INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
THURSDAY 5TH NOVEMBER
4.00PM THE OLD PRESBYTERY €5
Ma Bar
Scotland 2008 11 min 48 sec Colour
Bench Pressing isn’t a hobby for 73 year old Bill McFadyen – it’s a way of life. Stranraer’s very own bench press champion is on a quest to be the best in the world...
Director Finlay Pretsell
Steel Homes
Scotland 2008 1 0min Colour
A poetic exploration of memory and loss, ‘Steel Homes’ takes the viewer inside the world of a self storage warehouse, uncovering the hidden treasures and secrets behind the locked doors.
Director Eva Weber
Clean Up
Germany 2008 9 min 20 sec Colour
It is his duty to clean up this special room, an execution chamber at a state prison in the United States. Whenever there is an execution, he has to restore this place as it was before. This experimental film gives an abnormal view on the death penalty.
Director Sebastian Mez
Sunrise Dacapo (12cm/Upright)
Germany 2008 5min Colour
Nature from the assembly line. An observation on the growing of geraniums in mass production and the coherence of noise and silence. The beauty of nature, apparently perfectly reproduced in artificial surroundings.
Director Nina Poppe
The Solitary Life of Cranes
UK 2009 27min Colour
24 hours in life of a city seen from high up in the sky
Director Eva Weber
Inself Sea
Brazil 2008 13min Colour
In scenery that seems to have stood still in time, old fishermen recall their adventures and love stories from a time when the sea set the pace of their lives.
Director Paschoal Samora
Respite
United Kingdom 2009 4min 55sec Colour
Glenn is haunted by the loss of his son to epilepsy; the stress of which he believes induced his cancer. Filmed at his hospital bedside, it is an intimate portrait of a man finally being honest with himself.
Director Patrick Maxwell