2011 Nominations
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Кръг За Двама (A Circle for Two)
directed by Nenko Genov
Bulgaria | 2010 | Fiction | 5’00
A boy and a girl face a change in their lives. What happens with the high-school love when their ways part? Desperately hanging to each other, spending their last days together, Plamen and Beloslava are looking for hope with which to fight their parting. Help will come from the “new revolutionary product” – the Circle for two.
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Apele Tac (Silent River)
directed by Anca Miruna Lazarescu
Germany, Romania | 2011 | Fiction | 30’00
Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Both need each other, yet there is mutual distrust. One night Gregor finds his doubts confirmed. In the end only hope is left.
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The Astronaut on the Roof
directed by Sergi Portabella
Germany | 2010 | Fiction | 12’00
A comical road movie about two scriptwriters who write a film about two scriptwriters who write a film about a teenage couple who become bank robbers. A film about the struggle of writing a movie, getting lost in the way and end up starring your own script.
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Cigarette Candy
directed by Lauren Wolkstein
USA | 2009 | Fiction | 13’39
Eddie Van Buren, a traumatized teenage Marine, is forced to play the role of “the hero” at his homecoming party. In pursuing a rebellious, precocious sixteen-year-old girl, Candy, he sees an opportunity to numb his pain and connect to a fellow lost soul.
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Der präzise Peter (Precise Peter)
directed by Martin Schmidt
Germany | 2010 | Animation | 5’35
Precise Peter introduces his little son to the subtleties of the family ritual. The fish is ready, the garden prepared and the sun is shining as planned. May the great dinner ceremony begin!
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Deux Inconnus (The Strange Ones)
directed by L. Wolkstein & C. Radcliff
France | 2011 | Fiction | 14’36
A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is quite what it seems to be.
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Divergenze
directed by Luigi Sorbilli
Italy | 2010 | Fiction | 7’39
A man has missed his train and waits for the next one at the bar of the train station. He orders a coffee and a package of biscuits. When the stranger in front of him opens the package and eats one of his biscuits, it becomes a battle to the last crumb, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
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Hurlement d’un poisson (Howl of a Fish)
directed by Sébastien Carfora
France | 2010 | Fiction | 19’48
Julien is a poet. Today he must brave his first day of work at a survey call center.
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Le Piano / Dashnamoure (The Piano)
directed by Levon Minasian
Armenia, France | 2011 | Fiction | 26’25
The terrible earthquake that hit Armenia in 1988 destroyed the city of Leninakan. Twelve years later, Loussiné, an orphan girl, is a talented pianist. To prepare for an international competition, the Ministry of Culture arranges for her to have a piano. But the temporary shelter where she lives with her grandfather is too small.
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Leçon de Ténèbres (The Quartet)
directed by Sarah Arnold
France | 2010 | Fiction | 15’50
Four elderly musicians are preparing for a concert in a local church on a cloudless summer afternoon. But the cellist’s day goes from bad to worse and the incomplete quartet are forced to begin a jarring melody without him.
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Los 4 McNifikos
directed by Tucker Davila Wood
Spain | 2010 | Fiction | 5’32
Thirty years ago, in the remote Basque suburbs of Erandio, three young kids unknowingly contributed to the rise of a new cultural phenomenon that would soon hit the world.
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Lunes (Monday)
directed by Luis Fernando Villa
Colombia | 2010 | Fiction | 09’30
The week begins and Jairo wakes up to repeat his every day routine. Routine from wich the only witnesses are the objects of a house too big for him. Full of memories from a family life that no longer exists.
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Pan Coko Miluje (Mr. Choco in Love)
directed by Petr Marek
Czech Republic | 2011 | Animation | 5’46
Mr. Choco is by whole his heart living only for his customers in his culinary kingdom. Yet charming lady’s tiny order strikes him with a Cupid’s dart. Mr. Choco is a caricature of a real innkeeper Jiri Sklenar from Prostejov, little town in Czech Republic.
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Odeon: el tiempo suspendido
(Odeon: Time Stood Still)
directed by Jo Graell
Spain, Bulgaria | 2010 | Fiction | 29’00
The Odeon cinema may be the only place in the world where each session is unique. Each classic silent film comes to life through live music or dubbing in live. Here everything is just like it was thirty years ago, thanks to its director who has known how to preserve this “instant art”.
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Paths of Hate
directed by Damian Nenow
Poland | 2010 | Animation | 10’00
A short tale about the demons that slumber deep in the human soul and have the power to push people into the abyss of blind hate, fury and rage.
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Pizzangrillo
directed by Marco Gianfreda
Italy | 2011 | Fiction | 15’00
Ettore, sixty-five, is determined to jump in a swamp with his three-wheel bike. He’s depressed, he wants to die. When his nephew Luca, who is ten, finds out his purpose, he decides to secretly follow him to the swamp.
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Smolarze (Charcoal Burners)
directed by Piotr Zlotorowicz
Poland | 2010 | Documentary | 15’04
A tender observation of a couple of charcoal burner’s daily life, like a fairytale from a lost world – but without the happy end of wealth and happiness.
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Спаси и Сохрани (Save and Keep)
directed by Olga Shulgina-Moskalenko
Ukraine | 2010 | Fiction | 13’00
This is a film about faith – people’s faith, and faith in people. It is about hoping to find the best in every person, and about repentance and forgiveness, which always go hand in hand.
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Stato privato (Private State)
directed by Luigi Marmo
Italy | 2010 | Fiction | 14’00
“Tell me in good conscience, may you truly consider “free” a man who is hungry, in misery, jobless, who is reviled because he doesn’t know how to support his children and how to educate them? This is not a free man. He might be free to swear, to curse, but this is not the freedom that I mean.”
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Suiker (Sugar)
directed by Jeroen Annokkeé
Netherlands | 2010 | Fiction | 7’35
Bert’s scantily dressed downstairs neighbour, Klaasje, comes by to borrow a cup of sugar. When she lets the cup slip from her hands and they both try to catch it, destiny strikes.
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SuperM nuotykiai (SuperM Adventures)
directed by Arunas Eimulis
Lithuania | 2011 | Fiction | 6’00
It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…No, It’s a Super M. He’s here to save us earthlings from horrible and danger creatures in cheap costumes. Three part short superman spoof film. Inspired by Turkish trash movies of the 70s.
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Yuri Lennon’s Landing on Alpha 46
directed by Anthony Vouardoux
Germany, Switzerland | 2010 | Fiction | 14’30
After his landing on Jupiter moon Alpha 46, the cosmonaut Yuri Lennon is confronted with an extraordinary paradox.
