Festival of Mediterranean Short Film of Tangier Competition 2002
THE TUNNEL
by Ilir Butka
Albania - 2001 - 15mn
The train, a symbo; of geographic psychological and temporal displacement, is the last issue for getting to an unknow direction, but which gives hope...
ALGERIAN'S ECHOS
by Khalid Ammari
Algeria - 2000 - 15mn
"Maz" is a young quiet man with no problems. Unbeknownst to him he is the target of a group of young terrorists who wreak havoc in his neighborhood.
OF THE BEATEN TRACKS
by Malika Tenfiche
Algeria - 2000 - 23mn
"Maz" is a young quiet man with no problems. Unbeknownst to him he is the target of a group of young terrorists who wreak havoc in his neighborhood.
IMAGE OF TIME
by Zelijko Saric
Croatia - 2000 - 20mn
The town center is the construction site of a representative building, opposite the retirement home. The camera, fitted onto the balconies, automatically switches on each day to record the chages on the site, during a one year period.
STRANGE BAZAR
by Daniela Gogic
Bosnia - 2000 - 18mn
Bosnia and Haerzegovina in the 18th century. As it was the tradition of the century, a youg man of a rich family bought the yougest girl of a poor family without seeing her. On his way to the house, he met an acquaintance of him, who is a horse-thief and very problematic...
THE FIRST MORTAL EXPERIENCE
by Aida Begic
Bosnia - 2000 - 26mn
Dado Bratovic is a comis-strip artist from Sarajevo. After war, in 1996, he goes to get his identity card issued and finds out that the was reported dead just after the war started in 1992. Now he has to prove that he is alive.
LIFE DRAWING
by Arsen Anton Ostojic
Croatia - 2002 - 15mn
An old widower, who has only his cat for company, one moning accidentally stumples upon his old paint bruches. This a wakens in him the old passion of painting and he quickly arranges for a model from a nearby art school to pose for him.
AT DOWN TOWN
by Amir Ramsis
Egypt - 2000 - 15mn
A night spent in cafe-shops and bars at down town among marginal young men having different lives.
LILLI
by Marwan Hamed
Egypt - 2000
In a notorious drug district, a young sheikh attemps to reach out and redeem. His community. His encounter with Lilli, however, leaves him struggling with his own temptations and his own fight with the devil.
A PLUSH
by Jose Maria Caro Patino
Spain - 2001 - 13mn
In a ountry, strangely resembling to spain, a surgical staff is about to make a habituel surgical operation in a public hospital. The quiet of the doctors terribly contrasts with the horrible anxiety of the patient.
JUST FOR A TANGO
by Toni Bestard, Adan Martin
Spain - 2000 - 14mn
Two characters, altough hating each other, they need each one. There is a secret that units them, and leads them in an adventure full of surprises.
BLANK MARIAGE
by Stephanie Duvivier
France - 2000 - 28mn
Lise decides to get married with Salim for money. Salim's grand-mother comes to live in their house everything goes up side down...
YOUNG SISTER
by Eve Deboise
France - 2000 - 25mn
Juliette is fourteen years old, and she adores her father. The however prefers Anna, his oldest daughter whom he feels and jealousy, Juliette accepts to play detective. Lie after lie strung along in a game over head, the situation becomes explosive.
I HAVE SOMETHING TO TEL YOU
by Katerina Filiotou
Greece - 2000 - 26mn
Yannis and Sofia have benn married for 20 years they have a calm and easy life until the day when something hapens and upsets their serenity...
A SHINING SUN
by Vassilis Loules
Greece - 2000 - 26mn
Natasha, a russian refugee seeks a place in the greek sun.
BITTER MACRONIS
by Giovanni Truppa
Italy - 2001 - 16mn
Different life stories meet together : a tramp, a couple, that is about to loose their home and a con artist.
All off them are connected by a fine line, which doesn't show up in reality, but, filtred throught television fiction, tells us "Who we are".
THE LAST QUESTION
by Giovanni Truppa
Italy - 2000 - 15mn
A man death, wants to kill a xriter. The writer tells him he is the wrong person to kill, the man shoots, the bullet moves slowly, very slowly, closer to the writer... the man with the gun moves in slow motion.
MY CHILDHOOF AND THE STONES
by Moaatz Jankhout
Jordan - 2002 - 33mn
The palestinian child lives in a particular situation in the occupied lands, denuded of any humanism. He is threatnes at any moment of his life, but he does not loose hope in the futur.
A LETER FROM SARA
by Moaatz Jankhout
Jordan - 2002 - 10mn
Sara an eleven years old palestinian girl, decides to send to send a letter to the whole world, ans especially to the human conscience....
THE SHOWER
by Michel Kammoun
Libano - 2000 - 10mn
Take a man who wants to take a shower. Make him angry and put him in a bathroom, mis the whole things during 10 minutes. Then observe...
READY-TO-WEAR
by Dima El Horr
Libano - 2000 - 27mn
"AM ALI" lives in a south Lebanon village, four kilometers from the Lebanon-israeli borders.....
CITY SOUL
by Abdel Basset Mahdi Badri
Libya - 2001 - 40mn
The film shows different aspects of the city of Tripoli, its architecture, and its inhabitants life.
CHAPELET
by Laila Triki
Morocco - 2001 - 13mn
The delicate night of insomnia of a child who explores his home in the dark, while all his family sleeps.
THE WALL
by Faouzi Bensaidi
Morocco - 2001 - 13mn
The short story of a wall meeting men-massing by this wall, several sort of popular people hunted by thin problems.
FATAL IDENTITY
by Nasser Amer
Palestine - 2001 - 30mn
The film deals with the Palestinian and the Israeli identity and the debate about the Palestinian people of Israel. And this, by the testimony of an actor-scriptwiter : Mohamed Bakri.
DEBRIS
by Abdesalam Shehadah
Palestine - 2002 - 18mn
"DEBRIS" is not just a documentary film dealing with farmer story in which his farm has been buldozed or demolished. "Debris" is story of a palestinian man who has lost his dignity, manhood, and vigor...
A FAT BELLERINA'S TUESDAY
by JEANNE WALTZ
Portugal - 2000 - 26mn
Luisa, a fifty year old divorcee, has thuesday's off. Tuesday are when luisa shows the zoo to her grand-son or invites her friend round for dinner. Until the birth of her son, luisa was a ballerina. Now she's fat....
A FAT BELLERINA'S TUESDAY
by JEANNE WALTZ
Portugal - 2000 - 26mn
Luisa, a fifty year old divorcee, has thuesday's off. Tuesday are when luisa shows the zoo to her grand-son or invites her friend round for dinner. Until the birth of her son, luisa was a ballerina. Now she's fat....
BREATHING (UNDER WATER)
by Antonio Ferreira
Portugal - 2000 - 45mn
Pedro lives in suburbs, where he works with his father in a garage. He goes everyday by bus to school to met his friends. They usually go to the river during the summer, to enjoy themselves.
THE FIFTH MOVEMENT
by Bassil El Khatib
Syria - 2001 - 10mn
The season of the year going by. Time's almost stopped. The place is like a jail. The members of a one family watching television and are shocked by the images of the "INTIFADA".
HAPPINESS MOMENT
by Walid Hrib
Syria - 2001 - 7mn
The season of the year going by. Time's almost stopped. The place is like a jail. The members of a one family watching television and are shocked by the images of the "INTIFADA".
KHMISSA
by Molka Mehdaoui
Tunisia - 2000 - 14mn
Tunisia, the Marasa. A suburban luxurious house. Before the return of the husband, the wife is about to make suicide by taking slleping pills. When Khmissa, an old peasant woman, rings at the door looking for dry bread. She rings again...
ONE FUATHER LAUGHTER
by Ibrahim Letaif
Tunisia - 2000 - 18mn
Am Salah works in a factory. As he gets off the train, his life is turned upside down by an anexpected event and troubles his quiet daily life.
THE SILENCE IS GOLDEN
by Tayfun Pirselimiglu
Turkey - 2002 - 12mn
Ahmet is an illegal albanian immigrant who lives in a small italian village as a barber. He is a very talkative person and writes letters full of unreal stories about himself to his mother.....
FUNERAL
by Ahmet Boyacioglu
Turkey - 2001 - 12mn
A group of friends, after celebrating the birthday of an old man in a bar, go to a cemetery to atend a funeral. This is not an ordinary funeral because all the participants are already dead. A film based on life, death and time.
UNTOUCHED BY THE SUN
by Andro Martinovitc
Yougoslavia - 2001 - 11mn
After years of waiting, Jovan returns from war. However, not alone. There was somebody in front of the house wearing black. patient enough to wait for the solider before leaving for good. Only his mother and a feeling of emptiness will remain.
NATIVE DANCE
by Dragan Elcic
Yougoslavia - 2000 - 10mn
During the offensive, serbs from Krajina are forced to leave their homes, even without winter clothes. But they took their national costumes.
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