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FATFILMFEST 2010 – 7th EDITION
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BEST SHORT FILM | “Lilliana Appiano Forni Prize”
I Love Luci
directed by Colin Kennedy
United Kingdom | 2009 | Fiction | 12’30
For the quality of the acting, the semplicity and the optimism, that remind us how is important finding smile even in the shit.
POPULAR JURY AWARD
Glenn Owen Dodds
directed by Frazer Bailey
Australia | 2009 | Fiction | 16’10
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SPECIAL JURY MENTION
The Participant
directed by Vanja Sandell Billström
Sweden | 2009 | Fiction | 15’50
For the quality of the direction and for the courage to explore the extremely thin complexity of human relationship.
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NOMINATED MOVIES 2010
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399 B.C.
directed by Nicola Campiotti
Italy | 2009 | Fiction | 10’00
New York. The jurists in a courtroom have to decide on the sentence of a defendant for whom the death sentence has been requested. The trial becomes a media case which divides public opinion. Who is this man?
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Aprilis Suskhi (The April Chill)
directed by Tornike Bziava
Georgia | 2009 | Fiction | 14’00
The story of a Soviet military serviceman and a male Georgian dancer. An anti-violence film about the awakening of human instinct in an invader.
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Arena
directed by Jota Aronak
Spain | 2009 | Fiction | 19’00
Jonash does not know what sunlight is. He has never seen a tree or the sky. He has never left his room. He does not need to. But a note that he finds makes him think, and the simple idea of having an option triggers a powerful change.
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Banduryst
directed by Danilo Caputo
Italy | 2009 | Fiction | 14’30
A day in the life of Vasyl, a young and talented Ukranian musician who has come to Naples looking for success but has to make a living delivering gas bottles. When work is over, he calls his mother and tells his life the way he would like it, mixing dream and reality.
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El cortejo (The Cortége)
directed by Marina Seresesky
Spain | 2010 | Fiction | 14’00
Capi is the oldest gravedigger in the cemetery. Used to working amidst the suffering of others and the jokes of his colleagues, there is only one person capable of taking him out of his daily routine. Every month for the last couple of years he has waited for Marta to take flowers to the grave of her husband. She is his last hope.
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Les Escargots de Joseph (Joseph’s Snails)
directed by Sophie Roze
France | 2009 | Animation | 11’40
Joseph is a shy, introverted little boy who collects snails. One day he gets swallowed up by his own belly-button and discovers the disturbing world of the “self-centered”, people who curl in upon themselves and turn into snails.
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Glenn Owen Dodds
directed by Frazer Bailey
Australia | 2009 | Fiction | 16’10
The story of an ordinary man who meets an extraordinary man and discovers nothing less than the meaning of life.
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Granny O Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
directed by Nicky Phelan
Ireland | 2008 | Animation | 06’00
Granny tells the story of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the elderly fairy, who intends to get her revenge for not being invited to the royal christening with the more glamorous and youthful fairies who still have their muscle tone.
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L’Homme à la Gordini
(The Man in the Blue Gordini)
directed by Jean Christophe Lie
France | 2009 | Animation | 10’00
End of the 70s, the custom is to wear neither underwear nor trousers, only orange tops. With the help of a masked rebel driving a blue R8 Gordini, Mister R and his wife plot a radical clothing revolution.
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I Love Luci
directed by Colin Kennedy
United Kingdom | 2009 | Fiction | 12’30
I Love Luci is a comedy of missing teeth, unrequited love and one dog’s potential to shape the fortunes of a couple destined never to be together.
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Jesusito de mi vida (Dear Child Jesus)
directed by Jesús Pérez-Miranda
Spain | 2009 | Fiction | 09’35
Jesús, a 6-year-old child, wakes up in the middle of the night with an urgent need to pee, but his fear of the dark stops him from crossing the long corridor that separates his room from the bathroom…
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Jitensha (Bicycle)
directed by Dean Yamada
Japan, United States | 2009 | Fiction | 21’10
A loner’s bicycle is mysteriously stolen part by part. He receives an envelope containing a list of addresses where he can retrieve the parts. As he begins to rebuild his bicycle, he finds that his own life is being rebuilt.
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The Lady and the Reaper
directed by Javier Recio Gracia
Spain | 2009 | Animation | 08’20
A sweet old lady lives alone waiting for the arrival of death, to meet her beloved husband again. But when the time comes, an arrogant doctor fights against the Reaper to save her life at any cost.
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Monsoon Moods
directed by Andrea Iannetta
India | 2009 | Documentary | 07’10
The film explores landscapes and tiny details of the Maharashtra countryside during the season of Monsoon and alternates views of the Macro and Micro world. Big and small loose their actual dimension in front of the camera, which capture the infinite beauty of nature in the way it manifests in front of our eyes.
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Niño balcón (Balcony Boy)
directed by Pilar Palomero
Spain | 2008 | Fiction | 10’10
This is the story of Pepe, a child whose head becomes trapped between the bars of a balcony. Nobody can free him so he will have to learn to live there trapped. Until one day he meets Cristina…
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Nuit Blanche
directed by Arev Manoukian
Canada | 2009 | Fiction | 04’40
A visual black and white piece, Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyperreal fantasy.
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The Participant
directed by Vanja Sandell Billström
Sweden | 2009 | Fiction | 15’50
In a perfect set-up for a weekend spent partying, all you need to do is break the social code to become part of the group. A film about longing for friendship and what we are willing to endure to get it.
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Las Pelotas (The Balls)
directed by Chris Niemeyer
Switzerland | 2009 | Fiction | 14’45
In times of economic crisis, there’s nothing like a son with football talent. If you don’t have one, it takes a grandma and a good mix of science and sex to get there.
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The Steps
directed by A.J. Wilhelm & Jason Orfanon
United States | 2009 | Documentary | 10’30
Filmmakers A.J. Wilhelm and Jason Orfanon follow Billy-O, a forty-something bachelor, on a pilgrimage to his favorite public “break-up spot” in the heart of New York City. Along the way, they meet a variety of people who reveal their own deeply personal stories of love, heartbreak, and regret.
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Il talento di Fabio (Fabio’s Talent)
directed by Andrea Di Bari
Italy | 2009 | Fiction | 30’00
Fabio is a victim of the economical crisis: he lost his job and he can’t find any alternative way to make some money. His only passion is to play pool, therefore he starts to play in a sketchy billiards hall for money. Gambling seems to be the only way for Fabio to live a normal life, but it can turn in to a curse if he plays with the wrong man, a politician without mercy.
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United We Stand
directed by Alejandro Pedregal
Finland | 2009 | Fiction | 19’00
An outsider threatens the peace of an upper-class Finnish family. The stanger is not taken seriously until he proves that he knows more than he should. The family must realise that they should stand united or their life together might collapse.
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Zahn um zahn (Tit for Tat)
directed by Ivana Lalovic
Switzerland | 2009 | Fiction | 06’10
17-year-old neo-Nazi Tobi is chased by the police. He accidentally rescues a Black girl who starts following him. Torn between ideology and humanity, he needs to handle the situation.
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FATFILMFEST 2009 – 6th EDITION
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BEST SHORT FILM
Manual práctico del amigo imaginario
(abreviado)
by Ciro Altabás
Fiction | Spain | 2008 | 19′
For the rediscovery of a sense of childlike wonder, for its effective use of a highly original aesthetic, for the way in which it tackles a set of universal ideas without ever falling into excessive naivety, and for what must have been the most awaited kiss of all the festival’s films this year.
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SECOND PLACE
Auf der Strecke
by Reto Caffi
Fiction | Germany, Switzerland | 2007 | 30′
For the ease with which it conveyed great complexity and character evolution through a visual language of its own, for its gripping, well-paced narrative, and for the strength of its performances.
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THIRD PLACE
Das Mädchen mit den gelben Strümpfen
by Grzegorz Muskala
Fiction | Germany | 2008 | 6′
For the creation of a perfectly self-contained cinematic moment, for its short, sharp, and clever dialogue, for its sensual and elegant camera work.
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POPULAR JURY AWARD
Auf der Strecke
by Reto Caffi
Fiction | Germany, Switzerland | 2007 | 30′
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SPECIAL JURY MENTIONS
Pajerama
by Leonardo Cadaval
Animation | Brasil | 2008 | 9′
For the importance of the issues it tackled, and the accessibility of the language it uses in doing so.
Terminal Communication
by Michael Fortune
Experimental | Ireland | 2008 | 3′
For the ingenious use of limited resources to create a witty portrait of everyday realities.
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NOMINATED MOVIES 2009
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Adil e Yusuf
directed by Claudio Noce
produced by DNA Cinematografica
Year of making: 2007
Runtime: 30′
Country: Italy
Adil and Yusuf are two young Somali brothers living in Rome. A description of a typical day of theirs shows how different the two characters’ choices are in connection with their immigrant lives.
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Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
directed by Reto Caffi
produced by Blush Films, KHM Köln
Year of making: 2007
Runtime: 30′
Country: Germany, Switzerland
A department store security guard is racked by guilt after not helping someone who was being attacked in the subway.
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Basette (Sideburns)
directed by Gabriele Mainetti
produced by Emiliana De Blasio
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 16’32”
Country: Italy
After a post-office robbery that goes wrong, the only way to escape for Antonio and his gang is to be as smart as comic book hero Lupin the Third.
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Das Mädchen mit den gelben Strümpfen
(The Girl with the Yellow Stockings)
directed by Grzegorz Muskala
produced by Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 6′
Country: Germany
A young couple is spending the day in bed. He asks her if she wants to marry him. At first she says no…
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Every Third Bite
directed by The Meerkat Media Collective
produced by The Meerkat Media Collective
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 9′
Country: USA
In the past few years, millions of bees have disappeared from their hives. More than just a honey matter, the lives of bees are connected to us and our ecosystems in more ways than we can count.
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Fisico da spiaggia (Beach Boy)
directed by Edoardo De Angelis
produced by Centro Sperimentale di
Cinematografia
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 4’40”
Country: Italy
How to slim in two seconds? Holding the breath has magic effects…
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Il torneo (The Tournament)
directed by Michele Alhaique
produced by Velia Giannuzzi
Year of making: 2007
Runtime: 15′
Country: Italy
Suburbs of Rome, 2007. A group of underprivileged teenagers dream of taking part in a football championship. The team can sign up only if they raise enough money to buy their shirts.
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Io parlo! (I’ll Tell on You!)
directed by Marco Gianfreda
produced by Tratto Indipendente
Year of making: 2009
Runtime: 20′
Country: Italy
12-year-old Bruno would like to be friends with Luca, his sister’s boyfriend, but Luca doesn’t pay attention to him. When Bruno catches Luca talking with another girl, he sees the chance of reaching his goal.
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Kärleksbarn (Love Child)
directed by Daniel Wirtberg
produced by Daemon Film
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 6’30”
Country: Sweden
A young girl enjoys the perfect life of being the only child, when one day a new family member arrives.
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Lacreme napulitane
directed by Francesco Satta
produced by Francesco Satta
Year of making: 2007
Runtime: 18’45”
Country: Italy
Two contrasting characters clash on a train from Naples to Milan on Christmas Eve. In the background, the Italian landscape is made of old, colourful postcards.
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La moglie (The Wife)
directed by Andrea Zaccariello
produced by Imperium Visio, Gianluca Mainqua
Year of making: 2007
Runtime: 22’30”
Country: Italy
A husband and a wife. Beautiful and in love. Their wedding anniversary. A gift for her. An house by the sea, isolated and romantic. Two days together away from it all. But that gift might be their last, terrible appointment.
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L’amore non esiste (Fleeting Love)
directed by Massimiliano Camaiti
produced by Blue Suede Shoots
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 15’
Country: Italy
Solo in convinced to possess a terrible power: wherever he goes, love fades.
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Manual práctico del amigo imaginario
(abreviado)
directed by Ciro Altabás
produced by Ciro Altabás & RETROproducciones
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 19′
Country: Spain
Fernando is a shy 27 year old young man who receives the visit of an old classmate, Iratxe. This arouses jealousy in his imaginary friend, Captain Kiloton, a superhero who has stood by his side since he was a kid, and who feels their friendship is now in jeopardy…
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Nonsostare (Can’t Stand Here)
directed by Gianluca Sportelli
produced by Centro Sperimentale di
Cinematografia
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 17’40”
Country: Italy
One sunny day in a tiny village in southern Italy. The trail of an airplane tears the sky apart Giorgia and her father must repair a shutter.
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Out of the Blue
directed by Michael Lavelle
produced by Ciara Hyland
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 10′
Country: Ireland
A lonely man’s life is suddenly transformed when he discovers an old TV floating in the sea.
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Pajerama
directed by Leonardo Cadaval
produced by Glaz Cinema, Mayra Lucas
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 9′
Country: Brazil
An Indian is caught in a flow of strange experiences that reveal the mysteries of time and space.
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PATH
directed by Evan S. Frushtick
produced by Dryspell Productions
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 18′
Country: USA
The tale of a Manhattan Guy who must decide if it’s worth staying in his relationship even if it means traveling to New Jersey.
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Porque hay cosas que nunca se olvidan
(Because There Are Things We Never Forget)
directed by Lucas Figueroa
produced by LMF Films, Lucas Figueroa
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 13′
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Naples, Italy. 1950. Four friends are playing soccer in the street. Suddenly the ball falls inside “Evil Grandma’s” house. They probably won’t play with this ball again, but the revenge will be terrible.
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Terminal Communication
directed by Michael Fortune
produced by Michael Fortune
Year of making: 2008
Runtime: 3′
Country: Ireland
Terminal Communication is a fixed-frame work featuring the actions of drivers as they approach a badly signed junction leading into Rosslare Harbour ferry port, in County Wexford, Ireland.
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FATFILMFEST 2007 – 5th EDITION
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BEST SHORT FILM:
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…
