FIKE 2011 - 10^th International Short Film Festival

René’s world – Physiques

2009, France, 1′58″

Director: Renaud Jaillette
Production: Ecole supérieure d'art et média de Caen

Synopsis:

An imaginary and spooky universe, where bodies communicate in a lucid and sensuous way.

Rame Dames

2010, France, 3′51″

Director: Etienne Guiol
Production: Ecole Emile Cohl

Synopsis:

The story of a man who follows a woman in the subway.
He tries to join her, but the more he progresses the more the crowd prevents him to reach her. When he is about to touch her, he sees another woman entering another train. Hesitant and dazzled, the man watches her leave. Then he runs to her, to a second train that enters in a tunnel.

Loom

2010, Germany, 5′10″

Director: Ilija Brunck e Jan Bitzer
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Synopsis:

A moth gets stuck in a spider’s web and has to face its predator.

Mobile

2010, Germany, 6′24″

Director: Verena Fels
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Synopsis:

Transgressing all social rules, a cow takes its fate in its own hands, causing a strong impact on the other animals’ lives.

Sentenced to Life

2010, Belgium, 4′36″

Director: Hannah Letaïf e Vincent Carretey
Production: Adifac – La Cambre

Synopsis:

“Eternity is long, especially towards its end.”
Charles Bonnemort (Charles Gooddeath) lost everythin in life.
He tries to commit suicide, but finds out he is immortal.

Low Spirits

2009, Belgium, 6′28″

Director: Rémi Vandenitte
Production: Adifac – La Cambre

Synopsis:

A story in black and white.

Avoiding its Gaze

2010, France, 3′39″

Director: Chen Chen
Production: La Poudrière

Synopsis:

One day, in the market, Mister Wang notices a rooster staring at him.

Flow

Hungary, 4′54″

Synopsis:

Every path draws a circle, still we’ll never be the same.

The boy who wanted to be a lion

2010, United Kingdom, 8′39″

Director: Alois di Leo
Production: National Television and Film School

Synopsis:

Max is a seven-year-old deaf boy, living in the sixties. One day he goes on a school visit to the zoo, where he sees a lion, for the first time in his life. Inside him grows a feeling that will change his life forever.

Matter Fisher

2010, United Kingdom, 7′25″

Director: David Prosser
Production: Royal College of Art

Synopsis:

A casual trip during which a lone fisher merges with alien matter.

Chernokids

2011, France, 7′00″

Director: Matthieu Bernadat, Nils Boussuge, Florence Ciuccoli, Clément Deltour, Marion Petegnief
Production: Supinfocom Valenciennes

Synopsis:

In a Ukrainian orphanage, children are about to celebrate Mother’s Day with the one they consider as such, the Chernobyl power plant.

Matatoro

2011, France, 7′23″

Director: Raphaël Calamote, Mauro Carraro, Jérémy Pasquet
Production: Supinfocom Arles

Synopsis:

A bull and a matador face each other, fight each other and then melt together.

Telegraphics

2010, France, 5′00″

Director: Antoine Delacharlery, Lena Schneider, Léopold Parent, Thomas Thibault
Production: Supinfocom Valenciennes

Synopsis:

“Telegraphics” represents, through real images, the idyllic life of a family. The TV screen shows images of a group of scientists called Telegraphics, who have been for years involved in the research of new worlds, aiming to change the structure of reality.
Modern, although contaminated by a retro environment, “Telegraphics” is a science documentary film in pseudo-propaganda style, resorting to 3D animation techniques.

Freedom of Spirit

2011, Portugal, 10′00″

Director: Marta Monteiro
Production: Eva Yébenes, José Miguel Ribeiro, Nuno Beato, Sardinha em Lata, Lda
Script: Ana Mendes
Animation Technique: Desenho e pintura

Synopsis:

Clélia deals well with loneliness. She fills with it her Lisbon home with a patio and a garden. She devotes herself to the plants and, one day, almost without noticing it, she starts talking to them… What shall I do? – wonders Clélia. The answer will come from a neighbor, who talks to her pans…

My Music

2011, Portugal, 9′24″

Director: Tiago Albuquerque e João Braz
Production: Humberto Santana, Animanostra
Script: Luísa Costa Gomes
Animation Technique: Animação 2D, recortes

Synopsis:

MY MUSIC is a short comedy featuring a boy nicknamed steve16. He looks everywhere for a quiet place to listen to the music in his mp3. The narrative is structured along the divide between the inner world of the character and the outside world, that he always feels as invasive and aggressive.

The Millionaires

2011, Portugal, 14′38″

Director: Mário Gajo de Carvalho
Production: Luís da Matta Almeida, Zeppelin Filmes, Lda
Script: Mário Gajo de Carvalho, Thomas Ott
Animation Technique: Animação 2D

Synopsis:

Five characters and the mortal sin of avarice. A vicious circle. A small animated film noir about greed, with a texture that gives the story another dimension. Five times greed.

The Eyes of the Lighthouse

2010, Portugal/Netherlands, 15′00″

Director: Pedro Serrazina
Production: Sardinha em Lata, Lda, Photon Films, Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, Lda, Unforgiven Filmes
Script: Pedro Serrazina
Animation Technique: Personagens desenhadas sobre combinação de fundo real e texturas pintadas

Synopsis:

An isolated lighthouse keeper lives with his daughter on a rocky island exposed to the elements. From the top of his tower the father thoroughly watches the horizon, caring for the security of passing ships. With no one else for company, the girl develops a unique complicity with the sea, which brings her toys in the shape of objects washed ashore. At the rhythm of the waves, these objects disclose ancient events, memories the tides cannot erase.

Who is this Hat?

2011, Portugal, 5′00″

Director: Joana Toste
Production: Gomtch Gomtch
Script: Joana Toste
Animation Technique: Animação 2D

Synopsis:

A hat reveals the different personalities we assume in different situations.

Unwillingly

2011, Portugal, 7′00″

Director: João Fazenda e João Paulo Cotrim
Production: Humberto Santana, Animanostra
Script: João Paulo Cotrim
Animation Technique: Animação 2D

Synopsis:

A woman receives a postcard reproducing a print her father gave her when she was a child, as a lesson for life. She goes to the museum to look at the original, so often and so intensely that the painting fades away. Was it a common theft or an effect of excessive desire?

The Cobbler

2011, Portugal/Spain, 12′00″

Director: David Doutel Vasco Sá
Production: Eva Yébenes, José Miguel Ribeiro, Nuno Beato, Sardinha em Lata, Lda, Ignacio Benedeti, Xosé Zapata, IB Cinema
Script: Ana Mendes
Animation Technique: Carvão sobre papel

Synopsis:

A cobbler, wrapped up in memories and in his ever present job, lives a crucial moment in his existence. We follow a long day in his life, which will be decisive for him to summarize his past and find his way.

No Princípio era o Verbo

2006, Brazil, 18′00″

Director: Virgínia Jorge
Production: Virgínia Jorge, Verve Produções e Galpão Produções

Synopsis:

In the tale “In the Beginning Was the Word” three stories complement each other, in a lyric and humorous way that intends to meditate about the concept of truth and our search for the explanations of the everyday situations.

Entre Muros

2011, Brazil, 16′00″

Director: Adriana Tenório
Production: Felipe Fernandes, Buendia Filmes

Synopsis:

A man’s nature trying to overcome his religious option as a priest.

2 e Meio

2010, Brazil, 19′00″

Director: Alexandre Serafini
Production: Alexandre Serafini

Synopsis:

Hernâni, a Brazilian man, must get back his stolen working car.

Engano

2008, Brazil, 11′00″

Director: Cavi Borges
Production: Lara Frigotto, Cavi Borges e Gustavo Pizzi

Synopsis:

A man. A woman. Two sequence plans.

iCandomblé

2010, Brazil, 16′00″

Director: João Velho
Production: Rico Cavalcanti

Synopsis:

Followers of the orixá cult all over the world are more and more interconnected, exchanging experiences and information through the Internet, books and international voyaging. In such exchanges, generally the Brazilians try to win back rites and knowledge lost in Candomblé. Like the millenary cult of the oracle Ifá, surviving in Nigeria and Cuba. Thus, from the free circulation of information, priests, rituals and axé, starts to emerge a kind of globalised Candomblé, as opposed to the Bahia model of traditional Candomblé.

Angeli 24 Horas

2010, Brazil, 25′00″

Director: Beth Formaggini
Production: Sabrina Franzoi

Synopsis:

A documentary film about cartoonist Angeli, and the transformations his work goes through. The film is focused on his obsession over his work, and the crisis he faces over being a pop artist who must produce new political cartoons and comic strips for several media every day, at the same time having to be radical and able to renew himself, and to hit where it hurts.

Custo Zero

2010, Brazil, 12′00″

Director: Leonardo Pirovano
Production: Ricardo Prego, Raul Fernando, Marcella Jaques, Ana Alice de Morais

Synopsis:

The fortuitous facts of life serve no purpose and they don’t obey any plan nor build any kind of plot. Nevertheless, things still occur and become facts.

Ilhas Cayman

2010, Brazil, 12′00″

Director: Gabriel Perrone
Production: Alana Ribeiro Assistentes de Produção: Luzia Helena Côgo, Bob Redins, Jackeline Matias Habib de Araújo, Rita de Cássia Gonçalves, Wander de Oliveira Produção Executiva: Claudino de Jesus

Synopsis:

A taxi driver takes in a passenger who ignores the address of the place where he wants to go. On the way, while receiving the passenger’s instructions, the taxi driver finds out he is heading to his own house.

Naiá e a Lua

2010, Brazil, 13′00″

Director: Leandro Tadashi
Production: Leandro Tadashi

Synopsis:

A young indian Naiá falls in love with the moon upon hearing from the village elder the history of how the stars appeared.

Il Serpentone

3′57″, Super8mm

Directed and shot by Paulo Furtado
Edited by Rodrigo Areias
Music Life aint enough for you - The Legendary Tigerman
Developed in Átomo 47
Feat. Asia Argento

A day at the riding school

3′59″, Super8mm

Directed and shot by Paulo Furtado
Edited by Rodrigo Areias
Music These boots are made for walking (Lee Hazlewood) - The Legendary Tigerman
Developed in Átomo 47 & Movie´n´Sound

A street car named twenty-eight

3′16″, Super8mm

Directed and shot by Paulo Furtado
Edited by Rodrigo Areias
Music & then came the Pain - The Legendary Tigerman
Developed in Átomo 47 & Movie´n´Sound
Feat. Phoebe Killdeer

Promenade on South First St.

4′18″, Super8mm

Directed and shot by Paulo Furtado
Edited by Rodrigo Areias
Music Hey, Sister Ray - The Legendary Tigerman
Developed in Átomo 47
Feat. Rita Redshoes

Sunglasses after Dark

3′51″, Super8mm

Directed and shot by Paulo Furtado
Edited by Rodrigo Areias
Music Radio & TV Blues - The Legendary Tigerman
Developed in Átomo 47
Feat. Cais Sodré Cabaret

Wild Brunch

3′43″, Super8mm

Directed and shot by Paulo Furtado
Edited by Rodrigo Areias
Music She's a Hellcat - The Legendary Tigerman
Developed in Átomo 47 & Movie´n´Sound
Feat. Peaches

Apple Beach

3′38″, Super8mm

Directed and shot by Paulo Furtado
Edited by Rodrigo Areias
Music I just wanna know (what we're gonna do) - The Legendary Tigerman
Developed in Átomo 47
Feat. Cibelle

The Castle is closed for repair

6′14″, Super8mm

Directed and shot by Paulo Furtado
Edited on camera by Paulo Furtado
Music No way to Leave on a Sunday night - The Legendary Tigerman
Developed in Átomo 47
Feat. Becky Lee

God is Everywhere

3′50″, Super8mm

Directed and shot by Paulo Furtado
Edited by Rodrigo Areias
Music Light me up twice - The Legendary Tigerman
Developed in Movie´n´Sound
Feat. Claudia Efe

Mix Lápis – Caneta

1′15″

Director: Francine Silva, Cristiana Pires

Pirralho – Teatro

3′15″

Director: Luís Sousa

Bonecos de Santo Aleixo

11′00″

Director: Carla Vicente

Era uma vez

1′30″

Director: Francine Silva, Cristiana Pires

Não matam, mas moem

5′45″

Director: António Ribeiro, Fábio Azedo

Acasos

15′00″

Director: Yoann Crochet

Trash TV

Director: Rodolfo Rodrigues

Adeus

Director: Marco Gomes

Cubolution

Director: Paulo Lopes

Quem é a Natércia?

Director: Paulo Lopes

Divided

2010

Collective directing

Teenage Love

2007

Collective directing

Football

2003

Collective directing

Being Black

2009

Collective directing

Jumping into the cold water

2005

Collective directing

May

1999

Collective directing

Eu não quero voltar sozinho

Fiction, 16′00″

Director: Daniel Ribeiro

Synopsis:

The life of Leonardo, a blind teenager, completely changes with the arrival of a new student at his school. At the same time, he has to deal with the jealousy of her friend Giovana, understand the feelings aroused by new friend Gabriel.

O filme mais violento do mundo

Fiction, 16′00″

Director: Gilberto Scarpa

Synopsis:

A film producer, from humble beginnings, asks for help to a successful producer friend, who convinces him to make a movie full of blood and violence.

A luz vermelha do bandido

Doc/Fiction, 16′00″

Director: Pedro Jorge

Synopsis:

A Documentary-Radialistic-Scientific-Experimental film that pays tribute to Rogério Sganzerla's "The Red Light Bandit", and searches within the same identity. In addition to reflecting on the film industry in Brazil.

Chapa

Fiction, 15′00″

Director: Thiago Ricarte

Synopsis:

Antonio, a casual employee of roadside breaks down his work routine to expect a visit from his daughter.

Formigas

Fiction, 18′00″

Director: Caroline Fioratti

Synopsis:

End of the Second World War. In Brazil, the defeat of Japan divides the Japanese community in two radical groups. An immigrant family is in danger. For the little sisters they are giant ants that threaten his father.