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Polar FILM FESTIVAL 2008
Festival 2008

 

WINNERS 2008

Best International Feature -- I AM FROM TIVOV VELES : Slovenia/Macedonia/

In the centre of the city of Titov Veles is a lead factory built during Tito`s communist regime. It spews pollution day and night. In this wilting community, three sisters live together. Sapho, the youngest, plays handball and goes out with lots of men. A lot of men: she hops from bed to bed to avoid solitude and escape this terrible place for fleeting moments.

Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska

Country: Macedonia/Slovenia

Runtime: 102m


Best International Short -- DAS DOLES : UK

The story of two teenagers that end up trapped in an abandoned petrol station while trying to run away from home. It becomes apparent that beyond their actions lies another - always repeating - pattern.

We see the story of this young couple repeated three times with three different sound designs and soundtracks.

Director: Gabriel Tupinanba

Country: UK

Runtime: 28m


Best Sci-Fi/Horror  -- INFERNO, UK,

Based upon several documented supernatural monster sightings in the UK, Inferno examines not only the obvious disruption a real monster would cause, but also that of the often obsessed investigators, researchers and theologians involved.

Director: Alan Gibbs

Country:  UK

Runtime: 87m

 

Best Documentary -- BLIND SPOT -- USA

A documentary that illustrates the current Oil and Energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever our measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking -- we have put ourselves at a crossroads which offer two roads with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don’t our way of life will collapse.

Director: Adolpho Doring

Country:  USA

Runtime: 92m


Best Nordic Feature --  Family Rules

Oliver is lonely. So he steals what he lacks most: A wife, three kids, a grandma, a granddad and a dog. Now he has his perfect family. He sets up strict family rules which he claims will guarantee happiness. Completely walled in from the world outside, all their neuroses and personal problems are soon revealed. But it all they discover more about themselves than they ever could in the “outside world”.

 

Director: M. Meyer

Country: Norway/Germany

Runtime: 102m


Best Nordic Short -- SECRET ADVENTURES

The story of a cinema projectionist who discovers a mysterious film and upon projecting it, becomes enamored with a siren-like actress who lures him into the film, only to betray him in order to escape the film and turn into color.

Director: Max Schacker

Country: Sweden/France

Runtime: 5m


Best Nordic Documentary -- TRACES  :  Finland

One person sets out to re-establish a family connection broken by the Holocaust and the Iron Curtain. This search takes her to Ciechocinek,Poland, where all traces of any Jewish presence have been erased.

But today the Internet provides a new kind of tool for tracing relatives...

Director: M Pasanen

Country: Finland

Runtime: 32m



OFFICIAL SELECTION 2008

THE BASKET CASE, Ireland, 17m

TERRABITES, USA, 14m

TRACES, Finland, 32m

THE BIN, USA, 20m

LATE (TARZIU), Romania, 23m

MINTO, Japan 9m

BLIND SPOT, USA, 83m

FOR A FEW MARBLES MORE (VOOR EEN PAAR KNIKKERS MEER), Netherlands, 11m

FAUX MOUVEMENTS, France, 15m

LOS LOBOS (THE WOLVES), Chile 12m

SECRET ADVENTURES OF THE PROJECTIONIST, Germany, 5m

I AM FROM TITOV VELES , Slovenia - Macedonia, 102m

VOICES FROM INSIDE, Germany - USA - Israel, 65m

WELCOME TO THE EARTH (DOBRE DOSHLI NA ZEMIATA), Bulgaria 26m

BLINDNESS, Spain 32m

I AM, YOU ARE, USA, 41m

DAWN (ALBA), Italy 9m

HIRO H (ALBA), Japan 31m

THE LAST TRIP, England 5m

HI HO, China 8m

FAMILY RULES (WIR SAGEN DU! SCHATZ), Germany 100m

SCHOOL ON THE MOVE (L'ÉCOLE NOMADE),, France 50m

MEGATRON, Romania, 14m

SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS, USA, 91m

DAS DOLES, UK, 28m

KIZI MIZI, Poland 21m

THE ROAD OF DESIRE (EL CAMINO DEL DESEO), Belgium 23m

ELEGY, Netherlands 3m

COWBOY ANGELS, France, 100m

KORYO SARAM, THE UNRELIABE PEOPLE, USA-Kazakhstan 60m

IT’S LIKE FLYING (SI VOLA), Italy, 30m

HORSES, USA, 58m

APPASIONATA, Germany 16m

MY BANANA, Latvia, 5m

SPEECHLESS, England, 7m

EVIL THAT MEN DO, USA, 72m

BETA TEST, Greece, 5m

AUSTERLITZ STATION (GARE D'AUSTERLITZ), France, 15m

SATELLITES & METEORITES, Ireland 82m

SOZDAR, Netherlands, 70m

YUNGFRAU, Russia, 40m

LONG WAVES, USA, 11m

THE CHEF’S LETTER, England, 14m

SUSPECT (DER VERDACHT), Germany, 25m