Centigrade

Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 23, 21:00 (UMAMI)

centigrade

Country of Origin: Spain
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 3′
Category: Fiction

Director: Colin Cunningham

Synopsis: Centigrade is a contemporary thriller about a Man who lives in an old, busted up camper trailer… but wakes up one morning to find himself (and it) rolling down the highway.

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Danse Macabre

Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 23, 21:00 (UMAMI)

danse-macabre

Country of Origin: Canada
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 9′
Category: Fiction

Director: Pedro Pires
Screenplay: Pedro Pires
Cinematographer: Pedro Pires
Editor: Pedro Pires
Music: Casta Diva (Norma) performed by Maria Callas
Producer: Catherine Chagnon, Pedro Pires
Cast: AnneBruce Falconer

Synopsis: For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet. Are these spasms merely erratic motions or do they echo the chaotic twists and turns of a past life?

Festivals & Awards: Mecal International Short Film Festival Barcelona, Spain 2009 (Honorable Mention), Art Film Fest International Film Festival: Trencianske Teplice / Trencin, Slovak Republik Official Selection 2009, Palm Spring International Short Fest – Palm Spring, USA Official Selection 2009, Los Angeles Film Festival – Los Angeles, USA Official Selection 2009, World Wide Short Film Festival Toronto, Canada Official Selection 2009, Transilvania International Film Festival: Transilvania, Romania Official Selection 2009, Seattle International Film Festival: Seattle, USA Official Selection 2009, Dance: Film’s 09, Edinburg, Scotland Official Selection 2009, Busan Asian Short Film Festival: Busan, Korea Official Selection 2009, Cannes International Film Festival 2008: Cannes, France Short Film Corner Cannes 2009, Festival du Court Metrage à Bruxelles – Brussels, Belgium Nuit du court, May 2 2009, San Francisco International Film Festival, USA Official Selection 2009, St-Petersburg International Dance Film Festival, Moscow Official Selection 2009, L’etrange Festival Lyon, France Official Selection 2009, Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival, Germany Official Selection 2009, Mecal International Short Film Festival Barcelona, Spain Official Selection 2009, AFI Dallas International Film Festival, USA Official Selection 2009, Ann Arbor International Film Festival, USA Official Selection 2009, Cleveland International Film Festival, USA Official Selection 2009, Mouviz Festival 2009 in Nantes, France Official Selection 2009, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival: France Official Selection 2009.

Weblink: http://www.dansemacabre-film.com/en

Program

Thursday, June 18, 2009

19:00 SWEET
21:00 OPENING COCKTAIL

Friday, June 19, 2009

17:00 Workshop I: Schreiben, Besetzen und Inszenieren erotischer Filmszenen
19:00 SALTY
21:00 SOUR
23:00 BEST OF GERMANY I

Saturday, June 20, 2009

9:30 Master Class with Mark W. Travis: The Director’s Journey I
14:30 Master Class with Mark W. Travis: The Director’s Journey II
19:00 UMAMI
21:00 SWEET
23:00 BEST OF GERMANY II

Sunday, June 21, 2009

9:30 Master Class with Mark W. Travis: The Director’s Journey III
14:30 Master Class with Mark W. Travis: The Director’s Journey IV
21:00 BITTER

Monday, June 22, 2009

17:00 Workshop II: Esoterik und Film – Der Regisseur als Schamane
19:00 BITTER
21:00 SALTY

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

17:00 Workshop III: Musik im (Kurz-)Film
19:00 SOUR
21:00 UMAMI

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

21:00 AWARD CEREMONY

Bait(Pitayon)

Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 19, 19:00 and Monday, June 22, 21:00 (SALTY)

bait

Country of Origin: Israel
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 12′
Category: Fiction

Director: Michal Vinik
Producer: Michal Vinik

Synopsis: On a hot summer day, tomboy teenager Nitzan is on her way fishing with her sister. The unequal girls meet a young man.