq to the British police.

LA FAUTE A FIDEL
BLAME IT ON FIDEL
Director: Julie Gavras
Cast: Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Nina Kervel
Italy - France / 2006 / 35 mm / color / 1h33
Amazing audiences and critics as well at Sundance 2007 with the brilliant performances of its cast and the power of its script, this story of social unrest is set as seen completely through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl, even the camera is placed at her height. Set in 1970 when such leaders as Chile's Allende and Spain's Franco were in the news almost daily, the film follows Anna, a child whose parents become increasingly politicized –her dad is an activist while her mom researches abortion issues. Anna’s parents abruptly decide to abandon bourgeois comforts including their spacious house, devoting themselves to full-time radical activism, Traumatised, Anna rebels among a succession of refugees and ideological tales.

COVER-BOY
Director: Carmine Amoroso
Cast: Eduard Gabia, Luca Lionello, Chiara Caselli
Italy / 2006 / 35 mm / color / 1h40
Cover-boy is the story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele. Ioan, is a Romanian immigrant, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future. Michele is an Italian lower-class worker who has lost all hopes. They struggle to find gainful employment in Western society. Ioan's encounter with a famous photographer, Laura, and his misjudgment of an exploitive sentiment for love, will ultimately bolster his friendship with Michele and guide him to the final destination of his on-going quest.

HVORDAN VI SLIPPER AF MED DE ANDRE
HOW TO GET RID OF THE OTHERS
Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
Cast: Søren Pilmark, Søren Fauli, Louise Mieritz, Lene Tiemroth, Lene Poulsen
Denmark / 2007 / 35 mm / color / 1h34
A satirical drama revealing the consequences of the Danish government's 'New Copenhagen Criteria', a new policy aiming at securing the nation's survival. Citizens who fail to meet the criteria – those who have received more from society than what they have contributed – are eliminated. In other words, this is a fast and radical way of treating alcoholics, drug addicts, the unemployed, profiteers, the handicapped and other marginalized groups. All the more radical since the army proves particularly zealous in its enforcement of the law.

BEYNELMILEL
THE INTERNATIONAL
Directors: Sirri Süreyya Önder & Muharrem Gülmez
Cast: Cezmi Baskin, Özgü Namal, Umut Kurt
Turkey / 2007 / 35 mm / color / 1h46
In 1982, a group of local musicians in Adiyaman, southeastern Anatolia, can not earn their living due to the curfew implemented in those years, and they finally end up in jail. The martial law commander of the region decides to create a “modern orchestra” with these local street musicians, and tragicomic events begin. They decide to prepare an interesting welcome ceremony for the members of the Council, who will visit the town. Meanwhile, Haydar, a university student, is planning a protest and Gülendam, daughter of Abuzer the conductor of the “modern orchestra", is assisting him. A surprise is on the way, which will occur as these two preparations collide.

… A BUDE HUR
IT GONNA GET WORSE
Director: Petr Nikolaev
Cast: Karel Žídek, Filip Kaòkovský, Tereza Hofová, Mirek Škultéty, Perla Kotmelová
Czech Republic / 2007 / 35 mm / color / 1h25
Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll in a communist police state. The film takes place in the 1970s in the northern part of Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia. It centers on anti-hero Olin, who has just been released from a psychiatric hospital, where he ended up after slashing his wrists to avoid military service. A few weeks after his release, he becomes an important figure in the underground scene, attracting increasing attention from the forces of order. One day he decides to flee to the West, as he has always dreamed.

EZRA
Director: Newton I. Aduaka
Cast: Mamoudou Turay Kamara, Mariame N'DIAYE, Mamusu KALLON
France - Nigeria / 2007 / 35 mm / color / 1h45
In the year 2000, it was alleged that some 300,000 children were serving as soldiers in armed conflicts in more than thirty countries around the world. Nearly 120,000 of these were allegedly engaged in various conflicts on the African continent. EZRA is a factional tale inspired by the Sierra Leonean conflict. It is centred on one event: a drug fuelled atrocious attack on a village by rebel soldiers. The jigsaw puzzle of what occurred that night is reconstructed through the testimonies of three witnesses: Ezra, an excombatant, his sister Onitcha, a mute, and Cynthia, Ezra's fellow exsoldier. What is supposed to be reconciliation soon becomes a trial, as Onitcha chooses this as the arena to reveal a secret she has kept from her brother.

STRAJK – DIE HELDIN VON DANZIG
STRIKE
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Cast: Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra
Germany - Poland / 2006 / 35 mm / color / 1h44
Can a single person change the course of history? Hardly. Such legends are born at a later time. But a single person can be the catalyst for a powerful development. Named after Sergey Eisenstein’s 1924 Stachka / Strike, about the story of workers during Czarist rule and inspired from Anna Walentynowicz, the overlooked hero of the creation of the Polish “Solidarnosc”, this is a solidarity saga set in Poland, based on historical events, that continues the politically engaged filmmaking of German master Volker Schloendorff. The film tells the story of Agnieszka, a small woman, but a loyal and dedicated worker. She is able to forge her way past the fat cats and masters, but eventually they get her and she is fired on a false pretence. Showing their solidarity, her colleagues strike in order to force her reinstatement. Suddenly the whole shipyard is striking, and then all Polish factories. “Solidarnosc” is about to be born.

IMAGES OF THE WORLD

RIPARO
SHELTER
Director: Marco Simon Puccioni
Cast: Maria De Medeiros, Antonia Liskova, Mounir Ouani
Italy – France / 2007 / 35 mm / 1h40
Anna and Mara, a lesbian couple, return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them. Gradually Anis establishes himself in the life of the couple and for a brief moment, the three manage to help and support each other in an unusual and emotionally intricate relation. Yet this precarious balance is short-lived: Anis loses his job and is rejected by Mara who he has fallen in love with and Anna has to witness her idyllic domestic arrangement fall to pieces. “SHELTER” portrays three human beings, diverse from each other and the majority, compelled to deal, with compassion, trust and fear, with issues raised by sexual orientation, coming of age, immigration and work related problems.

PUT LUBENICA
THE MELON ROUTE
Director: Branko Schmidt
Cast: Krešimir Mikic, Sun Mei, Armin Omerovic
Croatia / 2006 / 35 mm / 1h30
The action of the film takes place in the Balkans – a region known for its century-long conflicts among different civilization and religion. For the local mafia, Mirko smuggles people over the river Sava, at the Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia border, to the West. His overloaded boat capsizes, and the smuggled Chinese people in it drown. Only a young Chinese woman survives, and Mirko decides to hide her. Under her influence, Mirko experiences a change in life. But the Chinese woman is a witness and the mafia kidnaps her with the help of the head of the local police, who is Mirko's uncle... The Melon Route is a film inspired by a true story about twelve illegal immigrants which got drowned in the river Sava.

DAY ZERO
Director: Bryan Gunnar Cole
Cast: Elijah Wood, Chris Klein, Jon Bernthal
USA / 2007 / 35 mm / 1h34
Day Zero follows the lives of three best friends in New York City who have thirty days to come to terms with their fate as the U.S. military draft is back and they’ve been called to serve. Dixon, Rifkin and Feller grew up together in New York. Living very different lives in the same city, their childhood friendship still binds them. Rifkin is a married lawyer whose career is on the rise. He’s just made partner and is looking for any loop hole to get out of serving. Now, just isn’t a good time for him. Feller is working on his second novel. The first was a smash success, but his draft notice paralyzes him, causing severe writer’s block. Instead he draws up his list of “Top 10 things to do before I serve”. Dixon drives a cab, lives a solitary life and is proud and ready to serve - until he meets someone and finally has something to lose. Over thirty days, they will find their relationships tested as they confront long held beliefs about life, death, courage and love.

LA PRUEBA
THE TRIAL
Director: Judith Vélez
Cast: Jimena Lindo, Gianfranco Brero, Pietro Sibille
Peru / 2006 / 35 mm / 1h40
Having lived abroad for some years, Miranda returns to her picturesque hometown of Arequipa (Peru) to search for her long-lost father Ignacio. With her brother Tomas badly in need for a bone marrow transplant and likely to get a good match with Ignaçio, Miranda is particularly motivated to sniffing down the trail to his wherabouts. In Arequipa, she forms an unlikely partnership with hydraulic engineer and dam expert Saùl, who drives her far into the Andean countryside where clues indicate Ignaçio may be hiding...

DAY ON FIRE
Director: Jay Anania
Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Martin Donovan, Carmen Chaplin, Alyssa Sutherland, Judy Kuhn
USA / 2006 / 35 mm / 1h34
The paths of five strangers: a singer, a model, a journalist, a doctor and a mysterious man, cross one day in New York. Najia is a young Palestinian woman. Her curiosity and inquiring mind lead her to an older woman, a doctor named Mary. By chance she meets a model named Shira in a coffee shop. Singer Judy records old Celtic ballads at a studio, accompanied by the pianist John Medeski. Meanwhile, a middle-aged man wanders about the streets and parks of New York. He seems to be searching for a connection to these women – a connection that will reveal the horror of the world in which these women move and where they somehow seek their salvation.
Beautifully and hauntingly musical, this thriller also has a political and personal intrigue that mounts inexorably as the sun begins to set on this fateful day. By the time night has fallen in the city, the crossing of these individual fates is sealed.

EL CUSTODIO
THE BODYGUARD
Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Cast: Julio Chavez, Osmar Nunez, Marcelo D’Andrea, Elvira Onetto
Argentina / 2006 / 35 mm / 1h35
As el custodio, it’s Ruben’s duty to keep the Minister of Planning under constant surveillance. Although Ruben must always be present, he must also go completely un-noticed. A shadow, Ruben witnesses everything from the sidelines, as if life was passing by some meters away from him. Yet, despite his insider’s view, he never understands clearly what’s going on. Single Ruben is hardly even a protagonist of his own lonely life, involving a mentally unstable sister and a ditzy niece, the sale of illegal arms and cheap prostitutes, plus the monotonous routine of being a bodyguard and the occasional humiliation from the Minister or his family…Some jobs result in almost replacing a life for another. Such pressure can ultimately explode. This is Ruben’s inevitable outcome.

INVITED COUNTRY : TURKEY

YILANLARIN ÖCÜ
REVENGE OF THE SNAKES
Director: Metin Erksan
Cast: Fikret Hakan, Nurhan Nur, Aliye Rona, Erol Tas, Kadir Savun
Turkey / 1962 / 35 mm / B&W / 1h50
In the East of Turkey, a farmer wants to build a house. The problem is that, the house will be built in front of the house of Kara Bayram and Bayram’s mother, a strong woman, doesn’t agree at all.
A movie about the poverty of the Eastern Turkey, with a particular sense of humor and using a sharp sociological approach. The film will be censored in Turkey and will mark the beginning of the struggle against the system of censorship.

OTOBÜS
THE BUS
Director: Tunç Okan
Cast: Tunç Okan, Tuncel Kurtiz, Oguz Roylas, Björn Geda, Aras Ören, Nuri Sezer, Hasan Gül, Sümer Isgör, Ünal Nurkan, Zafer Sezer
Turkey-Switzerland / 1974 / 35 mm / Color / 1h16
Directed and written by Tunc Okan and based on a newspaper article, the film revolves around nine Turks, who, in search of a better life, get on an old, rickety bus and travel to Stockholm. After many complications and overcoming difficulties, they reach their destination. However, their driver parks the bus in a square in Stockholm, takes their passports and money for so-called official paperwork, and disappears. He also advises his passangers not to abandon the vehicle, no matter what happens.

YOL
THE ROAD
Director: Serif Gören
Cast: Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün
Turkey / 1982 / 35 mm / Color / 1h51
A Yimaz Güney film directed by Serif Gören, because Güney was in prison. Awarded with a "Palme d'Or" in the "Festival de Cannes", the film follows the struggles of five minimum-security prisoners who are giving a one week leave to return to their wives and families. At first, the inmates are deliriously happy at the prospect of temporary of freedom, but it isn’t long before each is engulfed in a series of disasters. For one of the men, the nightmare is returning home to find his wife chained in a shed by his family, disgraced because she had an affair in his absence. Another inmate is shunned by everybody in his family, including his wife, for leaving his brother to be killed by the police during a bank robbery. A third watches at his brother is killed by the police for leftist political beliefs, while a fourth is severely beaten by an angry crowd on a train while having sex with his wife in the bathroom…

ASIYE NASIL KURTULUR?
ASIYE
Director: Atif Yilmaz
Cast: Müjde Ar, Ali Poyrazoglu, Nuran Oktar, Hümeyra
Turkey / 1987 / 35 mm / Colour / 1h40
In this musical comedy based on an epic theatre play, Seniye Gümüsçü, the President of he Association for the Supression of Prostitution, is paying a visit to Sirinsemt, a brothel area. The reason for the visit is a letter from a girl of the name of Asiye, saying that she has read the brochure published by the Association and finds the advice it offers young girls quite inadequate. Asiye, whose mother was a prostitute and abandoned her as a child, has learned the secret of living in present-day society and she will explain it to her. Seniye Gümüsçü and her friend Sükran Hanim meet Selo, one of the most colourful personalities in Sirinsemt. Seniye is surprised to learn that there is no one called Asiye in the brothel and that no one has ever heard of such a person. But Selo has a bright idea. Almost all the girls have had much the same experiences as Asiye. They will act them out to their visitors.

UÇURTMAYI VURMASINLAR
DON’T LET THEM SHOOT THE KITE
Director: Tunç Basaran
Cast: Nur Sürer, Ozan Bilen, Rozet Hubes, Sevgi Sakarya
Turkey / 1989 / 35 mm / Color / 1h40
Inci is a political prisoner. Baris is the son of a woman who has been put in jail as a drug seller. The boy has been condemned to grow up in prison since there is nobody to take care of him outside. He learns about nature, the world outside and affection through Inci. His only contact with the outside world is the small piece of sky viewed from the courtyard. A kite which he sees one morning in this small sky excites him very much. He takes the kite for a huge colourful bird. Inci tells him that she will take him out and they will fly a kite together. But Inci is to leave prison first and she can’t keep her promise. Baris misses Inci so much that he believes she’ll return one day as a kite. And one day, he sees another kite appear in the sky…

MAVI SÜRGÜN
THE BLUE EXILE
Director: Erden Kiral
Cast: Can Togay, Hanna Schygulla, Özay Fecht, Ayse Romey
Turkey-Germany-Greece / 1992 / 35 mm / Color / 1h53
In 1925, journalist Cevat Sakir is sentenced to three years in exile for an article about deserters in Atatürk’s newly founded Turkish Republic. During the six-month journey to the region of exile, by bus and train, by horse and on foot, he encounters his own past again – his childhood, the doting love of his mother, the guilt he still bears over the death of his father, and the latter’s relationship with Cevat’s first wife. At the end of his journey, Cevat stands at the beginning of a new life, capable of a profound love for man and nature…

GÜNESE YOLCULUK
JOURNEY TO THE SUN
Director: Yesim Ustaoglu
Cast: Nazmi Kirik, Newroz Baz, Mizgin Kapazan
Turkey / 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 1h44
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from Tire, a small town of Western Anatolia, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd because of his dark skin and imprisoned. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to return the body to Berzan's home village near the Iraqi border.

HIÇBIRYERDE
INNOWHERELAND
Director: Tayfun Pirselimoglu
Cast: Zuhal Olcay, Parkan Özturan, Meral Okay, Ruhi Sari
Turkey / 2001 / 35 mm / Color / 1h40
Sükran, a lady in forties, works at the booking office in Haydarpasa central train station in Istanbul. She is very fond of her only son Veysel who is working in a small workshop in the outskirts of the city. Sükran always feels very tenderly for her son, because she has suffered a lot from his husband’s political dealing in the past. She always thinks that Veysel is “clean”; but one day Veysel disappears. She believes that the young man is just lost and demands assistance from the authorities. However, her request is refused. She decides to find him by herself. She begins a journey from Istanbul to the far Eastern side of Turkey.

BABAM VE OGLUM
MY FATHER AND MY SON
Director: Çagan Irmak
Cast: Çetin Tekindor, Fikret Kuskan, Hümeyra, Serif Sezer, Yetkin Dikinciler
Turkey / 2005 / 35 mm / Color / 1h48
The national box-office hit of 2005-2006 in Turkey.
1987… Young Deniz, who lost her mother with the 1980 military coup, travels with his father Sadik to the Aegean farmhouse of his grandfather. His grandfather had rejected Sadik for being involved in political activities during his studies in Istanbul, that’s why Deniz had never seen his grandfather before. Sadik returns to his father’s home just for one reason: He will have to abandon his child Deniz, and leave him with his father. Accustomed to living in Istanbul, Deniz suddenly finds himself surrounded by this wild Aegean family. This warm tale of three Aegean men of three different generations, proves the emotional build-up of the director Çagan Irmak, as well as his aptitude for social commentary and his cinematic intuition.

TAKVA
TAKVA – A MAN’S FEAR OF GOD
Director: Özer Kiziltan
Cast: Erkan Can, Güven Kiraç, Meray Ülgen
Turkey / 2006 / 35 mm / Color / 1h46
The humble and introverted Muharrem leads a life closely adhering to Islamic tradition. When he attracts the attention of a wealthy, potent and money-hungry sheikh to collect rent owed to the sect. With new money and power, his personality changes and he becomes a domineering, arrogant man. Worse, a seductress keeps appearing in his dreams. As the pillars of his commitment crumble down, his fear of God tears him apart.

GAUCHE / DROITE

In the beginning Left / Right was just a question of placement in the Constituting Assembly of 1789, created by the French Revolution. Based on this improvised seating arrangement, ideologies have confronted one another for two centuries in the still-moving space of Western and Central Europe. The last 30 years have been a theater of significant social and political events in France, as in other countries: the rise of the extreme right, conflicts and movements beyond both unions and political parties, changes in left-right ideologies, etc.
This collection, produced by the Franco-German TV channel ARTE at the end of 90’s, aimed to use fiction to represent the French political landscape of the last two decades through genre films. This look to the past will perhaps help us better understand and analyze the new era of political change fostered and represented by the recently-elected French president.
Is this really a new vision for deep social change or a crazy race head-on into the wall? The debate is open…

LE PETIT VOLEUR
SMALLTIME THIEF
Director: Erick Zonca
Cast : Nicolas Duvauchelle, Yann Tregouët , Jean-Jérôme Esposito, Martial Bezot
France / 1998 / 1h03
Esse, an apprentice baker in a country town, leaves the bakery where he works. That evening, he spends the night with Laura, a young waitress. This marks the start of life for a small-time thief and his gang.

RETIENS LA NUIT
HOLD BACK THE NIGHT
Director: Dominique Cabrera
Cast : Ariane Ascaride, Marilyne Canto, Thierry Frémont, Philippe
France – 1998 – 1h06
November/December 1995. France is paralysed by a transport strike. Paris turns into a huge traffic jam and its inhabitants brave winter on foot or by bicycle. Nadia, a young woman, lives on minimum welfare. She is mother of six-month old Christopher whom she is bringing up alone. One day she thinks she recognises the father of her child, whom she hasn’t heard from, in a television report on the striking railway workers. She decides to go to Gare d’Austerlitz where the report was filmed, to find him.

LE DETOUR
THE « DETOUR »
Director : Pierre Salvadori
Cast : Serge Riaboukine, Patrick Lizana, Marina Golovine, Mathieu Demy, Guillaume Depardieu
France – 1999 – 1h12
Paris today, a working-class neighbourhood, a square.
Two bars facing each other as they would in the main street of a town in the Far West.
Marie is 25 years old and has come back to Paris after a long absence in search of her brother, Antoine. She finds a young man who has changed. He hangs out with a rough crowd and is killed soon afterwards in circumstances that are unclear.Marie will move heaven and earth to avenge her brother’s death.

LES TERRES FROIDES
COLD LANDS
Director : Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast : Yasmine Belmadi, Bernard Verley, Sébastien Charles, Valérie Donzelli
France – 1999 – 1h03
Djamel, barely 20 years old, has a violent fight with his grandmother because he’s just lost his job. He decides to leave Paris and ends up in Grenoble, where he gets a job in a warehouse. At work, Djamel develops a strange attraction to his boss, and begins stalking at his home.

TONTAINE ET TONTON
TONTAINE AND TONTON
Director : Tonie Marshall
Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Patrick Pineau, Eric Petitjean
France – 1999 – 55 mn
Two guys in their forties who haven’t seen each other since high school, meet one evening. For different reasons, neither of them has screwed for an eternity. In a café, they chat up a 25 year-old woman who is beautiful and very sexy. The two of them are more moderately appealing. They follow her. The woman is no wallflower and invites them over for a dinner. She is a student and is doing a Masters degree on François Mitterand. In her apartment, she cultivates memory and fantasy.
Each of them tries to conquer her and spend the night with her. There is no question of love, but of sex and desire. The young woman is sensitive, desirable and desiring but the figure of Mitterand darkens her spirit and nothing ever comes to pass.

LA VOLEUSE DE SAINT-LUBIN
THE SAINT LUBIN THIEF
Director: Claire Devers
Cast : Dominique Blanc, Denis Podalydès, Michèle Goddet
France – 1998 – 1h11
Françoise Barnier is a mother. One day, she stole something.
She was in dire straits but no more so than usual. She was not in debt. She had always refused the degradation of excessive debt and charities, attempting to live in line with the rules laid down by society and the law. But that day, she stole something.

SHORTS

PROGRAM 1 (81 min.)

Vos Papiers! (¡Su identificación! - Let’s see your ID!), de Claire Fouquet
Francia / 2006 / Animación / Francés con subtítulos en Inglés / 12 min.
Contacto: Les Films du Nord – smr@euroanima.net
In order to get rid of clandestine immigrants, the government sets up an “erasing” procedure. Against these disappearances, a resistance movement fights for the immigrants’ rights. But this noble cause is matched with many risks…

El Canto del Grillo (The Song of the Cricket), de Dany Campos
España / 2006 / Ficción / Castellano / 17 min.
Contacto: Promofest - promofest@mixmail.com
Joseba Perurena, a young terrorist, wants to start a new life together with his girlfriend. However, cutting ties with the past is never an easy thing to do especially when the consequences have not been fully considered.

Nijuman no borei (200000 fantasmas - 200000 phantoms), de Jean Gabriel Periot
Francia / 2007 / Experimental / Sin diálogos / 10 min.
Contacto: Jean Gabriel Périot – jgperiot@free.fr
Hiroshima 1914-2006

God on our side (Dios de los nuestros), de Uri Kranot y Michal Pfeffer
Países Bajos / 2005 / Animación / Sin diálogos / 7 min
Contacto : Netherlands Institute for Animation Film – niaf@niaf.nl
Inspired by Picasso's Guernica (1937), this film is fundamentally about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the name of God, people are infused with rage and violence. Fear leads to brutality and vengeance follows. What hope is there for a child born into this circle of loss?

Day Off (Día libre), de Jérôme Jourlait
Namibia / 2007 / Ficción / Herero con subtítulos en Inglés / 3 min.
Contacto : Ze Monkiz Tribe – monkiztribe@yahoo.com
Ngavii a young Himba kid from the north of Namibia walked twenty kilometers to go to school but today the teacher is not here. Now Ngavii has to go back to his village…

Administrators (Administradores), de Roman Klochkov
Bélgica / 2006 / Animación / Inglés / 7 min.
Contacto: Flanders Image – ncapiau@vaf.be
The administrative forest. Egor the rabbit's house is on fire. Egor runs to the government for help and a fire extinguisher. He is sent from department to department until...

De las Relaciones de Jorge Acebo
España / 2007 / Ficción / Castellano / 25 min.
Contacto: Centro d’Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya / Grup Cinema Art – festivals@cecc.es
We conceive a space to watch... a time to remember… a history... to answer...... or to ask... Because the most important matter are questions... Because already in questions... in some secret way... the answer is indicated.

PROGRAM 2 (69 min.)

Milan de Michaela Kezele
Alemania - Serbia / 2007 / Ficción / Serbio con subtítulos en Inglés / 22 min.
Contacto: Target Films - target-film@gmx.de
Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO air-raids. Two brothers are making plans to go and play “hide and seek” in the forest. As Milan gets to the meeting place on time, his brother, at the same time, is fighting for his life. Milan starts looking for him and surprisingly finds someone else… Milan tells the story of a family during the confusing times of the war.

Postman de PostPanic
Países Bajos / 2006 / Animación / Sin diálogos / 2 min.
Contacto: Autour de Minuit - festivals@autourdeminuit.com
In space nobody can hear you panic…

Apnée (Apnea), de Claude Chabotç
Francia / 2006 / Animación - Experimental / Sin diálogos / 4 min.
Contacto: Autour de Minuit - festivals@autourdeminuit.com
A photographer tries to capture an embarrassing moment in the life of someone in the public eye. He doesn't realise that time is working against him.

I met the Walrus (Conocí al “Walrus”), de Josh Raskin
Canada / 2007 / Animación - Experimental / Inglés / 3 min.
Contacto: Kim Jackson - imetthewalrus@gmail.com
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview. This was in the midst of Lennon's "bed-in" phase, during which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.

Motion Report, de Verica Patrnogic
Serbia / 2006 / Serbio con subtítulos en Inglés / 17 min.
Contacto: Pregnant Cinema – evol@eunet.yu
Trading the grim urban grit of Belgrade for blue skies: a fractured girl-meets-boy story for a time out of joint and a society fallen to pieces.

Cosas de Kulechov, de Susana Rey
España / 2007 / Experimental / Castellano / 21 min.
Contacto: Ewa Krasucka - ekras85@hotmail.com
“ Cousas do Kulechov” is an experimental short film inspired by L.V. Kuleshov, in which we try to put the elasticity of MONTAGE to the test in order to reflect on the fragility and veracity of what we see and hear.

PROGRAM 3 (60 min.)

La Tierra Yerma (The Barren Land), de Alfredo Vera García
España / 2006 / Ficción / Castellano con subtítulos en Inglés / 12 min.
Contacto: Centro d’Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya / Grup Cinema Art – festivals@cecc.es
Cándido, a simple peasant, works a common ground that the militia took from the Landowner the day that war began. In any case he´s only worried about starvation and his family, specially the arrival to the world of his third son. But what arrives one morning is Franco´s troops. And with them, Victory.

Leviathan (Leviatán - Leviathan), de Simon Bogojevic-Narath
Croacia / 2006 / Animación - Experimental / Sin diálogos / 15 min.
Contacto : Autour de Minuit - festivals@autourdeminuit.com
Jerky but smiling characters from this short film will take the audience through this animated pageant inspired by a book by Thomas Hobbes called "The Leviathan", written in 1651.

Bouly le campeur (Bouly el campista - Bouly the camper), de Anthony Vouardoux
Suiza / 2006 / Ficción / Francés con subtítulos en Inglés / 4 min.
Contact: Base-Court, Philippe Clivaz - pipo@base-court.ch
Dialog between a xenophobic and misogynist camper and an off screen voice about human rights.

Article 03 (Artículo 03), de Julie Gilbert et Frédéric Choffat
Suiza / 2006 / Ficción / Francés con subtítulos en Inglés / 7 min.
Contact: Base-Court, Philippe Clivaz - pipo@base-court.ch
A man on a bus. Lost in his anguishes.

Selma, de Bernie Forster
Suiza / 2006 / Ficción / Alemán con subtítulos en Inglés / 8 min.
Contact: Base-Court, Philippe Clivaz - pipo@base-court.ch
In reference to the Universal Human Rights Declaration’s article on the right to work, the trials and tribulations of a teenager from Croatia in Switzerland.

Der illettrist (El analfabeto - The Illiterate), de Olivier Paulus et Stephan Hillebrand
Suiza / 2006 / Ficción / Alemán con subtítulos en Inglés / 9 min.
Contact: Base-Court, Philippe Clivaz - pipo@base-court.ch
A man is convened by his daughter’s teacher, as the girl is missing school more and more everyday. During the reunion it appears that the father doesn’t know how to read and that he was hiding it to all his close relations.

Croire (Creer - To Believe), de François Rossier
Suiza / 2006 / Experimental / Francés con subtítulos en Inglés / 8 min.
Contact: Base-Court, Philippe Clivaz - pipo@base-court.ch
A trip through a poem of images which echo back to text excerpts about faith and beliefs.

Un altro mondo (Un otro mundo - Another World), de Mohammed Soudani et Lorenzo Buccella
Suiza / 2006 / Ficción / Italiano con subtítulos en Inglés / 5 min.
Contact: Base-Court, Philippe Clivaz - pipo@base-court.ch
A rap song about racial discrimination.