All Is Fine (Alles gut)
, by Elke Brugger
All Is Finefiction films competition
Alles gut
| Director | Elke Brugger |
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| Country | Germany |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 13 min |
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| Producer | Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln |
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| Plot | While on a routine mission, police officer Miriam bumps into Irene, who is travelling with a forged ticket. The rather official encounter turns into a confrontation with the past which culminates into the decision between police regulations and loyalty to an old friend. |
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Being James
, by Haolu Wang
Being Jamesfiction films competition
| Director | Haolu Wang |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 13 min |
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| Distributor | London Film School |
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| Plot | On a regular evening in London, James is sitting on the London Underground on his way back home. Being James seems easy until he notices someone across the aisle watching him - someone seemingly familiar ... After an impulsive move, James gradually delves into a deep well of memories ... and emotions. |
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Blue Train
, by Manolis Mavris
Blue Trainfiction films competition
| Director | Manolis Mavris |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 15 min |
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| Producer | Stathi Twins Productions |
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| Plot | 30-year-old Liam, pervaded by a feeling of childhood nostalgia takes a trip in time to find his true identity and his utopian past. The train is a non-place, where reality meets fiction. This is a trip towards Liam's unreachable goal, ending in him embracing himself and his past. |
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Candour Babylonian
, by Bogdan Hatisi
Candour Babylonianfiction films competition
| Director | Bogdan Hatisi |
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| Country | France |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 19 min |
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| Producer | Dreamachine Productions |
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| Plot | Spring 1930, a luxury train follows the Danube towards Budapest. In the cosmopolitan restaurant-car, a modest English dancer gets acquainted with a Belgian businessman. |
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Correspondences
, by Nicolas Béguin
Correspondencesfiction films competition
| Director | Nicolas Béguin |
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| Country | France |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 6 min |
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| Producer | B2 Productions |
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| Plot | A young woman meets a young man in the Paris Métro. Through their secret daydream, they escape reality and find out another unexpected, surprising reality... |
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En route
, by Xu Zhang
En routefiction films competition
| Director | Xu Zhang |
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| Country | China |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 14 min |
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| Producer | University of Southern California |
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| Plot | When three groups of strangers on a train don't speak the same language, they stumble upon connections in unexpected ways. |
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Engrenage
, by Swann Chesnel, Léonard Mercier, Etienne Gaulupeau & Fabien Rosier
Engrenagefiction films competition
| Director | Swann Chesnel, Léonard Mercier, Etienne Gaulupeau & Fabien Rosier |
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| Country | France |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 6 min |
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| Producer | ArtFx |
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| Distributor | Sève Films |
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| Plot | While preparing to diffuse an explosive device, a bomb squad member imagines three different scenarios that could lead to his demise. |
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Entrain
, by Adrien Benson & Elaine Poon
Entrainfiction films competition
| Director | Adrien Benson & Elaine Poon |
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| Country | Canada |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 7 min |
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| Producer | Lifeguard Productions, Clear Shot Films |
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| Distributor | Zèle Média |
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| Plot | Language barriers are broken when two strangers start drumming on the subway. |
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Fuck Freedom (Fanculo libertà)
, by Dario Patrocinio & Maurizio Mazzotta
Fuck Freedomfiction films competition
Fanculo libertà
| Director | Dario Patrocinio & Maurizio Mazzotta |
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| Country | Italy |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 20 min |
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| Plot | Fuck Freedom is a short made to show how a man with few resources to combat misfortunes, can act without thinking about the real consequences of his actions. But it sometimes happens that this man suddenly becomes aware of what he is doing and decides to change his purpose as well as his fate. |
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Happy Thoughts
, by Kimberly Grefberg
Happy Thoughtsfiction films competition
| Director | Kimberly Grefberg |
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| Country | Sweden |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 12 min |
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| Producer | White Bridges Films, Whimsy Smiles Productions |
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| Plot | Life has landed Stan in the worst position he could ever have imagined. That is, until Joy gives him a hot cup of coffee on a cold morning in a hand-colored mug. This small act of kindness opens Stan's eyes to the possibility of finding compassion even in the most trying of circumstances. |
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Have Sweet Dreams
, by Ciprian Suhar
Have Sweet Dreamsfiction films competition
| Director | Ciprian Suhar |
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| Country | Romania |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 20 min |
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| Producer | Luno |
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| Plot | In a modest family, where the difficult struggle for survival is influenced by the weakness of the adults, two young boys are trying to live out their dreams. Their father, who surrendered himself to a drinking habit, often puts his family in difficult situations. The boys will change the destiny. |
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In God We Trust
, by Elefterios Zacharopoulos
In God We Trustfiction films competition
| Director | Elefterios Zacharopoulos |
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| Country | France |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 9 min |
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| Producer | Les Inséparables |
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| Distributor | WLC Films |
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| Plot | Once upon a time, at the end of the day, a full subway, an isane desire to already be at home. How many people have left like that, at one time or another? You? Me? Or the heroine of our story, who returns home exhausted from her day. Except today, she is not alone... |
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Je suis à l'heure
, by Isabelle Quintard & Fabien Motte
Je suis à l'heurefiction films competition
| Director | Isabelle Quintard & Fabien Motte |
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| Country | France |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 3 min |
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| Producer | Lesfilmakeurs |
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| Plot | There are days when you'd be better not be on time. |
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Lightyears
, by Florian Baron
Lightyearsfiction films competition
| Director | Florian Baron |
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| Country | Germany |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 5 min |
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| Plot | In the music video "Lightyears", we follow a business man on his way to work who stumbles upon his Doppelgänger. |
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Like New (Z.G.A.N.)
, by Serge Fenenko
Like Newfiction films competition
Z.G.A.N.
| Director | Serge Fenenko |
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| Country | Netherlands |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 9 min |
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| Producer | Novocortex |
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| Plot | A short road movie about a dysfunctional family being torn apart by addiction to e-commerce. Mother is constantly searching for valuable items that can be sold online. Father embarks on a trip to Amsterdam to deliver the sold goods, and save the relationship. But nothing goes as planned. |
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Little Darling (Director's Cut)
, by Damian Smith
Little Darling (Director's Cut)fiction films competition
| Director | Damian Smith |
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| Country | Australia |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 5 min |
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| Producer | Big Cookie Studios |
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| Plot | To feel the warmth of his muse again, our intrepid hero seeks to free himself from the confines of a dilapidated automaton clock and reunite himself with the one he loves. |
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Lost in Stångby
, by Therese Ahlbeck
Lost in Stångbyfiction films competition
| Director | Therese Ahlbeck |
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| Country | Sweden |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 23 min |
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| Producer | Tiny Lumberjack AB |
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| Plot | Lars, a businessman with empathy issues, gets on the wrong train on his way to Beijing and ends up making the journey of his life. |
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Lost in Vandlitz (Verpaskungen)
, by Grigoriy Dobrygin
Lost in Vandlitzfiction films competition
Verpaskungen
| Director | Grigoriy Dobrygin |
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| Country | Russia |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 15 min |
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| Producer | Metrafilms |
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| Plot | The film is about the order of things. |
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Mashka
, by Igor Kagramanov
Mashkafiction films competition
| Director | Igor Kagramanov |
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| Country | Russia |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 23 min |
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| Producer | 2D Celluloid |
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| Plot | A small town, far from the lights of big cities. Mashka and her two little brothers are facing survival. Their mother—dead, and their father has no use for his children. Life goes on, but fate has yet to force its greatest dire challenge upon the family... |
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Missed Connections
, by Alaa Abi Haidar
Missed Connectionsfiction films competition
| Director | Alaa Abi Haidar |
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| Country | France |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 8 min |
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| Producer | ALAgrApHY |
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| Plot | Man has become smarter, faster ... but also more mechanical and less humane. A strong conflict between our human desire and our augmented artificial intelligence is manifested in 2032 in a public Parisian train while two strangers try to communicate but with no success. |
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Non Stop
, by Andrey Tzvetkov
Non Stopfiction films competition
| Director | Andrey Tzvetkov |
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| Country | Bulgaria |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 3 min |
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| Producer | TF&P |
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| Plot | There has always been people whose ideas move the world forward. A film for the few who dare to fulfill their ideas with the price of their lives. |
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Paris From the Ground
, by Arnaud Kehon
Paris From the Groundfiction films competition
| Director | Arnaud Kehon |
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| Country | France |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 10 min |
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| Plot | A solitary walk through the French capital, just above a metro line, and sometimes below, which wants to experience the paradox of "freezing in motion" the unintentional artistic interventions in the daily ordinariness. |
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Platform 13 (Perron 13)
, by Camiel Zwart
Platform 13fiction films competition
Perron 13
| Director | Camiel Zwart |
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| Country | Netherlands |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 14 min |
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| Producer | NTR, Blackframe |
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| Plot | The tragicomic story of a Japanese railway conductor. With his equally strong as graceful movements, he keeps the biggest crowds under control. But then he ends up in his biggest nightmare: a strange new world, in which he and his signals prove unnecessary. |
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Polaroid
, by Julia Elise Schacht
Polaroidfiction films competition
| Director | Julia Elise Schacht |
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| Country | Norway |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 11 min |
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| Producer | Norsk Filmproduksjon |
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| Plot | The poetic tale of a brief, nocturnal encounter between a man and a woman, an encounter that remains a mystery to the man for the rest of his life. |
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Prose of the Trans-Siberian
, by David Epiney
Prose of the Trans-Siberianfiction films competition
| Director | David Epiney |
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| Country | Switzerland |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 11 min |
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| Producer | Alina Film |
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| Plot | Based on a text by Blaise Cendras, this film aims to immerse the audience in the various feelings of a train journey. |
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Shades of Gray
, by Alexandra Averyanova
Shades of Grayfiction films competition
| Director | Alexandra Averyanova |
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| Country | Russia |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 6 min |
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| Producer | KinoMelnitsa |
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| Plot | A boy and a girl meet at the Tsarskoselsky railway station, but get separated a few moments later. Only twenty years later, the mystical connection which emerged between them in childhood brings these young people back to the place where they had first met. |
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Single Trip
, by Emilie Noblet
Single Tripfiction films competition
| Director | Emilie Noblet |
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| Country | France |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 9 min |
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| Producer | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, SWR/Arte, La Fémis |
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| Plot | July. Major holiday departures. TGV Paris-Brest. Alex does her first steps as a train controller on a great line, flanked by her colleague Antoine. During an inspection, she crosses the way of a passenger who diverts her from her new functions. |
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Spanish Level 1
, by Guy Dessent
Spanish Level 1fiction films competition
| Director | Guy Dessent |
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| Country | Belgium |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 22 min |
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| Producer | Les Ateliers INRACI |
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| Plot | Victor, a young Belgian-Uruguayan, returns to Belgium. In order to be eligible for welfare, he will have no other choice but to sign up for a Spanish Level 1 course for which he has to pretend he does not know a single word of Spanish, his mother tongue. |
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The Carriage (A Carruagem)
, by João Vasco
The Carriagefiction films competition
A Carruagem
| Director | João Vasco |
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| Country | Portugal |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 15 min |
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| Producer | AvA Musical Editions |
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| Plot | Sharing the space and the forced intimacy of a subway carriage, several passengers wait for their destinations. They carry their dreams and memories but also the possibility of unexpected encounters ... Sometimes the refuge of a subway carriage is only illusory. |
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The Mechanical Waltz
, by Julien Dykmans
The Mechanical Waltzfiction films competition
| Director | Julien Dykmans |
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| Country | France |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 6 min |
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| Plot | On this dark and rainy morning, the puppet people trudge off to work. From day to day the routine never changes, their gazes never meet. Are they aware that their every movement, is being fully controlled and meticulously observed? It is time for change, but just a spark and their eyes will unclose. |
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The Voice in the Head
, by Cyrus Trafford
The Voice in the Headfiction films competition
| Director | Cyrus Trafford |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 12 min |
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| Producer | Moment 2 Moment Pictures |
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| Plot | "If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?"—Psychologist David Rosenhan, Ph.D |
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The Way You Die (Schnee in Rio)
, by Manuel Vogel
The Way You Diefiction films competition
Schnee in Rio
| Director | Manuel Vogel |
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| Country | Germany |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 25 min |
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| Producer | Konrad Simon |
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| Plot | 1960. Night. A train on its way to the Iron Curtain. In it, Sebastian—a guy like you and me. His actual mission was to escort an important painting to Prague. But after finding one of the guards murdered on the toilet, he is already in the middle of a bizarre 1960s spy story ... |
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Too Young to Drive
, by Marija Stonyte
Too Young to Drivefiction films competition
| Director | Marija Stonyte |
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| Country | Lithuania |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Length | 24 min |
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| Plot | Two strangers accidentally meet on a train and immediately find it hard to communicate. A story about the hardship of finding ways to each other. |
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Travel by Feet (Viaje a pies)
, by Khris Cembe
Travel by Feetfiction films competition
Viaje a pies
| Director | Khris Cembe |
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| Country | Spain |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 15 min |
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| Producer | UniKo |
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| Plot | A night train journey. A wagon full of passengers. An annoying companion in your compartment ... What would you be willing to do in order to have a peaceful journey? |
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Wanderer
, by Chanel Bowen
Wandererfiction films competition
| Director | Chanel Bowen |
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| Country | Australia |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Length | 8 min |
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| Producer | Curtin University |
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| Plot | It is 1942 in Western Australia and the ticketmaster subconsciously seeks escape from his repetitive life as a ticketmaster. He has traveled many more miles than he could imagine without a destination, until, a stranger with a suitcase turns up ticketless on his train. |
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