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Fresh Selection of Student Films

May 25, 2007, 2:06 PM

After four years student films are returning to the Karlovy Vary IFF. The Fresh Selection programme – The promising five, a short profile of the most-praised current student works from the whole world under the auspices of the Fresh Film Fest International Student Film Festival.

The Fresh Selection programme block presented in the B cinema hall in the Thermal Hotel will introduce five student films made in the last two years. The presented films have acquired repute at festivals around the world and there will also be a representative of Czech student production.

The first film of the selection is Synchronoff by the Portuguese director Cátia Peres. Peres has recently graduated with the film from the department of animation at the prestigious British NFTS. The film was awarded at several festivals, apart from its presence in the Theatre Optique programme at the Fresh Film Fest, it was also shown at festivals of animated films in Korea and India. Cátia Peres is a co-founder of the British pap-L graphic studio.
www.synchoronoff.com  

The entertaining experimental film by Luise Fernando Niete, a Colombian student of Parisian schools ENSAD and ENS des Beaux-Arts, is called Carlitopolis. Apart from being shown in many programmes of short film festivals (e.g. Clermont Ferrand), the film has also been shown in normal film distribution in some countries.
www.calitopolis.com

The raw psychological study of a relationship between a son and his dying mother Two of Us by the Russian director Nikolay Khomeriki was awarded second prize at the prestigious student film competition Cinéfondation in Cannes. A graduate of the top French school La Fémis Nikolay Khomeriki assisted the director Phillippe Garrel at the shooting of The Regular Lovers (shown at KV IFF 2006) and finished his own feature film 977, selected again for the Cannes official programme.
www.vdvoyom.metronomefilmes.ru

The Polish cameraman and director Marčin Sauter and his documentary Behind the Fence was awarded the main prize at the Fresh Film Fest 2006. The documentary received prizes at other festival too – for example at one the of the most respected documentary festivals Cinéma du réel in Paris. Marčin Sauter currently teaches at Andrzej Wajda Masterschool in Warsaw and has recently finished his new documentary.

The Fresh Selection block closes with Clay Pigeon from the Prague FAMU production. The short film which uses the pixilation method attracted attention at the festival in Angers where its author, the Serbian student Miloš Tomić, received the Erasmus prize. It is remarkable that while abroad Tomić is becoming a rising star of Central and Eastern European cinematography in the Czech region he remains relatively invisible.

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