The Selected
Fiction Films
for the International Competition Section
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Melody for
things to come |
Title: Melody for things to come
Director: P.Fluadian-dahl
Category: Fiction
Format: 16 mm
Time: 20'
Year: 2002
Country: Sweden/ Canada
Script: P.Fluadian-dahl
Photograph Jorgen Stegard
Editor: P.Fluadian-dahl
Sound:
Music
Producer Slen Ario Film
Synopsis: Eager to give her dying mother one last
present, " Johanna " hires a street musician to play a piece for
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Based on a
true story |
Title: Based on a true story
Director: Gustavo Moraes
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 15'
Year: 2002
Country: Brazil
Script: Gustavo Moraes
Photograph Mauro Pinheiro
Editor: Affonso Goncalves
Sound:
Music
Producer L.C.A Productions
Synopsis: The film is about two parallel stories which
happened in 1972 during the dictatorship in Brazil. |
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Between
the wars |
Title: Between the wars
Director: Emily Woof
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 12'
Year: 2002
Country: Engalnd
Script: Sophie Weaver
Photograph Pete Rowe
Editor: Quinn Willams
Sound:
Music
Producer Whatever Pictures
Synopsis: The relationship between an asylum seeker and a
war veteran living on the same council estate in London. |
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Blind spot |
Title: Blind spot
Director: Maureen Bradley, Sherry Macdonald
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 10',22"
Year: 2003
Country: Canada
Script: Sherry Macdonald
Photograph Shannon Kohli
Editor: Jackie Dzuba
Sound:
Music
Producer Bradley Mac Donald Films
Synopsis: Joe's dad comes for a visit, but instead of
opening the door, Joe's mom calls the police. |
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Cycle |
Title: Cycle
Director: David & Tristan Ullda
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 22'
Year: 2002
Country: Spain
Script: Tristan Ullda
Photograph Paco Delda
Editor: David Ullda
Sound:
Music
Producer Filmanova
Synopsis: A sales man visits elderly people in order to
sell them a kind of meat which made them younger. |
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Echo |
Title: Echo
Director: Radoy Nikolov
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 17'
Year: 2003
Country: Bulgaria
Script: Radoy Nikolov
Photograph Krasimir Stoichkov
Editor: Nina Altuparmakova
Sound:
Music
Producer Radoy Nikolov
Synopsis: The stories turn into reality for a ten year
old boy, who is looking for a way out of the situation. |
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Grenades |
Title: Grenades
Director: Peter Politzer
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 18'
Year: 2003
Country: Japan
Script: Peter Politzer
Photograph Istvan Szaladjak
Editor: Tamas Zanyi
Sound:
Music
Producer Inforg Studio
Synopsis: The revolt had already been quashed. The rebels
were scattered, taking refuge and hiding. |
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La petite
ceremonie |
Title: La petite ceremonie
Director: Benedicte Pagnot
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 29'
Year: 2001
Country: France
Script: Benedicte Pagnot
Photograph Florian Bouchet
Editor: Mari-Helen Mora
Sound:
Music
Producer Unifrance
Synopsis: " Ferederique " has just lost her husband, she
tries finding a way to explain it to her daughter, " Alice ". |
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Maestro |
Title: Maestro
Director: Harold Chapman
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 14'
Year: 2001
Country: England
Script: Harold Chapman
Photograph David Schlinmann
Editor: Joseph Pizano
Sound:
Music
Producer Trimal Screen
Synopsis: In a " Neo-Noir " 1930's setting, a violin case
is the object of desire for a clutch of bizarre and sinister
characters. |
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Meeting
Che Guevara and the man from Mayburyhill |
Title: Meeting Che Guevara and the man from Mayburyhill
Director: Anthony Byrne
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 17'
Year: 2002
Country: Ireland
Script: Anthony Byrne
Photograph Des Nhelan
Editor: MaeveTrehy
Sound:
Music
Producer Igloo Films
Synopsis: A young woman sets out from a sleepy Irish town
during the Cuban missile crisis to meet " Che Guevara ". |
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Miguelina |
Title: Miguelina
Director: Reyther Ortega
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 14'
Year: 2002
Country: Venezuela
Script: Reyther Ortega
Photograph Tony Valera
Editor: Jessica Sharzer
Sound:
Music
Producer Centro Nacional de Cinematografica
Synopsis: In a small town in the middle of nowhere.
Miguelina waits for her husband. |
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Mr.Thompson's
Carnation |
Title: Mr.Thompson's Carnation
Director: Diene Petterle
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 10'
Year: 2001
Country: England
Script: Diene Petterle
Photograph Roger Eaton
Editor: Catherine Fletcher
Sound:
Music
Producer British Council
Synopsis: This film is about solitude and desire at old
age. |
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Offered
boy |
Title: Offered boy
Director: Marsa Makris
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 14'
Year: 2002
Country: Greece
Script: Marsa Makris
Photograph Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Editor: Takis Koumoundouros
Sound:
Music
Producer Hellenic Broadcasting
Synopsis: Between my father and mother I walk the road of
unexpected events offered to life. |
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Perfect
moment |
Title: Perfect moment
Director: Serge Simon
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 26'
Year: 2002
Country: Belgium
Script: Serge Simon, Pierre Penneman
Photograph Vincent Van Gelder
Editor: Michele Maquet
Sound:
Music
Producer La Big Family
Synopsis: An old lady does not want to leave her
apartment, but her son tries to change her mind. |
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Save the
children |
Title: Save the children
Director: Terje Rangnes
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 6'
Year: 2002
Country: Norway
Script: Erland Lee
Photograph Johan Andreas Andersen
Editor: Kirsti Marie Hougen
Sound:
Music
Producer Norwegian Film Institute
Synopsis: " Eli " and " Talard " sell lottery tickets for
the benefit of blind children in Africa on daddy's birthday. |
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Schenglet® |
Title: Schenglet®
Director: Laurent Negre
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 7'
Year: 2002
Country: Switzerland
Script: Laurent Negre
Photograph Pascal Montjovent
Editor: Laurent Negre
Sound:
Music
Producer Bord Cadre Films
Synopsis: " Schenglet® " is a witty and original short
film about the potential abuses of immigration policies
throughout the European Schengen Zone. |
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Strawberry
fields and beyond |
Title: Strawberry fields and beyond
Director: Anastasios Charalampidis
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 19'
Year: 2002
Country: Greece
Script: Anastasios Charalampidis
Photograph Alekos Yannaros
Editor: Yannis Sakaridis
Sound:
Music
Producer Greek Film Center
Synopsis: This film is an observation about the civil war
period in Greece
( 1945-1949 ) when the people died without any reasons. |
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The
blackout |
Title: The blackout
Director: Bijan Mir Bagheri
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 20'
Year: 2003
Country: Iran
Script: Bijan Mir Bagheri
Photograph Keyvan Motamedi
Editor: Bijan Mir Bagheri
Sound:
Music
Producer Iranian Young Cinema Society
Synopsis: A man and a woman are talking together in a
blackout when Tehran was bombarded during the war. |
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The kennel |
Title: The kennel
Director: Bujar Alimani
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 13',34"
Year: 2002
Country: Albania
Script: Bujar Alimani
Photograph Christos Karamanis
Editor: Alexandra Kouri
Sound:
Music
Producer Bujar Alimani
Synopsis: " Hito " leaves his family in Albania and
crosses over illegally into Greece, together with his friend and
several others. |
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The leak |
Title: The leak
Director: Benjamin Avila
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 13'
Year: 2002
Country: Cuba/ Argentina
Script: Benjamin Avila
Photograph Mailin Milanes, Eugenio Canas
Editor: Tomas Collautti
Sound:
Music
Producer Habitacion Productions
Synopsis: A woman reviews her past memories. |
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The
revolution |
Title: The revolution
Director: Martin Rosete
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 7'
Year: 2002
Country: Spain
Script: Martin Rosete
Photograph Federico Dupla
Editor: Fernando Franco
Sound:
Music
Producer Common Films
Synopsis: Tired of his monotonous life, he tries to
change it to another way. |
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The terms |
Title: The terms
Director: Johny O' Reilly
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 11',30"
Year: 2001
Country: Ireland
Script: Johny O' Reilly
Photograph Brian Drysdale
Editor: Lee Hickey
Sound:
Music
Producer Lemon Cut
Synopsis: In the middle of nowhere, a father and his son
live lonely. The son wants to leave there. |
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United we
stand |
Title: United we stand
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 9'
Year: 2002
Country: Norway
Script: Erlend Loe
Photograph Gaute Gunnari
Editor: Sophie Hesselberg
Sound:
Music
Producer Norwegian Film Institute
Synopsis: Eight old-timers come upon a young woman stuck
in a swamp. |
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War was
better |
Title: War was better
Director: Milan Babic
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Time: 7'
Year: 2003
Country: Poland
Script: Milan Babic
Photograph Adnan Hemani
Editor: Ewa Dus
Sound:
Music
Producer Milan Babic
Synopsis: For some war was a better option. |
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And the
red man went green |
Title: And the red man went green
Director: Ruth Meehan
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm/ Betacam
Time: 2'
Year: 2002
Country: England
Script: Ruth Meehan
Photograph Manu Segal
Editor: Sasha Olswang
Sound:
Music
Producer Breakthru Films
Synopsis: An old lady is waiting at a pedestrian crossing
for the green light. |
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It's all
right |
Title: It's all right
Director: Alexandre Berne, Cedric Fayole
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm/ Betacam
Time: 9',45"
Year: 2002
Country: France
Script: Alexandre Berne, Cedric Fayole
Photograph Guillaume Pondard
Editor: Axel Reben
Sound:
Music
Producer Unifrance
Synopsis: It's the evening in a nice Parisian flat. A
woman is quietly cooking the dinner, waiting for her husband. |
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The school
boy |
Title: The school boy
Director: Edina Kontsek
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm/ Betacam
Time: 7'
Year: 2002
Country: Germany
Script:
Photograph Angela Poschet
Editor:
Sound:
Music
Producer Frank Becher
Synopsis: " Paul" is a school-boy and life is not easy
for such a school-boy. |
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My
redeemer |
Title: My redeemer
Director: Athanasios Karanikolas
Category: Fiction
Format: 35mm
Time: 14',44"
Year: 2003
Country: Germany
Script: Athanasios Karanikolas
Photograph Felix Leiberg
Editor: Monika Weber
Sound:
Music
Producer HFF Konrad Wolf
Synopsis: Left all alone, a young boy discovers music,
for him, singing is the only true source of life. |
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Behind |
Title: Behind
Director: Akira Sasaki
Category: Fiction
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 18',36"
Year: 2002
Country: Japan
Script: Akira Sasaki
Photograph
Editor:
Sound:
Music
Producer Jam Films
Synopsis: A heart is broken, and then a strange deja va
begins. |
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Cage |
Title: Cage
Director: Ingvild Soderlind.jpg)
Category: Fiction
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 10'
Year: 2002
Country: Scotland
Script: Ingvild Soderlind
Photograph Alex Hill
Editor: Ingvild Soderlind
Sound:
Music
Producer Ditte Solgaard
Synopsis: A man living a lonely existence in a small flat
has a desire to kill himself. |
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Ferdinand |
Title: Ferdinand
Director: Andri Luup
Category: Fiction
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 28',40"
Year: 2002
Country: Estonia
Script: Andri Luup
Photograph Rein Kotov, Kristjan-Jaak Nuudi
Editor: Asko Kase
Sound:
Music
Producer All Film Ou
Synopsis: A grating routine has left the bus driver, "
Ferdinand ", in a haze and without purpose, as he goes through
life's motions. |
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Target |
Title: Target
Director: Dee Allen
Category: Fiction
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 9',27"
Year: 2002
Country: England
Script: Dee Allen
Photograph Floyd Palmer
Editor:
Sound:
Music
Producer Heavy Soul LTD
Synopsis: " Joshua " and " Blake " share a close
friendship in the kill or to be killed world of the professional
assassin. |
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Neon Moon |
Title: Neon Moon
Director: Nassiem Valamanesh
Category: Fiction
Format: DV Cam
Time: 7'
Year: 2001
Country: Australia
Script: Nassiem Valamanesh
Photograph Leonard Yip
Editor: Nassiem Valamanesh
Sound:
Music
Producer Nassiem Valamanesh
Synopsis: " Spade " is a horticulturalist living in a
future world, where humans are no longer part of nature but have
instead learnt to control it. |
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People are
far away |
Title: People
are far away
Director: Ashkan Ahmadi
Category: Fiction
Format: DV Cam
Time: 28'
Year: 2002
Country: Iran
Script: Ashkan Ahmadi
Photograph Hata Karimi
Editor: Ashkan Ahmadi
Sound:
Music
Producer Ashkan Ahmadi
Synopsis: A soldier is sent to a deserted frontier
region, around which mines are set all over the ground. |
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Messenger |
Title: Messenger
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura.jpg)
Category: Fiction
Format: DVD
Time: 14'
Year:
Country: Japan
Script:
Photograph
Editor:
Sound:
Music
Producer Jam Films
Synopsis: The film is about a woman who is known as a
messenger, but indeed she is an assassin. |
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Lashes
hair |
Title: Lashes hair
Director: Kim Ju-ho
Category: Fiction/ Experimental
Format: 16 mm
Time: 14'
Year: 2002
Country: Korea
Script: Kim Ju-ho
Photograph Young- hoon
Editor: Kim Ju-ho
Sound:
Music
Producer Indiestory
Synopsis: The man sees little girl in the dream and he
becomes so sure she is his mother. |
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Pressure
bolt |
Title:
Pressure bolt
Director: Benni Diez
Category: Fiction/ Experimental
Format: 35 mm
Time: 9'
Year: 2003
Country: Germany
Script: Benni Diez
Photograph Benni Diez
Editor: Benni Diez
Sound:
Music
Producer Filmakademie Baden Wuettenberg
Synopsis: Inside a huge and grim factory building, human
kind is working on his own destruction in a repetitive operating
cycle. |
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The joy of
killing |
Title: The
joy of killing
Director: Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
Category: Fiction-Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Time: 21'
Year: 2002
Country: Iran
Script: Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
Photograph Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
Editor: Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
Sound:
Music
Producer Documentary and Experimental Film Center
Synopsis: A forester who feels a deep sympathy with the
nature and animals, must guide foreign hunters during the season
of hunt. |
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