Short film COMPETITIONShort film JuryChristian Bontinckx (Psychologist)Benedicte Bourgeois (RTBF)Odile De Scheemaeker (Décorator)Michel Devillers (Artist)Alain Gal<strong>and</strong> (Subscriber)Guy Triffin (French community of Belgium)The jurors will have to choose la crème de la crème among the 10 short movies of thecompetition.SHORT IN ICOMPETITIONPost Mortem (Mathieu Harford)Condamné à vie (Hannah Letaïf & Vincent Carrétey)Une dernière fois (Barney Frydman)L'oeil du paon (Gerl<strong>and</strong>o Infuso)Love of the dead (Sharnasky Brothers)Le concile lunatique (Arnaud Demuynck & Christophe Gautry)La femme à cordes (Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka)La fin du monde (Michael Havenith)Point de fuite (Benjamin d’Aoust)Route 66 (Romuald Voye)40
ALIEN VS NINJA (Seiji Chiba/Japan)MIDNIGHT X-TREMESA Seiji Chiba FilmScreenplay : Seiji ChibaCast : Mika Hijii, Ben Hiura, Shuji Kashiwabara, Masanori Mimoto, Yuki Ogoe, Donpei TsuchihiraRunning time : 109 min.Calm down, everybody ! Would you kindly read this little presentation before rushinglike madmen to Tour & Taxis. 0ne thing is obvious, if you want to know what thismovie is about, you just have to look at the title. Yamata, Jinnai, Nezumi <strong>and</strong> a fewother ninjas who won’t survive long enough to deserve a name, are tracking down amysterious fireball that l<strong>and</strong>ed in the woods. And guess what was inside the rockfrom outer space? Aliens, of course ! On the menu of this interstellar sushi <strong>and</strong>sashimi plate : gut-wrenching tentacles, alien meat cutting ninja blades, green bloodfountains <strong>and</strong> a continuous <strong>show</strong>er of severed limbs. In brief; the very latest in closeencounters of the bloody kind.Get ready for some new craziness coming straight from the Sushi Typhoon /Nikkatsu production company (also guilty for Helldriver <strong>and</strong> Karate Robo Zaborgar).AVN is a hilarious <strong>and</strong> jubilant little nightmare on film. This unclassifiable gem issomewhere halfway between thrash therapy for its writer <strong>and</strong> director, Seiji Chiba, <strong>and</strong> a haemoglobininfused joke that wildly embraces its wacky concept. So, just sit down <strong>and</strong> keep an eye on the score, OK?CONTACT HIGH (Michael Glawogger/ Austria-Germany-Luxembourg-Pol<strong>and</strong>)A Michael Glawogger filmScreenplay: Michael Glawogger & Michael OstrowskiCast: Michael Ostrowski,Raimund Wallisch,Detlev Buck, Georg Friedrich, Pia Hierzegger, Hilde Dalik, Alina Polzi,Helmut Kopping, VictorVarnado, Jeremy Strong, Alexis Santiago Hern<strong>and</strong>ez, Michael-Joachim Heiss,Martin Ehrlich, Rafal Sawicki, Anna Frances dioso, MaszaBaumanRunning time: 98 min.Spanish gangster Carlos has lost a mysterious bag in Pol<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> wants his Austriancolleague Harry to get it back for him. But Harry doesn’t want to get his h<strong>and</strong>s dirty <strong>and</strong>calls in a favour from the Viennese small-time crook Schorsch. He just wants to sitaround <strong>and</strong> watch car races all day, so he passes the job to Mao. She has no time either,having to babysit her friend’s daughter, <strong>and</strong> turns to hot dog st<strong>and</strong> owners Hans Wurst<strong>and</strong> Max Durst. This results in a crazy chase for the bag all across Eastern Europe.Austrian writer <strong>and</strong> director Michael Glawogger (Workingman's Death, Slumming)delivers a psychedelic road movie filled with slapstick humour, absurd situations <strong>and</strong>misunderst<strong>and</strong>ings. His heroes Max <strong>and</strong> Hans are dropped in a mind-exp<strong>and</strong>ing tripfacing colourful flying swordfish, hotel walls closing in on them, go-go girls with the headsof German shepherds… Hallucinations <strong>and</strong> confusion rule supreme ! Contact High, which might as well becalled The Good, The Bad And The Bag, is a weird <strong>and</strong> funny movie with a great soundtrack featuringElement Of Crime, Tiefschwarz, Calexico, Get Well Soon <strong>and</strong> Roxy Music. You’ll be crying illustrated tears,<strong>and</strong> when you leave the film theatre you’ll probably find everything running backwards41