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COMPETITION
INTERNATIONAL FILM PROGRAM
THE TEACHERS FILMS
LASSE GJERTSEN SPECIAL
PERUVIAN FILM
THE FESTIVAL JURY AND PRIZES
Best film in age group A 15-17
A Lucky Day by Magnus Bertelsen from Denmark
The jury’s comment:
“A Lucky Day stood out as a good example of cinematographic storytelling, giving the audience the opportunity to interpret the story, leaving the viewer with different experiences of space and time.”
Best film in age group B 18-20
Klasskamrater by Victor Lindgren form Sweden
The jury’s comment:
”Klasskamrater manages to tackle a sensitive subject matter, giving an indebt understanding of the emotional aspects of bullying and the shortcomings of adults in helping resolve this matter. The filmmaker places the viewer in the middle of the conflict instead of being just a spectator.”
Best film in age group C 21-25
Life Worth Living by Eirik Svensson from Finnland
The jury’s comment:
”Life Worth Living demonstrates a very talented use of form, bringing out the beauty of everyday situations and thoughts through the carful choice of aesthetics. And does so with a great deal of humor!”
The best Nordic youth film 2008
Dart by Måns Wide from Sweden
The jury’s comment:
“Dart, is a film where the characters and the dialogue is linked together in a brilliant way. The originality of the story is also perfectly matched with the cinematographic language. Dart hits like a dart!”
NUFF 2008 jury was:
Rachel Andersen Gomez (filmmaker from Tromsø, Norway)
Lasse Gjertsen (filmmaker from Larvik, Norway)
Christer Engberg ( film director, theatre director and Musician from Luleå, Sweden)
Film & theatre director and musician, Luleå, Sweden
Born 1957, started as musican i early 70s to play in several rockbands, ended up in a music -colektive in 1973 ” Anton Swedbergs Swängjäng ”where he started to get interested in acting and directing. Worked from 1978 as a teatcher in music and drama. Started a project for young people who cold not cope with thier school situation and instead become a part of his theatre ensemble. ” Rosteriet” . Later on the diarys from that period become the film ”wild angel”
He’s still active as a musican playing Irish folkmusic.
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Lasse Gjertsen (born July 19, 1984) is a Norwegian
animator, videographer and musician, best known
as lassegg on Youtube.com. His most popular short
pieces ‘Hyperactive’ and ‘Amateur’ have over 20 million
views on Youtube alone, making him the most
viewed Norwegian on the viral video community. He
is currently working with animation and short films
in Bergen, Norway.
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Rachel A. Gómez is born in Bergen, October 27th
1973. Rachel is educated in photography, film and
anthropology. She studied documentary film at La
Universidad Del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
After coming back to Norway in 2006 she worked
both on local film projects (Firekeepers, skaldt and
Vindenes Hus) and with creative documentary film
projects in Argentina and Spain.
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(All the good stuff comes from above)
Comedy Norway; 2008; 2
Producer: Eilif Bremer Landsend
Director: Eilif Bremer Landsend
Screenplay: Torkel Riise Svensson
Director of photography: Eilif Bremer Landsend
Music: Eilif Bremer Landsend
Actors: Kristian Fr. Figenschow jr., Kristine Henriksen
Ola, a 50 year old boring man is full of happiness. He meets some troubles, but manage to get over it. At the end he meet a girl and it is love at first sight.
Filmography:
2001 - The lucky pig
2003 - Street light
2003 - Only love and death
2006 - Praise the lord
Directors background:
Eilif Bremer Landsend har been making film since he was 12 years old. He has been working at Filmhuset TVIBIT. Landsend has made many films that has won prices in Norway, Italy, Cyprus, Germany.
He is now part of a filmgroup that meets once a week making films.
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(En heldig dag)
Fiction; Denmark; 2008; 7 min
Producer: Victoria Juul Hertz
Director: Magnus Berthelsen
Screenplay: Magnus Berthelsen
Director of photography: Ziryab Ben Braham
Music: Jonas Ammitzbøll Eriksen
Actors
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(Andalusian for Beginners)
Fiction Denmark 2007 10 min
Producer Eva Madeline E. Østergaard
Director Ognjen Curcic
Screenplay Mo Haslund Larsen
Director of photography Ognjen Curcic & Mo Haslund Larsen
Music Kristian Grønlund Pedersen
Actors
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AnimatedSweden 2006 2.34 min
Producer: Sofia Granström & Ylva Andersson
Director: Sofia Granström & Ylva Andersson
Screenplay: Sofia Granström & Ylva Andersson
Director of photography: Sofia Granström & Ylva Andersson
Music: Ania Albertsson
Actors:
The movie is about a man who gets stuck on a desert island after his ship broke down. During his time on the island, he will be getting different messages from the sky...
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 (Breakfast)
comedy/horror, Sweden; 2007 3 min
Producer Hugo Anderson / Daniel Permbo
Director Hugo Anderson
Screenplay Hugo Anderson / Daniel Permbo
Director of photography Hugo Anderson
Music Kalle and Tompac Elofsson
Actors Robin Gustafsson, Mattias Odh and Hugo Anderson
A film about eating breakfast.
Filmography:
Some of the films:
Bruce bond på grymt uppdrag.
Hugo Boss
Hugo Boss II
Terror i Töreboda
De manliga männen
Fågelinfluensan
Frukost
Tompac Forever
About the director:
I have made movies sience 2001 and I have been in some film festivals and TVshows before. I and my friends Robin and Mattias won the junior class of nuff in 2006 with the film "Macho Men".
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Drama Sweden 2007 22 min
Producer Jennika Antila / Christoffer Glans
Director Christoffer Glans (24)
Screenplay Christoffer Glans
Director of photography Christoffer Glans
Music Andreas Kullberg / Lauri Antila / Cecilia Lindgren
Actors Rikard Svensson, Maria Nilsson, Fredrik Hiller, Björn Andersson
Fredrik and Cecilia are spending their last evening in their bankrupt café “Coffee Break”. In the midst of this farewell a dramatic event turns what was supposed to be a peaceful evening into a chaotic mess of people who in the end change Fredrik and Cecilia’s view on their dreams.
Filmography:
Ilskan (The Anger) - 2003
369 - 2004
Vågen (Risky Venture) - 2004
Ströjobb (Odd Jobs) - 2005
Coffee Break - 2008 ;
About the director:
Grown up in and around the world of theatre. At the age of thirteen he found an interest for still-photography. To combine his interest in theatre with photography he found a natural combination in filmmaking. In upper secondary school he studied media, photography and filmmaking while studying advanced filmmaking in his spare time, making shortfilms with a borrowed videocamera. At the age of 18 he started working as a freelance photographer/videographer/editor, mostly doing filmed material to screen under theatre performances. He also worked with posters and information films.
At the age of 20 he was recruited to "UFF" (Ung Film Framåt, or Young Filmmakers Forward). The year after, he won the national 24h filmmaking competition "nOO" with his movie "Vågen" ("Risky Venture") and third prize in "Novemberfestivalen" with his film "Ströjobb" ("Odd jobs") which was also shown at NUFF 2006 after winning best editing on the Dvoted website.
2006 he recieved a schoolarship in the art of images for his movie "369" and for presenting his "Coffee Break" idea.
Christoffer has been active in many discussions and debates about filmmaking, prefering complex headlines like art, politics and philosophy. His quest as many other young filmmakers is to be able to direct a feature film in the future, working with film as his livelihood.
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Comedy, Sweden 2007, 14 min
Producer: Lotten Wester (23)
Director: Måns Wide
Screenplay: Jacob Andrén
Director of photography: Måns Wide
Music: Alexander Darland
Actors: Michael Petersson, Mats Eklund, Andreas Lachenardiére, Karsten Karlsson
What could have been an ordinary day in Harry's life takes a radical turn when a brief encounter from the past appears, looking for revenge.
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Action Norway 2007 9 min
Producer Viktor Enoksen
Director Viktor Enoksen (24)
Screenplay Torkel Riise Svenson
Director of photography Viktor Enoksen and Øystein Gregers Karlsen
Music Øystein Gregers Karlsen
Actors Kristoffer Jørgensen, Jonas Solberg Rydningen
Eagle Marsh is a fanatic Christian who tries to convince people that they should turn to God trough letters to local newspapers. When he realizes this approach doesn't have any effect he has a breakdown.
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(A Very Merry Christmas)
Drama Sweden 2007 12 min
Producer: Thomas Roger
Director: Martin Klevegård (25)
Screenplay: Kalle Segerbäck
Director of photography: Martin Klevegård
Music: Efterklang
Actors: Tomas Norström, Åsa Gustafsson, Mats Sundberg
It´s Christmas and Ivar is shopping and preparing for the holidays. He is telling everyone he meets that he, like always, will spend Christmas Eve with his daughter. But will the daughter turn up?
Filmography:
Sven, 4min, shortfilm - fiction.
En Berättelse om Stormen Gudrun, 10min, short - documentry.
A Very Merry Christmas, 12 min, shortfilm - fiction.
About the director:
Martin has worked in the Swedish film industry like a clapper-loader for several years. Martin made in 2006 a documentary about some people who lived in south of Sweden when a big storm changed their
life and the landscape. The documentary was showed in Swedish television. A Very Merry Christmas is Martins first short film as a fiction.
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(Fateful Car Ride)
Animation Finland 2007 1:21 min
Producer: Pyry Kääriä
Director: Pyry Kääriä (25)
Screenplay: Pyry Kääriä
Director of photography: Pyry Kääriä
Music: Pyry Kääriä
Mr. and Mrs. Falocman are on vacation and their car breaks down.
Filmography:
Matti - 2004
Pieni Kuolema - 2005
Banaaninkuori - 2007
Kohtalokas Autoretki - 2007
Sami menee poliisiopistoon - 2007
About the director:
I was born in New York on the 8th of January 1983. Due to my father’s job my family moved around the world. We lived in New York, Helsinki, Abidjan and Bangkok until I was at the age of 17 and we moved back to Helsinki Finland. I graduated from Mattlidens Gymnasium, with an International Baccalaureat score of 30, in 2001. Between 2001 and 2006 I worked as a bartender in many different restaurants and nightclubs, while trying to get into the Academy of Arts to study film directing. In 2006 I started my civil service. I mainly taught disabled adults music and theatre though I had the privileged chance to make 3 short movies with them as well. After my civil service was over I got into Stadia to study theatre directing, where I am now.
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(Flower Beloved)
Drama Sweden 2006 6 min
Producer Johan Lundström
Director Jakob Arevärn
Screenplay David Grehn
Director of photography Jakob Arevärn
Music Reseda
Actors Benedicte Stendahl Hansen
A distraught looking Frida sits in her sombre apartment slowly descending into despair. She is anxious about the whereabouts of David, who she believes will bring happiness back to her life. But happiness isn’t always what it seems.
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(Tell her!)
Drama Norway 2008, 2 min
Producer: Torfinn Rønning Sanderud
Director: Mina Shaddel
Screenplay: Mina Shaddel
Director of photography: Torfinn Rønning Sanderud
Music: Kjetil Schjander- Larsen
Actors: Lisa Loven Kongsli, Finn Schau, Audun Sandem
Erlend has to tell his girlfriend something important.
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(Classmates)
Drama Sweden 2005 11 min
Producer Johan Lundkvist
Director Victor Lindgren
Screenplay Petrus Sjövik
Director of photography Victor Lindgren
Music Muslaban
Actors Leif Andreé, Nils Englund, Peter Hägglöv, Seif Sawhi, Daniel Rundstedt, Tobias Wiklund
A film that show the brutality of youths and grownups ignorance.
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(Life Worth Living)
Drama Finland 2007 11 min
Producer: Jyrki Väisänen, Eirik Svensson, Joona Kivirinta
Director: Eirik Svensson, Jyrki Väisänen
Screenplay: Jyrki Väisänen, Eirik Svensson, Joona Kivirinta
Director of photography: Joona Kivirinta Ilmari Pohjola
Music: Ilmari Pohjola
Actors: Petri Manninen, Pamela Tola, Kati Outinen, Amira Khalifa, Juuso Hirvikangas
An episodic tragicomedy about pen holders, bathing, polythene wrap and other things that make life worth living.
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 (Like father, like death)
Drama Sweden 2008 10 min
Producer: Adi & Mak Omanovic
Director: Adi & Mak Omanovic (23)
Screenplay: Bratislav Stankovic
Director of photography: Adi & Mak Omanovic
Music: Mikko Ihalainen, Mikael Iiskola, Janne Wattman Blues Band
Actors: Lennart R Svensson, Henrik Zachrisson, Anna Eliasson
A young man meets his father for the first time after many years. The father left the family years ago and the son finds it hard to forgive.
Filmography:
Antagningsbrevet (2004)
à la manda (2005)
En Mästare (2005)
Admir (2005)
Kebab Street (2006)
About the director:
Twin brothers born in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1985. Living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1991 and studying Media Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. We are also running a film production company since last year called Omanovic production.
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 (The Determinant )
Drama, Norway 2008, 13 min
Producer: Mediefabrikken
Director: Mina Shaddel (19)
Screenplay: Anders Nybø
Director of photography: Mina Shaddel
Actors: Mariann Hole, Mattis Hermann Nyquist, Svein Tindberg, Audun Sandem, Espen Klouman Høiner
"Målet" handler om nitten år gamle Lene som drømmer om å bli modell. Hun oppsøker et modellbyrå og får beskjed om å slanke seg for å komme i betraktning. Lene starter en kamp mot kiloene som påvirker hennes forhold til kjæreste og venner.Jo nærmere Lene kommer målet, jo mer er hun i ferd med å ødelegge seg selv.
Filmography:
Skal-skal ikke
Divone
Nattbøylen
Snakk til henne
Målet
About the director:
Mina Shaddel er 18 år gammel. Hun startet å lage film da hun var 14 år. Hun har allerede laget 5 kortfilmer. Målet er hennes første kortfilm med profesjonelle forran og bak kamera. Hun skriver selv manus og har regi på sine filmer.
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Art film Norway 2007 7 min
Producer Breivika VGS
Director Ailo Ravna
Screenplay Trond Tomassen
Director of photography Sille Myreng
Music Diagnose: Lebensgefahr
Actors Morten Nesse, Trond Tomassen, Andreas Mathisen, Sille Myreng, Ailo Ravna
With traces of surrealism and psychological horror Origo explores themes like materialism, fear, falsity, and death. Dark and gloomy elements compose an atmospheric dive into the emotional specter of mankind and inner disarray.
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 Robin
Drama Norway 2007 4 min
Producer: Torfinn Rønning Sanderud (19)
Director: Eirik Sæter Stordahl
Screenplay: Eirik Sæter Stordahl
Director of photography: Torfinn Rønning Sanderud
Music: Eirik Sæter Stordahl
Actors: Lars Andreassen, Nicolas Benkheira, Joakim Gunby, Aslak Maurstad
Robin is a compact every-day drama about friendship and betrayal.
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Romka-97
Drama Finland 2007 13 min
Producer: Jenni Ranta, Ilkka Rautio, Anastasia Lobkovski/ TAMK University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media
Director: Anastasia Lobkovski (25)
Screenplay: Anastasia Lobkovski
Director of photography: Jaakko Slotte
Music: Antti Hirsiaho
Actors: Dmitry Filimonov, Anastasia Teplyakova, Vitaly Pitchik, Inessa Perelygina
Romka-97 is a short film about a 9-year old Romka and his best friend Dinka. The story is placed in Saint Petersburg, Russia and is based on real characters and events of writer`s childhood. Romka`s father smuggles animals for living and Romka gets payed for helping in his father businesses. Romka feels he`s not being loved by his father and rebels. Romka-97 is a story about a survival, friendship and first love.
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 Sniikkerit (Sneakers)
Documentary Finland 2008 10 min
Producer: Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia
Director: Heikki Slåen (23)
Screenplay: Anna Kivimäki
Director of photography: Heikki Slåen
Music: Timo Kari
Actors: Keisuke Topi Tateishi (as himself)
Topi Tateishi is one of the best urban dancers in Finland and the owner of a small shoe store in Helsinki. "Sneakers" is a story about how dancing and shoes come together and how a pair of shoes can play a huge role in one's life.
Filmography:
Viimeinen kesä ("Last summer"), fiction, 10 min, independent, 2007
Ihmisarvo ("Human dignity"), fiction, 2 min, independent, 2007 ;
About the director:
Heikki Slåen is a first year student of cinematography in Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia. He is a citizen of both Finland and Norway.
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 Symmetri (Symmetry)
Experimental Sweden 2007 12 min
Producer: Splinter Arts
Director: Andreas Öhman
Screenplay: Andreas Öhman
Director of photography: Oskar Gullstrand & Andreas Öhman
Music:
Actors: Kjell Weinius, Katarina Emanuelsson
The story of an confused professor in Geometry who gives up family and friends for his studies in his belief that everybody has a geometric shape. The only problem for his report is that he don't seem to have figured out the shape of himself.
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 Kunsten å dyrke kjærlighet (The Wishing Seed)
Romantisk komedie Norway 2008 5 min
Producer Kristina Aakre
Director Martine Sørensen (17)
Screenplay Sigri de Vries
Director of photography Kristina Aakre, Martine Sørensen, Sigri de Vries, Kristine Hals Meyer
Music our own
Actors Kristina Aakre, Johannes Eilertsen, André Heggelund
Vilde has always wanted a perfect man. She buys a wishing seed in a flower store. The next day she finds a naked man in her flower pot. He is The Perfect Man. Or is he now?
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 Tidenes Date (Time of your life)
Drama, short Norway 2008 7 min
Producer Filmgruppa Zoom
Director Christian Caspersen (18)
Screenplay Viktor Enoksen
Director of photography Christian Caspersen
Music Christian Caspersen
Actors Ingvild Marienborg, Jonas Rydningen, Isak Mølster
Silje, a nerd, is asked out on a date by the hottest boy in school. She firsts doubt his intentions, but when he gives her a time of her life she learns to trust him.
Filmography:
Tromsø Brua Dokumentar - 2004
Fremmed - 2004
Refleksjon - 2005
Iskaldt - behind the scenes - 2007
About the director:
Attended an alternative Media subject in 9th grade, where basic camera and editing skills were taught. Thereby attendet a movie group called Zoom at Tvibit youth house. Has been bulding competance by doing several small projects, both fiction, conserts and commercials
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Psychological drama, Faroe Islands 2007, 10 min
Producer: Franklin Henriksen
Director: Andrias Høgenni (19)
Screenplay: Andrias Høgenni
Director of photography: Jónfinn Stenberg
Music: Jannik Gade
Actors: Jónfinn Stenberg , Julia í Kálvalíð, Andrias Høgenni, Hannah Philbrow
This is a love story. Told through the eyes of a stalker.
Filmography:
Áðrenn Raknarok (2005) - Writer, Director
Eg Vil Liva (2006) - Writer, Director
The Chase (2006) - Writer, Co-Director, Actor
The Hole (2006) - Producer
The Story Ends: Preperations (2006) - Director
Agurk: The Tvshow (2006-2007) - Crewmember
Hypnosis (2007) - Writer, Director (unfinished)
Unedited Love (2007) - Writer, Director, Actor
The Good Old Punk (2007) - Director ;
About the director:
I've worked with filmmaking since I was sixteen. I've written and directed about 7 short films, so far. In 2006-2007 I was part of the crew behind the faroese underground tvshow "Agurk", which now has been temporarily taken of the air. Currently I'm part of the faroese filmgroup "Jill Productions", which tries to develop the Faroese filmcommunity.
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(Kirill...From the Army of the Lost Soldiers)
Documentary Russian Federation 2007 10 min
Producer: Goethe-Institut
Director: Alexander Chernov and Julia Iskhakova (22)
Screenplay: Alexander Chernov and Julia Iskhakova
Director of photography: Michail Shalapin
The film is a monologue of a mother who lost her son. The pain doesn't disappear as the time passes and makes her remember him again and again. She can't help thinking about the final days of his life and the last time they met...
Filmgraphy:
2004 - "Die Rekonstruktion".
2005 - "Zaguzh. Final stop".
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(Night Bite)
Horror/comedy Finland 2007 3 min
Producer: Timo Suomi (23)
Director: Mika Tervonen
Screenplay: Mikko Suuraho
Director of photography; Timo Suomi & Mika Tervonen
Music: Petri Helske
Actors: The Count- Jukka Itälä, Waiter- Henrik Härkönen, Henchman- Lassi Vierikko
As the night grows dark The Count arrives to the only restaurant in the village that serves the food of his taste- fresh humans.
Filmography:
"Stondis" (in post-production)- Director of cinematography
"Nachtessen"- Director, co-scriptwriter
"Kuningasunelma"(short documentary)- Director
"Kanahka"(10 epispode internet sketch series)- scriptwriter, director ;
About the director:
Mika Tervonen is a second year student at Helsinki Polytechnic University Stadia. He specialises in cinematography. Before starting his studies at Stadia he made independent films and internet series with his friends. Alongside his studiesMika is also working as a second camera assistant in a finnish professional feature film production "Maata Meren Alla" (Ground Under Water).
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INTERNATIONAL FILM PROGRAM
 Ten Strijdee (At War)
Animation Belgium 2007 7:29 min
Producer Kidscam
Director 6 young participants of a workshop
Screenplay 6 young participants of a workshop
Director of photography 6 young participants of a workshop
Music 6 young participants of a workshop
War = fear, noise and quietness, light and darkness...
About the director:
This animation film was made by 6 participants of a workshop by Kidscam during a film festival in Turnhout, Belgium. They worked together during 3 days on an animation film: sand and small plastic soldiers ware the basis. The participants were 13, 14 and 15 years old.
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 Ayah
Documentary Palestine 2008 6min, doc.
Producer: Young Journalist Club
Director: Ghassan Rodwan
Director of Photography: Ghassan Rodwan
Screenplay: Mohammed Lubad
Music: Ahmed Al Atrash
Ayah is a Palestiniane girl who challenged her weakness and made for herself a normal life like the other children in Gaza
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 Demba et Cole (Demba & Cole)
Music-animation Senegal 2008 3 min
Producer Centre culturel RIAC, Senegal
Director cinema group of RIAC
Screenplay Magnus Östergren
Director of photography cinema group
Music RIAC-singers
Actors Khady Diedhiou, Ass Bamba Sène, Gnima Badji, Adama W. Diallo, Mamadou Diol, Joe Soares
A young Senegalese couple does not agree about the girls’ right to work outside the home. A silhouette play combined with drawings and a humorous puppet choir sings the story.
Filmography:
The Voracious Jackal (anim)1999, The Amorous Jackal (anim)2001,The Lazy Jackal(anim)2003
Saly (fict) 2005
The False Talibés (fict) 2006-8
Demba & Cole (music-anim) 2008
About the director:
The Cinema group at the RIAC-center in the suburb of Dakar works together. For this production they were instructed by Mikaela Hasàn and Magnus Östergren
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Short documentary Kenya 2007 5 min
Producer Julius Mwelu
Director Julius Mwelu
Screenplay Julius Mwelu
Director of photography Julius Mwelu
The film was made during the election violence in Nairobi. Most of the violence was in the Slum areas of Nairobi and the filmmaker was there in the action as it happened. The film is a journey through the eyes of the filmmaker of the extreme levels of violence that took place in Nairobi.
About the director:
I am 23 years old I come from one of the biggest slum in Africa, that’s Mathare slum. Most of my times I like to spend playing soccer and taking photographs of life in Mathare. One thing that I don't like about life is being idle. Therefore I have always tried to follow my role models, the most important of which is my mother. There are six of us in our family and I am the second youngest. My father died of malaria in 1994 when I was ten years old and I always feel very sorry for my mother, who always truly loved and respected him. The place where we live is commonly referred to as the home of crime, prostitution and drug abuse. Last year I celebrated my birthday, which, due to high child mortality, high crime rate and drug abuse, is not a very common thing to do in Mathare. My friends and I used to joke about the fact that in Mathare, there are essentially more reasons to die than to live. Behind the eyes and faces of the inhabitants, behind the walls and doors of theirs dwellings lie incredible testimonies and cries of despair. However, there is also a formidable energy and will to survive in these people. Herein lies the future of the Mathare slum. This energy, this will to survive is a constant reminder to me that we need to invest in the youth of today if we want to create some kind of future for the youths of tomorrow, the youths of Mathare, and for the youths of the world.
At twelve I took my first picture and since then I have never looked back. Photography became my passion and through the years I worked hard to improve my skill. It has been my goal to share the pains and joys of the people of Mathare with the world. Because of this I have documented horrific scenes but also the happy scenes of the strong people of Mathare.
Through the years I have come to appreciate the benefits of photography and I wanted to share my passion with the children of Mathare. I started the Mwelu Foundation to train and empower young boys and girls to express themselves with the camera to show the world how they perceive the world as I have. I am optimistic that our life, our dreams and our hopes will not be lost as I am taking picture of my country and so are the forty five other children of the Mwelu foundation. Documenting our lives as we live.
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Animation Bulgaria 2008 2 min
Producer Dani Lazarov
Director Dani Lazarov
Screenplay Ivan Subev
Director of photography Dani Lazarov
Music Paul Jameson
"IMITATOR" is a film about the career in cinema by using someone's other Art.
About the director:
Bulgarian director, born in 1986, Dani Lazarov studied Animation and Fine Arts in NBU-sofia, since 2005. "IMITATOR" is his first animated movie. He is actively involved in independent and low-budget filmmaking in Bulgaria.
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Documentary South Africa 2008 6 minutes
Producer: Lionel Adonis
Director: Lionel Adonis
Director of photography: Sanville Moses
Actors: Micail Viljoen, Quinton Adams, Ginelle Viljoen
My story is about a young boy who is adopted by a total
stranger, and to show how people live in poverty.
Director's background:
Working mainly with underpriviledge children.
Mainly doing documentaries
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(Shop Keeper)
fiction Germany 2007 15 min
Producer Felix Stienz
Director Felix Stienz
Screenplay Markus Förderer
Director of photography Felix Stienz
Music Michael Roth, Thomas Grollmus
Actors Michael Miensopust, Eva Schönherr, Adolfo Assor, Clemens „Bembi“ Wissert, Tobi B.
One tiny shop. One Man. His clients. In the middle of Berlin. Every day life. And the deep wish just to get away from it all. What happens to the regular customers when the owner of his tiny tobacco shop just does not come to open up anymore?
Nothing.
Filmography:
2minutes (2005)
the hunter (2006)
Rolledüsch (2006)
Ladenhüter (2007)
meeting Antje (2007)
just call me Tobi B. (2008)
Kings of Berlin (2008)
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computer animation Belgium 2007 4:21 min
Producer Tuur Stuyck
Director Tuur Stuyck
Screenplay Tuur stuyck
Director of photography Tuur stuyck
Music Tuur Stuyck
A boy is tortured and humiliated for years by his mother. He can't take it anymore and takes a serious decision. At night he digs a hole in the floor and fills it with a lot of dangerous and sharp things. He covers the hole in the floor with some wood. The next day he waits for his mother. She centers the house, walks trough him and falls in the floor. The boy ends up in prison.
About the director:
Tuur is a 16 year old filmmaker. MANCIPIA is the third film he made for our national film festival for young filmmakers. He learned everything about 3D-computeranimation by himself, by trial and error. Step by step he learns more and more.
Manicipia won the price of the professional jury in our national film festival for young filmmakers MAKINGMOVIES in the category 16-18 years old.
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(For a Few Marbles More)
Children's film Netherlands 2006 11 min
Producer Jelmar Hufen, Christoph Koelemeijer
Director Jelmar Hufen
Screenplay Aage Hollander
Director of photography Jelmar Hufen
Music Maarten Spruijt
Actors Tom Schild, Aidan Vernée, Ruben van den Besselaar, Pauline Winckel
Four ten–year-olds are kicked out of their favorite playground by two aggressive drunkards. When they realize their parents are not going to help them, there’s only one solution. They have to find a way to get the toughest boy in the neighborhood to help them.
This is the director's debut film.
About the director:
Jelmar Hufen is an Autodidact. He worked in the Dutch film industry for a couple of years doing various jobs as an assistant. In the mean time he saved all his money for his own film project. In 2005, with € 10.000,- of savings and with the help of some generous movie companies the shooting of ‘For a few marbles more’ started. In October 2006 ‘marbles’ had his première on the Netherlands Film Festival. Currently the film is traveling the world, going from festival to festival. Hufen is currently, as a result of his successful debut, working as a commercial director in the Netherlands.
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(Nothing Special)
fiction film Russian Federation 2005 15 min
Producer VGIK
Director Philipp Abryutin (22)
Screenplay Dmitry Rozov
Director of photography Philipp Abryutin
Actors Richard Bondarev; Yriy Nazarov; Tamara Semina
This is the story about one young guy who wants to understand where is his place to live - the city or village...
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(Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man)
Fiction Republic of Korea 2006 9 min
Producer Jong-won Yun
Director Jong-won Yun
Screenplay Jong-won Yun
Director of photography Jong-won Yun
Actors Juhyung Hong
A young movie director wants to make a movie without compromise...
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Short Film Senegal 2005 26 min
Producer RIAC
Director Kady Diedhiou
Screenplay Mamadou Diol
Director of photography RIAC FILMS
Music RIAC FILMS
Actors Adama Woury Diallo, Ethienne Ndione, Mame Mareme Diagne, Moustapha Diol, Moustapha, Jeo Alioune Sene
Saly is a story about a young girl from the suburbs of Dakar who is forced into marriage with a man much older than her.
About the director:
Thin diploma of formation movies, video clips, enlivened drawing, knit, sewing, dye, batick,.
I have make my formation of the movies to the center cultural RIAC, I achieved Saly, the Nightmare in drawing enlivens of 3mn one court Sounay footage (the exision) in court of belaying.
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(It's me - Sergey)
documentary Russian Federation 2007 15 min
Producer Philipp Abryutin
Director Philipp Abryutin (22)
Screenplay Pavel Abryutin
Director of photography Philipp Abryutin
Music Ekaterina Lavrishuk
Actors Sergey Tygrekeu, Ekaterina Lavrishuk
It's me - Sergey - short story about the bone carver on the Russian Far North - Chukotka.
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(The End of the Succes)
Drame psycologique Haiti 2008
Producer Descollines Henry
Director Descollines Henry
Screenplay Descollines Henry
Director of photography Henrytech studio services
Music Henrytech studio services
Actors Lamour St Elizabeth Sergine, Belame Rose Kisha
Rachelle and Jessy are in a school competition for obtaining a bourse study has stranger.
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Documentary United Kingdom 2007 10 min
Producer Robin Whenary
Director Robin Whenary
Screenplay Robin Whenary
Director of photography Robin Whenary
Music Robin Whenary
Actors Stefan Van Oeckel (Wwoofer - subject)
A no-budget, non-dialogue documentary about a man living and working on an organic vegetable farm in Cornwall, England. Filmed towards the end of the two months he spent there, when the isolation and the sometimes harsh weather were making life harder. A portrait of one man and his environment.
Filmography:
The Boy, the Bike, and the Apple 2001 4m 30s
Intruder 2001 5m 10s
Blinded 2001 10m 40s
Panic 2001 5m 20s
River Dart (documentary) 2001 9m 10s
Motion 2001 4m 30s
Fear 2002 6m 30s
1471 2002 5m 30s
Seeing 2002 7m 10s
Thief 2003 4m 40s
The Beginning 2007 3m 40s
Wwoofing (documentary) 2007 10m 40s
About the director:
Born in 1984, Robin lives in south-west England, in the Devon countryside where he grew up. His love of the cinema and filmmaking grew out of an earlier interest in drama and photography, and between 2000 and 2003 he made several short no-budget narrative films in his local area, some for a two-year Film and Video course at Exeter College. All his second-year films were awarded 100% marks, but he did not try to get them shown anywhere at the time, thinking of them as just practice.
He then spent three years studying for an Ancient History degree, graduating with First Class Honours in 2006. During this time at University he also continued with his other passion, still photography.
In 2007-2008 several of Robin’s films were screened at short film festivals in the UK, and broadcast on Propeller TV across Europe. 'Motion' was awarded ‘Best Sound’ at the 2007 Leicester International Short Film Festival.
He has started making short films again, and hopes to go to film school in the near future.
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THE TEACHERS FILMS
documentary USA 2000 13 min
Producer Dante Luza
Director Dante Luza
Screenplay Dante Luza
Director of photography Dante Luza
Music Various Authors
A visual narration about the city landscape where nature and buildings coexist, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in open opposition. Through fragmentation and visual deconstruction, this film is a walk through diverse places in and around the zip code area tx 78505 in the city of Austin.
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 Tommy
Short film Norway 2007 12 min
Producer: Ole Giæver
Director: Ole Giæver
Director of photography: John Erling Holmenes Fredriksen
Screenplay: Ole Giæver
Music: Daniel Hansen
Actors: Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Bjørn Sundquist
Arild runs into the father of his former class mate Kjell in the mountains. Controversy from the past unfolds during this brief meeting.
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UK 1997 23 min
Writer/Director: Asif Kapadia
A young Street kid is branded for stealing and becomes an outcast. Kapadia’s magical realist graduation film from the Royal College of Art was shot on location in Rajasthan, India and was made with a cast of non professional actors.
Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival 1998 Cinefoundation - Second Prize.
Brest European Short Film Festival 1997 - Grand Prix.
St. Petersburg Film Festival 1998 - Best Short Film Award.
Isfahan Iranian Children’s Film Festival 1999 - Best Short Film Award.
Melbourne Film Festival 1998 - Best Short Film Award.
Poitiers Film Festival 1998 - Best Direction Award.
Tel Aviv Film Festival 1998 - Most Promising Director Award.
Locarno Film Festival 1998 - International Prix de Aaton.
New York Expo 1998 - Jury Prize.
Montecatini Film Festival 1998 - Jury Prize.
Cinema Texas Film Festival 1997 - Best Cinematography.
The film is included on CINEMA 16, the acclaimed DVD of the finest British Short films.
Screened at Clermont Ferrand, Toronto, London and many film festivals around the world,
Televised in the UK by Channel 4 and across Europe by Canal +, ZDF and Arté.
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 Sally Gross
A film by Albert Maysles and Kristen Nutile
Documentary USA 2007 56 min (clip 15 min)
produced by Tanja Meding
filmed by Albert Maysles
edited by Kristen Nutile
music by Robert Poss
Sally Gross - The Pleasure of Stillness is a 60 min. documentary about the critically acclaimed New York-based modern dancer and choreographer, Sally Gross. Called 'the most poetic of minimalist modern-dance choreographers' by New York Times dance critic Jennifer Dunning, Sally has been dancing for more than fifty years. Now in her seventies, Sally continues to perform every year. Sally Gross - The Pleasure of Stillness is an intimate film about the life and times of this remarkable and charismatic true New York artist who continues to create experimental work with an unwavering and gentle determination.
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Greece-Germany 2007, 105'
Written and directed by Angeliki Antoniou
Producers: Costas Lambropoulos, Jost Hering, Angeliki Antoniou
Direction of Photography: Jürgen Jürges
Music: Kostas Christides, Minos Matsas
Cast: Eshref Durmishi (Eduart), André Hennicke (Dr. Erdmann), Ndricim Xhepa (Raman), Dancho Chevreski (lawyer), Ermela Teli (Natasha), Adrian Aziri (Elton), Gazmend Gjokaj (Petro), Manos Vakousis (Harissis), Edi Mehana (Ali), Dimitris Liolios (Greek police officer), Nikolas Labrou (chief guard in prison), Armando Dauti (Ilyr), Luilzim Zegja (Beznik)
Eduart, a young man raised in a cruel and oppressive family environment, leaves Albania with the dream of becoming a rock star and living a better life. His reckless character lead him to commit a murder in Athens.
Because of an old robbery he gets imprisoned in Albania under the harshest conditions. Eduart, assisting the German doctor of the prison, learns to feel sympathy for others and guilt for his crime.
Like the Dostoevskian hero Raskolnikov, Eduart passes from crime to punishment. Can Eduart be redeemed?
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Science Fiction USA 2000 5 min
Producer Dante Luza
Director Dante Luza
Screenplay Sarah Van Voorhees
Director of photography Dante Luza
Actors Jonathan Smith
A man isolated in a room, one day a TV screen appears in the room changing his environment.
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LASSE GJERTSEN SPECIAL
You Tube celebrity Lasse Gjertsen visits NUFF 2008.
NUFF`s cooperation with Insomnia festival and You Tube`s role in regard to contemporary film and media.
Lasse Gjertsen(23) is recognized by both Norwegian and international press for his You Tube videos.
Lasse Gjertsen is world-known for his creative and controversial videos. His piece “Det ultimate selvmord” resulted in Gjertsen being banned from the site, only to be accepted (only) a few hours later. His most popular video “Amature” has been impressively 7,892,718 times. Lasse`s first video “Hyperactive” is a piece about a human beatbox. In 2007 Gjertsen directed the Swedish artist Timbuktu`s musicvideo “Get Fizzy”.
During the 2008 festival , NUFF in cooperating with Insomnia festival present a seminar regarding You Tube`s extreme popularity and its affect on the film industry. Lasse Gjertsen,as one of the successful “You Tubers”, will present his films and attend a panel discussion on the internets significance for young film makers today. He will also be a part of the NUFF jury.
The fact that such a “underground” celebrity visits Tromsø and takes part in our program is a joy for the festival.
Watch the videos of Lasse Gjertsen here…
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PERUVIAN FILM
Media has placed in people around the world one distinctive image of what Peru looks like: an Andean peasant walking a llama surrounded by a breathtaking landscape with high snowy peaks at the back and maybe ruins from an ancient culture somewhere in this picture. But Peru is more than this postcard simplification, it is a diverse, multicultural, full of contradictions and complex society which young Peruvian film makers have started, a few years ago, exploring and representing. They have portrayed characters and told stories from the diverse groups that conforms it, thus generating and new image of what we are.
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Christer Engberg
LASSE GJERTSEN
RACHEL ANDERSEN GÓMEZ
Alt det gode kommer ovenfra
Andalusisk for begyndere
A trip to life
Coffee Break
Dart
Eagle Marsh
En Riktigt God Jul
Älskade Blomma 
Fortell henne?
Klasskamrater 
Pieniä ilojan
Unedited Love
Кирилл...из армии пропавших
Nachtessen
Election Violence
Imitator
Invisible Chrildren of Cape Town
Mancipia
Voor een paar knikkers meer
Ничего особенного
Julmun Yesulgaeui Chosang
Wwoofing
The Sheep Thief
Eduart
Case 29e