Awards 2009
Award for Best Animated Film:
nominations:
Leonardo, Director: Jim Capobianco
K6 Lives!, Director: Martin Schmidt
Body, Director: Cailleau Francois
Winner: Leonardo
Award for Best Documentary Film:
nominations:
Gonzo Ballet, Director: Pat Buckley
Banksy’s coming to dinner, Directors:
American Faust, Director:
Winner: William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet
Award for Best Short Film:
nominations:
The Morse collectors, Director: David Cooke
A better Life, Director: Luis Fernandez Reneo
Roar, Director: Adam Wimpenny
Winner: The Morse Collectors
Award for Best Long Short Film:
nominations:
Dennis, Director: Mads Matthiesen
Sin Love, Director:
Landscape, Director: Kristoffer Kioerboe
Winner: Sin Love
Shorts 2009
Agenzia Immobiliare
Country: Italy
Language: Italian (English Subtitles)
Year: 2008
Length: 9 min
Director: stefano quaglia
Have you ever tried to look for a flat? Ever had dealings with an estate agent? Ever experienced an irrepressible sense of impotence at the sight of extremely bright basement flats and unrepeatable bargains that will force you to leave the mortgage to your heirs? If you’ve decided not to give in, welcome to the club.

Trato / Deal
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Year: 2009
Length: 11 min
Director: Almudena Verdes
Elena loses a glove on her way home. A group of teenagers on the access stairs of a building get aware. Elena, friendly asks the guys about her lost glove. They abuse her trust. Only one deal may resolve the conflict.

Dennis
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish (English Subtitles)
Year: 2007
Length: 18 min
Director: Mads Matthiesen
Cast: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lykke Sand Michelsen
When Dennis a big muscular bodybuilder invites one of the local girls out on a date his mother gets hurt and disappointed. Despite the pressure she puts on him to cancel the date Dennis leaves out into a night he will never forget

En El Apartamento / In the appartment
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Year: 2008
Length: 12 min
Director: MARIO SAN EMETERIO
Pablo and Sara visit an apartment up for rent. When Paula, the girl from the real estate agency, arrives the situation becomes uncomfortable. Strangely enough, Pablo and her seem to be hiding something.

Intruder
Country: USA
Language:
Year: 2009
Length: 9 min
Director: Mikael Kreuzrigler
Cast: Eva Swan, Lisa Dodson
An uneventful evening takes a frightening turn when a woman discovers a horrific truth.

Landskaber / Landscapes
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish (English subs)
Year: 2009
Length: 22 min
Director: Kristoffer Kioerboe
The meeting of a father and his two twin sons which he hasn’t seen for the first 21 years of their lives. In an attempt to make up for the lost years, the three men set out for several days walk in the wilderness with their backpacks loaded with personal expectations. These expectations are soon to be shattered though, but while the landscapes around them changes in colors, light and flora, their inner landscapes also slowly changes as they get to know each other and to understand the causes of the father’s lack of presence in his sons’ lives.

The Morse Collectors
Country: Ireland
Language: English
Year: 2008
Length: 15 min
Director: David Cooke
Writer : Pol Mag Uidhir
Ireland, 1942. While the adults are off fighting in the War, two children are forced to walk a fine line between responsibility and childhood fantasy. In the dripping taps and ticking clocks of their home they discover hidden Morse Code messages, but while the young boy is all too keen to accept them as real, his elder sister struggles with the rationale of her increasingly adult mind. Moreover, she understands something of the consequences of the messages, for if they are real, who sent them?

Roar
Country: UK
Language: English
Year: 2008
Length: 16 min
Director: Adam Wimpenny
A socially awkward Londoner is lonely at Christmas. When a cold city girl rejects his gesture of goodwill, he takes drastic action. Roar is a smart and subversive short film that will haunt you for months.

Summersonntag / Summer Sunday
Country: Germany
Language: German
Year: 2008
Length: 12 min
Director / Writer: Fred Breinersdorfer
the dramatic story of Bruno Hansen, a bridge guard of a huge lift bridge in Hamburg. As his 7-year old death-mute son climbs down into the restricted area of the lifting equipment while a train is approaching, he has to decide whether to sacrifice his son or to let the fully occupied train drown in the river.
Una Vida Major / Abetter Life
Country: Spain
Language:Spanish ( English Subtitles)
Year: 2008
Length: 9mins 20 secs
Director: LUIS FERNÃNDEZ RENEO
www.promofest.org/films/una-vida-mejor
Based on a true story, A Better Life is the faithful account of 3 Mexican children who got lost in the Sonoran desert while trying to cross the U.S. border. A history that repeats itself every week in the border towns of Mexico, feeding one of the most profitable illegal businesses: Immigrant smuggling.

Animations 2009
For a fistful of snow
Country: Switzerland
Language: no dialogue
Year: 2009
Length: 6 min
Director: Julien Ezri
A long time ago, terror, loathing and power reigned over the Wild Wild North. The foolishness of the inhabitants led them to battle for anything, even… For a Fistful of Snow.

K-9 Lives
Country: UK
Language: no dialogue
Year: 2009
Length: 3 min
Director: Doug Wilson
A dog/cat conjoined odd-couple who’s love hate relationship drives them to adventure and intrigue in a surrealist landscape.

Leonardo
Country: USA
Language: no dialogue
Year: 2008
Length: 9 min
Director: Jim Capobianco
Leonardo da Vinci and his dream of flight. An allegory for the creative muse.