Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
Cross borders with us as our selection enters the mindset of different cultures and their unique ways of
perceiving life. The result is a fascinating polyglot collage of the real and the imaginary.
Friday 24 September, 8.00pm
PART II: WISHFUL THINKING (CFF 18) 85 mins.
Shorts which portray in ingenious ways the whimsical moments in life when things appear never
to be the same again…
Friday 17 September, 8.30pm
PART I: TURNING POINTS (CFF 18) 85 mins.
Shorts which speak straight into our deep desires that form decisions according to what is
pleasing to imagine… Featuring a diverse mixture of styles, it will keep you alert about the
modern trends of contemporary international filmmaking.
RITA
Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza. Italy. 19 mins.
Rita is ten years old and blind since birth.
Thanks to her mysterious new friend she will
escape from home and experience a brief
moment of freedom.
VIKI FICKI
Director: Natalie Spinell. Germany. 18 mins.
Viki has to face the challenge of presenting her
mom’s job to her classmates - whether she is
pleased with this, or not.
AWAY
Director: Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo. USA/Chile. 4 mins.
Fragmented memories are recaptured on
videotape when Diego comes to New York
intent upon coming to terms with the love he
lost in a tragic incident years before.
PASSENGERS (PASSAGERS)
Director: Samuel Feller. France. 12 mins.
A young couple, Erica and Julien, ride along a
deserted road. Along the way, they encounter
three lonely individuals at a gas station. This
meeting leads them to seek a new harmony.
DEEPER THAN YESTERDAY
Director: Ariel Kleiman. Australia. 20 mins.
After three months submerged underwater,
the men have become savages. Oleg fears that
losing perspective may mean losing himself.
A SILENT CHILD (ETT TYST BARN)
Director: Jesper Klevenås. Sweden. 12 mins.
In a cinema verité style, this striking short
is about a child that neither cries nor
screams when it hurts itself – and the terrible
consequences involved.
DEAF ROCK N’ ROLL
(BETISOARE ROCK N’ ROLL)
Director: Cristian Pascariu. Romania. 14 mins.
A magnetic experience of music performance
through the eyes and ears of the deaf woman.
CONTENDER/SKIRMISH/THE ITCH
Director: Joey Hitten. Australia. 10 mins.
A story about the origin of desire, in three
distinct chapters:
PART I: CONTENDER - a boy on the brink of
adulthood has to make his natural selection.
PART II: SKIRMISH - two warriors compete for
survival of the fittest.
PART III: THE ITCH - man learns to evolve from a
primal condition into a higher state of being.
BANQUET UNDER THE WATER
Director: Babak Amini. Iran. 15 mins.
A young couple out defusing mines from the
war find an antique under the ground that will
change their life grievously.
THREE HOURS
(TRE ORE)
Director: Annarita Zambrano. Italy. 12 mins.
Rome, nowadays. The father is convicted for
murder, his daughter speaks her mind. The river
Tiber splits the city, yet it is bonding their lives
together…
INCIDENT BY A BANK
(HÄNDELSE VID BANK)
Director: Ruben Ostland. Sweden. 10 mins.
Detailed and humorous account of a failed bank
robbery: a single take where over 96 people
perform a meticulous choreography for the
camera.
GISBERTA
Director: Lisa Violetta Gass. Germany. 24 mins.
As a tender friendship blossoms at an
orphanage between 14 year old Elischa and the
cleaner Gisberta, the jealousy of the other boys
becomes dangerously brutal.
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