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FICTION

Care

Tristan MG Aitchison - 2014 | 14' 38'' | Scotland | tristanaitchison@gmail.com
Confused and solitary, an elderly woman sits in a remote, abandoned care home. Haunted by memories, will she discover why she is there and is she really alone?

Dios por el Cuello (God by the neck)

José Trigueiros - 2013 | 16' | Spain | godbytheneck@gmail.com
It’s Sunday, and Pablo, 8 years old, has an invitation to a very special but also forbidden birthday party. It’s Sunday, and for the first time, Pablo is going on a door-to-door preaching with his mother. It’s Sunday, and behind each door, there is a challenge, a test, a surprise. It’s Sunday.

Das Begräbnis des Harald Kramer (The Funeral of Harald Kramer)

Marc Schlegel - 2013 | 30' | Austria | mail@marc-schlegel.com
Could there be anything worse than having been falsely declared dead and being about to be buried alive? Yes, there could be: You could witness your own funeral beforehand!

'The Funeral of Harald Kramer' is a dark comedy about the loving husband and father Harald

Lee-gi-ja-deul (Selfish People)

Jae Bin Han - 2013 | 30' | South Korea | jaebin22@hanmail.net
Making his living as a proxy driver, Eu-sul, takes a drunken lady named Se-rim home, only to find out that she is reported missing three days later. By two detectives he finds out that Se-rim’s house was where she used to live, and those detectives, knowing that Se-rim was the one who asked them for protection, tries to avoid the blame. Eu-sul, by chance, gets in Se-rim’s car again and sees a mysterious guy in the car.

Bernard le Grand (Bernard the Great)

Philippe Lupien & Marie-Hélène Viens - 2013 | 9’ | Canada | fanny@laboiteafanny.com
Bernard has a big problem. It’s his birthday, but he doesn’t want to grow up. At 10 years old, he invents a suit that stops his growth. But everything will not work out as he planned… Being different is not as simple as he thought.

Programme Libre (Free Skating)

Vianney Etossé - 2013 | 25' | France | vianney.etosse@hotmail.fr
Between his figure skating trainer who has devoted all of his time to him, a father far too present who hopes to see his son follow in his footsteps, and his love story with Maïa, the pressure is mounting for Gauthier. Torn between all of these obligations, at what price will he find his own place?

Dit is Ronald (This is Ronald)

Jules Comes - 2012 | 19' | Belgium | julescomes@hotmail.com
Ronald has been feeling attracted to young children for some time. The people arround him show him little compassion when he is struggling with these feelings. In his desperation Ronald's seeks help at a secret guild of pedophilic men. Ronald will soon discover that this will offer him no solace...

Esa música (That Music)

Dario Vejarano - 2013 | 27’23'' | Colombia | camiloc1939@gmail.com
Omar, a construction worker, receives a recorded message in his cell phone from an unknown caller. Even though nobody speaks in the message, he vaguely recognizes a melody of a song amidst the noise of the recording. From that moment on, he starts a journey to find out the name of the song in an attempt to remember the life he once had with his family.

Mellom fire vegger (Between Walls)

Christina Lande - 2013 | 12’ 31’’ | Norway | odajenssen@gmail.com
Between Walls is a story about a family who’s having some trouble living together. They share a small house by the ocean, where the son is sitting in his lifeguard chair observing his three family members, constantly hiding things for the each other. It can be difficult to tell everything to the people you have closest, and this day is going to be a bit more difficult than others, for this not so functional family.

ЧЕСТ (Pride)

Pavel G. Vesnakov - 2013 | 12’ 31’’ | Bulgaria | rainova@hotmail.com
Manol -- a retired general, a loving grandfather -- is a patriarch of firm morals and fixed beliefs, which he has upheld in his household. But on this day he learns that the boy he raised is gay. The life choices of his loved ones challenge his values in a battle he has lost by default.

Rio Cidade Olímpica (Rio Olympic City)

Claudio Felicio Pifano Silva - 2012 | 7'26’’ | Brazil | cruka30@gmail.com
Jokes to stage the Olympic Games in Rio. The government shows one side of the story, but the film's gags show that not everything around major global events is positive.

Paratiisin Avaimet (Keys of Heaven)

Hamy Ramezan - 2014 | 28’ | Finland | cilla@forreal.fi
Iran, 1984. Homeless brothers Majid (15) and Adel (12) try to survive their daily lives in a war-torn country. They attend school and work in their spare time, but life gets harder day by day.

ניווט גולם (Deserted)

Yoav Hornung - 2013 | 25’ | Israel | yoavhornung@gmail.com
On the final assignment of their course as officer candidates in the Israeli army, two women trek through a harsh desert landscape when one suddenly remembers she’s forgotten something crucial…

Gli zii (The Uncles)

Gerard Monaco - 2013 | 21'35'' | UK |
Aldo and Enzo are dysfunctional Italian brothers who live in squalor on a remote Italian hillside.

Ce qui me fait prendre le train ( What makes me take the train)

Pierre Mazingarbe - 2013 | 15' | France | pierre.mazingarbe@gmail.com
To go to the other side, she builds a night vision, from those whom make the dead alive. A vision that has the makings of a dream, which makes the invisible visible: Orpheus falls asleep and allows the cinema to be.

La Banqueta (The sidewalk)

Anaïs Pareto Onghena - 2013 | 21' | Mexico, Spain | santaursulafilms@gmail.com
A sidewalk, beer, and a farewell. Three old friends realize that none of them is where he thought to be

Zar (The Heat)

Bartosz Kruhlik - 2013 | 23'30" | Poland | kruhlik@wp.pl
1. Coal or wood afire to redness, 2. High air temperature, 3. Vehemence of feelings.

De Honger (The Honger)

Benoit De Clerck - 2013 | 16' | Belgium | loes@cridecoeur.be
Wednesday afternoon, the 29th of may, 1963. Three boys go out and play in the dunes. Their game is disrupted when they make a discovery between the grass and sand that will permanently alter their lives and can only be remembered in secrecy.

Komm und Spiel (Come and Play)

Daria Belova - 2013 | 30' | Germany | belovada@googlemail.com
A film about the memory of a place. Time does not disappear and the past does not go away. Everything coexists in one moment.

Montauk

Vinz Feller - 2013 | 16' | Switzerland | info@contrastfilm.ch
Elisabeth's husband commits suicide. His last wish was to travel to Montauk where the couple met years ago. So Elisabeth embarks on a last journey from Switzerland to the US together with the ashes of her late husband. A journey synonymous with anger, acceptance and reconciliation.

Animation

Nyuszi és Öz (Rabbit and Deer)

Péter Vácz - 2013 | 16' 17'' | Hungary | vaczpeter@gmail.com
Rabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer's new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension.

The Gravedigger's Tale

Min Young Oh - 2013 | 14' | UK | 31willow13@gmail.com
The gravedigger leads a solitary existence, so far from the living, yet so close to the dead. This is her story. A love story.

El ruido del mundo (The Noise of the World)

Coke Riobóo - 2013 | 16' | Spain |
A composer is afflicted by a strange illness: he can hear every noise in the world. Through his music, he will find a way to keep the noise under control. Short film animated frame by frame with plasticine drawings on under-lit glass.

El señor del abrigo interminable ( The man with the never-ending coat)

Victoria Sahores - 2014 | 07' 30'' | Spain | victoria@sahores.com
The story of a man with a coat that never stops growing. The man, isolated from society because of the unbearable burden, decides to start a jurney with no clear destination, but with the intention of finding a place where to live at peace.

Love in The Time of Advertising

Matt Berenty - 2013 | 09' | USA | info@loveinthetimeofadvertising.com
An animated musical love story about a young man who lives inside a billboard and is charged with updating the advertisements. When he falls in love with a beautiful lady living across the highway, he has to use the only method he knows to get his message across. Advertising.

Trusts and Estates

Jeanette Bonds - 2013 | 4' 48'' | USA | jeanettebonds@alum.calarts.edu
A hand-drawn animated satire adapted from a conversation overheard in a Santa Monica restaurant in 2011. Four lawyers engage in a bantering dinner conversation that quickly devolves into a grotesque and brutal comedy of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Денят на кървавите венци (The day of the bleeding gums)

Dimitar Dimitrov - 2014 | 4' 50'' | Bulgaria | animiter@gmail.com
It is only needed to calmly wait for your wave, and let it take you there, where even death is just a cause for contemplation. The painting has a value only in the moment of its creation; the rest is just a postcard from a far away voyage.

Our Deepest Sympathy

Amy Ash - 2013 | 03' 36'' | UK | amyash00@gmail.com
Life,Death, and Rabbit Stew. A look at mortality and what it means to be human. We will all age and die, but why does it have to be a depressing?

The Gallant Captain

Katrina Mathers, Graeme Base - 2013 | 08' 08'' | Australia | reelport@lampshadecollective.com
A boy and his cat journey into unknown waters with a bottle, a boat and a vivid imagination.

Pandy (Pandas)

Matúš Vizár - 2013 | 12' | Czech Republic, Slovakia | peter@bfilm.sk
They are the product of millions of generations before them and yet they’re left all alone in the forest to fend for themselves. One day an all too active primate, the human being, finds them and they quickly become a pond in man’s games.

Oripeaux (Faded finery)

Sonia Gerbeaud, Mathias de Panafieu - 2014 | 10'4''| France, Belgium |
In an isolated village, a little girl befriends a pack of coyotes. The villagers brutally terminate this relationship without suspecting the uprising which hangs over them.

Habitat

Ina Georgieva - 2013 | 04'| Bulgaria |
A new man is born in the habitat. Kicked out by the others he follows a new direction. How far will he go?

Sangre de Unicornio (Unicorn blood)

Alberto Vázquez - 2013 | 09'| Spain | albertovrico@hotmail.com
Two teddy-bears go hunting unicorns, their favourite prey. Unicorns have tender flesh and delicious blueberry-flavoured blood which the bears need to stay cute-looking.

Isaac & Quincy

“tea&cheese” (Liam Tate & Jamie Stanton) - 2014 | 13'40''| UK | info@teaandcheese.com
Isaac & Quincy, delivering justice… One innocent bystander at a time.

Chicken Cube

Anna Penkner & Renate Pommerening - 2014 | 02:47' | Germany | info@designdoppel.de
Chicken Cube is the chicken of the next generation. In this satiric fake-commercial, the advantages of this new breed are presented and compared to the common chicken, as if it was the unfulfilled dream of every egg-producing farmer.

DOCUMENTARY

окна, A Summer in Belarus

Philippe-Antoine Lambert - 2014 | 18' | France | philippe.antoine.lambert@gmail.com
An atmospheric travelogue shot in Belarus.

Permanent Together

Antonio Marenco - 2013 | 30' | Spain | antonio.marenco@gmail.com
2 stories combined with the search of answers. From one side Antonio (an italian) try to remember when is technology dependency begin, what it happens since this moment and how his relations changed. From the other side Einari (a finish location manager) lives a static adventure with his computer as the only friend.

L' Ale del Drac Adormit (The Breath of the Sleeping Dragon)

Colectivo aZAs - 2013 | 12'50'' | Spain | col.lectiu.aZAs@gmail.com
While searching movement in apparently still elements, we notice a number of ways energy expresses itself, which are barely noticeable in everyday life. Pictures in motion. During the creative process, the image is one of the melodic elements used in the composition. The new armony that derives evokes a new soul for our characters.

L'ultimo imperatore - Intervista a Pierino Brunelli (The Last Emperor - Pierino Brunelli Interview)

Carlani e Dogana - 2014 | 22’04’’ | Italy | alessio.dogana@beemotion.it
"Pierino Brunelli is a farmer. He spent most of his life designing a new world order based on the balance of man and nature. Pierino is currently the Emperor of Magna Romagna, the Empire that he created in Pontecucco, in the province of Cesena. The documentary on Pierino Brunelli is the first of a trilogy, “Stati Nascenti", which talks about utopias, micronations and states of exception: 
self-proclaimed small states, nations with picturesque and bizarre names and hyperbolic roots. 
They have in common the irreducible and surreal search for autonomy and independence."

Piccole Aragoste (Small Lobsters)

Francesco Cabras e Alberto Molinari - 2013 | 29’ 54’’ | Italy | piccolearagoste@gmail.com
This film tells the story of a small environmental miracle that occurred in the Sardinian sea. Starring Gianni Usai, who had worked at the FIAT Mirafiori factory where in the 70's he took part to the worker's protests, before returning to his home town in Sardinia to become a lobster fisherman with a challenging goal: make a living from the sea without killing it.

Por la flor de la canela (For the cinnamon flower)

María Sánchez Testón - 2013 | 19’ 24’’ | Spain | mariasanchezteston@gmail.com
Fort he cinnamon flower invites us to explore the sexist and violent nature of songs spanning from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Throughout this journey we will become aware of how often we sing songs that we have heard but rarely listened to.

La Terra Mè (I Land)

Lucio De Candia - 2012 | 23'| Italy| l_decca@yahoo.it
Through interviews to a writer and poet, a farmer, a children and other people from l’Aquila (Italy), the documentary underlines the passion that ties them to their native land and the desire not to abandon it after the devastating earthquake of the april 2009. Moreover the construction of an ecological and self-made village shows the importance of the bio-architecture regarding the necessity to respect nature.

KOD ĆOŠKA (Down On The Corner)

Nikola & Corina Schwingruber Ilic - 2013 | 15’ | Switzerland, Serbia | corthafilm@gmail.com
Beer, cigarettes or margarine, the corner store in Sirća has it all. It's the meeting point of those who didn't emigrate. No work, no money, but a lot of humour and friendship. Everyday life in central Serbia and maybe soon all over Europe?

Souvenir

Gerardo Carreras - 2013 | 12’ 52'' | Spain | gerardo@muakcanarias.com
Souvenir comes from the films that my father shot in Super 8, most when I was not born yet. His images (yesterday) and mine (today) provides not only a generational dialogue, but also a reflection on the passage of time and changes associated with it

Der Cowboy und ich (The Cowboy and I)

Dominik Suppiger - 2013 | 15’ 49'' | Switzerland | domsuppiger@gmail.com
The director is no fool; his imagination is the only place where he is a tough hero... But he wants to break free from this tame, dull life he is leading. He will ask urban cowboy Angy Burri how to go about it. Surely, with this great guy’s help, he will soon be a greenhorn no more but become a real man.

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