NATAN
It’s Natans’ first day on his new job at Viggo’s Hamburger joint. Munir tries to teach him all the right moves, but Natan is a complete disaster. Viggo fires him and Natan is back on the street again. But Viggo’s conscience nags away at him…
MARIA JESUS
It’s the real story of Maria Jesus, played by herself, a Peruvian woman in the hands of traffickers of immigrants.
regia/director gianluca e massimiliano de serio |
| NASTRI D’ARGENTO Miglior Cortometraggio Twins, they were born in Turin in 1978. Massimiliano graduated in History of Art Criticism, while Gianluca graduated in Film History at DAMS in Turin. Since 1999 they have been making short films and documentaries. Some have participated in many Film Festivals. Gialuca has attended a workshop of the Scuola Holden in Turin, with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, while Massimiliano is attending a Masters’ Course in Contemporany Art at Turin University and Rivoli Castle. 2004 Mio fratello Yang (corto, short) 2003 Maria Jesus (corto, short) 2002 Il giorno del santo (corto, short) 2001 Poche cose (corto, short) 2000 Il fiore (corto, short) 1999 Domino (corto, short) It’s the real story of Maria Jesus, played by herself, a Peruvian woman in the hands of traffickers of immigrants. |
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME ALONE
A young boy, a young girl. Against the backdrop of the countryside they try to understand and express their feelings for each other. A study in the articulations and limitations of first love.
regia/director duane hopkins |
| FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CURTAS METRAGENS – VILA DO CONDE Prix UIP Vila Do Conde – Melhor Curta Metragem Europeia
Duane Hopkins was born in the ‘Cotswolds’, a rural area in Southern England. After leaving school he attended Art School, where he studied mainly as a painter and photographer. Soon after being accepted to study Fine Art in London, he made his first film on video. This experience made him rethink and he left painting to study film in the North of England. Hes graduation short ‘Routine’ was well received on the festival circuit and won several awards. Since then he have made two short films ‘Field’ and ‘Love Me Or Leave Me Alone’ which has allowed hem to investigate the style of cinematic grammar he find interesting and develop his approach to storytelling. He have also been concentrating on writing scripts which reflect him thematic interests within cinema. He admire the work of Robert Bresson, Alan Clarke, Bill Douglas, Werner Herzog, Andrei Tarkovsky, Yasujiro Ozu and Stanley Kubrick amongst others. His influences tend to be filmmakers who are interested in the creation of a personal cinematic grammar that juxtaposes ideas and meanings as opposed to a strict adherence to a conventional narrative structure. 2003 Love me or leave me alone (corto, short) 2001 Field (corto, short) 1997 Routine (corto, short) A young boy, a young girl. Against the backdrop of the countryside they try to understand and express their feelings for each other. A study in the articulations and limitations of first love. |
LITTLE THINGS
Little Things is seven stories in one, as several seemingly unconnected characters feature in a blend of observational and surreal scenarios. Largely without dialogue…
regia/director daniel greaves |
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NOVO MESTO Daniel Greaves was born on the 1st October 1959, in Woburn Buckinghamshire, England. From 1977 until 1980 he studied animation at Western Surrey College of Art. After graduating Daniel worked as a freelance animator at many London studios before founding Tandem Films with his business partner Nigel Pay in 1986. Daniel is Animation Director at Tandem Films. He is busy producing numerous commercials, including rthe recent Expedia and Chewits campaigns, as well as broadcast material and his own short film projects. And he still finds the time to go out for lunch! Little Things is Daniel’s seventh film. 2004 Beginning, Middle & End (corto, short); Little Things (corto, short) 2001 Rocking’ & Rollin’ (corto, short) 1997 Flatworld (corto, short) 1996 Rabbit rabbit 1991 Manipulation (corto, short) 1988 Family tree (corto, short) 1980 Alarm Call (corto, short) Little Things is seven stories in one, as several seemingly unconnected characters feature in a blend of observational and surreal scenarios. Largely without dialogue, the scenarios involve sustained character-led comedy as each individual character is seen to face everyday situations that develop as only animation can. Does the dramatic event in their lives bring the characters together, or do the little things in life carry on as before? |
LIFE IN SMOKE
This film short tells the story of Phil, a man like any other, yet very different from many for his great love for smoking. Phil’s mother was a heavy smoker and he experiences an unreal close encounter with the world of cigarettes that will change his life and the life of many others.
regia/director gianluca fratellini |
LUCANIA FILM FESTIVAL
Born in the province of Bari, he starts to study Autocad and 3D Studio at the age of 14. Once he graduates from high school, he studies IT technology in university. He works for three years in Luxembourg for “Oniria Pictures”, first as 3D Junior Animator on a US TV serial “Bob’s Beach” – 52 episodes of 11 minutes each – and then as 3D Senior Animator on their first film “Tristan & Isolde” and then on the film “Renart the Fox”, made in 3D using 2D rendering and backdrops. Life in smoke is his first film short. 2003 Life in smoke – una vita in fumo (corto, short) This film short tells the story of Phil, a man like any other, yet very different from many for his great love for smoking. Phil’s mother was a heavy smoker and he experiences an unreal close encounter with the world of cigarettes that will change his life and the life of many others. |
LA PEUR, PETIT CHASSEUR
A house in the countryside, on a November day. In a garden, a child is silently waiting in a corner.
regia/director laurent achard |
| PARIS TOUT COURT Le Grand Prix Paris Tout Court Has worked as director’s assistant for the film “Faubourg Saint-Martin” (1986) by Jean-Claude Guiguet, and “Après après-demain” (1990) by Gérard Frot-Coutaz. He has been making short films since 1992 and in 1998 he directed his first full-length film, “Plus qu’hier, moins que demain”, which won the Cyrill Collard prize. He is now working on a new full-length film. 2004 La peur, petit chasseur (corto, short) 1998 Plus qu’hier, moins que demain (lungometraggio, feature) 1997 Un Odeur de géranium (corto, short) 1994 Dimanche ou les fantốmes (corto, short) 1992 Qu’en savent les morts (corto, short) A house in the countryside, on a November day. In a garden, a child is silently waiting in a corner. |
LE DROIT CHEMIN
Lost in time and space, a 25-year-old prisoner relives the story of his life without understanding when it started and when it finished.
regia/director mathias gokalp |
| COURMAYEUR NOIR IN FESTIVAL Premio corti di paura
In 1995 Master’s degree in Modern Literature at Paris III University (subject of thesis: cinematographic writing in Marguerie Duras’s narration) In 1999 graduated of Institut National des Arts du Spectacle es des techniques de diffusion (INSAS, Bruxelles) Film / Radio- Télevisione section. 2004 Le droit chemin (corto, short) 2002 Le tarif de dieu (corto, short) 2001 Mi-temps (corto, short) 1999 Rachid et Martha (corto, short) 1998 Salvatore Nicotra (corto, short) 1995 Un acte d’amour 1993 L’Or des blés Lost in time and space, a 25-year-old prisoner relives the story of his life without understanding when it started and when it finished. |
INDECISION
Breaking up is never easy… Jack wants to put an end to things with Sarah. Or does he? When he tries to finish his relationship, his life spins out of control (literally.) A short, quirky comedy that plays with the kinetics of cinema.
regia/director charles barker |
| FESTIVAL TOUS COURTS – AIX EN PROVENCE Prix Special du Jury
Charles Barker’s first degree was in fine art painting at Central St Martins. On leaving college, Charles continued working as an artist creating both paintings and prints. Having always had an interest in film he also started to make experimental films and finding this a more rewarding medium, his subsequent work has been predominantly film based. In 2000 Charles decided to go back to college to study an MA in Film direction. While a student at the NFS he was the winner of the 2002 Kodak competition. Since graduating in 2002, Charles has directed commercials and is represented by Arden Sutherland Dodd. He has also completed a number of shorts, shown at festivals around the world, and has just finished writing his first feature script: ‘The half brother’. 2003 Indecision (corto, short) 2002 4am (corto, short) 2001 The track (corto, short) 1999 Minicab (corto, short) Microworld (corto, short) Breaking up is never easy… Jack wants to put an end to things with Sarah. Or does he? When he tries to finish his relationship, his life spins out of control (literally.) A short, quirky comedy that plays with the kinetics of cinema. |
IL MINESTRONE
A supermarket security officer catches a woman stealing vegetables at the fruit and vegetable department.
regia/director francesco falaschi |
| LINEA D’OMBRA SALERNO FILM FESTIVAL Miglior Corto Italiano
Francesco Falaschi (Grosseto 1961) has a degree in Cinema History. Co-Director for the Cinema Stories Festival in Grosseto, he has written pieces on cinema and has produced, as director and scriptwriter, numerous shorts, videos and documentaries. In 2001 he made his debut with the long film “Emma sono io”. 2004 Il minestrone (corto, short) 2002 Cassa Veloce (corto, short) 1999 Emma sono io (lungometraggio, feature); Quasi Fratelli (corto, short); Adidabuna (corto, short) 1995 Furto con destrezza (corto, short) 1993 Schermi Bianchi (corto, short) 1991 Soares contabile metafisico- la Lisbona di Fernando Pessoa (documentario, documentary) 1990 Il fiume e la terra (documentario, documentary) A supermarket security officer catches a woman stealing vegetables at the fruit and vegetable department. |
LÀLIBI
After a road accident, Eugenio goes into coma. After ten days he wakes up in a hospital room. First he sees a pretty nurse, Lucia, then the doctors. They want to know if he remembers what happened. In that moment Eugenio sees the possibility of gaining freedom: pretending to remember anything…
regia/director marco cucurnia |
GENOVA FILM FESTIVAL |
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