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Internasionale Kortfilmfees
International Short Film Festival
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29 June - 2 July 2006,
Nelspruit, South Africa.
Screenings take place at the Parksboard Auditorium,
Hall's Gateway, N4, Nelspruit.
Show times:
29 June to 2 July daily at 11:00 - Selection 1
29 June to 2 July daily at 14:00 - Selection 2
29 June to 1 July daily at 17:00 - Selection 3
29 June to 1 July daily at 20:00 - Selection 4 (NPO16)
Tickets: R37 at Computicket.
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Screening program
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Selection 1
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Hollywood in my huis
Director: Corne van Rooyen, South Africa. 23 min.
Dis matriekdans, en Charlise Theron fan Jana, wil impak maak. Sy is van die Oos-Rand en
die tema is hoeka die Oscars. Hoe gemaak met 'n lendelam werklose pa, 'n uitgesproke ma en
'n skynbaar lamsakkige buurseun wat sy oë op haar het?
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Today
Director: Ziggy Hofmeyr, South Africa. 10 min.
2nd film festival screening.
This is the story about a man living the same day, everyday. There is a bomb that
needs to be disarmed, there is no time for him to do anything else in his small existence,
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Vimba
Director: David Meinet, South Africa. 20 min.
A soccer ball strikes Thandiwe on the head as a baby, leaving her deaf. Motherless, she
grows up being sidelined by men. In order to fulfil her dream as a soccer player she has
to fight her past, defy her father and challenge tradition before she can prove that even
a badly kicked ball can straighten itself out if you keep your eyes on the goal.
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Cigar at the
Beach
Director: Stephan Keep Mills, USA. 15 min.
19th festival appearance.
A man withdraws to an empty beach to smoke a cigar and fantasize. An approaching storm
out across the water mirrors the storm inside him as his fantasies propel him to the very
edge of himself and to a surprise yearning greater than flesh or adventure. website
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Vinto, Aqua,
Piedra (Wind, Water, Stone)
Director: Kevin Evensen, USA. 3 min.
Africa premiere. 2nd festival.
The external harmonies of nature are illustrated here by moments in time...Those
moments that wash over us completely, giving us a sense of the eternal.
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Window
Director: Varda Hardy, USA. 16 min.
Africa premiere. 4th festival.
Nurse Jackson wheels two ailing veterans into a hospital room. Gene, unkempt from being
too weak to care for himself, gets the bed by the window. Ralph, an angry amputee wearing
a faded cap from his Viet Nam days, ends up on the other side of the room. Separated by a
curtain, they can't see each other, but Ralph won't let Gene alone. He wants that 'window
seat at any cost. When Ralph finally gets to that window what he sees brings him to a
painful realization about the human condition. He wants Gene back
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Betty's Treats
Director: Kaye Kittrel, USA. 8 min.
Africa premiere. 8th film festival.
'Betty's Treats' is a comic love tale with a twist, set in 1957, Riverdale, USA, geared
for all audiences. Betty in flowing silk organza and red lipstick and nails, is busy
baking her true love's favorite treats (he'll be home any minute) when the doorbell rings,
which changes the course of Betty's day. A film about lost love and how to get it back,
starring Kaye Kittrell as Betty and Erica Gimpel as Ms. Wilson. website
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Selection
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Niemandtsland
Director: Arnold Snyman, RSA. 16 min.
Jannus kom terug plaas toe om te boer, maar dinge is besig om onomkeerbaar te verander.
Grondeise beproef vriendskappe en alliansies oor kleurgrense heen.
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Ibali
Director: Harold Holscher, RSA. 14 min.
13th film festival.
A mythical tale about a boy discovering the essence of water. This story conveys how
African heritage is passed from generation to generation through the art of story telling.
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Ashes to Ashes
Director: Chris Turner, RSA. 9 min.
A young man finds it hard to part from the ashes of his diseased lover. An
experimental film.
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Dammi il La
Director: Matteo Servente, Italy. 21 min.
Africa premiere. 7th festival screening.
Pietro is a Catholic priest, and Marguerite is a composer. Pietro has lost his
one and only friend, six years ago. Petrified his heart will break, he's refused to speak
of it to anyone. That is, until the day comes when weird but apparently lovable
Marguerite--every single day at nine o'clock sharp Marguerite--is standing in the right
place at the right time to catch his heart's unfolding and walk with it to some place new.
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Empty Buildings
Short Stories - Bennie confronts his Childhood
Director: Giovanni Sanseviero, USA. 24 min.
Africa premiere. 19th festival.
An empty building where random people will enter and journey back to a
traumatic event. In truth, the people are entering their inner-being and regressing
through a bizarre and eerie world of their worst memories; memories fully occupying a
building floor and then vanishing upon their departure. In the end what is most
demonstrated is our process of hope: the only acceptable behavior a person can reduce
themselves to, when finally entering The Empty Building.
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Whopper
Director: Garreth Russel, Australia. 10min.
Africa premiere. 6th festival.
Two men, one beach, one crab. Canny fisherman Dave needs all his angling skills when
the peace and quiet of his remote beach is disturbed by the arrival of brash backpacker
Marvin - and an angry mud crab.
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A Lotto Madness
Director: Paolo Areal, RSA. 25min.
This is the story of a loving family ... with a sting in the tail. It deals with how
money changes one's perspective, how brief happiness can be, and how fickle love is... and
it gives you 32 million reasons for marriage in community of property.
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Elalini
Director: Tristan Holmes, RSA. 28 min.
Nomakaya, a disillusioned policewoman haunted by the memory of a boy's death, must
decide between the city and her rural home where the protection of her own child is under
threat. Her traditionalist father, too weak to look after the boy, journeys to
Johannesburg to convince her to come back home. It is through a broken and lost street
child, Moses, that she is able to find the strength in herself to forgive and resume her
responsibilities as a mother. Winner in 2006 of the Oscar for Best Foreign Student
film.
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Heads up
Director: Dean Ganter. Australia. 7 min.
Africa premiere. 5th festival.
Between no man's land and a mad man, survival is the name of the game.Captain Chris
Jones and his men have lived through four years of hell in the trenches of Gallipoli and
France. But now, with the Great War just days away from ending, how will they survive
their new commanding officer?
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A Knight Lost
Director: Nick Tate, Australia. 7 min.
Once a week, Mark Knight visits the St. Carcel mental ward with time for only a few
games of chess with his ailing father Frank. It is a game they have played for years and
the pitfalls are varied and well worn to both of them. But with a rapidly disintegrating
marriage and a real estate career without any financial security, Mark begins to lose
patience with his sick father. Tired of his stories and ramblings, Mark lashes out, hoping
to somehow shake his father loose from the fantasy of his imaginings.
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Photomateurs
Director: Pascal Tosi, France. 19 min.
Africa premiere. 20th festival.
1952. A very strange camera. It makes it possible to steal reality. But the
pictures rebel against the photographer...Who will win ? The pictures or the photographer?
website
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Harvest
Director: Nick Davadge, USA. 12 min.
Africa premiere. 2nd festival.
When a mysterious man comes looking for a place to stay after a freak meteorite crashes
in the mountains, little Emily Duncan begins to suspect that he is from another world. Her
suspicions grow when he shows Emily one of his special seeds that seem to grow out of
nothing. However, when the FBI come looking for the man, they claim that the man is, in
fact, John Harman, a Nobel award-winning scientist who has gone missing and is in danger
of breaking his non-disclosure agreement with the government. Emily is forced to face the
truth that the man is, in fact, only human, but his beliefs make an impression on the
troubled child, and before he leaves, he gives Emily one last special present.
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Selection 4
- no persons under 16.
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Vuurdoop
Director: Zoë Labond. RSA. 13 min.
Die land van braaiers aanvaar nie sussies nie, en indien jy effens anders is as die
res, soos Boytjie, is die uitdaging soveel groter as gewoonlik.
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The Mamtsotsi Bird
Director: Jo Horn, RSA. 12 min.
Evil soars to new heights. An African mythological creature the Mamtsotsi Bird is
called down from the thunder by witches to carry out missions of malevolence. Musa, a
troubled woman living in a loveless relationship can feel something evil drawing closer.
Her estranged husband Sipho tries to convince her that it's all in her mind because of her
alcohol abuse. She could never have imagined that her husband would consort with evil to
get rid of her.
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Pinky Pinky
Director: Zoë Laband, RSA. 30 min.
Not for the faint-hearted. A teen horror film set in a private girls' boarding
school. The election for prefects and head girl is approaching and two rivals, Precious
(Tema Sebopedi) and Caitlin (Jennie Collocott), hold cutthroat campaigns. Meanwhile, the
silly Thuli (Yule Mabhena) has evoked the evil spirit of Pinky Pinky, a tokoloshe, who
starts a murderous rampage in the girls' bathrooms. The only way Pinky Pinky can be
destroyed is for the two enemies to combine their resources and fight him as a team.
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3 Pés Acima da
Terra (3 feet above the ground)
Director: Andre Doria, Brazil. 7 min.
Africa premiere. 6th festival.
The sexually disturbed behaviour of a married woman is captured by a camera 3 feet
above the ground.
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Smart Card
Director: James Oxford, USA. 16min.
Smart Card, is a tale of a utopian future where every aspect of your life is integrated
into one system. Convenience and simplicity is the product and Smart Corporation does the
packaging. Robert Sharpe(David Kreigel) has been living this care-free life. Everything is
perfect, until he encounters a philosophical vagrant (Bret Roberts) at a local fueling
station who steals the one item you can not do without, his 'SMART CARD.'
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Firefighter
Director: Vanessa Ruane, USA. 20 min.
Africa premiere. 27th festival, first outside of USA.
After 9/11, NYC Firefighter Kenny Ruane finds his strong beliefs challenged until a
fire rescue frees him from his guilt and he's able to return home to his family.
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