Competition 8

Ville d’Alma et Collège d’Alma present
Wednesday march 9th > 19 h 30 > Cinéma Complexe Alma

Starlink presents
Friday march 11th > 21 h 30 > Salle François-Brassard

• The Trenches
  Quebec > 2010 > animation > 35 mm > 6 min 52 s

  On the battlefield and down to the trenches’ bottom, recruits dread the order to attack. It’s World War I. At the signal, the recruit rushes into a hell of fire and blood where the earth swallows the living and the dead. A pacifist pamphlet based on a masterly actualization of film archives.

  Direction/screenplay > Claude Cloutier
  Editing > José Heppell
  Music > Pierre Desrochers
  Production/distribution > Office national du film du Canada
  Contact > [email protected]

• Vapor
  Steam
  Quebec > 2010 > fiction > 35 mm > 11 min

  The fractured portrait of a shattered psyche, Vapor is a heartening story of self-affirmation, acceptance and transcendance.

  Direction/screenplay > Kaveh Nabatian
  Visual > Christophe Colette
  Editing > Elric Robichon
  Music > Bell Orchestre, Mozart
  Acting > Marco Ledezma
  Production > Productions Kinesis
  Distribution > Locomotion
  Contact > [email protected]

• Man’s Best Friend
  France > 2010 > fiction > 35 mm > 11 min 43 s

  Henri, a 40 year old with a bad case of burn out, works as a canine security guard in a suburban train station. One day his boss tells him he'll have to get rid of Oedipe, his narcoleptic old Rottweiler and only friend. Unable to go through with it, Henri seeks comfort in a beer at the Bistro de la Gare, the station bar.The waitress, Chantal, has a crush on Henri, but he's too blind to see it.

  Direction/screenplay > Vincent Mariette
  Visual > Julien Poupard
  Editing > Frédéric Baillehaiche
  Acting > Jules Edouard Moustic, Noémie Lvovsky
  Production/distribution > Les Films du Worso
  Contact > [email protected]

• The Silence Beneath the Bark
  France > 2010 > animation > 35 mm > 13 min

  In the depths of a great forest clad in a great white mantle, curious creatures discover how beautiful and fascinating and white snow is as it whirls them giddily on their way to extraordinary encounters with the strange and wonderful.

  Direction/screenplay > Joanna Lurie
  Visual > Joanna Lurie, Audrey Ferriere
  Editing > Marc Boyer
  Music > Michel Korb
  Acting > Patrick Saignes
  Production/distribution > Lardux Films
  Contact > [email protected]

• Aglaée
  France > 2010 > fiction > 35 mm > 19 min 43 s

  In the school yard, Benoit loses a bet against his friends. His dare: To ask Aglaée, a disabled student, to go out with him.

  Direction/screenplay > Rudi Rosenberg
  Visual > Blondeau Regis
  Editing > Pencalet Emmanuelle
  Acting > Martineau Geraldine
  Production/distribution > Karé Productions
  Contact > [email protected]

• 3 X 3
  Portugal > 2009 > fiction > 35 mm > 6 min

  A night watchman spends the time in a basketball court throwing a ball into the basket. He has become an expert. His ego rises when he shows his abilities to a simple cleaning employee, who also like him, is there all night.

  Direction/screenplay/visual/editing > Nuno Rocha
  Acting > Ricardo Azevedo , João Marçal
  Distribution > Agencia - Portuguese Short Film Agency
  Contact > [email protected]

• Slitage
  Sweden > 2009 > fiction > 35 mm > 17 min

  Ev a and Rolf, a couple near their fifties, live a passionless relation. They are wearing each other down and Eva starts to feel sexually frustrated. One evening, as she tries to entice him, he turns her away, but a sudden event occurs and their relation will be drastically changed for ever.

  Direction/screenplay/editing > Patrik Eklund
  Visual > David Grehn
  Music > Anders Lennartsson , Jesper Hörberg
  Acting > Svante Grundberg, Anki Larsson, Camilla Larsson, Daniel Rudstedt, Jacob Nordenson
  Contact > [email protected]

• Strips
  Quebec > 2010 > animation, experimentation > 35 mm > 5 min 32 s

  Strips. Masculine noun, shortened form of striptease. From "strip", to remove, to take away, and "tease", to entice, to tempt. And then all this in plural.

  Direction/screenplay/visual/editing > Félix Dufour-Laperrière
  Music > Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière
  Contact > [email protected]