EURPOPEAN
NIGHT : COMPETITION 1
Nummer drie (Take. Step. Fall.) Guido Van der
Werve
Holland / 2004 / 10.38min / 35mm / Colour
A true story in which everyone and everything gives up hope.
Director Guido Van der Werve Producer Roof Vogel Writer Guido
Van der Werve
Watilaufer (Tide) Dennis Jacobsen
Germany / 2005 / 20min / 35mm / Colour
Robert is brought to an isolated island by a fisherman. The
next morning his seabag
is gone. Is he alone on the island?
Director Dennis Jacobsen Producer
Dennis Jacobsen Writer Dennis Jacobsen
Les Couilles de mon chat (My Cat’s Balls)
Didier Benureau
France / 2004 / 22min / 35mm / Colour
Worried about having his cat castrated, Remi researches the
possibilities of a sex life
without testicles.This short film follows the initial steps
of a mans journey to discover
his own sexual identity in trans-gendered comedy.
Director Didier Benureau Producer
Norales Productions Writer Didier Benureau/Gavard
Pivet
Break (15min
L’unica Testimone (The Only Witness)
Francesca Del Sette
Italy / 2004 / 6.33min / 35mm / Colour
The life of an old actor told in five minutes of regret.
Director Francesca Del Sette Producer
Gianluca Arcopinto Writer Francesca Del Sette
Love Me or Leave Me Alone Duane Hopkins
UK / 2004 / 14.30min / 35mm / Colour
A young boy, a young girl. Against the backdrop of the countryside
they try to understand and express their feelings for each other.
A study in the articulations and limitations of first love.
Producer Samm Haillay Writer Duane
Hopkins
The Banker Hattie Dalton
UK / 2004 / 12min / 35mm / Colour
The banker is efficient at his job - obsessively collecting,
storing and delivering deposits
at the sperm-bank. Each day the banker delivers the donations
to his beloved nurse at
the clinic, proud to see her satisfied with the daily quota.
Crippled by fear, he lacks the
courage to ask her out. Surely there is a way he can express
his devotion.
Director Hattie Dalton Producer Kelly
Broad Writer Hattie Dalton
Sacred
and Profane Jennifer Keegan
Ireland / 2003 / 3.11min / 35mm / Colour
The Sacred and Profane explores the world of contemporary pilgrims,
seeking out
the sacred in Ibiza and the profane in Lourdes.
Director Jennifer Keegan Producer
Brian Willis Writer Jennifer Keegan
Changes Lorcan Finnegan
Ireland / 2005 / 3min / 35mm / Colour
Two caterpillars wildly in love embark on a journey of change.
But will they feel the same
way when they emerge from their chrysalises?
Director Lorcan Finnegan Producer
Cormac Fox
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Fishing the Sloe Black River Brendan Bourke
Ireland / 1996 / 14.35min / 35mm / Black and White
Set in pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, the film takes an eloquent
cinematic look at the effect of emigration on the lives
of the parents left behind in a small rural town. Mr
and Mrs Conheeny search for ways to express the loss
of their children to other rivers around the world.
While the women fish for their sons from the local riverbank,
their husbands try to hold the towns ageing football
team together. It was shot in Killorglin, Faha and the
surrounding area with an immeasurable amount of help
and co operation from the people of the area without
whose goodwill and assistance we could not have made
this film.
The Seventh Dog Zeina Durra
2004 / 21min / 35mm / Colour
Soraya, a Parisian/Palestinian, and her Saudi boyfriend
Yusif's relationship frays to the snapping point as
the FBI, Homeland Security and the Super’s remaining
six dogs plague their daily lives following the calamity
of the seventh dog. This is a black comedy which portrays
the poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic truths
of the post-9/11 lifestyle of Arabs in New York City.
Producer Laura Richard and Alejandro
Lara
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SHORTS : COMPETITION 2
Sunburn Jennifer Keegan
Ireland / 2004 / 13.2min / 35mm / Colour
Single dad Pat takes his son, Cuan, to the beach for the weekend.
Annie, an American
who Pat met on the internet goes with them. It soon becomes
clear that all is not as it seems. Pat and Annie have a plan…
a very strange plan.
Director Jennifer
Keegan Producer Brian Willis Writer
Brian Lynch
Close Tom Hopkins/John McDonnell
Ireland / 2004 / 8.47min / 35mm / Colour
Following a horrific car-crash, Jill finds herself floating
above her own body, still lying in the wreckage of her car on
the motorway below.Moving down the line of cars held up by her
own accident she can hear the bitter thoughts of the people
below. She is preparing to leave for good when one last miracle
occurs…
Producer John McDonnell Writer
Tom Hopkins/John McDonnell
Everything in this country must Gary Mc Kendry
Northern
Ireland / 2004 / 20min / 35mm / Colour
Northern Ireland 1985. This is a small story set in Northern
Ireland yet it deals with
universal themes. We look beyond religion and nationality to
see ordinary people
struggling to live ordinary lives under the crushing weight
of history.
Director Gary Mc Kendry Producer Larry
Gold Writer Colum McCann and Gary McKendry
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