Archive 2004
SHORT MATTERS! - PRIX UIP WINNERS ON TOUR
The short film is a genre allowing creative experiments and provocation, inviting playful use of stylistic elements – and often offering a first stepping stone in a young filmmaker’s career. Both the European Film Academy (EFA) and the European Coordination of Film Festivals (ECFF) are supporting the short film as a genre through which a new generation of filmmakers develops and finds its way into the future of European cinema. The Prix UIP is an initiative by the distributor United International Pictures (UIP) and the European Film Academy in co-operation with twelve festivals throughout Europe. At each of these film festivals, EFA and UIP present a Prix UIP which includes a donation of € 2,000 and an automatic nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards. Out of the twelve nominated films, the EFA members (currently 1,600 European film professionals) select the winner of the European Film Academy Short Film – Prix UIP, an award which is endowed with € 10,000.
Bringing their efforts together, ECFF and EFA/UIP present "SHORT MATTERS! European Film Academy Short Film Nominees - Prix UIP Winners on Tour". This programme features the films nominated for the European Film Academy Short Film Award 2003 – Prix UIP.
(A) Torsion ((A) Torzija)
D: Stefan Arsenijevic, SLO 2002, 13 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Berlin
During the three and a half year siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995, the only connection of Sarajevo‘s ordinary people with the outside world was a tunnel, which they secretly dug out under the runway of the Sarajevo airport.
At Dawning
D: Martin Jones, GB 2002, 12 min, 35 mm, colour, OV, Prix UiP Valladolid
A comic morality tale: A woman fleeing in the half-light from a one-night stand encounters a suicidal man in bizarre circumstances. She thinks that if she can steal away in the darkness, before the man in the bed wakes up, then last night never happened. The man in the tree strongly disagrees.
La Chanson
D: Xavier Diskeuve, B 2003, 20 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Ghent
An unknown belgian singer, Walter is selected to appear in a french TV show for beginners. His problem: how to find a car to get Paris on the D-day?
Your native Country (Kraj Urodzenia)
D: Jacek Blawut, PL 2002, 24 min, Beta SP, colour, ES, Prix UIP Krakow
This is a tale of a jobless young man, who volunteers as a census taker. Filling out questionnaires, he naturally chats sincerely with those whose data he registers. Out of their answers a picture emerges of the country of our origin.
The Wallet (Le Portefeuille)
D: Vincent Bierrewaerts, F/B 2003, 10:30 min, 35 mm, colour, withour dialogue, Prix UIP Sarajevo
A man finds a wallet on his way home. A part of himself takes it while the other continues on his way. Once at home, the part who picked up the wallet finds a lot of money in it. Once again he divides into two parts. When one part reaches the owner, an unexpected twist provokes yet another division of our man...
We are living on the Edge (My Zhivem na Krai)
D: Victor Asliuk, RUS 2002, 22:30 min, DV, colour, ES, Prix UIP Vila Do Conde
A village under the threat of various misfortunes: the erosion of the river bank causes the houses to collapse, the vodka makes the men collapse... and the cows no longer obey.
Mamaman
D: Iao Lethem, B 2003, 24 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Angers
A mother and her 17-year-old daughter Julie rise and fall with the waves of adolescence. School, good manners, her father, school meetings, money and then love, everything is a pretext for a new argument, to her mother‘s great despair.
Save the Children (Redd Barna)
D: Terje Rangnes, N 2004, 6 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Tampere
Eli and Tarald sell lottery tickets for the benefit of blind children in Africa on daddy’s birthday. A shortfilm inspired by "Fremskrittspartiet", a right-wing Norwegian Conservative political party.
The Trumouse Show
D: Julio Robledo, E 2003, 5:30 min, 35 mm, b/w, ES, Prix UIP Venice
New York, the Twenties. A mouse is trudging to work. He steals a newspaper and reads: "Gemini: today you will find out you’re only a cartoon character". He stops, incredulous and disoriented. He realises he’s trapped in a hamster’s wheel in the middle of a deserted field...
An Embrace (Une Étreinte)
D: Eskil Vogt, F 2003, 11:20 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Grimstad
On the platform of a suburban train station a young couple is waiting for their train. They take their train to work together every morning. An impulsive action provides a look into the dark sides of a relationship.
Velikan (The Giant)
D: Alexander Kott, RUS 2003, 15 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Drama
A touching and poetic story about friendship between a little girl and a mime, who came to a small town to bring sunshine and warmth to the hearts of the inhabitants.
Sma Skred (Small Avalanches)
D: Birgitte Staermose, DK 2003, 15 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Edinbourgh
Linda is 12 and she is bored. It seems to her that nothing matters and nothing ever really happens. But on this day she meets an older man. Linda is amused, even exhilarated by their seemingly innocent encounter. But things take a disturbing turn, and Linda‘s world is transformed forever.