IFCT Schedule Los Angeles Shorts

 

Films about Love and Romance

Sunday February 8th, 2009---- 4:30pm-6pm

Cocoon, Belgium, Directed by: Jeroen Bogaert

Martha is a passionate dancer. She and her company are at the verge of international success. A coming tour will make her ambitions come true. However, she is 7 weeks pregnant and keeps this delicate matter secret from her colleagues and boyfriend.

Yume, Directed by Jessica Hahner, Germany Los Angeles Premiere! Director in Attendance

Yume is japanese and means dream. The summary is reserved to the observer

Substitute Directed by A.D. Chan, Singapore, Los Angeles Premiere! Director in Attendance

Guard your place. You could be replaced.

A young urbanite couple rents out a room in their apartment to an undergraduate. The high-flying husband very often gets tied up at work, leaving the attractive freelance-writer wife at home to acquaint herself with the reclusive undergraduate who nurses a bizarre obsession.

The Valley, Canada, Directed by: Isabelle Champeau Los Angeles Premiere! Director in Attendance

Helen, a young woman from downtown Montreal decides to move in the countryside with her fiancé, Gabriel whom she met at University. They share a passion, raising horses. Gabriel is all what she's got since she lost her Mother and sisters in a tragic accident when she was just a kid. Her father raised her until his sudden death just a few months before she met Gabriel. When she moves away from the city she realizes that nature brings her a piece of mind. She starts to write a journal and she suddenly have visions and intuitions that frightens her. One night Helen organizes a supper with her friends. They are worried about her but think she's just nervous because she's about to get married.

The Rose without a Thorn, Directed by: Chun Wei Los Angeles Premiere! Director in Attendance
A married college professer finds himself with a crush on one of his student.

The First Sense, Directed by Matthew Holder, UK, Los Angeles Premiere! Director in Attendance

A blind man encounters a mysterious woman who restores his sight. Captured by her beauty he falls under her spell, until a second miracle sets him free. A Silent film on vision and the blindness at the heart of obsession.

String Phone, Japan, Directed by: Kazuhito Nakae Los Angeles Premiere

‘‘Nico’’ has a boyfriend who has gone abroad, and she hardly get through to him on the telephone.Today also she called him up, but there was no answer. Nico found “string phone” at the old antique shop.She bought a pair of them for an international call, and gave him a call again and again

Ghajaana, Directed by: Siggy Verelst, Belgium Los Angeles Premiere

Tzigane tries to stand in the shadow of her successful sister who performs as a curtain dancer, but her fragile self image collapses when Umana hooks the handsome Milan.

The Chef's Letter, Directed by: Sybil Mair, UK

A successful chef who runs his kitchen with precision unexpectedly falls in love with a worker in his kitchen and decides to declare his passion in a letter, but will suspicions of intimacy between the easy-going kitchen staff undermine the future he has imagined?http://www.thechefsletter.com

 

 

 

 

 

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