However the winners can be hardly seen by a wide audience, you will might catch them on some other short film festivals.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

GRAND PRIX
BLUE SOFA
de Lara Fremder, Giuseppe Baresi, Pippo Delbono
Italie

PRIX SPÉCIAL DU JURY
ELLA
de Hanne Larsen
Norvège

PRIX DU PUBLIC
SINNA MAN (L’homme en colère)
d’Anita Killi
Norvège

PRIX DE LA JEUNESSE
EFECTO DOMINO (Effet domino)
de Gabriel Gauchet
Cuba, Allemagne

PRIX CANAL+
GLENN OWEN DODDS
de Frazer Bailey
Australie

PRIX DES MÉDIATHÈQUES
I LOVE LUCI (J’aime Luci)
de Colin Kennedy
Royaume-Uni, Danemark

PRIX DE LA PRESSE INTERNATIONAL SFR
ON THE RUN WITH ABDUL (En cavale avec Abdul)
de David Lalé, James Newton et Kristian Hove
Royaume-Uni

Filmini is committed to showcasing international short films. The Festival’s primary goal is to present young cinema of the world and independent films, and to become a platform for short filmmakers.

A special focus of the festival is films coming from the Balkans.

The term for film submissions for the festival programs is now OPEN!

AWARDS HIGHLIGHTS:
-       The grand prix prize € 1,200
-       Best animation film award € 500
-       Best Balkan film award € 1,000
-       Kodak award for Best film from the national competition
-       Audience award

DEADLINE for submissions: July 31, 2009

Regulations and entry form can be downloaded from www.filmini.org
For any further information, please don’t hesitate to contact us at submit@filmini.org
We’ll be looking for your films!

For this year’s edition of the competition there will be chosen the films made in 2007- 2009 and they shall not exceed 30 minutes of duration.

The films will compete for the following Prizes -Grand Prix — Golden Jabberwocky, Silver Jabberwocky, Bronze Jabberwocky; the students’ films will also compete for a Special Golden Jabberwocky for the Best Animated Student Etude of the Festival.

As the organizers we also hope to have a support of sponsors what might also give an opportunity to hand in the financial award (last year we have 2,000 Euro)

Filled in forms and the DVD will be collected until of 30th
July 2008.

We would be glad if your newest film was sent to the preselection. We will finally inform you about a decision of accepting the film to the competition in the second half of September 2008.

The registration form and rules of entry are at: www.etiudaandanima.com

Mark ALBISTON, Louis SUTHERLAND – THE SIX DOLLAR FIFTY MAN-15′ New Zealand
Set in a 1970s coastal town, The Six Dollar Fifty Man follows Andy, a gutsy 8 year-old boy who is forced to break out of his make-believe superhero world to deal with playground bullies.

Daniel BORGMAN – LARSOG PETER-15′ Denmark
Lars (9) is naïve and innocent, all he wants is for his father to be happy and his family to be together. Lars’ mother is gone and life has been empty and dysfunctional without her.

On the eve of his birthday, Lars’ dad, Peter, gets himself drunk and after an embarrassing argument with the next-door neighbour, Alma, ends up masturbating in the backyard. Lars sees everything.

Alex BRENDEMÜHL – RUMBO A PEOR-12′ Spain
Two men, dressed in football-tricot, wander through nature. As they go astray, they meet a woman on the road. Overwhelmed by her beauty, they perist in her joining them.

The beginning of something or nothing, perhaps. Few words, not much else.

Jochem DE VRIES – MISSEN -12′ The Netherlands
A 7-year old girl is taken to school by her mother. Today is the day that the young girl will go on a school trip with her class. In everything we feel that bringing her daughter to school isn’t a very ordinary occasion for the mother.

Jean-Christophe LIE – L’HOMME A LA GORDINI-10′ France
End of the 70’s, an imaginary suburb, the custom is to wear neither underwear nor trousers, only orange tops. With the help of a masked rebel driving a blue R8 Gordini, Mister R and his wife plot a radical clothing revolution and the assault of monochromic orange totalitarianism.

Goran ODVORCIC – CIAO MAMA-10′ Croatia
A single Mother is leaving her young Daughter to go on a trip with her new lover. The Daughter overcomes the fear of abandonment and in the state of bewilderment does whatever is necessary to provoke her Mother; make her acute to their needs and re-question their roles and relationship. The Daughter lightly resorts to the threats of suicide, asks her father to move in with him – saying anything that will arouse her mother.

Laila PAKALNINA – KLUSUMS-14′ Latvia
Unfortunatly we could not find a synopsis for this film.

João SALAVIZA – ARENA-15′ Portugal
Mauro is under house arrest. Tattooing helps him while away the time.
Three local kids taunt him through his window. Outside, the midday sun beats down.

Emma SULLIVAN – AFTER TOMORROW-15’United Kingdom
Returning to the village of his estranged wife, James grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guest house refuses to let him leave. A psychological suspense with a surprising yet moving denouement.

via www.festival-cannes.com

A top-notch international jury – with actress Arta Dombroshi from Kosovo, director of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Lars Henrik Gass, and Philippine director Khavn de la Cruz – will pick the award winners in this year’s short film section. The Berlinale Shorts will screen 28 films from 17 countries, eleven of which will be running in the Competition, and vying for the Golden and Silver Bears for Best Short Film. The entire programme automatically qualifies for the DAAD Short Film Prize and receives a nomination for Best European Short Film. Markus Kavka will present the awards in CinemaxX3 on February 10.

Germany is making a strong showing this year with five formally complex films. In Christoph Giradet and Matthias Müller’s new film contre-jour, “the way we regard the world and how it regards us in return breaks into disturbing fragments” (K. Tieke). Humorous in the telling, but formally more reticent is Lola Randl’s Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf. Der Geburtstag – a short film about the loneliness and estrangement of the urban individual. Three wilful productions underscore the specialness of Belgium’s narrative culture. And then there’s the East, which is not a country, but a direction. This trend is illustrated by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s Diagnoz from the Ukraine and Alexander Karavayev’s Devyat proloyotov vmeste from the Russian Federation, which depict the current political and economic situation in very different ways, as well as Jan Andersen’s vostok’ from France, whose title is already programmatic.

David OReilly, who won Special Mention in last year’s Short Film Competition, is back with his new digital animation Please Say Something, a film about a relationship of another kind. In Birth, Signe Baumane shows how being pregnant can feel. The Indonesian film Trip to the Wound by Edwin, who is a member of this year’s Forum NETPAC jury, will screen out of competition. The film is an artistic and political statement on the freedom of art in times of radical censorship.

The Berlinale Shorts is pleased to announce that the winner of the Prix UIP at the 2008 Berlinale, Darren Thorton’s Frankie (Ireland), won Best European Short Film at the European Film Awards in Copenhagen in December 2008.

The Berlinale Shorts jury:

Khavn De La Cruz (Philippines)

With more than 70 short films and features, this director is one of his country’s most important underground digital filmmakers. De La Cruz, who participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus 2005, is also a writer and musician, as well as director of the Philippine MOV International Digital Film Festival. With his production company Filmless Films, he has made many works, including Mondomanila: Institute of Poets, a surreal cinematic reflection on Philippine society.

Arta Dobroshi (Kosovo) 

With her role in the screen drama Lorna’s Silence (winner of Best Screenplay at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival), this young actress achieved her international breakthrough and a nomination for the 2008 European Film Awards. Born in Pristina, Arta Dobroshi has played many stage roles in her country, as well as a leading role in the prize-winning German-Albanian production Magic Eye (2005), a film about the situation in Albania in 1997, when it was rocked by unrest.

Dr. Lars Henrik Gass   (Germany)

Lars Henrik Gass studied literature and theatre. Since 1997, he has been director of the renowned International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Until 2007, he was also a member of the German Short Film Award jury. He has written many essays on photography and film, and teaches at a number of universities and academies. In 2001, Gass published his book “Das ortlose Kino. Über Marguerite Duras”.

The 2009 Berlinale Shorts programme:

I / 86 min

Bric-Brac, Gabriel Achim, Romania, 18 min

VU, Leila Albayaty, Belgium, 28 min (Competition)

Princess Margaret Blvd., Kazik Radwanski, Canada, 14 min

Kaїn, Kristof Hoornaert, Belgium, 16 min (Competition)

Please Say Something, David OReilly, Ireland, 10 min (Competition)

II / 79min

The Illusion, Susana Barriga Rodríguez, Cuba, 24 min (Competition)

A Mango Tree In The Front Yard, Raveendren Pradeepan, France, 11 min (Competition)

BaDerech Hachutza, Elad Pankovski, Israel, 17 min

Dish, Brian Krinsky, USA, 15 min

Birth, Signe Baumane, Italy/USA, 12 min (Competition)

III / 77 min

26.4, Nathalie André, Belgium, 15 min

Renovare, Paul Negoescu, Germany/Romania, 24 min

Diagnoz, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine, 15 min (Competition)

contre-jour, Cristoph Giradet, Matthias Müller, Germany,11 min (Competition)

Trip to the Wound, Edwin, Indonesia, 7 min (Out of competition)

The Island, Trevor Anderson, Canada, 5 min

IV / 86 min

Jade, Daniel Elliott, Great Britain, 15 min (Competition)

Karai norte, Marcelo Martinessi, Paraguay, 19 min

Pure, Jacob Bricca, USA, 5 min

Devyat prolyotov vmeste, Alexander Karavayev, Russ. Fed., 20 min (Competition)

Musafir, BW Purba Negara, Indonesia, 17 min

Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf. Der Geburtstag, Lola Randl, Germany, 10 min

V / 90 min

Buenas Intenciones, Ivan Lomelí, Mexico, 18 min

Laitue, Nicolas Brooks, UK, 10 min

Havet, Jöns Jönsson, Germany, 25 min (Competition)

der prinz, Petra Schröder, Germany, 15 min

vostok’, Jan Andersen, France, 17 min

Mama L’Chaim, Elkan Spiller, USA, 5 min

FILMINI’s primary goal is to expose our audience to new cinema through the work of international filmmakers. In addition, the Festival aims to become a platform for filmmakers and cinema fans. Finally, through its various events & workshops, FILMINI ISFF hopes to increase the awareness, knowledge and distribution of short films in Bulgaria, discover and support new Balkan voices and encourage the experimental, independent and innovative styles of today’s cinema.

The organisers (Elena and Juri) are great friends of Daazo. And the new film of the young Bulgarian director Toma Waszarow is in the competition. We can’t wait to watch ‘Anything for You’! Till that enjoy ‘The Kiss’ – just can’t get enough of it.

]]> http://blog.daazo.com/2008/10/22/filmini-20-is-about-to-start/feed/ 0 http://blog.daazo.com/2008/10/15/clermont-ferrand-deadline-is-coming/ http://blog.daazo.com/2008/10/15/clermont-ferrand-deadline-is-coming/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:14:33 +0000 dani http://blog.daazo.com/2008/10/15/clermont-ferrand-deadline-is-coming/ International Short Film Festival in Clermont Ferrand is waiting for your film till the 15th of October.  The only way you are able to apply is via Shortfilmdepot. (We at Daazo are always happy to realize the tight relation between the ‘online world’ and the ‘world of shorts’.)

This film festival itself is maybe the coolest (short) film festivals, it used to say that it is the ‘Cannes of short films’. It was the world’s first International short film festival which originated in 1979. This festival which brings thousands of people every year (137.000 in 2008) to the city is the second French film Festival after Cannes in term of visitors, but the first one regarding the number of spectators (as in Cannes visitors are not allowed in theatres, reserved to professionals). This festival has revealed many young talented directors now well-known in France and even internationally such as Mathieu Kassovitz, Cédric Klapisch or Éric Zonka.

In 2009, the festival will celebrate its 31th anniversary and will present three competitions mixing film and digital medium, thus bringing greater diversity to the short film format – diversity being its basic principle, its source of uniqueness and vitality.

So apply, go there, send your stories and photos to the World of Shorts magazine!

The flourishing CineFest, International Festival of Young Filmmakers in September attracts thousands of film fans and visitors from the whole world. Housing in a brand-new cultural complex and the beautiful old Kossuth Cinema, the 5th CineFest provides an unique look into international young cinema’s landscape, screening features, documentaries, experimental works and animated shorts from all over the world.
Hungary’s freshest young film festival celebrates its 5th anniversary this year. This year CineFest received 280 films from 48 countries. Most of the films came from Central Europe, from the US and Germany, but we received films from Indonesia to South America. After a pre-selection, the top 67 films have the opportunity to compete in the official program.

At the end of Cinefest International Film Festival for young filmmmakers Péter Madaras, the programme director of the festival answered to our questions.

How would you define the festival, what does it represent on a map of European film festivals?
Obviously it represents something freshness, which comes from the manner of the festival “for young filmmakers”. So it is fresh, new, a bit different than any others, a bit extreme. Since many youngsters participating the festival it is really familiar, cool. Just as on your site, Daazo.com, short films are made by young directors mainly. As the festival is organized by young people, it is a great party for us too.

You receive many films each year. What kind of opportunities do you have for announcing the festival on international level?
The easiest way is to collect partner festivals, and cross-promote each other. We appear on their festival, have banners in their catalogue. And since we have to spend money sometime, we appear in Cannes, Berlin and some other bigger festival.

Cinefest celebrates its 5th birthday. What is the future of the festival? Would you change something in the future?
We used to say the festival is in adult age already! We don’t want to be an “A” category film festival, that needs world premieres, hell a lot of money and it cannot take place in a small city. We started as something different. We want to be a well know, big festival, which is accepted and liked by young filmmakers. It would be really great if filmmakers thought they need to send their films to this festival, because it was a serious milestone for them. Then we could have more and more exciting off-programmes.

Is there any kind of film what the Festival prefers? What is the image of the festival filmwise?
Of course we would like to shape a specific image of the festival. Step by step we try to set a permanent pre-selection jury. Naturally their taste defines the selection of the festival. Nevertheless we have more and more melancholic films. A good example for this is the awarded film “In Transit”, which is a melancholic, sweet short film without clichés. I think we have more and more film like that. But I think we are too young to have a real image, but in a couple of years we gonna have it.

See the winners of this year’s festival! Click!

More about the awards can be found here

Enjoy Original Lager on Daazo.com:

Topic of the competition

According to competition terms 10 selected creators/workshops will have the opportunity to make 10×1 minute long flash animation films. At the end of the almost one and a half month long process all animation films will be linked by competition organizers into one 10 minute long film entitled Pécsi Flash.

First round, there can be only ten.
Competitors may nominate their animation films made in the past five years. The best 10 creators/workshops will be selected by viewers and the jury. Competition parameters are defined at the official website, see here.

Second round
There is only one criterion: the opening and closing scene must be based on a venue photo and a 1 minute long music selection must be included, too. The music selection and the photo gallery of venue photos will be available on the safe website of the competition before the start of the second round.

The result of a total prize money of one million HUF competition, a ten minute long film entitled Pécsi Flash will be presented at the Hungaroflash Festival taking place from 17th to 19th October 2008.

Jury
András Wahorn artist, musician, head of the jury, Balázs Gróf graphic artist, director of animation movies, Márton Hegedűs graphic artist, director of animation movies, Lazin Igor director of animation movies, producer, Géza M. Tóth director of animation movies, professor of the Moholy-Nagy University Of Art And Design Budapest.