國際競賽－短片

To See if I'm Smiling

Six Israeli women give a personal account about their lives in the Army, in the Occupied Territories. A female point of view on the drama of an unending war, on the moral challenges they faced at the encounter with the Palestinian population. The women look back critically at the way they handled the power that was placed in their hands at the young age of eighteen.

The Secret of Deva

Deva, well-known for its castle, its poverty and Nadia Comäneci. Nat many things really changed in the years that Nadia left the famous gymnastic school. The training is still rough, the trainers pitiless but the girls' dreams huge. THE SECRET OF DEVA tells the story of two very talented girls who represent the gymnastics’ future and Rumania’s hope for gold.

Scenes from a Wild Boar Hunt

To begin with, I wanted my father to speak with me about Death, his future death. I had a desire to "interweave" my investigation and my thoughts with the carefully chosen words of this untalkative man. Then - ironically - my father really died. To say "really", is to make of reality in that which is unspeakable, to make with that reality...

Sam Dillemans - The Madness in the Detail

It would be hard to find someone who has never heard of Van Gogh, but are great painters' names still relevant? The portrait of contemporary painter Sam Dillemans, aims to answer that question. To him, Van Gogh, Picasso or Goya are not painters of the past but of the present. They inspire him every day and their overwhelming genius sometimes even depresses him.

Resurface

25-year-old Alex was left a quadriplegic after a diving accident. He has been swimming competitively since then. In order to transform his handicap into an opportunity he is participating in the Athens 2004 Games. His coach, Maria, is training him harder and harder. Will he win the medal that everyone is hoping for?

Play me Allegro - An Optimistic Borderline Story

The film follows a mother and her 5-year-old daughter, who live on the border between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. An intimate and surprising story of a mother and daughter, they raise each other in their barbed wired fenced house, in spite of Israeli helicopters soaring above their heads, and Palestinian rockets falling in their yard.

Maverick Mother

Tired of waiting for the perfect partner, and alarmed by the deafening tic-toc of her biological clock, 39 year-old filmmaker decides to embark on a journey into solo motherhood by choice. She joins a waiting list for a donor insemination program, but while waiting has an affair with a man and falls pregnant. Her journey now becomes that of solo motherhood by chance.

The Houses of Hristina

Hristina is invisible. Quiet and unnoticed, she cleans houses. She is a Bulgarian living in Amsterdam. Contact with her employers takes place mainly through notes. To come to terms with her life, she takes photographs of the interiors of 'her' houses. Together these photos from the house she inhabits in the Netherlands. A house that holds her prisoner.

Transylvanian Timber

In a style not unlike that of Andrei Tarkovsky, this film takes us on a lonely train ride up into a valley in the remote region on the border between Romania and the Ukraine. The entire valley can only be accessed by means of this railroad. The filmmaker treats this region as a zone that borders are running in all directions at the same time...

Purity Beats Everything

This film is about growing up in an idyllic country neighboring Germany. An uneasy silence reveals itself as the absence of truth about my Scandinavian culture's involvement with the incomprehensible evil that stems from trying to "purify" other cultures. Following the tale of two Auschwitz survivors we are led into a devastating past that leads straight into our future.