14:00h Competitive Session Fiction/Animation VII Sala 2, Centro Multimeios
The Beach
Elisa Cepedal, UK/SP
Normal People
Piotr Zlotorowicz, PL
Island Man
Ana Sobreiro and Daniela Camila, BR
Down here
Diogo Amarante, PT
Memories of Summer
Friedrich Tiedtke, DE
Catarina and the Others
André Badaco, PT
Fiction, 22′, 2010 [teaser]
Ana lives in a small village on the Spanish plateau, and spends her summers selling underwear in her uncle’s shop. An unexpected encounter with two youths from a neighbouring village awakens in Ana hope of an escape from this monotony.
Fiction, 25′, 2011 [teaser]Daniel, who has just been released from prison, is trying to make a new life for himself. It is not easy – he must take care of his alcoholic mother and find a job. Maybe he can find some happiness in a new relationship with a medical rescuer he has just met?
Fiction, 10’55”, 2011 [teaser]An old sailor remembers its life and decisions. Stocked in a desert island, he has the all the time to think about what his done and abandon. All of this, is a few meters away and it’s getting closer and closer.
Fiction, 11′, 2011 [teaser]Today was the last night that Emily prayed. She decided there was no more space for words and was time to answer her grandson’s letter with an action.
Fiction, 10′, 2012 [teaser]
A woman remembers her first love experience, realizing it’s true significance only in retrospective. Beautiful and light suddenly turn oppressive and lead to new perspectives.
Fiction, 15′, 2011 [teaser]
Outside, the first sun rays break the dawn. Sixteen years old Catarina can’t fall asleep. Inconsequently, in the big city, adults are moved by desire…
15:00h Children Social Responsability Sala de Cinema, Casino de Espinho
16:00h Competitive Session Documentary IV Sala 2, Centro Multimeios
If I Wasn’t Born
Hendrik Schafer, DE
The Pupil
Miguel Luna Cortacáns, ES
That Was The Jolly Life
Harko Wubs, NL
Icebreakers
Maximilien Van Aertryck, SE
Documentary, 6′, 2012 [teaser]“If wasn’t born” takes a deep look into the film makers’ photographic album. It´s a journey though personal years during the last years of the GDR and Fall of the wall. The film asks about life´s possibilities and those of a young mother without a son.
Documentary, 38′, 2010 [teaser]Usain Bolt just made history breaking two sprint world records at the World Championships in less than a week. At the same time, Javier, a young disabled man, whose life is arranged according to a series of routines difficult to modify, dreams of becoming the next top sprinter.
Documentary, 38′, 2011 [teaser]Klompen Jan is among the last to travel around in his camper. As his generation of travelers decreases, the Puritans came to feel attracted to the trailers. They joined an association that wants to keep the gypsy style alive. These stories reveal the contrast between folklore and trailer travelers.
Documentary, 15′, 2012 [teaser]A ferry makes its way through the ice floating in the wintery Baltic Sea. Yet the ice has long since broken inside the ship thanks to the evening’s entertainment: with their presentation, the artists breathe a moment of magic into a world which already seems rather unreal.
18:00h Competitive Session Fiction/Animation V Sala 2, Centro Multimeios
To All My Friends
Behrouz Bigdeli, DK
Talk To Him
Agata Pretka, PL
Ignoto
Vasco Medinas, PT
Wow!
Jordi Anisi, ES
Loly Pop Star
Ana Carneiro, PT
Attack Of The Giant Brain Sucker Monster From Outer Space
Guillaume Rieu, FR
Tula Leemes
Alisa Wimmer, DE
What Happens When Children Don’t Eat Soup
Pawel Prewencki, PL
Fiction, 29′, 2010 [teaser]
The two punks, Mark and Sonny, are best friends. They have always stuck together and with no family around, they are all they have got. The self destructive Sonny doesn’t mind their pointless life in the rough suburbs, but Mark is longing for something more.
Animation, 7′, 2010 [teaser]The animation exposes the problem of a constant flow of information in the surrounding world.
Fiction, 12’12”, 2011 [teaser]Behold, before you is the first martial arts portuguese short film. The theme is Man vs God.
Fiction, 6′, 2011 [teaser]In a small roadside bar a fight between two men starts. Everyone is excited and people begin to make their best bets.
Fiction, 10’11”, 2012 [teaser]Loly Pop Star tell a story of a young girl that transform your day to day in sensory trip where shows that each of us could be a star.
Fiction, 19’20”, 2010 [teaser]In a pretty 60’s coloured musical, a horrible monster suddenly arrives, coming from an old black&white Hollywood movie, transforming people into angry and hungry zombies! A young couple and a scientist will have to change the film’s genre in order to save the world!
Fiction, 2’50”, 2010 [teaser]Tula Leemes is an artist from the Philippines. In this interview she talks about her motives of building giant giraffes.
Animation, 9′, 2011 [teaser]This story is about two children and their grandfather. Unruly siblings don’t want to eat soup and they get away from the table. The grandfather in magic way creates wind and the lead children to the trap.
18:00h FEST Wave Session V Salão Nobre, Piscina de Espinho
Monster Thursday
Mr Arild Østin Ommundsen, NO
Drama,103′, 2011
A quirky romantic drama set in remote coastal Norway takes the viewer on a tumultuous ride through surfing aspirations, extreme weather and love.
19:00h Silver Castle Documentary Sala de Cinema, Casino de Espinho
The Kingdom Of Mister Edhi
Amélie Saillez, BE
Documentary, 80′, 2011
This is the story Abdul Sattar Edhi and his wife, Bilquis. This couple built a network of social and healthcare facilities. This project operates an emergency service linked to 300 healthcare facilities, fighting every day against prejudice and the rigidity of Pakistan’s patriarchal society.
22:00h FEST Sound Doo Bop
Andrew Bird: Fever Year
Xan Aranda, US
Documentary, 80′, 2012
Filmed during the culminating months of the acclaimed singer-songwriter’s most rigorous year of touring, Andrew Bird crosses the December finish line in his hometown of Chicago – feverish and on crutches from an onstage injury.
21:30h Competitive Session Fiction/Animation VI Sala Tempus, Centro Multimeios
Undress Me
Javier Sanz, ES
Confinópolis – The Land Without Key
Raphael Araújo, BR
By The Wall
Lucas Bonini and Wayner Tristão, BR
HTTP://
Bartosz Kruhlik, PL
Legend
Paul Teixidor, ES
The Wrinkle
Andreas Irnstorfer, DE
Fiction, 12’46”, 2012 [teaser]Samuel finds out his partner is unfaithful and the whole universe in which he lived begins to fall down. Eva knows nothing about him, but she goes to look for him because they have something in common: their partners are lovers.
Fiction, 16’17”, 2012 [teaser]Confinópolis is a city, a country or a place where a Totalitarian regime rules and people are loocked up in their own bodies. Instead of faces they have door locks and no key.
Fiction, 13’40”, 2012 [teaser]A fiction film about the changes of the human relations and the physical distance caused by the connection with the internet.
Fiction, 12′, 2010 [teaser]12-year old Michal wants to join his elder brother’s group. The brother and his pals take Michal to the woods. They record everything with amateurish camcorder.
Fiction, 15′, 2011 [teaser]Claudia, a ten-year-old girl, leaves with her family to spend the weekend out of town. During their car trip, they decide to take a short rest at an abandoned gas station. The appearance of a strange woman will reveal her true fate to Claudia.
Fiction, 7’40”, 2012 [teaser]
A midget magician hires a killer to get rid of his “biggest” competitor and former partner, also a midget magician. Due to the body size, the man who takes the contract underestimates his target…
22:00h Silver Castle Fiction Sala de Cinema, Casino de Espinho
About The Pink Sky
Keiichi Kobayashi , JP
Drama, 113′, 2011 [trailer] [+ info]Izumi Kawashima, is a young student. She finds a wallet containing a large sum of cash. She decides to lend a substantial portion of the money to a middle-aged male acquaintance. Eventually she returns the wallet to its owner, who notices the missing money, and he asks Izumi to do something for him.
23:15h Silver Castle Fiction Sala Tempus, Centro Multimeios
The Tunnel
Carlo Ledesma, AU
Horror/Mockumentary, 90′, 2011 [trailer] [+ info]In 2007 the New South Wales government suddenly scrapped a plan to utilize the water in the disused underground train tunnels beneath Sydney. Chasing rumours of a government cover up lead journalist Natasha Warner to go underground into labyrinth. They went down into the tunnels looking for a story – until the story found them.
