Spectrum Shorts
Spectrum Shorts
Zero Gravity
Beyond Memory
Jakrawal Nilthamrong
Abdalla Mohamed
Visually and dramatically complex story set simultaneously in the present and the past. Zero Gravity returns to where a bizarre hostage situation ended in blood over ten years ago. Almost every conflict in or on the border of Thailand seem to be dealt with.
A beautiful girl in a room, filmed in black-and-white. Alone, she misses no one. She opens her memory and lets in Omar, who disappeared. How long ago is unclear, but her broken heart still hasn’t healed. The almost empty room has a portrait of Che Guevara on the wall.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Thailand, 2012 | colour, video, 22 min, Thai
Sudan, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 8 min, Arabic
Prod: Chatchai Chaiyont | Prod Comp: Mit Out Sound Films | Sc: Jakrawal Nilthamrong | Cam: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng | Ed: Jakrawal Nilthamrong | Prod Des: Apinat Tongpanchang | Sound Des: Akaritchalerm Kalayanamitra | Music: Bhanuphong Chooarun | With: Pirapat Viriyapong, Thanapuk Jongjaiprakub, Nitit Khosakul | Print/Sales: Extra Virgin Co., Ltd.
Prod: Talal Afifi | Prod Comp: Sudan Film Factory | Sc: Abdallah Mohamad | Cam: Mohammed Fawi, Ebrahim Mursal, Babkir Ismail | Ed: Hamza Alamin, Mojtaba | Prod Des: Talal Afifi | Sound Des: Abdalgader Basher | Music: Walid Abdallah | With: Heba Fared, Jsoer Sied Ahmad | Print/Sales: Sudan Film Factory
Mekong Hotel Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Few rivers have discharged more bodies than the Mekong. No wonder that the Apichatpong Hotel – with its otherworldly, filming hotelier – is not only home to living guests. They hang around on the veranda, listen to or play guitar and rehearse for a film that will no longer be made. Thailand/UK, 2012 | colour, DCP, 57 min, Thai Prod: Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Prod Comp: Illuminations Films, Kick the Machine | Sc: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Cam: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Ed: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Sound Des: Akritcharlerm Kalayanamitr | Music: Chai Bhatana | With: Jenjira Pongpas, Maiyatan Techaparn, Sakda Kaewbuadee | Print/Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | www.the-match-factory.com/films/items/mekong-hotel.html
Rabbaba Man Mario Mabor Dhalbny
Light-hearted documentary portrait of Mohamed ‘Haraka’. Everyone in his neighbourhood Ombadda in Omdurman knows ‘the rabbabaman’. He cycles around with his bike and his instruments, selling his rabbabas and singing traditional songs. A guardian of his culture. No wonder everyone loves him. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Sudan, 2010 | colour, DCP, 17 min, Arabic Prod: Mario Mabor Dhalbny | Sc: Mario Mabor | Cam: Kasim Abid | Ed: Sogoud Elgarrai, Mohamed Subahi | Prod Des: Hassan Matar | Sound Des: Issraa Elkogali, Ayman Hussein | Music: Mohamed Siddig | Print/Sales: Mario Mabor Dhalbny
Sudan’s Swinging Film Factory Khartoum is a post-war city. Sudan is divided to the core. But then there is music. Filming is learnt hesitantly. But no one has to tell them anything about music.
Cinema Behind Bars
Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 16:45 LantarenVenster 3 Thu 31-1 14:00 LantarenVenster 6
Closed cinemas. Primarily visually approached. Not spectacularly, but quietly and carefully. The symbolism of closed, derelict cinemas is strong. Their demise wasn’t for economic, but for political and religious reasons. A woman tells the story of her cinema.
In Search of Hip-Hop Issraa El-Kogali
Bahaeldin Ibrahim
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Sudan, 2012 | colour, DCP, 30 min, Arabic
The title is perfect. Sudan’s political and religious climate doesn’t exactly foster counter-culture. The filmmaker really had to hunt for some and found little, but what she encountered was disarmingly original. Portrait of rappers that have yet to learn how to rap.
Prod: Talal Afifi | Prod Comp: Sudan Film Factory | Sc: Bahaeldin Ibrahim | Cam: Mojahid Mohamed Adam | Ed: Ahmed Mohamed Jaknon | Music: Hessam Mohamed Abdelsalam | With: Lossy Indrawss | Print/Sales: Sudan Film Factory
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Sudan, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 11 min, English/Arabic Prod: Talal Afifi | Prod Comp: Sudan Film Factory | Cam: Issraa El-Kogali | Ed: Christoph Lumpe | Prod Des: Issraa El-Kogali | Sound Des: Issraa El-Kogali | Music: MoJo, MCMO, DZA and L.U.A.L | Print/Sales: Sudan Film Factory | www.elkogali.com
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42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
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