Barcelona Here We Stand

German Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 19, 2015, 21:00 and Monday, June 22, 2015, 19:00 (SOUR)

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Countries of Origin: Finland, South Africa, Ghana
Year of Completion / First Public Screening: 2014
Running Time: 18’02“
Category: Documentary

Director: Linnea de la Chapelle, Rafael Donner
Screenplay: Linnea de la Chapelle
Cinematographer: Rafael Donner
Editor: Edem Tengue
Producer: Tyrone Poipao

Synopsis: The residents of the South African township of Barcelona struggle with a world of adversity and hardship, yet still show remarkable human kindness. It seems Barcelona is not where dreams go to die – it is merely where they hide.

Festivals & Awards:
Helsinki Short Film Festival 2014, Finland
Nominated for the national Finnish short film award, Kettu elokuvapalkinto 2014

Newborns

Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, June 20, 2015, 19:00 and Monday, June 22, 2015, 21:00 (BITTER)

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Country of Origin: India
Year of Completion / First Public Screening: 2014
Running Time: 9’00“
Category: Documentary

Director: Megha Ramaswamy
Screenplay: Megha Ramaswamy
Cinematographer: Satya Rai Paul
Music: Pritam, Patrick Pedersen, Dark Ambient Inner Devil
Editor: Anand Gandhi, Rohit Pandey
Producer: Sohum Shah, Anand Gandhi, Ruchi Bhimani

Synopsis: In this moving documentary, the survivors of acid attacks tell us their story.

Festivals & Awards:
Tiff ’14 Shorts Cuts Programme
Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival
3rd Delhi Short International Film Festival
LA No Budget Film Festival
Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival
Jaipur International Film Festival
IndiEarth XChange 2014, Chennai
4th UNA Pasadena Film Festival
Panchkula Literature Festival
FlickerFest
Filmmor
Reno Tahoe International Film Festival
Prague Short Film Festival
11th International Human Rights Film Festival Of Paris

Weblink: youtu.be/5fw28XOR5Xk

Reality 2.0

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

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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

E

International Premiere

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

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

Directors: Alexandre Wahrhaftig, Helena Ungaretti, Miguel Antunes Ramos
Screenplay: Miguel Antunes Ramos
Cinematographer: Alexandre Wahrhaftig
Editor: Lia Kulakauskas
Producer: Juliana Donato, Gustavo Rosa de Moura
Cast: Silvio Restiffe

Synopsis: Parking. Park-ing. From the verb „to park“. From the old French „parc“: legal term for the land held by royal grant for keeping game animals.
Inhalt: Parking. Park-ing. Vom englischen Verb „to park“. Vom alten französischen Wort „parc“: der rechtmäßige Begriff für das Stück Land, in dem die königliche Liga ihr Wild hält.

Festivals: 17th Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes (Brazil), It’s all True – International Dcoumentary Film Festival (Brazil)
Awards: Best Short Film at It’s all True – International Documentary Film Festival

Weblinks:
www.vimeo.com

Afterwards

World Premiere

Screenings: Thursday, June 19, 19:00 and Saturday, June 21, 21:00 (Monopol-Kino)
SWEET

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Country of Origin: France
Year of Production: 2014
Duration: 18′
Category: Documentary
Language: French with English subtitles

Director: Valérie Osouf
Screenplay: Valérie Osouf
Cinematographer: Valérie Osouf
Editor: Valérie Pico
Producer: Jean-François Fernandez, Vincent Trintignant
Cast: Sylvia Haki

Synopsis: A very old woman tries to remember his past. Alzheimer allows her to hide and reinvent swathes of her existence. She remembered the Foxtrot dance and her Jewishness but forgot her own name, or rather her two names: Sylvia Lignon and Messaouada Haki.
Inhalt: Eine sehr alte Dame versucht sich an ihre Vergangenheit zu erinnern. Der Alzheimer erlaubt es ihr, weite Teile ihrer Existenz zu verstecken und neu zu erfinden. Sie erinnert sich an den Foxtrott und ihr Judentum, aber sie hat ihren eigenen Namen vergessen, oder eher ihre zwei Namen: Sylvia Lignon und Messaouada Haki.

Weblinks:
www.granitfilms.com
www.facebook.com

Love. Love. Love.

German Premiere

Screenings: Thursday, June 19, 19:00 and Saturday, June 21, 21:00 (Monopol-Kino)
SWEET

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Country of Origin: Russia, India
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 11′
Category: Documentary
Language: Russian with English subtitles

Director: Sandhya Daisy Sundaram
Screenplay: Sandhya Daisy Sundaram
Cinematographer: Alexey Filippov
Editor: Sandhya Daisy Sundaram
Producer: Tanya Petrik, Guillaume Protsenko

Synopsis: Every year, through the endless winters, her love takes new shapes and forms.
Inhalt: Jedes Jahr, den ganzen endlosen Winter hindurch, nimmt ihre Liebe neue Formen und Ausdrücke an.

Festivals: Palm Springs International ShortFest (USA, 2014), Sydney Film Festival (Australia, 2014), Big Sur International Short Film Festival (USA, 2014), Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia (Japan, 2014), Seattle International Film Fest (USA, 2014), International Eskisehir Film Festival (Turkey, 2014), Sundance London Film and Music Festival (UK, 2014), Darklight Film Festival (Ireland, 2014), Dvijenie Film Festival (Russia, 2014), Nashville Film Festival (USA, 2014), Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (USA, 2014), IAWRT Film Festival (India, 2014), Angkor Wat International Film Festival (Cambodia, 2014), Sundance Film Festival (USA, 2014), Kanyakumari International Film Festival (India, 2013), Hangzhou Asian Film Festival (China, 2013), Vilnius Film Shorts (Lithuania, 2013), Baghdad International Film Festival (Iraq, 2013), One Voice International Film Festival (UK, 2013), Huesca International Film Festival (Spain, 2014)
Awards: Special Jury Award for Non-Fiction at Sundance Film Festival (2014), Best Short Film at Dvijenie Film Festival, Jury Honorable Mention at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (2014), Honorable Mention for Best Documentary Short Film at Nashville Film Festival (2014), Best Documentary at One Voice International Film Festival (2013)

Weblinks:
www.cinetrain-project.com
www.facebook.com
www.vimeo.com
www.vimeo.com
www.twitter.com

In Guns We Trust

German Premiere

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

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Country of Origin: Canada
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 12′
Category: Documentary
Language: English without subtitles

Director: Nicolas Lévesque
Screenplay: Nicolas Lévesque
Cinematographer: Nicolas Lévesque
Editor: Guillaume Langlois
Producer: Nicolas Lévesque
Cast: Robert Jones, Dent Myers, James Amica, Dania Gallaway, Josh Lavallette

Synopsis: In Kennesaw, a small American town in the state of Georgia, a good citizen is an armed citizen. By law, since 1982, each head of household must own at least one working firearm with ammunition.
Inhalt: In Kennesaw, einer kleinen amerikanischen Stadt im Bundesstaat Georgia, ist ein guter Bürger ein bewaffneter Bürger. Seit 1982 ist es gesetzlich geregelt, dass jeder Haushaltsvorstand eine funktionierende und geladene Schusswaffe besitzen muss.

Festivals: Regard sur le court métrage (Canada, 2013), Indie Lisboa (Portugal, 2013), Talent tout Court à Cannes (France, 2013), Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia, 2013), Toronto International Film Festival (Canada, 2013), OFF-Court Trouville (France, 2013), Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec (Canada, 2013), Cinéma Vérité (Iran, 2013), Festival Images en Vues (Canada, 2013), Festival de Cinéma en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Canada, 2013), Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada, 2013), Festival de Arles et les nuits photographiques de Paris (France, 2013), Belfast Photographic Film Festival (Irlande, 2013), Victoria Film Festival (Canada, 2013), Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival (Canada, 2014), Tribeca Film Festival (United States, 2014)

Weblinks:
www.vimeo.com

A Visit

German Premiere

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

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Country of Origin: Poland
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 12′
Category: Documentary
Language: No dialogue

Director: Matej Bobrik
Screenplay: Matej Bobrik
Cinematographer: Artur Sienicki
Editor: Grzegorz Szczepaniak
Producer: Ewa Jastrzebska, Tomasz Parnowski

Synopsis: In a care home surrounded by a magical forest deep in the middle of nowhere, the residents lead quiet, unruffled lives. Only Sundays seem to bring any variety. For Sunday is visiting day.
Inhalt: In einem Pflegeheim, verloren in Mitten eines zauberhaften Waldes, führen die Anwohner ein ruhiges und gelassenes Leben. Nur die Sonntage scheinen irgendeine Art von Abwechslung zu bringen, denn Sonntag ist Besuchstag.

Festivals: International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (The Netherlands, 2013), 16th Docaviv International Film Festival (Israel, 2014), 13th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (Poland, 2013), One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic, 2014), 19th It’s All True – International Documentary Film Festival (Brazil, 2014), 24th Mediawave International Film and Music Festival (Hungary, 2014), 12th International Short Film Festival In the Palace (Bulgaria, 2014)

Weblinks:
polishshorts.pl
www.youtube.com

Portrait of a Fair

World Premiere

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

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Country of Origin: India
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 11′
Category: Documentary
Language: Gujarati with English subtitles

Director: Mustaqeem Khan
Cinematographer: Mustaqeem Khan, Hansil Dabhi
Editor: Mustaqeem Khan
Producer: Hansil Dabhi

Synopsis: A tour through a fair, in a village many kilometers away from the city.
Inhalt: Eine Tour durch ein Volksfest in einem Dorf, viele Kilometer von der Stadt entfernt.

Weblinks:
www.facebook.com
www.vimeo.com

Silvio – Here I Am

Bavarian Premiere

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

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Country of Origin: Italy
Year of Production: 2013
Duration: 15′
Category: Documentary
Language: Italian with English subtitles

Director: Carlo Migotto, Mattia Coletti
Screenplay: Carlo Migotto, Mattia Coletti
Cinematographer: Nevio De Conti
Editor: Nevio De Conti
Music: Job Roggeven
Producer: Carlo Migotto, Mattia Coletti
Cast: Silvio V.

Synopsis: Silvio has deep, sad eyes that struggle to stay focused. He is soft, gentle, frightened, all-Italian. It wasn’t difficult to persuade him to sit down and express himself. He brought to the table his story – a little, shocking, allegorical fairy-tale of liberation and ruin.
Inhalt: Silvio hat tiefe, traurige Augen, die sich abmühen, konzentriert zu bleiben. Er ist sanft, behutsam, ängstlich und Vollblut-Italiener. Es war nicht schwer, ihn zu überreden, sich zu setzen und über sich selbst zu erzählen. Das ist seine Geschichte – ein kleines schockierendes, allegorisches Märchen von Befreiung und Untergang.

Festivals: Bif&st Bari International Film Festival (Italy, 2013), Milano Film Festival (Italy, 2013), Pornfilmfestival Berlin (Germany, 2013), Muestra Marrana (Spain, 2013), Corto Dorico (Italy, 2013), Ozu Film Festival (Italy, 2013)

Weblinks:
www.vimeo.com
www.facebook.com