Next Short Film Festivals  Rules and Regulations - Entry Form  The Jury Previous Editions: 2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES: Best Short Film Very good acting, camera and story line. Filmmaker shows great potential for the future. JUST FOR TODAY by JAN-EJE FERLING - Sweden Cissi 27 and Bernt 59 become friends in AA. They cannot respond to each other's wants. She is searching her alcoholic father and Bernt his missing daughter. Best Direction Excellent animation techniques, well executed and very creative. MARCELA by GASTON SIRICZMAN - Argentina A balance of Marcela's life, a middle-age woman used to daily routines and half-way dreams, viewed through a complex animated universe. In this balance, every biographic fact is shown as an original graphic universe. Awarded Category: Direction Best Screenplay Very Eerie opening and a unique approach to a sensitive subject of discrimination. CONFORMISTS by JURIAAN BOOIJ - United Kingdom Conformists is a story about losing control. It questions why we behave the way we do and how sometimes it is impossible to free one's self from intense feelings of hate and jealousy. It is about the inner voice inside us all, the one that holds prejudice and tells us a person is despicable. Best Integral Realization Great use of sound with extremely artistic images of nature capturing light in an amazingly creative way. Excellent use of color, cinematography, composition, sound and movement. NAKBA by MAX FRANCOS - Spain NAKBA: arabic word meaning "disaster". It describes the most tragic event in the history of Palestinian people, driven from their land during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Actress Performance, Margareta Eriksson Great perfromance of several breaks and twists. JUST FOR TODAY by JAN-EJE FERLING - Sweden Cissi 27 and Bernt 59 become friends in AA. They cannot respond to each other's wants. She is searching her alcoholic father and Bernt his missing daughter. Actor Performance, Branko Tomovic Very intense perfromance in a very short time. INBETWEEN by BERNARD WRIGHT - United Kingdom A haunting tale of forgiveness and redemption. A Serbian soldier tormented by grief and guilt after witnessing the death of innocent Albanians in Kosovo is forced to revisit his worst nightmare when a beautiful girl conjures a ghost from the past. Best Photography, Silvano Plank Creative use of camera angles and points of view. Good nite time cinematography, and outdoor scenic imagery. The footage in the Casino is great and believable. FINANCIAL ADVISER by SILVANO PLANK and DANIELE MALFATTI - Italy This is the story of a very rich but bored woman, who hates anybody that is living on the fringe of society. Unexpectedly, she loses her financial security and is forced to do things she never thought she would. Best Art Direction, MĒ Angeles Gonzalez Very good use of close ups and varied camera angles. The creative soundtrack utilizing mostly car drive bys is very clever and works within the story and preludes the end of the film. This is re inforced with the wedding ring and the car tire. EXTINTION II - QUADRATURE OF THE CIRCLES by FERNANDO USON - Spain A married couple dresses up to attend a ceremony. Best Editing, Nicolas Larrouquere Although there are no subtitles, the story can be somewhat understood thru the creative use of editing, montage and the way in which the film is contructed. REVEIL D'UN MOUTON by JULIEN PAOLINI - France The Black & white 35mm film, "Awakening of a shep" is a tragic-comedy exploring a men's social breakdown. Tired of permanent frustrations, he finds himself taking a vain revenge on the people he assumes responsible of his misfortune. Special Mention A risky choise in acting that is well resolved and achieved. A CONSCIENCE WILL KILL YOU by SALVATORE LUMETTA - USA A wife's assumed infidelity and a killer's bout of conscience, lead to a husband's vengeance, a romantic interlude and a hit man's untimely demise, in this homage to Italian sex comedies. Special Mention Impressing leading of the actors. BONSAI by ROBERTO AZNAR - Spain This is story of a woman who faces up to a terrible reality. The man who was supposed to love her is the man who tries to cut back all her self-esteem and freedom, the same as a bonsai branches can be cut back because of his owner's whim. Special Mention Great Locations, beautiful story, impressing visual speech. LIFE LINES by ELISABETH VON ZIEGLAUER and MARTIN ALBISETTI - USA / Switzerland Alex and Brad, two orphans, live on the road in their car. Alex  has a job in a Diner and Brad lives on a cusp of a drug addiction. Alex wants to send him to a rehab, but Brad wants to celebrate their dead mothers birthday. OFFICIAL SELECTION Click on the title to watch. The titles in gray are available to watch online. Only the films who's producers do not authorize its online screening can not be viewed publicly and will not have a link. Those films have been reviewed by the Committee of Art and the Jury privately. A CLEAR NEW DAY by DAVID GLASSMAN A CONSCIENCE WILL KILL YOU by SALVATORE LUMETTA A DESIRE TO PRESERVE by LATE S.D.LAL A MORAL MAN? AMONGST PARADOXICAL LEADERS by STEFAN LYSENKO AKKAR BAKKAR by AVIJIT DUTT ALBERTA, DETROIT by JOHN WILBERDING AMMI by EPHANTUS NJENGA APOLLO BUNDER MUMBAI 40001 by NAREN MULTANI AS IT GOES by HANSJOERG SCHMOLLER AZUR by AZION IEMEKEVE BEWARE OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR by PATRICIA DOYLE BLACK & WHITE by FREDERICK E.O. TOYE BONSAI by ROBERTO AZNAR BORDER STORIES by FLORIAN WYSS BYRON POPE SPEED OF LIGHT JAZZ BAND TRIBUTE TO JOHN COLTRANE/WAYNE SHORTER LIVE PIMENT ROUGE CAFE, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND by BYRON POPE CHILDREN OF RAMANA'S GARDEN by PANKAJA BROOKE CONFORMISTS by JURIAAN BOOIJ COO COO by PATI OLSON DREAM by JAMES ROBERT BRASIC DUY BENI / HEAR ME by BILGE GIRGIN and SINEM YILANCI EXTINTION II - QUADRATURE OF THE CIRCLES by FERNANDO USON FERTILIZE ME by EPHANTUS NJENGA FIGHTER by DHIMAN PAUL FINANCIAL ADVISER by SILVANO PLANK and DANIELE MALFATTI FLIGHT OR FIGHT by NIKO MAKELA FURICO LI, FURICO LA by SANDRA BROGIONI GOOMBAH GOODBYE by JERRY RECTOR HEAVEN GARDEN by ARI CANDIDO FERNANDES HOMEKEEPER by RASA ALIUKONYTE I HAVE TO CHANGE TO STAY THE SAME by MIJKE VAN DER ZEE INBETWEEN by BERNARD WRIGHT INDIRA 'A UNIVERSAL WOMAN' by INDIRA CHIGALI INLET PORT STEPHENS by CHRISTINE GREGORY INTERMEZZO by JAN DIRK PEEREBOOM VOLLER JUST A SECOND by MADALINA RATLIFF JUST FOR TODAY by JAN-EJE FERLING LEAH AND THE HORSE by ENID CHASANOFF LIFE LINES by ELISABETH VON ZIEGLAUER and MARTIN ALBISETTI MAM by GUNTER WINTGENS MARCELA by GASTON SIRICZMAN NAKBA by MAX FRANCOS NEVER by CHRIS ANDERSON NOTHING by ANNA GADEN ONE NIGHT STAND by STANISLAV SVETLICHNY OPEN HOUSE by NAYEEM LOKHANDWALA NEW INFORMATION by PAUL OLDING PLANE RIDE: EXPERIMENTAL by BRIAN FINLEY PRAYER CUSHIONS OF THE FLESH by RAY MCNEILL and MAGNUS IRVIN PREMONITIONS by TIM and SCOTT O'HARA QUIPPE DANCE by ALBERTO NACCI REFLECTION OF REALITY by GUILLAUME TORDJMAN RELATIONSHIP PHASES by BRENDA HILBIG RELEASED by JULIO PONCE PALMIERI RETURN TO BRADFORD by ROBERT PACELLI REVEIL D'UN MOUTON (AWAKENING OF A SHEEP) by JULIEN PAOLINI SCAREDY KAT by JOHN FREEMAN SINOX by JOSE LUIS ROJAS THE  INTERVIEW by GIOVANNI ZELKO THE BATHROOM VALET by BLAKE SHIMSHOCK THE CONVERSATION by WAYMON BOONE THE LAST BREATH by SANDEEP KIRAN GORTHI THE LAST SHOW by FERNANDO USON THE REFLEX by ANNA STARZYK THE ROAD AND THE SKY by PAUL PETTIGREW TOO LATE by CANDICE SCOTUZZI TRUE COLORS by ABHAY SINGH UNLOCK by SUNIL PILLAI WASTELAND by A. HOUNSOME and R. KAUR WUGULUN KUNG FU by PANKAJA BROOKE   San Francisco Short Film Festival    "It was a great pleasure for me to be chosen as a jury member and I hope I did it well! Thank you very much again for this honor and i wish you the very best for you festival and your great work." Stefan Alexander Willner International Jury "It has been an honor to have participated in the Festival. I hope that we might be able to do this again sometime. Thanks for the priveledge, and I look forward to the next time." Darryl Waters International Jury   Comentaries on the awarded films by Dominic Angerame, President of the Jury.     sanfrancisco@filmsfest.com    Short Film Festivals News  The Jury Rules and Regulations - Entry Form  Previous Editions: 2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003