Archive 2004
SHORT FILMS A-Z
Aligato
D: Maka Sidibé, F 2003, 10:34 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
A couple in love are in the romantic setting of a Japanese restaurant. He asks if she will marry him; overjoyed, she says yes. But beneath the surface their world is anything but happy. While they are discussing their wedding and their future, the situation takes a turn for the worse until it finally escalates...
ANNAOTTOANNA
D: Clemens Pichler, F 2003, 9 min, 16 mm, b/w, GV
The relationship between Anna and Otto has come to a standstill. After an argument, nothing seems to be as it was. Otto realizes, that he is caught in a world that runs backwards. This experimental short film breaks with the limits of time, motion and storyline.
Ceremonia
D: Jacek Wozniak, F 2003, 10:33 min, 35 mm, colour, without dialogue
An autumn day in glowing red, a residential house and its owners – they all lead their own lives. The old man and the blues provide the thread that leads through the film. At the end, change of shift!
Cleaning up your world
D: Emre Koca, D 2004, 11:30 min, 35 mm, colour, without dialogue
The film is about a middle-aged black man who is harassed at a train station by skinheads and runs away. He reaches a laundromat in which a couple of very weird people are sitting and waiting. When his pursuers reach the place they are thrown into the washing machines without any ado. Cleaning up your world...
Comment j'ai marche sur la lune
D: Samuel Jadok, F 2003, 12 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
From his child’s perspective Moussa, a ten-year-old black boy, tells about the race to the moon, about social injustice in France and about the power of the media. The film is about France wanting to send a Frenchman to the moon to challenge the States. But who will they send? Who is to be selected for this perilous venture and fly to the moon?
Dancing Wizard
D: Caroline Kamya, Uganda 2004, 10 min, DVD, colour, GS
Christopher Kato is known in Uganda as the "Dancing Wizard". At the age of fifteen he saw "the white man’s dance" for the first. Since then Kato has not been thinking of anything else but ballroom dancing. He has performed all over the globe, and dared to challenge professionals in Norway, USA and Japan.
Der Mann im Schild
D: Christian Meyer, D 2004, 11:32 min, 35 mm, colour, GV
This film tells the story of the people that live in traffic signs and the things they do when work is over. It’s about the life of a traffic sign family as they discuss their plans and desires while having dinner. When the traffic sign people go on strike for a day and put on a benefit concert, everything falls apart...
Fallais pas buter mémé
D: Olivier Bardy, F 2003, 14:30 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
A little old lady robs the supermarket on the corner every Sunday morning – until it changes hands. But, happily, her family is behind her. This is a detective story, a love story and a family drama.
Fragile
D: Sikander Goldau, D 2003, 20 min, 35 mm, colour, GV
One day in September a woman starts a long journey. She visits the people she loves to say goodbye - without telling them that it could be a long time before they see one another again.
Frédérique in Love
D: Pierre Lacan, F 2003, 27 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Frédérique is in love. Or is she really? Or is it only the search for something she believes she cannot find in her marriage any more? Frédérique is not only a wife, she is a mother too. Still, she begins an exciting affair. The question is – who will she ultimately choose?