Festival de Cine Internacional de Barcelona - 2008 Awards

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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:

Mejor Cortometraje

FADING AWAY
by FABIAN GIESSLER
The life of the old married couple Herbert and Martha. The film shows Martha's gradual retreat into dementia, where reality and imagination seem to overlap and Herbert's desperation about his wife's condition and their future together.
Special Prize to the Best Short Film

Mejor Direccion

THEEKKUCHI
by HARI DAS
What makes a ten-year old in India choose a low-paying, unsafe job instead of going to school?
Awarded Category: Direction

Mejor Guion

THE CREATION
by ELIANA UJUETA
On a spring afternoon a little boy visits a woman. When he goes back home, he leaves behind a box, which "contains" the memory of their visit.
Awarded Category: Screenplay

Realizacion Integral

'SICK'
by MIKE RYMER
As Brian's story slides backwards through 15 years of therapy, his daughter's crashes forwards over one devastating night and they collide on that evening - the catalyst of his condition.
Awarded Category: Integral Realization

Mejor Actriz

UNINVITED
by SHAUNE HARRISON
A would be writer dissatisfied with his life finds a new story in the most unusual place, a forgotten pub. with every sip of his drink he watches a story unfold, the story of the uninvited.
Actress Performance: Rachel Sheridan

Mejor Actor

POLILLAS
by PEDRO TOUCEDA
A subtle, strange and ironic "road-movie" that speaks to us about the ephemeral of the existence and the search of the happiness.
Actor Performance: Olegar Fedoro

Mejor Fotografia

THE SOLUTION
by JAN-EJE FERLING
Some houses in the city shall be rebuilt into luxury departments. The new, young owner has inherited the estate company from his insensitive and now dead father. An old tenant has to be evacuated to another flat in some suburb.
Photography: Peter Klint

Mejor Montaje

FLOWERS OF RWANDA
by DAVID MUNOZ
Rwanda. 14 years after the genocide that took away the lives of more than 800.000 people. Can victims and killers live together?
Awarded Category: Editing

Mejor Direccion de Arte

THE CLEANER
by NOEL KEARNS
An emigrant cleaner at a London hospital is asked to translate for an injured man who has been rushed into Accident & Emergency. But he recognises the patient as a brutal warlord from their former war-torn homeland.
Art Direction, Robert Thomas

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

Mencion Especial

I SING, THEREFORE I AM!
by SUBRAT KUMAR SAHU
I sing, therefore I am! is a humble assertion by Pabitra Kumbhar - amazing singer, blind, beggar - of his 'identity' as an artist, nothing other than that.

Mencion Especial

THE SAME HOUSE
by HOLLY BRACE-LAVOIE
Lee is a young lady desperately attached to her childhood. At 19, she retreats to her family cottage with her two oldest friends in a desperate attempt to resurrect innocent childhood adventures

Mencion Especial

THE WAIF
by NAREN MULTANI
The 'Hand' explores the devastation of a mind marinating in the abyss of its own darkness. The riotously colored backdrops and the fiendish details of the street add to the perversity.
 

OFFICIAL SELECTION
by alphabetical order:

34 SECONDS IN BARSANA by WILLIAM BROWN
A DAY IN A LIFE by NICOLAS DAENENS
A SILENT STAR by VERA IWEREBOR
ABOUT NOTHING by VLADO ZRNIC
ALAIN E QUI by GABRIELE SABATINO NARDIS
BERTA BORNSTEIN: AN ANONYMOUS TRUE STORY OF AN
ANALYSIS by JUDITH HENRY
BINT AL NOKHITHA by KHALID AL-MAHMOOD
CAT DEMON: RE-EXHUMED by LAURA KIGHTLINGER
CEGUERA by HELIO SAN MIGUEL
CHIEF by BRETT WAGNER
DAYS OF LOVE by ERIC MAGNUSSON
DIE UNMOGLICHE LIEBE by JAN DIRK PEEREBOOM VOLLER
DUBAI: ONE CITY, TWO FACES by INES MENDIA
DUNK by PATRICK BAGOT
ENCHANTMENT (EFSOON) by HIWA AMINNEJAD
ENDLESS JOURNEY by HENRY WARNAKULASURIYA
ESCAMOTAGE by PATRICK KALYN
EYE OF TRUTH by ANDREA GIZZI
FADING AWAY by FABIAN GIESSLER
FAREWELL by IRENA SKORIC
FLOWERS OF RWANDA by DAVID MUNOZ
FOREST MAZE by SATISH C. GAWAS
FRESHWATER by ADA-MARIA ICHIM
FROM CARPET TO CELESTIAL HEAVENS by HAMIDEH RAZAVI
HESPERIA by TOMER ALMAGOR
HITHERTO by STEFANOS SITARAS
I DIDN'T KNOW WHO I WAS by SANTIAGO VITERI VARGAS
I SING, THEREFORE I AM! by SUBRAT KUMAR SAHU
INGRID AND MAGGY by AXEL VERBRAEKEN
INVASION by FERNANDO VAZQUEZ
LE DERNIER JOUR A RIVESALTES by HELENA MICHIE
LIVE & LET LIVE by DHARANI DHARAN
MAYA MOBILE by ADITYA OM
MENTAL NOTES by CAREY WILLIAMS
MY BARBIE by KISEUB SHIN
ONE LAST SHOT by J. GLENN PINEAU
POLILLAS by PEDRO TOUCEDA
POP YOUR PANTIES WITH PARIS NICOLE & LINDSAY by VICTOR
GEHEIMNIS
PRATIBIMB by NEERAJ DHINGRA
RED GREEN BLUE by ALI GHAZANFAR
RELEASE by CARY SONTAG
REWEAVING TIBET by BIANCA PASQUINI
SHARED EXPERIENCE: WORLDS APART by KITYIN SNYDER
'SICK' by MIKE RYMER
SJALAR OCH MUSTASCHES by JAN-EJE FERLING
SNEAKY SNAKE: LOST IN THE HOLY LAND by GEORGE SANDERS and SHAWN CURRAN
SOFT by SIMON ELLIS
SOLD DOWN THE RIVER by TOMMO
THE BENT PENNY by DARREL J BUTLIN
THE CLEANER by NOEL KEARNS
THE CREATION by ELIANA UJUETA
THE HUNDRED RUPEES PHOTO by KAMLESH KUNTI SINGH
THE MUSIC OF YOU by LLOYD DESOUZA
THE RENT MAKER by RENATO CARAVAGGIO
THE SAME HOUSE by HOLLY BRACE-LAVOIE
THE SOLUTION by JAN-EJE FERLING
THE SORTING GAME by CARLA VESTRONI
THE WAIF by NAREN MULTANI
THEEKKUCHI by HARI DAS
TO THE SEA by ANDREW BUI
TRIUMPH by RAHUL ATRISHI
UN ECLAT by RODOLPHE VIEMONT
UNINVITED by SHAUNE HARRISON
VICTIMS by NINO STROHECKER
YA SHADAD by KEREN SHAYO
YOU AND ME by MALIKA WHITAKER

The selection was made among more than three hundred registered movies.

 

 

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