SHORTS


MY MOTHER LEARNS CINEMA   9th November 16:00 LHC 3
Original title: Annem Sinema Ogreniyor
Country: Turkey
Year: 2006
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 3,25’
Format: DVD
Language: Turkish with English subtitles

Directed and written: Nesimi Yetik
Production: Ozminimalist Film

Cast: Dudu Yetik, Nesimi Yetik

Plot: How can a young Turkish director bring home to his old-fashioned mother the significance of the great names of the cinema history? It’s not a bad idea to start by teaching her how to pronounce their names: ‘Rainer’, ‘Werner’, ‘Fassbinder’, ‘Jean’, ‘Luc’, and ‘Goddard’… Before long, however, it’s his mother who turns out to be the real film buff in this clever little three-act film.

Selected Festivals and Awards: 
* Berlin Film Festival (2007): Daad Short Film Award
* 12th Festival of European Films on Wheels (2007): Short Film Audience Award
* 20th Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland (2007)
* Sydney Film Festival, Australia (2007)
* Trieste Film Festival, Italy (2007)
* Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Poland (2007)
* 12th Boston Turkish Festival Documentary and Short Film Competition (2007): Best Short Film 

Director NESIMI YETIK: Born in 1981, Nesimi Yetik currently studies drama at Ankara University.

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It's Not that I Know, That's Just the Way it Is 7th November 19:15 LHC 4
Original Language Title: Nije da znam nego je to tako
Country: Croatia
Year: 2006
Genre: Drama
Run time: 15’
Format: DVD
Language: Croatian with English subtitles

Directed by: Tanja Golic
Screenplay: Tanja Golic, Daria Lorenci, Rakan Rushaidat
Editor: Vladimir Gojun
Director of Photography: Branko Pasic
Producer: Damir Karasnov
Production Company: ADU Zagreb

Cast: Daria Lorenci, Rakan Rushaidat

Synopsis: He, early 30s, discovers Zen and decides to sit and smoke all day. She, early 30s, active control freak. They are a married couple.

Director's biography:
Tanja Golic was born in Rijeka, Croatia, in 1973. She holds a degree in fine arts and management in Culture from the University in Rijeka. She is currently studying directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Zagreb.

Filmography: 2006 NIJE DA ZNAM, NEGO JE TAKO - short 2006 CEKAJTE, CEKAJTE - short 2002 LUNA - short 1999 ZEMLJA CUDESA - short 1998 ULTRAZVUK - short 1996 PLES - short 1996 MORE – short
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WHAT DO I KNOW? 6th November 19:00 LHC 1
Original Language Title: Sto ja znam?
Country: Bosnia and Hercegovina
Year: 2007
Genre: Drama
Run time: 15’
Format: BETA SP
Language: Bosnian with English subtitles

Directed by: Sejla Kameric, Timur Makarevic
Screenplay: Šejla Kamerić
Editor: Timur Makarevic
Cinematographer: Vladimir Trivić
Producer: Amra Bakšić Čamo, Jovan Marjanović
Production Company: SCCA/Pro.ba


Synopsis: In and around a house, love stories intertwine. One love story leads to another. The ghosts of love are left behind to seek the answers to the same question: ’ what do I know about love?’ The story was written as a memento to other people’s loves that I have not witnessed. The house in the story is real. The short film and four-channel video installation. All characters are played by children (aged 9 to 14).

Biography: Timur Makarević was born in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1976. During the war he has completed the studies at the High School for Fine Arts and started his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, both in Sarajevo. At the war's end he abandoned the course at the Academy and started working for the Sarajevo Centre for Contemporary Art, where he still works today. In the meantime he has gotten additional education in France and Italy. He had directed several short films, and numerous music videos.

Biography: Šejla Kamerić was born in 1976 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She completed studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Department of Graphic Design. Until 2000 worked as Art Director in the creative team "Fabrika" in Sarajevo. Since 2002. She has been a member of the European Cultural Parliament. Since 2005 she is a member of Young Global Leaders Forum. In her work she uses photography and video as media juxtaposing an explicit social context with intimate perspectives.

Festivals and Awards: Venice Film Festival, Zagreb Film Festival, Arte Mare Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival,

Contact
SCCA / pro.ba
Husrefa Redzica 20, 71000 Sarajevo,

http://www.sejlakameric.com/text/biography.htm
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INSPIRATION 7th November 22:00 LHC 3
Original title: Plictis si inspiratie
Country: Moldova
Year: 2007
Genre: Drama
Run time: 11’
Format: DVD
Language: Romanian with English subtitles

Directed by: Igor Cobileanski

Cast: Valeriu Turcanu, Mihai Curagau, Sergiu Voloc, Lacrimioara the goose

“- These trains.... They go from East to West, from West to East, day and night, and none of them stops in our village. Why is that?”
“-Why should they? You'd want them to take everybody with them?”
Three characters in search of an author, Moldovan style.

SASHA, GRISHA & ION 9th November 13:15 LHC 4
Original title: SASA, GRISA si ION
Country: Moldova
Year: 2006
Genre: Drama
Run time: 11’
Format: DVD
Language: Romanian with English subtitles

Directed by: Igor Cobileanski

Cast: Valentin Cucu, Igor Mitreanu, Sergiu Voloc, Lacrimioara the goose

Three characters in search of an electric cable:

Director: Igor Cobileanski.Born in the Republic of Moldova, Cobileanski studied film in Romania and is now living and working in-between the two countries. His first significant film work (Dying for Madrid, 1998) captured in documentary form the tragic story of a Moldovan folk band who, in exchange for a dream trip to Madrid, agreed to give a series of concerts in Chernobyl in 1986, for volunteers working on the liquidation of the nuclear power plant. Following on that, Cobileanski started to forge his own brand of local humour which now makes him a favourite of Romanian audiences and foreign film festivals. His When the Lights Go Out has been a hit on Youtube. Cobileanski has just completed the feature-length black comedy Tache (2008), currently awaiting its theatrical release.

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SNACK 9th November 13:00 LHC 3
Original title: Snack
Country: Bosnia and Hercegovina
Year: 2008
Genre: Animation
Run time: 4,30’
Format: DVD
Language: None

Director: Mirsad Agić
Screenplay: Mirsad Agić
Director of Photography: Mirsad Agić
Editor: Mirsad Agić
Producer: Vedran Fajković
Production Company: Virtual Images Productions

Synopsis: In a little Bosnian house surrounded by skyscrapers, little cat is preparing to welcome the new member of the family. On the door father Bear is appearing and in a box he is bringing with him a surprise…

Director: MIRSAD AGIĆ born in 1976. Sarajevo. Graduate from the Academy of Fine arts, section graphic design. He is making comic strips, illustrations, and design and in last couple of years intensively working with 3D animations. SNACK is his first independent project in this field. He is working as an Artistic Director and Chief animator in Virtual images Productions, Sarajevo.

Filmography:
2008 SNACK – short animation
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MEMORIES – WORK IN PROGRESS 9th November 19:00 LHC 3
Country: Netherlands/Croatia/Bosnia
Year: 2006
Format: DVD
Runtime: 4,30’

Directed by: Nena Šešić-Fišer
Script: Nena Šešić-Fišer
Camera: Nenad Fišer & Nena Šešić-Fišer
Music: Zsuzsanna Varkonyi & Franck Dematteis: Lej-lej. Arr. Franck Dematteis, ARB
Editing: Aleksandar Stanojević and Nenad Fišer
Technical Assistant: Miloš Peškir

Syopsis: Past is the thing that grows in time and inhabits our memories.
Although they appear and vanish in a seemingly random waves and flashes, all of them come from the same source: our innermost being and
its movement through time. The video is conceived as a journey through the visual and symbolic impressions in the very roots of the author’s memories that tint her everyday life and feed her artistic imagination. Returning one winter to the country of her origin, which she has left in the turmoil of the war years before, brings the author in the black-and-white landscape of a frozen ground. Reality of her traveling dissolves in a warm colors of the long-forgotten memories, and their archetypal intensity reconstructs once again the world that shaped.

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THE TUBE WITH A HAT 9th November 15:00 LHC 4
Original title: Lampa cu caciula
Country: Romania
Year: 2006
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 23’
Format: DVD
Language: Romanian with English subtiles

Director: Radu Jude
Editor: Catalin Cristutiu
Screenwriter: Florin Lazarescu
Cimeatography: Marius Panduru
Producer: Ada Solomon
Productions: HiFi Films Productions

Cast: Gabriel Spahiu, Marian Bratu

Plot: Missing the tube with the hat, young Marian gets his dad up early to help fix the TV before the afternoon movie.

Director: Radu Jude. Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1977.
Graduated in 2003 the filmmaking Department of Media University Bucharest . He worked as assistant director for feature films shot in Romania, like “Amen.” by Costa-Gavras, “Vacuums” by Luke Creswell & Steve McNicholas, “The Rage” by Radu Muntean and „The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” by Cristi Puiu. He directed the short fiction films „Wrestling” (2003) (selected in over 20 international film festivals- including Montpellier, Huesca, Trieste, Mediawave, Transilvania Int’l Film Fest, Amiens and awarded at Viena Independent Film Fest and Brno Film Fest) , „The Black Sea” (2004) (screened at Berlinale Talent Campus ), a TV series and many advertising commercials. The short-film „The Tube with a Hat” (2006) has been selected to the following film festivals: Telluride, Montpellier (The Great Prize), Cottbus (The Great Prize), Dakino (The Great Prize), Gijon, Bilbao (The Great Prize), Trieste, Sundance, Swansea Bay. He is currently in development with the feature film „Principles of Life” (written by Razvan Radulescu and Alex Baciu), with the support of Hubert Bals Fund, which won the The Balkan Fund Development Award at the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
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THE FLAG 9th November 22:00 LHC 3
Original title: Bayrak
Country: Turkey
Year: 2007
Genre: Drama
Run time: 8’
Format: DVD
Language: Turkish with English subtiles

Director, Sound/Sound Designer, Editor, Cinematographer: Köken Ergun
Cinematographer: Hatice Güleryüz
Sound/Sound Designer: Thomas Wallmann

The nature of patriotism and how nationalism is taught to youngsters is examined in this short documentary from filmmaker Koken Ergun. Bayrak (aka The Flag) offers a glimpse of annual ceremonies held in Turkey to celebrate the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the nation's parliament. April 23 is Children's Day, and kids from all across the nation are brought to Istanbul to take part in solemn ceremonies honoring their nation, flag and government -- presentations that the kids have no role in creating. At what point does this celebration of national pride turn into a propaganda ritual? Bayrak (aka The Flag) was screened in competition at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Director: Köken Ergun was born in 1976 in Stambul, Turkey. After studying acting in Stambul he continued the post graduated studies in King’s College London. He became involved with contemporary art, specifically video and performance and his works are exhibited in a number of important contemporary galleries.

Filmography:
THE FLAG (Bayrak)
Journey to the Sun (1999)

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VOYEUR 8th November 19:00 LHC 3
Country: Macedonia
Year: 2008
Format: DVD
Run time: 5,15’
Director: Aleksandar Spasoski