L’ARIA

A man decides to surprise his partner. He’d like to buy a villa with a swimming pool. She waits for him at home, in the bath. A normal, absurd little love story.

 

regia/director daniele prato
sceneggiatura /screenplay
paolo giovannucci, daniele prato
fotografia/cinematographer
stefano coletta
montaggio/editing
alberto molinari, daniele prato
musica / music
alessandro molinari
cast / cast
claudia pandolci, paolo giovannucci, renato scarpa, paolo de vita, antonio friello
genere /genre
fiction
formato originale/original format
35 mm – color
durata/running time
13’
anno di produzione/year of production
2003
paese di produzione/country of production
italia / italy
produzione/production
ganga film s.r.l.
 

ROMA INDIPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
Miglior Cortometraggio Italiano Premio Kodak

 

A man decides to surprise his partner. He’d like to buy a villa with a swimming pool. She waits for him at home, in the bath. A normal, absurd little love story.

 

DANIELE PRATO

He was born in Rome, Italy, in 1975. Attended a seminar on theatrical and cinematographic writing held by Vincenzo Cerami at the Univerity of Rome “La Sapienza”. Assistant director to Francesco Apolloni and to Toni Bertorelli for the theatre shows “La verità, vi prego, sull’amore” and “Tre alberghi” respectively, starring Luca Zingaretti and Isabella Ferrari. Assistant director and co-author with Francesco Cabras and Alberto Molinari (Ganga) in Max Gazzè, Caparezza and Sergio Cammariere’s videos. Assistant director of many documentaries. Author of the theatre play “Summertime” directed by Alessandro Vannucci, starring Ignazio Oliva and Giorgio Colangeli. Screen-player of the movie “Passato prossimo” directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi, produced by Medusa. Screen-player and director of the short film “L’aria”, with Claudia Pandolfi and Renato Scarpa in the cast, which won the Istituto Luce award guaranteeing distribution in the Italian movie theatres. Currently working in pre-production as screenwriter and director on his first feature film.

 

2005 Farhorizon (feel the funk remix) (videoclip) 2004 Videogiocatori (documentario, documentary); Alla fiera del West (documentario, documentary); Ghost (videoclip) 2003 L’aria (corto, short)

 

KILLING THE AFTERNOON

An afternoon at the beach. Young girls are working intensively on getting a suntan whilst boys of the same age are desperately trying to gain their attention. Not far away, an aqua-aerobics group takes a class in the sea while a swarm of canoes paddles nearby. A small child digs a hole in the sand…

 

regia/director margaret corkery
sceneggiatura /screenplay
margaret corkery
fotografia/cinematographer
andrew house
montaggio/editing
margaret corkery
musica / music
dead can dance, benge noble
suono / sound
optical
cast / cast
gary horgan, ciara lynch, john harrison
genere /genre
fiction
formato originale/original format
16 mm – color
durata/running time
9’
anno di produzione/year of production
2005
paese di produzione/country of production
irlanda – ireland
produzione/production
margaret corkery
distribuzione/distribution
margaret corkery

 

CORK FILM FESTIVAL
Jameson Award for Best Irish Short Film

 

An afternoon at the beach. Young girls are working intensively on getting a suntan whilst boys of the same age are desperately trying to gain their attention. Not far away, an aqua-aerobics group takes a class in the sea while a swarm of canoes paddles nearby. A small child digs a hole in the sand a mother struggles with a portable barbecue. It’s a windy day…

 

MARGARET CORKERY

Margaret Corkery was born in Ireland on September 23rd 1976. She graduated with a Masters Degree from the University of Westminster, London, in 2004. She lives in Dublin, where she is currently developing her first feature film.

 

2005 Killing the afternoon (corto, short) 2002 Salvation (corto, short); A weather consitio (corto, short) 2001 Fair play to him (corto, short);

 

LE BAISER

A young lady is waiting for her beloved for their first French kiss. Suddenly everything turns upside down…

 

regia/director stéfan le lay
sceneggiatura /screenplay
stéfan le lay
fotografia/cinematographer
christian wolber
montaggio/editing
stéfan le lay
cast / cast
guillaume de tonquedec, sara viot
genere /genre
fiction
formato originale/original format
35 mm – b/w
durata/running time
4’30’’
anno di produzione/year of production
2005
paese di produzione/country of production
francia / france
produzione/production
les film du varech
distribuzione/distribution
premium films

 

FESTIVAL EUROPEEN DU FILM COURT DE BREST
Grand Prix “Cocotte-Minute”

 

A young lady is waiting for her beloved for their first French kiss. Suddenly everything turns upside down…

 

STÉFAN LE LAY

Born on August 28th , 1967. He studied cinema at the University of Paris. He is director and scriptwriter for cinema and television and is currently working on his first feature film.

 

2005 Le baiser (corto, short) 2003 Mon papa à moi (corto, short) 1999 La Vieille dame et l’Ankou (corto, short); 1997 Les Lacets (corto, short);

 

IL GIORNO IN CUI NIENTE SUCCESSE

May 13, 1935. Two children on a bike meet History. Returning home they have an accident with a motorcyclist who dies after a few days having been in a coma. It would have been a banal accident if the motorcyclist was not one of the most famous men in post colonial England…

 

regia/director ramón alòs sánchez
sceneggiatura/screenplay
ramón alòs sánchez, leonardo marini, antonia paolini
fotografia/cinematographer
christian andrés burgos hurtubia
montaggio/editing
luca manes
musica / music
andrei alòs sánchez
cast / cast
ralph palka, luca concutelli, mattia giuseppin, joshua napoletano
genere /genre
fiction
formato originale/original format
35 mm – color
durata/running time
16’
anno di produzione/year of production
2004
paese di produzione/country of production
italia / italy
produzione/production
centro sperimentale di cinematografia
distribuzione/distribution
centro sperimentale di cinematografia

 

LINEA D’OMBRA SALERNO FILM FESTIVAL
Miglior Corto Italiano – Premio Kodak

 

May 13, 1935. Two children on a bike meet History. Returning home they have an accident with a motorcyclist who dies after a few days having been in a coma. It would have been a banal accident if the motorcyclist was not one of the most famous men in post colonial England. Because of the journalists’ greed for scoop and the charming trail of his name nobody really knows what happened that day.

RAMÓN ALÒS SÁNCHEZ

Born in Valencia on January the 14th, 1974, he has obtained a Fine Arts degree at the “Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos” in his hometown. He has then taken his direction licence at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia with the short film “The Day Nothing Happened” which, in 2005, was chosen, together with four more shorts from the same school, to participate to the Oscar Academy Award of Film Schools.

 

2004 Il giorno in cui niente successe (corto, short)

 

HIBERNATION

1985. A secret tree house. Two children disguised in animal costumes experiment to revive a bee. But they are actually searching to bring back something much bigger.

 

regia/director john williams
sceneggiatura /screenplay
john williams
fotografia/cinematographer
kate mccullough
montaggio/editing
jamie pearson
musica / music
antony telfer brown
suono / sound
dolby srd
cast / cast
adam arnold, sonny rooney, peter reynolds, adam paroussos, harry mckeady, helen kennedy
genere /genre
fiction
formato originale/original format
35 mm – color
durata/running time
15’
anno di produzione/year of production
2005
paese di produzione/country of production
inghilterra – england
produzione/production
sound films
distribuzione/distribution
sound films
ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
Best Short Film 

1985. A secret tree house. Two children disguised in animal costumes experiment to revive a bee. But they are actually searching to bring back something much bigger.

 

JOHN WILLIAMS

John Williams was born in England in 1981. He has made videos for Coldplay and Offspring and in 2003 he was awarded best debut director at the Advertisements Festival in Cannes with “Half – life” for Greenpeace. With Galle Denis he has co-directed “Take it now”, one of the winners of the 48 hour Challenge. He has also directed the animation documentary “Robots”.

 

2005 Hibernation (corto, short)

GJENNOM MINE TYKKE BRILLER

A little girl refuses to get dressed before going out to play. In order to persuade her, her grandfather tells her a strange story about his hardships during the war.

 

regia/director pjotr sapegin
sceneggiatura /screenplay
david reiss-andersen, pjotr sapegin
fotografia/cinematographer
janne hansen
montaggio/editing
simen gengenbach
musica / music
normand roger
suono / sound
dolby srd
cast / cast
odd børretzen
sossen kroch (voice grandma)
genere /genre
animazione / animation
formato originale/original format
35 mm – color
durata/running time
13’
anno di produzione/year of production
2004
paese di produzione/country of production
norvegia, canada / norwey, canada
produzione/production
pravda as
distribuzione/distribution
norvegian film institute
TAMPERE INETERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Grand Prix 

A little girl refuses to get dressed before going out to play. In order to persuade her, her grandfather tells her a strange story about his hardships during the war.

 

PJOTR SAPEGIN

He was born in Russia in 1955. He has been living and working in Norway since 1990. Has worked for 15 years as stage designer on theatres in Moscow. He started to work in animation films after moving to Norway. Was one of the founders of the Oslo animation studio Studio Magica, but is now running his own production company, Pravda Productions. Sapegin has made a number of short films which have won both national and international awards.

 

2004 Nå skal du høre (corto, short); Gjennom mine tykke briller (corto, short) 2001 Aria (corto, short) 1999 I et hjørne av verden (corto, short); Sniler (corto, short) 1998 Saltkvernen (corto, short); Huset på Kampen (corto, short) 1996 Edvard – ferietid (corto, short) 1995 Katten Mons (corto, short); Edvard på broseplass (corto, short) 1994 Ippolita – den lille amatone (corto, short) 1993 Edvard – lengselens uutholdelige letthet (corto, short); Fiskeboller (corto, short); Edvard: den nakne sannhet (corto, short) 1992 Edvard (corto, short) 1991 Erkules

FRAULEIN GERTIE

A day like any other in the life of Fräulein Gertie.

 

 

regia/director lavinia chianello, tomás creus
sceneggiatura /screenplay
lavinia chianello, tomás creus
fotografia/cinematographer
lavinia chianello, tomás creus
montaggio/editing
lavinia chianello, tomás creus
musica / music
bix beiderbecke
genere /genre
animazione / animation
formato originale/original format
mini dv – color
durata/running time
5’30’’
anno di produzione/year of production
2005
paese di produzione/country of production
italia / italy
produzione/production
studio elementare

 

I CASTELLI ANIMATI
Concorso Italia – Gran Premio

 

A day like any other in the life of Fräulein Gertie.

 

LAVINIA CHIANELLO

She was born in February 14th, 1973 in Palermo, Italy. She studied Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. After working as Art Director in short films, she co-directed a few works of animation with Tomás Creus.

2005 Fräulein Gertie (corto, short); Prague Winter (documentario, documentary) 2004 Il dettato (corto, short) 2002 Dorme Agora (corto, short)

 

TOMÁS CREUS

Born on September 26th , 1973, in Rosario (Argentina). In 1976 he moved to Brazil with his family. He has studied Communications in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Cinema at the London Film School. He has directed many succesful short films.

2005 Fräulein Gertie (corto, short); Prague Winter (documentario, documentary) 2004 Il dettato (corto, short) 2003 Pesadelo (corto, short); História Natural (corto, short) 2002 Dorme agora (corto, short); Flowers (documentario, documentary); O Oitavo Selo (corto, short)

 

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FARE BENE MIKLES

It’s a story of a brother and a sister, Sergio and Maria, told backward in time, from adulthood to childhood. Through the years the two siblings invent a game that they call “Mìkles”: their very own survival technique used to resist the abuse brought upon them by their father and, at the same time…

 

regia/director christian angeli
sceneggiatura /screenplay
christian angeli, tommaso capolicchio
fotografia/cinematographer
giovanni battista marras
montaggio/editing
giancarlo torri
musica
a. braschi, a. terrinoni
suono / sound
dolby stereo
cast / cast
alba caterina rohrwacher, francesco lucente stabile genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format
35 mm – color
durata/running time
17’
anno di produzione/year of production
2004
paese di produzione/country of production
italia / italy
produzione/production
misami film srl
distribuzione/distribution
emmefilm.com srl
 

GLOBO D’ORO 2005

 

It’s a story of a brother and a sister, Sergio and Maria, told backward in time, from adulthood to childhood. Through the years the two siblings invent a game that they call “Mìkles”: their very own survival technique used to resist the abuse brought upon them by their father and, at the same time, to become more self sufficient.

 

CHRISTIAN ANGELI

Christian Angeli was born in London and is author and director of short films, documentaries and music videos.

 

2004 Fare bene Mikles (corto, short); Lavoratori in corso (documentario, documentary) 2003 Numeria (docu-fiction) 2002 Dominatori (docu-fiction); Nessun uomo è un uomo qualunque (videoclip); Il giorno del falco (videoclip) 2001 Il gladiatore ((documentario, documentary); Ho fatto un sogno (docu-fiction) 2000 Chauffeur (corto, short); Sesso al museo (docu-fiction); Donne al centro di una periferia (documentario, documentary)

 

FALLEN ART

Atoll. An old, forgotten military base somewhere in the Pacific. Soldiers who lost their minds, due to the hardship of past mission, the exemplary officers the Army can’t get rid of are sent there. There, far away from civilization, laws and rules they nurture their insanities.

 

 

regia/director tomek baginski
sceneggiatura /screenplay
tomek baginski
fotografia/cinematographer
tomek baginski
montaggio/editing
tomek baginski
musica / music
fanfare ciocarlia
genere /genre
animazione / animation
formato originale/original format
35 mm – color
durata/running time
6’
anno di produzione/year of production
2004
paese di produzione/country of production
polonia / poland
produzione/production
marcin kabylecki

TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Best Animation

 

Atoll. An old, forgotten military base somewhere in the Pacific. Soldiers who lost their minds, due to the hardship of past mission, the exemplary officers the Army can’t get rid of are sent there. There, far away from civilization, laws and rules they nurture their insanities.

 

TOMEK BAGINSKI

He was born in Bialystok, Poland, in 1976. He studied Architecture at the Warsaw Institute of Technology. He has been working at Platige Image (Polish post-production company) since 1998, currently as art director. In the year 2003 his film “The Cathedral” was nominated for the Oscar in the Best Animated Short category.

 

2004 Fallen Art (animazione, animation) 2003 The Cathedral (animazione, animation)

 

EL DESCAMPADO

Ramon, a 70-year-old man, remembers a mysterious episode from his childhood. During a football match (soccer game) among friends, a strange and unexpected occurrence forces the boys into an extreme situation full of paradoxes, where mere suggestion is as meaningful as action itself…

 

 

Regia/Director pedro touceda
Sceneggiatura /Screenplay
Pedro Touceda
Fotografia/Cinematographer
Willy Sempere
Montaggio/Editing
Laurent Dufrèche
Musica / Music
Jose Luis Sanchez Sanz
Suono / Sound
Dolby Sr
Cast / Cast
Roberto Trujillo
Genere /Genre
Fiction
Formato Originale/Original Format
35 Mm – B/W
Durata/Running Time
10’
Anno Di Produzione/Year Of Production
2004
Paese Di Produzione/Country Of Production
Spagna – Spain
Produzione/Production
Ruedo Producciones
Distribuzione/Distribution
Ruedo Producciones

 

HULL INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Best International Short Film

 

Ramon, a 70-year-old man, remembers a mysterious episode from his childhood. During a football match (soccer game) among friends, a strange and unexpected occurrence forces the boys into an extreme situation full of paradoxes, where mere suggestion is as meaningful as action itself. Beneath its tragic and disquieting surface, “El Descampado” presents a metaphor for the passage of time.

 

EDRO TOUCEDA

Born in Madrid. He works as a journalist, writer, movie director and script writer.

 

2003 El descampado (corto, short) 1988 Tú, lo único que tienes que hacer es no mirar a la cámara (corto, short)