Casus Belli

German Premiere

Screenings: Monday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 21, 21:00 (BITTER)

casus-belli

Country of Origin: Greece
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 11′
Category: Fiction

Director: Yorgos Zois
Screenplay: Yorgos Zois
Cinematographer: Yiannis Kanakis
Editor: Ioannis Chalkiadakis
Producer: Maria Drandaki

Synopsis: All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again..
Inhalt: Menschen verschiedenster Art stehen in verschiednen Schlangen an und warten. Die erste Person jeder Reihe wird zur letzten der nächsten Reihe. Auf diese Weise entsteht nach und nach eine gigantische Menschenschlange, bis am Ende der Schlange ein Dominoeffekt rückwärts ausgelöst wird…

Festivals: 67th International Venice Film Festival, Italy; 16th Athens International Film Festival, Greece; Gijon International Film Festival 2010; Amiens International Film Festival 2010; Trieste Film Festival 2011; Rotterdam International Film Festival 2011; Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2011; Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey, 2011; Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival, 2011; Shadowline Festival Culture Giovani, 2011; Brussels Short Film festival, 2011; Short Shorts Film Festival, 2011; Krakow Short Film Festival, 2011
Awards: 1st Prize of Fiction Film, Special Prize of Debut Film Director, Best Script, Best Production Value Film, Best Costumes, Best Set Design, 33rd International Drama Film Festival, Greece; Best Balkan Shorts, Sofia International Film Festival 2011; First Prize of the Official International Competition / Short Films, Gulf Film Festival, 2011

Weblink: casusbellifilm.com

You Too (Na Wewe)

Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 17, 19:00 and Saturday, June 18, 19:00 (SALTY)

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Country of Origin: Belgium
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 19′
Category: Fiction

Director: Jean-Luc Pening, Ivan Goldschmidt
Screenplay: Ivan Goldschmidt
Cinematographer: Guy Maezelle
Editor: Ivan Goldschmidt
Music: Jérémie Hakéshimana
Producer: Ivan Goldschmidt

Synopsis: 1994. There is a civil war in Burundi, we are witnessing the attack of a minibus. A Kalashnikov bursts. The bus stops, the passengers get off. There follows the „selection“ between the Hutus and the Tutsis. The groups are separated, the questioning begins. But who’s a Hutu, who’s a Tutsi?
Inhalt: 1994 in Burundi an der Grenze zu Ruanda: Schon der Schauplatz deutet eine dramatische Geschichte im Schatten des Genozids an. Und Regisseur Ivan Goldschmidt enttäuscht die Erwartungen des Zuschauers nicht. Ein Bus wird von der örtlichen Miliz gestoppt, die Passagiere sollen in Hutus und Tutsi aufgeteilt werden – augenscheinlich, um die Tutsi zu töten. Doch wer ist Hutu und wer Tutsi?

Awards: 2011 Oscars®, short Live Action nominee, Los Angeles, USA; Nomination Best Short Film Award – 2011 Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Australia; Best Narrative Award – 2011 Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Australia; Grand Prix of the Short Film, Tübingen Festival, Germany; The Public’s Prize, Brussels Festival, Belgium; The Authors‘ Prize, Brussels Independent Film Festival, Belgium; 2nd Prize – Confrontations – at the Berlin Interfilm Festival, Germany; Prize of the Press and B-TV Prize, The Media Festival 10/10, Namur, Belgium; Ciné-courts Prize, Le Court en Dit Long Festival, Paris, France; Honourable Mention, Flickerfest, Australia; The Clover and Maggie Award, Cleveland, USA; Best film in independent film Best of Fest 2010, USA.

Weblink: www.na-wewe.com

Something Fishy

German Premiere

Screenings: Monday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 21, 21:00 (BITTER)

Country of Origin: Australia
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 15′
Category: Fiction

Director: Ben Young
Screenplay: Dan Wood, Ben Young
Cinematographer: Richard Kickbush
Editor: Alexandra Smee
Music: David Bridie
Producer: Dan Wood

Synopsis: Something Fishy is a poignant drama about best friends, Nick and Trev who do everything together including trouble! The fact their skin colour is different means nothing to these boys until one day something goes terribly wrong.
Inhalt: Regisseur Ben Young legt mit Something Fishy ein bewegendes Drama zweier bester Freunde vor dem Hintergrund seiner Heimat Australien vor: Nick, ein weisser Junge, und Trev, ein Aboriginee, sind unzertrennlich. Dass sie unterschiedlicher Hautfarbe sind, spielt für sie keine Rolle. Zusammen gehen sie durch dick und dünn, bis eines Tages einer ihrer Streiche ein furchtbares Ende nimmt.

Festivals: Los Angeles United Film Festival; Fargo Film Festival; Jaipur International Film Festival; Flickerfest; Pune International Film Festival; Nashik International Film Festival; Somewhat North of Boston; Cinefest en San Antonio; 41st International Film Festival of India
Awards: Gold Award, Australian Cinematography Society (VIC/NSW).

Weblink: 17south.com.au

 

The Scoop (Skuuppi)

German Premiere

Screenings: Monday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 21, 21:00 (BITTER)

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Country of Origin: Finland
Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 14′
Category: Fiction

Director: Juuso Räsänen
Screenplay: Juuso Räsänen
Cinematographer: Aleksi Ahonen
Editor: Jyrki Nevala
Music: Jyrki Nevala
Producer: Erkki Mattila, Juuso Räsänen

Synopsis: The Scoop is a drama about two reporters of an imaginary yellow publication trying to get the story of a certain famous person’s love affair. Veteran reporter Leo „Leipis“ Sipilä and younger Arto Käki are different personalities but have similar questionable methods getting their scoops.
Inhalt: Zwei Boulevard-Reporter warten im Drama „The Scoop“ darauf, ein Enthüllungsfoto einer bekannten Persönlichkeit zu machen. Um die Affäre der entsprechenden Person zu entlarven arbeiten die beiden ungleichen Reporter Leo „Leipis“ Sipilä und Arto Käki zusammen – der eine bereits ein Veteran, der dem jüngeren Kollegen zeigt, wie man an eine Sensationsnachricht kommt.

Festivals: Tampere Film Festival 2011

Weblink: www.imdb.com/title/tt2296955

Too Many Muses (Zu Viele Musen)

Screenings: Friday, June 17, 23:00 and Wednesday, June 22, 19:00 (FRIENDS & FAMILY)

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Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 7′
Category: Fiction

Director: Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock
Screenplay: Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock
Cinematographer: Wedigo von Schultzendorff
Editor: Tobi Beer
Music: Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock
Producer: Michael Hieber
Cast:  Alexander Beyer, Götz Burger, Annette Wunsch, Steffen Wink, Julia Heinze, Manuel Boecker, Julia Haacke, Matthias Beier, Peter Rappenglück, Christine Weissbarth

Synopsis: That feeling, having four ideas at the same time. If you don´t write them down NOW, there will only be three left. Then two… one… none.
You have TOO MANY MUSES.
Inhalt: Dieses Gefühl, wenn man vier Ideen gleichzeitig hat. Wenn man sie nicht sofort aufschreibt, sind es nur noch drei. Dann zwei… eine… keine.
Man hat ZU VIELE MUSEN.

Festivals & Awards: BeFilm New York Underground Film Festival, Park City Film Music Festival Jury Choice Gold Medal for Excellence, San Francisco United Film Festival, San Antonio Film Festival, Los Angeles Action On International Film Festival, Poppy Jasper Film Festival Morgan Hill CA

Weblink: www.jochenschmidt.de

My Name is Mohammed

German Premiere

Screenings: Monday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 21, 21:00 (BITTER)

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Country of Origin: U.K, Netherlands, Iraq, Jordan
Year of Production: 2009
Duration: 10′
Category: Fiction

Director: Sinan Najm Abdullah, Yahya T Hassan, Baan S Shibab, Rania Okla Yacoub Haddad
Producer: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Isabelle Stead

Synopsis: A young refugee boy from Iraq living in Jordan is forced to clean shoes in order to support his widowed mother and little sister.
Inhalt: Ein aus dem Irak stammender Flüchtlingsjunge, der nun in Jordanien lebt,ist gezwungen Schuhe zu putzen, um für seine verwitwete Mutter und seine kleine Schwester den täglichen Lebensunterhalt zu finanzieren.

Awards: Best Short Film, Aleph 2009 (Gold) Beirut International Film Festival; Jury Award at Rotterdam Arab Film Festival 2009

Weblink: www.facebook.com

Dead Happy

German Premiere

Screenings: Thursday, June 16, 19:00 and Saturday, June 18, 21:00 (SWEET)

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Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 11′
Category: Fiction

Director: Nicky Lianos
Screenplay: David Lemon
Cinematographer: Rollo Hollins
Editor: Rachel Tunnard, Adam Biskupski
Music: Anne Nikitin, Adam Franklin
Producer: Nicky Lianos, Huberta Von Liel

Synopsis: Dead Happy is a short comedy about the Grim Reaper bored with her job trying to cope with her unrequited love for another.
Inhalt: Dead Happy ist eine warmherzige Komödie über einen weiblichen Sensenmann, der von seinem Job gelangweilt ist und außerdem auch noch die unerfüllte Liebe zu einem Kollegen bewältigen muss.

Festivals: Scifiworld SHOTS Short Film Festival; Fresno Film Festival; Omaha Film Festival; Fantasporto Film Festival; London Short Film Festival; Thess International Short Film Festival

Weblink: www.nickylianos.com

No Sleep Won’t Kill You (Nespavanje Ne Ubija)

Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Sunday, June 19, 19:00 and Monday, June 20, 21:00 (UMAMI)

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Country of Origin: Croatia
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 9′
Category: Fiction

Director: Marko Mestrovic
Screenplay: Marko Mestrovic
Cinematographer: Marko Mestrovic
Music: Jessica Lurie, Abraham Gomez-Delgado
Producer: Igor Grubic

Synopsis: What happens when dream takes control over reality? No sleep won’t kill you (or at least not for three or four years), but it will make it increasingly difficult for you to determine what’s real.
Inhalt: Was passiert, wenn der Traum Kontrolle über die Realität erlangt? Schlaflosigkeit wird dich nicht umbringen (oder zumindest nicht für zwei oder drei Jahre), aber sie wird es dir zunehmend schwer machen, zu bestimmen, was noch real ist und was nicht.

Festivals: Expresion En Corto, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2010; Magma – Mostra Di Cinema Breve, Acireale, Italy, 2010; Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2010; I’ve Seen Films 2010, Milan, Italy; 16. Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2010; FICAM 2010 Meknes, Marocco; Dani Hrvatskog Filma, Zagreb, Croatia, 2010; Ljubljana Int’l Short Film Festival, Slovenia, 2010; ANIMAFEST 2010, Zagreb, Croatia; 64th Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival; Annecy 2010, France

Weblink: markomestrovic.net