2006
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | VISITING HOURS
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Details:TrailerLength: 34' Screenwriter: Maya Dreifuss Director: Maya Dreifuss Producer: Merav Miretzky Animator: n/a DOP: Shai Peleg Sound: Michael Emet Editor: Ronit Porat Production Designer: Lenny Dothan, Ella Spector Synopsis: Michal is obliged to interrupt her journey in India because her grandmother is hospitalized. In the internal medicine department Michal must cope with the facts: Grandmother has lost her mind and is not herself anymore, but mum is quite the mum she always was. A romantic triangle among mother, daughter and grandmother. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 45 |
| 2 | A FAMILY
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Karin Arrhenius, Alexander Skantze Director: Goran Kapetanovic Producer: Osiel Ibáñez Animator: n/a DOP: Ellen Kugelberg Sound: Pelle Sandberg Editor: Margareta Lagerqvist Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Bosnia, year 1992. Ariana is staying in her parents home country to sing in a “Piece gala”. She has brought her Swedish husband and nine-year old daughter. It’s evident that it’s useless with “Piece galas” and the war breaks out. |
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) | Sweden | 40 |
| 3 | MOONGLOW
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Peter Ghesquiere Director: Peter Ghesquiere Producer: Bo De Group Animator: n/a DOP: Filip Vandewal Sound: Kris De Troch Editor: Bert Deruyck Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An eight year old boy lives with his parents in a dictorial regime. When his mother sees how her husband is been killed, she sees how the world of the boy can collapse. She hides the death of his father from him and tells him that his father is on holiday to the moon… |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 34 |
| 4 | THE BORDER
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Zahavi Sanjavi Director: Zahavi Sanjavi Producer: VGIK Animator: n/a DOP: Peshraw Nabard Sound: Dmitri Komissarov Editor: Alexandr Astahov, Natalya Alexandrova, Igor Astahov Production Designer: Zahavi Sanjavi Synopsis: Two nearby villages in Kurdistan are separated from each other by the mined border. Before it appearance the inhabitants of these villages had communicated freely. Now they are deprived of such an opportunity but it does not prevent a young couple from trying to unite their lives. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 30 |
| 5-6 | BEFORE LIFE, AFTER DEATH
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Dragomir Sholev Director: Dragomir Sholev Producer: NATFA Animator: n/a DOP: Krum Rodriguez Sound: Petko Manchev, Silviya Stefanova Editor: Stefan Pantushev, Lili Toneva Production Designer: Georgi Yakimov Synopsis: End of war. An army officer is executing the last prisoners-of-war in front of his own troop. Their only chance for survival is playing Beethoven's symphony on the violin. To him this mortal ritual costs more than the lives of his soldiers, and his own. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 28 |
| 5-6 | MELODRAMA
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Filip Marczewski Director: Filip Marczewski Producer: PWSFTviT Animator: n/a DOP: Radoslaw Ładczuk Sound: Tomasz Wieczorek, Michał Robaczewski Editor: Rafał Listopad Production Designer: Zbigniew Olejniczak Synopsis: A tale of a fourteen-year-old boy who is emotionally and sexually maturing. It is a story of an erotic fascination with an older sister, a friendship with a girl in the courtyard, and a complicated relationship with the man his sister is engaged to marry. All are in search of warmth, tenderness and, above all, love. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 28 |
| 7 | THE RUNAWAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Linus Foerster Director: Ulrike Grote Producer: Constantin Castell Animator: n/a DOP: Ute Freund Sound: Bongo Editor: Gisela Gondolatsch Production Designer: Iris Trescher Synopsis: On his way to an important meeting Walter bumps into a six year old Yuri, who insists that Walter takes him to school – because he is his son. Walter doesn’t know anything about having a son. In an attempt to clear up the confusion and get rid of the little nuisance, Walter starts a search for Yuri’s mother Kathrin – with whom he did indeed have a wild romance some years ago. But Kathrin doesn’t turn up… |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 26 |
| 8 | 62 SLEEPS
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Erin White Director: Erin White Producer: Dane Carson Animator: n/a DOP: Simon Ozolins Sound: Erin White Editor: Erin White Production Designer: Naomi Lindon Synopsis: When you’re seven, 62 sleeps is a very long time – and Tobey can’t wait to take a precious letter to school to show and tell. When she loses the letter and is punished, Tobey misses her absent father even more. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 20 |
| 9-10 | A TRIP TO THE CITY
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Corneliu Porumboiu Director: Corneliu Porumboiu Producer: Nicoleta Daraban Animator: n/a DOP: Bogdan Tălpeanu Sound: Alexandru Dragomir Editor: Roxana Szel Production Designer: Maria Dore Synopsis: A beautiful morning, the need of the internet of a little village and the toilet that the mayor’s wife is crying for, bring together the computer passionate teacher and the mayor’s driver for a little trip to the city. A trip starting from an old obsolete mode of life and pointing to a new world outlook. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 19 |
| 9-10 | CHARLOTTE
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Ulrike von Ribb Director: Ulrike von Ribb Producer: Nicole Gerhards Animator: n/a DOP: Kolja Raschke Sound: Niklas Kammertöns Editor: Karin Nowarra Production Designer: Caroline von Voss Synopsis: Charlotte returns to Berlin after having lived in New York City. Alone in the big city, she looks for the comfortable life with old friends. Along the way, armed only with an evening dress and five euros, she tries to win back the life that she once had. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 19 |
| 11 | MUHAMMED
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Ellen Lyse Einarsen Director: Lisa Marie Gamlem Producer: Mattias Ehrenberg Animator: n/a DOP: Cecile Semec Sound: Renate Bakke Editor: Arild Tryggestad Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Muhammed (13) and Meena (15) live at the same youth house. Muhammed is secretly in love with Meena. He has never told her, and is not planning to tell her either, until one day he cannot hide it anymore. This creates more trouble than he expected… |
The Norwegian Film School (NFS) | Norway | 18 |
| 12 | THE NATURAL ROUTE
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Alex Pastor & Martí Roca Director: Alex Pastor Vallejo Producer: Irene Puig Sedó Animator: n/a DOP: Eduard Grau Sound: Marc Montañés Editor: Eloi Tomàs Production Designer: Silvia Suárez Synopsis: When Divad wakes up after a strange accident in the shower, he can’t remember anything, not even his own name. His home, his supposed wife… absolutely everything is unknown to him. Although he can’t pin it down, there’s something wrong and sinister about this new world that surrounds him. Soon he will find out that his destiny is already written and he can’t do anything to change it. Maybe the answers he needs lie in his past. |
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) | Spain | 17 |
| 13 | GRANDMA’S ROOM
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Chow Kwun Wai Director: Chow Kwun Wai Producer: Chan Chi Kiu Animator: n/a DOP: Ho Chiu Yuen Sound: Lau Yin Suen Editor: Leung Kwong Sing Production Designer: Yuen Chau Synopsis: An eight-year old kid has his first encounter with death when his grandmother commits a suicide. As the eldest male descendant, he not only has to deal with the incident, but also has to face up to the responsibility of performing his duties at her funeral. |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 16 |
| 14-15 | HEYDAR, AN AFGHAN IN TEHRAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Babak Jalali Director: Babak Jalali Producer: Homayoun Assadian Animator: n/a DOP: Amir Karimi Sound: M. Moosavi Nejad Editor: Bahram Dehghani Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Heydar is a young Afghan domestic worker in Tehran. He is learning English, with the aid of a teach-yourself programme because he has heard there are now many Westerners in Afghanistan and he wants to return there to be a translator. |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 13 |
| 14-15 | SLIDING FLORA
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Talya Lavi Director: Talya Lavi Producer: Yair Sagi Animator: n/a DOP: Gal Deren Sound: Ronen Amar Editor: Shiri Burchard, Ido Netser Production Designer: Tamar Tesler Synopsis: Flora was born in the field, that’s what she keeps telling everyone. She is a waitress in a coffee shop that requires complex acrobatic skills. Flora cannot take it anymore. But she still hasn't lost her dramatic talent… |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 13 |
| 16-17 | THE GRASSLAND
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Wan Ma Cai Dan Director: Wan Ma Cai Dan Producer: La Ma Cai Dan, Jiu Xing Jia, Zha Xi Dong Zhu, Zhuo Majia Animator: n/a DOP: Luo Pan Sound: Yang Xi, Sha Rina, Zhang Di Editor: Luc Deng Production Designer: Song Taijia Synopsis: Ama Tsomo’s sacred Yak has been stolen but she doesn’t want to see it through as she worries for the thieves would be caught. Along with the praying of every word of “om mani padme hum”, taking of every sentence of oath, flying of every slip of paper with blessing, appear the downsman’s extensive love, broad bosom, strong power of introspection one after another, then the hearts of them like the spread-wing tercel soaring in the illimitable sky… |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 12 |
| 16-17 | WHAT’S WRONG
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Details:TrailerLength: 33' Screenwriter: Céline Sciamma, Jean-Baptiste de Laubier Director: Jean-Baptiste de Laubier Producer: David Coujard Animator: n/a DOP: Charles Wilhelem Sound: Emmanuel Bonnat, Vincent Verdoux Editor: Julien Lacheray Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Chambery, in summer, Jean (17 years old) is sick. Nobody knows about his illness, everybody sees it. |
La Fémis | France | 12 |
| 18 | HOGTOWN BLUES
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Hugh Gibson Director: Hugh Gibson Producer: Hugh Gibson, Carl Elster Animator: n/a DOP: Carl Elster Sound: Stephanie Dacosta, Michael Tersigni, Sam Stokell Editor: Michael Tersigni Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Toronto. Home to scores of refugees, many of them doctors and teachers, who mop floors and work on assembly lines just to survive. Among them are Katsia, a single mother, and her estranged father, Alexi, who together are forced to confront their dark and rugged past. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 9 |
| 19-20 | MINDY
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Ai Lene Chor Director: Ai Lene Chor Producer: Siobhan Barnett Animator: n/a DOP: Fred Miller Sound: Josh Jacobs Editor: Justin Tuazon Production Designer: Carmen Navis Synopsis: Ten-year old Mindy has no friends at school, or at the Chinese restaurant she helps her mother run. She tries to befriend a quiet boy who is kind to her one day, and learns that the smallest gesture can mean everything to a lonely soul. |
Columbia College Chicago | United States | 6 |
| 19-20 | PETER
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Alenka Kraigher Director: Alenka Kraigher Producer: AGRFT, Jožica Blatnik Animator: n/a DOP: Radovan Čok Sound: Jože Trtnik, Julij Zornik Editor: Janez Bricelj Production Designer: Robert Černelč Synopsis: Peter is a 44 year old accountant. In the morning his wife fortells improvements in the sexual field from his coffee cup. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 6 |
| 21-23 | ATTEMPT
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Tomasz Wiński Director: Tomasz Wiński Producer: Jana Mašíková Animator: n/a DOP: Darko Štulić Sound: Pavel Kovařík Editor: Jana Vlčková Production Designer: Lucia Škandíková Synopsis: Psychological analysis of a sexual experiment. An attempt of a change, of filling in the emotional vacuum of an intense experience. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 5 |
| 21-23 | I WAS WAITING
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Myriam Magassouba Director: Myriam Magassouba Producer: UQAM Animator: n/a DOP: Geneviève Perron Sound: Evelyne Renaud Editor: Patrick Bossé Production Designer: Marie-Alexandre Kerouac Synopsis: While sitting in a waiting room, waiting to know if she has cancer, Camille fantasizes about the home lives of the people around her. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 5 |
| 21-23 | SEESAW
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: n/a Director: Joeri Bleumer Producer: Steven Geldof, Robert Schmidt Animator: n/a DOP: Diderik Evers Sound: Jeroen Damen, Joeri Bleumer Editor: Dušan Petković Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Three four-year old live in the Nieuwmarkt area. With an imaginative view they take the audience on a journey in this Amsterdam neighbourhood. The senses are at their keenest and things can still be what they are, rather than what they should be or what they need to be. The view imagined in SeeSaw is recognizable for everyone but at the same time it often disappeared. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 5 |
| 24-27 | A SWEET SCENT OF MOTHBALLS
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Vladimir Mančić Director: Jelena Tvrdišić Producer: FDU Animator: n/a DOP: Obrad Kokotović Sound: Vladimir Živković Editor: Vanja Kovačević Production Designer: Marijana Pakvor, Kristina Radosavljević Synopsis: Danica is a young girl that leads a problematic life. On her birthday she goes to the cemetery with her boyfriend Loski. Completely drunk, she faints at the family grave. The ghost of her great grandmother comes into her to help her to make order in her life and fall in love with a nice boy from the neighbourhood, Jovan. |
Faculty of Dramatic Arts | Serbia | 4 |
| 24-27 | FLAT POINT
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Carolina Rivas Director: Carolina Rivas Producer: Lee Rivas Animator: n/a DOP: Pablo Ramírez Sound: Juan José Amezaga Editor: Carolina Rivas Production Designer: Alberto Salgado Synopsis: At the risk of losing his son a man travels through an unknown land in search of help. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 4 |
| 24-27 | NEVER EVEN
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Jan Schomburg Director: Jan Schomburg Producer: Jan Schomburg, KHM Animator: n/a DOP: Benedikt Ritter Sound: Markus Aust Editor: Katharina Schmidt Production Designer: Adriane Stamer-Klassen Synopsis: One morning Max finds himself in a world in which time runs in the opposite direction. Will he find his way through this strange world? |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 4 |
| 24-27 | THE WHITE SHEET
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra Director: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra Producer: USP Animator: n/a DOP: Eduardo Barros Pinto Sound: Daniel Turini Editor: Pedro Granato Production Designer: Ana Paula Campos, Andrea Bandoni Synopsis: Death is disturbingly present in a small suburban home. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 4 |
| 28-34 | FRAGILE
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Sikander Goldau Director: Sikander Goldau Producer: Hamid Baroua, Michael Polle, Sikander Goldau Animator: n/a DOP: Franz Lustig Sound: Magda Habernickel, Claude Letessier Editor: Mike Marzuk Production Designer: Daniel von Volckamer, Andreas Höhne Synopsis: One day in September a woman starts a long journey. She visits the people she loves to say goodbye. Without mentioning that it could be a very long time before they see one another again. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 3 |
| 28-34 | G-23
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Anthony Chen Director: Anthony Chen Producer: Felicia Tan Animator: n/a DOP: Timothy Chan Sound: Randy Chua Editor: Teo Yah Loon Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: G-23 is a story about emotional suppression in urban Singapore. The story revolves around 3 idiosyncratic city dwellers, a young Indian girl who has problems coming to terms with her culture’s hot and spicy fare; an elderly man who has lost all purpose in life, and a middle-aged lady who is deprived of sex and love. The lives of these characters intertwine through a ticket - tearer working at the local Indian cinema who soon develops an interest in the lives of his cinema patrons. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 3 |
| 28-34 | HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
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Details:TrailerLength: 4' Screenwriter: Sune Daugaard Director: Rikke Høilund Producer: Nicole Humbert Animator: n/a DOP: Elisabeth Holager Lund Sound: Anders Grundström, Fanny Wadman Editor: Elisabeth Holager Lund, Rikke Høilund, Nadine Pflug Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: What happens when the library lights go out, and the books are left alone? This is an unconventional love story in the realm of fantasy and imagination. Don Juan goes on a nightly pursuit for seduction, but comes across a hesitant Juliet and her brave protector. |
European Film College (EFC) | Denmark | 3 |
| 28-34 | HEARTS AS ONE
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Steve Suh Director: Steve Suh Producer: Andrew Atkin Animator: n/a DOP: Owen Simmons Sound: Bob Blankenheim Editor: Tyler Trautman, Steve Suh Production Designer: Jessica Zipser Synopsis: n/a |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 3 |
| 28-34 | K
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Luis Gamboa, Roberto Quintanilla, Juan Martín Simons Director: Juan Martín Simons Producer: Teresa Costa, Реnélope Cristóbal Animator: n/a DOP: Juan Carlos Solís Sound: Eva de la Fuente, Laro Basterechea Editor: Adrián López, Nacho Alemán Production Designer: Norka García Sanz Synopsis: K and Nelson live asphyxiated in a routine city that oppresses them his identity. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 3 |
| 28-34 | MIRACLE
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Georges Homsy Director: Georges Homsy Producer: IESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Toufic Tabbal Sound: Jean Gibran Editor: Leyla Kanaan, Riad Chebli Production Designer: Hamzah Nasrallah Synopsis: The story sheds light on the life of the Lebanese applying for visas at the American Embassy in Cyprus. The main role centers around Jad’s personality, a 27 years old man, and his interaction with other applicants at the embassy. 8:05 h, the hall is full. At 8:10 h Jad is called by the employee who conducts the interviews to translate for the Lebanese… The story starts from there… |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 3 |
| 28-34 | STONES FALL INTO A SHALLOWING WELL
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Anna Kis Director: Anna Kis Producer: SzFE Animator: n/a DOP: Gergô Somogyvári Sound: József Kardos Editor: Anna Kis Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The ballad-like story takes place in a village environment some hundred years ago. The independent wealthy orphan Ilka has a love affair with Denes who works for her and has a family. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 3 |
| 35 | SEARCHING FOR ARISTOTELES
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Nimrod Amitai Director: Nimrod Amitai Producer: Jorge Díaz Animator: n/a DOP: Felipe Sepúlveda Sound: Enrique San Martín Editor: Nimrod Amitai, Jorge Díaz Production Designer: Julia Bande Synopsis: One night in the mind of a young scriptwriter trying to understand Aristotel’s theory about drama. |
Universidad de Artes,Ciencias y Comunicación | Chile | 2 |
| 36-41 | JUST SAND
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Eliana Chiaradia, Gerardo Bourre Director: Eliana Chiaradia Producer: Marisol Freites De Vido Animator: n/a DOP: Pablo Alba, Gerardo Bourre Sound: Miguel Tapiero Editor: Pedro Bellmunt, Nicolas Carrizo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Alejo, an eight years old boy, believes his father is the pilot of a war plane that overflies him daily, during the Fauckland conflict, but the war is over and he do not come back. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 1 |
| 36-41 | PACKAGED
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Heng-Ju Chang Director: Heng-Ju Chang Producer: Chiah-Min Ho Animator: n/a DOP: Wen-Hsuen Lai, Ying-Huei Chang Sound: Yi-Chun Keh, Yu-Chun Liu Editor: Heng-Ju Chang Production Designer: Hsin-Min Tsai Synopsis: A young postman named Hsiao Chang is a quiet person. However, he has a special hobby in secret which could only be done with a tight case in his chamber. Hsiao Row, a young sweet lady, to make a living having a fishing stand in the night market also keeps a secret. Only the person who brings the package everyday could comfort her loneliness. That day, after ringing the doorbell, Hsiao Chang, with the package, could only hear the booming of the fan and a small shower sound… |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 1 |
| 36-41 | SHARDS
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Jonathan David Boyce, Jonathan Levine Director: Jonathan Levine Producer: Jonathan David Boyce Animator: n/a DOP: Petra Korner Sound: n/a Editor: Josh Noyes Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Walter, a hip-hop DJ and graffiti artist struggles with life after his best friend overdoses on crystal meth. He comes to the realization that he, too, must kick the habit and leave his hometown behind in order to survive. |
American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI) | United States | 1 |
| 36-41 | THE PATIO
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Milagros Mumenthaler Director: Milagros Mumenthaler Producer: David Epiney, Milagros Mumenthaler Animator: n/a DOP: Martín Frías Sound: Julián Catz Editor: Christoph Behl Production Designer: Paula Menéndez, Laura Caligiuri Synopsis: Martina (12) and Sofia (15) are sisters, they wake up one very hot morning, they have breakfast in the patio, and they stay there all day watching TV, waiting for a phone call. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 1 |
| 36-41 | TWO CLOSE
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Inês Clemente Director: João Salaviza Producer: ESTC Animator: n/a DOP: Vasco Viana Sound: Inês Clemente Editor: Tiago Nunes, Nádia Santos Henriques, Sílvio Sousa, Sara Esteves, Joã Salaviza Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A man is seen by a prostitute in his home. They try to communicate. But loneliness they both carry creates a gap between them, enabling that communication. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 1 |
| 36-41 | WATER COOLER
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Adam Burr Director: Adam Burr Producer: Jill Pike Animator: n/a DOP: Nathan Tape Sound: Christian Buenaventura Editor: n/a Production Designer: Dane Lilligard Synopsis: Caught in the day-to-day hum drum of office life, Tom Mitchel does what he is told and collects a paycheck. One morning while changing the office water cooler, Tom spills and finds himself opening a door into the aquatic unknown. On the very same day his crush, office cutie Suzanne, sends Tom valentine signals of romantic interest. Not used to so much activity in his life, Tom decides to take life by the reins and seize the day. Using his new found secret, he decides to woo Suzanne into his world. What unfurls is an unusual ride through the mystical realism of the office water cooler. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 1 |
| 42-50 | A FRAGILE CRACK
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Andrea Spacca Director: Tomas Tezzon Producer: Nicola Mucelli, Annonora Barabaschi Animator: n/a DOP: Sky Juarez, Valeria Palermo, Luca Sabbioni, Patrizio Sacco, Sirio Timossi Sound: Ennio Bettoni, Eugenio Casalino, Gian Pietro Masa Editor: Tommaso Gallone, Annalaura Portinari, Mattia Soranzo Production Designer: Pietro Tansini, Irene Marinari, Oh Jee Soo Synopsis: Adaptation from the novel “Punte di spillo negli occhi di Giuseppe Genna” by Giuseppe Genna. The unsettling journey of a formerly famous photographer to insanity. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 0 |
| 42-50 | A KIND OF SCREAMİNG
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Kyle Graffam Director: Kyle Graffam Producer: Nicole Lederman, Kyle Graffam Animator: n/a DOP: Mike Guaspari Sound: Kyle Graffam Editor: Shoshana Tanzer, Kyle Graffam Production Designer: Josh Safdie Synopsis: Teddy Labutte is in the throes of creative hell, drunk out of his mind. In he sinks to the depths of his subconscious, and back out, and in again. It all ends up on the page. |
Boston University / Department of Film and Television | United States | 0 |
| 42-50 | JOSH
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Paul Gerretsen Director: Paul Gerretsen, Seth Mendelson Producer: Albert Huh Animator: n/a DOP: Daniel Grant Sound: Noah Nichols Editor: Noah Nichols Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young high school student is in the process of “coming of age” and encountering the conflict of peer pressure, as well as the strains of passage into manhood. |
Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | 0 |
| 42-50 | MURPHY
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Nicolas Veuthey and Marc Olivetta Director: Nicolas Veuthey Producer: ECAL Animator: n/a DOP: Pascal Montjovent Sound: Jürg Lempen Editor: Nicolas Veuthey Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: “Everything that can go wrong will go wrong: the story of my life…” |
Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL) | Switzerland | 0 |
| 42-50 | THE FALL
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: J-P Valkeapää, Jan Forsström Director: J-P Valkeapää Producer: Miia Haavisto, Taina Heinonen Animator: n/a DOP: Tuomo Hutri Sound: Micke Nyström Editor: J-P Valkeapää, Maarit Nissilä Production Designer: Annika Björkman Synopsis: The film is about the last day of summer, a day that never ends. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 0 |
| 42-50 | THE TRAGEDY OF GLADY
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Karrie Crouse Director: Karrie Crouse Producer: Sarah Crawford Animator: n/a DOP: Zoë White Sound: Zach Clark Editor: Toby Rogers Production Designer: Kristine Kennedy Synopsis: Misunderstood by her teachers, parents, and peers Gladys depends most on her relationship with best friend Claire for support. But when Claire experiences the loss of her parents she begins to grow away from Gladys. In an attempt at the deepest kind of empathy, Gladys seeks out a tragedy of her own to reconnect with Claire. This search for the dark side of life only serves to push Claire away more. Just when she decides to change her ways and make amends with Claire, Gladys gets her tragedy. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 0 |
| 42-50 | THE WAY OF O
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Estelle Gérard & Adina Dulcu Director: Estelle Gérard Producer: ESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Yves Chahuneau Sound: Nicolas Leroy Editor: Clotilde Tellier Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A desert, a chasm, the emptiness, a luminous mountain, Gunesh is lost. This vision haunts Gunesh every day. He undertakes an initiatic trip to Anatolia. There he meets Zaman, a man who will teach him the art of controlling his senses in reaction to the environment, and will help him discover a new perception of the world… |
ENSAV | France | 0 |
| 42-50 | THERE IS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: George Zoes Director: George Zoes Producer: George Zoes - HCTSS Animator: n/a DOP: Miltiadis Tzounis Sound: n/a Editor: Vaggelis Pantazis Production Designer: Aristomenis Karousos Synopsis: In an old rusty railroad bridge two men are running to help a woman who has fainted. A theft takes place. Don’t rush to take sides. Truth doesn’t always meet our expectations and beliefs. |
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos (HCTSS) | Greece | 0 |
| 42-50 | THORNS FOR SUPPER
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: George K.O. Owiredu Director: George K.O. Owiredu Producer: George K.O. Owiredu Animator: n/a DOP: Mensah Kudor Sound: Mawuli Kelly Tofah Editor: Selima Talata Awudu Production Designer: Mark Sunu-Attah Synopsis: An exciting afternoon of a major soccer fiesta turns disastrous. A family is caught in the middle of the social controversies and psychological trauma. The film is based on a true event that shocked Ghana on May 9, 2001. |
National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) | Ghana | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | GRANDPARENTS
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Details:Length: 35'Screenwriter: Nicole Scherg Director: Nicole Scherg Producer: Georg Zeller Animator: n/a DOP: Martin Prast Sound: Antonio Meier Editor: Antonio Meier Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The director returns to her grandparents. What begins as an observation of her daily lives develops into a story of devotion and dependence, change and immutability, and the solitude and sharing of two people who grow old together. The documentary shows the daily struggles as well as the strength and determination of two elderly persons and their survival strategies. It is an intimate glimpse that brings to light existential questions – questions which viewers are inspired to ask themselves. |
ZeLIG - School for Documentary, Television and New Media | Italy | 10 |
| 2 | 1.35
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Milan Balog Director: Milan Balog Producer: VŠMU Animator: Milos Mraz DOP: Milan Balog Sound: Milan Balog Editor: Marek Kralovsky Production Designer : Milan Balog Synopsis: Non-fiction film about fiction love in a pack of copies. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 8 |
| 3 | USELESS DOG
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Ken Wardrop Director: Ken Wardrop Producer: Ándrew Freedman Animator: n/a DOP: Ken Wardrop Sound: Ken Wardrop Editor: Ándrew Freedman Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: One man and his struggle with a useless dog. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 7 |
| 4 | THE DAY NOTHING HAPPENED
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Ramón Alòs Sánchez, Leonardo Marini, Anotnia Paolini Director: Ramón Alòs Sánchez Producer: CSC Animator: Giuliano Fontanelli, Fabio Ramiro Rossin, Marco Marchetti DOP: Christian Andrés Burgos Hurtubia Sound: Alessandra Perpignani Editor: Luca Manes Production Designer : Paki Meduri Synopsis: May 13, 1935. Two children cycling round Dorset Hills meet the history. Crashing into a motorbike, one of the two is injured and the motorcyclist goes into a coma and dies. Was it a mere road accident? The motorcyclist was one of the most famous men in the after-colonial England. A hero of the Great War. A mysterious and shifty man who dies in a simple and non-romantic way: a common accident. The mystery doesn’t end with his death. Till today, nobody knows what really happened that day. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 5 |
| 5 | UNDER THE ROLLER COASTER
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Lila Place Producer: Lila Place Animator: n/a DOP: Mike Seely Sound: Leah Wolchok Editor: Lila Place Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Thunderbird Roller Coaster was a Coney Island icon, but, for Mae Timpano, it was home. The film looks beyond the enchantment of the famous playground to examine the true-life experience of one woman who had a unique relationship to Coney Island: she lived under the famed Thunderbird Roller Coaster. |
Stanford University | United States | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | LUCIA
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Felix Gönnert Director: Felix Gönnert Producer: Felix Gönnert Animation: Felix Gönnert DOP: n/a Sound: Max Knoth Editor: Gregor Wille Production Designer : Sonja Winzenried Synopsis: Lucia discovers some X-ray pictures on her right trip through the hospital. An image of a head stimulates her fantasy – dream and reality dissolve into each other. Her illness takes her to a place of origin. After the return, hope prevails. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 4 |
| 2 | FOR WHOM THE BELL JINGLES
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Samppa Kukkonen, CHRZU Director: Samppa Kukkonen Producer: Eija Saarinen, CHRZU Animation: Samppa Kukkonen, Janne Kukkonen, Sara Wahl DOP: n/a Sound: Mikko Paju Editor: Pauline Kuusela Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A terrible accident in northern woods ruins Christmas for everyone. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 1 |
