LI(s)FE 2009

New LIsFE website!

2011-03-28T16:36:00.000+02:00

We're happy to announce that we have a new website. There you can find all the information about the Leiden International Short-film Festival 2011 which is coming in June and submit your film.

You can visit the new LIsFE website at: http://www.lisfe.nl/

LIsFE 2nd edition (May 2010)

2010-02-25T20:28:00.008+01:00

From the 28th until the 30th of May 2010, the 2nd edition of the Leiden International short Film Festival will be organized.

For more informations, visit our new website: www.lisfe.nl

The deadlines to submit your films and your photos to the competitions are:
* Short Film: 10th of May 2010.
* Photos : 15th of May 2010.

For more details about the competitions, please visit this link.
Or contact us: info@lisfe.nl

Saturday 31st October: International Short Films Night

2009-10-31T09:29:00.008+01:00

LIsFE and LFF / International Short Films Night

To access to the screening room (St. Elisabeth Church) we will meet directly at the entrance: --> Middelstegracht 4 <--

** Regarding the limited amount of seats available in the church, we strongly recommand you to buy your ticket in advance at the Trianon Cinema. **

SATURDAY NIGHT:
Pearce sister - Luis Cook - UK
The 8th Samurai - Justin Ambrosino - USA
El empleo - Santiago Bou Grasso - Argentina
Premature - Rashaad Ernesto Green - USA
Moscow summer - Dimitry gutov - Russia
Diplomacy - Jon Goldman - USA
Know how - Christian Kuehn - Germany
Spitted by kiss - Milos Tomic - Czech Republic

Short Films Screening: NEW MEETING POINT

2009-10-29T22:55:00.006+01:00

*** NEW MEETING POINT ***
The Short Flms Screenig of Friday 30th Oct & Saturday 31st Oct has a new meeting point.

To access to the screening room (St. Elisabeth Church) we will meet directly at the entrance:
--> Middelstegracht 4 <--

Know how

2009-10-28T15:37:00.003+01:00

Know how (Christian Kuehn, Germany, 2008, 5min)

Diplomacy

2009-10-28T15:36:00.002+01:00

Diplomacy (Jon Goldman, USA, 2009, 10min)

The American Secretary of State is about to meet the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs. They both have an interpreter : Michael for the United States and Azar, a radiant young woman, for Iran. Faced with increasing tension, they improvise a tacit strategy and change the dignitaries’ words. Jon Goldman does a brilliant and energetic description of exchanges during negotiation, making us feel the tension which is about to explode. Based on a topical subject, the film brings up the latent lack of understanding between Iran and the United States and calls a general question on a possible dialogue between the two countries. Through a lucid sense of irony, the film suggests that, sometimes, moving a few words could change things, as diplomatic relations often hang by the subtle thread of rhetoric.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403154/

Moscow summer

2009-10-28T15:35:00.006+01:00

Moscow summer (Dimitry gutov, Russia, 2007, 10min)

The video "Moscow summer" was made in the summer of 2000, when there was a heat wave. It was made for the exhibition "The memory of the body". The exhibition was devoted to the history of underwear of the soviet period. The video was made in the Metro, which is one of the most important monuments of the soviet epoch. But now it is filled with absolutely new creatures.

http://www.gutov.ru/works.htm
http://www.russiandreams.info/en/photographer/gutov

Premature

2009-10-28T15:35:00.003+01:00

Premature (Rashaad Ernesto Green, USA, 2009, 14min)

After Tisha, a streetwise teenager from the Bronx, discovers she's pregnant and receives no support from her community, she has nowhere to turn and is faced with the most difficult decision she will ever make.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1294199/

El empleo

2009-10-28T15:34:00.001+01:00

El empleo (Santiago Bou Grasso, Argentina, 2008, 6min)

A man performs his usual trip to work, immersed in a system in which the use of people as objects is part of everyday life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1247184/

The 8th Samurai

2009-10-28T15:33:00.004+01:00

The 8th Samurai (Justin Ambrosino, USA, 2009, 28min)

It is the early 1950s and Japanese Cinema is reaching international acclaim. Nanshu, a poor man with a big heart, is struggling to break into the booming film business, but the only thing keeping him from success is his desire to be the best. After numerous failed attempts, he gets the chance of a lifetime. During an encounter with Japan most ambitious film director, he lands a lead role as one of the eight samurai that will save a village from group of bandits in a new epic film about to go into production. For Nanshu, this is more than just a lead role, it is his ticket out of poverty. But the night before the first day of shooting, the director has a troublesome dream. A dream that will dictated the fate of the film and the fate of Nanshu. And after months of training, there is only one thing Nanshu didn't prepare for: being fired

http://www.the8thsamuraimovie.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1339527/

Tolibu dibu dauchyu

2009-10-28T15:33:00.003+01:00

Tolibu dibu dauchyu (Boris Despodov, Bulgaria, 2008, 5min)

Think you haven't heard the Bulgarian pop song "Ken Lee"? Think again. Music idol contestant and subsequent YouTube sensation Valentina Hasan belts it out in this rollicking documentary-ode to celeb culture gone awry

James

2009-10-28T15:32:00.002+01:00

James (Connor Clements, Ireland, 2008, 18min)

James has learnt to be withdrawn and secretive in a family with long buried secrets. Lonely and confused, he is drawn to one of his schoolteachers, Mr Sutherland, focusing on him as the one person who might understand his inner turmoil. When an older man approaches him in a public toilet, James panics and calls his mother, but refuses to tell her what happened. Late that night, James listens to his parents arguing about him. His fathers offhanded dismissal of his mothers concern results in a vicious row. When a devastated James turns to Mr Sutherland for help, the teachers response leads James to take an irrevocable step...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351642/

Hammerhead

2009-10-28T15:31:00.001+01:00

Hammerhead (Sam Donovan, UK, 2009, 14min)

Caught up in the middle of a divorce, shark obsessed oddball Boris persuades his parents to take him to the coast where a shark has been sighted, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to get them back together. The trip is ruined when Boris's mother brings her lover and he must face the fact that his parents are never going to be reconciled.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401123/

The Boundary

2009-10-28T15:30:00.001+01:00

The Boundary (Julius Onah, USA, 2008, 12min)

A family on its way home is forced to deal with circumstances they would never hope for.

http://www.juliusonah.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1272130/

El ataque de los robots de nebulosa 5

2009-10-28T15:29:00.002+01:00

El ataque de los robots de nebulosa 5 (Chema García, Spain, 2008, 6.5min)

Almost everybody is going to die very soon.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1315346/

Love child

2009-10-28T15:28:00.001+01:00

Love child (Daniel Wirtberg, Sweden, 2009, 6min)

A little girl feels ignored, and family bonds shatter, when her mother and father get a cat...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1360175/

Miracle fish

2009-10-28T15:27:00.001+01:00

Miracle fish (Luke Doolan, Australia, 2008, 17min)

8 year old Joe has a birthday he'll never forget. His school friends tease him for lack of birthday gifts. Joe hides out in the school sick bay and falls asleep, wishing the everyone in the world would go away. When he awakes, he finds his school empty and wonders if his wish has come true. But his fantasy is shattered, when an event darker than the thought of a being the last person on earth, confronts him...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1337354/

Pal/Secam

2009-10-28T15:24:00.004+01:00

Pal/Secam (Dmitry Povolotsky, Russia, 2008, 15min)

Set in Moscow in 1985, Pal/Secam is an uproariously funny short following a boy in his mid teens on a quest to lose his virginity with the help of his prize possession- a VCR that everyone wants to watch. What starts as a simple attempt to lure a girl upstairs to his mothers’ tiny apartment to watch disco dance movies and drink champagne (which he has no idea about and thusly ends up with some other sort of unknown liquor)…

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1260388/

Short films from around the world

2009-10-23T19:38:00.013+02:00

Join us for our GREAT selection of International Short Films!!

Date: Friday 30th Oct & Saturday 31st Oct
Time: 9pm
Location: St. Elisabeth Church, Middelstegracht 4, LEIDEN
Price : 5€ for the 2 nights

FRIDAY NIGHT:
Pal/Secam - Dmitry Povolotsky - Russia
Miracle fish - Luke Doolan - Australia
Love child - Daniel Wirtberg - Sweden
El ataque de los robots de nebulosa 5 - Chema García - Spain
The Boundary - Julius Onah - USA
Hammerhead - Sam Donovan - UK
James - Connor Clements - Ireland
Tolibu dibu dauchyu - Boris Despodov - Bulgaria

SATURDAY NIGHT:
Pearce sister - Luis Cook - UK
The 8th Samurai - Justin Ambrosino - USA
El empleo - Santiago Bou Grasso - Argentina
Premature - Rashaad Ernesto Green - USA
Moscow summer - Dimitry gutov - Russia
Diplomacy - Jon Goldman - USA
Know how - Christian Kuehn - Germany
Spitted by kiss - Milos Tomic - Czech Republic

Presessions: LIsFE goes to church

2009-10-15T23:51:00.015+02:00

The Leids Film festival goes from the 27 Oct to the 1st of Nov: http://www.leidsfilmfestival.nl/09/

During this festival LIsFE will organize 2 NIGHTS dedicated to International Short Films:
Dates: Friday 30th Oct & Saturday 31st Oct, 9pm.
Location: St. Elisabeth Church, Middelstegracht 4

FRIDAY NIGHT:
Pal/Secam - Dmitry Povolotsky - Russia
Miracle fish - Luke Doolan - Australia
Love child - Daniel Wirtberg - Sweden
El ataque de los robots de nebulosa 5 - Chema García - Spain
The Boundary - Julius Onah - USA
Hammerhead - Sam Donovan - UK
James - Connor Clements - Ireland
Tolibu dibu dauchyu - Boris Despodov - Bulgaria

SATURDAY NIGHT:
Pearce sister - Luis Cook - UK
The 8th Samurai - Justin Ambrosino - USA
El empleo - Santiago Bou Grasso - Argentina
Premature - Rashaad Ernesto Green - USA
Moscow summer - Dimitry gutov - Russia
Diplomacy - Jon Goldman - USA
Know how - Christian Kuehn - Germany
Spitted by kiss - Milos Tomic - Czech Republic

Awards 2009

2009-06-05T09:55:00.003+02:00

SHORT FILMS

Best movie: Spitted by kiss

Best animation: Pearce Sisters

Best Amateur: Admiring Austen

Public Award: Tanghi Argentini

Program

2009-05-29T18:55:00.007+02:00

LIsFE/LFF: "Short films from around the world"

Date: Friday 30th Oct & Saturday 31st Oct
Time: 9pm
Location: St. Elisabeth Church, Middelstegracht 4, LEIDEN
Price : 5€ for the 2 nights

FRIDAY NIGHT:
Pal/Secam - Dmitry Povolotsky - Russia
Miracle fish - Luke Doolan - Australia
Love child - Daniel Wirtberg - Sweden
El ataque de los robots de nebulosa 5 - Chema García - Spain
The Boundary - Julius Onah - USA
Hammerhead - Sam Donovan - UK
James - Connor Clements - Ireland
Tolibu dibu dauchyu - Boris Despodov - Bulgaria

SATURDAY NIGHT:
Pearce sister - Luis Cook - UK
The 8th Samurai - Justin Ambrosino - USA
El empleo - Santiago Bou Grasso - Argentina
Premature - Rashaad Ernesto Green - USA
Moscow summer - Dimitry gutov - Russia
Diplomacy - Jon Goldman - USA
Know how - Christian Kuehn - Germany
Spitted by kiss - Milos Tomic - Czech Republic

LIsFE LFF Program

2009-05-29T01:53:00.013+02:00

LIsFE/LFF: "Short films from around the world"

Date: Friday 30th Oct & Saturday 31st Oct
Time: 9pm
Location: St. Elisabeth Church, Hooigracht 23 (Meeting point in Café Olivier)
Price : 5€ for the 2 nights

FRIDAY NIGHT:
Pal/Secam - Dmitry Povolotsky - Russia
Miracle fish - Luke Doolan - Australia
Love child - Daniel Wirtberg - Sweden
El ataque de los robots de nebulosa 5 - Chema García - Spain
The Boundary - Julius Onah - USA
Hammerhead - Sam Donovan - UK
James - Connor Clements - Ireland
Tolibu dibu dauchyu - Boris Despodov - Bulgaria

SATURDAY NIGHT:
Pearce sister - Luis Cook - UK
The 8th Samurai - Justin Ambrosino - USA
El empleo - Santiago Bou Grasso - Argentina
Premature - Rashaad Ernesto Green - USA
Moscow summer - Dimitry gutov - Russia
Diplomacy - Jon Goldman - USA
Know how - Christian Kuehn - Germany
Spitted by kiss - Milos Tomic - Czech Republic

The gynaecologist

2009-05-28T12:36:00.000+02:00

Alfonso Camarero, 10'
Spain, 2008

A gynaecologist is working in her office at the hospital as everyday. But the next patient....is a boy! Naturally the gynaecologist throw out the joker. But he returns with the coordinator (the gynaecologist' boss), who commands the gynaecologist to examine her (meaning the patient)! It's not a joke, it's a conspiracy! But the troubles of the gynaecologist are just beggining...

Touched by Fellini

2009-05-28T12:28:00.002+02:00

Chester Productions, 13'
Australia, 2008

Sometimes a random meeting can highlight what is wrong, what is right, and what is possible in your life. Be touched by Fellini. A film about hope, dreams and fantasy - amore!

Lila

2009-05-28T12:23:00.002+02:00

Broadcast club, 13'
France, 2009

In Hinduism, Lila is a way of describing all reality, including the cosmos, as the outcome of creative play by the divine absolute. In Broadcast’s Club’s film, LILA is a masterfully choreographed journey through everyday life of humans – powerful and moving in its simplicity and its intensity.

Oedipe

2009-05-28T12:19:00.002+02:00

Capucine, 7'
Japan, 2008

Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He blinded himself after having fulfilled a prophecy saying he would kill his father and marry his mother.
Two thousand years later : what if the oracle completely missed the point?

Una giornatta perfetta

2009-05-28T12:13:00.001+02:00

Virgilio Villoresi,3'41"
Italy, Animation, 2009

A Vinicio Capossela music video, directed by Virgilio Villoresi. The animation has been done entirely done in stop-motion. No digital effects were used. Over 5000 pictures of Vinicio Capossela have been printed, trimmed and photographed to create the animation.

Katedra (The Cathedral)

2009-05-28T12:06:00.001+02:00

Tomek Baginski, 7'
Poland, Animation, 2002

An explorer visits what appears to be the ruins of a gothic cathedral. There seem to be some strange statues, though, whose faces follow him as he makes his way to the end; the sun comes out, and he stops at the edge of a cliff.

La Tuerca

2009-05-28T12:02:00.001+02:00

Azul Melissa Martinez, 9'
Spain/Mexico, 2007

This is the story of a little girl and a nut. It is also the story of a middle-aged woman who has lost all contact with dreams. La Tuerca is about magic, memories and the significance of small things that we sometimes forget when we become adults.

Just as you take my hand

2009-05-28T11:58:00.001+02:00

Otto Ligt, 13'
Netherlands, 2008

A man's got to do what a man's got to do

2009-05-28T11:52:00.002+02:00

Harald Schleicher, 9'
Germany, 2006

What does it take to become a man, to be a man, to stay a man? Difficult questions - not only men are aware of this. A Man’s Got To Do What a Man’s Got To Do (Harald Schleicher) is a true tour de force, using samples from numerous vintage movies to reflect on the masculine image put forth in cinema.

Finally, Saturday!

2009-05-28T11:48:00.000+02:00

Maria Pia Cinelli, 9'
Italy, 2006

After a week of hard work, Saturday finally arrives. The problem is that women work at home too!

Plot Point

2009-05-28T11:44:00.001+02:00

Nicholas Provost, 15'27"
Belgium, 2007

Almost everyone has seen hundreds, maybe thousands of hours of television and film footage that features crowded American cities, the streets of Manhattan, American cops, yellow New York City cabs, uniforms and ambulances. Such images have become stereotypical all over the world and are widely associated with action films, crime movies and, to a certain extent, medical drama. In Plot Point, Nicolas Provost plays with this premise; he has recorded everyday life around Times Square in New York and edited the resulting footage in such a manner that it triggers our collective memory about action and crime narrative. Plot Point shows a 15-minute, seemingly random succession of shots of crowds walking on Manhattan sidewalks; we see billboards, trucks, a choreography of police cars, while uniformed NYPD officers and random people seem to be watching each other. Subtly, the combination of music, editing and photography leads the viewer into a subconscious process of establishing and discovering a story. Plot Point questions the boundaries between reality and fiction by merely suggesting cinematic narrative codes (tension curve, climax, plot point), but ultimately leaves the mystery unrevealed.

Air

2009-05-27T23:47:00.002+02:00

Konstantin Biryukov, 4'

Russia, Animation, 2007

The life of a small person in a big city.

Brand (Burn)

2009-05-27T01:49:00.002+02:00

Niels Bourgonje, 19'
Netherlands, Fiction, 2008

In the middle of the night, a widow is terrorized by an unknown man. Just when she is about to call the police, the man claims to know more about the suicide of her husband.

Clooney

2009-05-27T01:40:00.001+02:00

Florian Ross, 10'
Germany, Fiction, 2007

Markus needs to decide: Will he join a concert of a friendly band or a friend's party? He flips a coin... A movie about destiny and contingency, passed chances and how they can influence our lives.

Fallen art

2009-05-27T01:27:00.002+02:00

Tomek Baginski, 6'
Poland, Animation,

A volunteer soldier plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection.

Spitted by kiss

2009-05-27T01:19:00.004+02:00

Miloš Tomić, 11'06"

Czech Republic, 2007

An obsessive story about a young man who lives on the street, literally, slides on concrete, falls in love with the girls passing by, and hangs out in the world of street junk.

Liefs (Love)

2009-05-27T01:13:00.003+02:00

Beri Shalmashi, 3'422"

Netherlands, Fiction, 2009

Two people with their own but also the same stories in L.A. Will they meet?

Socarrat

2009-05-27T00:52:00.004+02:00

David Moreno, 10'

Spain, Fiction, 2009

We all have secrets.

we all have family.

We all search for happiness.

What if we share our secrets and search for happiness togethet?

Miroirs d'Eté (Mirrors)

2009-05-27T00:30:00.003+02:00

Étienne Desrosiers, 14'
Canada, Fiction, 2006

A melancholic teenager comes of age while vacationing at the family cottage in this exquisitely rendered short.

Maquina

2009-05-27T00:21:00.002+02:00

Gabe Ibáñez, 16'
Spain, Fiction, 2006

A girl discovers her new nature through pain and confusion and she finds the way to achieve the lost harmony.

Le sifflet

2009-05-27T00:14:00.002+02:00

As Thiam, 22'
Senegal, Fiction, 2005

Samba and Comuba are a blind couple and for thirty-five years they’ve been negotiating Dakar’s traffic together. A public transport strike forces them to go to the city by foot. They cross fields that are the city’s only green lung. Samba walks ahead with his cane that gives him the power to command. They sing, they talk and argue the way that many old couples do. They imagine the world surrounding them. And then, all of a sudden, magic intervenes in the form of a whistle.

Les ames du clocher

2009-05-27T00:08:00.002+02:00

Jiva Eric Razafindralambo, 10'30"

Madagascar, Animation, 2006

« Le mal peut prendre tant de formes et frapper cette petite fille alors qu’une vie remplie d’espoir se dessinait devant elle ».

Pigeon

2009-05-26T23:55:00.002+02:00

Benoit Gand, 15'

France, Fiction, 2006

Just imagine if from babyhood, your mummy had raised you stricly according to old wives tales. That your whole life had been scrupulously planned according to the movement of the planets. How would you have turned out? Most probably, exactly like Jean-Pierre Pigeon - supersticious. But would you take the same path he did once confronted by the outside world?

in either case - watch out: He brings luck!

The guy's guide to zombies

2009-05-26T23:49:00.002+02:00

Daniel Austin

UK, Animation, 2006

Zombies. Shambling scourge of the modern world? Or just a little misunderstood? If in doubt, check out Guy's Guide To Zombies, the definitive guide to living with the dead! Guy's Guide is a parody of 1950s public safety films which quietly pokes fun at the current international climate of fear.

René

2009-05-26T23:42:00.000+02:00

Tobias Nölle, 29'
Switzerland, Fiction, 2007

A man in a yellow raincoat is desperately trying to break out his solitude

Voyage autour de ma chambre (Journey around my room)

2009-05-26T23:33:00.002+02:00

Oliver Smolders, 26'

Belgium, Fiction, 2008

Secluded in his room, a film-maker evokes the journeys and places, real or imaginary, wich were the making or the breaking of him. From images collected over the years, « Voyage autour de ma chambre » investigates, in a poetic manner, the difficulty each person has in finding his true place in the world.

Con dos años de garantía

2009-05-26T23:20:00.004+02:00

Juan Parra Costa, 17'

Spain, Fiction, 2009

Berta, fed up of his husband´s bad treatments, decides to leave him. He substitutes her instantly but the substitute doesn´t satisfy him at all and ask to his wife to come back.

The Story of Bubble Boy

2009-05-26T23:10:00.002+02:00

Sean Ascroft, 6'05"

Australia, Fiction, 2006

In a stab-happy world, a sad outcast wrestles with his demons.

The Story of Bubble Boy is a film about being trapped by the past and redeemed by the future.

Le sursaut

2009-05-26T23:05:00.001+02:00

Jonathan Desoindre, 12'50"

France, Fiction, 2008

Over the past few months, employees of a large industrial firm, working in a high-security science park, have been committing suicide in the most striking ways. So as to help the law clarify these events, Eugene Cercas, a young labour inspector, is asked to look into this mysterious wave of suicides.

Porque hay cosas que nunca se olvidan

2009-05-26T22:45:00.004+02:00

Lucas Figueroa, 13'25"

Italy, Fiction, 2008

Naples, Italy. 1950.

Four friends play soccer on the street. Suddenly the ball falls inside "Evil grandma's" house. They probably won't play with this ball again, but revenge will be terrible.

Tokkeloshe

2009-05-26T22:38:00.002+02:00

Billy Polls, 3'40"
Netherlands, Fiction, 2007

Evil Lurks! Rural Africa lives in fear of the Tokkeloshe myth. Mentioning his name and even warning others is calling danger into your life. Don't arouse him. Never say his name or you will be cursed. This is the myth of dark Africa. Witness and be aware.

Un hombre tranquilo (A quiet man)

2009-05-26T22:33:00.002+02:00

Arantzazu Gomez Bayon, 12'

Spain, Fiction, 2007

A Quiet Man is a journey through the memories of a young Spanish woman of 30 years old. She painting a colourful and surreal picture of the family unit in 1980’s Spain, a time, thanks to democracy, the country had achieved a certain level of political and cultural maturity.

Zuurstof (Oxygen)

2009-05-26T22:22:00.002+02:00

[Jet] Andree, 9'15"

Belgium, Fiction, 2008

A lot of coffee, no milk and maybe just enough oxygen.

Jazzed

2009-05-26T22:06:00.003+02:00

'Jazzed' from anton setola on Vimeo.

Anton Setola, 5'
Belgium, Animation, 2009

Made in Japan

2009-05-23T18:41:00.002+02:00

Ciro Altabás, 7'
Spain, Fiction, 2007

… My mother admitted that the man who I thought was my father was not my father.

Notre Pain Capital

2009-05-23T18:37:00.002+02:00

Sani Elhadj Magori, 13'

Senegal/France, Documentary, 2007

In the streets of Saint Louis, Senegal, Sani Elhadj Magori films the food chain that revolves around bread, from its fabrication, to the black market that supplies the begging system.

Sugiharti Halim

2009-05-23T18:33:00.002+02:00

Ariani Darmawan, 10'

Indonesia, Fiction, 2008

What’s in a name? Does one really need a "real" name? Can you sell your name or hide your identity behind it? Presidential decree no. 127/U/Kep/12/1966 obliged Ethnic-Chinese to adopt an Indonesian-sounding name.
In this film, a woman whose name is Sugiharti Halim leads a conversation over several dinner-tables with her date partners, talking about history of her name in relation to the oppression of Chinese-ness and its absurd complicity in the process of Indonesian nation-forming. Her position in the film is juxtaposed with that of her audience in the film and that in the cinema, who are also taking part-albeit without engaging in a dialogue.

Silencio

2009-05-23T18:28:00.002+02:00

Sivaroj Kongsakul, 17'20"
Thailand, Fiction, 2007

A soundman goes in search of that rarest of sounds – silence.

Everyday everyday

2009-05-23T18:20:00.002+02:00

Chui Mui Tan, 17'

Malasia, Fiction, 2008

Sook Chen quit her job. She decided to go to Peru. Ma could not understand why. In fact, he could never understand what Sook Chen want.

Il supplente

2009-05-23T18:13:00.002+02:00

Andrea Jublin, 15'

Italy, Fiction, 2006

Why does the substitute teacher, rather than teaching, behave as he does? Is he completely mad? A story of nostalgia dedicated to those who have problems of behaviour.

Andrea Jublin

Born in 1970. He is from Turin and graduated in politics. He graduated at the Genova Theatre acting school and acted in many of plays. He attended a course in direction at UCLA in Los Angeles and studied script and writing on the RAI course in Rome. He founded Independent Cinema Company for which he wrote, directed and performed the film Broom and two short films Courage. Courage. Courage and Thank Heaven. The Substitute (2006) is his third short film.

Tanghi Argentini

2009-05-23T17:58:00.003+02:00

Guido Thys, 14'

Belgium, Fiction, 2006

Despite the faceless, cold atmosphere at his work place, an office clerk tries to make his colleagues happy. Instead of the classical cliché Christmas gifts, he wants to give them something real and precious.

Séance Familiale

2009-05-23T17:53:00.003+02:00

Cheng-Chui Kuo, 28'

Taiwan/France, Fiction, 2008

A French television crew infiltrates a Taiwanese family in Taipei to make a reality TV programme. Little by little, the camera becomes a new way of communicating within the family.

Tricko

2009-05-23T17:46:00.004+02:00

Hossein Martin Fazeli, 11'03"

Slovakia, Fiction, 2006

Mark is half-American, half-Slovak and he has strong beliefs. During a trip to Slovakia he meets Tomas, a shop assistant, who is wearing a T-shirt that offends his beliefs.

Do it yourself

2009-05-23T17:37:00.005+02:00

Eric Ledune, 12'30"
Belgium, Animation, 2007

“If you don’t violate someone’s human rights some of the time, you probably aren’t doing your job.” Washington Post – December 26, 2002

Muto

2009-05-23T17:14:00.005+02:00

Blu, 7'26"

Italy, Experimental, 2007

An ambiguous surrealistic animation painted on public walls in Baden and Buenos Aires.

Blu is a street artist from Argentina. He's taken graffiti to a whole new level, creating animations on walls and sidewalks. His latest is Muto which is both a technical tour de force and an eye-opening creepy animation. Not only did he work in the less-than-ideal environment of the sidewalk, but it meant that he couldn't have more than one frame in existence at a time, with no possibility of reworking old frames or sketching out new ones. Once the frame was shot, the work was destroyed. Amazing.

http://www.blublu.org/

Metapocalypse

2009-05-20T19:30:00.002+02:00

Willem van der Boom & Victor van der Boom (Concept by Roy Rops), 4'52"

Netherlands

Information and news are all around us. In this digital era we are surrounded by diverse forms of media, from newspapers and radio to television and the internet, whose claims on our brains and observations are unavoidable and inescapable.

We are captured in a transitive world of information. As for news, one hardly ever takes notice of a message only once. News messages come to us via all the forms of media, multiple times. The news you heard on the radio in the morning, you read online in the afternoon and see it on television in the evening. An overkill of information, which is inherently suffocating. Only, we have become so used to it, that it doesn’t occur to us as a process of suffocation. This process of ‘identical information repeating and multiplying itself in our brains’ can be interpreted as a Droste effect*.

This process of the Droste effect resulting in suffocation is visualized in this short film, an attempt to create awareness of the effects of this process of information overkill.

*The Droste effect is a Dutch term for a specific kind of recursive picture. An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on.

Ça commence bien

2009-05-20T14:17:00.005+02:00

Frederic Ballehaiche, La Femis, 26'
France

Mumbai express

2009-05-20T14:17:00.003+02:00

Virgile Van Ginneken, La Femis, 8'
France

Daiquiris de Morango

2009-05-20T14:14:00.003+02:00

Miguel Simal, 10'
Portugal

New Year’s eve, a man abandons the glamorous party he is in, and is now in a kitchen getting drunk, drinking daiquiris. A women enters, joins him. They drink, they flirt, talk about relations. They kiss and test boundaries of fidelity.

Een tweeling apart (twins divided)

2009-05-20T14:12:00.006+02:00

Chiara van den Berg, 30'

A documentary about a brother and sister: twins at birth, but raised apart. Chiara van den Berg tells their moving story and their parents' struggle.

De Apenjongen (Monkey boy)

2009-05-20T14:12:00.005+02:00

Laurie Lijnders, 25'
Netherlands

Irrlaeufer (Stray Passenger)

2009-05-20T14:08:00.004+02:00

Claire Walka, 20'

Germany, 2007

Aimo, a 30 year old man lives a steady, homogenous live. He doesn't break out, even if he often dreams of getting away. Then, on the 11.111st day of his life, mysterious traces appear and encourage him to stray from the beaten track. An Odyssey through different realities begins, where Aimo has to face fears and temptations. But there's a light at the end of the tunnel, the lovely but continuously changing Giselle. She appears again and again with coded clues that help Aimo to find his way trough the unpredictable. As he has fallen in love with Giselle, he finally follows her despite potential and already experienced dangers. He begins to search a transit that leads into another life.

Watch trailer here.

Admiring Austen

2009-05-20T14:03:00.003+02:00

Electra Poirazoglou, 10’

UK, Fiction, 2008

The film won Best Script award (Tom Grigg) in 2009's Screentest film competition.

The notebook

2009-05-20T14:01:00.003+02:00

Evelien Lohbeck, 4'52"

Netherlands

(Winner LFF 2009)

4 short films which explore the boundaries between reality and fiction.

Pain

2009-05-20T14:01:00.002+02:00

Iván López Núnez, 28'
Netherlands
(Winner LFF Fiction 2008)

How much pain does a person need to forget his sorrows?

Anna

2009-05-20T14:00:00.000+02:00

Ruben Pest, 4'

Netherlands

(Competitor LFF 2008)

A short film about a boy who goes to the fair and experiences amidst the rumour a moment he will never forget.

Raak (Contact)

2009-05-20T13:59:00.002+02:00

Hanro Smitsman, 10'

Netherlands

(Winner Golden Bear Berlin)

Small events in the lives of three people eventually lead to the moment at which a boy throws a rock from a bridge to hit a car. Small, unimportant causes can have big consequences.

Wild

2009-05-20T13:58:00.002+02:00

Eché Janga, 7'

Netherlands

Oh Deer

2009-05-20T13:58:00.001+02:00

Arne Toonen, 15’

Netherlands

Oh, Deer! is a short comedy of errors. Monic goes hunting with her experienced husband, Pierre. When he’s not paying attention, Monic shoots a deer. Once they arrive at their prey, it appears to be something completely different. Then Pierre has an encounter with two dangerous looking men and quickly the question arises: Who’s hunting whom?

Impasse

2009-05-20T13:57:00.000+02:00

Bram Schouw, 5’

Netherlands

(Winner NFTVM Fresh)

Without words, we're left to consider whether love and attraction can break through the impasse of human intolerance.

The last day

2009-05-20T13:56:00.001+02:00

Saskia Diesing, 10'45"

Netherlands

Evermore on his guard, but with diminishing powers, N. for the last time tries to keep together his precious possession, a group of joyful ladies. When he fails to keep his rivals at a distance, his ending, a life without lust, comes nearby.

Akiko

2009-05-20T13:55:00.000+02:00

Michael Sewandono, 10'27"

Netherlands

(Nominated Golden Calve)

Akiko is standing in an endless, black and empty space. As if she wakes up and finding herself in a different sense of being, she reconstructs herself and her surroundings. Different elements from her surroundings come into view; the road, the grass and the streetlights. Akiko watches and experiences everything in a very intense way, as if she has never seen the world before. She has no idea of existence. When all the elements are there, the world is not as pure as Akiko has always felt.

About fish and revolution

2009-05-20T13:54:00.001+02:00

Margien Rogaar, 10'36"

Netherlands

Two separate worlds come together at an ordinary fishing pitch. Gerard’s marriage has become a drag, his friendships have dwindled and the fish he catches are too small.

Dao

2009-05-20T13:52:00.002+02:00

Marleen Jonkman, 10'

Netherlands

Dao (22) is a young Thai woman. She arrives in the Netherlands to share the rest of her life with a dutch called Michel. The confrontation with a man she barely knows in a strange country with foreign tastes, scents and habits makes Dao feel rootless. Does she realise only now what she has started?

Little red Riding Hoodie

2009-05-14T17:57:00.003+02:00

Electra Poirazoglou
UK / 2007

University of Bristol - Production in Practice module - 3-minute film.

The Little Red Riding Hoodie's bike gets stolen by the Wolf... She really loved that bike... And she means business!

Theater play: The Dumb Waiter (Harold Pinter)

2009-05-14T12:12:00.005+02:00

The ISN-R theater group will perform "The Dumb Waiter", from Harold Pinter, during LIsFE 2009.

· Scheduled: 29th MAy, From 8 to 9 pm.
. Location: Plexus
· Length: 45 minutes
· Number of acts: one (no intermissions)
· Directed by: Carlos Roos
· Cast: Natalia Kadenko & John Gilmartin as Ben, Stella Mantzourani & Siobhan Brett as Gus.

Synopsis:

Two hit-men, Ben and Gus, are waiting for instructions in a shabby basement, somewhere in the city of Birmingham. The idle time brings apparently vacuous words and random dialogues that progressively unveil themselves as sharp concerns. Gus wonders about everything; Ben goes uneasy. The activity of the characters is not solely what determines the occurrences on stage. From the outside, unknown people mange to affect Ben and Gus in an intriguing way: an envelope slides under the door, a dumb waiter in the back of the room delivers food orders, a speaking tube whistles. With the advancement of the story, the situation turns increasingly odd, unnatural and closer to what life of contemporary man actually is, until its own logical grounds are broken in a revealing, shocking collapse. The Dumb Waiter revolves around the issue of human existence, by means of the particular happenings that take place between Ben, Gus and the outsiders, as images of our deepest anxieties.

The Dumb Waiter was written in 1957 by the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, and premiered at the Hampstead Theatre Club, on 21 January 1960. The ISN-R Leiden Theatre Group is pleased to pursue this artistic enquiring process, on the basis of such a valuable piece of dramatic literature.

PHOTO competition

2009-05-14T11:26:00.009+02:00

During LIsFE 2009, a photo competition is organized.

Topic: Cultural diversity
Photo requirement: 4000x2500 pixel , with a min of 250 dpi.

You can send us your photos (we accept several photos per competitor) before the 20th of May: lisfe2009@gmail.com

------> The selected photos will be print and exhibit in the Plexus Center during the diversity week (25 to 29th of May).

LIsFE 2009 - POSTER

2009-05-05T18:36:00.003+02:00

Amateur competition

2009-04-28T17:45:00.002+02:00

Mei Ling

2009-04-28T02:10:00.004+02:00

Directed by: Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy
France / 2009

Story description:
Mei Ling, an idle young chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She decides to adopt it to avoid boredom. The octopus grows up...

Director Biographical note:
Stephanie Lansaque After studying textile design and graphism in Paris, she worked for magazines and edition as an art director. She started animation co-directing « Goodbye mister Chu » in 2004. « Mei Ling» is his second short movie. Francois Leroy After studying industrial design in Paris, he passed a cartoon diploma at Gobelins. Since 2002, he works as an animator on series, feature films and commercials and co-directed « Goodbye mister Chu » . « Mei Ling» is his second short movie.

Cast: Amanda Sun
Screenplay: Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy
Photography: Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy
Editing: Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy
Set design: Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy
Costume design: Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy
Music: Denis Vautrin
Sound: Denis Vautrin
Producer: Marc Jousset
Production: Je suis bien content
World Sales: Je suis bien content

Yellow sticky notes

2009-04-28T02:05:00.003+02:00

Animation film directed by Jeff Chiba Stearns
Canada, 2007

Synopsis:
2,300 drawings on 4x6 inch yellow sticky notes with a black ink pen. A small internal reflection on one's role as an artist manifests into a discussion about major political and environmental crises.

Make a Wish (Itmanna)

2009-04-27T22:36:00.004+02:00

Directed by Cherien Dabis
Palestine / 2006

Synopsis

An inventive young Palestinian girl will do whatever it takes to buy a birthday cake in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
Born to Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant parents, award-winning filmmaker and television writer Cherien Dabis has been recognized by the industry's top organizations and trade publications. A 2004 graduate of Columbia University's Masters of Fine Arts Film program, Dabis' short films have screened at some of the world's top film festivals. Itmanna (Make A Wish) is also an official selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin as well as Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Most recently, Screen International listed her new project, Amreeka, as one of the "Ten Arab Films to Watch" in 2007.

Interview with Charien Dabis:

I loved Sarah Jane

2009-04-27T22:30:00.002+02:00

Directed by Spencer Susser
Australia / 2007

Synopsis

Jimbo is thirteen. All he can think about is one girl, Sarah Jane. And no matter what stands in his way - bullies, violence, chaos, zombies - nothing is going to stop him from finding a way into her world.

Andong

2009-04-27T22:01:00.008+02:00

Directed by Rommel Tolentino

Philippines /2008

SYNOPSIS
Andong, a 6-year-old boy from an impoverished family in the slums, goes scavenging in the dumpsite of Payatas. The precocious boy has an obsession. He goes to great lengths just to get 20 pesos so he can buy a ticket for the barangay raffle and win a television set. It takes a miracle for the young boy to win over his disapproving mother. But he still has his younger brother to deal with.

Awards: 2008 Sonje Award, 13th Pusan International Film Festival / 2008 Best Short Film, Best Screenplay - Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1237784/

Pearce Sisters

2009-04-27T21:55:00.004+02:00

Animation film, directed by Luis Cook

UK / 2007

Synopsis
Lol and Edna Pearce live on a remote and austere strip of coast. When the sea offers up a handsome but half drowned man they do their best to resuscitate him.

Alter/ego

2009-04-27T21:40:00.004+02:00

Directed by Cedric Prevost
France 2008

Plot: The encounter in a Parisian park between Nadir and Ester, a young man and woman with seemingly nothing in common, at least at first glance.

The Wednesdays

2009-04-16T23:13:00.001+02:00

Directed by Conor Ferguson
Ireland / 2007

Plot:
Sometimes, when you're in the autumn of your days, you'll try anything just to put a smile on your face again. And so in this funny, sad (and sometimes wobbly) tale we meet two pensioners who manage to re-ignite the love they'd almost forgotten about. Unfortunately, soon the law comes knocking at their door