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A Cara Que Mereces

Francisco, behave! I know it’s your birthday, you are thirty now, it’s carnival, you’ve dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that’s no reason to be so annoying‚Ä¶ Francisco, repeat after me: Up to your 30’s you have the face God has given you. After that, you g

2004, 120'

International Competition

Atash

It has been ten years since Abu Shukri and his family, have settled in a valley, in the middle of nowhere, far away from their hometown. Completely independent, they live on charcoal they produce. Only the father and the son are in contact with the outside world. The father goes to the village to sell the charcoal whereas the sun runs off to the village school. The mother and her two daughters incessantly burn wood. Abu Shukri, the father, brought them to this place against their will and they know that the reason why they left the village is also the reason why they can never return. The father decides to build a pipeline to bring fresh water to their rustic home. The women are suspicious and the son doesn’t care but the running water awakens their instinct of freedom and mar

Tawfik Abu Wael¬†

Palestine / Israel

2004, 110'

International Competition

Böse Zellen

Barbara Albert tackles an ambitious subject: the chaos theory, applied to the daily life of her characters. The filmmaker uses Edward lorenz’ famous “butterfly effect” to set Bose Zellen in motion. A butterfly’s beating wings set off a tornado above the Gulf of Mexico that causes the crash of an airplane leaving for Europe. A single passenger survives: Manu, a young woman of 24. We see her again five years later, living in a small town in Austria, working in a local supermarket. The circle of people around her expands according to the people she meets, deliberately sought out or accidentally encountered. This fabric of interweaving lives creates a constant flux of “cause and effects”. Depending on the decisions taken by individuals, destinies change, intersect, become

Austria / Germany

2003, 120'

International Competition

Cesky Sen

Czech Dream is a funny and provocative look at the effects of rampant consumerism on a post-community society. Filip Remunda and Vít Klusák set out to explore the manipulative powers of advertising in all it’s perversity by creating an ad campaign for something that does not

Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák

2004, 87'

International Competition

Il Dono

In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the las inhabitants who haunt the deserted village. They seem to be waiting apathetically for their end and resemble the old boat abandoned on the shore. Il Dono is the story of those who have left, told by those who have stayed; a tale of disaster and exodus. [:

Michelangelo Frammartino

2003, 80'

International Competition

La Niña Santa

Winter in La Cienaga. After choir rehearsals, the girls get together in the parish church to discuss faith and vocation. Amalia and Josefina are sixteen. In between the discussions, they whisper secretly about kissing. Josefina is from a conservative provincial family. Not far from Josefina’s house is the Hotel Termas owned by Amalia’s family, where she lives with her mother, Helena, a divorcée, and the rest of her family. A chance encounter between Amalia and Dr Jano, who is attending a medical conference at the hotel, allows the young girl to at last find her vocation – to save a man from sin. Dr Jano will be caught up in a web of good intentions. The respected provincial doctor’s world is on the brink of collapse.

Lucrecia Martel

2004, 106'

International Competition

Le Monde Vivant

An ogre has a wife. She makes his meals but is a vegetarian; he would like to repudiate her in order to marry a Milady, whom he holds prisoner in a chapel… [:

2000, 90'