Short Forms Competition
A Different Life / Drugaja Žizň
Vladimir Eysner / Russia / 2007 / 26 min.
Director Vladimir Eysner takes us to an unnamed Russian village in the region of Irkutsk, home to nearly 200 residents. The vast majority are jobless and both men and women drink from morning to night. ...
Screening:
09.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
12.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál
Asyl / Asyl
Anara Birismanova, Lyudmila Gribenshikova / Kyrgyzstan / 2006 / 12 min.
The protagonist is a little boy called Asyl whose dream is to become a footballer. When a teacher asks why, he innocently says it is because Kyrgyzstan will one day finally win the World Cup. But Asyl ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
09.03.2008 / 18:00 / Městská knihovna malý sál
10.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál
Beyond the Wall / Po tamtej stronie
Vita Zelakeviciute / Poland / 2007 / 20 min.
High cracked walls with rusty barbed wire, below which a flock of ravens fly about ominously. These walls surround a squalid building of prison cells completely filled with beds. In this place medicines ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
10.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál
Dirty Pictures / Dirty Pictures
John Smith / UK, Palestine / 2006 / 14 min.
Dirty Pictures is the seventh part of the Hotel Diaries series by the important and multi–award–winning director John Smith. In a minimalist style, Smith draws us into the atmosphere of his ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
10.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál
DMZ / DMZ
Simojukka Ruippo, Jouni Hokkanen / Finland / 2007 / 4 min.
The 38th parallel north, which divides the Korean peninsula right in the middle, is one of the most closely guarded borders in the world. A four–kilometre demilitarised zone, with a military demarcation ...
Screening:
09.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
12.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál
Esma / Esma
Alen Drljević / Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2007 / 26 min.
"Unfortunately, your husband is not alive," says a psychic at the start of the film to the psychologist Esma "I see him lying on his belly, his head bent down. He was shot once in the head and once in ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 16:00 / Světozor malý sál
11.03.2008 / 21:30 / Evald
12.03.2008 / 18:00 / Městská knihovna malý sál
FACES [:phases] / FACES [:phases]
Holger Ernst / Germany / 2007 / 14 min.
This impressive visual essay in the style of the films of Godfrey Reggio takes us to a great variety of places in our globalised world. Shots of hardworking work miners in South Africa alternate with ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 16:00 / Světozor malý sál
11.03.2008 / 21:30 / Evald
Fish´n´Pills / Hormonální akvárium
Tereza Tara / Czech Republic / 2007 / 20 min.
When some years ago British fishermen found spawn in the bodies of male fish they could hardly believe their eyes. Their suspicions naturally turned to a nearby pharmaceutical plant, from where they believed ...
Screening:
07.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
10.03.2008 / 21:30 / Evald
Giraffe in the Rain / Une girafe sous la pluie
Pascale Hecquet / Belgium, France / 2007 / 12 min.
One day a giraffe discovers that a local autocrat has disconnected the water supply. As soon as she stands up against this injustice she is expelled from her home. Winning acceptance in her new home is ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 16:00 / Světozor malý sál
08.03.2008 / 15:00 / Evald
09.03.2008 / 13:00 / Evald
11.03.2008 / 21:30 / Evald
Hearing Boy / Tal til mig
Anne Katrine Talks / Denmark / 2007 / 28 min.
Karen, who has been deaf since birth, is extremely active. She studies the complicated theories of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, and three years ago had a son called Oskar. To her surprise Oskar ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 16:00 / Světozor malý sál
11.03.2008 / 21:30 / Evald
Kid Power / Makkala Panchayat
Ramchandra PN / India / 2007 / 30 min.
This picture by Indian director Ramchandra PN shows that India is probably the largest democracy in the world despite all its deficiencies. At least judging by a unique project, which was initiated by ...
Screening:
08.03.2008 / 13:00 / Evald
08.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
09.03.2008 / 15:00 / Evald
10.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál
One Day / One Day
Ditte Haarlov–Johnsen / Denmark / 2007 / 29 min.
She's attractive, 36 years old and comes from West Africa. She lives in a suburb of Copenhagen. She believes in God. She smokes more than she used to. Regularly every month she sends money home to her ...
Screening:
07.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
10.03.2008 / 21:30 / Evald
Shit and Chicks / Shit and Chicks
Kees van der Geest / Netherlands / 2006 / 10 min.
The film's protagonist is Rogation, a 64–year–old man from south–western Ghana. His whole life has been spent as a soldier in the marines and he returns to his home village as a pensioner. ...
Screening:
07.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
09.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
10.03.2008 / 21:30 / Evald
12.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál
The First Day / Pierwszy dzień
Marcin Sauter / Poland / 2007 / 20 min.
The stylishly composed parable The First Day focuses on a remote Siberian settlement where it seems time has stood still. Men prepare their fishing nets, women do the cooking in traditional yurts and ...
Screening:
07.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
10.03.2008 / 21:30 / Evald
The Tailor / El sastre
Óscar Pérez / Spain / 2007 / 30 min.
In this film the Spanish documentary maker Óscar Pérez takes us into the bowels of a small tailor's shop in the centre of Barcelona. It is run by the Pakistani Mohamed, who has hired as his assistant ...
Screening:
09.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
12.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál
200 000 phantoms / Nijuman no Borei (200 000 phantôms)
Jean–Gabriel Périot / France / 2007 / 10 min.
The award–winning French director Jean–Gabriel Périot, who last year won the short form film competition at One World with Even if She Had Been a Criminal , here approaches the wretched history ...
Screening:
09.03.2008 / 18:00 / Světozor malý sál
12.03.2008 / 22:00 / Světozor malý sál