04.03. 20.00 Plevna 2 K4

Language: English / Finnish

ZEESTAN

LIFE

Iran 2007

Documentary // 10 min

Director: Mahmoud Falavarjani
Script: Mahmoud Falavarjani
Photography: Ali reza Javani, Mahmoud Falavarjani
Sound: Hadi Kiany
Editing: Seed Mojtaba Mirlohe
Production: Documentary & Experimental Film Center

Life goes on.

BEHEADING OF A SMILING DOG

Switzerland 2008

Fiction // 7 min

Director: Georg Lendorff
Script: Georg Lendorff, Mark Tilton
Photography: David Raedeker
Sound: Roland Heap, Peter Bräker
Editing: Georg Lendorff
Music: Dominik Scherrer
Production: Smiling Dog / Georg Lendorff

A bunch of witty kids venture into the deep end of 21st century entertainment. Inspired by news images, TV shows and internet video clips they plot to behead Timmy their pet dog. A sure recipe for youtube fame. Beheading of a Smiling Dog is a satire about juvenile curiosity getting entangled with the media and entertainment industry.

ARAYESHGAR BAGHDAD

BAGH DAD BAR BER

Iran 2008

Fiction // 12 min

Director: Massoud Bakhshi
Script: Massoud Bakhshi, Peyman Maadi
Photography: Alimohammad Ghasemi
Sound: Frashid Faraji
Editing: Azad Jafarian
Production: Documentary & Experimental Film Center / Massoud Bkhshi

A Baghdad barber has to pay the price for what he most desires.

HAZE

Singapore 2008

Fiction // 15 min

Director: Anthony Chen
Script: Anthony Chen
Photography: Looi Wan Ping
Sound: Alan Chong, Lin Kyaw Kyaw
Editing: Joanne Cheon
Music:Darren Ng
Production: Fisheye Pictures / Felicia Tan
Web: www.objectifsfilms.com

On a hot humid day, a teenage couple decides to skip school and idle the day away.

MEGATRON

Romania 2008

Fiction // 14 min

Director: Marian Crisan
Script: Marian Crisan
Photography: Tudor Mircea
Sound: Tudor Pojoni
Editing: Tudor Pojoni
Production: Mandragora / Anca Puiu
Web: www.mandragora.ro

It’s Maxim’s birthday. He’s 8 years old. He lives alone with his mother in a village quite far from the nearest city. For his birthday, Maxim’s mother takes him to a McDonald’s Restaurant.

JIA YI SHENG DE YI BEI GE BENG RENG

TWENTY-FIVE PATIENTS OF DR. JIA

China 2008

Documentary // 30 min

Director: Hongjun Wang
Script: Hongjun Wang
Photography: Hongjun Wang
Sound: Hongjun Wang
Editing: Hongjun Wang
Production: Hongjun Wang

A small clinic, an elderly doctor, a crowd of patients, all in line for one request: To be cured. Over the course of the year 2008, the filmmaker, from a fixed camera position, captured the comings and goings of Dr. Gu's patients.

KJFG NO. 5

Hungary 2008

Animation // 2 min

Director: Alexei Alexeev
Script: Alexei Alexeev
Animation: Alexei Alexeev
Sound: Alexei Alexeev
Editing: Alexei Alexeev
Music: Alexei Alexeev
Production: Studio Baestarts Ltd.

Three "professional" musicians, the Bear, the Rabbit and the Wolf are practicing their art in the forest, but suddenly the hunter turns up.