I've Seen Films

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INTRODUCTION
I’VE SEEN FILMS 2009
International Short Film Festival
THE SAME? NO! DIFFERENT!
In 2008, when Rutger Hauer envisioned and started the ‘I’ve Seen Films International Short Film Festival’
people may have thought: “Another short film festival? The same old story...” No! This is really a new story
because a mainstream and Independent Film Star chose Milano for a Film Festival that is truly different:
Different because Hauer pulled together a Jury of top international level peers and asked them to find the
excellence in the selection of short films that we show to our audience.
‘’I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched cbeams
... glitter in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ...
in rain. Time ... to die”. Now there is something different. It is time to screen the genius of new screenwriters,
actors and directors. Rutger believes in filmmakers and we believe in them as he does. So, you are attending
a really different short film festival.
We have received more than 3,000 short films, sent from more than 90 different countries. We have made
our selection and we can assure you that the quality of the selected films within the different genres is really
high.
Every short will receive the highest respect from us. This respect means that every single film will be shown
at his best, thanks to the sophisticated audio and video technology in the three venues located in downtown
Milan.
Aleksàndr Puskin once wrote a letter of many pages to a friend. He ended apologizing for its length explaining:
“I didn’t have time to write a shorter one”. This sounds like a paradox but it contains a deep
truth. In making our selection, we have found that there are filmmakers, all over the world, who know the
meaning of those words. They are the protagonists of our ‘different’ festival.
Giancarlo Zappoli
Artistic Co-Director
I’ve Seen Films - International Film Festival