Archiv des Autors: Lia Ekizoglou

Silence (Stille)

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Screening: Sunday, June 15, 19:00 (GIRLFRIENDS)

silence

Country of Origin: France/Germany
Year of Production: 2006
Duration: 10’19“
Category: Fiction

Director: Corinna Thamm
Screenplay: Corinna Thamm
Cinematographer: Sonia Charoki, Jeremy Forni
Editor: Corinna Thamm
Music: Michael Bunn
Cast: Martin Boulou, Alexandra Boye, Chantal Dehaene, Laure Hunot, Francois Mueller, Philippe Vidal

Synopsis: After his father’s death, Tristan returns to his parental house. Back in the place, where his father once sexually abused his sister, he understands that the time has come to break the silence.

Festivals & Awards: „La corrida audiovisuelle“ Toulouse France 2007

Closer (APROP)

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German Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, June 14, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 17, 21:00 (UMAMI)

closer

Country of Origin: Spain
Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 6’20“
Category: Experimental

Director: Aitor Echeverria
Screenplay: Aitor Echeverria
Cinematographer: Aitor Echeverria
Editor: Pedro Pablo Rodenas
Music: Chalart 58
Producers: Roger Amigo, Mireira Ibars
Cast: Carolina Alejos, Silvia Marin

Synopsis: Sleep interrupted by the brush of a familiar touch. The light caress of a finger across your back. The sigh of that voice inviting you to play. The most everyday gestures become, at close range, an extraordinary dance.

Festivals & Awards: Zemos98 Sevilla Spain 2008 (Audience Award), Barcelona Visual Sound Spain 2008 (Jury Award for Best Video Art), 5º Cinekink NY USA 2008 (Best Experimental Short Film), Short Film Festival Of Real Spain 2007 (Best Video Art), IXX Festival Internacional de Fano Italy 2007 (Third Place Award), IX Mostra Minima en Gandia Spain 2007 (Re-accion Award), IX Abycine de Albacete Spain 2007 (Special Mention), XIV Certamen de cortometrajes de Leioa Spain 2007 (Third Place Award), IV Certamen de cortometrajes Ca Revolta de Valencia Spain 2007 (Best Short Film), Festival Arrivanoicorti en Montelanico Italy 2007 (Best Editing), Festival de cortometrajes de Soria Spain 2007 (Best Photography), Certamen de cortometrajes Ca Revolta Spain 2007 (Best Short Film), The Northern Wave International Film Festival Iceland 2008, Bradford Film Fest-BIFF08 UK 2008, 48. International Festival of Cinema and TV Cartagena Colombia 2008, DanceFilmAssociation New York USA 2008, 24. International Short Film Festival Lille France 2008, Newfilmmakers Film Festival NY USA 2008, La Fila Valladolid Spain 2008, Festival Amori in corto Itay 2008, Festival de jovenes realizadores de Granada Spain 2008, Festival Maremetraggio Trieste Italy 2008, Cinedans Amsterdam Holland 2008, Sofia International Film Festival Bulgaria 2008, III Festival de cortometrajes Las Dunas Spain 2008, XI Spanish film festival Australia 2008, REC08 Tarragona Spain 2008, ACT Festival Spain 2008, Canadian Worldwide Film Festival Canada 2008, Amsterdamshorts! Amsterdam Holland 2008, Dance Camera West Film Festival Los Angeles USA 2008 Festival IDN Barcelona Spain 2007, Festival de Cine en Forli Italy 2007, Festival de Cine de Girona Spain 2007, Sardinia Film Festival Italy 2007, International Short Film Montecatini Italy 2007, Festival Fascurt in Masnou Spain 2007, Film Festival in Ponferrada Spain 2007, Cinespana France 2007, MECAL International Short Film Festival Spain 2007, International Short Film Festival Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Brasil 2007, FICCAB – festival de cine alternativo en Benalmadena Spain 2007, 9 Abycine Spain 2007, „Curta Cinema“ Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival 2007, „Optica“ Festival Of Visual Arts Spain 2007, Zinebi Film Festival Bilbao Spain 2007, Certamen cortometrajes de Jerez Spain 2007, FIFE – experimental film festival of Carburari – Rumania 2007, Cinemad07 Spain 2007, ALCINE Madrid Spain 2007

Weblink: www.playtimeaudiovisuales.com

Personal Spectator

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 13, 21:00 and Tuesday, June 17, 19:00 (SOUR)

personal-spectator

Country of Origin: Belgium
Year of Production: 2005
Duration: 14’30“
Category: Fiction

Director: Emmanuel Jespers
Screenplay: Emmanuel Jespers
Cinematographer: Glynn Speeckaert
Editor: Emmanuel Jespers
Music: Marc Engels, Carine Zimmerlin
Producer: Emmanuel Jespers
Cast: Emily Hamilton, Tom Harper

Synopsis: In an almost deserted self-service a woman is accosted by a guy offering her a brand new and quick therapy to cure her seemingly bland existence: looking at her for 5 minutes, until she starts feeling that she exists. The woman thinks of a joke… It isn’t. And it has unpredictable consequences.

Festivals & Awards: Ghent International Film Festival Belgium (Best Film), Heart of Gold International Film Fest Australia 2007 (Nominee – Best Foreign Film), WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival USA 2007 (Best Comedy/Adaptation), Festival International du Film d’Amour de Mons Belgium 2007 (Arte Belgium Award), International Film Festival of Drama Greece 2007 (Best Actress: Emily Hamilton), Capalbio International Short Film Festival Italy 2007 (Best Subject), Festival Internacional de Filmets Badalona Spain 2007 (Best European Film, Best Actress: Emily Hamilton), Miami International Short Film Festival USA 2007 (Opening Ceremony, Nominee – Best Narrative Film), Interfilm Berlin Germany 2007 (Special Mention of Jury Award), Rhode Island International Film Festival USA 2007 (Opening Ceremony, Best Screenplay), Media 10-10 Belgium 2006 (Press Jury Award, BeTV Award), International Short Film Festival Detmold Germany 2007, Avignon International Film Festival 2007, Festival Le Court en Dit Long France 2007, Festival International du Film Independant Belgium 2007, International Short Film Festival Bristol UK 2007, Short Cuts Cologne Germany 2007, Festival International du Film d’Amiens France 2007, DC Shorts Int Short Film Fest USA 2007, Los Angeles Int Short Film Fest USA 2007, Woods Hole Int Film Fest USA 2007

Weblink: www.imdb.com/personal-spectator

The Golden Nazi Vampire of Absam: Part II – The Secret of Kottlitz Castle (Der Goldene Nazivampir von Absam 2 – Das Geheimnis von Schloss Kottlitz)

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Screenings: Wednesday, June 18, 19:00 (BOYFRIENDS)

Standfoto - Der Goldene Nazivampir von Absam 2

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 45’41“
Category: Fiction

Director: Lasse Nolte
Screenplay: Lasse Nolte
Cinematographer: David Emmenlauer
Editor: Lasse Nolte
Music: Tuomas Kantelinen, Knorkator, Killing Noise, Leopold Kraus Wellenkapelle
Producer: Martin Blankemeyer, Cornel Schaefer, Robin Schaefer, Christl Catanzaro, Damien Donnelly, Mike Dehghan, Daniel Froehlich
Cast: Daniel Krauss, Goetz Burger, Hendrik Martz, Walter Stapper, Kim Baermann and Oliver Kalkofe

Synopsis: If things were up to General Donovan, then the Military Secret Service of the United States would take care of really important things, of which there are plenty in this Autumn of 1942. Let the Waffen-SS search for Atlantis and dance around Germanic Druid Stones – who believes in the occult of „Wunderwaffen“ or „miracle weapons“ anyway? At least no straightforward American patriot, only pathetic wimps like William Blazkowicz, the only person at the OSS who wears glasses. But then… can you dare risk to ignore explicit warnings? Secretly shot films? Evidence? What is really happening in Kottlitz Castle? Who killed Smokey Savallas? What kind of research is the „Ahnenerbe der SS“ involved in? Who stole Count Dracula’s bones from a crypt in Wallachia? And where’s the connection between a fanatic SS General, underground laboratories full of German scientists, and a huge pit filled with molten gold? Questions, questions… and of all people William Blazkowicz is being smuggled into the Austrian Alps to find answers. But no one could ever imagine in the wildest of dreams what Blazkowicz is going to unearth at Kottlitz Castle…

Festivals & Awards: „Sehsuechte“ Potsdam Germany 2008 (Nominee for Producers Award), Medienhaus Hannover Germany 2008

Weblink: www.muenchner-filmwerkstatt.de/nazivampire.htmhttps://www.youtube.com/nazivampire

The Prisoner Of The Month (Der Häftling Des Monats)

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Screening: Wednesday, June 18, 19:00 (BOYFRIENDS)

Standfoto "Häftling des Monats"

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2005
Duration: 23′
Category: Fiction

Director: Mario Dircks
Screenplay: Mario Dircks
Cinematographer: Edwin Krieg
Editor: Uli Schön
Music: Steffen Kaltschmid
Producer: Axel Donath
Cast: Mike Langhans, Johanna Falckner, Benjamin Koller, Daniel Bucher

Synopsis: A young man walks home when he gets stopped and arrested by two policeman. In the cellar of a police station, he is thrown into a dirty cell. After he recovered of the first fright, he assesses that there is also a young girl in this cell. First of all he thinks, she got arrested the same way, but soon he realizes, that she is part of a cruel and inhuman story, that forces the young man to change he’s world picture or to die yet in this night.

Festivals & Awards: Portobello Film Festival UK

Weblink: www.derhaeftlingdesmonats.de

Lightborne (Alumbramiento)

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 13, 21:00 and Tuesday, June 17, 19:00 (SOUR)

lightborne

Country of Origin: Spain
Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 15′
Category: Fiction

Director: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson
Screenplay: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson
Cinematographer: Juan Carlos Gomez
Editor: Ivan Aledo, Quique Dominguez
Music: Pascal Gaigne
Producer: Pepe Jordana
Cast: Marivi Bilbao, Cristina Plazas, Manolo Solo, Marta Berenguer, Sara Parbole

Synopsis: A family faces the last night of its eldest member, showing their different ways of dealing with a life´s ending. In a surprising manner, overcoming fear and taboo, one of them will guide the passing.

Festivals & Awards: 64. Mostra Cinematografica di Venecia (Prix UIP), European Film Academy Awards 2007 (Prix UIP), 22. Brest European Short Film Festival France (Prix des „Passeurs de Courts“), 21. Semana de Cine de Medina del Campo Valladolid (Press Award for Best Short Film, Best Director), Afia Film Festival Dinamarca Best Short Fiction, Festival de Cine de Guadalajara Spain (Press Award for Best Short Film), Festival de Cine de Catagena (Best Short Film), Fundacion Bancaja al Mejor proyecto de cortometraje (First Prize), 10. Festival Europeo de Cortometrajes FEC Cambrils-Reus (Premi del Public del Concurs Europeu de Curtmetratges), Gijon International Film Festival Spain, VI Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de San Sebastian Spain, 15. Festival Internacional de Jovenes Realizadores de Granada Spain, 8. Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote Spain, 11. Festival de Cine Espanol de Malaga Spain, Festival Contraplano de Segovia Spain, VIVA Film Festival UK, International Human Right Film Festival Albania, Festival de Cine Mediterraneo de Larissa Greece, 18. Festival de Cine Espanol de Nantes France, Atlanta Film Festival USA, International Film Festival Dresden Germany

Weblink: www.imdb.com/title/tt1121927

Look Sharp

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German Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 13, 19:00 and Monday, June 16, 21:00 (SATLY)

look-sharp

Country of Origin: Australia
Year of Production: 2006
Duration: 9’00“
Category: Fiction

Director: Amy Gebhardt
Screenplay: Amy Gebhardt
Cinematographer: Denson Baker
Editor: Granaz Moussavi
Music: Greg Wise
Producer: Ben Commens
Cast: Rhondda Findleton, Dave Lyons, Charlie Garber

Synopsis: After spending a drunken night together, Jo, a photographer, is compelled to capture the emotional truth beneath the rough exteriors of Sharpie gang members, Darren and Jason. But to what lengths will she go in the name of art? Inspired by the art of Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus and Carol Jerrems, Look Sharp is a gripping one-scene psychological drama set in 1970s Melbourne.

Festivals & Awards: Melbourne International Film Festival Australia 2006 (Best Student Production), Flickerfest International Short Film Festival Australia 2007 (Best Direction), My Queer Career Mardi Gras Film Festival Australia 2007 (Best Film), St Kilda Film Festival Australia 2007 (Best Actor – Rhonnda Findleton), Seattle International Film Festival USA 2007 (Special Jury Prize, Best Narrative Short), Post Alley Film Festival USA 2008 (Jury Prize), Midsummer Shorts ACMI Australia 2008, “G’Day USA” program USA 2008, Melbourne Queer Film Festival Australia 2008, Method Fest El SegundoUSA 2008, Nashville Film Festival USA 2008, Inside Out: Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival Canada 2008, New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival USA 2007, Huesca International Film Festival Spain 2007, Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival USA 2007, Fitzroy Shorts Melbourne Australia 2007, Temecula Valley International Festival of Film & Music USA 2007, Hatchfest Bozeman USA 2007, Stockholm International Film Festival Sweden 2007, Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Spain 2007, “Pulse” Austalian Showcase Sydney Australia 2007, Revelation Film Festival Australia 2006, Palm Springs International Festival of Short Film USA 2006, Shorts Film Festival Adelaide Australia 2006

Weblink: http://www.aftrs.edu.au/look-sharp

Shift (15 Minuten Wahrheit)

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Screening: Saturday, June 14, 23:00 (BEST OF GERMANY II)

shift

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 18′
Category: Fiction

Director: Nico Zingelmann
Screenplay: Nico Zingelmann
Cinematographer: Felix Poplawsky
Editor: Marco Baumhof
Music: Christopher Bremus
Producers: Birke Birkner, Jean-Young Kwak
Cast: Herbert Knaup, Christoph Bach

Synopsis: 50-year-old Georg Komann and his colleagues surprisingly get laid off by their company, without even any decent severance pay. Knowing that no-one will rehire fifty-years-olds, they need a good plan to avert their personal and financial ruin. Komann risks everything by asking his boss for a meeting that could change his life in any direction – a personal 15 minute meeting.

Festivals & Awards: Salento Finibus Terrae International Short Film Festival Italy 2008 (Best Short Film & Best Actor Herbert Knaup), Festival de Cannes France 2008 (Short Film Market), 13th Street NBC Universal Film Festival USA 2008 (Nominee for Shocking Shorts Award), Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand France 2008 (Short Film Market), International Short Film Festival Clergy-Pontoise France 2008 (1st Prize: Communauté d’agglomération de Cergy-Pontoise), FEC European Short Film Festival Reus Spain 2008 (Special Mention), Studio Hamburg Prize for Young Filmmaker 2008 (Best Short Film, Audience Award), Nominee for Best German Short Film Potsdam Germany 2007, Shorts at Moonlight Hofheim Germany 2007 (Skoda – Short Film Prize), German Short Film Prize Bonn Germany 2007 (Nominee for Best German Short Film), Tatort Eifel Daun Germany 2007 (Winner of Short Film Competition), Unlimited Cologne 2007 (Jury Award – Local Competition), International Festival Of Student Film Belgrade Serbia 2007 (Best Fiction Film Award), Kustendorf Film Festival Mokra Gora Serbia 2008 (Nominee for Short Film Competition), Tribeca Film Festival New York USA 2008 (Nominee for Short Film Competition), “Shorts At Moonlight” Germany 2007 (1st Prize, Audience Award), “Tatort Eifel” Germany 2007 (1st Jury Prize), „Unlimited“ 2nd International Film Festival Cologne Germany 2007 (1st Jury Prize), 9th International Student Film Festival Belgrade Serbia 2007 (Best Fiction Film Award), Kinofest Luenen Germany 2007 (Best Short Film, Audience Award), Filmfestival Münster Germany 2007 (Audoence Award), Kurzfilmtage Bamberg Germany 2008, Berlin&Beyond Film Festival San Francisco USA 2008, Filmfest Landshut Germany 2008, Kurzfilmtage Guetersloh Germany 2008, International Short Film Festival Dresden Germany 2008, Oskariada 7. IIFFF Warsaw Poland 2008, Week Of The European Film Panevezys Lithuania 2008, Kurzfilmtage Thalmaessing Germany 2008, International Student Film Festival Tel Aviv Israel 2008, Kurze Nacht der noch kuerzeren Filme Pfaffenhofen Germany 2008, Salento Finibus Terrae International Film Festival Italy 2008, Max-Ophuels-Prize Saarbruecken Germany 2007, „Sehsuechte“ Film Festival Potsdam Germany 2007, Filmfest Emden Germany 2007, European Short Film Biennale Ludwigsburg Germany 2007, Open Eyes Film Fest Marburg Germany 2007, Short Film Festival Luechow Germany 2007, Filmfest Muenster Germany 2007, Kurzfilmfestival Flensburg Germany 2007, „interfilm“ International Short Film Festival Berlin Germany 2007, Kinofest Luenen Germany 2007, Filofest Ljubljana Slovenia 2007, Goethe-Institut Los Angeles USA 2007, FILMZ Festival Of German Film Mainz Germany 2007

Weblink: http://www.kurzfilmtournee.de/shift

Salvador (A Daily Miracle Story)

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Friday, June 13, 19:00 and Monday, June 16, 21:00 (SALTY)

salvador

Country of Origin: Spain
Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 11’00“
Category: Fiction

Director: Abdalatif Hwidar
Screenplay: Abdalatif Hwidar
Cinematographer: Gabriel Guerra
Editor: Eloy Gonzalez, Goyo Villasevil
Music: Solaz Caldo
Producer: Eneko Lizarraga
Cast: Nacho Fresneda, Orlin Moran, Carlos Merchan

Synopsis: One morning in March. A train wagon. A child plays with his father to the hiding place.

Festivals & Awards: Art Film Festival Bratislava Slovakia 2008, Festival Les Lutins du Court-Metrage France 2008, Aspen Short Film Festival USA 2008, Festival de Cortometrajes de Segovia Contraplano Spain 2008, Festival Creatrivas Spain 2008, Festival de Jovenes Realizadores de Granada Spain 2008, Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano de Lleida Spain 2008, Festival de Cine del Mediterraneo de Tetuan Morocco 2008, „Proyecciones“ Aranda del Duero Spain 2008, Festival International du Film d´Aubagne France 2008, Muestra de Cine Iberoamericano de Guadalajara Mexico 2008, Muestra de Cine Internacional de Palencia Spain 2008, Semana del Cortometraje de San Roque Spain 2008, International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand France 2008, „Cortogenia“ Pase Especial Premios Goya Spain 2008, Curt Ficcions Spain 2008, Concurso Fotogramas en Corto Spain 2008, Festival Cortos Flickerfest Australia 2008, International Film Festival Ofensiva Poland 2007, Semana de Cine Espanol de Aguilar de Campoo Spain 2007, Festival Festicurts Spain 2007, European Film Awards Germany 2007, Festival de Cortometrajes de Nerva Spain 2007, Festival de Cortometrajes de Tirana TIFF Albania 2007, Mostra de Cortometrajes Vila de Noia Spain 2007, Reino Unido Muestra de Cortometrajes Cusco Peru 2007, Festival de Cine de Arouca Portugal 2007, Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid Spain 2007, Festival Inter de Cine de Badalona Filmets Spain 2007, Sleepwalkers’ Students Film Festival Tallin Estonia 2007, Festival de Cortos Ciudad de Chinchilla Spain 2007, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm & Videofest Germany 2007, Festival Audiovisual Asier Errasti Eibar Spain 2007, Concurso de Cine Amateur Ciudad de Valls Spain 2007, Festival de Cine de Quito Cero Latitud Ecuador 2007, Festival Interfilm Berlin Germany 2007, Certamen de Cortometrajes Parla en Corto Spain 2007, Festival Cine Europeo de Sevilla Spain 2007, Festival de Cortometrajes Silence Saturn Belgium 2007, Leicester International Short Film Festival UK 2007, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Taiwan 2007, Asiana International Short Film Festival South Korea 2007, Festival International du Cinema en Abitibi Canada 2007, Festival de Cortos „Villa de Orotava“ Spain 2007, Certamen Nacional de Cortometrajes Aula 18 Spain 2007, Certamen de Documental y Video Secuencia Cero Spain 2007, „Mostra de Valencia“ Cinema del Mediterrani Spain 2007, Festival MadridImagen Spain 2007, Mercado de Cortometrajes Compostela CurtoCircuito Spain 2007, Certamen Nacional de Cortos Villa de Caudete Spain 2007, Flanders International Film Festival Ghent Belgium 2007, Festival Internacional Villa de Espartinas Spain 2007, Concurso de Cortometrajes 35 mm Abycine Spain 2007, Festival de Cine Espanol CineSpana de Toulouse France 2007, Manaki Brothers Macedonia 2007, Drama International Short Film Festival Greece 2007, International Festival of Young Filmmakers CineFest Hungria 2007, Split International Film festival Croacia 2007, Jornadas de Cine de Bahia Brasil 2007, Certamen Audiovisual de Cabra Spain 2007, Almaty International Film Festival Kazachstan 2007, Certamen de Cortos de Videos Sociales Astorga Spain 2007, Trouville Off-Courts Short Film Festival France 2007, Festival de Montalbanejo Spain 2007, Festival des Films du Monde de Montreal Canada 2007, Festival de Cortos de Puerto Rico CineFiesta Puerto Rico 2007, Festival Vivir de cine Spain 2007, Festival de Cortometrajes Platges de Monfoca Spain 2007, OFF/ON Warszawa European Film Week Poland 2007, Lucania Film Festival Italia 2007, Portobello Film Festival UK 2007, Festival Internacional de Cinema Jove Spain 2007, Festival Internacional de Cine Indep de Elche Spain 2007

Weblink: www.madridencorto.es/salvador.html