TUESDAY 5/10
UNITS :
«Cinema, the art of peace», «At the ends of the world», «Balkan neighborhood»
«All around Europe», «Greek panorama», "the other half of the sky"
TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2010 Hour of beginning 16.00
16.00 «BALKAN NEIGHBORHOOD»
Until the time comes... Zoltan Csubrilo Serbia 25' documentary 2008
The film features an old woman named Ilonka, who lives in a small village in the outskirts of Magyarkanizsa. The locals call this place ‘Mosquito Village'. The travellers of the passing railbus can see only two rows of houses and most of them stare in surprise and cannot believe that there are people who live here, far from the din of the town. It is a small world where time seems to have stopped, and I think it has stopped indeed. The village's only connection with the outside world is the railbus that passes two times a day. Ilonka has been living here for decades- keeping animals and working on her fields in order to supplement her little pension,- in this isolated community where time goes by at a snail's pace as every day is the same. Meanwhile the world goes on.
Anything for you Toma Waszarow Bulgaria 20' short film 2008
Ana thinks she knows exactly what she wants with men. And with life in general. Tonight though, her views will face a tough challenge. A meeting awaits her, and it will turn her world upside down.
Bonds Dénes Ruzsa Hungary 4' animation 2010
The world is suffering from violence in various forms - wars, drugs, fear, prejudice, environmental pollution... Exposure to mental and physical threats is becoming part of everyday life. To what extent can the bonds of friendship and family help to combat these problems?
Brush stroke Nihan Belgin Turkey 29' short film 2010
February 1980... The struggle between the right and left groups reached its peak point... A young group of TDKP (Revoloutionary Communist Party of Turkey) protest their friend, Sinan's death. Then soldiers arrive and make warning shots to dispense the young. The foggy air smells gunpowder, there appears panic among young students insist to protest. While escaping, one of the students, Erdal takes his gun and shoots to the sky and then he gets arrested. Although Erdal is 16 years old, his age is increased to 18 and he is sentenced to death by military court.
Magicians Andrey Getov Bulgaria 5' short film 2010
Some magicians are more dangerous than others. They play with human lives...
Twelve filthy tears Vasilis Politis & Antonis Skampy Greece 20 short film 2009
Two friends are shooting a movie about a youngster trying to rebel towards society, however, everything is being interrupted in a charm of a nightmare, after this accidental, yet important fact, it all began...
The Wonder Well Attila Ivan Serbia 9' short film 2009
This is a story about a gypsy girl, who's aching bones and joints were cured by the water from the spring near by the meadows at the outskirts of the town. People soon started to call it Wonder Well. The city fathers had built a spa near the meadows benefiting from the healing water and mud. Later they had the water to the channelled to the more central Elisabeth Gardens for the business to thrive even better. For years the water had been bottled. The distinctive dark green bottles were labelled with the slogan: " The water from the Wonder Well - Magyarkanizsa. Still it is the most famous spa in the region.
18.00 «GREEK PANORAMA»
"TITOS-a poet in precarious balance" Nikos Chrisikakis 79' documentary 2010
The documentary Titos, a Poet in Precarious Balance is a film about Titos Patrikios, which was no easy task, as it had to strike a balance between his many faces: poet, author, translator, ideologist, activist, yet ever the cosmopolitan flâneur. For 18 months we accompanied him, recording his life review through stories, contemplations and thoughts, as well as a critical sketch of his era. Titos is 83 years old and lives in Athens.
20.00 «AT THE ENDS OF THE WORLD»
Symphony of the New World Angeliki Tsotsoni U.S.A 25' short film 2009
This piece is made up of various non-contextualized characters that appear almost as interludes between different locations. I know almost nothing of these people. I met them for a few minutes during a short local road trip. These people attracted my attention, become valuable personas that I am trying to familiarize myself with, even though they were not previously important. My final work is based on real facts, human beings and documentation : The different personas I've captured with my camera had allowed themselves to be brave, insecure, angry, confused, uncertain, cunning, unpleasant, warm, petty, unfathomable, stupid, afraid: in a nutshell - typical human beings. I am trying to discover and trap deep buried aspects of their behaviour that are beyond a typical testimony. The collected visual and confessional material was not edited into a story mode. I am not intending to write a narrative. The main question of this piece is the question of narrative, which has always been a serious question for me.
White girls happy on Zambezi Gabriele Neudecker + Nelson Nzwaligwa Austria - Zimbabwe 3' short film 2009
White English girls celebrate Mugabe´s birthday at the sun-downer party on river Zambezi. A storm is approaching. Young cook Nelson helps saving their boat - cheered by the buzzed girls. Short cuts of handy-cams show collapsing Zimbabwe between military, poverty and devil-may-care tourists
Electric garden Micheline Durocher Canada 3' 30'' video art 2009
Electric Garden is constructed upon one continuous pan of the edges and outlines of the female body and elicits the idea of the well established erotic theme in art, the reclining nude. Rendered in rich and vibrant colours it transfers the imagery of the undressed observed reclining woman to a visual representation of woman's own satisfaction.
Pacific 4 Christos Hassapis Greece & U.S.A 14' short film 2009
Nothing is happening at the edge of the Pacific ocean. One after an other, the waves come from far away crashing at the shore. Four friends. Four different viewpoints. They appear separated in their own confusion. They contemplate the waves, but they can only see them selves in them, until a mysterious photographer appears out of nowhere. Their attention is gathered when they realize that the only thing to remain from this day is going to be a nice picture. A picture to be taken.
Cooking up Dreams Ernesto Cabellos Peru 75' documentary 2009
This documentary journeys to the kitchens of Peru's coast, highlands and jungle, as well as Peruvian expat communities in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York for answers. From the most humble family kitchens to the poshest restaurants, from stories of pioneering Peruvian chefs abroad to those who preserve ancient recipes at home, we find that peru's cuisine is deliciously integrating for its people, who have historically been marked by ethnic and economic differences. Renowned chefs such as Gaston Acurio, Ferrán Adrià, Juan Mari Arzak and Bernardo Roca Rey share their views on Peru's cuisine alongside those unsung chefs, who also dream of Peru's cuisine as a motor of development.
CIRCLES 2010 Mimi Garrard U.S.A 19' video dance 2010
Circles 2010 is a suite of 4 contrasting dances created for video using a single choreography featuring the dancer Samuel Roberts and the composer/percussionist Glen Velez.
22.00 «ALL AROUND EUROPE»
Samsara-Vertigo Dimitri Lurie Norway 4', Video art, 2010
Samsara as a wandering from life to life is a world of finite, perverse, and impermanent. The film elevates viewers' metaphysical understanding and the realization that in fact Samsara - as a vertigo of all worldly things - is just a delusion.
Vehicles Tina Willgren Sweden 2' 21'' short film 2009
A village. A street. An ordinary summer day. Or? It is easy to get struck by a feeling of absurdity when one takes a pause, just to experience what is actually going on in front of ones eyes, anywhere close to a trafficked street. City traffic is a noisy and somehow comical auto created choreography. Uncountable vehicles in different shapes and sizes passing by in different directions. The leap to the surreal comes almost naturally. In "Vehicles" the normal movements, appearances and sounds of street traffic are remixed. The everyday car is transformed into an unidentified flying object.
In-between worlds Dorothea Carl Germany 16' 47'' documentary 2009
Women of various ethnic backgrounds give intimate insights into their lives in present day Germany. In-between worlds focuses on the daily conflicts and balancing acts these women face within a multicultural society. In doing so, the film scrutinises the very idea of it.
Take A Way Iliana Estañol Switzerland 13' Short film 2008
Take A Way is a black comedy about three outcasts that meet under strange circumstances in a robbery and how their lives change after the encounter. The film belongs to the „Trilogy of Memory" a series of short films written and directed by Iliana Estañol touching the theme of Memory and identity.
She loves me, she loves me not Corrine Bot Netherlands 3' short film 2009
A woman is playing ‘She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not.' Not with a nice flower, but with a cactus. ‘Does she love me? Or doesn't she? But then again, do I love her?'
An Ant Kimmo Alakunnas Finland 23' video dance 2010
An Ant is a short contemporary dance film which tells the story of a workaholic Man whose sense of reality begins to fail and whose Co-worker falls into imaginary worlds from which it is almost impossible to escape. What is real and what is fantasy? And what, exactly, is the enigmatic Ant which keeps disturbing the main characters? The topics of the film are disability to give and receive love, or the way we give it, it doesn't feel right. When we notice that something is wrong, we take what we want by force, if we don't understand it's wrong. Meaby the disability is being blind to that what happens all around us.
Shadows Inside Moana Vonstadl Germany 5' 57'' animation 2009
She is building a box. Inadvertently, the box becomes a place of refuge for her own shadow. Searching for her shadow, she plunges into another world. It´s a journey to a thought which is not touchable, like a shadow.
9mm Magda M.Olchawska Poland 8' 30'' short film 2009
Katia and Mathew met when they were just a pair of seven years old kids. From the moment they first saw each other they knew they had found someone special. After five years of great friendship they were tragically separated. One day Katia finds a letter in an old bottle. It is from Mathew whom she hadn't seen for 16 years. Can one letter bring back memories and change their unhappy lives?
The last homecoming Corinna Avraamidou Cyprus 85' feature film 2008
A love story set amid the unstable political landscape of 1974 Cyprus. A world of beauty and innocence will be threatened, while loss and betrayal will change things forever. A menage a trois with two brothers falling for the same woman, a prophetic staging of Euripides' Trojan Women at the seaside town, a passionate nationalist who is driven to the extreme: a small community living its personal stories, dreams, hidden and compelling desires, set at the backdrop of the political turbulence of that summer.