Film showcase: The best of Etude/Etiuda
SOWA / OWL, directed by Marta Karwowska, PWSFTViT, Poland, 2012, 30’ – Grand Prix Festiwalu – Złoty Dinozaur/Gold Dinosaur
Last days of summertime. The eight-year-old year Owl is hell bent on reaching an abandoned island. And though her dinghy springs a leak and her parents are forever busy, she almost makes it.
LE SOUFFLE COURT / SHORT OF BREATH, directed by Guillaume Legrand, CalArts, France, USA, 2011, 21’ – Srebrny Dinozaur/Silver Dinosaur
A young couple lives on the outskirts of a city. The boy is involved in some shady business, for instance, he takes a kidnapped child for, well, safe keeping. Left with the abducted small boy, the girl begins to yearn for a more ordinary and stabilised existence.
STREMT 89, directed by Anda Puscas, Dragos Dulea, UNATC, Romania, 2012, 13’34’’ – Brązowy Dinozaur/Brown Dinosaur
A short documentary highly evocative of “12:08 to the east of Bucharest” (A fost sau n-a fost?, 2006). This is a hilarious story of a Romanian village and the events that took place there in the momentous year of 1989, the year that changed the face of Eastern Europe.
NAZI GORENG, directed by Nathan Nill, Hamburg Media School, Germany, 2011, 6’30’’ - Special Mention
An Asian club chock-a-block with gambling, strippers, and shady individuals does not seem to be most fitting hiding place for a hard core baseball bat-wielding neo-Nazi. However, the results of this strange meeting are more than unexpected.
RESEN / DOG LEASH, directed by Eti Tsicko, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2012, 26’ – Special Mention
Marina is experiencing a very troubled marital relationship. Her emotions push her to search out, as if she was compelled by an undiagnosed addiction. Following the desire she is unfamiliar with, she will transgress many borders and trespass many territories that will eventually lead her to more and more dangerous places.