6th International Short Film Festival: Day 6

More than 60 short films from Cyprus and the world will compete this year for the grand awards of the 6th International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, which will take place from the 15th to the 21st October 2016, at the Rialto Theatre, in Limassol.  

Programme Day 6

Moriom 12'

Antidoton 12'

Elegy 23'

Milky Way is Our Galaxy 5'

BREAK

Voiceless 20'

8 Days of Parlor 23'

Movements Arising from Different Relationships 12'

The Miracle 3'

Moriom: Summer 2014. Rural Bangladesh. “I came from Heaven. I came to destroy all bad things in the world. I'm a police officer. I'm a flower angel. I got a job at the police station. I will punish them. I will put them in jail.” The story of a girl and the tragedy that changed her life.

Direction / Production: Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi
Screenplay / Cinematography: Mark Olexa
Editing: Francesca Scalisi
Music: Olivier Verleye
Sound: Pierre Berset

Antidoton: An ordinary man returns to his car after work and finds a wallet on the pavement. In an attempt to return the wallet to its rightful owner, he becomes involved in bizarre adventures…

Direction / Screenplay / Editing / Production: Michael Hapeshis
Cinematography: Nic Milner
Music: Scott Benzie
Sound Design: Timo Saila
Art Direction: Ellie Mulhern 
Cast: Dimitri Andreas, Andreas Karras, Panos Savvides, Robert O'tool, Bob Millar, John Fisk, Mahmud Alam

Ağı / Elegy: An old man, an expectation, a hope…

Direction / Screenplay: Yousef Kargar
Cinematography: Peyman Abbaszadeh
Editing: Hossein Shaeri, Masoud Dolatkhani
Sound Editing: Hasan Salmani
Sound Mixing: Arash Ghasemi
Cast: Ahad Pasbantous, Hadi Eftekharzadeh, Yousef Yazdani
Production: Iranian Youth Cinema Society

Milky way is our galaxy: 35-year-old Hans is lost in his own world. At work, people are being laid off and Hans is determined to pass the English language test at work, one way or another. When you are fully focused on your problems, how well do you see the world that surrounds you?

Direction / Screenplay / Editing / Production: Olli Ilpo Salonen  
Cinematography: Hannu Käki
Music: Paavo Malmberg
Sound: Juho Luukkainen
Cast: Jari Virman

La Voce / Voiceless: Edgar works in a pig slaughterhouse. He loves the opera and he loves Ginette, the stripper of his dreams. Edgar is about to ask her to marry him when he surprises her bedding her boss. In shock, he loses his voice and unfortunately finds himself with the voice of a pig.

Direction: David Uloth
Screenplay: Chloé Cinq-Mars
Cinematography: Philippe Roy
Editing: Elisabeth Olga Tremblay
Music: Robert Marcel Lepage
Sound: Olivier Calvert
Art Direction: Olivier Laberge
Cast: Miro Lacasse, Catherine Ruel, Julie de Lafrenière
Production: David Uloth, Dominique Noujeim, Galilé Marion-Gauvin

8 Days of Parlor: 8 Days of Parlor observes the work of academic sculptor Leonidas Spanos, based in Cyprus, where a Parlor guitar is being made over a period of 8 days. The pace of the film focuses on the art of guitar-making and the importance for the material to justify its own existence.
 
Direction / Editing / Production: Zoe Phylactidou
Music: Christopher Andreou, Konstantinos Lagou, Charalambos Egkomitis, Konstantinos Stavrides
Sound Mixing:  Christos Kyriacoullis

Movements Arising from Different Relationships: This is the second film in the series, following the previous work, Between Regularity and Irregularity. As with the previous film, it continues to focus on a phenomenon that occurs in the space between regularity and irregularity, also utilising the different movements caused by different relationships between minute units.

Direction / Screenplay / Editing / Music / Sound / Production: Masahiro Tsutani

The Miracle: Is life as we know it a miracle? Every day, the functioning of a society is so complex that it is surprising that it does not collapse. The miracle is a short film of personal thoughts on the near future across the rooftops of Shanghai. The text is freely inspired by the book Feasible utopias, written by the architect and author Yona Friedman.

Direction / Screenplay / Cinematography / Editing / Production: Eric Piccoli
Music: Alexandre Streliski
Sound Mixing: Alexis Dufresne
Voice: Zhu Shiwen

Organisers
The Festival is organised by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Rialto Theatre. 
It is under the auspices of the Mayor of Limassol, Mr Andreas Christou, and supported by the Cyprus University of Technology. Media Sponsors: TIME OUT & SUPER FM. 

Please visit www.isffc.com.cy for the full programme of screenings to be announced soon.
Subtitles: All films are screened in their original dialogues with Greek and English subtitles.  

Click here for the website of the International Short Film Festival

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