IL CORRIDOIO

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Nicola is a 6-year-old boy who lives with his family in an old apartment divided in two by a long corridor. His parents’ relationship is slowly falling to pieces as money is running low and love is fading. To escape the violence, Nicola hides himself in the fantasy world of his toy soldiers…

 

regia/director vittorio badini confalonieri
sceneggiatura /screenplay vittorio badini canfalonieri e valeria borello
fotografia/cinematographer franz pagot (a.i.c.)
montaggio/editing raimondo aiello
musica / music paolo cairoli e alessandro bavo
suono / sound dolby sr
cast/cast igazio oliva, giulia steigerwalt, maria pia calzone, sergio albelli
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/ original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 9’
anno di produzione/year of production 2003
paese di produzione/country of production italia – italy
produzione/production andrea usai
distribuzione/distribution movida entertainment s.r.l.

 

GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL
Sezione Free to Fly – Grifone d’Argento al Miglior Corto

 

Vittorio Badini Confalonieri was born in Turin in 1976. Writer and director, he worked in London directing commercials and music videos. In Italy he has directed music videos for artists such as Afterhours, Morgan and Modarte. In 2003 he founded, with Alberto Micelotta, the MO Vi DA company specialized in video production. They work with Italian musicians such as Alex Britti, Delta V, Mario Venuti e Cristina Donà. “The Corridor” is Vittorio’s first short film. At the moment he is writing his first feature film.

2004 Il corridoio (corto, short)

Nicola is a 6-year-old boy who lives with his family in an old apartment divided in two by a long corridor. His parents’ relationship is slowly falling to pieces as money is running low and love is fading. To escape the violence, Nicola hides himself in the fantasy world of his toy soldiers. But as the tension increases day after day, the young boy begins to see the corridor slowly turning into a war trench and getting to the front door is no longer a matter of going to school, but the only way to survive…

 

HEAVY PREGNANT

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What happens if a child, which is after 27 years still connected with its mother by the umbilical cord, refuses to leave her ? The satire of a child’s late-puberty, this refusal to enter adulthood and the doctors who care for him.

 

regia/director piotr levandowsky
sceneggiatura /screenplay piotr levandowsky, carsten strauch
fotografia/cinematographer frank lamm
montaggio/editing daniel olteanu
musica / music manana khundadze
suono / sound tilman braun
cast/cast roland silbernagel, cornelia niemann, rainer ewerrien
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format beta sp – color
durata/running time 9’
anno di produzione/year of production 2003
paese di produzione/country of production germania – germany
produzione/production carsten strauch filmproduction & filmakademie baden – dürtten
distribuzione/distribution kurzfilm agentur hamburg

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU COURT MÉTRAGE LUXEMBOURG
Milleur Court Metrage International

 

Piotr Levandowsky, born 1975 in Warsaw. Since 1994 studying at various universities in Warsaw, London and Germany: at the HfG Offenbach/Main (Pre-Diploma in Visual Communication) and at the Film Academy of Baden – Württemberg (Pre-Diploma in “Film und Medien”). In 1996 completed job training as a technician, EDP programmer and graduated as a graphic designer “Warsaw).

2003 Heavy Pregnant ( corto, short) 2001 Projekt 02 ( corto, short) ; Little Computer People (corto, short); Aromabar: Father (corto, short)

What happens if a child, which is after 27 years still connected with its mother by the umbilical cord, refuses to leave her ? The satire of a child’s late-puberty, this refusal to enter adulthood and the doctors who care for him.

 

HEADWAY

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A film about a man trying to make headway in life.

 

regia/director jens jonsson
sceneggiatura /screenplay jens jonsson
fotografia/cinematographer askild vik edvardsen
montaggio/editing kristofer nordin
suono / sound adreas franck, göran petterssoncast/cast sten ljunggren alexandra dahlström lennart hjulström theresa jäderström
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 15’
anno di produzione/year of production 2003
produzione/production memfis filmproduktion ab
distribuzione/distribution swedish film institute


TAMPERE FILM FESTIVAL
Grand Prix International Competition

 

Jens Jonsson, born 1974, studied graphic design between 1994 – 1998 and film directing between 1998-2001 at Dramatiska Institutet, Stockholm. He also drew comic strips for Swedish magazine In a relatively short time, he has written and directed many short films (including Brother of Mine, for which he received the Silver Bear in Berlin) that are striking thanks to original narrative techniques, sharp psychological insight in the characters and an emotional wisdom that is certainly surprising in view of his young age. Now Jonsson is working on his first feature.

2004 Fragile (corto, short); 2003 A Changed Man (corto, short), Utvecklingssamtal (corto, short), Spaden (corto, short); 2002 K-G i nöd och lust (corto, short), Bror min (corto, short); 2001 Reparation (corto, short); 2000 Verner (corto, short); 1999 Execution (corto, short)

A film about a man trying to make headway in life.

 

EXTN.21

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Orman is having a futile conversation on his mobile phone. He is running back to his office but getting nowhere. If he could just get through to Mr. Langley everything will be resolved but someone (or something) is intercepting his calls…

 

regia/director lizzie oxby
sceneggiatura /screenplay lizzie oxby
fotografia/cinematographer lizzie oxby
montaggio/editing rod main
musica / music johannes konecny
suono / sound stereo
cast/cast richard leaf (as the head of the puppet)
genere /genre animazione – animation
formato originale/original format 16 mm – color
durata/running time 9’
anno di produzione/year of production 2003
paese di produzione/country of production inghilterra – england
produzione/production finetake
distribuzione/distribution finetake


TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Best First Film

In 1996, Lizzie graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Animation. Her graduation film The Lacemaker won the Gold Mikeldi for Animation at the Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival, and her short films have been internationally screened at numerous major film festivals. Her multi-award winning film EXTN.21 was commissioned by Channel 4 Television. As a director, she has made work for MTV Networks Europe and EMI Records UK and has just recently completed Nightly Cares for the Icelandic band Múm and Fat Cat Records. She has also created work for Real World, Readymade-Media, ENO and co-directed ‘Catch Your Breath’ (2002) with Theatre-Rites using video projection for The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. As well her moving image work, she’s also a published illustrator and has been a visiting lecturer on the Theatre Design course at Wimbledon School of Art since 1997. Her work has also been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London

2004 Nightly Cares (music video) 2003 EXTN. 21 (corto, short) 1997 FJAM (music video)

Orman is having a futile conversation on his mobile phone. He is running back to his office but getting nowhere. If he could just get through to Mr. Langley everything will be resolved but someone (or something) is intercepting his calls…
This film uses an innovative blending of atmospheric stop-frame animation, live action performance and digital effects to create a dark world of uncertain reality.

 

 

CHILD IN TIME

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A baroque’n’roll film about a child in time. About a child caught in the days of Socialism, Catholicism and rock. About a family, government and a spiritual universe. About a brother and sister. About a family that the whole universe is based upon. About the war in human relations and on escape and love.

 

regia/director child in time
sceneggiatura/screenplay maja weiss
fotografia/cinematographer bojan kastelic
montaggio/editing peter braatz
musicachris eckman
suono / sound peter braatz, julij zornik
cast/cast anja voducek, gregor protocnik, polona juh, peter musevski, metod pevec
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 15’ 57’’
anno di produzione 2004
paese di produzione/country of production slovenia
produzione/production bela film
distribuzione/distribution slovenian film found


BIOGRAPHY

Was born in Stari Grad in 1965. She finished high-school in Split. She is a freelance artist and works professionally in animation, comics and illustration. She lives and works in Zagreb.

FILMOGRAPHY

2004 Triptih (corto, short) 1999 A lone man’s garden (corto, short) 1995 Young man with roses (corto, short) 1993/1994 Dreamland (corto, short) 1993 The sword of light (corto, short) 1992 The rose (corto, short) 1998 Butterflies (corto, short)

 

SYNOPSIS

A baroque’n’roll film about a child in time. About a child caught in the days of Socialism, Catholicism and rock. About a family, government and a spiritual universe. About a brother and sister. About a family that the whole universe is based upon. About the war in human relations and on escape and love.

 

CIGARETTES AND COFFEE

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The bus leaves Mr. Tomescu downtown Bucharest, in front of Graceland restaurant. He enters and sits down at the table where Vlad is seated. Mr. Tomescu is in his early 60ies.Vlad invited him during his lunch break to listen to his problems. Freshly dismissed-2 years before time-Mr. Tomescu…

 

regia/director cristi puiu
sceneggiatura/screenplay cristi puiu
fotografia/cinematographer oleg mutu
montaggio/editing dana bunescu
suono/sound dolby
cast/castvictor rebengiuc, mimi branescu
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 13’
anno di produzione 2004
paese di produzione/country of production romania
produzione/production temple film
distribuzione/distribution romanian film centre

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Bucharest on April 3, 1967. He graduated l’Ecole Superieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva in 1996.

 

FILMOGRAPHY

2004 Cigarettes and Coffee (corto, short) 2001 Stuff &Dough (corto, short) 1998 Asylum (documentario, documentary) 1996 Bucharest, the North Railway Station (documentario, documentary) 1995 (corto, short) 1994 There’s No Place Like Home (corto, short) 1993 Interiors (corto, short).

 

SYNOPSIS

The bus leaves Mr. Tomescu downtown Bucharest, in front of Graceland restaurant. He enters and sits down at the table where Vlad is seated. Mr. Tomescu is in his early 60ies.Vlad invited him during his lunch break to listen to his problems. Freshly dismissed-2 years before time-Mr. Tomescu asks for Vlad’s help to find him a new employment.

 

FOOD

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Food is a fundamental, everyday need. Delivered food is becoming one of the most trivial forms to satisfy such needs in the urban reality. Understanding is total between two of the process’ protagonists: the one ordering and the one delivering, concerning the nature and the flow of the transaction…

 

regia/director péter fazakas
sceneggiatura /screenplay péter fazakas
fotografia/cinematographer tamás lajos
musica le hammono inferno
suono stereo
cast/cast hermina fátiol
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format 16 mm – color
durata/running time 4’ 33’’
anno di produzione 2003
paese di produzione/country of production ungheria/unghery
produzione/production filmpositive productions

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1967 in Budapest, Hungary, Péter directs commercials since 1997. Conducted English and audio-visual studies at ELTE University, Budapest. Also worked as actor and copywriter.

 

SYNOPSIS

Food is a fundamental, everyday need. Delivered food is becoming one of the most trivial forms to satisfy such needs in the urban reality. Understanding is total between two of the process’ protagonists: the one ordering and the one delivering, concerning the nature and the flow of the transaction. Not this time. Food in this context is the source of an everyday existential conflict. It brings the transporters and the receiving end together in a nerve racking psychic duel. The delivery boy is a huge, sweating man of instincts, who is executing a nearly physical work. His enemy is a girl frail in her appearance, probably frustrated inside, but stone cold and defiantly honest on the outside. The delivery guy is the least prepared of the two for the clash, and suffers the biggest blow. He cannot understand and take the questioning of such a simple and obvious process as delivery. The existential ‘coup de grace’ performed by the girl is the cruellest of all: she throws in his face her disdainful perception of everything he is. The fearsome weapon is one of the strongest labels of urban lifestyle: plastic. The man departs collapsed, but comforted by his executioner. The girl stays and eats. The transaction is complete. The wheels turn, the restaurant takes orders, plastic lives on.

 

BUGS

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Petar is an autistic child who lives in his own world, protected from the reality of despair and disintegration of his family. Nevertheless, reality penetrates his hidden world and destroys it. Petar takes revenge.

 

regia/director igor ivanov
sceneggiatura /screenplay igor ivanov
fotografia/cinematographer tomi salkovsi
montaggio/editino igor andreevski
musica zoran spasovski
suono / sound dolby sr
cast/cast georgi krstevski, oliver mitkovski, labina mitevska, vladimir jachev
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 15’
anno di produzione 2003
paese di produzione/country of production macedonia
produzione/production sektor film

BIOGRAPHY

 

Was born in 1973 in Skopje, Macedonia. He studied philosophy and was constantly involved in filmmaking processes. He started his professional career in 1993 with directing the TV Series “Subway”. 1995 was the year when he made his first documentary “NEP”, presented at London Film Festival. In 1997 he directed the short film the “Clock”, awarded by The Council of Europe. From 1999 to 2003 he works as a director of the popular children TV Series “Nase Maalo” produced by “Children Television Workshop” – New York, and “Search for common ground Production” – Washington. Further, in 2000 he made two short films “Kaval” and “Gajda”, presented at various festivals worldwide. In October 2003 he finished his last project, the short film “Bubachki” presented in the official competition of the 54th Berlinale.

 

FILMOGRAPHY

2003 Bubachki (corto, short) 2000 Kaval (corto, short); Gajda (corto, short) 1997 The clock (corto, short).

 

SYNOPSIS

Petar is an autistic child who lives in his own world, protected from the reality of despair and disintegration of his family. Nevertheless, reality penetrates his hidden world and destroys it. Petar takes revenge.

 

THE MINE

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A poetic and not so poetic visual and sound impression from the interior of a coal mine.

 

regia/director victor asliuk
sceneggiatura /screenplay victor asliuk
fotografia/cinematographer anatol kazazaev
genere /genre documentario – documentary
formato originale/original format 16 mm – color
durata/running time 16’
anno di produzione 2004
paese di produzione/country of production bielorussia – belarus
produzione/production belarusfilm – v. shenko

BIOGRAPHY

Viktor Asljuk graduated in 1994 from the Byelorussian Academy of Arts. Since 1995 he has been working at the Belarusfilm Studio.

FILMOGRAPHY

2004 The mine (documentario, documentary) 2003 Kola (corto, short) 2002 My Živjom na kraju (documentario, documentary) 1998 Dobryi večer, sad, sad (documentario, documentary) 1997 Večnaja tema (documentario, documentary) 1996 Zabytie nebesa (documentario, documentary) 1994 Sljozy bludnogo syna (documentario, documentary).

 

SYNOPSIS

A poetic and not so poetic visual and sound impression from the interior of a coalmine.

 

IN TRAM

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Milan, morning mist. As every day Franco is out of breath when he reaches the tram stop. Small details draw his attention: something strange is in the air, but what? On the tram a young man to whom Franco asks for information, answers to him in English, and yet he’s absolutely Italian…

 

regia/director filippo soldi
sceneggiatura/screenplay carlo giuseppe gabardine, filippo soldi
fotografia/cinematographer aldo di marcantonio
montaggio/editing giuseppe pagano
musica/music enrico elia
cast/cast piera degli esposti, gigio alberti, carlo giuseppe gabardini
genere/genre fiction
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 9’
anno di produzione 2003
paese di produzione/country of production italia
produzione/production company caro film srl
distribuzione/distribution company gruppo pasquino

BIOGRAPHY

Filippo seriously intended to attend the VGIK (Moscow’s film school), but instead he received a Master’s Degree in Literature from the University of Milan (1993) and the dramaturgy and screenplay diploma at the “Paolo Grassi” Civic School of Dramatic Art (1995) in Milan.
He worked in the theatre and cinema as an assistant for directors like Luca Ronconi, Werner Schroeter, Monica Conti from 1996 to 2001, Aurelio Grimaldi, Lino Capolicchio, Diego Ronsisvalle and others. He held theatre workshops, directed various shows and made various documentaries such as “Cremona – il sapore di una città” or “Fernanda Pivano racconta Bukowski”.

FILMOGRAPHY

2003 In Tram (corto, short)

 

SYNOPSIS

Milan, morning mist. As every day Franco is out of breath when he reaches the tram stop. Small details draw his attention: something strange is in the air, but what? On the tram a young man to whom Franco asks for information, answers to him in English, and yet he’s absolutely Italian. This morning, everybody speaks English: the tram’s announcements are in English, the posters are in English: from now on, English is the official language that the new EU legislation has adopted for the whole of Europe. Franco had been “absentminded”, he had forgotten, or misunderstood. And now? Either he obeys, or…