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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:
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'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.
Special Prize to the Best Short Film | |
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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.
Awarded Category: Direction | |
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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: Screenplay | |
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INVASION
by FERNANDO VAZQUEZ
In a totalitary world, people is beeing replaced by doubles.
Awarded Category: Integral Realization | |
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LIMINAL
by STEPHEN KEEP MILLS
The story is about individual power in the wrong hands. Ina needs to get her power back from Joy. An intense and raw confrontation shot in 35mm, entirely in black and white, with both players naked, allowing us to experience the characters' primitive vulnerability.
Actress Performance: Tonya Cornelisse | |
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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.
Actor Performance: Jonas Larsson | |
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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.
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MY LOVE MY LOVE
by IGAL PEERI
This is a love story between 17 year old girl and his boy friend who is in army in war.
Awarded Category: Photography | |
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THE COLOURS OF BLACK
by ALBERTO NACCI
Alberto Nacci interprets the silences and the sounds produced by the great artist Mario Benedetti during the last step of realize an artwork: the gestures which transform the inert paper into the work of a true artist become... music!
Awarded Category: Art Direction | |
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SPECIAL MENTIONS:
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AMA LHAKPA
by TENZIN DHALA
This documentary is about an old Tibetan Lady "Lhakpa Dolma", who meets her son in United States after 12 years. She narrates her story from Tibet and experiences the new culture in NYC. | |
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JUST VISITING
by MANISH KUMAR GUPTA
A journey of a person back to home to discover his culture and tradition. | |
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PANTOMIME
by HECTOR SUNOL BERT
TIKO, a mime, wants to discover which is his place in this complicate puzzle that is life. The mime through his performances wants to reveal the parody in which we are living. | | | |
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OFFICIAL SELECTION
by alphabetical order:
A HUMAN SANCTUARY by RON ASSUOLINE
A KOLOR TO KILL FOR by KELLY KNUDSON
ALISON WATT - A PAINTER'S EYE by THOMAS RIEDELSHEIMER
ALLEGORY OF THE GAME by JOHN NORDLINGER
AMA LHAKPA by TENZIN DHALA
BASKET OF ROCKS by BILL MCINTYRE
DEATH OF MY FATHER by CHARIT BADONI
DUBAI: ONE CITY, TWO FACES by INES MENDIA
EI LOVE YOU by GABRIELA MAIER
ENCRYPTION by NAMRATA KOLACHALAM
EYELASH by MARCEL HOBI
FATTI IN CASA by PIO SCHENA
FLOWERS OF RWANDA by DAVID MUNOZ
FOREST MAZE by SATISH C. GAWAS
FRAIL by ALEX MURAWSKI
GLOBAL WARNING by NASREEN AHMED
GREETINGS FROM AMERICA by LARRY FULTON
HERE COMES FUNKY KAZOO by PAUL FULLER
HIGHLIGHTS by MARY NOVAK
HUFFS AND PUFFS by CHARLOTTE BOULAY-GOLDSMITH
I DIDN'T KNOW WHO I WAS by SANTIAGO VITERI VARGAS
I SING, THEREFORE I AM! by SUBRAT KUMAR SAHU
IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST by PHIL MARTIN
INVASION by FERNANDO VAZQUEZ
ISOLATION by WARWICK BROWN
JUST VISITING by MANISH KUMAR GUPTA
LIFE IN SINE by SALIL LAL AHAMED
LIMINAL by STEPHEN KEEP MILLS
MAYBE TOMORROW by TOI JOHNSON
MOITIE-MOITIE by MARIA MULLER
MURPHY'S BLUFF by RON MCGUIRE
MY BARBIE by KISEUB SHIN
MY EYES LOOKING BACK by SHELIA LUCAS
MY LOVE MY LOVE by IGAL PEERI
ON SMOKING by NIKOS KATIKARIDIS
OUT OF THE DARKNES by PATRICE GANS and TARIQ ZAFAR
PANTOMIME by HECTOR SUNOL BERT
PERCEPTIONS by MICHAEL BAKER
POLILLAS by PEDRO TOUCEDA
RECORDARE, THE DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE by TAKAKO IMAI and DREW MCCORNIE
RELEASE by CARY SONTAG
ROMEO AND JULIET, ACT II, SCENE 1 by RON CRAWFORD
RUSH by YUNUS DANIEL BIREN
SCHMUSEN MIT POLITIKERN by 3 ROOOSEN
'SICK' by MIKE RYMER
SJALAR OCH MUSTASCHES by JAN-EJE FERLING
SO by AIMEE JENNINGS
SUBCONSCIOUS IRONY by ALP KIYKIOGLU
TENDER BITS by ANA EYSSELINCK
THE BLACK CAR by ANDREW BURY
THE COLOURS OF BLACK by ALBERTO NACCI
THE LOST GAME by DHIMAN PAUL
THE SOLUTION by JAN-EJE FERLING
THE VIEWFINDER by TYRONE ACIERTO
THE WAIF by NAREN MULTANI
THEOGONY by GIOVANNI ZELKO
THREE TIMES UPON A TIME by SHIRIN MOZAFFARI
UNINVITED by SHAUNE HARRISON
UNSEEN DEVOTION by AKBAR NAZEMI
UNVEILED by APARNA PUROHIT
WATERWHEEL by ROBIN GLASS
WISHIN' ON STARS by LAURENT SANZ
WISTERIA COTTAGE by MARCUS THOMPSON
ZENIA by ALEX GONZALEZ
The selection was made among more than two hundred registered movies.
Chicago Short Film Festival
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Chicago Short Film Festival - 2008 Awards
