SHORT TO THE POINT – FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
BEST FILM
A Whole World for a Little World
Director: Fabrice Bracq
Country: France
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis:
A woman tells a great story to her baby. In the manner of a tale with princes and princesses, she remains into his memories to pass on his daughter.
BEST DIRECTOR
A Whole World for a Little World
Director: Fabrice Bracq
Country: France
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis:
A woman tells a great story to her baby. In the manner of a tale with princes and princesses, she remains into his memories to pass on his daughter.
BEST SCREENPLAY
Elo
Director: Helen Takkin
Country: Estonia
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis:
Elo is a stubborn kindergarten child whose sole purpose is to escape the repression of her evil teacher. One day a new teacher Helena appears and Elo’s life changes completely.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Friday
Director: Roxana Stroe
Country: Romania
Duration: 21:00
Synopsis:
During the Communist era, queuing for food was the norm. Despite a long wait on an empty stomach, Mihail doesn’t receive his food ration. The next day, he tries to be first in line.
BEST EDITING
The Story of 90 Coins
Director: Michael Wong
Country: China
Duration: 09:23
Synopsis:
How much is a promise worth these days? An aspiring fashion designer finds out when she has to choose between fulfilling her promise and realising her dream.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
The boy by the sea
Director: Vasily Chuprina
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 06:56
Synopsis:
The story of an unlikely friendship. A young boy sitting by the sea, watching the stones he throws disappear beneath the surface. An old lighthouse keeper. A different truth beyond the water.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
I am Sorry
Director: Teodor Kuhn
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 16:34
Synopsis:
15-year old Patrik has made a fatal mistake. His bad conscience pushes him away from his loved ones, and Patrik is alone with his guilt. But slowly he realizes, that others are facing problems too. And for them, it might not be too late to help.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
Head Space
Director: Emma Huibregtse
Country: United States
Duration: 04:55
Synopsis:
A single mother concerned with her son’s inability to cope, sees the tables turn when faced with danger.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
KIS
Director: Svetlana Bolycheva
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 20:40
Synopsis:
The story of life of an Orthodox priest, living in the Russian province where his closest friend is a cat named Kis!
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Karma
Director: Peter Zhaoyu Zhou
Country: United States
Duration: 03:48
Synopsis:
A boy meets a fish in a mysterious forest.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
#MEAT
Director: Marc J. M. van den Broek
Country: Germany
Duration: 07:10
Synopsis:
#MEAT distills a hundred years of human inventiveness and arrives at a wordless digital dystopia that’s as inescapable as man’s thirst for knowledge and power.
Shot as a series of fragments by Belgian-born artist and sculptor Marc van den Broek, this six-minute art film resembles a retrofitted tale of Faust.
Essential elements of humanity – the written word, the human body, music – are clasped and reduced to mechanical function by van den Broek’s eerily beautiful
sculptural restraints, strapped first onto a hand, a leg, head, finally an entire body. Hooks and eyes in the bowels of a warehouse reflect a fragment of binary script and double up as industrialization’s invitation to mass consumption. Ancient songlines metamorphose into the hum of drones.
BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM
The Redemption Act
Director: Fred Cavender
Country: France
Duration: 08:34
Synopsis:
A young couple’s relationship falls apart, revealing the strange, harsh truth behind what’s been happening to them.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Light Sight
Director: Seyed M. Tabatabaei
Country: Islamic Republic of Iran
Duration: 07:34
Synopsis:
M.E., the imprisoned character in a room is attracted to a hanging light and tries to catch it. But the room itself becomes an obstacle on his way.
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Futur Sauvage
Director: jonathan djob nkondo
Country: France
Duration: 07:00
Synopsis:
Some villagers encounter a giant mysterious creature.
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me (asmad)
Director: Prabhjit Dhamija
Country: India
Duration: 29:57
Synopsis:
In a slow paced himalayan village in India, a young boy goes through a guilt-led state due to an incident for which he feels responsible. In the course of events the film enquires into the idea of ‘me’, thoughts, actions, suffering, and the degree of man’s free-will.
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The Interview
Director: Marc GURUNG
Country: France
Duration: 17:38
Synopsis:
Christophe, in his thirties, black, passes a job interview in the company where his girlfriend, Emma, works. The same night, convinced he got the job, the couple celebrates the event. But in the heat of the moment, Christophe asks himself if he will be chosen for his skills or if he received special treatment. The evening has only just begun…
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Elles ou moi (Them or me)
Director: PH Debiès
Country: France
Duration: 03:17
Synopsis:
“They” suck up his whole life. He’s going to have to make a choice.
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Honeymoon
Director: Anaëlle Morf
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 03:46
Synopsis:
A man and a woman meet in a bar for the first time.