EFA SHORT FILM NOMINEES - PRIX UIP WINNERS ON TOUR

We, November 9 10:15 pm Universum 2 Guest: Daniel Elliott
Su, November 13 5:45 pm CinemaxX 2



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 Euro 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 Euro.

Bringing their efforts together, ECFF and EFA/UIP present "European Film Academy Short Film Nominees - Prix UIP Winners on Tour". This programme features some of the films nominated for the European Film Academy Short Film Award 2004 - Prix UIP.




Fender Bender
Director: Daniel Elliott, EST 2003, 10 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Tampere



Loss, regret, guilt and rage reveal themselves in the course of one day when a boy's little sister loses her life in a car accident. The sole solution seems to be a meeting with the person who inadvertently caused the accident.




La Nariz de Cleopatra (Cleopatra's Nose)
Director: Richard Jordan, E 2004, 12 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Edinburgh



A young partisan is waiting for the Spanish dictator Franco in Sevilla, in his lap an envelop with a loaded gun in it, his hands trembling. If he can't raise the glass in front of him without spilling the wine he can't aim the gun at Franco.




Les Baisers des Autres (Other People's Kisses)
Director: Carine Tardieu, F 2002, 14 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Valladolid



Fifteen-year-old Sandy is in the middle of a crisis - puberty! She has to contend with greasy hair, small breasts and pimples. Critically and sarcastically the young girl comments on events in the world which she will soon have to enter.




Love me or leave me alone
Director: Duane Hopkins, GB 2003, 15 min, 35 mm, colour, OV, Prix UIP Vila Do Conde



A boy and a girl feel attracted to each other. The film is like a study of first love with all its unintelligible, contradictory and violent feelings, photographed by a knowing and tender yet brutal camera.




Panique au village: Les voleurs de cartes (The card thieves)
Director: Stéphane Aubier/Vincent Patar, B 1991, 5 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Grimstad



A card-game theft in the toy world of plastic cowboys, Indians and knights! This is the twentieth instalment in the series "Panik in der Pampa", a German children's TV show.




Poveste la scara 'C' ('C' Block Story)
Director: Cristian Nemescu, RO 2002, 14 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Angers



An unusual love story in Bukarest: Andrei, a shy teenager, has fallen head over heels in love with his neighbour Monica. In order to find out how to seduce her he seeks help from a sex hotline.




Un cartus de kent si un pachet de cafea (Cigarettes and Coffee)
Director: Cristi Puiu, RO 2003, 13 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, Prix UIP Berlin



In the centre of Bukarest an elderly man and a successful young businessman talk about a job offer. But it isn't easy looking for work with empty hands. Even when your own son is the employer.




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