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2016

Urban Cinema Vision program of Vagrant Film Festival, July 2016

1. A Morning Without Coffee (Netherlands) dir. Jelle van Meerendonk
2. A2042 (Spain) dir. David Castro González
3. Clinch (Germany) dir. Manuel Meinhardt, Manuel Rees, Maximilian Merth, Stephan Kämpf
4. Collateral Victims (Italy) dir. Harsen
5. Dad’s Fragile Doll (Iran) dir. Ali Zare Ghanatnowi
6. Damnation (Spain) dir. Marc Nadal
7. Double Helix (United States) dir. Matthew K. Esolda & Dan Bowhers
8. Downtown (Singapore) dir. Tran Nguyen Tuan Anh
9. Fish (Iran) dir. SamanHosseinpuor
10. Fog (Turkey) dir.  Alihan Selçuk
11. For a few tomatoes more (Spain) dir. Juan Angel Pérez
12. Let’s our men dance (Iran) dir. Hiwa Aminnejad
13. Mars 3752 (France) dir. Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
14. MiMO (Singapore) dir. ChangPeiYee, Oon Qian Yi Shannon
15. Minoule (France) dir. Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
16. Mobius (Iran) dir. Hossein Fani
17. Not Afraid to Die (United States) dir. Chloë Buse
18. Sky High (United Kingdom) dir. Stewart Powers
19. Supermarket (Taiwan) dir. Doz Lin
20. The Octopus Lady (Singapore) dir. Amanda Wang Ziyan
21. The Victim (Turkey) dir. Mehmet Yamak
22. Typewriterhead (Germany) dir. Eric Giessmann
23. White Island (Korea) dir. Doorim Kim
24. WTF (India) dir. Amar Nath

Road Movie program of Vagrant Film Festival, July 2016

1. Bolero for Surfing in Moravia (Venezuela) dir. Valerio Mendoza Guillén
2. Bye-Bye Blackbird (United States) dir. Gaia Bonsignore
3. Capsule (Albania) dir. Irdit Kaso
4. Childrens of the homeland (France) dir. Camille L’Héritier
5. Choban (Croatia) dir. Matija Pisačić
6. Classmate (Spain) dir. Javier Marco
7. Collateral Victims (Italy) dir. Harsen
8. Duet of 3 Idiots (Netherlands) dir. Andre Schreuders, Joke Olthaar
9. Ebby Tune (India) dir. Som
10. Echoes — Variation (France) dir. Liévois Perrine
11. Fanculo Libertà (Italy) dir. Dario Patrocinio, Maurizio Mazzotta
12. Focus on infinity (France) dir. Mathilde Lavenne
13. Graffiti (Spain) dir. Lluis Quilez
14. Hank is an Idiot (United States) dir. Peter Hongisto
15. How I Met Neji and Mad Bor (Bulgaria) dir. Georgi Svetlomirov
16. How much does a polar bear weigh? (Spain) dir.  Amaia Yoldi, Miguel Catalá
17. Jan Shatabdi Express (France) dir. Sylvain Elfassy
18. Jezhwan (Iran) dir. Ashkan Saedpanah
19. Land of The Lost (Iraq) dir. Hawraz Mohammed
20. Le Machino (France) dir. Julie Rembauville
21. Menestrel (France) dir. Adrien Peskine, Mickaël Maccari, Djamel Bennecib
22. Munich (Spain) dir. Natxo Fuentes
23. Napoleon and me (Spain) dir. Ander Duque
24. New Moon (Brazil) dir. Andrea Prado
25. Outside the Box (Poland) dir. Tomek Graczyk, Andrew McCargar
26. Paftuar/Uninvited (Albania) dir. Roland Uruci
27. Plasticine (Russian Federation) dir. Efim Ershov
28. Put Your Sails Up (Spain) dir. Vinicius Colombini
29. Rhythms Of The Baul (United States) dir. Anupam Lahiri
30. Sheeliton (Brazil) dir. Marcelo Marão
31. Simply the worst (Germany) dir. Franz Mueller, Johannes Kuerschner
32. Sky High (United Kingdom) dir. Stewart Powers
33. Spring Flood (Belgium) dir. Jeannice Adriaansens
34. The Buzzer (Spain) dir. Sergi Marti
35. The Camel & the Dromedary (France) dir. Julie Rembauville
36. The other night factory (France) dir. Nathalie Giraud, Timothée Corteggiani
37. The seashell (Italy) dir. Paolo Santagostino
38. The Taste of Salt (Italy) dir. Nour Gharbi
39. The Village (Turkey) dir. Mehmet Yamak
40. Theory about travel (Argentina) dir. Mario Varela
41. Traces in the sand (Germany) dir. Simon Marian Hoffmann
42. Tribularion of a clown in a motel room (Cuba) dir. NevaBouclier
43. Two Shores (France) dir. Alan Hajo
44. Voyage Voyage (France) dir. Yoonyoung Choi
45. Vuelve (Mexico) dir. Jesús Castorena, Victor Ponce
46. Wander (United Kingdom) dir. Connor O’Hara

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2015

The Shadow of your smile

Our wistful little starIt was far, too high

The next film by Alexei Dmitriev promises to have a wealth of meanings and interpretations. This time the filmmaker experiments with a digitized VHS tape.

A material media and a videotape form part of the editing process and turn into a film media.

The primary focus is on a blonde actress whose dazzling smile tears her from the context of a pornofilm…

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A2042 (David Gonzalez, Spain) is made with a single shot and consists of three narrative frames. The camera goes back into a viewer. In the first frame (set-up) we can see the eyes of a crying man on the back of a civil unrest. Empty streets and burning lights bear evidence of the clashes with the police. We notice a fleeing demonstrant which suggests that the protest has been broken up by brutal force. The filmmaker reveals nothing about the protagonist. The second frame keeps showing us a man, just an ordinary man, sitting on the pavement and crying his heart out on the back of a social disaster. We cannot but suppose that it’s a participant of a dispersed protest that rises to our view. His tears express the impotence and injustice of an existing system.

The third frame (anagnorisis) is a twist in the film and a real stroke of genius. As a camera zooms out from the close-up of his face to a midshot, we discern shoulder straps, badges of rank, police identification marks…

A rubber truncheon, which obviously belongs to him, lies behind the man on the road. The camera doesn’t stop but keeps zooming as if into a viewer encouraging him/her to reject class stigmas, myopia or depthlessness.

My friend, a law professor, strongly encouraged to use the film in the desk studies of a program orientation law course.

A2042 is a perfect movie to accord with the Urban Cinema Vision conception.

The program of screening in Cheluskintsev Park on 12th of September, 2015

A2042,David GonzalezSpain
A Special Day,Dani PadroSpain
The Autumn Leaves, Saman HosseinpuorIran
The Background Man,Jose MedinaSpain
Growns Up,Javier MarcoSpain
The Exhibition,Andrej Kolenchik, Peter BeganuiSlovakia
Luminaris,Huan Pablo ZaramellaArgentina
The Puritans,Sean RobinsonUSA

The Vagrant Film Festival’s official selection (summer, 2015)

URBAN CINEMA VISION

FILM’S TITLE	DIRECTOR
A LU CIELU CHIANAU	MAURO MAUGERI & DANIELE GRECO
A2042	DAVID CASTRO GONZБLEZ
Aniconism	Enrico Iannaccone
Autumn Leaves	Saman Hosseinpuor
FRAGMENTATION	Anna Ovanesova
I’m and me	Karin Brack
Intermit (suspended verses)	Mena El Shazly
KABARET FREEZE	MAXIME BILLON & DAVE LOJEK
Kill Kino Kill Kill	Filmgruppe Chaos
POOP ON POVERTY	Vijay S. Jodha
The Shadow of Your Smile	Alexei Dmitriev
WEST CHILD STORY	BERTA COLLER

 COMPETITIVE PROGRAMME

FILM’S TITLE	DIRECTOR
A SPECIAL DAY	DANI PADRÓ
Cactus	Andrey Kashperski
Farewell	Andras Gyorgy Desi — Gabor Moray
Grown Ups	Javier Marco
Papa dans maman	FABRICE BRACQ
The Background Man	Jose Medina

NON-COMPETITION PROGRAMME

FILM’S TITLE	DIRECTOR
Bayberries have ripened	Niranjan Raj Bhetwal
Blackstone Children	waddah alfahed
Candies	Iván López
Clinamen	Clemente Corallo
Counsellor	Venetia Taylor
Dear Friends	Paulina Dana
Good hands	Francisco Bendomir
Horseface	Marc Martínez Jordán
I’m Not a Hairdresser	Lee Hyung-suk
Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara	Iara Lee
Number 2: If I Were Marilyn	JC Falcón
ONCE AGAIN, PARTRIDGES	MARTA DIAZ DE LOPE DIAZ
Slope Park	Dudi Dorham
The Solitude	Saul Cantero
We are Nobody	Pablo Fajardo

2014

Substitute teacher	Shiry Price	Israel
Short Love Story	Antonio Marzotto & Serena Patrignanelli	Italy
The Trip	Bartosz Kruhlik	Poland
The Turtle	Matt Gibson	USA
The Forbidden Story	Hiren Dave	India
Spirits of the Falling sky	Harinarayan Rajeev	India
Amel	More	Kosovo
(41) Schooner Street	Garrick Givens	United States
waitting for	mohamed abd elkarim	egypt
Clink	Alireza Nosrati	Iran
Miracle	Ufuk Erden	Turkey
Savage Witches	Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais	United Kingdom
Abhimanyu	Santhosh	India
The Unusual Hit	Stas Lavrik	United States
Live Life Dearest Time	Juan Diego Escobar	Colombia, USA, Netherlands, UK
Pardon Road	Simen Gjersvold	Denmark
Journey	Santhosh G	India
Paradisa	Karolis	UK
White Nights	Nuno Miguel Pereira Escudeiro	Finland
Misha, the flabergasted bear	Daria Akimenko	Finland
Darwin’s Dead (Evolution in Chaos)	Kevin Tobin	USA
Perfect Feelings	Deyan Dobrev	United Kingdom
Siddharth	Krunal palande	India
She s I!	Aleksandar Tokin	Serbia
The Kalasha and the Crescent	iara	Pakistan / USA
Hidden Masks	Ufuk Engin Can	Turkey
Hushed. Left. Jumped.	Bruno Carnide	Portugal
An obsolete altar	Hyash Tanmoy	India
The Surplus	Mena El Shazly	Egypt
Personal Advice	Tomer Werechson	Israel
TIN & TINA	RUBIN STEIN	SPAIN
Stairs	Komalankutty Methil	United Arab Emirates
PARADISE BEACH	Dave Lojek	Germany
Ex Oblivione	William Barber	America
i call it Love	Elsy Hajjar	Lebanon
LA PLAGE	Alain Deymier	Spain

2013

What happened during the autumn equinox vagrant film festival

Опубликовано 09.10.2013 автором balagan

It was a dull day in September. The vile wind threatened with rain. So it happened in the old wooden art-hut of La-mora.

The hut was full of people and kind atmosphere. We talked about our last cinema trip through Europe by bikes.

Then the program of Autumn Equinox Vagrant Film Festival was presented. The viewers voted by autumn leaves and here is the list of the people’s choice.

The first place prized to Luminaries!

It is really the best film for vagrant street showings! Revolutionary story, expressive visualization, laconic and dynamic narrative are very favourable for screening in any region for any audience! Great thanks for creators and our congratulations!

The program of the autumn equinox vagrant festival

1	TXIKI	Sergio San Martin	Spain
2	say hi	HyeonJong Kim	South Korea
3	human beings	Mashaallah Mohammadi	Iran
4	Seriously Delinquent	Dylan Pasture	USA
5	Decapoda Shock	Javier Chillon	Spain
6	Descent into Hell	Sergi Güibas Arnau	Spain
7	A day in Paradise	José Ángel Alayón	Spain
8	Copenhagen	Luis María Ferrández	Spain
9	A pig at home	Xavier Ruax	Spain
10	See you later my son	Manuel Martínez Marcos	Spain
11	Vocabulary	Sam Baixauli	Spain
12	Little Mask	David Cánovas	Spain
13	Cloud9	Josep Vilageliu	Spain
14	The Singer	Rafael Navarro Miñón	Spain
15	JD américa	Fernando Calabron	Brazil
16	(A)Typical Couple	Masa Zia Lenardic & Anja Wutej	Slovenia
17	The Prisoner	Mahmoud Shoolizadeh	USA
18	Le Futur (The Future)	Benjamin Villaverde	Spain
19	God by the Neck	José Trigueiros	Spain
20	Two couples smoke under a table	Estefania Veira	Argentina
21	Love At First Sight	Mark Playne	Spain and United Kingdom
22	Ashes	Gwenn Joyaux	Argentina
23	Sisters	Lea Vidakovic	Belgium
24	Last year at Mardelplá	Celeste Contratti y Santiago Korovsky	Argentina
25	Durandal	Juan Manuel Romero Gárriz	Spain
26	HOME	Carlos Alonso Ojea	SPAIN
27	ONE	Paola Villa	MEXICO
28	Termonster	Matias Poggini	Argentina
29	Memorial	Francesco	Italy / USA
30	Hard Labor, Meager Pay	Beate Hecher/Markus Keim	Austria
31	Confession of a Terrorist	Bishal Nath	India
32	Dubus	Alexei Dmitriev	Russia
33	Abstract?	Alexei Dmitriev	Russia
34	From This day Forward	EVEN HAFNOR	Norway
35	Alejandra	ALBERTO GASTESI	Spain
36	TURN OFF THE LIGHT WHEN YOU ENTER	PEDRO MURAD	Brazil
37	Blue Division	SERGI MARTI MALTAS	Spain
38	Two-Face	FRANCISCO BENDOMIR	Argentina
39	One year after	CRISTIAN PASCARIU	Romania
40	Herr Shultz sets sail	FRANK MULLER	Germany
41	HOTEL AMENITIES	JULIA GUILLEN-CREAGH	Spain
42	THE MISSING LOOKS	DAMIÁN DIONISIO	Argentina
43	THE RED CURTAINS	ALAIN DEYMIER	Argentina, France,Spain
44	LUMINARIS	JUAN PABLO ZARAMELLA	Argentina
45	MY RIGHT EYE (THE APPLE OF MY EYE)	JOSECHO DE LINARES	Spain
46	BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS YOU NEVER FORGET…	LUCAS FIGUEROA	Argentina
47	Therion	PEPE BOT?AS	Spain
48	A cup of coffee and wait	EMILIANO CUNHA	Brazil
49	Zinneke	REMI ALLIER	Belgium

Vagrant film festival: how it was…

Опубликовано 28.06.2013 автором balagan

I doubt whether anyone had reason to regret that he had arrived from hundreds of kilometers to see and vote for the films sitting on the grass of the river bank under the open night sky.

I believe that no one complained about the food being cooked on the fire, although sometimes there was no salt, no oil.

No one moaned (aloud) about the shower and the solarium as there were water and sun in plenty, nobody used perfume, as the air was filled with the smell of grass and wildflowers …

Speaking of flowers. The audience voted with meadow flowers they picked during the day. I ‘ll send out a solid herbarium meant for filmmakers.

The biggest bouquets turned to Andrew Kolenchik (Slovakia) for the film «Exhibition» and Sean Robinson (USA) for the film » Puritans.»

Thanks to everyone who has been with us these days!

The program of The Vagrant Film Festival
(Summer Solstice, 2013)

	«One Missed Call: Life», Anil Kaya (Turkey, 2012), 10 minMae starts everyday with a hangover, continues with an interrogation in a dark room and then with the exhaustion of the routine. While in this routine life keeps calling him everyday without a tire.
	«Loser Leg», Francesco Filippi (Italy, 2010), 8 min«I’ve always had strong arms. They have to become such if you are born with lame legs, without bones.” Giovanni is a kid called Loser Leg due to his soft legs. Due to his disability, he is tied everywhere by his bullish classmate. Despite all, he manage to take life with irony. He is secretly in love with a cute little girl Rose. Unfortunately she runs away terrified every time she see him tied somewhere…
	«Peto», Joonas Makkonen (Finland, 2011), 9 minA boy next door has a crush for a Girl next door. The Boy got the Girl’s dog to take care for a short time. Well… The Boy screws the whole thing. This film is a dark romantic comedy, placed in the 90’s.
	«SHIULI-in search of my Goddess!», Amartya Bhattacharyya (India, 2012), 9 minThis film is an audio-visual that portrays two separate perceptions in parallel. The visual part of the film portrays a joyful reality that has lost its focus. The festive mood has been depicted through some cultural and religious ingredients to add the intensity of belief and devotion.
	«Game over», Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib (Iran, 2012), 4 minIn a war game, Four rockets try to destroy the world, But children who live in the game, find a way to stop them.
	«At last», Tarun Jain (India, 2012), 16 minTwo people set out on a journey. One has no clue about where they are heading. The other has a reason to hide. They meet a stranger whose chemistry with his pet mouse is lovable. Who are these people? A mastermind, a believer, a psychopath and an unknown destination. Strange conversations and incidents take place blurring the difference between myth and reality.
	«Pie money», Andrew Salamonczyk (UK, 2012), 17 minGrieving widower and pie factory worker, Denis, is torn between bereavement and his late wife’s lottery win. Struggling to accept the fortune, his colleague and nutty boss tempt him with pie business ideas, but what will he decide to do?
	«Tofael – the tea stall boy», Minhazur Rahman Nayan (Bangladesh, 2012), 1 minA short film based in honesty of a tea stall boy Tofael . He works in Tea Stall. He live in Moghbazar wearless rail gate, moghbazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
	«Fable», Agustin Falco (Argentina, 2012), 14 minOne summer afternoon, on the bank of a river, a boy and a girl are starting to meet each other. Meanwhile, landscape and distance will become the stage for a possible beginning.
	«The star», Andrej Kolencik (Slovakia, 2012), 20 minThe documentary film «Hviezda (The Star)» tells a story of Jan Slovak, a 55-year-old welder, who fell in love with acting. His desire began, when he got the lead role in a theatrical adaptation of the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 From Outer Space by EdWood Jr. The passion for theatre became his destiny.»
	«The Puritans», Sean Robinson (USA, 2012), 24 min«THE PURITANS» is a short suspense drama that revolves around a soldier who returns home from the war to discover his family has eerily returned to a late-nineteenth century life-style in a desperate attempt to escape from the «perversions» of the modern world.
	«The Exhibition», Andrej Kolencik, Peter Beganyi (Slovakia, 2013), 35 minThe film tells about a small museum, where the economic boom has not yet arrived. It appears as if time has stopped in this national museum, a museum which should serve as a show window for Slovakia. Stuffed animals are covered with dust and the three employees working as caretakers of the huge building look like the museum exhibits themselves.
	«Fariba’s tree», Tomer Werechson (Israel, 2011), 5 minOn his way to his special tree, Yigal meets an old friend who discovers how much he changed and how little she knew him.
	«Infinity», Andrzej Jastrzab (Poland, 2013), 2 minMy poem was inspired by. *** wyryty na skórze oświadczenie woli dzielenia się krwią za dnia a cielesnością po śmierci trwać w nieskończoności *** etched on the skin declaration of intent sharing the blood of the day and flesh after death continue in perpetuity