Festival of Mediterranean Short Film of Tangier Competition 2004
No more love stories
by Stratoula Theodoratou
Grèce - 2003 - 26mn
Achilleas and Ellisavet live in the same village, but in different words.They are both social outcasts, but for different reasons. They will meet so as to get as much as they could from each other.
In other circumstances, they could have fallen in love?
Skipper Strad
by Irini Vachlioti
Gréce - 2003 - 26mn
He landed in a faraway port? penniless, an empty pack of cigarettes in his pocket? By Jove! When could he get back to the sea?
He found accommodation in an old hotel? a small cheap room? which he shares with others. They take over from one another, one in the morning, the other in the evening.
? sheer stockings? high-heel shoes?.But most of all, the smell of her body?He realized he was sharing his bed with a belle de nuit?
The ironer
by Aylin Deveci
Turquie - 2003 - 20mn
Mesut, an ironer, feels a great love for his sister Ipek. This love, giving him a feeling of shame, is exhausting him day by day. The photo, taken at the casting agency to which he once applied, is received by the young player Asli. The latter no longer hangs that photo on the board. An invisible bond starts linking these two livings
Appartment
by Seyfi Teoman
Turquie - 2004 - 25mn
A young woman moves in her new apartment. One of her neighbors, living alone, is more and more interested in her. Apartment illustrates the aborting attempts between being friends and being neighbors
The chimney
by Alejandro Aluarado y Coneha Barquero
Espagne - 2003 - 14mn
Monica went looking for an old friend? In front of his house, she learns that Miguel, after having been very ill, left his property.
Northontheprogramme
by Vinicio Basile
Italy - 2003 - 11mn
The TV time, the rapid succession of images and senses that condition human existence. The time that seems fleeting, even when it incites us to engage in thinking.
War Story
by Mario Amora
Italie - 2003 - 18mn
Sarajevo 1993, in a country where borders move because of the war. A paramilitary group use children, who have no shelters and no families, to ransack the buildings which were recently bombed. In return, they let them live in a disused factory, or at least they do not kill them?
Oranges
by Yahia Mouzahem
Algerie - 2003 - 07mn
Two men are fighting each other for no reason. The fight begins in the center of a well supplied market. It is continued later in sceneries that are more and more unappealing and monochrome. They finally arrive near a cemetery where they will end up killing each other
60 Years
by Xavi Sala
Espagne -2003- 13mn
Rosa?s husband passes away in the evening just when the couple was to celebrate 60 years of marriage? But she was not to leave him on this day that was awaited for so long.
From the other sidr
by Nassim Amaouch Patino
Algérie - 2003 - 29mn
Having leaved his district to pursue his studies, Samir was getting ready to be back home with the family and relatives for the christening of his small brother.
The girl in the mirror
by Pédro Fortes
Portugal - 2003 - 23mn
A travel to a peculiar place, somewhat mysterious. A sophisticated mirrored box inside a TV studio. A place where the putting on a red lipstick gives life and the broadcast camera takes it away, whilst are thrown in the darkness where they vanish into the emptiness of haute couture dresses.
BLANK Looking up
by Joao Figueiras
Portugal - 2003 - 15mn
Pedro is hidden in the church and watches the girls dressing as angels for the procession. He has hidden so they can?t make him use that stupid costume. He wishes it would rain, a huge storm would fall down over the island. He starts to believe the procession won’t take place.
Time are changing
by guy Bardin
France - 2004 - 25mn
Following the invalidation of the election of a parliament member, new partial elections are to be held.
At Billel?s home, coordinator of the district, the associative officials of the district are gathering, waiting for the outcome of Billel?s talks with the parliament member to stop the expulsion of Sylvie and her three children.
A hymn to the gazelle
by Stephanie Duvivier
France - 2003 - 30mn
Elisabeth, over forty years old, takes the dog out for a walk as her husband was watching football on TV. Scared by a group of young men, she took refuge in the only café still open. It was at that time that Youssef accosted her.
Leila’s photos
by Pierre Salloum
Liban - 2003 - 26mn
Leila lives in the memory of her husband Ellias, who died twenty years ago. With a few photos, she succeeded in conserving a world where Ellias is still present. On the latter’s birthday, she had the crazy idea to consult a photographer to revive and enliven this world.
Lebess
by Hedy Krissane
Tunisie - 2003 - 15mn
Fears and uncertainties besetting a young immigrant in his everyday life in Italy. Behind his visionary and melancholic state lies a permanent inner conflict.
Piccolo Willy
by Miha Mazzini
Slovenie - 2003 - 13mn
Piccolo Willy is an obedient and exemplary child who sings wonderfully. Whoever he touches changes into a child enjoying the same qualities. Virtuosity and goodness start to spread all over the world.
Only one man can stop this.
Will he be able to do it?
THE Island
by Kenneth Scicluna
Malte - 2003 - 33mn
A foreigner comes to Malta to take pictures of dilapitaed buildings. He photographs ruins that look like they could be on Boklin’s "Isle of the Dead".
Soon he finds, however, that crumbling edifices are not the only similarity between the two Isles.
A beautiful day
by Brahim Mucaj
Albanie - 2003 - 30mn
A girl from Albania tries to study in Italy. She works very hard to finish her studies. But it was not easy for an immigrant girl in that big city. Dreams for a better life do not always become a reality. However, there was "a beautiful day".
The Shipherd of the stars
by Mourad Ben Cheikh
Tunisie - 2003 - 22mn
A young man and a young girl, studying acting and living in a university campus, broke into an old disused theatre to rehearse. They realized soon they were prisoners there. The young man ends up by finding a solution to leave the place, but the girl, left to her own self, uses the theatre to stage the text she was to rehearse.
A place in the sun
by Rachid Boutounes
Morocco - 2004 - 13mn
Having received a summoning from the city council, Ahmed, a sixty-year immigrant, is getting ready to go there.
Dremano Oko
by Vladimir Perisic
Serbie - 2003 - 21mn
Stephan, a 13-year child, spends the weekend in the countryside with his grandparents. His parents came to take him back to town.
Limonade
by Hicham Kayed
Palestine - 2004 - 12mn
A Palestinian family settles in Lebanon. The children, brought up on the epic and heroic tales of their grandparent in his fight in Palestine, finally met him upon their arrival in Lebanon on the eve of his death. Inspired by the fine ritual that a little girl puts into place to remember her grandparents, the young brothers attempt to escape from their destiny.
Kyrie Elisson
by Davor Medurecan
Croatie - 2004 - 06mn
After a bloody fight, a knight decides to drop down the sword and start a journey. At sea he is caught up in a storm which sinks the ship. He is washed ashore. The sea being behind him and a cliff in front, he climbs the cliff. He meets a fryer who was building a church and helped him in this task. In this new church, a white light shines upon them, symbolizing forgiveness and new hope.
Big your pardon Majesty
by Talal Abou Rahma
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.
The feast of flowers
by Ayad Aboudaoud
Jordanie - 2003 - 30mn
Mohamed Dourra?s unique story, from his birth to the day of his martyrdom during the Intifada?.
ANotrh want mad
by Ayda Begic
Bosnie - 2003 - 19mn
Eighteen years-old girl Selma is murdered during a football match, after what her body travels from hand to hand. Everyone who gets in touch with the corps thinks he murdered her. Meanwhile, at her home, her mother is finishing Selma?s graduation dress?
Blunder
by Lahcen zinoun
Morocco - 2003 - 16mn
A drunk man opens with difficulty the door of his residence. He takes a bottle of alcohol and starts drinking. Its effect soon made him sink into a deep sleep. The same day, he knew about the arrest of his friend Evelyne by the police. In his sleep, the man dreams that he was an accomplice and a member of the same banned political movement.
Luna
by Tanja golic
Portugal - 2000 - 45mn
Luna is a satellite.
Luna is a woman.
Luna translates into nocturnal changes.
Wednesday
by Alma Becirovic
Bosnie - 2003 - 10mn
A lonely man listens to his tango lessons on radio every Wednesday, until the day the radio host is replaced by another?
Alia
by Fadi Erramhi
Jordanie - 2003 - 25mn
Alia lives lives under the influence of her fanatical brother? Alia aspires to freedom and the day she decides on her choice, her brother murders her in the name of what is called the honour of the family.
The travel of wings
by Tair Mussa
Syrie - 2003 - 35mn
Salma is a young woman who dies during child birth. Her baby who survives her is silent. It does not cry, move or accept to suck any other woman?s breast.
The mask
by Bassam M.Hussein
Syrie - 2003 - 20mn
A tropical that is of concern to all the people throughout the word on domination of the globe through occult manoeuvres who mask is secret to nobody.
Living among us
by Mahmoud Souleiman
Egypt - 2004 - 22mn
" Nadia " works in sharpening the knives, using Manuel equipment, roaming the Street, to rais up her children after breaking down from her husband. .
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