INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

International Competition

3 Cheers
India, 2008, 8mins
Director: Pramod Jainarian
Producer: Pankaj Raj
Cinematographer: Arindam
3 Cheers is a journey in the mind space of three people. They belong to different families, occupations, economical status and surroundings.

A Small Kind Of Love
Germany, 2009, 7mins
Director: Marco Wiersch
Producer: Susanne Baehre
Cinematographer: Matthias Bollige
Sometimes all you are looking for, is a small kind of love...

Business As Usual
Austria 2009, 22mins
Director: Kawo Reland
Producer: Viktor Perdula
Cinematographer: Alexander Püringer
Cast: Alexander Fennon, Arthur Denberg, Dagmar Bernhard, Igor Cholorez, Karin Kiurina, Natascha Berg.
Business As Usual is a story about the power of corporations, managers and the media but above all, it is about the simple employee.

Ice Cream
India, 2009, 13mins
Director: Moa Kichu
Producer: Moa Kichu
Cinematographer: Barun De Joardar
Cast: Kumsangpong, Otinenla, Temsurenla
Kids always love to have ice cream. But for this little boy, it is a salivating moment whenever he sees two little sisters having ice cream in the park.

Im Herbst Kein Lied (No Songs In Autumn)
Magdeburg, 2009, 22mins
Director: Mike Berghausen
Producer: Mike Berghausen
Cinematographer: Daniel Krüger
Cast: Cedric Stadelmann
Set in Germany, in November 1944, little Ludwig’s brother gets beaten by his father. During the night, Alfred becomes witness to two pilots parachuting from a crashing plane, into the woods. The next morning, a troupe of Home Guards take the father with them on the hunt for the Americans. Alfred spots the opportunity to win back his fathers affection, but Ludwig gets in the way...

Just A Pitch
France, 2009, 21mins
Director: Eric Raynaud
Producer: Eric Raynaud
Cinematographer: Simon Beaufils
Sanjay, a young Indian screen writer, lands at Paris Airport on his way to sign the biggest contract of his budding film career. But Robert, the chief of the immigration, notices that Sanjay's passport will expire before his return flight. Robert thinks this is no accident and he's just not buying Sanjay's story...

Kataltheerath (On the Seashore)
India, 2008, 20mins
Director: Sherry
Producer: Lakshmanan Valsan, Shyju VenuGopal
Cinematographer: Sherry, Sajith
Cast: Bhaskaran, Dinesan
The film depicts the feelings of an old man whose son is about to be hung.

Kelkkunnundo (Are You Listening?)
India, 2009, 22mins
Director: Geetu Mohan Das
Producer: Rajeev Ravi, Geetu Mohan Das
Cinematographer: Rajeev Ravi
Cast: Aasna Aslam, Gopalan, James,Sangeetha, Jose.
During the Christmas break, a four year old blind girl tries to find new meaning to the inevitable changes around her.

La Verdad Sobre El Caso Del Señor Valdemar (The Facts In The Case Of Mr. Valdemar)
Ecuador, 2009, 25mins
Director: Carlos Andres Vera
Producer: Carlos Andres Vera
Cast: Manuel Calisto
This is a free adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe´s The facts in the case of Mr. Valdemar. The story develops in Ecuador in 1873 and this short film has been labelled as 'the first achievement' of real suspense in Ecuador and is considered 'a shocking experience of psychological suspense'.

Porte Aperte (Open Doors)
Italy, 2009, 15mins
Director: Alessandro Del Bianco
Producer: Irina Galli
Cinematographer: Marica Lizzadro
Two women coincidentally rent the same cottage in Tuscany and hence are forced to live together for the whole week end. It also happens that their lover is the same man, although his behaviour was different with each one…

Schwester Ines (Nurse Ines)
Germany, 2009, 26mins
Director: Christiane Lilge
Producer: Christiane Lilge
Cinematographer: Armin Dierolf
Cast: Gitte Reppin
As long as she can remember, Ines has worked as a midwife in her mother's clinic - a clinic that offers the unique service of allowing expectant mothers to decide the exact date they will give birth. When Ines is invited for a job interview, her secret dream of becoming a flight attendant seems within reach. But her attempt at escape triggers unexpected and bizarre phenomena - doors dissolve in front of her, the ceiling drips and the walls squeeze in on her. She finds herself trapped inside the body of her mother who refuses to let her daughter out…

Splinter
Germany, 2008, 15mins
Director: Georg Gruber
Producer: Georg Gruber, Joana Wendorff
Cinematographer: Michal Popiel- Machnichi
Set in Germany in 1942, in order to protect her son, Marianne Meibner tries to make him believe that the Jewish neighbours are going on a journey to ‘Toyland’. One morning her son has disappeared – and so have the Jewish neighbours. This is a film about guilt, responsibility and lies.

Stations
India, 2008, 19mins
Director: Emmannel Palo
Producer: Pankajraj
Cinematographer: Kaushik Mandal
Cast: Liium, Biblele
This is a story of dysfunctional relationships; of characters who are emotionally detached and unable to fit into the world around them. It is focused on the lives of three sets of desperate characters that intersect one particular day in a city.

Still
United Kingdom, 2009, 19mins
Director: Shuang Zou
Producer: Shuang Zou
Cast: Jennifer Lim
Two Chinese actresses meet again at performance by the younger one in a pub theatre foyer in London. Hua and Lily used to be as close as auntie and niece, Lily came to London as a child and lived with Hua's family and grew up as an actress; Hua gave up her career as a theatre star in China for her marriage in UK. The film depicts a moment in which their lives after few years of unsettled silence are brought up again. Their emotional journey is challenged by bitter sweet memories from the past.

Story of Gitanjali
India, 2008, 30mins
Director: Malaya Bhattacharya
Producer: Indrani Mukherjee, Public Diplomacy Division,MEA
This documentary film seeks to a highlight the fascinating story of how Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali by went on to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.The impact of Gitanjali in the West was quite strong - It was translated into all major European languages and offered spiritual strength to a wide range of people, from poet Wilfred Owen who went to his death fighting as a soldier in the first world war with a poem from Gitanjali in his pocket, to French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, who read from the Gitanjali when war was declared.

Sujan Bandhu (A Boatman`s Journey)
India, 2008, 19mins
Director: Viplab Majumder
Producer: Mukesh Kumar, Amita Majumder, Nagen Chandra Ghosh.
Cinematographer: Subhankar Bhar
"Sujan Bandhu" is about a boatman and how he relates to the river. As it is the case with life, the river inspires us to move on and in the process of telling the boatman’s tale; the film makes some philosophical statements on life.

Urs
Germany, 2009, 10mins
Director: Moria Mayerhofer
Producer: Stina McNicholas
Cinematographer: Moria Mayerhofer
Cast: Thomas Hinke, Ellen Schaeuble, Martin Weigel
For many years now, Urs has looked after his aging mother. But he embarks on a difficult journey when he decides to carry her up a mountain to find a better place for both of them, despite his mother’s protest.

Wagah
Germany, 2009, 14mins
Director: Supriyo Sen
Producer: Henning Kamm, Fabian Gasmia
Cinematographer: Ranu Ghosh, Nadaf Bilgrami
The ‘patriotic parade’ at Wagah checkpoint, between the Indian and Pakistani border guards, is seen through the eyes of three children who sell DVD’s of theshow to the on lookers.

When This Man Dies
India, 2008, 20mins
Director: Arun Sukumar
Producer: Pankaj Raj
Cinematographer: Jayakrishna Gummadi
Cast: Alok Chatuvedy, Swati Sen Gupta, Gaurav Sharma
Adapted from a story by Lawrence Block, this film is about an office employee and the changes in his life after he receives a letter offering him money, when a particular person dies.

Wollust (Lust)
Germany, 2009, 4mins
Director: Michael Zellmer, Timm Wagenknecht
Producer: Michael Zellmer, Michael Zellmer,Timm Wagenknecht
The film is about a journey of a young woman in a metaphorical dream world. A dream world that finally seems to become blurred with her own reality…

The Jury Members for the International Competion section are;

• Mr. Shaji Karun (Chairman of the Jury),
• Mr. Juhani Allanen ,
• Mr. Michael Orth,
• Mrs. Marina Anna Eich,
• Mr. Philiph Cheah.

Award Winner for International Competition

The Film Selected for “Golden Lamp Tree Award” for the International Competition is Kelkkunnundo (Are you Listening) by Geethu Mohandas and Produced by Unplugged production India.

Jury Citation for Kelkkunnundo (Are you Listening)

For a well-Crafted and poignantly - acted film about the trauma of progress seen through the innocence and blindness of a child.

The Film Selected for “Silver Lamp Tree Award” for the International Competition is Wagah by Supriyo Sen and Produced by Detail Film India.

Jury Citation for “WAGAH”

For Depicting the pomp and pageantry of national pride as seen through the playful eyes of children.

The Film Selected for “Special Jury Mention Award” for the International Competition is Just a Pitch by Eric Raynaud and Produced by Blackfeet Pictures France.

Jury Citation for “Just a Pitch”

For a witty and deeply satirical script about just how difficult it is to succeed in pitching a film, When the Pitch concerns freedom or imprisonment.