17th Madurai
Film Festival 2015
17th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2015
List of selected films :
International films
1) The
Street Musicians
Dir: Kirill Burdov; 25 min;
Russian; Documentary; 2015; Russia
Each one on the way home,
descending into a pedestrian subway, notices people playing musical instruments.
But not everyone knows what makes them take such a step – to go down to the
dungeons of the city. What a plight it is to be a street musician? What are the
rules and regulations of this sub culture?
2) Abnormal
Behavior
Dir: Evgeniya Tamakhina ; 26 min;
Russian, English; Short film; 2015; Russia
– Thailand
A mental health doctor goes off on
a journey to Thailand
with his girlfriend. They live with her friends. She enjoys the vacation and he
works at his dissertation in psychiatry. People around him seem to him no less
sick than in the nuthouse, until he falls in strange circumstances…
3) Tradition
Dir: Dmitry Golubov; 24 min;
Russian; Short film; 2015; Russia
A provincial police station has a
tradition to trespass in the house of their offender. An intern must go through
this baptism of fire.
4) Moving
in Circles
Dir: Maxim Dashkin; 14 min;
Russian; Short film; 2015; Russia
Maria lives with her husband at
the military base and dreams of getting out from the bad living conditions. The
husband does not share Maria’s dreams. Maria decides to accept the offer of another
officer.
5) Beyond
Dir: Yuriy Kalyuzhniy; 10 min;
Russian; Documentary; 2015; Russia
There are places where people live
very differently. They are beyond the hustle and endless planning; beyond the
rest of the world and time. This story is about such people.
6) Rebalda
Dir: Elena Otrepyeva; 33 min;
Russian; Documentary; 2014; Russia
Ex –convict tries to start a new
life with his family on a remote island in the labor to get seaweed. Surrounded
by forest and sea together with companions in misfortune, they live in their
“concentrated” world according to their rules. Challenging the system and
society, they prove that they are able to preserve human dignity,
ingenuousness, kindness and faith in people despite the twists and turns of
life.
7) Blessed
Africa
Dir: Aminata Embalo; 52 min;
Portuguese; Documentary; 2014; Portugal
Quintino Na Pana is a 29 years old
man from Guinea ,
with five children. Teacher of physical education at the secondary and a college
student, he suffers with the repeated delays of his payment. Still Quinn
continued with his dream: to pedal more than 1000 kms to Mauritania under the theme “Blessed Africa ”.
8) At
the Edge of Europe
Dir: Mauel Bernardo Cabral; 59
min; Portuguese; Documentary; 2014; Portugal
A documentary about the most
peripheral of the already ultra-peripheral region of the Azores; the film
allows the Florentines, native and adopted to tell their story, giving with
sincere strokes, its version of being islet on the island, with all that it
contain.
9) The
Invented People
Dir: Juan Meseguer Navarro; 71 min;
Portuguese, Spanish, Cape Verde ;
Documentary; 2015; Spain and
Cape Verde
In 1984, a group of young Cape Verdeans
decided to create the “Bias das Gatas” festivl on the island
of San Vicente , Cape Verde .
What they could not imagine was that 30 years later this festival would be a
reference to the island and one of the most important annual events in the
country. Its music brings echoes of an invented people.
10) Two Days
Dir: Ruslan Ganushchak; 21 min;
Ukarnian; Documentary; 2014; Ukraine
The film is dedicated to cherished
memory of warriors that were killed in fights for independent Ukraine in Donbas .
The film tells events of Illovoysk tragedy in the end of Aug 2014.
11) The Ukranians
Dir: Leonid Kanter, Ivan Yasniy;
86 min; Ukranian; Documentary; 2015; Ukraine
This is a story of creating a new
Ukranian army. This film is about the battle between Ukrainian army and the
Russian army over the Donetsk
International Airport Ukraine against a full
fledged professional army of Russia .
12) Gorbatov
Dir: Nikita Ordinskiy; 25 min;
Russian; Short film; 2015; Russia
This is a tragicomedy about a
former mayor of a small provincial city who took up a struggle against a young
official from the new administration for the last material symbol of his past
success – an old billboard.
13) Cello
Nightmare
Dir: Marie Reich; 7 min; No language; Music video;
2015; Germany
Two musicians have a concert in the
evening. But will they make it?
14) 3 Minitos
Dir: Juanma Avifue; 6 min;
Spanish; Short film; 2015; Spain
2012; economic crisis flood south
of Europe , many people have sunk in due to
corruption in banking, too much of expenses and as a consequence, and emotional
decline. Julian, our main character, is one of such victims and the police have
just arrived to inquire about the mess he has made.
15) Muse
Dir: Sergey Burov; 18 min;
Russian; Short film; 2015; Russia
Young artist got a unique chance
to show his paintings at the Biennale among the other famous artists. The
problem is simple, the pictures have not been painted and the Biennale will be
tomorrow.
16) Four
Postcards to Marta
Dir: Hernan Talavera; 10 min;
English; Documentary; 2015; Spain
I have here a small film; it’s
made from a few filmed post cards.
17) 600$
Dir: Oriol Cardus; 18 min;
Spanish; Short film; 2014; Spain
Julian, a hired killer with many
jobs behind him, is forced, due to an unexpected request, to rethink his life
and the value it gives to the lives of others.
18) Rupestre
Dir: Enrique Diego; 7 min;
Spanish; Animation; 2015; Spain
A wild horse meets a boy coming
from the Paleolithic. A bond of curiosity will grow between them, bud old
fears, inherited from millennia, will awaken too.
19) Ayer
Dir: Rodrigo Ruiz – Gallardon; 9
min; Spanish; Short film; 2015; Spain
Two couples discuss political
issues during a dinner in a fancy restaurant.
20) Deber
(Duty)
Dir: Angel Manzano; 15 min;
Spanish; 2015; Short film; Spain
Sonsoles since childhood is
fascinated by magic. So when the illusionist John Mistery invites her to join
in a hypnosis show, she could not be happier.
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