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Eclectic Saturday, Sept 6th at 9:00pm Total Runtime: 98 mins Totenwache (The Wake) / Germany (Directed by Gregor Hoeppner, 1st Project) 11 mins - 2008 - In the dimly lit living room of a farmhouse, the body of a young man is laid out. (Dans la salon sombre d'une ferme, le corps d'un jeune homme est etale.) Casual / Spain (Directed by Aitor Echeverria) 9 mins - 2008 - In the awakening of thedistrict, the music of the daily actions brings us over to persons who coexist and are not known. Lives that the coincidence joins or that the routine separates. - French Premiere Gym Lesson / Germany (Directed by Hannes Rall) 8 mins - 2009 - A chubby little boy has to confront his sadistic gym instructor in the gym lesson. (Un petit potele doit confronter son professeur de sport sadique pendant la lesson.) - European Premiere A Marginal Note / Germany/Germany, Switzerland (Directed by Robi Voigt) 10 mins - 2009 - A woman, a parking deck and the sky. The poetic 10-minute-short shows the fateful day of a woman who concludes to quit accepting but to take action. Certainly she did not suppose such a reaction. A film about anger, mercy and emancipation. - World Premiere Crema Suprema / Canada (Directed by Ellenora Ventura) 3 mins - 2008 - Crema Suprema (2008; 2 m. 50 s.) is a charming stop motion animated story about two bakers competing to win a “masterpiece” cake contest; only one cake can win. - French Premiere Der Doppelganger / Austria (Directed by Stephanie Winter) 14 mins - 2009 - International Premiere Karaoke Show / Germany (Directed by Karl Tebbe) 4 mins - 2007 - Animation filmmakers usually like to stand behind the camera rather than in front of it. At the age of 14, Karl Tebbe badly wanted to dance like the best dancer alive. But you either have rhythm in your blood or you don't. Now 22 years later, stop-motion-animation has allowed him to finally fulfill his lifelong dream. Written by Marjorie Bendeck Abbi cura di te (Take Care of Yourself) / Italy (Directed by Lorenzo Corvino) 17 mins - 2008 - Dramatically-inclined Criminally Active Experimental Drama - World Premiere King of the Ring / USA (Directed by Joseph Taranto) 5 mins - 2008 - The ultimate glory of victory and the total brutality of defeat are closely scrutinized in this edgy expose of an unexpected athlete at the pinnacle of her game. - International Premiere Fat-tastico / USA (Directed by Yung-Jui Lee) 3 mins - 2009 - This is a 3 minutes 3D animated short film called: Fat-tastico. The story is about a grumpy magician and a naive assistance. (L'histoir parle d'un magicien malheureux et une aide naïvement donné.)- French Premiere MAMA SUPERFREAK / Netherlands (Directed by Bea de Visser) 13 mins - 2009 - In one long shot this adaptation of ‘La Mamma Fricchettona’, a monologue by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, shows Viviane De Muynck in a humorous elucidation of a woman’s odyssey from doting motherhood to a state of independence whilst addressing an invisible and anonymous man. Visual artist and filmmaker Bea de Visser balances in this film on the edge of the cinematographic picture and the visual art, that provides the film its own special realism. -Regional Premiere Strasbourg International Film Festival on Facebook
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