2008
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | ROADS
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Lior Geller Director: Lior Geller Producer: Lior Geller Animator: n/a DOP: Nadav Hekselman Sound: Oren Bergman Editor: Amit Ginton Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: 13-year-old Ismayil searches for a new life for him and his younger brother, outside the Arab drug slums of the city of Lod. Daniel, a traumatized Israeli ex-soldier, often buys drugs from Ismayil trying to escape his own reality. Here, deep in the sewers of Israeli society, they just might find in each other their way out. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 60 |
| 2 | PARAGRAPH 15
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Details:TrailerLength: 34' Screenwriter: Mirza Ekinovic Director: Mirza Ekinovic Producer: Anders Toft Andersen Animator: n/a DOP: Mirza Ekinovic Sound: Jakob Garfield Mortensen Editor: Marion Seraina Tuor Production Designer: Linn Sandholm Synopsis: The war in former Yogoslavia separates Mustafa (60) from his grandchild Selma (10). Now he is a refugee in Denmark. Mustafa’s only wish in life is to be reunited with Selma who fled during the bombings. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 41 |
| 3 | ELA
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Silvana Aguirre Zegarra Director: Silvana Aguirre Zegarra Producer: Gavin Humphries Animator: n/a DOP: Liam Iandoli Sound: composer - Chris White Editor: Fiona DeSouza Production Designer: Dan Gill Synopsis: We meet 8-year old Ela in a very particular moment of her life. The moment she experiences loss for the first time. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 40 |
| 4 | AUGUST 15TH
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Xuan Jiang Director: Xuan Jiang Producer: Gareth Chang Animator: n/a DOP: Haifeng Duan Sound: Nathan Ruyle Editor: Esteban Argüello Production Designer: Wang Zhiqing Synopsis: Inspired by true events. A Chinese Woman boards on a bus with her boyfriend. The trip becomes unpredictable when two robbers hijack the bus. Everyone has to decide how much they need to sacrifire for their own safety and dignity. |
California Institute of the Arts | United States | 35 |
| 5 | NEW DRESS
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Sergi Perez Director: Sergi Perez Producer: Escandalo Films, S.L. Animator: n/a DOP: Alex Sans Sound: Christian Subirà Editor: Liana Artigal Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: This is the story of Mario, an eight-year-old, who arrives to his classroom dressed as a girl. From this moment forward, Mrs. Margarita, the School Principal, the counsellor, his father, Santos and his good friend Elena, will try to find out the meaning of this prank. Mario won’t put it easy on them. |
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) | Spain | 33 |
| 6 | PAIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Victor Kop Director: Iván López Nüñez Producer: Noor Hinskens Animator: n/a DOP: André Jäger Sound: Thijs van der Veen Editor: Daan Wierda Production Designer: Rianne Blekkenhorst, Eppo Hoogstede Synopsis: How much pain do you need to forget your sorrow? |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 32 |
| 7 | MILAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Michaela Kezele Director: Michaela Kezele Producer: Target Film (Daniela Ljubinkovic, Kathrin Geyh, Michaela Kezele) Animator: n/a DOP: Felix Novo de Oliveira Sound: Davor Tatic Editor: Stine Sonne Munch Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO air-raids. Two brothers have arranged to play hide and seek in the woods. Six-year old Milan goes there unaware that his brother has had an accident and is fighting for his life in a hospital. Milan starts looking for him but finds someone else… Milan is an intimate story in the shadows of the horrors of war. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 30 |
| 8 | TOLYA
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Rodeon Brodsky Director: Rodeon Brodsky Producer: Rodeon Brodsky, Eddie Tapero, Einav Giat Animator: n/a DOP: Ziv Berkovich Sound: n/a Editor: Galit Hoogi Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: On International Woman’s day, when all his fellow alien workers call their distant wives to greet them, Tolya remains speechless as he calls Natasha, his wife. He can’t pronounce anything but a whistling mumble with his toothless month. Tolya is ready to give up on words, but not on his romantic message. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 27 |
| 9 | 52%
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Rafał Skalski Director: Rafał Skalski Producer: PWSFTviT, Eureka Media, TVP Kultura Animator: n/a DOP: Jakub Giza Sound: music: Łukasz Lach Editor: Cecylia Pacura Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: 52% is the ideal proportion of one’s leg length to high and one of the most important admission criteria set by the State Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg. Ałła, the candidate to that school, has two months to reach this dream proportions to be admitted to the school. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 26 |
| 10 | TO THE MOON
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Stian Angel Eriksen Director: Katja Eyde Jacobsen Producer: Pål Røed Animator: n/a DOP: Øystein Mamen Sound: Bent Erik Holm Editor: Ida Helene Kolsto Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Elvis and his kid brother Bingo grow up at various caravan sites with their violent and alcoholic father. They have no one each other – it is Elvis and Bingo against the rest of the world. Suddenly, one day the beautiful Miri appears. |
The Norwegian Film School (NFS) | Norway | 25 |
| 11 | THE LINE
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Kent Bassett Director: Kent Bassett Producer: Michelle Johnson, Kent Bassett Animator: n/a DOP: Andrew M. Davis Sound: Mitch Mcintire Editor: Melissa Brown Production Designer: Elexis Delair Synopsis: A migrant father and son run out of water while crossing the desert border and must seek help from a ranch house. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 24 |
| 12-13 | DARK RED
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Florian Öller Director: Frauke Thielecke Producer: Hamburg Media School, Andrea Schütte Animator: n/a DOP: Marius von Felbert Sound: Rolf Manzei Editor: Andrea Detmer Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Hannah and Erich, a couple in its early sixties, could live a happy and comfortable life – had Hannah not been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Erich, however, has come to terms with this situation…until one day an unexpected revelation puts his love to the test. |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 20 |
| 12-13 | LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Franco Lolli, Virginie Legeay Director: Franco Lolli Producer: Mathieu Lebègue Animator: n/a DOP: Sébastien Heshin Sound: Matthieu Perrot Editor: Nicolas Desmaison Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Pablo, aged sixteen, lives with his mother. For a few years now, money has started missing. She tries her best to deal with this new situation. But it isn’t simple. |
La Fémis | France | 20 |
| 14-15 | DO YOU COME HERE OFTEN?
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Mathieu Donner Director: Mathieu Donner Producer: ECAL Animator: n/a DOP: Didier Nion Sound: Marc Thill Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A father and his daughter decide spend a last day together before the departure of this last one abroad. |
Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL) | Switzerland | 17 |
| 14-15 | ROBIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Clemente Fernandez - Gil Director: Hanno Olderdissen Producer: Katrin Hohendahl Animator: n/a DOP: Ralf Mandle Sound: Tilman Hahn Editor: Renata Salazar Ivancan Production Designer: Anne Schiek Synopsis: Home is where the hurt is. 8-year-old Robin comes back into his family after 3 months in a foster home and finds himself lost. When his parents accidentally hurt his new born sister in a quarrel, Robin is forced to make a very difficult decision. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 17 |
| 16 | NOW EVERYBODY SEEMS TO BE HAPPY
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Gonzalo Tobal Director: Gonzalo Tobal Producer: Matías Mendelevich Animator: n/a DOP: Lucas Gaynor Sound: Rufino Basavilvaso Editor: Alex Zito, Gonzalo Tobal Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Roberto (43) and Carmen (14) have been on the run for two days, escaping from their lives and families. An improvised trip, almost with no money nor shelter, and with the police behind them. The last day of the trip will be determinant. Inspired on real facts. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 16 |
| 17 | VODA
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Gabriela Ilijeska Director: Gabriela Ilijeska Producer: Zora Ilijeska, Sonja Ilijeska Animator: n/a DOP: Gabriela Ilijeska Sound: Goce Cvetanovski Editor: Gabriela Ilijeska Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Secluded in a desolate village, a woman lowly perishes while hoping and praying to see her Family one last time before she dies. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 15 |
| 18-19 | HIGH HOPES
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Juhana Lumme Director: Mazdak Nassir Producer: Suvi Salokoski Animator: n/a DOP: Eve Högman Sound: Tuomas Skopa Editor: Jussi Rautaniemi Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Tale about an inventor couple and their obscured vision to raise a child to fly. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 14 |
| 18-19 | KAMMAKASTIG LAND
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Details:TrailerLength: 24 Screenwriter: Brandon Oelofse Director: Brandon Oelofse Producer: Anthonie van der Walt, Peter Adolphs Animator: n/a DOP: Brad Devine Sound: Chris van der Walt Editor: Jan C. Botha Production Designer: Carrie Ann Daly Synopsis: At the death of his father, Fourie is forced to confront his place in a shifting society. David retraces the trail of his forefathers back to the Cape and the trip of Africa to burry the sins of his father for the future. Along his nationwide trek Fourie must revisit the past and its secrets. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 14 |
| 20 | THE YEAR OF THE PIG
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Claudia Calderón, Leopoldo Joe Nakata, Fernando de Peña Director: Claudia Calderón Producer: Encarnación Martínez Animator: n/a DOP: Leonardo Cubillos Sound: Gustavo Fioravante Editor: Leopoldo Nakata Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Chang Rodríguez, a delivery boy from Havana’s Chinatown, is tired of his routine and longs for anything that’ll change his life. Completely unaware of his own power, he becomes an instrument of destiny, every twelve years – in the Year of the Pig. |
International School of Film and TV (EICTV) | Cuba | 13 |
| 21 | MAGELLAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Li Huajun Director: Li Huajun Producer: Liang hailiang Animator: n/a DOP: Chen Cheng Sound: n/a Editor: Shen Ao, Haujun Li Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: This is my own story, I am a captain, at least I believed so. I built a blue steamship on the roof of a tall building. Where can my boat go? I decided to go to Magellan Strait. But there’s a big storm waiting for me… |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 11 |
| 22-24 | A PIECE OF STEAK
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Josella Porto, Ulrik Bruel Gerber Director: Uirik Bruel Gerber Producer: Centro Sperimentali di Cinematografia (Line producer: Jean-Denis Le Dinahet) Animator: n/a DOP: Ferran Paredes Rubio Sound: Marco Benevento Editor: Emily Greene Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Micheal Masuev is an immigrant living in Italy with his family. He's working in a butcher's in Rome's suburbs. One day he's charged with theft and therefore dismissed without notice. Michael, ex boxer, decides to go back into the ring and regain his dignity. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 10 |
| 22-24 | MICHEL AND ODETTE
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Alina Bezdikian Director: Alina Bezdikian Producer: Lex White, Ariana Erwood Animator: n/a DOP: Debbie Formoso Sound: Ariana Erwood Editor: JP Bolles Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Michel and Odette give themselves to ineffectual yet benevolent acts, doling out kindness upon an ambivalent society. They are separated from reality, both mentally and physically, in a black and white world until they encounter a flower vendor who forces them into the violently colourful world they sought to mend. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 10 |
| 22-24 | ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Jamie Cussen Director: Jamie Cussen Producer: William Beauchamp Animator: n/a DOP: Rusell S. Bell Sound: Sean Massey Editor: Chris Murphy Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Comedy blossoms in the orange groves of Florida as three nine-year-olds embark on a quest for beer and cigarettes and are lead down the path towards adulthood. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 10 |
| 25 | A REUNION
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Hong Sunghoon Director: Hong Sunghoon Producer: Chen Kihak Animator: n/a DOP: Lee Jongwoo Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: See a father after 16 years’ separation. |
Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) | South Korea | 9 |
| 26 | AGAPE
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Slobodan Maksimovic Director: Slobodan Maksimovic Producer: Jozica Blatnik UL AGRFT Animator: n/a DOP: Sven Pepeonik Sound: Julij Zornik Editor: Jurij Moskon Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In a distant convent nuns decide to install a broadband internet. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 8 |
| 27-29 | IF I FALL
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Hannaleena Hauru Director: Hannaleena Hauru Producer: Anni Pänkäälä, Samu Reijonen Animator: n/a DOP: Jan-Niclas Jansson Sound: Jussi Honka, Rauli Roininen Editor: Sanna Ryhänen Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Kaarina is a young woman working in a Finnish sawmill. She’s repetitively falling down without anyone noticing her. The short film shows three approaches on falling in love – depending on how to read the chronology of the film. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 7 |
| 27-29 | SHAHAADA
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Details:TrailerLength: 17 Screenwriter: Joe Barton-Atkinson Director: Jenny Sadler Producer: Mamoon Ahmed, Andrea Colomb Animator: n/a DOP: Min Soo Kim Sound: Peter Butler, Liben Chen Editor: Ellis Zenios, Kat Gobel Production Designer: Iain Dodds Synopsis: Ray and Saleem are best friends, living in what seems to be a harmonious multicultural society in East London. But when Saleem’s sister becomes pregnant with Ray’s child, racial, religious and political tensions explode. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 27-29 | THE SECRET OF THE BLOOD
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Eugenia Castagnino Director: María Victoria Andino Producer: Carolina Alvarez Animator: n/a DOP: Pablo Parra Sound: Victoria Zalokar Editor: Mariano Salomon Saban Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Maria wakes up alone in the boarding school bedroom where she assists. Ana and Victoria are not there. A profuse blood stain in Ana’s sheets in the only sign that she finds of her friends. Worried and confused, Maria wants to find out where the blood came from. Without knowing what is that has changed, Maria starts a lonely journey to a painful understanding. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 7 |
| 30-31 | STAR-CROSSED
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Details:TrailerLength: 34' Screenwriter: Bettina Eberhard Director: Bettina Eberhard Producer: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln in co-production with FH Dortmund Animator: n/a DOP: Klaus Betzl Sound: Achim Strommenger Editor: Rita Schwarze Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: As a matter of fact, Jakob is a woman. But in order to prevent the village from being haunted by bad luck the superstitious community forces her to live as a man. Jakob never questioned her role, not until the day Tom arrived. Even though Tom is branded as an outcast, she offers him work and shelter. And despite the forceful surveillance of the community, they slowly become closer. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 5 |
| 30-31 | TRACES
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Rachel Zisser, Samantha Newton Director: Rachel Zisser Producer: Jonas Bell Pasht Animator: n/a DOP: John W. Rutland Sound: Music Composer: Rostam Batmanglij Editor: Anthony Rosc Production Designer: Adriana Dardas Synopsis: One late night in Brentwood, Sydney Kessler answers the phone call that no father ever hopes to receive. He travels to the morgue. There, they unveil the body of a woman he doesn’t recognize – his son Julian. Over the course of one night, Sydney embarks on a journey deep into the city to uncover the truth about how his son dies. Instead, he discovers how his son lived. |
American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI) | United States | 5 |
| 32-35 | A VERY LONG WEEKEND
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Sandra Coppola Director: Sandra Coppola Producer: UQAM Animator: n/a DOP: Félix Tétreault Sound: Emile Deraspe Editor: Eric Parent Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young couple wishes to find peace and tranquillity in their friend’s ancestral cottage where they meet an old couple. This becomes the first in a very long series of events that will transform their holiday in an awful nightmare. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 4 |
| 32-35 | LAST STAGE
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Trevor Pickett Director: Chris Pozzebon Producer: Hollis Ludlow-Carroll Animator: n/a DOP: Sabeeh Khan Sound: n/a Editor: Drew Stevenson Production Designer: Krista Illies Synopsis: In the wake of his mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease, a stand-up comedian struggles to keep his act together. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 4 |
| 32-35 | THE BRONZE DOOR
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Daniel Gallagher Director: Daniel Gallagher Producer: Daniel Gallagher, Matthew Nagy Animator: n/a DOP: Matthew Nagy Sound: Brad Mcllvaine Editor: Matthew Nagy Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Based on a story by Raymond Chandler, which initially appeared in the cult magazine Unknown Worlds. A gentleman with an abusive wife discovers a magic door in an antique store through which things seem to disappear. The story is filled with weird characters, understated humour, and attention to period setting |
American University | United States | 4 |
| 32-35 | THE SILENT BODIES
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Luz Diaz Director: Luz Diaz Producer: INSAS – Atelier de realisation Animator: n/a DOP: Thi Doan Huong Lam Sound: Deborah Dourneau Editor: Ivanne de Cannart Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Wanders of a solitary girl fascinated by a mysterious woman… |
INSAS | Belgium | 4 |
| 36-42 | 20A: STORIES FROM A BUS
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Semir Buchman Director: Semir Buchman Producer: Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design Animator: n/a DOP: Anton Mertens Sound: Marc Goyens Editor: Nathalie Cools Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: With all the best intentions Louis, a stubborn bus driver, embarks on what will be his last trip ever from Hasselt to Maastricht. Unfortunately, the journey doesn’t enrol as planed… |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 3 |
| 36-42 | GOODBYE, KIM HYUN-HEE
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Henky Chan, Tsim Ho Tat Director: Tsim Ho Tat Producer: Charlie Wong Animator: n/a DOP: Kent Wong Sound: Mok Yeuk-kei, Mango Editor: Tong Wai-wing Production Designer: Chan Wing-shan, Irene Synopsis: Though having an affluent family and a considerate girlfriend, Angus does not take things as they are. What he is really interested in is the North Korean agent KIM Hyun-hee who once planed a bomb on the Korean Airline and killed 115 passengers. |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 3 |
| 36-42 | IN TRANSITO
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Isabel Muñoz Cota Callejas Director: Isabel Muñoz Cota Callejas Producer: Centro de Capacitacion Cinematograpfica Animator: n/a DOP: Maria Jose Secco Sound: Rogelio Villanueva Editor: Hugo Mendoza Cruz Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: This is the story about the meeting of two foreigners in an unknown city. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 3 |
| 36-42 | KIRKSDALE
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Ryan Spindell, Bradford Hodgson Director: Ryan Spindell Producer: T. Justin Ross Animator: n/a DOP: Julie A. Hotz Sound: Julie A. Hotz Editor: Sam Littenberg-Weisberg Production Designer: Arturo Yepez Z. Synopsis: When a tormented mental patient escapes the facility, Molly walker a misunderstood teenage girl, and Darryl Pearl, a young sheriff’s deputy, must face their inner demons in a fight for their sanity and their lives… |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 3 |
| 36-42 | RAVI GOES TO SCHOOL
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Nupama Menon Director: Nupama Menon Producer: Rajeen Sharma Animator: n/a DOP: Harald Beeker Sound: Subash Sahoo Editor: Aarif Sheikh Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The idyllic world of 6-year-old Ravi (the Watchman’s son) is transformed when Pooja moves into the building with her husband Rohit. Pooja takes Ravi under her wing, puts him in a school and introduces him to a whole new world. But as troubles brew up in Pooja’s life can she keep up the Project called Ravi she so enthusiastically took up! |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 3 |
| 36-42 | THE POCKET WATCH
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Vibhu Puri Director: Vibhu Puri Producer: Mr. Pankag Rag, Director F.T.I.I. Animator: n/a DOP: Anay Goswamy Sound: Mangesh Dhakde Editor: Arindam Ghatak Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Babba, an old urdu poet is dying an unknown death, having shut his eyes to the callous world that weights money for art, he has woven a charming little world of his own. Babba’s state of bliss drives his daughter minni into a world of bitter silences. In their neighbourhood lives pappan, a small-time debt-ridden publisher who is eyeing Babba’s treasured verses and his beautiful daughter. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 3 |
| 36-42 | THREE BY FOUR
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Svetlana Sivak, Marina Drinevskaya Director: Marina Drinevskaya Producer: Alexandr Belousov Animator: n/a DOP: Anton Zhabin Sound: Mariya Avanesova Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Another boring party. The brunette and the blonde start arguing about cinema. Based on the novel “A room where the steps die” by Milorad Pavich. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 3 |
| 43-46 | A DEVOTED FATHER
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Petar Ristovski Director: Petar Ristovski Producer: FDU Animator: n/a DOP: Vukašin Veljić Sound: Nikola Medić Editor: Miodrag Cicovic Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Novica is a young man who wants to be a musician in a tavern, like his father did. But, his father doesn’t agree his decision. In the hospital, during the tonsil surgery and in contact with attractive sister, the father realised that his son become a grown up person. |
Faculty of Dramatic Arts | Serbia | 2 |
| 43-46 | SPREAD THROUGH THE AIR
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Vera Egito, Carolina Ziskind Director: Vera Egito Producer: Lorenzo Giunta, Simoni de Mendonça, Victor A. Biagioni Animator: n/a DOP: Julio Taubkin Sound: Cássio Koshikumo Editor: Fabiana Ota Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: On the back staircase of a residential building, girls smoke hiding from their parents. They take off their clothes to prevent being denounced by the smell o smoke. Cora is 30 years old. She lives in the same building as the girls, and it stuck in an unhappy marriage. The woman catches the girls smoking. From then on, she begins her path towards freedom. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 2 |
| 43-46 | THE CIRCLE
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Bostjan Jerse Director: Bostjan Jerse Producer: Dusan Djokovic Animator: n/a DOP: Tomislav Ivanović Sound: Matija Gajic Editor: Marija Matovic Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A boy finds a mysterious suitcase by a river. A few years later, as a grown-up man, he throws the suitcase in the river and commits suicide. The suitcase is washed ashore, where a young girl finds it and the story repeats itself. |
Faculty of Arts, Academy of Arts BK, Belgrade | Serbia | 2 |
| 43-46 | THE CLOSET OF SECRET KNOWLEDGE
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Meri Lampinen Director: Meri Lampinen Producer: Erkki Perkiömäki Animator: n/a DOP: Sini Hormio Sound: Olli-Pekka Jauhiainen Editor: Lotta Kaarna Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A fictive short film about three sisters and their mother situated in the time after her dead. Day by day, after their mother has died three try to make it trough their lives. Their late mother, the narrator, refuse to see the real nature of what she has affected. |
Lahti University of Applied Sciences | Finland | 2 |
| 47-48 | MINIMALEGROISTERICO
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Details:TrailerLength: 5' Screenwriter: Glisti Maria Director: Glisti Maria Producer: HCTSS Animator: n/a DOP: Glisti Maria Sound: n/a Editor: Glisti Maria Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An exchange between static images, facial expressions as well as body movements. All these are represented by a hysteric outburst of the music that wants to declare the nervous exploration of truth through humans’ erotic and interpersonal relations. |
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos (HCTSS) | Greece | 1 |
| 47-48 | SUMMER WAVES
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: César Talamantes Director: César Talamantes Producer: Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, y la colaboración del Gobierno del Estado de Baja California sur, 2007 Animator: n/a DOP: César Guitiérrez Miranda Sound: Hugo Nonega Editor: César Talamantes Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Fulfilling her grandmothers las will, Veronica goes to la paz and meet two fishermen, Arturo, and Juan, his father, with whom she identifies herself. A sudden crisis in Juan’s illness, leads these 3 characters to confront their principles with a changing reality. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 1 |
| 49-60 | 14 02
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Konstantin Statsky Director: Konstantin Statsky Producer: VGIK Animator: n/a DOP: Artyom Polosaty Sound: Konstantin Statsky, Dmitry Vasiliev Editor: Vladimir Bezzubchenko Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sooner or later he will find you. Wherever you are – you are his target. Run or hide – you are his victim. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 0 |
| 49-60 | A DROP IN THE OCEAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 5' Screenwriter: Alessandro Codaglio Director: Salvatore D’Alia Producer: Maurizio Poletti Animator: n/a DOP: Paolo Giacomini Sound: Riccardo Crestana, Laura Di Leonardo Editor: Francesca Bergonzi Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: At the end of his life an old solider decide to go back home, an uncommon home that will hold him forever. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 0 |
| 49-60 | DOLLS
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Randy Caspersen Director: Randy Caspersen Producer: Randy Caspersen Animator: n/a DOP: Cabriel Patay Sound: Graham Onak Editor: n/a Production Designer: Caity Birmingham Synopsis: When teenager Thomas rediscovers his dolls in the attic, his mother demands they sell them. She insists that Thomas work the annual garage sale where a devilish ten-year-old boy defaces Thomas’s toys. As Thomas struggles to save his dolls, his mother begins to see the part of her son she always overlooked. |
Columbia College Chicago | United States | 0 |
| 49-60 | MY HOME MY HEAVEN
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Muhammad Eysham, Jonathan Ng Director: Muhammad Eysham bin Ali Producer: June Tan Animator: n/a DOP: Earl Foo Sound: Michael Chew Editor: Muhamad Faizal Bin Ibrahim Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Ahmad, a juvenile delinquent, is released from his time in a Boy’s Home. After his return home, Ahmad finds himself at crossroads again despite his efforts to redeem himself from the past. Ahmad is still trying to find his way home. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 0 |
| 49-60 | NEST OF SPIDERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Mr. Matt Beasley Director: Ms. Jesse Pilkes Producer: Ms. Setu Raval Animator: n/a DOP: Mr. Jeremy Grant Sound: Music: Kim Planert Editor: Salvatore Caino Production Designer: Glenn Peison Synopsis: This is the story of Catherine, a 14-year old girl trapped in the surreal and distorted world of the travelling carnival. In front of the curtain, Catherine is an angelic, porcelain doll; yet behind the curtain, she is a pale and pained soul, desperately yearning to be free. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 0 |
| 49-60 | NUIKKA'S LAUNDRY
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Einari Paakkanen, Antti Polojärvi Director: Einari Paakkanen Producer: Ville Hanhisuo Animator: n/a DOP: Antti Polojärvi Sound: Pietu Korhonen Editor: Illusia Sarvas Production Designer: Ville Hanhisuo Synopsis: Janitor Nuikka has a special relationship with three old ladies from the next door. Absurd story about sexuality, dirt and doing the laundry. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 0 |
| 49-60 | ON MY WAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 8' Screenwriter: Yuan Liu Director: Yuan Liu Producer: James Youd Animator: n/a DOP: Peter Morris Sound: Ross Collier Editor: Maria Valente Production Designer: Sofia Katsoura Synopsis: “On My Way” is the story of a young girl from China having to confront the realities of her decision to move away from her family to England. But instead of finding happiness in her new freedom, she can only find loneliness and a dislocation from her environment. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 49-60 | SWANILDA
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Details:TrailerLength: 7' Screenwriter: Violaine Martin Director: Violaine Martin Producer: Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Français (CLCF) Animator: n/a DOP: Pascal Graziani Sound: Music: Matthieu Vonin Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Swanilda is not able to complete the automat of the man she secretly loves. Helped by a mysterious hand, she discovers her prince unconscious in front of her door and heal him. |
CLCF | France | 0 |
| 49-60 | THE GOOD CHILD
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Details:TrailerLength: 5' Screenwriter: Jean Carbonell Director: Jean Carbonell Producer: ESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Alis Maesalu Sound: Sylvain Pierzchlewicz, Umit Ceyhan Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young boy is more interested in erotic magazines than workbooks. |
ENSAV | France | 0 |
| 49-60 | THE LULLABY
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Séréna Abi Aad Director: Séréna Abi Aad Producer: Paul Mattar-IESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Dany Chedid, Séréna Abi Aad Sound: Lama Sawaya, Séréna Abi Aad Editor: Séréna Abi Aad Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sami is a young man who makes up every year on his birthday, because of a nightmare that he can’t seem to comprehend. This year, on his 22nd birthday, he decides to go up to the mountains, to breathe some fresh air. On his way, he notices an intriguing secluded cemetery. In this cemetery, Sami gets a lot more than he bargains for, through the strange and mysterious ways in which life works. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 0 |
| 49-60 | THE NIGHT/EVIL SHOULD CEASE
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Afeafa Nfojoh Director: Afeafa Nfojoh Producer: Mr. Kofi Middleton-Mends Animator: n/a DOP: Prosper Hormeku Sound: George Annoh Editor: Esme Aku Atsyornu Production Designer: Barakatu Akom Synopsis: Ezanetor has had enough of the trokosi slavery camp. She organizes some of the female slaves for an eventual escape. |
National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) | Ghana | 0 |
| 49-60 | THE THIRD HALF
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Salome Sagaradze Director: Salome Sagaradze Producer: Valeri Lomadze Animator: n/a DOP: Mamuka Chkhivadze Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The story that supposed to be a love story – province, one woman, two men, (married couple) and the question between them – does the third half exist? 24 hours to see the things as they are. One day that will give an answer. Finally…? Another question – was the truth needed…? |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | LEFT IN BAGHDAD
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: John Kane, Peter Jordan Producer: Documentary Film and Video M.F.A. Program Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After losing his left arm to an IED while serving in Iraq, American soldier Ross Graydon spends six months rehabilitating at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. LEFT IN BAGHDAD follows Ross as he returns with his wife and daughter to their home in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. Ross resumes civilian life, never letting his new physical limitations affect his happy-go-lucky attitude. |
Stanford University | United States | 15 |
| 2 | GRANMA'S SALON
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Details:Length: 34'Screenwriter: Ursula Ambach Director: Ursula Ambach, Maria Rank Producer: Georg Zeller Animator: n/a DOP: Maria Rank Sound: Caroline Leitner Editor: Ursula Ambach Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Edith Festö lives in a small Swabian village in the south of Hungary, where she has run a hairdressing salon for more than 55 years. Time seems to stand still and all the widows of the village still leave the salon with the same permanent wave. Recently Edit lost most of her eyesight. Despite this, her there’s not a day that goes by without a crowd in her salon. |
ZeLIG - School for Documentary, Television and New Media | Italy | 12 |
| 3 | MY KABOUL
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Whahid Nazir Producer: Ateliers Varan Animator: n/a DOP: Whahid Nazir Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Jamal is a collective taxi driver. With his passengers, he talks about the civil war, still vivid in everyone’s memory and which left traces in the streets of the city. |
Ateliers Varan | France | 11 |
| 4 | THE NATURE OF REBIRTH
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Johana Lampi, Anna Kulicka-Soisalon-Soininen Director: Johana Lampi Producer: Johana Lampi Animator: n/a DOP: Markku Pelkonen Sound: Lauri Planman Editor: Henriikka Hemmi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: If you are quiet in the nature, the nature starts to reveal itself. We all die but what is dying? |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 9 |
| 5 | DETAINED
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jenny Alexander Producer: Michelle Fuentes Animator: n/a DOP: Jenny Alexander Sound: n/a Editor: Jenny Alexander Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: On the morning of March 6, 2007, 361 workers at the Bianco Factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts were arrested in an immigration raid. The Bianco factory produces vests and backpacks for the U.S. military, and many of its employees were undocumented. Detained tells the story of workers and their families as they are caught up in the raid and chaotic days that follow. |
Boston University / Department of Film and Television | United States | 5 |
| 6 | YOUTH LONELY
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Lu Ye, Guruo Qin, Bo Yan, Xiaojia Xu Director: Lu Ye Producer: Lu Ye Animator: n/a DOP: Lu Ye, Jiangnan Liu Sound: n/a Editor: Lu Ye Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The documentary records the daily lives of autistic children at Beijing Star Rain Education Institute. It aims to gain more concern on such vulnerable group. |
Communication University of China (CUC) | China | 3 |
| 7 | ALELUIA
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Pedro Goncalo Jesus Director: Fábio Ribeiro Producer: Filipe Afonso Animator: n/a DOP: Andre Gaspar Sound: Ana Queiroz Editor: Sofia Alves Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Lacking an image of God, men invented images that would represent Him in order to feel closer to Him. To feel more faith. These images include saints and non-saints as well. Sometimes these holy images are mass-produced in a great variety… |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 2 |
| 8 | RESTART
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Yusuke Fukada Director: Yusuke Fukada Producer: Sara Sjølander Animator: n/a DOP: Martina Binder Sound: Jonas Andreas Jensen, Dovile Charmanskyte Editor: Yusuke Fukada Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A journey in time for a group of young people who lost one of their friends three years previously. Even though their memories are strong, their lives never stop changing and they and “a” way to “restart”. |
European Film College (EFC) | Denmark | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | ABOUT SOCKS AND LOVE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Michaela Čopíková, Katarína Uhrová Director: Michaela Copikova Producer: Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Film and TV Faculty (FTF VSMU) Animation: Michaela Čopíková DOP: Michaela Čopíková Sound: Tobiáš Potočný Editor: Richard Chomo Production Designer : Filip Křížek Synopsis: Short movie about a usual relationship of man and woman. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 17 |
| 2 | THE AIR ACE
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Svilen Dimitrov Director: Svilen Dimitrov Producer: NATFA (National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts) Animation: Svilen Dimitrov, Yanita Chukleva-Dimitrova, Anna Slavkova, Silvia Serezliiska DOP: n/a Sound: Vinyl Studio Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: There are only three necessities in order to fly: Dream, Persistence and To be a frog! |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 13 |
| 3 | OUR WONDERFUL NATURE
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Tomer Eshed Director: Tomer Eshed Producer: Anne Baeker Animation: Tomer Eshed DOP: Tomer Eshed Sound: David Ziegler Editor: Katharina von Schroder Production Designer : Set Design: Jan Schneider Synopsis: Two male water shrews fight over a female. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 12 |
| 4 | ATENCION AL CLIENTE
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Marcos Valín Director: Marcos Valín, David Alonso Producer: Aitor Ávila, David Priego Animation: David Priego, Allende Bodega, David Alonso,Marian Ramis, Marcos Valin, Maria Monescillo, Francisco Martin, Aitor Avila, Lidia Espana DOP: Marcos Valín, Allende Bodega, María Monescillo Sound: Uman Animol Editor: Juan Egoscozabal, Alex Escuita, Uman Animol Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a cold and a hostile future, a little old lady is forced to break the rules in order to get some food for her filthy little dog. Some of the things standing in the way of the elderly woman’s loutish deed include metallic security guards, foulmouthed and compulsive shoppers, and paranoid security measures. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 5 |
| 5 | TARBOY
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: James Lee Director: James Lee Producer: James Lee Animation: James Lee DOP: n/a Sound: James Lee, Hania Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Arising from the tar pit where millions of robot slaves were banished to death, the Tarboy seeks out revenge on the realm’s corporate rulers. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 4 |
| 6 | TERZO MONDO
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Tom Van Gestel Director: Tom Van Gestel Producer: Rits Erasmushogeschool Brussel Animation: Tom Van Gestel DOP: Tom Van Gestel Sound: Lennert Jansen, Karel Dewaele Editor: Lennert Jansen, Karel Dewaele Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a small peaceful village the people are preparing everything for Christmas. An African guy moves into the village. They people are not very happy with it. In an African tribe a ‘white” guy moves into their village where he gets a warm welcoming. Still the real motive is rather sinister. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 2 |
