Fresh Film Fest is a successor of the world famous CILECT festival that took place in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), initially as an independent festival and subsequently as a part of the renowned Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. This festival was the place where young talents of the day could freely share their ideas and comments on the world in the 80s, without being subject to the notorious surveillance of the communist regime. Over the years the CILECT festival became an important crossroads between the former eastern block and the west. The festival was attended by soon to be world respected filmmakers, such as Jan Sverák, Emir Kusturica etc.
Some students from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing arts in Prague - FAMU, along with its' dean PhDr. Michal Bregant have decided to bring this unique festival back to life. The organizational team, which is comprised almost entirely of students from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing arts in Prague - FAMU, will present films from various countries and of various genres to a wide public.
Numerous screenings are accompanied by a wide ranging program of additional activities and events. Program includes professional workshops, school presentations and evening parties. The aim of the Fresh Film Fest is to stimulate everyone's contact make for fertile future cooperation.
More on: www.freshfilmfest.net
Za plotem / Behind The Fence
Marcin Sauter (Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing)
Poland, 2005, Beta SP, documentary, 12'
A limited space, empty on the outside, big dramas on the inside. A return to childhood, the time of holidays, of hot summers. All of a sudden, half forgotten details start reappearing, the urge to become an explorer, little episodes that we could never figure out and thought it would be like that forever…Minimalism of documentary in its best way.
Best Film FFF 2006.
Hayelet bodeda / The Substitute
Talya Lavie (Sam Spiegel Film and Television School)
Israel, 2005, Beta SP, fiction, 20'
Zohara is the member of a separated troop of the Israeli Army. She is to be transferred soon and another woman comes to fill her position. Zohara`s hopes for a new future fade as her mentally unstable successor is unable to carry the psychological pressure of the new environment. Talya Lavie was already awarded in Fresh Film Fest 2005 with her previous feature movie Sliding Flora. Special Jury Prize FFF 2006.
Sleep With The Fishes
Belle Mellor (Royal College of the Arts)
UK, 2005, Beta SP, animated, 5'
Monstrous yet touchingly innocent creatures struggle to hold on to their unstable little boats floating in a treacherous little puddle. Poetic and dreamy vision, an absurd tragedy inspired by a song by the Tiger Lilies. Theatre Optique Best film FFF 2006.
Carlitopolis
Luis Nieto (ENSAD)
France, 2005, Beta SP, experimental, 4'
A mouse and a black magic box. An intelligent and funny story contemplating, in an unexpected way, the seeming evidence of image. A mixture of real images and specials effects make us doubt of veracity of images and words too. Carlitopolis show a student who present his work to a jury. This is a banal event who becomes an absurd and misleading performance. A little laboratory mouse called Carlito is used to perform every sort of experiments. What is real, and what is false?
Special Jury Prize FFF 2006.
Nejlepší je penivá / Bubblebath Is Best
Jan Prušinovský (FAMU)
Czech Republic, 2005, Beta SP, fiction, 15'
Pine scent spreads immediately in the bathroom, the water rippled by the stream coming out of the tap produces bizarre, fluffy shapes. Vincent blissfully sinks among the bathroom pillows. In the last moment, he is able to switch on his radio on the creaky little table with a dry hand. It is high time. Winner of FAMU Fest 2005. Audience Award FFF 2006.
Special Pick by the Animateka Festival
Girni / The Grinding Machine
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni (Film and Television Institute of India)
India, 2004, 35 mm, fiction, 22'
Sound waves do not die. We are living in the era of sound explosion. All the sound that we create is going to be in the atmosphere forever. We need peace in its literal sense. The peace in which the body can survive and the mind can create an imagine/tion.
Winner of the Fresh Film Fest 2005.
Hlavy / The Heads
Petr Si
Czechoslovakia, 1980, 35 mm, animated, 8'
An homage to the art of Arcimboldo, won the Golden Bear Award for an animated short at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival. When his films were included in a Los Angeles animated film festival in 1982, the Czech government permitted him to attend. Sís decided to stay in the United States and was granted asylum. In present he is famous as an author of sophisticated books which have brought Peter Sís to prominence not only across America. Words in his books are incorporated within visual images so that the multiple texts become an important part of the visual design.
More on: www.petersis.com
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