06.03. 10.00 Plevna 2 P1

Language: English / Finnish

PLANET A

France 2008

Animation // 7 min

Director: Momoko Seto
Script: Momoko Seto
Photography: Momoko Seto, Jean Rene Lorand
Animation: Brice Bignami, Mihai Grecu
Sound: Ronan Gicquel
Editing: Momoko Seto
Music: Yann Leguay
Production: Le Fresnoy / Natalia Trebik
Web: www.lefresnoy.net

The world has become a dried out planet, where the growing of cotton, over-exploited for economical reasons is the main cause of desertification. A saline desert covers acres of dried out land where strange salt trees appear.

WAS ÜBRIG BLEIBT

LEFT BEHIND

Germany 2008

Documentary // 13 min

Director: Andreas Graefenstein, Fabian Daub
Script: Andreas Graefenstein, Fabian Daub
Photography: Ulf Behrens
Sound: Pablo Paolo Kilian
Editing: Andreas Graefenstein, Fabian Daub
Music: Philipp Meiers
Production: Polski Fiat Produktion / Andreas Graefenstein
Web: www.wasuebrigbleibt.de

In Waldenburg, in the Lower Silesian Coalfield, all mines are closed down. Lukasz and his elder friend Jacek have been digging coal at their own risk for several years now. They have been trapped several times. But they keep going.

TIMEWARP

Russia 2008

Experimental // 15 min

Director: Mikhail Zheleznikov
Script: Mikhail Zheleznikov
Photography: Mikhail Zheleznikov
Sound: Mikhail Zheleznikov
Editing: Mikhail Zheleznikov
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Production: Mikhail Zheleznikov
Web: www.zheleznikov.com

A short experimental documentary about the last minutes of life.

PHOTOGRAPH OF JESUS

United Kingdom 2008

Animation // 7 min

Director: Laurie Hill
Script: Laurie Hill
Photography: Laurie Hill
Animation: Laurie Hill, Michael Zauner, Will Bishop-Stephens
Sound: Toolshed Music
Editing: Laurie Hill
Music: Toolshed Music
Production: Pendulum Pictures

Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where unruly images have a life of their own.

COCAIS, A CIDADE REINVENTADA

COCAIS, THE REINVENTED TOWN

Brazil 2008

Documentary // 14 min

Director: Ines Cardoso
Script: Ines Cardoso
Photography: Ines Cardoso
Sound: Ines Cardoso
Editing: Ines Cardoso
Music: Stephen Vitiello, Mikhail Rudy, Jukka Mikkola, Jyrki Siukonen
Production: Plateau Produçoes LTDA / Tibiriça Beto

Cocais is a documentary film made with patients and employees of an asylum town in Sao Paulo state inland. This is the story of a town that reinvented itself through a movie, or the story of a movie invented by a town.

SHOCKWAVES

Australia 2008

Fiction // 18 min

Director: Serge Ou
Script: Michael Cove
Photography: Geoff Ellis
Animation: Serge Ou, Eye Candy Animation
Sound: Nick Munnings
Editing: Chris Bamford
Music: Serge Ou
Production: Bearcage Productions / Michael Tear

Terry Adair is the king of talkback radio - but today, one caller will make this a day tragically unlike any other.

HANASAARI A

Finland 2009

Documentary // 16 min

Directors: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen
Script: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen
Photography: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen
Editing: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen
Music: Joonatan Portaankorva
Production: Pohjankonna Oy / Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen

Hanasaari A is an experimental documentary about the demise of the old coal power plant of Helsinki’s Hanasaari island and the irreversible change in the cityscape of Helsinki. The film is based on half a million photographs from the last two years of the power plant’s life.