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2008 EDITION

 

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM
The Black Balloon - Elissa Down

 

NICOLAS BAUDIN AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
This is her  - Kate Wolfe


BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Ludlam  - Apron Strings

 

BEST ACTOR
Kodi Smit-McPhee - Romulus my Father

 

JURY GRAND PRIX FOR BEST FEATURE FILM
The Bet - Mark Lee

JURY : Nadia Tass (President), Delphine Chaneac, Hervé Claude, James Gerard, Ilann Gérard, Samuel Blumenfeld


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  • ALL MY FRIENDS ARE LEAVING BRISBANE - Louise Alston
  • APRON STRINGS - Sima Urale
  • DEATH DEFYING ACTS - Gillian Armstrong
  • THE BANK JOB - Roger Donaldson
  • CORROBOREE - Ben Hackworth
  • DANCING QUEENS - Darren Ashton
  • JINDABYNE - Ray Lawrence
  • THE WATER HORSE - Jay Russell
  • MAD MAX - George Miller
  • ROMULUS MY FATHER - Richard Roxburgh
  • SECOND-HAND WEDDING - Paul Murphy
  • THE BET - Mark Lee
  • THE BLACK BALLOON - Elissa Down
  • THE LUNATICS' BALL - Michael Thorp
  • THREE BLIND MICE - Matthew Newton
  • TRAITOR - Jeffrey Nachmanoff
  • TWO HANDS - Gregor Jordan

 


 

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  • GULPILIL, ONE RED BLOOD - Darlene Johnson
  • LE GENDARME CITRON - Gilles Dagneau
  • REFRAMING PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Ian Lang
  • SPIRIT STONES - Allan Collins
  • SUR LES TRACES DE LA FOURMI A MIEL - Valérie Mégard
  • THE OASIS - Ian Darling
  • WE DON'T CALL THEM BLACKBOYS ANYMORE - Dominique Masson & Laurence Fosse

 


 

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In competition

PROGRAMME 1

cm2008theunaustralianThe Un-Australian - Jon Lucas - 2008 – 14’ (AUS)
What could a Real Estate Agent, a BMW Salesman, a Nurse and a Morgue Assistant have in common? Football! An afternoon of beer and television has tragic consequences.

 

 

 

cm2008cosetteCosette - Samantha Rebillet - 2006 – 15’ (AUS)
Following the death of her father, Cosette is forced to fend for herself and confront many a manufactured fear.

 

 

 

cm2008mockingbirdMockingbird - Hannah Hilliard - 2007 – 14’ (AUS)
When Emily’s dragged to the country so her mother can pursue a new relationship, she seeks refuge in the neighbouring farm boy.

 

 

 

cm2008tauaTaua - Tearepa Kahi - 2007 – 15’ (NZ)
When a boy shows compassion amidst rival tribes at war, one leader falls, another rises.

 

 

 

cm2008cargoCargo - Leo Woodhead - 2007 – 12’ (NZ)
While trafficking people across a border, the driver makes an unlikely friend and ally.

 

 

 

cm2008thisisherThis Is Her - Katie Wolfe - 2008 – 12’- (NZ)
Meet Evie and Jonathan: happily married, deeply in love, and about to experience the birth of a child. While Evie breathes through the labour pains, across the city six-year- old Kylie is carefully laying out her dolls. One day this angelic child will steal Evie’s husband and ruin her life. This is her.

 

 

 

cm2008carefulwithataxeCareful With That Axe - Jason Stutter 2007 – 2’ (NZ)
A boy, a farm, bare feet, an axe...

 

 

 

PROGRAMME 2

cm2008punchPunch - Sotiris Dounoukos - 2007 – 11’ (AUS)
A broken man tries to escape his pain by playing the clown he feels like. But in a city full of beauty and noise he can’t find an audience. Caught in his world of loss and desperation, Punch searches for the happiness he once knew.

 

 

cm2008thelethalinnocentsThe Lethal Innocents - Kirsty Cameron - 2007 – 10’ (NZ)
A girl who dances to a different beat is relentlessly bullied by the queen bees. But when they kill her cat, they go one step too far.

 

 

 

cm2008coffeeandallahCoffee And Allah - Sima Urale – 2007 – 12’ (NZ)
An Ethiopian Muslim woman’s appetite for coffee, Islam and a good game of badminton.

 

 

 

cm2008thedreamihadlastnightThe Dream I Had Last Night - Inoe Scherer - 2008 - 16’ (AUS-FR)
It’s the story of a young woman who lives far away from the man she loves. She finds that this distance is asphyxiating. She feels her husband has become accustomed to it. She refuses to be left a victim of the relationship. There are no more tangible links, only in her dreams.

 

 

cm2008jerrycanJerrycan - Julius Avery - 2008 – 13’ (AUS)
Nathan, a kid who risks everything after he bullied into making a life and death decision.

 

 

 

cm2008woundedWounded - Natalie Palomo - 2008 – 6’ (AUS)
Chairmaine has tried every tactic to save her failing relationship with Alec. Now she has only one option left ... to punish the person responsable.

 

 

 

cm2008plasticPlastic - Sandy Widyanata - 2008 – 8’ (AUS)
Anna is preparing for a first date with Henry, a man she has secretly loved for years when everything goes wrong.

 

 

 

Tribute to Clermont-Ferrand Festival

cm2008theloungebarThe Lounge Bar - Don McGlashan & Harry Sinclair - 1989 – 35 mm (NZ)
In a seedy waterfront bar, a singer begins his song. Sheltering from the rainy night, a man and a woman meet for the first time- or is it...

 

 

 

cm2008downrustydownDown Rusty Down - John Curran - 1996 – 35 mm (AUS)
The story of a male human doomed by his instincts. Act like a dog, you get treated like one.

 

 

 

cm2008dustDust - Ivan Sen  - 1999  – BetaSp (AUS)
Five people came together on a dusty, desolate cotton field. Angry at the world and each other, racial tensions are ignited as Leroy, Mick, Amy and Vance work alongside each other in the heat of the day. When a violent dust storm awakes ...

 

 

cm2008ilovesarahjaneI Love Sarah Jane - Spencer Susser - 2007 – 35 mm (AUS)
Jimbo is thirteen. All he can think about is one girl, Sarah Jane. And no matter what stands in his way - bullies, violence, chaos, zombies - nothing is going to stop him from finding a way into her world.

 

 

 

cm2008katoombaKatoomba - Leon Ford - 2007 - BetaSp (AUS)
A defining moment in the relationship of two best friends, who must now decide where their future lies, with or without the other.

 

 

 

cm2008ward13Ward 13 - Peter Cornwell - 2002 – BetaSp (AUS)
What price would you put on your health? Ben is about to find out... Ward 13’s newest admission faces medical attention of an unwanted kind - and no amount of apples will keep these doctors away.

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