DVD "Young Cinema from Europe" - 2005
9 Short Films
Total duration: 1’11”42
1 Kid Apocalypse one, Romain Winkler (France ; 12mn19)
2005, experimental, colour, super 8 & 16 mm
Director, scripwriter: Romain Winkler (Ecole Supérieure d’Audiovisuel, Toulouse)
Cast: Benoît Turjman, Marlène Rostoing
Music: Jan Vysocky
Festivals: Screening at the 10th International Student Film festival (2004)
Contact : romain.winkler@laposte.net
Living in a factory that seems the chimical factory "AZF", blew up by accident in Toulouse in 2001, a young "anti-hero" shows us his strange powers.
2 Con diva, Sebastian Mantilla (Spain; 6 mn 40)
2004, fiction, colour, 35 mm, « With Diva ».
Director, scripwriter: Sebastian Mantilla (Studies : IDEC, Barcelona ; 2004 : Novart media)
Cast: Oriol Ribera, Mohamed Shafiq
Music: Dhaffer Youssef
Awards: “Best Short Film”: l’Alternativa Festival de Cine Independiente Barcelona 2004
Festivals: 43rd International Critics’ Week in Cannes ; 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Contact: sebastianmantilla@yahoo.es ; sales agent: Bianca Smanio, info@novartmedia.com
How to conciliate urban life and homosexuality in Spain, even more with religion.
3 Elvis kääntyy Haudassaan, Aiju Salminen (Finland ; 3mn40)
2005, animation, colour, “Elvis turns in his grave”.
Director, scripwriter: Aiju Salminen
Music: Musti Laiton
Festivals: Illumenation 2005: European Film School Festival, Helsinki; Blue Sea Festival 2005: Rauma
Contact : aiju@welho.com ; producer: Eija Saarinen, eija@saarinen@turkuamk.fi
The strange trip of an odd animal waked by the distort notes of a fan of Elvis Presley, who turns himself in his grave!
4 Rupofobia, Telmo de Campos Martins (Portugal ; 13mn50)
2005, fiction, Black & White, mini-DV, « Rupophobia ».
Director: Telmo de Campos Martins
Scripwriters : Alvaro Faria, Paulo Santos, Raquel Carpicho, Telmo Martins
Cast: Alvaro Faria Luis Dias, Joao Morgado, Ana Gonsalves
Contact : mtelmo@iol.pt
5 The kiss, Toma Waszarow (Bulgaria ; 1mn)
2005, experimental, colour, « Celuvkata ».
Director: Toma Waszarow ; Scripwriter : Juri Staikov;
Cast: Milena Spiridonova, Philip Avramov
Contact : tomek@abv.bg
A face to face turns short under the chopper of the guillotine.
6 Exhibition, Barnabas Toth (Hungary ; 4mn)
2004, fiction, Black & White, video, « Kiállítás ».
Director: Barnabas Toth ; Music: Pirisi Làszlo ; Cast: Csik Sarolta
Festivals: 2006 Angers European First film Festival; 2006 Montevideo International Film Festival of Uruguay ; 2005 Bergamo Festival Internazionale del Cinema d’Arte
Contact : brownbus@freemail.hu
Visitors come and go in a modern art gallery where the attendant, an elderly woman, observes everybody closely…
7 Ostende, Cosima Jentzsch ( Belgium ; 11mn52)
2005, fiction, colour
Director, scriptwriter : Cosima Jentzsch ; Music: Billy Hollyday – Ed. Fremeaux + associés
Cast: Cosima Jentzsch, Pierre Roberti
Contacts : cosimaj@gmx.de ; Producer : Atelier Jeunes Cinéastes Bruxelles : info@ajcnet.be
As an homage to Billy Holiday, Cosima Jentzch interprets a girl dreaming to leave to New York but forced to stay in the harbour of Ostende.
8 Instant Companion, Lars Jandel (Germany ; 5mn30)
2003, fiction, Black & White, Super 8
Director, Scripwriter, Camera, Music : Lars Jandel ; Cast: Mert Yalciner
Contact : info@larsjandel.de
Director’s notes: “The tiny book in the beginning is a representation of the « Hiden senbazuru Orikata”, the oldest origami book for amusement in the world published in 1797). According to the “Secret of one thousand cranes origami”, the legends says that you get one wish granted after folding 1000 cranes…”
A surrealistic fable between a young man and a mechanic toy.
9 Neon, Francesco Cannito (Italia ; 12mn40)
2005, fiction, colour, beta sp
Director, Scripwriter: Fransesco Cannito
Cast: Sergio Leone - Elisabetta Rocchetti - Tommaso Fortunato - Alessia Innocenti
Music: “E se domani”, Mina; “Hohle”, “Io viamo la discesa”, Debord.
Contact : bigpapa.cannito@tiscali.it (Cannito’s Way, production)
In company with a high-class call-girl, a married man must face an increasing anxiety and some strange hallucinations in his bathroom.