Amsterdam Shorts! | DADS!
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Watch the Stars
</b><br /><i>watch the stars
</i><br />R: Elisabeth Butterfly (UK, 2007, 10’, fiction, DigiBeta)
<br />A little English boy, Max, insists that his Dad tells him his favourite bedtime story about his French grandfather. Two generations later, little Max might make the dream come true. A story about foolish projects, dreams and dreamers, and their place in a rational society.
<b>Wrestling</b><br /><i>Wrestling</i><br />R: Grímur Hákonarson (Iceland, 2007, 21’, fiction, 35mm)<br />Elnar and Denni are wrestling partners who practice the traditional Icelandic “glima”. A code of honor called “Drengskapur” demands that the wrestlers always exhibit fairness, respect, and caring towards one another. Elnar and Denni take the last part of the code a step further as they fall in love.<br /><br /><b>Frankie</b><br /><i>Frankie</i><br />R: Darren Thornton (Ireland, 2007, 15’, fiction, DigiBeta)<br />A simple and powerful approach. The straight forward point of view of a working class teenager on love, responsibility and fatherhood.<br /><br /><b>True Colours</b><br /><i>True colours</i><br />R: Barney Elliott (UK, 2006, 11’, fiction, 35mm)<br />A social drama about a loving father with a propensity for violence and his struggle to earn his family's trust. When he takes his family out shopping the father puts himself in an impossible situation that will potentially change their family unit forever.<br /><br /><b>A Quiet Man</b><br /><i>Un hombre tranquilo </i><br />R: Arantzazu Gomez Bayon (Spain, 2007, 12’, fiction, 35mm)<br />A Quiet Man is a journey through the memories of a young Spanish woman of 30 years old. She paints a colourful and surreal picture of her family in the Spain of the eighties, a time in which, thanks to democracy, the country had achieved a certain level of political and cultural maturity.<br /><br /><b>Dealer</b><br /><i>Dealer</i><br />R: Michael Venus (Germany, 2007, 7’, fiction, 35mm)<br />In order to save his parents` marriage, a boy becomes a thief. Realizing that his efforts aren’t worth it, he comes up with a new plan.<br /><br /><b>Stroom</b><br /><i>Stroom</i><br />R: Filip Sterckx (Belgium, 2007, 4’, animation, MiniDV)<br />Poetic miniature in which an old man looks back on a life full of conviction and doubt. 'I am a deserted factory.'