FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 2017
19:30
ON THE BRIDGE OF DEATH AND LIFE
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Directed by Lola-Jia Liu
Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Country: Germany, China
Category: Ðocumentary
Description: Every year many thousands of people visit the mighty Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. Every year dozens of them have no intention of leaving the bridge alive. But there is one person determined not to see them plummet to their deaths: Chen Si.
STARS
BEST ANIMATION
Directed by Han Zhang
Runtime: 5 minutes 6 seconds
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Country: United States
Category: Animation
Description: Grandpa and grandson street sellers sell stars in a town near the shore. One night, they run out of the stars…
PETRICHOR
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Directed by Nicola von Leffern & Martyna Trepczyk
Runtime: 4 minutes 45 seconds
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Country: Austria, Italy, Slovenia
Category: Music Video
Description: Petrichor – a term which describes the scent of freshly fallen rain. But how to visualize a feeling usually created by another sense? The cold crawling under your skin when faced with nostalgia?
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18th, 2017
18:30
BEER&CALIPPO
BEST STUDENT FILM
Directed by Paul Ploberger
Runtime: 28 minutes
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Country: Austria
Category: Short Film, Student, Drama
Description: Summer, an old camper and the feeling of freedom. Jojo wants to join her boyfriend Toni on a tour with his band. Her father promised to let her, because she got good marks in school. Everything seems perfect.
But Jojo is pregnant, her father finds out and Toni has a crush on the drummer girl...
A WHOLE WORLD FOR A LITTLE WORLD
BEST SHORT FILM
Directed by Fabrice Bracq
Runtime: 15 minutes
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Country: France
Category: Short film, Drama
Description: A woman tells a great story to her baby. In the manner of a tale with princes and princesses, she remains into his memories to pass on his daughter.
THE MECHANISM OF SUSPENDED TIME
BEST FEATURETTE FILM
Directed by Stefana Brancastle
Runtime: 42 minutes
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Category: Featurette FIlm, Drama
Description: An original, French period romantic comedy set in Paris, the film tells the tale of the fateful meeting between two destined lovers: Pierre & Camille. Born to two famous rival Master Clockmakers, their love is forbidden by a painful past.
20:00
POINT OF VIEW
BEST FEATURE FILM
Directed by Otwin Karl Biernat
Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes 56 seconds
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Country: Germany
Category: Fiction, Experimental
Description: Karl Krämer is a middle class retired person who has been living with his wife Maria in the countryside of northern Germany for many years. Maria formally was a well-known singer, who, in the peak of her career, fell seriously ill and then unluckily lost her voice.