Archiv des Autors: Lia Ekizoglou

Mobile Homes

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German Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, June 21, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 24, 21:00 (Monopol-Kino)
SOUR

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Country of Origin: USA, France
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 13′
Category: Fiction
Language: English without subtitles

Director: Vladimir de Fontenay
Screenplay: Vladimir de Fontenay
Cinematographer: Pepe Vila del Pino
Editor: Vladimir de Fontenay
Music: Vicky de la Vega
Producer: Colin Whitlow, Tati Barrantes
Cast: Alison Folland, David Call, Ash Devens

Synopsis: The story of a young woman, trapped in sex trafficking, and her son who explores an unlikely way out.
Inhalt: Die Geschichte einer jungen Frau gefangen im Sexhandel und ihres Sohnes, der einen unwahrscheinlichen Ausweg findet.

Festivals: Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (France, 2013), South by Southwest Film Festival and Conference (USA, 2013), Atlanta Film Festival (USA, 2013), Aspen Film Festival (USA, 2013), Sarasota Film Festival (USA, 2013), First Run Film Festival (USA, 2013), Maryland Film Festival (USA, 2013), Seattle Film Festival (USA, 2013), Kerala Film Festival (India, 2013), Champs-Élysées Film Festival (France, 2013), Concorto Film Festival (Italy, 2013), Indianapolis Film Festival (USA, 2013), Guanajuato International Film Festival (Mexico, 2013), Grenoble Film Festival (France, 2013), Rhode Island Film Festival (USA, 2013), Montreal World Film Festival (Canada, 2013), Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art (Ukraine, 2013), Athens International Film Festival (Greece, 2013), International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Switzerland, 2013), Chacun Son Court – Strasbourg Short Film Festival (France, 2013), Los Angeles Short Film Festival (USA, 2013), Woodstock Film Festival (USA, 2013), Milano Film Festival (Italy, 2013), Milwaukee Film Festival (USA, 2013), Fenêtres Sur Courts – Dijon Short Film Festival (France, 2013), Calgary International Short Film Festival (Canada, 2013), Santa Fe Independent Film Festival (USA, 2013), Tallgrass Film Festival (USA, 2013), Southern Screen Film Festival (USA, 2013), Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Sweden, 2013), San Joaquin Film Festival (USA, 2013), Hong-Kong International Film Festival (China, 2014), Maremetraggio – Trieste International Short Film Festival (Italy, 2014), Minimalen Short Film Festival (Norway, 2014), Rencontres Internationales du Cinéma de Vincennes (France, 2014)
Awards: First Wasserman King Award, King Award in Screenwriting and National Board of Review Award at First Run Film Festival, Special Jury Award at Seattle Film Festival, SIGNIS Award Honorary Mention at Guanajuato International Film Festival

Weblinks:
www.vladimirdefontenay.com
www.vimeo.com

Gypsy

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German Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 20, 21:00 and Monday, June 23, 19:00 (Monopol-Kino)
SALTY

gypsy

Country of Origin: Portugal
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 18′
Category: Fiction
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles

Director: David Bonneville
Screenplay: David Bonneville, Diego Rocha
Cinematographer: Vasco Viana
Editor: Mariana Gaivão, David Bonneville
Music: Buraka Som Sistema
Producer: Fernando Vendrell
Cast: Jaime Freitas, Tiago Aldeia, Manuel Camoesas

Synopsis: Sebastian is a wealthy young man. He finds out that he has a flat tire and ends up accepting help from a Gypsy passer-by. In return Sebastian will have to give him a ride home… but they won’t reach their expected destination.
Inhalt: Sebastian ist ein wohlhabender junger Mann. Er hat eine Reifenpanne und kommt so weit, dass er sich gezwungen sieht, die Hilfe eines vorbeiziehenden Zigeuners zu akzeptieren. Als Gegenleistung schuldet Sebastian ihm eine Fahrt nach Hause… Doch werden sie nicht das erwartete Ziel erreichen.

Festivals: Festival der Nationen (Austria), Cinerama.BC International Film Festival (Brazil), Larissa Mediterranean Festival of New Film-makers (Greece), Sarasota Film Festival (USA), Guadalajara International Film Festival (Mexico) South By Southwest Film Festival and Conference (USA), Tampere Film Festival (Finland), London Shorts Film Festival (England), Leuven International Short Film Festival (Belgium), Istanbul International Short Film Festival (Turkey), Hamptons International Film Festival (USA), Brest European Film Festival (France), Cork Film Festival (Ireland), Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (France), Palestinian International Young Filmmakers Festivals (Palestine), Adana Golden Boll Film Festival (Turkey), Bristol Encounters International Film Festival (India), Curtas Vila Do Conde International Film Festival (Portugal), BFI London Film Festival Think-Shoot-Distribute (UK)
Awards: Grand Jury Award nominee at South By Southwest Film Festival and Conference, Iberoamerican Short nominee at Guadalajara International Film Festival, Golden Starfish at Hamptons International Film Festival

Weblinks:
www.davidbonneville.net
www.facebook.com
www.vimeo.com
www.youtube.com
www.david-golias.com
www.imdb.com

A Brief Moment of Joy

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Screening: Wednesday, June 25, 19:00 (Monopol-Kino)
BEST OF GERMANY

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Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 23′
Category: Fiction
Language: German with English subtitles

Director: Thomas Moritz Helm
Screenplay: Thomas Moritz Helm
Cinematographer: Sebastian Thaler
Editor: Stefan Oliveira-Pita
Producer: Lissi Muschol, Cristina Marx
Cast: Michael Smulik, Melanie Kretschmann, Katharina Klar, Silvia Fenz

Synopsis: Andreas is a confirmed bachelor in his late thirties. Always very attentive of his own well-being, he does not really care if he hurts the people around him. But when he meets Katja, his way of dealing with things does not work anymore…
Inhalt: Frühling in Wien. Andreas, ein dynamischer Junggeselle Ende dreißig, laviert sich mit moralisch grenzwertigen Mitteln trickreich durch den Tag. Als er jedoch auf eine Frau trifft, die nach ähnlichen Maximen lebt und handelt wie er, stößt er mit seiner Lebenseinstellung an seine Grenzen.

Nominierung beim Deutschen Kurzfilmpreis für Spielfilme von mehr als 7 bis 30 Minuten

Weblink: www.kurzfilmtournee.de

Serori

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German Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 20, 19:00 and Monday, June 23, 21:00 (Monopol-Kino)
UMAMI

serori

Country of Origin: Japan, Spain
Year of Production: 2014
Duration: 15′
Category: Fiction
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles

Director: Pedro Collantes
Screenplay: Pedro Collantes
Cinematographer: Hisayuki Sato
Editor: Pedro Collantes
Producer: Sayaka Akitsu
Cast: Akemi Nitta, Shintaro Murakami

Synopsis: There is always a first time for everything, even for celery.
Inhalt: Es gibt immer ein erstes Mal für alles, sogar für Sellerie.

Festivals: International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), Hors Pistes Tokyo Film Festival (Japan), Festival de Cine de Huesca (Spain)

Weblinks:
www.mizunonaka.com
www.vimeo.com
www.facebook.com
www.twitter.com
www.vimeo.com

Sunday 3

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Screening: Wednesday, June 25, 19:00 (Monopol-Kino)
BEST OF GERMANY

sunday-3

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 14′
Category: Animation
Language: German with English subtitles

Director: Jochen Kuhn
Screenplay: Jochen Kuhn
Cinematographer: Jochen Kuhn
Editor: Olaf Meltzer
Music: Jochen Kuhn
Producer: Jochen Kuhn

Synopsis: The third part in a series about Sunday outings. In „Sonntag 3“, the protagonist has a blind date with the Chancellor.
Inhalt: Der dritte Teil einer Reihe von Sonntagsausflügen. In „Sonntag 3“ hat der Protagonist ein Blind Date mit der Kanzlerin.

Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis in Gold für Animationsfilme bis 30 Minuten

Weblink: www.kurzfilmtournee.de

Heir to the Evangelical Revival

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 20, 21:00 and Monday, June 23, 19:00 (Monopol-Kino)
SALTY

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Country of Origin: Belgium, South Africa
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 7′
Category: Animation
Language: English without subtitles

Director: Wendy Morris
Screenplay: Wendy Morris
Cinematographer: Jean Delbeke
Editor: Effi Weiss
Music: Yannick Franck
Producer: Jean Delbeke

Synopsis: The film is about religious-historical baggage. The director, a descendant of French Huguenots and English Protestant missionaries who emigrated to South Africa, is atheist-apostate-agnostic. In the film she confronts her contradictory reactions to this inherited evangelical background.
Inhalt: In dem Film geht es um religiös-historisches Erbe. Die Regisseurin ist eine Nachfahrin der französischen Hugenotten und eine englische Protestantin, die nach Südafrika ausgewandert ist und eine atheistische, abtrünnige Agnostikerin geworden ist. Im Film konfrontiert sie ihre gegensätzlichen Reaktionen vor diesen geerbten evangelischen Hintergrund.

Festivals: Annecy International Animation Festival (France), Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France), Vienna International Shorts (Austria), Holland Animation Film Festival (The Netherlands), DOK Leipzig (Germany), Tricky Women Animation Festival (Austria)

Weblinks:
wendymorris.blogspot.com

Reality 2.0

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Screening: Wednesday, June 25, 19:00 (Monopol-Kino)
BEST OF GERMANY

reality-20

Country of Origin: Germany, Mexico
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 11′
Category: Documentary
Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Director: Victor Orozco Ramirez
Screenplay: Victor Orozco Ramirez
Cinematographer: Victor Orozco Ramirez
Editor: Victor Orozco Ramirez
Producer: Victor Orozco Ramirez

Synopsis: It was autumn when I arrived in Germany. I thought that in this exotic country I could distance myself a little bit from Mexico, but I was wrong. Drug traffickers managed to take me back in a ruthless way. A short animated documentary about drug-related violence in Mexico.
Inhalt: Es war Herbst, als ich nach Deutschland kam. Ich dachte, an diesem für mich exotischen Ort könnte ich mich von Mexiko ein wenig distanzieren. Aber ich habe mich geirrt. Die Narcos haben mich brutal eingeholt. Eine Doku-Animation über die endlose Spirale der Drogengewalt in Mexiko.

Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis in Gold für Dokumentarfilme bis 30 Minuten

Weblink: www.kurzfilmtournee.de

Safe

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German Premiere

THIRD PRIZE

Screenings: Sunday, June 22, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 24, 19:00 (Monopol-Kino)
BITTER

safe

Country of Origin: South Korea
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 13′
Category: Fiction
Language: Korean with English subtitles

Director: Moon Byoung-gon
Screenplay: Gwon O-kwang
Cinematographer: Jang Jong-kyoung
Editor: Moon Byoung-gon
Producer: Moon Byoung-gon, Lee Jin-eun
Cast: Lee Min-ji, Kang Tea-young, Kim Hyun-gyu

Synopsis: A woman working as a cashier at an illegal gambling parlor pushes her luck by stealing money from gamblers as a way to pay off her own debts. When one gambler realizes he’s been cheated, he returns with murderous intent and the already dismal situation spirals out of control.
Inhalt: Eine Frau, als Kassiererin in einem illegalen Glücksspielsalon arbeitend, fordert ihr Glück heraus, indem sie das Geld der Zocker stiehlt, um ihre eigenen Schulden abzahlen zu können. Als aber ein Spieler bemerkt, dass er betrogen wurde, kehrt er mit mörderischen Absichten zurück und die bereits trostlose Situation gerät außer Kontrolle.

Festivals: Cannes International Film Festival (France, 2013), Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia, 2013), Korean Film Festival in Australia (Australia, 2013), Split International Festival of New Film (Croatia, 2013), Busan International Film Festival (South Korea, 2013), Philadelphia Film Festival (United States, 2013), São Paulo International Film Festival (Brazil, 2013), AFI FEST (United States, 2013), Stockholm Film Festival (Sweden, 2013), Asiana International Short Film Festival (South Korea, 2013), Brisbane International Film Festival (Australia, 2013), Prague Short Film Festival (Czech Republic, 2014), RiverRun International Film Festival (United States, 2014)
Awards: Short Film Palme d’Or at the Cannes International Film Festival (France, 2013)

Money Back, Please

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German Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 20, 21:00 and Monday, June 23, 19:00 (Monopol-Kino)
SALTY

money-back-please

Country of Origin: Norway
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 11′
Category: Fiction
Language: Norwegian with English Subtitles

Director: Even Hafnor
Screenplay: Trond Arntzen
Cinematographer: Cecilie Semec
Editor: Sigurd Solen
Producer: Stine Blichfeldt, Marte Pedersen
Cast: Nara Walker, Jeanne Bøe, Alexander De Senger, Arne Vilhelm Tellefsen, Delia Borcoman, Line Marie Østerhus, Silje Aas Meyer

Synopsis: An eight-year-old Romani girl enters a shopping mall to get warm and people’s prejudices are put to the test.
Inhalt: Ein 8-jähriges Roma-Mädchen betritt ein Einkaufszentrum, um sich aufzuwärmen: die Vorurteile der Menschen werden auf die Probe gestellt.

Festivals: Art Film Fest (Slovakia, 2014), Tampere Film Festival (Finland, 2014), European Short Film Festival (Spain, 2014), Minimalen Short Film Festival (Norway, 2014), Leeds International Filmfestival, Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition (United Kingdom, 2013), The Norwegian Filmfestival Haugesund (Norway, 2013), Sleepwalkers Student and Short Film Festival (Estonia, 2013), Bergen International Filmfestival (Norway, 2013), FilmReg Programmet (Norway, 2013), Kort på KinoKino (Norway, 2013)
Awards: Grand Prix and Baltic Sea Competition Prize at Sleepwalkers Student and Short Film Festival, Best Norwegian Short at Bergen International Filmfestival, The Golden Eye at Kort på KinoKino

Weblinks:
www.themgirls.no
www.facebook.com