WINNERS 2008
Best International Feature -- I AM FROM TIVOV VELES : Slovenia/Macedonia/
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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. |
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Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska |
Country: Macedonia/Slovenia |
Runtime: 102m |
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Best International Short -- DAS DOLES : UK
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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. |
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Director: Gabriel Tupinanba |
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Runtime: 28m |
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Best Sci-Fi/Horror -- INFERNO, UK,
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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. |
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Director: Alan Gibbs |
Country: UK |
Runtime: 87m |
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Best Documentary -- BLIND SPOT -- USA
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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. |
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Director: Adolpho Doring |
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Runtime: 92m |
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Best Nordic Feature -- Family Rules
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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”.
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Director: M. Meyer |
Country: Norway/Germany |
Runtime: 102m |
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Best Nordic Short -- SECRET ADVENTURES
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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. |
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Director: Max Schacker |
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Runtime: 5m |
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Best Nordic Documentary -- TRACES : Finland
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One person sets
out to re-establish a family connection broken by the
Holocaust and the Iron Curtain. This search takes her to But today the Internet provides a new kind of tool for tracing relatives... |
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Director: M Pasanen |
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Runtime: 32m |
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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






