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Competition programme IV
Mahahula The Giant Rodent of Happiness
Nomint (Nomint Motiondesign)
Greece, 2011, HD, 0’45’’
Links: Movie trailer
Happiness is a very serious matter, definitely worthy of a deity like Mahahula, an ancient gigantic rodent born from an alien seed that crash-landed on primordial earth. The film depicts happiness in all its glorious complexity: obscure, hard to find, huge and colourful. Is it more of a constant personal pursuit or is it a fortunate offering by others?
Snępowina / Sleepincord
Marta Pajek (Se-ma-for Film Foundation)
Poland, 2011, 35 mm, 13'38''
Links: Offical site
A girl trapped between two worlds, connected with a umbilical cord of pictures and emotions. Sleepincord is about a dream that can be neither observed, nor examined.
Goo – Goo Babies
Aleksej Aleksejev (Aleksej Aleksejev )
Hungary, 2011, HD, 2'03''
A short animation about what babies do in the maternity house when adults cannot see them...
O snu / About a Dream
Lucija Mrzljak (Lucija Mrzljak)
Croatia, 2011, HD, 4'29''
Links: Movie trailer
An experimental film made with stop-motion technique. A film of atmosphere and associations. No logic plot, no real characters; the imagery is musically composed and follows the irrational rhythm of dreams.
Na Cidade / In the City
Delia Hess (Delia Hess/HSLU Luzern)
Switzerland, 2010, digibeta, 1'56''
Links: Movie trailer
The city is old and yet always in motion. It walks, runs, moves and changes the rhythm of its people who come and go like the wind. A short film about the arrival in a foreign city.
Sakk ! / Chess !
István Orosz (Kecskemétfilm)
Hungary, 2010, HD, 6'30''
Links: Movie trailer
The reconstruction, based on the recorded moves and a photograph retouched many times, of a chess game played one-hundred years ago. The political aspects of the match override those of the game: the two leaders of the Bolshevik party, Lenin and Bogdanov face each other.
Suitsupääsukese raskest elust / About the Hard Life of the Barn Swallow
Chintis Lundgren (Chintis Lundgren)
Estonia, 2010, betaSP, 5’20’’
Links: Movie trailer
Življenje kmečke lastovke ni preprosto. Na poti domov iz Afrike se vse zaplete: nadlegujejo jo večje ptice, zalezujejo pošastne sence iz preteklih stoletij, gline ni več in hlev je ponoči zaklenjen.
Machination 84
Lia (Lia)
Austria, 2010, HD, 5'43''
Links: Offical site, Movie trailer
A film without a cut, a continuous flow of abstract mutations, a kind of digital copperplate engraving. The fragile visual texture, at first grey, white and black, soon blazes in pastel hues that gradually become more intense, while the synthetic soundtrack by @C – a delicate web of throbbing, clicking and ringing – creates an increasingly ominous soundscape.
Šest / Six
Darko Masnec (ALU Zagreb)
Croatia, 2011, HD, 2'11''
Correct circumstances, the right start. Right feeling. Waiting until they come up.
Romance
Georges Schwizgebel (Studio GDS/RTS/NFB)
Switzerland, Canada, 2011, 35 mm, 7'10''
Links: Movie trailer
Two strangers, a man and a woman, sit beside each other on an airplane. After take-off, the plane goes through some turbulence – and, influenced by the unknown, the man’s spirit plunges into a different world. Here, his desires take control, which results in a grand romantic saga.
Underlife
Jarosław Konopka (Studio Munka/Se-ma-for Film/TVP SA)
Poland, 2010, digibeta, 8'30''
Links: Offical site, Movie trailer
Underlife employs a metaphor to show the destructive influence that ancestors have on man and poses the question of whether we are able to liberate from it. A baby carriage, the leading motif, is both the place where we appear after birth and an object which reminds us of our roots after years. It determines the cyclical nature of existence and combines the past and the future.
Bulvárhírek a diliházból / Tabloid News from the Mad House
Tamás Patrovits (Reanimation Studio)
Hungary, 2010, HD, 1'
Links: Movie trailer
A sad impression of the last 20 years in Central Europe.
Corpus Nobody
Saul Saguatti, Audrey Coïaniz (Basmati)
Italy,France, 2010, HD, 6'03''
Links: Movie trailer
A short film proposing a reflection on own identity, relationship with the others. On differents steps in life. Inter-generational and cultural relationships.
Nova hipi budućnost / New Hippie Future
Dalibor Barić (Dalibor Barić)
Croatia, 2011, digibeta, 4'04''
Links: Offical site, Movie trailer
In a surreal and psychedelic atmosphere, this film deals with life, freedom and transcendence of limitations.
Koyaa – Lajf je čist odbit / Koyaa – The Extraordinary
Kolja Saksida (Zvviks)
Slovenia, 2011, digibeta, 3'
Links: Offical site, Movie trailer
Koyaa tackles everyday situations in his own wacky way. In the morning, he wants to tie his shoes but the naughty laces won't listen. Luckily, he's not alone on the remote mountain ledge: when things start getting crazy, his friend the wise Raven is always ready to help.
