Bavarian Premiere
Screenings: Saturday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 23, 21:00 (UMAMI)
Country of Origin: France
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 7′
Category: Fiction
Director: Fabrice Le Nezet
Music: Raphael Martinez-Bachel aka Azel
Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin
Cast: Ian Faure, Lucien Momy, Alain Choquet
Synopsis: Marc is afraid of stepping on the lines between paving stones. He starts a treatment to overcome his phobia.
Bavarian Premiere
Screenings: Thursday, June 18, 19:00 and Monday, June 20, 21:00 (UMAMI)
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 11′
Category: Fiction
Bavarian Premiere
Screenings: Saturday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 23, 21:00 (UMAMI)
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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Bavarian Premiere
Screenings: Saturday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 23, 21:00 (UMAMI)
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
Bavarian Premiere
Screenings: Saturday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 23, 21:00 (UMAMI)
Country of Origin: France
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 7′
Category: Fiction
Director: Edouard Salier
Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin
Cast: Thomas Winter, Sarah Hilker, Vi Sapyyapy
Synopsis: Four letters. 400 000 possibilities. Only one is real.
Morgenrot Bavarian Premiere
Screenings: Thursday, June 18, 19:00 and Monday, June 20, 21:00 (UMAMI)
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 11′
Category: Fiction
Saturday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 23, 21:00
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Centigrade
Ergo
In Limbo
Morgenrot
Ten (Dix)
The listener
Welgunzer
World Premiere
Screenings: Saturday, June 14, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 17, 21:00 (UMAMI)
Country of Origin: Canada
Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 5′
Category: Animation
A Film By: Ceile Prowse
Synopsis: Fallen Woman is the story of a confident, self-involved woman who will not let pregnancy get in the way of her goals. This all goes awry when she is exercising on a treadmill in stilettos and breaks her leg. Through a harsh conveyor belt of medical treatment, she is forced to accept her condition. When she finds she is physically incapable of getting the bus home, she makes a startling discovery in her crutches.
Weblink: www.ceilefilms.com
German Premiere
Screenings: Saturday, June 14, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 17, 21:00 (UMAMI)
Country of Origin: Spain
Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 6’20“
Category: Experimental
Director: Aitor Echeverria
Screenplay: Aitor Echeverria
Cinematographer: Aitor Echeverria
Editor: Pedro Pablo Rodenas
Music: Chalart 58
Producers: Roger Amigo, Mireira Ibars
Cast: Carolina Alejos, Silvia Marin
Synopsis: Sleep interrupted by the brush of a familiar touch. The light caress of a finger across your back. The sigh of that voice inviting you to play. The most everyday gestures become, at close range, an extraordinary dance.
Festivals & Awards: Zemos98 Sevilla Spain 2008 (Audience Award), Barcelona Visual Sound Spain 2008 (Jury Award for Best Video Art), 5º Cinekink NY USA 2008 (Best Experimental Short Film), Short Film Festival Of Real Spain 2007 (Best Video Art), IXX Festival Internacional de Fano Italy 2007 (Third Place Award), IX Mostra Minima en Gandia Spain 2007 (Re-accion Award), IX Abycine de Albacete Spain 2007 (Special Mention), XIV Certamen de cortometrajes de Leioa Spain 2007 (Third Place Award), IV Certamen de cortometrajes Ca Revolta de Valencia Spain 2007 (Best Short Film), Festival Arrivanoicorti en Montelanico Italy 2007 (Best Editing), Festival de cortometrajes de Soria Spain 2007 (Best Photography), Certamen de cortometrajes Ca Revolta Spain 2007 (Best Short Film), The Northern Wave International Film Festival Iceland 2008, Bradford Film Fest-BIFF08 UK 2008, 48. International Festival of Cinema and TV Cartagena Colombia 2008, DanceFilmAssociation New York USA 2008, 24. International Short Film Festival Lille France 2008, Newfilmmakers Film Festival NY USA 2008, La Fila Valladolid Spain 2008, Festival Amori in corto Itay 2008, Festival de jovenes realizadores de Granada Spain 2008, Festival Maremetraggio Trieste Italy 2008, Cinedans Amsterdam Holland 2008, Sofia International Film Festival Bulgaria 2008, III Festival de cortometrajes Las Dunas Spain 2008, XI Spanish film festival Australia 2008, REC08 Tarragona Spain 2008, ACT Festival Spain 2008, Canadian Worldwide Film Festival Canada 2008, Amsterdamshorts! Amsterdam Holland 2008, Dance Camera West Film Festival Los Angeles USA 2008 Festival IDN Barcelona Spain 2007, Festival de Cine en Forli Italy 2007, Festival de Cine de Girona Spain 2007, Sardinia Film Festival Italy 2007, International Short Film Montecatini Italy 2007, Festival Fascurt in Masnou Spain 2007, Film Festival in Ponferrada Spain 2007, Cinespana France 2007, MECAL International Short Film Festival Spain 2007, International Short Film Festival Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Brasil 2007, FICCAB – festival de cine alternativo en Benalmadena Spain 2007, 9 Abycine Spain 2007, „Curta Cinema“ Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival 2007, „Optica“ Festival Of Visual Arts Spain 2007, Zinebi Film Festival Bilbao Spain 2007, Certamen cortometrajes de Jerez Spain 2007, FIFE – experimental film festival of Carburari – Rumania 2007, Cinemad07 Spain 2007, ALCINE Madrid Spain 2007
Weblink: www.playtimeaudiovisuales.com
Bavarian Premiere
Screenings: Saturday, 20:30 and Tuesday, 18:00 (Umami)
Country of Origin: Australia
Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 11’30“
Category: Experimental
Director: Daniel Askill
Screenplay: Daniel Askill
Cinematographer: Denson Baker
Editor: Daniel Askill
Music: Michael Askill
Producers: Christopher Seeto, Daniel Askill
Cast: Jordan Askill, Kasia Werstak, Daniel Askill
Synopsis: Three rituals. Three figures. Three modern day journeys of transcendence.
Festivals & Awards: Flickerfest Sydney 2005 (Jameson Award), Braunschweig International Film Festival 2004, Interfilm Berlin 2004, Cinema Tout Ecran 2004, Leeds International Film Festival 2004, Calgary International Film Festival 2004, Resfest Digitasl Film Festival & Tour 2004, Locarno International Film Festival 2004, Rushes Soho Shorts 2004, Melbourne International Film Festival 2004 (Kino Dendy Cinema Award for Creative Excellence), Expression In Corto 2004 (Best Experimental Film / Special Mention for Best Cinematography), Sydney Film Festival 2004, Brooklyn International Film Festival 2004 (Best Experimental Film), Worldwide Short Film Festival 2004 (Honourable Mention / Best Experimental Short), Commonwealth Film Festival 2004 (Audience Award for Best Short Film), Granada International Short Film Festival 2004 (Premio al Mejor Corto Experimental / Special Mention), South By Southwest 2004 (BAFTA Award), Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2004 (Prix du Public Lab Competition)
Weblink: www.wehavedecidednottodie.com