Saturday 14th July  -  CAVA della rocca, Monselice

21.30 - Competition

BHAï-BHAï by Olivier Klein Fiction | France | 2006 | 35mm | 19 min. | italian subtitles by EMM Young Degol is an Indian illegal immigrant in Paris. He is arrested, and being expelled from France. But nothing is sad in Indian musicals… see all details

MERIDIONALI SENZA FILTRO by Michele Bia Fiction | Italy | 2006 | 35mm | 20 min. In a grey day of November, three men are going down the road from Puglia to Basilicata. Fajele, the older brother, is going to marry a girl who lives in a country commonly known as an unlucky place. Nicola, the younger brother, and their father, a man of seventy years, are travelling with him. see all details

WAITING FOR YESTERDAY by Julien Lecat, Sylvain Pioutaz Fiction | France | 2006 | DV | 16 min. | italian subtitles by EMM In a world where time runs backwards and each person "rewinds his life", Bob realizes that the universe in which he has evolved isn't as normal as it seems and he becomes a "forward" fugitive... see all details

THE INTRUDER by Daniel Wirtberg Fiction | Sweden | 2006 | 35mm | 10 min. A bored shoplifter gets his daily routines disturbed when he finds an intruder on his territory. see all details

TRY NOT TO BREATHE by Alina Abdullayeva Fiction | Azerbaijan | 2006 | DvCam | 15 min. | italian subtitles by EMM A few minutes from the life of two people. Young lady who has the whole life in front of her and old man ill with asthma who has only one more night to live. She trying to help him… She stops to BREATHE. see all details

JUST IN GOD by Giorgio Carella Fiction | Italy | 2006 | 16mm | 18 min. God decides to save the life of a 15 years old girl, butt of her class and victim of herself. He will do this pretending to be a famous popstar. see all details

A VERDADE DO GATO by Jeremy Hamers Documentary | Belgium | 2006 | DV | 52 min. | italian subtitles by EMM Carmo do Rio Verde, in Brazil, is a village that exists thanks to sugar cane exploitation. A company deals there with the complete making of alcohol, owns the fields or rents them, and has 2000 workers, of which 1200 seasonal workers hired by « El gato », « The Cat ». Thanks to his promises – a nice salary and a fine shelter – he gets a 4 % share of everyone’s salary … The work starts, and the exploiting. Between sweat and ashes the film unveils, on a poetical manner, the human price of Brazil’s fortune, its ‘clean’ fuel… see all details

Later:

Night off
Una selezione di cortometraggi di fiction e di animazione che vi stupiranno. Una notte per occhi addestrati all’insegna di tutto ciò che è difficile definire e catalogare.

MÁQUINA by Gabe IbÁÑez Fiction | Spain | 2006 | 35mm | 17 min.		INFINITE JUSTICE by Karl Tebbe Animation | Germany | 2006 | 35mm | 2 min. Fragments from Iraq war reports shown on German television, reconstructed frame by frame with action figures sold in the USA, suitable for children over 5. CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. This isn't Disney. Not Team America. This is war. And we have friends on both sides.

LEVIATHAN by Simon Bogojevic Narath Animation | Croatia | 2006 | 35mm | 15 min. Jerky but smiling characters from this short film will take the audience through this animated pageant inspired by a book by Thomas Hobbes called "The Leviathan", written in 1651.		DRØMMEHUSET (DREAM HOUSE) by Øystein Mamen Fiction | Norway | 2006 | 35mm | 5 min. A little girl is being engulfed in manipulating her favourite doll.

LET'S BUILD A FIRE by Patryk Rebisz Animation | USA | 2006 | DV | 4 min. Let's Build a Fire is an experimental music video shot using over 170 burning Polaroids to reflect the sometimes conflicting energies of future and past, of what to keep but having to let go. The loose narration, set to music by Plus/Minus band, try to capture the emotions of a crumbling relationship. From the destruction new meanings emerge as memories of a love go up in flames.		ALONE by Milla Pelkonen Fiction | Finland | 2006 | DigiBeta | 12 min. Alone is a story of a one night and a beginning of a new life.

BILLY THE KILLY by Luis Briceno Fiction | France | 2006 | 35mm | 4 min. A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HOW MARTIN GRETSCHMANN DOES TO COMPOSE A POP MUSIC MASTER PIECE...		RAYMOND by Bif Animation | France - UK | 2006 | Beta | 5 min. Raymond, a lazy swimming-instructor, would like to discover the oceans. A team of scientists offers to help him.

JOURNEY TO THE NAVEL OF THE WORLD by Alex Cassal, Alice Ripoll Animation | Brazil | 2007 | DV | 7 min. A bunch of warriors and weird creatures in a dangerous journey through a constantly changing landscape. An adventure plenty of surprises and mysteries, this stop-motion film explores the human body in a rather unusual approach.		THE BALLAD OF MARY SLADE by Robin Fuller Animation | UK | 2006 | DV | 4 min. The Ballad of Mary Slade is a tale of passion, adultery and murder. A gothic tragedy, told from an unusual point of view. Following the death of a young woman, the tragic story of her life and eventual demise slowly unfolds as the insects that consume her decaying body become actors in the fateful retelling of her downfall.

ANTHROPEAU by Joël Godfroid Animation | Belgium | 2006 | DvCam | 11 min. A statuary manifesto. From the imagination of the french sculptor Benoît Polvêche to the images of his creations and their own life.