The festival programs will include the 9th International and 21st National short films.

International Competition:
 

 


The Selected Films for the International Competition Section
 

 The Raft

Director: Jan Thuering
Country of Production: Germany
Time: 9Min, 30Sec
Category: Animation
Format: BetaCam
Script: J.Thuering
Visual Effects:Elmar Weinhold
Editor: J.Thuering
Sound: Marius Lange
Producer: Daniel Mann
Date of Production: 2004

Synopsis: After a terrible tempest, two sailors are drifting on a draft somewhere in the sea.

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 Window

Director: Mattew Mardoch
Country of Production: England
Time: 5Min,30Sec
Category: Experimental
Format: Beta Cam
Script: M.Mardoch
Photography: M.Mardoch
Editor: M.Mardoch
Sound: M.Mardoch
Producer: M.Mardoch
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Window is a five-minute video piece about journeys, daydreams and memories.

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 The 9:24 Local

Director: Dhananjay Kapoor
Country of Production: India
Time: 5Min,45Sec
Category: Documentary
Format: Betacam
Script: D.Kapoor
Photography: D.Kapoor
Editor: D.Kapoor
Sound: Producer: Emagyn
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: This film is about the most crowded public transport of the world,
"Mumbai's Local Train".

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 Television

Director: Luciano Oliveira; Nayana Gouvęa; Thiago de Brito
Country of Production: Brazil
Time: 15 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Betacam
Script: Luciano Oliveira
Photography : Nádia Mangolini; Wesley Campos Rocha
Editor: Daniel Hylário & Joăo Reynaldo Costa
Sound: André Oliveira
Producer: Ana Carolina Grant & Tony Villanda
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A documentary about the relationship of a man and the television.

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 Out of the cold

Director:Nic Shearer
Country of Production: Scotland
Time: 17min
Category: Fiction
Format: Betacam
Script: Nic Shearer
Photography :Gavin Struthers
Editor:Mark Jenkins
Sound:Becky Thompson
Producer: Arabella Page Croft
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: This film is a story of Patrick, a ten year old growing up in a small fishing village and his fall from innocent into experience.

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 Beware

Director: Thierry Sebban
Country of Production: France
Time: 6Min, 30Sec
Category : Fiction
Format: 35mm
Script:Th.Sebban
Photography:Christophe Bidot
Editor: Eric Arnbruster
Sound:Dosel Phina Rodriguez
Producer: Twilight Zone Productions
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A man ,a suburban train by night.

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 Down

Directors: Frank Brandstetter, Nikias Chryssos
Country of Production: Germany
Time: 5Min
Category: Experimental
Format: 35mm,Betacam
Script: F. Brandstetter, N.Chryssos
Photography: Felix Movo de Olivara
Editor: F.Brandstetter
Sound: Producer: Filmakademie Baden Wuerttemberg
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A little girl, an empty field and a goldfish.

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 Bye-Child

Director: Bernard Mac Laverty
Country of Production: UK
Time: 17 min
Category: Fiction
Format: Betacam,35mm
Script: B.Mac Laverty
Photography: Oliver Cheesman
Editor: Bert Eeles
Sound: Deke Thompson/Producer: Andrew Bonner
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Ireland 1971-The height of the space age is celebrated on television, but in the home of one young woman lies a guilty secret .The secret, once revealed, shows the lunar distances some will travel beyond love.

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 Absence of Adrien


Director: Reza Serkanian
Country of Production: France
Time: 26’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: Reza Serkanian
Photography: Reza Serkanian
Editor:Laurent Carton
Sound: Producer: Majorelle Harmonie Films
Date of Production: 2004

Synopsis: Every body feels the absence of Adrian at home.

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 Who do you love?

Director:Jim Mcroberts
Country of Production: UK
Time: 10Min,30Sec
Category: Fiction
Format: Betacam
Script: J. Mcroberts
Photography:Steven Mochrie
Editor:Anne Goudie
Sound:John Cobban
Producer:
Date of Production: 2004

Synopsis: Heather loves her mum, but does her mum really know what love is?

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 On a Wednesday night in Tokyo

Director: Jan Verbeek
Country of Production: Germany-Japan
Time: 3Min, 35Sec
Category: Documentary,Experimental
Format: DV
Script: J. Verbeek
Photography: J. Verbeek
Editor: J. Verbeek
Sound: J.Verbeek
Producer: J.Verbeek
Date of Production: 2004

Synopsis: People entering a train.

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 The man without a head

Director: Juan Solanas
Country of Production: France
Time: 18 min
Category: Fiction
Format: 35mm
Script: Juan Solanas
Photography: Juan Solanas
Editor: Olivier Mauffroy
Sound: Frank Marchal
Producer: Onyx films
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: With a nostalgic air, a man without a head dances with lively steps.

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 Chukotka’s Kozaks

Director: Alecksei Vakhrushev
Country of Production: Russia
Time: 30 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Alecksei Vakhrushev
Photography: Vaycheslav Makaryev
Editor: Julia Trofimenko,Alecksei Vakhrushev
Sound: Julia Trofimenko
Producer: Nikolia Solovtsov
Date of Production: 2004

Synopsis: The film tells about the chuvan people-the descendants of the Siberian Cossacks.

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 The return of the ospreys

Director: Jiang Yue
Country of Production: China
Time: 28 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DVD
Photography: Duo Ji
Editor: Li Youngquan, Zhang Xin
Producer: Center of International Cultural Exchange
Date of Production: 2004

Synopsis: From the 1980’s to 1990’s,the Erhai lake at the west of china’s yunnan province had suffered serious pollution due to increased powerboats and lake side live boxfish culture .In order to clean up the water,in 1997 the local administration of Dali prohibited power boats and live box fish culture on this lake.

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