Catalogue
37th Edition
2009
For many years, Huesca International Film Festival has been programming a section mainly targeted at professionals and people interested in European documentary and short films, European Forum.
The aim of the proposal is to present European films of a high quality that couldn’t be selected for the various contests due to the logical programming time limits in theirrespective contests and yet, they have a great interest for distributors, festival directors, and television programmers who come to Huesca Film Festival every year.
This initiative is a good starting point to create, in a near future, a Short and Documentary Film Market.
(ALEMANIA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 12 min. Experimental.
What does it take to become a woman, to be a woman, to stay a woman? Difficult questions - not only women do know that. But help is at hand: Divas of the silver screen show us the way. Icons of the movies speak out on longings and fear, love and hate, and the search for female identity.
(ALEMANIA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 23 min. Ficción.
A book, that attacks the reader’s sanity—Severin’s long-forgotten childhood angst. One night, all his fears resurface when he gets his hands on the dreaded pages, and every line seems to confirm his most powerful fears. Accompanied by the antiquarian Palatinus, Severin dares to read the book and delves into the alchemist’s spell…
(ALEMANIA) -2008- Betacam / Color / 15 min. Documental.
An asparagus farm in the west of Brandenburg, Germany. During the three months of the farming season there is a lot of traffic. The remainder of the year the farm is nearly empty. The yard, the restaurant, the private rooms of the asparagus farmers and the lodgings of the Polish workers seem like time capsules. Spaces, with different time layers, representing their history. Traces of life. And of personal destinies.
(ALEMANIA) -2009- Betacam / Color / 5 min. Documental.
So, if I come to think of it, we are not really a good team. I do not go hunting and I have a pointer. But nevertheless the dog makes me happy. Although he doesn't really have a job when he is together with me. Because his job is pointing at deer, isn't it?
(ALEMANIA - CUBA) -2008- Betacam / Color / 8 min. Documental.
A documentary that portraits five illegally run barber's shops in Havana. Different kinds of men meet on them to get their haircut.
(BÉLGICA) -2009- 35 mm. / Color / 12 min. Ficción.
Jean-Luc must be the only one in his neighbourhood who doesn't know anything about Matagalpa…
(CHIPRE - GRECIA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 29 min. Ficción.
A new bed that comes in pieces is the occasion for a meeting of two very different people. A man who lives in an invisible squared box and a girl that lives in a handmade room in the centre of a city. The girl uses her artistic flair and imagination to communicate with him.
(ESPAÑA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 12 min. Ficción.
An old woman has been waiting for his missing husband for forty years. One day an unexpected event happens.
(ESPAÑA) -2009- 35 mm. / Color / 10 min. Ficción.
Gabriel Mora is visited by Judith Laredo, an insurance seller with whom he had appointed a meeting to sign a contract.
(ESPAÑA) -2009- Betacam / Color / 10 min. Documental.
The Bubisher is a lorry with books. It goes to all the schools in refugee camps in the Sahara to bring reading in Spanish to children. The Bubisher is the bird of the desert that brings good luck..
(ESPAÑA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 13 min. Ficción.
A mother writes a letter to Paul Auster…
(ESPAÑA) -2009- 16 mm. / Color / 11 min. Ficción.
Your mind, your own prison, as the scene of the permanent fight in which reason and instinct compete, to life or death, for the leadership of your destiny.
(ESPAÑA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 10 min. Ficción.
Somebody asks a man about his staying at a house. He recounts his experiences lived there and the strange creature that tormented them…
(ESPAÑA) -2008- Betacam / Color / 6 min. Documental.
José Ramón Clemente, 94 years old, reflects on his generational memories while he reads the newspaper in a bench at a park.
(ESPAÑA) -2008- Dvd / ByN / 10 min. Documental.
La Sortie des Ouvriers de l’Usine Lumière (Exit of the workers of the Lumière factory, Louis and Auguste Lumiére, 1895) was the first movie in film history. Many frames later this “La sortie” tries to pay a little tribute to movie theatres, the people who work there and to a way of understanding the world.
(ESPAÑA) -2008- Betacam / Color / 7 min. Documental.
From that who once love a woman in a desert with a camera.
(ESPAÑA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 12 min. Ficción.
There was a time when everything made sense…
(ESPAÑA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 19 min. Ficción.
Fernando is a shy 27 young man who is visited by a former school mate, Iratxe. That awakes the jealousy of his imaginary friend, Captain Kiloton, a superhero who has been by his side from childhood and now sees their friendship threatened…
(ESPAÑA) -2008- Betacam / ByN y Color / 14 min. Documental.
Nun, a mountain range located in Cachemira. Nun, a word in euskera used to ask where. Ñon, pronounced ñun, a word in wolof that means we.
(ESPAÑA - ALEMANIA) -2009- 35 mm. / Color / 6 min. Animación.
The memory of Dresden, the city which was the most painted and destroyed in the past century. A romantic expressive trip through the history.
(ESPAÑA) -2008- Betacam / Color / 16 min. Documental.
Meera is a girl from the Pilkhana district in the suburbs of Calcutta, she lives there with her family. Poverty, unemployment, violence and rubbish are her neighbours, but the most beautiful flowers grow in the litter and it is in this place where hundreds of children find their hope at a school called Tara School.
(ESPAÑA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 11 min. Ficción.
A soldier who runs away of the battlefield get lost in the forest. Hungry and unarmed, he meets an enemy soldier and with whom he starts a macabre game for life or death.
(ESPAÑA) -2009- Betacam / Color / 10 min. Documental.
One day Michelle decides to clean her house, but is it possible to clean the time that has passed?
(FINLANDIA) -2008- Betacam / Color / 5 min. Documental.
An anonymous summer's day in a small village in the Finnish hinterland that appears almost completely untouched by modern times. Yet there are signs that even this village will be trampled within the foreseeable future by the ruthless forces of modernity.
(FRANCIA) -2009- Betacam / Color / 4 min. Documental.
A documentary film about the objects that should go to the garbage can but instead we keep them –al least, I keep them– because they are relics or substitutes for people no longer with us. They are cinema tickets, used underground tickets, letters, children magazines, smurfs, soap bars, stamps…
(HUNGRÍA) -2008- Betacam / ByN y Color / 20 min. Documental.
The life, demolition and reconstruction of the Kopaszi dam. Shot ten years long in a forgotten landscape in the centre of Budapest. People living in houseboats and wooden houses, struggling against flood, snow and investors who want them to evict.
(ISLANDIA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 13 min. Ficción.
The film deals with unexpected and unexplainable loss. Due to an accident, the life of a happy family turns into a larger-than-life tragedy.
(ITALIA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 17 min. Ficción.
Huge plains of waste cover every corner of the Planet. Toxic gases make the air unbreathable. Acid rain poisons the water. Global warming make the surface uninhabitable and hostile. The Earth is dead. And the process is not reversible. But Mankind, thanks to its intelligence, gave life to its greatest invention, and is now free again to choose a "perfect" life inside the infinite world of Pathos.
(ITALIA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 3 min. Animación.
Taking inspiration from the famous Italian song from the 80’s, this animation analyzes ironically the terms of industrial production using a famous brand known for its environmental care.
(ITALIA) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 18 min. Ficción.
Summer 1944. Rosa's dramatic passage into adulthood from childhood, carried through her first love story.
(PAÍSES BAJOS) -2008- Betacam / ByN / 11 min. Documental
Poetic film about the funfair, which concentrates on human conditions: The enchantment of children. The ease of the youth, full of expectations. Fleeting smiles. Devotion to the moment. Felicity… but also melancholy and vulnerability. The funfair as metaphor of life itself.
(REINO UNIDO) -2008- 35 mm. / Color / 14 min. Ficción.
Alison has devoted the last three years of her life to caring for her mother, who has Alzheimer’s. When she wakes one morning to find the front door of her house open and her patient gone, Alison fails to raise the alarm. A decision that will have grave consequences.
(REINO UNIDO) -2008- Betacam / ByN / 3 min. Documental.
A modern-day city-symphony, the film presents an abstract journey over Hungerford Bridge and the footbridges alongside it.
(RUMANIA) -2009- 35 mm. / Color / 27 min. Ficción.
Tiger Danny will leave Romania to work on a luxury cruising boat. He and his family will get rich… All the dreams will come true! Except…
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