2008
"HERE"
(USA)
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"Huacho"
(Latin America)
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"The Happiest Girl in the World"
(Europe)
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"Apoptosis"
(Japan)
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HERE
2011/USA/120min
*2011 Sundance Film Festival US Dramatic Competition
*2011 Berlin International Film Festival Panorama CICAE Award
[SYNOPSIS]
Will is an American satellite-mapping engineer who has been traveling around the world all by himself for many years measuring lands. He goes to Armenia to make an accurate map and meets Gadarene, a photographer, and decides to travel together. For the first time, he learns to see the world from different perspectives. Soon their journey comes to an end and now each has to decide where to go from "HERE".
[DIRECTOR]
Braden King
Braden King has extensively directed commercials, music videos, experimental short films, and video installations. With Laura Moya, a photographer, he co-directed a feature film documentary"DUTCH HARBOR: WHERE THE SEA BREAKS ITS BACK"which has been shown at numerous festivals and theaters in Europe.
He had been working on "HERE" for more than 10 years while traveling around the world. "HERE", starring Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal, became the first American film shot in Armenia.
Huacho
2009 / Chile=France / 89min.
*2009 International Critics' Week
*2009 Havana Film Festival Best Debut Film
*2009 Toronto International Film Festival
*2009 Mar del Plata Film Festival
[SYNOPSIS]
It is about a long day of a rural family living in a remote village outside of Chillan, in the south of Chile. An old couple, Cornelio and Clemira, along with their daughter and grandson, Alejandra and Manuel, live desperately trying to survive in this drastically changing world. It is a human drama, shot like a documentary, with a tint of comedy touch, using local amateurs.
[DIRECTOR]
Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Alejandro Fernández Almendras studied communication and journalism in Chile University and has worked as a film critic, photographer and journalist. He has directed several short films since 2001, received numbers of awards at various film festivals including the Berlin International Film Festival.
"HUACHO" is his first feature film.
The Happiest Girl in the World
2009 / Romania=Netherlands / 100min.
*2009 Berlin International Film Festival Forum C.I.C.A.E. Award
*2009 European Film Festival Palić Best Film
*2009 Sofia International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize
[SYNOPSIS]
Delia, 18 year-old, is an ordinary girl who lives in a rural town in Romania with her parents. One day, she wins a luxury car in a promotional campaign of a beverage company. The only requirement is to appear in a commercial being shot in Bucharest. This seemingly easy task eventually turns into a chaos. Parents and Delia start to have a fight as to what to do with the car. This supposedly a happy occasion of winning a car becomes a cause of a family split.
[DIRECTOR]
Radu Jude
Radu Jude graduated from Media University Bucharest and worked as an assistant director of Costa-Gavras and Cristi Puiu. His television drama series, commercials and music videos have earned him a good reputation as a director. His short films have received numerous awards at various film festivals around the world. "THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD" is his first feature film.
Apoptosis
Japan
[SYNOPSIS]
MARI, a 24 year-old woman working at a publishing company, is fired out of the blue. Then her television set is suddenly broken, and her apartment is demolished. She breaks up with her boyfriend and loses her favorite grandmother. She sometimes copes and sometimes rejects these losses which hit her one after another. Gradually she realizes that some things are lost no matter how hard one resists and tries to protect, whereas there are some things which are never lost.
[DIRECTOR]
Aiko Nagatsu
Aiko Nagatsu, from Fukuoka prefecture, was involved in theater works through writing and directing her own plays in junior high and high school. Later, she entered an animation production company and worked as a production assistant and an editor. "APOPTOSIS" is her first feature film project.
