NOMINATIONS 2011 Short Film
EFA Nominee Tampere SILENT RIVER (Apele Tac) (Germany-Romania) Dir/scr Anca Miruna Lazarescu Two young men want to escape communist Romania in 1986 by crossing the Danube into Yugoslavia but they do not trust each other. Silent River is the graduation film of Romania- born Anca Miruna Lăzărescu, who trained at HFF, the Munich film school. Her previous film, One Day Today Will Be Once, screened at many international film festivals, winning a prize at the Syracuse Film Festival in the US. Silent River screened in competition at the Berlinale earlier this year. It was produced by David Lindner Lep- orda, Daniel Schmidt and Catalin Mitulescu. 30 mins
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EFA Nominee Vila do Conde SUNDAYS (Dimanches) (Belgium) Dir/scr Valéry Rosier This poignant film examines people with too much time on their hands. Set on a Sunday, vari- ous activities are shown in a Belgium town, including an old woman who collapses in her liv- ing room, a man waving at cars, and another who stays in bed. Sundays won the Kodak Short Film Award at Cannes in 2011 and the Grand Prix at the Brussels Short Film Festival. Director Valéry Rosier’s 2008 film Good Night (Bonne Nuit) was also nominated for Short Film at the European Film Awards. Rosier studied at Belgium’s Institut des Arts de Diffusion. The film was produced by Rosier with Nicolas Guiot and Fred De Loof. 16 mins
EFA Nominee Berlin THE UNLIVING (Återfödelsen) (Sweden) Dir Hugo Lilja Set 30 years after a zombie outbreak, Hugo Lilja’s political satire explores how society and normal life have resumed with the zombies used as a cheap labour. The Unliving won the best Euro- pean short film award at the Berlinale in Febru- ary and Lilja now plans to turn the film — his graduation work from Sweden’s The Dramatic Institute — into a feature. It was produced by Bonnie Skoog Feeney. 28 mins
EFA Nominee Drama THE WHOLLY FAMILY (Italy) Dir/scr Terry Gilliam In Gilliam’s first film since The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, he creates a dreamlike journey between reality and imagination through a hid- den Naples. A young boy, Jake, is separated from his argumentative parents in the city centre. Sur- rounded by shops selling puppets and carvings of a religious and spiritual nature, Jake is drawn into a surreal journey. The Wholly Family screened at the Bradford International Film Fes- tival and the London Film Festival and is availa- ble online in Italy. It was produced by Gabriele Oricchio and Amy Gilliam, and funded by Italian pasta company Garofalo. 20 mins
48 n European Film Awards 2011
EFA Nominee Rotterdam THE WOLVES (I Lupi) (Italy-Netherlands) Dir/scr Alberto De Michele De Michele’s visually impressive documentary short explores the concept of criminality as it depicts a group of 40- and 50-year-old thieves called The Wolves from northern Italy. They rob houses, banks, jewellers and trucks but only on foggy nights. De Michele is an artist who creates abstract works and films without titles, fre- quently returning to the stories of people who live on the edges of society. 17 mins
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