SKOPJE ANIMATION FESTIVAL

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| Venelin Veltchev
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Born 1957 in Bulgaria. Graduated the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in
Sofia, Bulgaria, major - Animated Cartoon Directing. From 1980 till 1986 he worked as a
free-lance animation artist (Script Writer, Director, Art-Director, Character designer,
Storyboard, Layout artist and Key Animator) and made a few author's films. In 1987 he
became a Director at the National Animation Film Studio "Sofia" and made two short
films. In 1990 he moved to London and started to work in "Richard Williams Studio" on
the feature film "The Thief and the Cobbler". When the studio closed down, he moved to
"Stuart Brooks Animation", working on "Sammy Whiskers" and "Pigling Bland", based on
the original tales by Beatrix Potter, produced by John Coates. In 1994 he established an
animation studio in Sofia, Bulgaria named "Venelin-Animation". Producer, Developer and
Director of projects for films, TV series and commercials.

 | Vuk Jevremovic
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Vuk Jevremovic is born 1959 in Frankfurt on Main (Germany). Following the family tradition,
he studied Architecture at The Technical University Belgrade and graduated in 1984. After
spending some time in the navy as a diver, he decided to dedicate his life to art: painting
and drawing. He decided to move to Munich in 1991 where he studied at the academy of
Fine Arts with professor Gerhard Berger. Later, he graduated as master student with
professor Joseph Kosuth, 2002. His inclusion into the animation world was due to a
casual encounter with one renowned animator, Nedeljko Dragic, from Zagreb. His first
animation was based on a cheetah in motion, The Wind Subsides. That first film won 2
Grand Prix and 17 Awards. The next film, inspired by a R. M. Rilke's poem, Panther, won
15 international awards and came into final balloting for the Oscar award (1998) as best
animation short. His short animated films are: Diary (2000)Oscar qualified, Faces (2002),
Quercus, (2003), The Wheel Turns (2005), Close Your Eyes and Do Not Breathe (2006), Lux
(2007) and Patience of the Memory (2009) Oscar qualified.

 | Milivoje Gorgevic
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1997 2005 XXX Skopje
2005 2006 XXX Belgrad
2007 2012 FX3X Skopje

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Milivoje Gorgevic is born 1973 in Skopje (Macedonija).
Work experience
1995 1996 Paneks Skopje 3d Modeling artist
1996 1997 Unija Skopje Compositing artist
1997 2005 XXX Skopje Compositing artist
2005 2006 XXX Belgrad Compositing artist
2007 2012 FX3X Skopje VFX producer
Projects
Wrath of the Titans,Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, Red Tails, Rango, I Am Number
Four, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Last Airbender, Resident Evil: Afterlife
Terminator: Salvation,The Golden Compass (won Oscar for visual effects), Inkheart,
Vantage Point, The Aviator

 | Wednesday
28.11.2012
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Kino Frosina, MKC
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Competition of films for children
10:00h
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Workshop for animation for children

11:00h
| Nikola Kumev
Kumev Brothers - | Macedonia

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Workshop "Game Industry Market"

17:00h
| Marko Spasojevic
| Serbia

( ) |
Oficial selection (day 1)

20:00h
| Gala Opening

 | Films for Children

: 2012
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Emilie

Year: 2012
Director: Alla Churikova
Country: Germany

| High Above the Sky

Year: 2012
Directors: Kim Noce,
Shaun Clark
Country: UK

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Spycat and the Paper Chase
: 2011
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Year: 2011
Director: Darren Lim
Country: Singapore

: 2011
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Over the Hill

Year: 2011
Director: Jun Nito
Country: Japan

Frog Weather

: 2011
Year: 2011
: Director: Pauline Cortmann
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Country: Germany

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The Flood

: 2012
Year: 2012
: Director: Vasiliy Koretskiy
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Countries: Russia, Ukraine,

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Little Ladybird Wants to Grow up
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Year: 2011
Director: Miha Knific
Country: Slovenia

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On the Wing

Year: 2012
Director: Vera Mykaisheva
Country: Russia

Monarch

Year: 2011
Directors: Victor Rene,
Ramirez Madrigal
Country: Mexico

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Pinchaque, the Colombian Tapir
: 2011
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Year: 2011
Director: Caroline Attia
Country: Spain

 ( ) | Oficial selection (day 1) 20:00h

| The Lost Town Of Switez
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Year: 2010
Director: Kamil Polak
Country: Poland

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The animated film The Lost Town Of Switez is based on the 19th-century
epic poem of Polands greatest writer, Adam Mickiewicz. It is an apocalyptic tale of
destruction, religious miracles and spectral visitations.

| The People
Who Never Stop
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Year: 2012
Director: Florian Piento
Countries: France, Japan

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Visual fantasy about moving crowds.


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Story of Him
Year: 2011
Director: Pascual Perez
Country: Spain

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In an old theater, an ordinary guy drowns his daily routine in coffee, brandy and beer.

| Seven
Minutes In The Warsaw Ghetto
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Year: 2012
Director: Johan Oettinger
Country: Denmark

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The Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Samek, an eight years-old boy, peeks through a hole in the
wall and sees a carrot lying on the sidewalk just on the other side. He tries to pull the
carrot through the hole, unaware that two SS men are posted nearby and are following his
every move.


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Second Hand
Year: 2011
Director: Isaac King
Country: Canada

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Two neighbors have different ideas about wasting time and saving stuff. The ticking
clock, and the art of recycling... who knew that hoarding could slow down time and
conservation could reorganize it?

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Night Lights
Year: 2012
Directors: Marina
Moshkova,
Tatiana Moshkova
Country: Russia

Cinemadamare.
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Short animation made during Cinemadamare Film Festival.
When the city is asleep night lights live their own life.

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Oh Willy
Year: 2012
Directors: Emma de Swaef,
Marc James Roels
Countries: Belgium,
France, Netherlands

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Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.

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Dove Sei, Amor Mio

Year: 2011
Director: Veljko Popovic
Country: Croatia

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Is the comfort of routine and the happiness it provides enough to keep us its slaver
forever?

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Flood
Year: 2012
Director: Julia Gromskaya
Countries: Italy

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A girl at the window watches the passing of time, the waltz of seasons, waiting for her
man.

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Kingdom
Year: 2012
Director: David Downes
Country: New Zeland

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A darkly humorous examination of hidden fantasies and rituals surrounding the act of
preparing and eating a family meal.

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Grandmothers
Year: 2011
Director: Afarin Eghbal
Country: UK

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In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman awaits the birth of her grandchild
and all the joys of becoming grandmother. However, horrific circumstances means
she will be forced to wait over 30 years. Using real-life testimonials this animateddocumentary raises issues of memory and loss.

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Marbles From a Tale

Year: 2012
Director: Carlos Sosa
Country: Ecuador

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Francisco is a boy who loves playing with marbles, finds an adversary who possesses
never seen before little spheres. Franciscos obsession will lead him to an adventure to
find the truth about the mysterious boy and his precious.


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Beerbug
Year: 2012
Director: Ander Mendia
Country: Spain

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Joe, who is busy running an old roadside petrol station, decides to take a break and have
a beer. His efforts at enjoying his beer fail because someone is robbing him right under
his nose.

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Phantasma
Year: 2012
Director: Alessandro Correa
Country: Brasil

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With an essential borrowed story, the short seems to be more about displaying Correas
beautiful art style, that look modern with a slight vintage edge.

Via Tango

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Year: 2012
: Director: Adriana Navarro Alvarez
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Country: Spain

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Via Tango is an exciting way on a train of fantasy, in which the inspector falls in love with
a passenger. During the journey, he tries to seduce her helped by the rhythm of tango, but
to his surprised, another woman also wants to court him. The train becomes a dance
floor, resulting from the overflowing of the inspector, where everyone dances and dreams.

 | Thursday
29.11.2012
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Kino Frosina, MKC

|
Competition of films for children
10:00h
Mojo |
Workshop for children "My Own Cartoon Hero"
11:00h

| Venelin Velcev
| Bulgaria

|
World animation 18:00h
( ) |
Oficial selection (day 2)
20:00h

 | World animation
999,999,999

: 2012
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Year: 2012
Director: Gerald Grunow
Country: Germany

18:00h

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Death - Guilty as Charged
: 2011
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Year: 2011
Director: Marcos Busatori
Country: Spain

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Year: 2012
Director: Jossie Malis
Country: Spain

Birthday

Year: 2010
Director: Jari Vaara
Country: Finland

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Black-White World of Adam and Eve
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Year: 2012
Director: Biljana I. Kol
Country: Macedonia

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Flower of Battle

Year: 2011
Director: Simon Bogojevic
Narath
Country: Croatia

Hello Bambi

Year: 2011
Director: Faiyaz Jafri
Country: USA

History of Fiasco

Year: 2012
Director: Natali Ilchuk
Country: Ukraine

Brittle Crystal

Year: 2012
Director: Ilya Kolesnikov
Country: Russia

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In the Beginning of Time
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Year: 2012
Director: Bozidar Trkulja
Country: Croatia

 ( ) | Oficial selection (day 2) 20:00h

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| The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris
Lessmore

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short animation Oscar winner
: 2011
Year: 2011
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Directors: William Joyce,

Brandon Oldrenburg
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Country: USA

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Following a hurricane which destroys his town Morris is whisked away to a colorful old
house full of books which come alive and interact with him spreading happiness in the
community. He remains their custodian for years until it is time for him to pass on and
another guardian of the books take over from him.

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Luminaris
Year: 2011
Director: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Country: Argentina

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A beautiful pixilation short imagining a world controlled by light, and a young man
determined to find his own agency within it.

 | Nightingales In December
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Year: 2011
Director: Theodore
Ushev

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This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion, a trip into the memories, and the fields
of the current realities. What if the Nightingales where working, instead of singing, and
going south? There are no Nightingales in December what is left is only the history of
our beginning, and our end.

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She
Year: 2011
Director: Juan Montes de Oca
Country: Spain

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In Palma de Mallorca, through 5 year old kid innocence, and common life coincidences,
an Afro-American homeless remember his non-sense life going back 45 years in New
York. All together makes his life change to find at last the way to happiness.

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Peoples Front 12
Year: 2012
Director: Ivan Ivanovski
Country: Macedonia

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The film Peoples Front 12 paints a vivid picture of the modern-day society by the
extensive use of intertwining stories, symbols and allegories involving the building No.
12.

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Mouth Wide Open, Ears Shut Tight
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Year: 2012
Directors: Emily Noy,
Tom Madar
Country: Izrael

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A young woman, who lives a life of solitude and silence, finds herself drawn into a
world of sounds by her new neighbor on the other side of the wall.


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Cedric & Hope

Year: 2012
Directors: Pierce Davison
Country: Australia

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Cedrics life is just perfect. That is until his dim princess girlfriend Faith leaves him for
the prospect of some battle-hardened knights. Suddenly Cedric is thrust upon a journey
that forces him to confront what he really wants.

| Being Bradford
Dillman
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Year: 2011
Director: Emma Burch
Country: GB

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When bullied Molly Flowers declares a dislike for boys, her boozy and self-medicated
mother invents a story to shock her into a more sympathetic viewthe tale of how Molly
was born a boy called Bradford Dillman but had her willy chopped off takes on a life of
its own.

 |Irish Folk Furniture

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Year: 2012
Director: Tony Donoghue
Countries: Ireland

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An animated documentary about repair and recycling in rural Ireland.

: 2011
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Lumberjack
Year: 2011
Director: Pawel Debski
Country: Poland

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On the shore of a great ocean, surrounded by colossal cliffs and a forest reaching almost
past the horizon, lives a father and his son. The father is a lumberjack. The boy on the
other hand is happily living the life of a boy who sees nothing past his father. Everything
was as in a storybook, until one day the lumberjack came home as a changed man

: 2011
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Friction
Year: 2011
Director: Michal Mroz
Countries: Poland

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Stop Motion animation about robot who tries to find his place in society. Sonorous music
and mechanical world.

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Wailing
Year: 2012
Director: Ferenc Cako
Country: Hungary

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The sounds of leaving life and farewell appear in this place of musical material. A
lonely farewell to love, family and friends. The idea of passing away is present very
deeply in this animation of high poetry.

 | Friday
30.11.2012
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Kino Frosina, MKC

|
Animation Workshop "Handcraft"
17:00h

| Vuk Jevremovic
| Serbia

|
World animation 18:00h
( ) |
Oficial selection (day 3)
20:00h

 | World animation

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: 2012
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| Jaime the Bearded

Year: 2011
Directors: Sami Natsheh,
Arly Jones
Country: Spain

| Lady and the Tooth

Year: 2012
Director: Shaun Clark
Country: UK

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18:00h

Magic Spell

Year: 2011
Director: Katie Goodwin
Country: UK

Paper Love

Year: 2012
Director: Adriana Navarro
Alvarez
Country: Spain

Priests

: 2012
Year: 2012
: Director: Astutillo Smeriglia
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Country: Italy

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Shift

Year: 2012
Director: Max Hattler
Countries: United Kingdom,
Germany

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The Ballad of Nameless Joe

: 2011
Year: 2011
: Director: Mateusz Heldwein
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Country: Poland

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: 2012
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The Designer

Year: 2011
Director: Tessa MoultMilewska
Country: Poland

The Spring

Year: 2012
Director: Jerome Boulbes
Country: France

 ( ) | Oficial selection (day 3) 20:00h

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Stairs
Year: 2012
Director: Petar Bilbija
Countries: Bosnia and
Hercegovina,
Republic of Srpska

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On the verge of a ground breaking discovery, a mysterious doctor comes into contact with
a curious boy from a deranged family. Their encounter triggers a storm of events, drawing
a violent father, an autistic patient, the boy and the doctor deep in a story whose
beginning reaches far into the past. The way out of that situation puts the doctor in an
insoluble moral dilemma.

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A Furtive Tear
Year: 2011
Director: Carlo Vogele
Country: Luxembourg

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The last journey of a fish who carries his deathsong from his sale at the fishmarket all the
way into the frying pan.


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The Bridge
Year: 2012
Director: Agostina Ravazzola
Country: Argentina

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Erre and Anna live in different buildings isolated by water. They only see each other
through a window. One day, he gets punished by being set apart of Anna. This will
encourage them to change the place where they live in order to be together as theyve
never thought before.

| The Mystery
Of Malakka Mountain
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Year: 2011
Director: Jakub Wronski
Country: Poland

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The six-year old Junior is extremely emotionally mature child. The cigarette smoke
wanders thinking about life, people and their problems. Do we have the right to explore
other peoples secrets? A film about the mysteries and their values.

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Leaving
Year: 2012
Director: Joana Lurie
Country: France

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The life of two characters who follows each other beyond the walls.

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Double Occupancy
Year: 2012
Director: Fabian Giessler
Country: Germany

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The old men share a hospital room, in which the window is the only connection to the
outside world and thus becomes a highly demanded resource. The short film Double
Occupancy is a dark parable about the greed of man an animated, psychological
intimate play about the power of imagination and illusion.

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Father

Year: 2012
Directors: Ivan Bogdanov,
Moritz Mayerhofer,
Asparuh Petrov,
Veljko Popovic,
Rositska Raleva,
Dmitry Yagodin
Countries: Bulgaria,
Croatia, Germany

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When did you last talk with your father? Will you ever ask him about those things that hurt
you?

| About Killing The Pig

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Year: 2011
Director: Simone Massi
Country: Italy

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While the pig is being dragged out from the sty he has the chance to see the sky.

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Fit
Year: 2012
Director: Marcin Gizycki
Countries: Poland

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An improvised film painted with water on vanishing image paper. A ballet of physical
exercises evolves into a play of abstract forms.

: 2011
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Merci
Year: 2011
Director: Gospodin Nedelchev
Country: Bulgaria

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The days we spent in waiting for the green traffic light. And when we can go across the
road, understand that we are late. This is a short animation about the lost time, missed
opportunities and unfulfilled dreams things that are difficult to admit that had
happened to us. And this is not funny

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Planter
Year: 2012
Directors: Burak Varlik,
Onder Menken
Country: Turkey

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A little girl who lost her family in the war, dreams of an olive tree.

Michael Pollans Food Rules
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Year: 2012
Director: Marija Jacimovic
Country: Serbia

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This short video of moving vegetables explains why so much food is grown yet so many
people remain food insecure.

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As suddenly the war ruins the carefree life of a child.

Its Raining
Year: 2012
Director: Ana Shepilova
Country: Russia

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