Foreign Language:
Saturday 6th August Screening 20:00 – 22:00
A selection of the very latest and best short foreign language films from all over the world.
Mai Cosi…Vicini(Never So…Close)
Filmmaker: Emanuele Ruggiero
A surreal grotesque fable featuring the monsters next door.
(11:40, Black Comedy, IT, 2010)
Mannu Kudhirai
Filmmaker: Raghunath Gunasekaran
The story of a boy who cheats his way through life to become a doctor.
Then one fine day a patient visits …
(3:45, Comedy Drama, IN, 2008)
Sprinters
Filmmaker: Marc Fabregas, Anna Pinol
Marc has to run desperately. Its the only way to save his family.
(7:00, Thriller, ES, 2010)
Hranice(Borders)
Filmmaker: Gyorgy Kristof, Jakub Slama, Veronika Kuhrova
An uneasy situation, difficult decision, maternal (self)sacrifice set in real, raw but metaphorical environment.
(4:59, Drama, CZ, 2009)
Terra
Filmmaker: Txema Uribarri, Marco Mateus
An old women explains how she changed the course of her life while she describes the process of planting an orange tree, disclosing the unexpected events.
(4:13, Drama, ES, 2009)
Blue (sky) Movie
Filmmaker: Werther Germondari, Maria Laura Spagnoli
The 70’s: a crew is shooting a porn movie in the woods…
(6:30, Erotic/Grotesque, IT, 2008)
The Last Moments of Leopoldo Berenguer
Filmmaker: Jaime Dezcallar
Leopoldo, father and president of a banana republic, refuses to see how close he is to losing everything he has.
(9:37, Fiction, ES, 2010)
The Gynaecologist
Filmmaker: Alfonso Camarero
A gynecologist is working in her office at the hospital as everyday. But the next patient…. is a boy!
(10:02, Black Comedy, ES, 2008)
For Women Only
Filmmaker: Nikita Feldman, Rufina Feldman
This place is for women only and sometimes they go mad.
Strawberry Shorts Note: English is the ‘foreign language’ of this film, with Israeli subtitle.
(21:06, Drama, IL, 2010)
LE(f)T
Filmmaker: Szilvia Papp, Daniel Herner
What would you do in a disaffected relationship? How do you act in a problematic situation?
(7:03, Experimental, HU, 2008)
Marteria ‘Zum Koenig Geboren’
Filmmaker: Daniel Franke, Martin W.Maier, Christoph Berndt
Born to be king, but making a muck of life.
(4:03, Music Video, DE, 2009)
To France it is!
Filmmaker: Anthony Aslund
Hermine’s got no job and no friends – at least no real ones.
But what does that matter when sie’s got dead 19th century authors to keep hir company – willing or not – if you are Hermine’s imaginary friend then you are Hermine’s imaginary friend!
(19:32, Theatrical Fantasy Dram-com, SE, 2010)