Archiv für das Jahr: 2006

Sign Of The Times

Veröffentlicht am von

German Premiere

Screenings: Friday, March 24, 2006, 20:30 and Saturday, March 25, 2006, 15:00 (SALTY)

signofthetimes

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2005
Duration: 6’10“
Category: Music Video

Director: Ole Brereton
Screenplay: Ole Brereton
Cinematographer: Ole Brereton, Dan Starkey
Music: Steve Johnson, John Mullins, Adam Liell
Cast: Ole Brereton

Synopsis: “The Sign of the Times” explores the raw nature of war at an epic time in our history. As the neo-conservative party attempts to reformat the social and political structure of Eastern nations with violence, this film brings to attention the effect of death and destruction that penetrates the world as a whole today.

Festivals & Awards: Park City Film Music Festival 2006 (Gold Medal for Excellence), Cannes International Film Festival 2005 (Kodak Emerging Filmmakers Showcase), Festival of Media Arts Las Vegas 2005 (1st Place Experimental Video), Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1st Place Student „Emmy“, Music Programs)

Weblink: www.olebrereton.com

Killing The Afternoon

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, March 25, 2006, 20:00 and Sunday, March 26, 2006, 15:00 (BITTER)

killingtheafternoon

Country of Origin: Ireland
Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 9′
Category: Fiction

Director: Margaret Corkery
Screenplay: Margaret Corkery
Cinematographer: Andrew House
Editor: Margaret Corkery
Producer: Margaret Corkery, Gillian Morrison
Cast: Gary Horgan, Ciara Lynch, John Harrison

Synopsis: A secluded beach. Teenage girls are working on their suntans while boys try to attract their attention. A group of women take an aqua aerobics class in the sea while a huddle of canoes paddle nearby. A small child digs a hole in the sand while her mother tries to manage a portable barbeque. It is a windy day……..

Festivals & Awards: Cork Film Festival 2005 (Jameson Award, Best Irish Short Film), Cinema Jove International Film Festival 2005 (Gold Moon of Valencia Principal Short Film Prize), Aye Aye Film Festival 2005 (Jury Award), Berlin Film Festival 2005 (International Competition)

The Bus – The Yellow Bus (A Busz – A Sárgabusz)

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, March 25, 2006, 20:00 and Sunday, March 26, 2006, 15:00 (BITTER)

theyellowbus

Country of Origin: Hungary
Year of Production: 2003
Duration: 9’20“
Category: Animation / Documentary

Director: Pálfi Szabolcs
Screenplay: Pálfi Szabolcs
Cinematographer: Pálfi Szabolcs
Editor: Pálfi Szabolcs
Music: Melis László
Cast: Panyok Village, Horvath Lajos, Pálfi Szabolcs

Synopsis: This film is a documentary film. In Hungary, 1999/2000 one bus is disappeared, then it change a phantombus. Nobody drives it, nobody voyages. And the village peoples talk much, for example from Ferenc Rákóczi II., a hero of the Hungarian history… The voices and sounds of film are real voices and sounds, the director recorded in 1999-2001 with DAT and MD. This film talk about the life of the Hungarian village, where the young village people move to the city and the older people stay in the village and… The bus doesn’t transport the village people, because they voyage nowhere. The yellowbus (in Hungary the bus on country are yellow) are empty in North Hungary and in Pányok too.

Festivals & Awards: Anifest – Animation Student Film Festival 2003 (First Prize), SLEEPWALKERS STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2003, Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart 2004, Mediawave Film Festival Gyor 2004 (Jameson Award), SNIFF Short Film Festival Novo Mesto Slovenija 2004, Hiroshima Stars of Students Special Program 2004, PISAF World Amazing Special Program 2004, DARKLIGHT Digital FilmFestival 2004, Fiatal Filmesek Fesztivalja 2004 (Special Prize), ALTER-NATIVE 2004 (Special Prize of Hungarian Filmlabs)

Weblink: www.mie.hu

Mebana

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German Premiere

Screenings: Friday, March 24, 2006, 18:00 and Saturday, March 25, 2006, 17:30 (SWEET)

mebana

Country of Origin: Sweden
Year of Production: 2005
Duration: 14’46“
Category: Fiction

Director: Daniel Wallentin
Screenplay: Wiktor Ericsson
Cinematographer: Ari Willey
Music: Johan Testad
Producer: Fredrik Wikström
Cast: Gustaf Hammarsten, Anna Furbacken, Nobuyoshi Taguchi

Synopsis: Ingemar works at an exotic greenhouse. When his Japanese boss goes away for a trip he can’t resist entering “the forbidden room”. There he finds a big mysterious pot which he waters. The next day he sees that a couple of fingers have grown up from the earth. He continues to water and soon appears: Mebana – something in-between a woman and a plant.

Festivals & Awards: Fantasporto 2006, Stockholm International Film Festival 2005 (Jameson Award)

Weblink: www.trevanner.se

Little Terrorist

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, March 25, 2006, 12:30 and Sunday, March 26, 2006, 17:30 (UMAMI); Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 18:00 (BEST OF 2006)

littleterrorist

Country of Origin: India
Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 15′
Category: Fiction

Director: Ashvin Kumar
Screenplay: Ashvin Kumar
Cinematographer: Markus Huersch
Editor: Ashvin Kumar
Sound: Roland Heap
Music: Nainita Desai feat. Kohinoor Langa & Party
Producer: Ashvin Kumar
Cast: Salim Ali Khan, Sushil Sharma, Meghnaa Mehtta

Synopsis: Jamal, a 12 year old Muslim Pakistani mistakenly crosses the border between India and Pakistan, finding an unusual ally in a Hindu Brahmin, Bhola. Indian soldiers descend on Bhola’s village searching for the ‚terrorist‘ who crossed over. His neice Rani, insists they can’t let a Muslim into their Hindu home. With Bhola and Rani grappling with the consequences of harboring a Pakistani and their deep-set prejudice against Muslims, Jamal’s only hope is the humanity shared by a people separated by artificial boundaries a long time ago. Based on a TRUE STORY: In early 2003 – a twelve year old Pakistani boy crossed the Indo Pak border by mistake. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bhihari Vajpaee, amidst PR fanfare, restored the boy to his family in Pakistan, kicking off the thaw in tensions between these two nuclear countries who came so close to war less than a year earlier.

Festivals & Awards: Montreal World Film Festival 2004 (Winner First Prize), Sao Paulo Int. Short Film Festival 2004 (Audience Favourite), Palm Springs Int. Short Film Festival 2004, Telluride Film Festival 2004, Manhattan Short Film Festival 2004 (Winner Best Film), Flanders Film Festival 2004 (Winner Best Film), Cork Film Festival 2004, London International Film Festival 2004, Tehran Film Festival 2004 (Winner Grand Prize), Bangkok Film Festival 2005, Rotterdam Film Festival 2005, Academy Awards 2005 (Nomination Live Action Short), European Academy Awards 2005 (Nomination), Kinofilm Film Festival Manchester 2005, Cinequest Film Festival 2005, Tampere Film Festival 2005, Aspen Short Film Festival 2005 (Honorable Mention), Reelworld Film Festival 2005 (Winner Bell Expressvu Award), Washington DC International Film Festival 2005, Newport Beach Film Festival 2005, Tribeca Film Festival 2005, San Francisco Int. Film Festival 2005, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2005, Almeria en Corto 2005 (Winner), Sydney Film Festival 2005, Bollywood and Beyond Stuttgart 2005, Sarajevo Film Festival 2005, Salento International Film Festival 2005 (Winner), Interfilm Berlin 2005, Mumbai Int. Film Festival 2006 (Winner)

Weblink: www.little-terrorist.com

Marco Solo

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Friday, March 24, 2006, 20:30 and Saturday, March 25, 2006, 15:00 (SALTY)

marcosolo

Country of Origin: Australia
Year of Production:2004
Duration: 8’45“
Category: Fiction

Director: Adrian Bosich
Screenplay: Adrian Bosich
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
Production Designer: Jo Ford
Editor: Adrian Bosich
Music: Andrew Callaghan
Producer: Adrian Bosch, Paola Morabito
Cast: Joseph Sollena, Robert Urban, Irini Pappas, Maria Diele, Helen Nicholas

Synopsis: Poor Marco. Accidentally born into an overcrowded Australian-Italian household, he is relegated to his parents’ bedroom. Nine years later, armed with a vivid imagination, an obsession with Dame Edna Everage, and a warped sense of Catholicism, Marco fights for a space of his own.

Festivals & Awards: Tribeca Film Festival 2005, Flickerfest Film Festival 2005 (Best Cinematography), Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 2004 (Best Student Live Action under 15 minutes), Interfilm Berlin 2004, Australian National ATOM Award 2004 (Best Film School Production), Australian National Student Film & Video Festival 2004 (Best Narrative Film), Australian Cinema Nova 2004 (Best Potential for Theatrical Release), Australian In The Bin Film Festival 2004 (The Bin Laughing Award / Best Male Actor Award / Production Value Award), Australian Fitzroy Shorts Award 2004 (Best Achivement in Sound), Victorian College of the Arts (Brian Robinson Script Award / Best Visual Effects Film Award), London Film Festival 2005

Weblink: www.bosich.com/marcosolo

Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 (Scen Nr 6882 Ur Mitt Liv)

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, March 25, 2006, 22:30 and Sunday, March 26, 2006, 12:30 (SOUR)

autobiographicalscene

Country of Origin: Sweden
Year of Production: 2005
Duration: 8’30“
Category: Fiction

Director: Ruben Östlund
Screenplay: Ruben Östlund, Erik Hemmendorff
Cinematographer: Ruben Östlund
Editor: Ruben Östlund
Music: Franz Schubert
Producer: Erik Hemmendorff
Cast: Anette Andersson, Ingela Borgström, Martin Byström, Elin Gradin, Mats Lekander, Gunnar Nyström, Martin Zetterlund

Synopsis: Martin, a 30-year old man, and his friends is celebrating Midsummer’s eve in Smögen on the Swedish west coast. From the camp site they can see a high bridge. After gaining courage Martin makes his friends follow him up on the bridge as he is going to jump.

Festivals & Awards: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2005 (Best Film in Competition), Best European Short Film Nomination European Film Academy 2005, Uppsala International Film Festival 2005 (Best Swedish Short Film), Guldbagge 2005, Aarhus Film Festival (Best International Short Film), DaKino Bukarest International Film Festival 2005 (Best Director), Hamburg International Shortfilm Festival 2005 (Jurys Special Award), Odense International Film Festival 2005 (Jurys Special Award), Milano International Film Festival 2005 (Aprilia Award), Gothenburg Film Festival 2005

Weblink: www.plattformproduktion.se

9

Veröffentlicht am von

German Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, March 25, 2006, 12:30 and Sunday, March 26, 2006, 17:30 (UMAMI)

9

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 11′
Category: Animation

Director: Shane Acker
Screenplay: Shane Acker
Animation: Shane Acker
Sound Design: Dave Steinwedel
Music: Earganic

Synopsis: In the shadow of urban desolation, a rag doll must face a monster that is hunting his brethren and stealing their souls.

Festivals & Awards: Ion International Short Film Festival 2004, Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film 2004, Sundance Film Festival 2005, Animex International Festival of Animation 2005 (3D CHARACTER ANIMATION AWARD – 1st Prize), Anima International Animation Festival 2005, Cinequest Film Festival 2005, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation College Awards 2005 (1st Place NON-TRADITIONAL ANIMATION), Philadelphia Film Festival 2005 (2nd Place – FESTIVAL FAVORITE), Florida Film Festival 2005 (Grand Jury Award for BEST ANIMATED SHORT), Indianapolis International Film Festival 2005 (Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Animation ), Newport Beach Film Festival 2005 (Best Animated Short Film), Coachella Independent Film Festival 2005, Maryland Film Festival 2005, Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2005 (Junior Jury Award for Best Student Animation), Student Academy Awards 2005 (Gold Medal), Short Shorts Film Festival Burma 2005, Melbourne International Animation Festival MIAF 2005 (Best CGI and Audience award for best CGI), SIGGRAPH 2005 (Best of Show), George Lindsey UNA Film Festival 2005 (Best College Animation / Student Best of Show), BENDFilm 2005 (Best Animated Short), Next Reel Film Festival 2005 (Best Animation), ArtFutura 2005 (First Prize), Beijing Film Academy International Student Film Festival 2005 (Gold Award), Academy Award Nominee for Best Animated Short 2006

Weblink: www.shaneacker.com