31-03-2011

FESTIVALS: Krakow Announces Short Film Competition Line-up

By FNE Staff

    KRAKOW: The 51st Krakow Film Festival (23-29 May 2011, www.kff.com.pl) has selected 39 films for the International Short Film Competition. The short film category is one of the festival's three main competitions, and its winner is awarded the Golden Dragon prize.

    The short film competition consists of documentary, fiction, and animated films of 30 minutes or less. The geographically diverse selection include three films from Poland, two from Slovakia, and one each from Lithuania and Czech Republic.

    A complete list of films selected for the international short film competition follows:

    Documentary

    1. „Bread for Bird", dir. Aleksandra Strelyanaya, Russia 26'

    2. „Playground", dir. Susanna Helke, Finland 30'

    3. „Out of Round - What is Behind?", dir. Jaro Vojtek, Slovakia 30'

    4. „At the Stairs", dir. Rajesh S. Jala, India 30'

    5. „Raul's World", dir. Jessica Rodríguez, Zoe Miranda, Cuba 20'

    6. „Czech Post-War History", dir. Jaroslav Kratochvíl, Czech Republic 9'

    7. „Photographer's Wife", dir. Philip Widmann, Karsten Krause, Germany 29'

    8. „I'm Never Afraid!", dir. Willem Baptist, Netherlands 20'

    9. „Stranger", dir. Christophe Hermans, Belgium, 12'

    10. „I Will Forget This Day", dir. Alina Rudnitskaya, Russia 25'

    11. „Night Falls on the Menagerie", dir. Nicolas Philibert, France 11'

    12. „Paparazzi", dir. Piotr Bernaś, Poland 30'

    13. „Decrescendo", dir. Marta Minorowicz, Poland 22'

    Fiction

    14. „Baby", dir. Daniel Mulloy, UK 25'

    15. „1994", dir. Kaveh Tehrani, Norway 29'

    16. „The Quartet", dir. Sarah Arnold, France 15'

    17. „The Third Rule", dir. Aundre Johnson, USA 15'

    18. „Our Father, dir. Marius Ivaskevicius, Lithuania 28'

    19. „Prunelle and Melodie", dir. Simonet Mathieu, France 32'

    20. „Hasaki Ya Suda, dir. Cédric Ido, France 24'

    21. „Yuri Lennon's Landing on Ralpha 46", dir. Anthony Vouardoux, Germany / Switzerland 15'

    22. „Battle for Britain", dir. Alex Helfrecht , UK 13'

    23. „I", dir. Rafael Wolf, Switzerlanda 12'

    24. „The Birthday Circle", dir. Philip Lepherd , UK 5'

    25. „Casus Belli", dir. Yorgos Zois, Greece 11'

    26. „Without Snow", dir. Magnus von Horn, Poland / Sweden 30'

    Animation

    27. „Journey To Cape Verde", dir. José Miguel Ribeiro, Portugal 17'

    28. „Sticky Ends", dir. Osman Cerfon, France 6'

    29. „1989. When I Was 5 Years Old", dir. Thor Ochsner, Denmark 10'

    30. „One More Time!", dir. Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Tatiana Okruzhnova, Alina Yakhyaeva, Nataliya Pavlycheva, Mariya Arkhipova, Russia 3'

    31. „Stones", dir. Katarina Kerekesova, Slovakia 26'

    32. „I Have Fear", dir. Mariola Brillowska and her students, Germany 15'

    33. „Lowdown Empire", dir. Polina Grinberg, USA 13'

    34. „Once Only", dir. Nuno Amorim, Portugalia 6'

    35. „Swings and Milkshakes", dir. Fernando Mendes, Erick Ricco, Brasil 10'

    36. „The Renter", dir. Jason Carpenter, USA 9'

    37. „Sunday 2", dir. Jochen Kuhn, Germany 11'

    38. „Women's Day Gift", dir. Mihail Dvorjankin, Russia 8'

    39. „Talk to Him", dir. Agata Prętka, Poland 7'