Archive
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BEST SHORT FILM 2007
“Lilliana Appiano Forni Prize”
Antes y Después de Besar a María
directed by Ramón Alós
produced by 14 Pies
Year of making: 2007
Runtime: 9′
Country: Spain
Raul, a 9 years old urban boy, spend every summer at his parents small Village. But this summer is gonna be like no other before. This summer, Raul is gonna do his best in order to kiss his 12 years old cousin, María.
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POPULAR JURY AWARD
Il Supplente (The Sobstitute)
directed by Andrea Jublin
produced by Davide Luchetti
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 15′
Country: Italy
A chaotic classroom of troublemakers and suck-ups sits at attention when a new authority figure uproariously scares them into shape.
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SPECIAL JURY MENTIONS
La Parabólica
directed by Xavi Sala
produced by Xavi Sala, EIMA
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 12′
Country: Spain
During the broadcast of the Pope’s visit, Vicente’s television is broken. Desperate, he decides to make a homemade parabolic dish.
La Marche des Sans-nom
film by J. Constantial, L. Vigroux, N. Laverdure
produced by Supinfocom Arles
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 5′45”
Country: France
Surreal vision of the war, the masters of war and the fate of a soldier.
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NOMINATED MOVIES 2007
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Apple
directed by Jonas Rudström
produced by Daemon Film
Year of making: 2007
Runtime: 6′
Country: Sweden
A young boy spots and wants to have the most beautiful apple in the tree across the hedge but there is a problem. The tree belongs to the most dangerous man in the neighborhood.
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Colpevole Fino a Prova Contraria
directed by Hedy Krissane
produced by Abxentium snc
co-produced by Film Commission Torino Piemonte
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 12′
Country: Italy
A police commissioner grappling with the case of a lifetime and ready to do anything in order to solve it. A self-styled interpreter in search of his first job. An immigrant at the wrong place at the wrong time. And the shadow of international terrorism hovering above them all.
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Daily Life
directed by Nicola Buffoni
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 14′
Country: Italy
Suburbia of an undefined industrial city, the daily life of a couple condemned to be unable to share a daily life. The tragedy of expectations with the lack of communication.
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Do You See Me?
directed by Alessandro De Cristofaro
produced by Hermannfilm
Year of making: 2007
Runtime: 13′
Country: Italy
Gilberto, the frame-maker, is proudly looking at his last job, just finished. But is that woman in the photograph really moving? Is the frame a door open onto a parallel dimension? And how can we be sure about what we call ‘time’?
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The Intruder
directed by Daniel Wirtberg
produced by Daemon Film
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 10′
Country: Sweden
A bored shoplifter gets his daily routines disturbed when he finds an intruder on his territory.
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La Memoria dei Cani
directed by Simone Massi
produced by Simone Massi and ARTE France
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 8′
Country: Italy
My cheeks brush against the stones, I look out from a break in the wall.
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Montreal Stories: 1971
directed by Vanya Rose
produced by Productions Ottoblix
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 22’
Country: Canada
One winter night of 1971, a young woman crosses Montreal, the post trailing closely behind her. This film is one in a series of short films portraying Montreal troughout the last century.
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Nera – Welcome to My World
directed by Andrea Deaglio
produced by Colombre Film
Year of making: 2007
Runtime: 15’
Country: Italy
A documentary fiction about the daily life of an African prostitute in an industrial city, Turin, Italy. The tragedy to live like a slave and the dream to be able to pay and have back her freedom.
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Noise
directed by Martin Schmidt
produced by University of Art and Design Kassel
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 3′
Country: Germany
A man is being disturbed by strange noises. In order to go to sleep, he tries to eliminate them. Finally what will be rest?
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People of Vucciria
directed by Federico Ventura
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 8′
Country: Italy
A documentary film on Vucciria, an open-air market in the historic center of Palermo. The Vucciria is described in a intense way by the people that work and live there by answering to the simple question: “What is Vucciria for you?”
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Sos Puppos
directed by Chiara Pirito
produced by Chiara Pirito
co-produced by Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 15′
Country: Italy-Netherlands
A desperate woman struggled by a mysterious pain is relieved by the beauty and the grace of a child that fishes in the sea. The joy of the boy together with the view of the fishes that live in the sea caring on their skins the wounds of a hard life will give her back some kind of serenity.
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Vox Rerum
directed by Ivano Fachin
produced by Ivano Fachin
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 8′
Country: Italy
Davide Furlan, the new owner of a building goes to introduce himself to one of his tenets. This simple visit brings him into a “magic” journey and to find out that objects have memories and that they can make sounds in order to tell their stories…
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Wives’ Supermarket
directed by A. Bartolini, V. Pavin, V. Fanny Trausch
produced by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 5′
Country: Italy
A mini-musical telling the story of Carminio, a lonely, pretentious little man in search of his ideal woman. Carminio fails to appreciate the fantastic offers at the “Wives’ Supermarket” and the consequences of his indecisiveness are hilarious.
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FATFILMFEST 2006 – 4th EDITION
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BEST SHORT FILM:
Anclaje
directed by Iván Cerdán Bermúdez
produced by Lolita Producciones Cinematográficas
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 15’
Country: Spain
Anchorage tells us about pain and resentment, about feelings hidden deep inside that can damage our soul and our mind and destroy our lives.
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SECOND PRIZE:
La Révolution des Crabes
directed by Arthur de Pins
produced by Metronomic
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 5’02”
Country: France
In the brown waters of Gironde estuary, between the rocks repainted with fuel and the muddy sand that provides a home for the oyster in the world, none is aware of the tragedy that has touched us for the last one hundred and twenty millions years. We are the Pachygrapsus Mormatus, commonly knows as “depressed crabs”.
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NOMINATED MOVIES 2006
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City Paradise
directed by Gaëlle Denis
produced by Passion Picture
Year of making: 2004
Runtime: 5’58”
Country: Great Britain
London is a big city, and for those new to it, it can some times seem quite scary. But Tomoko, who arrives from Japan to learn English, accidentally discovers a mysterious, secret city underground, inhabited by friendly little aliens and beautiful blossoms. After she discovers this underground world, everything in her life changes.
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A Monk’s Awakening
directed by Lou Ma Ho (Marc-Olivier Louveau)
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 21’
Country: France
A young monk is challenged by a samurai while bringing back a sacred sword to his venerable master. He begs for mercy and promises to come back after he has completed his mission. At the temple his aged master orders him to return to fight the samurai and prepare to die.
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Single Bed
directed by George Kouvaras
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 12′
Country: Greece
A girl. Two cameras. A puppet. A single bed. A few cups of coffee. A nightmare within a nightmare. A strange visitor. A time loop with an unexpected outcome.
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Jeu d’Enfants
directed by Guendall Marvan
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 1’45”
Country: France
The modern world of international politics in the eyes of two children.
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Amar
directed by Esteban Crespo
produced by Africanauan Producciones
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 11’
Country: Spain
A young couple, passionately in love, exchange their sexual identity.
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Baiano
directed by Elisabetta Bernardini
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 14′
Country: Italy
Two friends bridge the distance between them as they mail each other pages from a daily calendar…
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Over Rozen
directed by Remy van Heugten
Year of making: 2004
Runtime: 22’30”
Country: Netherlands
Over Rozen tells the story of Nandi, an Indian rose seller in the Amsterdam nightlife. In his letters to his family in India, he represents his life in a much better way than it actually is. In his family’s eyes, Nandi’s life in Holland is one big success story: he has an excellent job, goes out in the fanciest bars of town, and all this with a beautiful girl by his side. Hoping for a better future, Nandi’s family decided to send his son Rajeev over to Holland. Panic overtakes Nandi as he now has one week to turn failure into success, one week to conquer an unknown girl, one week to change lies into reality.
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The All-American Alphabet
directed by Jonas Geirnaert
Year of making: 2002
Runtime: 2′30”
Country: Belgium
The USA is a happy, prosperous, well-organised and freedom-loving country, with rainbows galore. In other words, it’s perfect, from A to Z. Or maybe except for ‘r’….
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L’età del Fuoco
directed by Mauro Calvone
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 15′
Country: Italy
Not a distant future. The houses are controlled by an electric system and by computer. The system is hardly connected so what will be the consequence of a broken element? The main character quickly discovers it.
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Come a Cassano
directed by Pippo Mezzapesa
produced by I.T.C. Movie
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 14’35’’
Country: Italy
Old Bari. A 12-year-old boy kicks out a tin as he runs to the field to play a new important match. He loves playing soccer in sunny lanes and dusty fields. His name is Antonio Cassano.
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Lago Lacrimale
directed by Amanda Chiarucci
produced by Indie
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 4′
Country: Italy
Words can transform into tears.
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Nuts and Bolts
directed by Andreas Krein
Year of making: 2004
Runtime: 6’
Country: Germany
High up on steel supporters of a construction site: an apprentice, his frog, the site foreman, and a very difficult lunch break.
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L’eau de Rose
directed by Jeremy Rochigneaux
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 8′
Country: France
A funny animation movie about love and hate, the hard time to say that a love story is over and the hardest time to face the reaction of the other.
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Flat Life
directed by Jonas Geirnaert
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 11’
Country: Belgium
Hanging a painting on the wall, building a house of cards, doing the laundry, and watching TV: utmost innocent and harmless actions in the daily lives of four ordinary people. But of all the bad luck, these people had to live next to each other.
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No Child Without Weapons
directed by Beatrice Progida
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 3′
Country: USA
A cynical fake commercial promoting an organization “No Child Without Weapons” leads the audience to think about serious problems afflicting the World.
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Il Mio Coniglio Rosso
directed by Federico Trovarelli
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 4’50”
Country: Italy
A girl on wheelchair in a restaurant feels bored and lonely, no one really cares about her but suddenly everything changes, for real or in her fantasy?
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The Straight and Narrow
directed by Mathias Gokalp
Year of making: 2004
Runtime: 12′30″
Country: France
There is no obvious time direction in this story, there is no obvious beginning and there is no obvious end but there is a story of jail, despair, addiction and eternal love.
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Il Fannullone
directed by Riccardo Fassoia
Year of making: 2006
Runtime: 7′
Country: Italy
The Fannullone is the first movie of a comic writer who is not a comic writer since he is a web designer but would like to be a movie director and feels like a procrastinator….“Fannullone”
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FATFILMFEST 2005 – 3th EDITION
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BEST SHORT FILM:
Final
directed by José Luis Montesinos
Year of making: 2003
Runtime: 18’45’’
Country: Spain
Manuel is a man obsessed: by Death. All his life, bored, depressed people with lots of problems have surrounded him. At a certain point in his life, he decides that he can combine his obsession with his surroundings. He starts to earn a living as a writer of suicide notes. But there is one thing that Manuel does not take into account… and that is the fact that nobody can live permanently surrounded by problems, without being personally affected by them.
Interview with José Luis Montesinos
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SECOND PRIZE:
Grocery Store Wars
directed by Louis Fox
Year of making: 2005
Runtime: 6’50’’
Country: USA
Grocery Store Wars is short Star Wars parody made for the web with vegetable puppets. This movie made for the Organic Trade to promote the “organic rebellion”, is a very funny and interesting movie created by Freerange to convey the plight of organic versus the ‘darkside’ of the Farm…
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THIRD PRIZE:
Grazie al Cielo
directed by Andrea Jublin
Year of making: 2004
Runtime: 8’10’’
Country: Italy
A man lost in his deep and sad thoughts about life tramps through the beautiful landscape of the vineyards Monferrato. He begs for a sign from God so as to be able to go on. Suddenly the sign arrives in the form of an “angel” who delivers convincingly words of wisdom…
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