Moscow International Film Festival

Programmes


Short Film Corner

501 // 501
Denmark, 2008, 15 min.

Director: Jesper Maintz
Cast: Trohels Thorsen, Steffen Nielsen, Claus Lund, Anne Stenholt

A clash between a regular costumer at the local bar playing the dart game 501 and a new costumer, ends on a friendly note. But the new costumer guest is not at all the person he pretends to be.

Sukunat // Still
Germany, 2009, 7 min.

Director: Rick Ostermann
Cast: Aljosha Horvat, Nina Monka, Erik Neumann, Elena Fischer, Mick Heller

This is a story about small group of orphans, hiding out from soldiers during World War II. To survive they have to keep still. But one of them begins to cough, and it can betray others.

The Jung files // Die archives von C.G. Jung
Germany, 2008, 16 min.

Director: Gemma Ventura
Cast: Mari Pau Pigem, Lydia Zimmermann, Miquel Folch, Yves Zimmermann

The picture made in an expressive manner tells about case in a psychiatric practice of doctor C.G.Jung: patient’s story which reminds him of reincarnation. This film attempts to find new form for such imperceptible human’s conditions as memory and dreams.

X on a map // X on a map
Luxembourg, 2009, 13 min.

Director: Jeff Desom
Cast: Sean Biggerstaff, Vicky Krieps, Jean-Francois Wolff, Marja Leena Junker

In a big corporation «Globo» making maps draftsman Paul works. One day he was so fallen into his dreams that didn’t notice he went to the cellar. There he meets pretty packer-girl Ana. She will be the only one to whom Paul will open his secret.

Mother // MãE
Brazil, 2008, 15 min.

Director: Luis Antonio Pereira
Cast: Carla Marins, Aline Fanju, Priscila Assum, Elias Andreato, Salvatore Giuliano

Dark humor comedy about women who is a boss of the organized crime in Rio de Janeiro. She commands her actions from inside her fancy restaurant. When her sister Silvia appears showing marks of violence in her face, done by her cop husband, Mother gives her two bodyguards. Silvia goes to the apartment of her husband’s lover to revenge.

Dance Macabre // Danse Macabre
Canada, 2008, 9 min.

Director: Pedro Pires
Cast: Anne Bruce Falconer

«Danse Macabre» is a collaboration between the world famous theatre director/choreographer Robert Lepage, dancer AnneBruce Flaconer and filmmaker Pedro Pires. For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre. Are these spasms merely erratic motions or do they echo the chaotic twists and turns of a past life?

Sideline // Sivutyo
Finland, 2008, 13 min.

Director: Maria Kaurismaki
Cast: Krista Kosonen, Anitti Reini, Henna Vaninnen, Panu Mikkola, Lauri Tanskanen

The story based on the true events. Young female student is pressed for money and decide to put a notice on the specific web-site. During the lection her cell is phoning and she is invited to a meeting. Will Heli come?

Descendant // Descendant
Germany, 2008, 15 min.

Director: Heiko van der Scherm
Cast: voices: Whoopi Goldberg, Christy Scott Cashman

Sad and beautiful story made in 3D animation technique. On the forest border there are two flowers – insidious poison ivy and openhearted white flower. The white flower dreams one day someone appears and picks him, and he will see the world and became its part. His dream comes true in a very unexpected way.

Puzzle // Pyatnashki
Russia, 2008, 13 min.

Director: Natalya Uglitskikh
Cast: Tatiana Parshina, Igor Gudeev, Andrey Averyanov

Comic situation the character fi nds himself in is based on a joke…

Thursday to Friday // S chetverga na piatnicu
Russia, 2009, 16 min.

Director: Alla Kofman
Cast: Maria Leonova, Konstantin Milovanov, Oleg Feoktistov, Olga Lysak, Oleg Moshkarin

«From Thursday to Friday dreams come true» tells proverb. Family celebrates the departure, remember their past, dream about future. As longer party goes, as more outright conversation becomes…

The saint feast // La saint festin
France, 2007, 15 min.

Director: Annelaure Daffis, Leo Marchand
Cast: voice: Francois Morel

In this animated grown-up tale everything is mixed up: horror, love, and French cuisine, of course. When the ogres celebrate, the children in the neighborhood should beware…

Serenade // Serenade
USA, 2009, 18 min.

Director: Ruowen Yan
Cast: Yupeng Zhang, Ruowen Yan, Tan Po

Poetic and beautiful story of meeting and parting. In the silence of the country night a melodic women voice is sounding. And like an echo a violin is repeat the melody…

Next floor // Next floor
Canada, 2008, 12 min.

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Simone Chevalot, Luc-Martial Dagenais, Kenneth Fernandez, Mathieu Handfield

During an opulent and luxurious banquet eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. In this absurd and grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events undermines the endless symphony of abundance. Visually compelling and completely