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winners 2011

best short film : EL ORDEN DE LAS COSAS

Directed by César e José Esteban Alenda/ Spain / 2010 / 19'

Julia’s life flows in the bathtub. Drop after drop to collect the confidence to change the order of things.

best cinema school : ULTIMA DONNA

ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne

Directed by Tristan Aymon / Switzerland / 2010 / 17'

An elderly man from a middle-class family finds himself forced to spend time with a new partner.

best documentary : GUAÑAPE SUR

Directed by Jànos Richter/ Italy / 2010 / 24'

A desolated rocky island off the Peru coast. No soil, no water,
only hundreds of thousands of birds. For ten years, only two guards could live on Guañape Sur. But in the eleventh year, hundreds of workers arrive to harvest the birds’ excrement.

Premio Rugi Gamba best animation : GRAFFITIGER

Directed by Libor Pixa/ Ceska Rep./ 2010 / 10'

Humorous and melancholic story about a lonely graffiti-tiger and his life on walls and facades of Prague houses and buildings. Full of dirty lanes and corners, the city serves as a wildjungle in which the tiger is searching for his…

best soundtrack : time out of space

Directed by Ylva Forner/Sweden / 2010 / 15'

Sometimes time stands perfectly still, holding its breath. It is a film about these moments, elusive yet eternal. Sara stands on a balcony looking down at the city summer night. Everything that happens on the street seems to mirror her situation.
It’s a film about the moment you decide to break up. Everything that you once believed in still echoes inside of you, but you’ve already moved on.

SUGAR

Directed by Jeroen Annokkeé / Netherlands / 2010 / 8'

When Bert’s sexy neighbour pops in to borrow some sugar, a regular situation with a potentially sexual outcome turns instead into his worst nightmare. 

STRIPTEASE

Directed by Juan Carlevaris García/ Spain / 9'

Julio records with his camera Sofia, with the understanding that in turns she will do a striptease. In spite of his insistence, Sofia refuses to do so. A power play starts between the two characters. Julio will find out that undressing can be a very complicated matter.