main pageSTUDENT ETUDES COMPETITION
Student Etudes Competition presents etudes selected from submissions sent by film schools from all over the world. The competitive films will be judged by an international Jury comprised of the recognized personages of film industry:
The screenings of the student etudes will be traditionally held on Wednesday (December 3rd).
Association of Polish Filmmakers (Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich) decided to grant the Award of 3000 USD to the Winner of the Competition.
The Light for the Arts - OSRAM Company Award for a creative use of light in a film. The award of PLN 10,000 will be granted to the Laureate at the Closing Ceremony of the Festival. The student will be chosen from among all the nominees of the Laszlo Kovacs Student Award - Golden Tadpole.
Just the same as last year PANAVISION will grant the Special Award for Best Picture Technique in Student Film Competition to the best student among all the nominees - it's 25,000 euros' worth of equipement rental.
The competitive movies are:
5 SECONDS
original title: 5 Segundos
cinematographer: Pedro Martín-Calero
director: Jean François Rouzé
school: Escuela de Cinematografia y el Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid
country: Spain
Since his bicycle accident, Frank sees no moving images. This clash caused him an anomaly in his head and he sees only still images every five seconds.
BALLARD'S LAND
original title: Ziema Ballarda cinematographer: John Magnus Borge
director: Magnus Arnesen
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Ballard and his brother desperately fight to keep their land in a world of ever threatening machinery and authority.
BLANCHE MAGUIRE
cinematographer: Joel Cockrill
director: Dymphna D'Arcy
school: Screen Academy Wales
country: UK
Wales 2007. Blanche Maguire, a gifted young artist with a troubled past is found at the scene of a murder. She is confined to a high security hospital for five years wrongly accused of the crime. There are no other suspects. Traumatized by this event Blanche has lost her memory and remains silent. She is despised and isolated by the other patients and is under the care of Dr. Bradbury a ruthless ambitious doctor. Blanche is haunted by real and imagined visions. Her only release is through the vivid images that she paints. Blanche receives an invitation to exhibit her paintings and this proves to be the catalyst, which ultimately leads her to uncovering the truth.
BLEEDERS
cinematographer: Glenn Hanns
director: Leigh Richards
school: Australian Film, Television & Radio School
country: Australia
Bleeders is the story of Finn, a young standover man, employed to enforce the interests of crooked property developer Lenny Gold. Finn dreams of becoming a successful boxer, but his guilt over the violence and hurt he inflects outside the ring stops him from winning inside it.
BIRTHDAY
cinematographer: Andrzej Król
director: Andrzej Król
school: Fachhochschule Dortmund - University of Applied Sciences and Arts
country: Germany
This evening a small group of people is celebrating the birthday of a 5-year-old boy. One year ago the boy’s father missed his birthday and couldn’t give him the gift he had bought. Today he wants to make up for it by getting him the same present. Just as he used to in the past, he passes the local pub once more. However, this time he is faced with his past. From now on we see what has been happening the passed birthday night and how the father tries to avert an incident that has already taken place.
BY NIGHT
original title: Nachts das Leben
cinematographer: Jenny Bräuer
director: Julia Schwarz
school: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
country: Germany
A night in the life of four ordinary people - of which two have made the worst experience possible: the loss of their child.
CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES
cinematographer: Aurelian Pechmeja
director: Marguerite Didierjean
school: Institut National Superieur des Arts du Spectacle
country: Belgium
Arno Rambo, a private poet, is hired by a gangster to write a poem for his fiancée, Miss Simone Nina. Every night at the Wild Cat, she has the men of Charleville-Mézières mesmerized. Despite of her will, Simone Nina becomes the muse of the poet who would like to be as talented as Arthur Rimbaud but who does not have his genius. But everybody knows that love stories usually end up badly…
CLEARING, THE
original title: Die Lichtung
cinematographer: Alicja Pahl
director: Lucas Tietjen
school: Academy of Media Arts Cologne
country: Germany
The Clearing takes place in a tavern in the remote countryside. Here live and work Verena and her brother Achim together with husband Holger. Their dull life changes when a guest becomes their captive through a fight. They use the captive more and more as projection of their wishes and attitudes.
COL SANGUE AGLI OCCHI
cinematographer: Francesca Amitrano
director: Lorenzo Sportiello
school: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Scuola Nazionale di Cinema
country: Italy
Three friends that are a little over eighteen years old share an exclusive and pathological friendship. They love music and their desire to leave the motionless city in which they live, Rome. By accident they find a gun and decide to do a few small robberies just to make some money in order to go away towards London, the toyland. First robberies go well and the three get the hang of it, fascinated above all by the outpour of adrenalin, but everything doesn’t always go well. But their friendship will end in blood, and their dreams will be shattered on the wall of reality that surrounds them.
DEAR MOM TO READ IF I DON'T WAKE UP
original title: Pour maman, à lire si je ne reviens pas
cinematographer: Aurelian Pechmeja
director: Anton Ifland-Stettner
school: Institut National Superieur des Arts du Spectacle
country: Belgium
Alex, a twelve year-old boy, learns on arriving at the emergency room that he is to undergo surgery. He is immediately plunged into this new world which is not always easy getting used to: exams, the lack of privacy, and the separation from his mother…
ECHO
cinematographer: Małgorzata Szylak
director: Magnus von Horn
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Two boys have murdered a young girl. Through crime reconstruction and meeting the family of the victim they now have to relive the brutal crime they committed and confront the feelings they felt and still feel.
ENDSIEG - EVERYTHING CHANGES IN ONE SHOT
cinematographer: Andreas Birkle
director: Daniel Casparis, Niccolò Castelli
school: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
country: Switzerland
The last days of World War 2. We find ourselves in a solitary Nazi-outpost hidden in the middle of the Alps. The German commander orders a young soldier to be shot by a platoon. Finding himself in a hopeless position with certain death awaiting him the soldier cries out to the platoon to stop the madness of war. The platoon hesitates and so the commander has to take the blood on his own hands. All of a sudden an American jeep with two GI's arrives in the outpost. We find out that the war is over.
ESMA
cinematographer: Paweł Tarasiewicz
director: Paweł Tarasiewicz
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
The story from non-defined future, when people have their validity encoded on the wrist. Esma finds out, that somebody has constructed a scanner allowing to prolongate one's life. The boss of the gang, Liza, decides to get rid of Esma during an assault on the constructor of the scanner. Esma seeks revenge...
FAMILY THERAPY
original title: Semeyna terapia
cinematographer: Krum Rodriguez
director: Petar Valtchanov
school: National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts “Krustyo Sarafov"
country: Bulgaria
While traveling in their car, the Radoslavovi Family are quarrelling again. Getting home, they are taken aback by thieves. The burglars are quite adolescent, doped and aggressive. The little hooligans teach a cruel live lesson to the old couple.
GOODBYE GARIBALDI
cinematographer: Victor Dávila Camacho
director: Alejandro Ramírez Corona
school: Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos
country: Mexico
A pair of close friends decides to rob a supermarket beacause of the lack of opportunities in the big city.
GRAVEDIGGERS, THE
original title: Grobari
cinematographer: Bartek Cierlica
director: Bartek Cierlica
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
In July 1995 in a small mountain town Srebrenica, on the southern border of Bosnia and Herzegovina the biggest genocide since World War II took place. Grobari - The gravediggers is the authors reflection about one of the darkest periods in history of former Yugoslavia.
HIGH HOPES
cinematographer: Teppo Högman
director: Mazdak Nassir
school: Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu
country: Finland
A couple isolates themselves to raise a child in their own way.
I KNOW WHO DID IT
original title: Wiem kto to zrobił
cinematographer: Kacper Fertacz
director: Jan P. Matuszyński
school: Uniwersytet Śląski, Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
Bartek is on a train back home. He has just got out of the military. On the station he is searching for his girlfriend Karolina - she is supposed to be there, but she is not…
ANOTHER DAY
original title: KOLEJNY DZIEŃ
cinematographer: Paweł Chorzępa
director: Weronika Tofilska
school: Uniwersytet Śląski, Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
The protagonist - an ordinary man - being under an influence of a trivial event meets a series of peculiar accidents. In a result, every subsequent day will only apparently be the same.
LAUNDRY
original title: Pralnia
cinematographer: Michał Dąbal
director: Michał Dąbal
school: Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
country: Poland
A suit-wearing type romanticized assassin is hired by a Circus Clown to kill a twin circus freak. The hunter sets out on to a journey to execute his target and is catapulted into a dreamy world of gloomy and strange places.
LITTLE ANECDOTE, A
tytuł oryginalny: Eine kleine Anekdote
cinematographer: Eckert Markus
director: Ortmann Claas
school: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
country: Germany
From the grave, 12-year-old Oscar tells the story of his death. Just days ago, his sarcastic grandpa caught him masturbating and revealed to him, that he must die, if he masturbates one more time.
MANSLAUGHTER
cinematographer: Matt Henley
director: Jonathan Withey
school: The New Zealand Film and Television School
country: New Zealand
When Paul gets out of prison he wants to stay out, but his friends have other plans.
MY GIRLFRIEND
original title: Moja dziewczyna
cinematographer: Michał Sobociński
director: Michał Sobociński
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
A day in a life of a relationship.
ON THE LINE
tytuł oryginalny: Auf der Strecke
cinematographer: Piotr Rosołowski
director: Reto Caffi
school: Academy of Media Arts Cologne
country: Germany
A department security guard spends his days observing others, including a young bookstore clerk with whom he is secretely in love. He watches her via the store's video monitoring system and looks for ways to connect with her on the commuting line they share. Then one evening she appears on the train with another guy...
RETURN, THE
original title: POWRÓT
cinematographer: Karol Stadnik
director: Karol Stadnik
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Young man returns to the house of his childhood.
ROADS
cinematographer: Nadav Hekselman
director: Lior Geller
school: Tel-Aviv University Film & TV Department
country: Izrael
Ismayil dreams of escaping the Arab drug slums of his neglected Israeli city of Lod and searches for a new life outside. Daniel, a traumatized Israeli ex-soldier, tries to find comfort in his drug addiction to escape his own inner demons. The film raises the rarely seen social issue of both the Arab lower class, ex-combat soldiers, emotionally scarred by their service, abandoned by the government they gave their life for.
SHADOWS IN FURS
original title: Cień w futrach
cinematographer: Roman Chalupnik
directors: Sebastian Brauneis, Roman Chalupnik
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
A short film about the tiny but decisive step from childhood to puberty. A young boy is having to face the truth about his not-so-childish feelings towards an older girl - a girl who happens to be in love with his elder brother. At the same time, the boy is forced to confront his childhood fears and to make the discovery that the source of his anxiety lies deeply buried inside himself, rather than somewhere in the woods.
STATIONS
cinematographer: Kaushik Mandal
director: Emmanuel Palo
school: Film & Television Institute of India
country: India
Stations is about the stations in life that people go through - birth and death, rites of passage, relationships, marriage and infidelities, dislocation and migration and homecoming.
STORY OF A MISSING CAR, A
original title: Historia o braku samochodu
cinematographer: Marcin Władyniak
director: Grzegorz Jaroszuk
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Loudly at the beginning, and quite silently afterwards. Film about a strange family.
SUZUKI
cinematographer: Andra Petrik
director: Christoph Wermke
school: Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin
country: Germany
In his search of redemption a man enters a Turkish car repair shop in Berlin, where he finds himself confronted with an unfamiliar archaic man's world. Fascinated by the calm, confidence and masculinity of the Turkish mechanics he decides to become a carpet-dealer in Istanbul.
TANZ INS GLÜCK
cinematographer: Christine Munz
director: Barbara Seiler
school: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
country: Switzerland
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders. Anna is working as a cleaning lady. Every night she cleans Helen's office. Helen is a high level broker working in the stock exchange. The two women live in different worlds and normally would never meet each other. However they happen to have enrolled on the same salsa course. Due to the lack of men, Anna and Helen have to dance together.
- Brad Silberling - President (director, producer, writer - City of Angels, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Moonlight Mile, 10 Items or Less)
- Monty Montgomery (producer, writer - Portait of a Lady, Wild at Heart, The Loveless)
- Sue Gibson (cinematographer, President of BSC, The Forsyte Saga, Mrs Dalloway, Hear my Song)
- Lilly Kilvert (production designer - Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai, Siege)
- Karl Walter Lindenlaub (cinematographer - Independence Day, Rob Roy, Jackal)
The screenings of the student etudes will be traditionally held on Wednesday (December 3rd).
 |
Association of Polish Filmmakers (Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich) decided to grant the Award of 3000 USD to the Winner of the Competition.
 |
The Light for the Arts - OSRAM Company Award for a creative use of light in a film. The award of PLN 10,000 will be granted to the Laureate at the Closing Ceremony of the Festival. The student will be chosen from among all the nominees of the Laszlo Kovacs Student Award - Golden Tadpole.
 |
Just the same as last year PANAVISION will grant the Special Award for Best Picture Technique in Student Film Competition to the best student among all the nominees - it's 25,000 euros' worth of equipement rental.
The competitive movies are:
 |
5 SECONDS
original title: 5 Segundos
cinematographer: Pedro Martín-Calero
director: Jean François Rouzé
school: Escuela de Cinematografia y el Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid
country: Spain
Since his bicycle accident, Frank sees no moving images. This clash caused him an anomaly in his head and he sees only still images every five seconds.
 |
BALLARD'S LAND
original title: Ziema Ballarda cinematographer: John Magnus Borge
director: Magnus Arnesen
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Ballard and his brother desperately fight to keep their land in a world of ever threatening machinery and authority.
 |
BLANCHE MAGUIRE
cinematographer: Joel Cockrill
director: Dymphna D'Arcy
school: Screen Academy Wales
country: UK
Wales 2007. Blanche Maguire, a gifted young artist with a troubled past is found at the scene of a murder. She is confined to a high security hospital for five years wrongly accused of the crime. There are no other suspects. Traumatized by this event Blanche has lost her memory and remains silent. She is despised and isolated by the other patients and is under the care of Dr. Bradbury a ruthless ambitious doctor. Blanche is haunted by real and imagined visions. Her only release is through the vivid images that she paints. Blanche receives an invitation to exhibit her paintings and this proves to be the catalyst, which ultimately leads her to uncovering the truth.
 |
BLEEDERS
cinematographer: Glenn Hanns
director: Leigh Richards
school: Australian Film, Television & Radio School
country: Australia
Bleeders is the story of Finn, a young standover man, employed to enforce the interests of crooked property developer Lenny Gold. Finn dreams of becoming a successful boxer, but his guilt over the violence and hurt he inflects outside the ring stops him from winning inside it.
 |
BIRTHDAY
cinematographer: Andrzej Król
director: Andrzej Król
school: Fachhochschule Dortmund - University of Applied Sciences and Arts
country: Germany
This evening a small group of people is celebrating the birthday of a 5-year-old boy. One year ago the boy’s father missed his birthday and couldn’t give him the gift he had bought. Today he wants to make up for it by getting him the same present. Just as he used to in the past, he passes the local pub once more. However, this time he is faced with his past. From now on we see what has been happening the passed birthday night and how the father tries to avert an incident that has already taken place.
 |
BY NIGHT
original title: Nachts das Leben
cinematographer: Jenny Bräuer
director: Julia Schwarz
school: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
country: Germany
A night in the life of four ordinary people - of which two have made the worst experience possible: the loss of their child.
 |
CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES
cinematographer: Aurelian Pechmeja
director: Marguerite Didierjean
school: Institut National Superieur des Arts du Spectacle
country: Belgium
Arno Rambo, a private poet, is hired by a gangster to write a poem for his fiancée, Miss Simone Nina. Every night at the Wild Cat, she has the men of Charleville-Mézières mesmerized. Despite of her will, Simone Nina becomes the muse of the poet who would like to be as talented as Arthur Rimbaud but who does not have his genius. But everybody knows that love stories usually end up badly…
 |
CLEARING, THE
original title: Die Lichtung
cinematographer: Alicja Pahl
director: Lucas Tietjen
school: Academy of Media Arts Cologne
country: Germany
The Clearing takes place in a tavern in the remote countryside. Here live and work Verena and her brother Achim together with husband Holger. Their dull life changes when a guest becomes their captive through a fight. They use the captive more and more as projection of their wishes and attitudes.
 |
COL SANGUE AGLI OCCHI
cinematographer: Francesca Amitrano
director: Lorenzo Sportiello
school: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Scuola Nazionale di Cinema
country: Italy
Three friends that are a little over eighteen years old share an exclusive and pathological friendship. They love music and their desire to leave the motionless city in which they live, Rome. By accident they find a gun and decide to do a few small robberies just to make some money in order to go away towards London, the toyland. First robberies go well and the three get the hang of it, fascinated above all by the outpour of adrenalin, but everything doesn’t always go well. But their friendship will end in blood, and their dreams will be shattered on the wall of reality that surrounds them.
 |
DEAR MOM TO READ IF I DON'T WAKE UP
original title: Pour maman, à lire si je ne reviens pas
cinematographer: Aurelian Pechmeja
director: Anton Ifland-Stettner
school: Institut National Superieur des Arts du Spectacle
country: Belgium
Alex, a twelve year-old boy, learns on arriving at the emergency room that he is to undergo surgery. He is immediately plunged into this new world which is not always easy getting used to: exams, the lack of privacy, and the separation from his mother…
 |
ECHO
cinematographer: Małgorzata Szylak
director: Magnus von Horn
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Two boys have murdered a young girl. Through crime reconstruction and meeting the family of the victim they now have to relive the brutal crime they committed and confront the feelings they felt and still feel.
 |
ENDSIEG - EVERYTHING CHANGES IN ONE SHOT
cinematographer: Andreas Birkle
director: Daniel Casparis, Niccolò Castelli
school: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
country: Switzerland
The last days of World War 2. We find ourselves in a solitary Nazi-outpost hidden in the middle of the Alps. The German commander orders a young soldier to be shot by a platoon. Finding himself in a hopeless position with certain death awaiting him the soldier cries out to the platoon to stop the madness of war. The platoon hesitates and so the commander has to take the blood on his own hands. All of a sudden an American jeep with two GI's arrives in the outpost. We find out that the war is over.
 |
ESMA
cinematographer: Paweł Tarasiewicz
director: Paweł Tarasiewicz
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
The story from non-defined future, when people have their validity encoded on the wrist. Esma finds out, that somebody has constructed a scanner allowing to prolongate one's life. The boss of the gang, Liza, decides to get rid of Esma during an assault on the constructor of the scanner. Esma seeks revenge...
 |
FAMILY THERAPY
original title: Semeyna terapia
cinematographer: Krum Rodriguez
director: Petar Valtchanov
school: National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts “Krustyo Sarafov"
country: Bulgaria
While traveling in their car, the Radoslavovi Family are quarrelling again. Getting home, they are taken aback by thieves. The burglars are quite adolescent, doped and aggressive. The little hooligans teach a cruel live lesson to the old couple.
 |
GOODBYE GARIBALDI
cinematographer: Victor Dávila Camacho
director: Alejandro Ramírez Corona
school: Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos
country: Mexico
A pair of close friends decides to rob a supermarket beacause of the lack of opportunities in the big city.
 |
GRAVEDIGGERS, THE
original title: Grobari
cinematographer: Bartek Cierlica
director: Bartek Cierlica
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
In July 1995 in a small mountain town Srebrenica, on the southern border of Bosnia and Herzegovina the biggest genocide since World War II took place. Grobari - The gravediggers is the authors reflection about one of the darkest periods in history of former Yugoslavia.
 |
HIGH HOPES
cinematographer: Teppo Högman
director: Mazdak Nassir
school: Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu
country: Finland
A couple isolates themselves to raise a child in their own way.
 |
I KNOW WHO DID IT
original title: Wiem kto to zrobił
cinematographer: Kacper Fertacz
director: Jan P. Matuszyński
school: Uniwersytet Śląski, Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
Bartek is on a train back home. He has just got out of the military. On the station he is searching for his girlfriend Karolina - she is supposed to be there, but she is not…
 |
ANOTHER DAY
original title: KOLEJNY DZIEŃ
cinematographer: Paweł Chorzępa
director: Weronika Tofilska
school: Uniwersytet Śląski, Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
The protagonist - an ordinary man - being under an influence of a trivial event meets a series of peculiar accidents. In a result, every subsequent day will only apparently be the same.
 |
LAUNDRY
original title: Pralnia
cinematographer: Michał Dąbal
director: Michał Dąbal
school: Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
country: Poland
A suit-wearing type romanticized assassin is hired by a Circus Clown to kill a twin circus freak. The hunter sets out on to a journey to execute his target and is catapulted into a dreamy world of gloomy and strange places.
 |
LITTLE ANECDOTE, A
tytuł oryginalny: Eine kleine Anekdote
cinematographer: Eckert Markus
director: Ortmann Claas
school: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
country: Germany
From the grave, 12-year-old Oscar tells the story of his death. Just days ago, his sarcastic grandpa caught him masturbating and revealed to him, that he must die, if he masturbates one more time.
 |
MANSLAUGHTER
cinematographer: Matt Henley
director: Jonathan Withey
school: The New Zealand Film and Television School
country: New Zealand
When Paul gets out of prison he wants to stay out, but his friends have other plans.
 |
MY GIRLFRIEND
original title: Moja dziewczyna
cinematographer: Michał Sobociński
director: Michał Sobociński
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
A day in a life of a relationship.
 |
ON THE LINE
tytuł oryginalny: Auf der Strecke
cinematographer: Piotr Rosołowski
director: Reto Caffi
school: Academy of Media Arts Cologne
country: Germany
A department security guard spends his days observing others, including a young bookstore clerk with whom he is secretely in love. He watches her via the store's video monitoring system and looks for ways to connect with her on the commuting line they share. Then one evening she appears on the train with another guy...
 |
RETURN, THE
original title: POWRÓT
cinematographer: Karol Stadnik
director: Karol Stadnik
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Young man returns to the house of his childhood.
 |
ROADS
cinematographer: Nadav Hekselman
director: Lior Geller
school: Tel-Aviv University Film & TV Department
country: Izrael
Ismayil dreams of escaping the Arab drug slums of his neglected Israeli city of Lod and searches for a new life outside. Daniel, a traumatized Israeli ex-soldier, tries to find comfort in his drug addiction to escape his own inner demons. The film raises the rarely seen social issue of both the Arab lower class, ex-combat soldiers, emotionally scarred by their service, abandoned by the government they gave their life for.
 |
SHADOWS IN FURS
original title: Cień w futrach
cinematographer: Roman Chalupnik
directors: Sebastian Brauneis, Roman Chalupnik
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
A short film about the tiny but decisive step from childhood to puberty. A young boy is having to face the truth about his not-so-childish feelings towards an older girl - a girl who happens to be in love with his elder brother. At the same time, the boy is forced to confront his childhood fears and to make the discovery that the source of his anxiety lies deeply buried inside himself, rather than somewhere in the woods.
 |
STATIONS
cinematographer: Kaushik Mandal
director: Emmanuel Palo
school: Film & Television Institute of India
country: India
Stations is about the stations in life that people go through - birth and death, rites of passage, relationships, marriage and infidelities, dislocation and migration and homecoming.
 |
STORY OF A MISSING CAR, A
original title: Historia o braku samochodu
cinematographer: Marcin Władyniak
director: Grzegorz Jaroszuk
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Loudly at the beginning, and quite silently afterwards. Film about a strange family.
 |
SUZUKI
cinematographer: Andra Petrik
director: Christoph Wermke
school: Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin
country: Germany
In his search of redemption a man enters a Turkish car repair shop in Berlin, where he finds himself confronted with an unfamiliar archaic man's world. Fascinated by the calm, confidence and masculinity of the Turkish mechanics he decides to become a carpet-dealer in Istanbul.
 |
TANZ INS GLÜCK
cinematographer: Christine Munz
director: Barbara Seiler
school: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
country: Switzerland
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders. Anna is working as a cleaning lady. Every night she cleans Helen's office. Helen is a high level broker working in the stock exchange. The two women live in different worlds and normally would never meet each other. However they happen to have enrolled on the same salsa course. Due to the lack of men, Anna and Helen have to dance together.
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