INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL EXCHANGE WINNING SHORTS 2
WEDNESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER
6:00 PM - THE OLD PRESBYTERY, TRALEE - €5
FILMARE FILM FESTIVAL, ROME
AUDIENCE AWARD
Camera Oscura
Italy 2009 19 min Colour
Leon Castaldi is a detective photographer. He dreamt an artist life but his dream ended with the disappearance of his girl. During a photographic documentation of a meeting on behalf of an unknown client, a man and a woman are killed. This starts the search of the truth that will force Leon to exonerate himself from the charges of the shrewd inspector Bernardi: a trip in the Roman post-modernity between memories and unbelievable discoveries, during which Leon will have the arduous task to investigate on the mystery of the murder he has witnessed.
Director Ermete Ricci
BEST ACTOR
Non Vedo L’ora di Giocare
Italy 2008 6 min B&W
At the age of nine years Bobby Fischer, future chess world champion, had indeed a prodigious memory.
Director Giacomo Mondadori
FINALISTS
Io Parlo!
Italy 2009 20 min Colour
Bruno, a twelve year-old boy, admires secretly Luca, his sister's boyfriend and would like to be his friend, but Luca doesn't consider him at all. When Bruno sees Luca with another girl, he finds the occasion to reach his purpose.
Director Marco Gianfreda
La Pistola
Italy 2008 17 min Colour
Elio and Jacqueline are a quiet third age couple. They lead their peaceful daily life till an unexpected event breaks their harmony creating incomprehension and tracing the signs of a difficult path to be faced.
Director Gianluca Ceresoli
Lost in Montanaro
Italy 2007 13 min Colour
The Far West is not so distant from the Padana plain. Two tough cowboys let time and boredom trace their destiny, until one hot day, a stranger arrives. He will upset the delicate balance of the town. A short story that will remind us that nothing is how it seems, representing the desire of a world wide and green, where there is a place for everyone.
Director Andrea Canepari
Orbite
Italy 2008 15 min Colour
And' the day of the death of Pinochet in Chile, a Chilean man, employed in a great bank, it walks for Turin as soon as awake. Linda meets.
Director Adriano Valerio
Treni Strettamente Riservati
Italy 2008 12 min Colour
Every morning commuters reach Rome by train. The compartments are dirty, crowded and compel the passengers to a constrained intimacy. Some prefer sharing a wagon "reserved to the Rom” to travelling standing. The integration is done.
Director Emanuele Scaringi
Claire Lynch Award
The Door
Ireland 2008
Juanita Wilson won the Claire Lynch Award at the Cork Film Festival 2008 for this exceptional first film that tackles a major historic event in a moving and personal fashion. The film has a confidence of direction and cinematic scale which for the jury made it a clear winner.
Director Juanita Wilson
In Association with the Filmare Film Festival, Italy
