23-08-2012

SCREENINGS GOLDEN CARPATHIAN MARKET FILM 2012 Bucharest, August 23 - 26

     

    Title: The Invisible Policeman (2011)

    Director: Laith Al-Juneidi

    Production Company: Ishtar Creative Productions (Palestine)

    Duration: 60 minutes

    Synopsis : A Palestinian police lieutenant who lives an extreme paradoxical life : he is either a figure of authority that provides people with much – needed security or a father of nine children, but not the two simultaneously. A case where a man struggles to live a normal family life while coping with daily pressures and manipulative mind games. A case where someone‘s determination and belief are seen as a form in insanity .

     

    Title: Reality (2011)

    Director:Dafne Jemersič

    Production Company: Arkadena (Croatia)

    Duration: 95minutes

    Synopsis: Reality is a comedy about socially lost people who are still trying to control each other, instead of taking care of themselves. Destiny unites two homeless men in an S.O.S. canteen. A failed actor and a lost poet begin telling each other about the key events in their lives. After an extraordinary twist, we become aware that the two men are popular and are to participate in a film experiment on the Moon. The film humorously plays with idea of what is real and the meaning of life.

    Title: Tension (2011)

    Director: Filip Šovagovič

    Production Company: Zona Sova (Croatia)

    Duration: 90minutes

    Synopsis: New regulations upgrade a small island settlement into a city and citizens have a difficult time accepting the new city rules. Things get even more complicated with the arrival of an Italian fashion designer and his favorite male model. Through the climax of utter misunderstanding among the main protagonists, the story ends in a great flood of Biblical proportions, leaving the designer, the model, three sheep, two goats and a dozen hens the only remaining inhabitants of the planet Earth.

    Title: Tunisian Stories (2011)

    Director: Nada Mezni Hafaiedh

    Production Company: Leyth Production (Tunisia)

    Duration: 90minutes

    Synopsis: Tunisians Stories evokes the colorful life of troubling characters on a white background: Tunis of today and its torments. Glamour, fashion, luxury and from the other side the loss of identity and self-seeking, the misery of a man and his everyday ripping. It contains all the elements of the pursuit of happiness, the desire for a better life, the ephemeral joy and its existential questions, the dream that will never become reality, lost illusions, the reconstruction of a life when nothing is in place, the wealth and the poverty...

     

    Title: Ophelia’s Flip (2012)

    Director: Tjasa Ferme 

    Production Company: Tiptoe Films (USA)

    Duration: 15minutes

    Synopsis:Ophelia’s Flip is a self-portrait video diary of a girl named Ophelia. Let's peep into Ophelia's life. An ordinary girl living in a modern world; living, loving, asking questions... A journey into insanity? An idea she is toying with. Her own mind is her laboratory. Her body is her playground. She consciously decides to venture into “insanity” and lucidly explore it. What will she find? Quirky, funny, poetical insight into a girl’s hidden life.

     

    Title: Going Beyond (2011)

    Director: Dafne Jemersič

    Production Company: New Day Ltd(Ukraine)

    Duration: 26minutes

    Synopsis:ATV program about the fascinating atmosphere of different countries, stories “from the inside”, hidden from the general view of most tourists and visitors, a colorful tale of traditions and legends, myths and facts: the Mayan calendar; the French cognacs; Oriental trade secrets; Transylvania’s mythical history; the amazing Goa. Striking stories like the Swedish socialism or how Romania found a way to monetize the image of Dracula, or how Poland earns from tourism…

    Title : Ink Ribbon Fingerprints (2012)

    Director: Pavel Braila

    Production Company: ART WATT (Moldova)

    Duration: 17 minutes

    Synopsis: “Ink Ribbon Fingerprints” is an animation film that tells the entire story of the typewriter. Its invention, circumstances of its first appearance, relation of people to it, changes what the typewriter made in the society, and all its way through curious technological inventions from the first mechanical Remington up to the last iPad.