Film Brochure IIDFF 2013 (English)

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18.30 Opening Ceremony

19.30 LIONS (S)

Synopsis We still hear about being a model citizen!

Place / Year of Production

Spain / 2013

Duration

5' mins 13'' secs

Script Writer / Director - Producer

Nacho Albert - Albert Nash

19.35 BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN(D)

Synopsis

The film has as case study the region of Zagoria in Epirus, which has ecological and architectural features of significant importance. At the beginning a reference is made to the main problems of everyday life and to the factors that are barriers to development The opportunities are then highlighted and the elements that can lead to a more viable prospect for prosperity and regeneration of Zagoria. Place / Year of Production : Greece / 2012 Duration : 19' mins 57'' secs

Script Writer / Director - Producer :

Avrilios Karakostas - Alexandros Karapetsis

19.55 CULTURA (S)

Synopsis

The Order Party doesn't tolerate the homeland traitors.


Spain / 2013

Duration

3' mins 30'' secs


Christina Cardin



20.00 HALF BOARD HEAVEN (S)

Synopsis

Big-shot, dirty, lawyer receives a card for a business meeting. He arrives at

the meeting point - a warehouse - specially decorated as an office where a

Man not entirely visible, due to the low lighting is waiting for him. The

lawyer accompanies the 'hidden' Man for a drink and they begin a

discussion for the values of life and ethics where it leads to secrets and

revelations that haunt them both.


Greece / 2011

Duration

10' mins, 23'' secs


George Ktistakis

George Kimoulis – Alexandros Logothetis

20.10 AGNUS DEI(F)

Synopsis

He was born from the ones that he shouldn't, he lived with those that he

mustn't and he killed the one that he shouldn't.

Based on a true story Agnus Dei is a kind of Oedipus of our days. Peter

must find this way to redemption. But the past will make itself known and

fate sparingly gives mercy.


Kosovo / 2012

Duration

1 hr , 47' mins, 35'' secs


Agim Sopi



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15.00 MY FOREST(S)

Synopsis

With the view of a child, travel throughout the forest to discover its magic, its

mysteries and its meetings…


Belgium / 2012

Duration

6' mins 56'' secs

Script Writer - Director - Producer

Sebastien Pins

15.10 OH HOW I LONG(D)

Synopsis

The documentary depicts the decay of Al-Quds through the life of 67 years old

Ibrahim Shabana. Born in the beautiful Old City of Jerusalem to a family that was

once the most respected distributor of books in Palestine. Ibrahim lives at present

in a narrow refugee camp at the outskirts of the city. His only income is from selling

the Al-Quds daily newspaper at Bab Al'amood, the famous Damascus Gate, and

entrance to the Old City. But at the gate where reality and fantasy intersect,

Ibrahim's belief in his kinship with the latefamous Egyptian singer Abdel Halim

Hafez, with whom he shares the last name and a similar appearance, has a

paradoxical power of salvation.

Place / Year of Production : Palestine / 2013

Duration : 39’ mins, 12’’ secs

Director - Producer : Riyad Deis

15.50 SEPARATION SONNET(S)

Synopsis

A relationship told by the movement and position on the swings. A

rhythmic experimental short inspired by “Soneto de Separação”, a sonnet

by the Brazilian poet, playwright and bossa nova composer Vinicius de

Moraes.

Place / Year of Production : Brazil / 2012

Duration : 8' mins , 5’’ secs

Script Writer - Director – Producer : Andressa Furletti



16.00 ISMAEL(S)

Synopsis

Ismael, widower of his beloved wife Teresa, walks the streets of the city

in search of cardboard, in his extensive travels have confrontations with

other tramp, with Juan, a mental patient who believes is a dog and Luigi,

the most famous baker in the city - who keeps scolding his own daughter,

because she did not inherit his gift in pastry. But fate of these people is

about to change, thanks to a magical event that will trigger Ismael.


Mexico / 2012

Duration

17' mins 9'' secs

Script Writer - Director – Producer

Jorge Lopez Salazar - Omar Rivero

16.20 A TRAIN FOR FRANCE(S)

Synopsis

The last minutes of Louis Le Prince’s life, the inventor of the first camera and

creator of the first movie ever made, who disappeared on a train ride while

he was going to patent his invention.


France / 2013

Duration

6' mins , 33" secs


Pierrick Chopin - Corentin Romagny

16.27 EXIT(S)

Synopsis

When a child is exploited no turning back


Spain / 2012

Duration

2' mins , 5’’ secs

Script Writer/Director – Producer

Pepe Botias - Scifilms



16.30 LEA(S)

Synopsis

A story caught between imagination and reality, LEA is seven years old and is

the loving daughter of three sets of parents: mothers and fathers of different

ages, social backgrounds and behaviours..


Italy / 2012

Duration

21' mins 52" secs


Dario Gorini - Dania e Lea Martino

16.50 HORIZON(S)

Synopsis

The world is gone, all that is left are its ashes. In a desperate attempt to bring

the family together, Ana and her mother begin a dangerous trip where they´ll

face the creatures that now rule the Earth and a more dangerous monster:

the one we all carry inside...


Spain / 2012

Duration

24' mins 25'' secs

Script Writer -Director - Producer

Aitor Uribarri Sanchez

17.15 TIME DEMENTIA(S)

Synopsis

One man wakes up with amnesia and tries to figure his past

and future by travelling in time through his memories.


Greece / 2012

Duration

14' mins 57'' secs


Vangelis Papaevangeliou



17.30 DRAGAN WENDE WEST-BERLIN(D)

Synopsis

A bordello doorman in West-Berlin wants the Wall and his past back. The

Yugoslav immigrant Dragan Wende used to be the street king of West-Berlin’s

1970s hedonistic disco scene. Along with his friends, he roamed the nightclubs

on both sides of the Wall – his pockets full of Western money. But when the

Wall fell, everything changed. Dragan has not set foot in East Berlin for the past

20 years and has no intention to do so. A microcosm of underdogs and their

survival strategies unfolds as a tragicomedy in a still-divided city. A crazy piece

of world history told from the kitchen of an eccentric and washed-up bordello

doorman. A moving piece of family history, told in the historical dimension of

the Cold War. A loving portrait full of (black) humor, stunning archives and

music:moving, educational and entertaining.


Germany/Serbia / 2013

Duration

1 hr , 24' mins , 16'' secs

Director - Producer

Lena Muller, Dragan Von Petrovic

18.55 ADOLESCENCE LOST(S)

Synopsis

Have we forgotten our childhood or are we toys played by us ?


Greece / 2012

Duration



Haris Gioulatos



19.10 BROKEN BORDER(D)

Synopsis

This documentary is split into episodes each helping to develop the

story of : smuggling. This illegal activity involves a beginning and an

end with several stages and routes in between. The smuggling is done

with animals and cars and the structure of the movie refers to each

station that is passed after a pause to get to that place. A poem

before each episode acts as a prelude. The movie starts with a

disastrous scene but it's forgotten till the last part that again we see

the same catastrophic images that cause the audience to come back to the beginning of the movie to find

out the meaning of them. The documentary tells the story of how petroleum is delivered over the border

and in the end goes to the first stage i.e. the departure place.

Place / Year of Production : Iran / 2012

Duration : 18 mins, 50 secs

Director - Producer : Keywan Karimi

19.30 LIFE EXPERIENCES(S)

Synopsis

John is having some trouble with his new line of work, so he

asks for advice from an ex-colleague, Nick, who is early-

retired. They arrange to meet at a bar and discuss about work.

John later receives a call from his boss regarding a new urgent

job that he has to do that night.

Place / Year of Production : Greece / 2012

Duration : 11' mins 3'' secs

Script Writer -Director – Producer : Dimitris Pemmas

19.42 INDIGO(S)

Synopsis

Indigo is drama short film about loneliness and hope. The story is about

two young and lost souls in New York City. She is an adored actress and

he is a poor bike messenger. They are both struggling with adapting to a

life they do not feel like they belong to.


Sweden / 2013

Duration

18' mins 59'' secs

Script Writer -Director – Producer

Paul Jerndal



20.00 OPEN VILLAGE COUNCIL(D)

Synopsis

The Open Village Council is one of the few forms of direct democracy that

remain in the world. In Spain, it is a right that villages of less than a hundred

inhabitants are entitled to, in recognition of the tradition of assembly where

villagers gathered in symbolic places such as squares etc.


Spain / 2012

Duration

5' mins 53'' secs

Director - Producer

Carmen Comadrán

20.05 THE LAST CASE(D)

Synopsis

The last time Jose Lluya saw his father and uncles was on a dark night in 1987,

when hooded men broke into his home in the countryside of Peru. During the

following 20 years his only purpose was to find them. His father and uncles

were some of the many victims of the bloody civil war that the terrorist group

'Shining Path' led Peru in the period 1980 - 2000.

Place / Year of Production : Peru / 2013

Duration : 15' mins

Director - Producer : Fernando Torres - Dimitris Kozmas

20.20 SUNFLOWER SEEDS(D)

Synopsis

A group of children surviving on the streets of Athens. Among them is Sayid, a

twelve-year old boy, who works all day selling sunflower seeds in the city’s

suburban parks. His existence borders on absolute poverty, as he prowls for

food in philanthropic organizations. His daily routine in the chaotic capitol of

Greece is nothing but a struggle for survival. At the same time, however, he

manages to find and enjoy the freedom the city streets can offer. Sayid, along

with his friends who are all immigrants from Afghanistan, escape their

desperation by clinging onto their hopes. With them, he plays innocent

childhood games and dreams of a better future: He wants to leave for Northern

Europe, to go to school, and to have a decent job when he grows up. But how

fast does a child grow? Sayid is trapped in Greece, a country plagued by a

financial crisis, increasing unemployment, rampant xenophobia, and racist

violence. Sayid states clearly, “I’ve been here about two years, and it feels like twenty have passed.”



Director - Producer : Antonis Tolakis



20.50 HIDDEN LIFE(S)

Synopsis

A dramatic thriller that revolves around the last journey of a British in an

isolated Greek island. During his exploration in a Greek forest full of

investigative journalist stags, John falls victim of three illegal hunters that run

after him inside the Greek dense forest. John loses his memory after the hit of

the poachers’ gun and he starts a new life. An old man saves John’s life, but he

prevents him from recovering his memory. The old man’s fatal mistake puts an

end to his sick fantasy of father-son, as Marie finds out where her husband

John is. However, her arrival in the isolated hut in Greece not only does not

save John from his slavery but also signals a new life that John needs to deal

with.


Greece / 2011

Duration

15' mins


Andreas Savvidis – Dimitris Gkotsis – Nikitas Rafail

21.05 BRONZE(F)

Synopsis

Berta and Horacio are two half siblings, from a family of fishermen. Years

after the death of their parents are reunited at the home of his childhood,

with the aim of stealing epitaphs in the cemetery. Beyond the possible

money, she searches her brother to calm her desolation.


Argentina / 2013

Duration

1 hr , 21' mins, 58'' secs


Claudio Perrin - Denise Almeida



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15.00 COMADRE’S DAY(D)

Synopsis

Once a year, the Thursday before the beginning of Carnival, is

the day dedicated to women. They gather for one reason, to

unloose their wills, instincs and ideals, to let them flow in order to

become the Comadres of a new cycle of life.

Place / Year of Production : Argentina / 2013


Director – Producer

Wanda López Trelles - Itín Producciones

15.25 PRINCESS FALL(S)

Synopsis

Eleonore travels to the south of Chile with her boyfriend Martin,looking for her

roots. Guided by Lincoyan, a young man from the area, she will experience an

encounter with the land and their ancestors, making an old legend come to life.


Chile / 2012

Duration

19' mins 50'' secs


Joy Penroz

15.45 TRAFFIC(S)

Synopsis

In Thessaloniki, Greece, Maria a young woman is rushing to attend

a meeting for work. In today's Greece, she encounters many

obstacles in her everyday life, from relationship issues to family

conflicts. Ultimately, she will make a terrible discovery under the

unbearable sun of Thessaloniki.


Greece / 2012

Duration

20' mins


Leonardo Cariglino



16.05 WHEN EVERYTHING IS OVER(S)

Synopsis

Since Rocío's husband lost his job, she fights everyday to get the family ahead.

Although this effort traps her in a net of lies that also puts her aside from her

family against her will.


Spain / 2013

Duration

20’ mins 58’’ secs


Suso Imbernón

16.25 UNCANNY(S)

Synopsis

Trapped with no hope of escape seeking for an answer that will bring him in

front of the truth.


Greece / 2012

Duration

10’ mins 15’’ secs


Petros Roussos

16.35 THE VIOLINIST OF AUSCHWITZ(D)

Synopsis

A Sephardic Jew, born in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, tells the harrowing

experience of having been imprisoned for two years in the Nazi death camp

Auschwitz, and how his life was saved thanks to who could play the violin.


Spain / 2012

Duration


Director – Producer

Carlos Hernando



16.50 NOON AT THE PARK(S)

Synopsis

One noon at a park in Athens. The everyday routine of people

through a couple's discussion.


Greece / 2012

Duration : 3' mins, 48'' secs


Vangelis Papaevangeliou

16.55 THE ADVENTURE OF MARRIED COUPLE(S)

Synopsis

Couples who are living together both work to make their ends

meet. The man works night shifts from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. and

the woman works during the day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. they

have to work all week even on weekends and whenever one of

them comes home the other should get ready to leave.

Place / Year of Production : Iran / 2013


Script Writer - Director – Producer : Keywan Karimi

17.05 I LOVE YOU(S)

Synopsis

Is it a battle , or we just can't get away from ourselves ?


Greece / 2011

Duration

14' mins 2'' secs


Haris Gioulatos

17.20 DREAMING APECAR(S)

Synopsis

Caterina is a 45 year old Italian woman who has been without a job for months and

cannot find another one. So she accepts to work as a carer for Gheorghe, an elderly

lively Romanian stuck to a wheelchair. This experience will change her life.


Italy / 2013

Duration

17' mins 7'' secs


Dario Leone



17.40 FERTILE SAND(S)

Synopsis

Buddha, is one of many children living in the Sahara refugee camps. One

afternoon, he decides to stop playing football with his friends, and leave town to

play in the desert. Day after day, Budha is increasingly obsessed with sand, which

after her, hides a little secret.


Spain / 2012


Script Writer/Director - Producer

Tomas Rojo - Santiago Rojo-Erika Elizalde

17.55 THE MAN WHO FED HIS SHADOW(S)

Synopsis

A man intrudes into rich people’s dinners claiming that he can collect the food

from their table and feed his shadow which, curiously enough, is a female figure.


Greece / 2012

Duration

17 mins 43'' secs


Mario Garefo - Filiki Eteria

18.15 GRIEVING NEW MOON(D)

Synopsis

Hiram Pereira de Lima, journalist, actor, poet and communist activist, was killed

by the dictatorship in Brazil. The girls meet to talk about his father through

music, unifying element of the family routine. They sing the song composed by

his father in jail and mother songs.


Brazil / 2013

Duration

29' mins 35'' secs

Director - Producer

Leila Jinkings



18.45 MY TURN(S)

Synopsis

Revenge in the 2nd background.


Greece / 2013

Duration

5' mins 18'' secs


Thanos Karvounis - AKS Tiinewzfilms

18.50 UNCLE SEREF AND HIS SHADOW(S)

Synopsis

Şeref is a 60 years old farmer living in Western Anatolia. During

the Cyprus Landings in 1974, his shadow was spotted which

caused him to get shot. When Şeref turns back crippled, his

childish nature and restlessness gets out of control. His wife,

Asiye can't tolerate his attitude and starts living in another

house in the same village. Şeref starts to think that everything

bad that happens to him is because of his shadow, so he yells

at his shadow saying not to follow him anymore.

Place / Year of Production : Turkey / 2013

Duration : 14’ mins 50’’ secs

Script Writer/Director - Producer : Buğra Dedeoğlu - Serkan Kaptan, Selen Usanmaz

19.05 BUTTERFLY(S)

Synopsis

In the time of economical crisis, two men, two opposite

sides of the same coin, flipping in an internal gambling of

survival.


Duration

13' mins


Haris Gioulatos



19.20 CENTS(S)

Synopsis

A well-dressed man walks whit haughty with his dirty shoes, is going to give a beggar a

coin, in exchange, the beggar will have to play the game that the man offers.


Spain / 2012

Duration : 6' mins 37’’ secs


Diego Fernando Amaya Rodriguez

19.30 SPITFIRE – BACK TO ZERO(D)

Synopsis

SPITFIRE : The incredible story of one of the best heavy metal bands in Greece.

Spitfire had everything going for them until one day, lead singer Dinos Kostakis

was involved in a tragic accident that forced him to retire from the stage after

sustaining a serious injury. His marvellous voice became metal history before he

even reached his peak. Despite adversity, Spitfire found the strength to go on.

This documentary features previously unreleased tracks with the legendary "First

Attack" line-up. Manager Giannis Koutouvos and founder and lead guitarist Ilias

Loginidis take a walk down memory lane. "Spitfire: Back to Zero" documents a

long-overdue reunion after a 15-year hiatus, giving rise to memories,

disagreements and conflicts. But what is it all about? Art? Glory? Money? The only

one who can provide the answers is Dinos Kostakis, the voice that forever ceased, because life surpasses

art and it always will.


Duration : 1 hr 30' mins

Director - Producer : Vangelis Rigas

21.00 THE MURDERESS (F)

Synopsis

Frankogiannou is a woman, experienced many sufferings in her troubled life which

caused many traumas in her poor soul. Her logic got haunted by injustice and

misery. In her clouded mind she believes that her sufferings give her the right to

take the law in her own hands. Herm mind got slightly exalted. Human loigic

replaces Divine Will with grievous results. Lost in her own demons she withdraws

from the city of men leaving behind her dead bodies of little girls...Girls that would

have become miserable women like her... Without any hope or faith she will seek

refuge in the wilderness where haunted by her nightmares she will be lost in her

own despair. Unfaithfulness, the void of her soul, will surround her. Then a wave

will make her vanish...


Duration : 1 hr 29' mins 57'' secs

Script Writer - Director - Producer : Stella Arkenti



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15.00 RADIANT STAR(S)

Synopsis

A rumble man from the countryside watches his life pass through a frightening

transformation after witness a star falling from the sky. Completely lost, he has

only one friend to help him find a way out of his terrible condition.


Brazil / 2013

Duration

25' mins 12'' secs


Fabiana Servilha

15.25 LIMA(S)

Synopsis

Sandra is preparing to celebrate the first anniversary with her

boyfriend, but this is probably the last celebration together.


Peru / 2012

Duration

8' mins 51'' secs


Dennis Perinango

15.35 INFERNO(S)

Synopsis

Andrea and Matteo are two brothers, the first one is two years

older. They lost their parents so they are very involded with

themselves. Matteo suffers from stammer and this makes him

insecure,shy and clumsy. He shows his shyness with the women

with whom he cannot establish any relationship. He attends a

meeting site called “ Meet Love”, where he can communicate just

with the writing, but everytime he organizes some real meeting

he stops his convinctions, he's quickly dumped and his pain and his feeling of isolation raise. Andrea, on the

contrary, is a successful actor and a confident womanizer with a paternal attitude, but not much sensitive,

he does everything to help his younger brother who is so weak and so alone.

Place / Year of Production : Italy / 2013



Francesco Cozzupoli



15.55 Rrose Selavy(S) (eros c’est la vie)

Synopsis

Problems, disputes, conflicts and lack of sentimentality of a

couple are presented through simple everyday actions and

conditions for coexistence of two people together in their

apartment.


Greece / 2011

Duration

15' mins 11'' secs


Dimitra Stavropoulou

16.10 THE MAN OF MY LIFE(S)

Synopsis

The man of my life. Romantic fiction. All audiences. A young

woman has allowed her legs to guide her steps and, even,

think for her; however her willful legs abandoned her when she

needs them most. Confused after discovering that she and her

legs do not share the same interests, she takes up again.

Place / Year of Production : Mexico / 2013


Script Writer - Director - Producer : Omar Bernal

16.17 DECISIONS(S)

Synopsis

Deciding things is not easy, but life goes on and sometimes not pay much

attention to the process.Until one night a peculiar dream too clearly reveals it.


Spain / 2012

Duration

13' mins 12'' secs


Alberto Cano - Ivan Minambres - Diana Cano



16.30 MEMORIAL(S)

Synopsis

At a war memorial a young girl meets a mysterious old man, who looks like a

soldier ghost. He can’t remember the name of his best friend, who died

during the war.


Italy / 2013

Duration

10' mins 9'' secs


Francesco Filippi

16.40 THE FUGUE(S)

Synopsis

Simona, a woman in her forties, who is presenting cheese

samples in some parisian suburbs supermarket, Aubervilliers

has a surprise : out of nowhere, her ex-lover, Michel, is there,

among the clients.

Place / Year of Production : France / 2012

Duration

19' mins 56'' secs


Xavier Bonnin - Joanna Sitkowska-Bayle - G.R.E.C

17.00 SEE YOU NEXT WEEK(S)

Synopsis

The clock rings but our man is already awake and smiling. At his near eighty, he

suits up, takes a chair, table, dishes, wine and flowers…. And starts a long way

to go to his date.


Germany/Spain / 2011

Duration

7' mins 35'' secs


Irene Hernanz

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