Martinique International Film Festival
2016 Summer Edition
Best Carribean Film & Martinique Snake Award: Twilight (Cuba) by Juan Pablo Daranas Molina. Alicia is a young girl who dreams of being an actress but works as a clown in a mediocre traveling circus. During a tour through a remote mountain community where there isn't even electricity, she meets Abelito, a child with a skin illness that doesn't allow him to be exposed to sunlight.
Best Narrative Feature Film: Backtrack (France) by Baptiste Drapeau. Apple is a young man, who came to the world with no particular purpose, but who always dreamed of one thing and one thing only: go and live in the mountains. The day he decides to face his fears and make his dream come true, he receives a gift from the President of the Republic, M. France: an island.
Best Documentary Feature Film: To the forest of clouds (France) by Robin Hunzinger. It's departure time. Eight- year-old Timothee the little half-blood, is getting ready to take the plane to Africa... Although on his mother's side the family is from this continent, he knows it only through tales of witches and elephants. He travels there with his 31-year-old mother Aya. She's taking him with her to Ivory Coast despite the ongoing war because she wants to visit her father's grave and reestablish contact with her family. Robin, Timothee's father and Aya's husband, films them on their long initiatory Journey to the land of the family ancestors during which mother and son both experience moments of belonging and moments of alienation.
Best Narrative Short Film: Fuera del agua (Puerto Rico) by Patricia Cruz. "Out of the water" explores the desires of a middle-aged woman to escape the life she has found herself in.
Best Documentary Short Film: Showdown at Tiger Beach (USA) by Paul Cater Deaton. As an homage to Lloyd Bridges, Sea Hunt, and the black & white television shows of his youth, documentary filmmaker Paul Cater Deaton brings us Showdown at Tiger Beach. On location 25 miles off the coast of Grand Bahama, PCD joined an expedition with Epic Diving and shark shooter extrordinaire, Joe Romeiro, for some of the most high-voltage diving of his life. At times surrounded by 12 large tigers, and dozens of other sharks, the divers found a target-rich environment for filming animal behaviors and heart-stopping human interaction.
Best Animated Short Film: Haruka (Japan) by Daisuke Horide. Rakuyo General High School teacher, Daisuke Horide and his students made this movie.
Best Experimental Film: Konnichiwa Kuma-San! (USA) by Jennifer Revit. In optics two optical systems are called conofocal, if they share a point of focus. Fascinating footage can be created with the help of scientific apparatuses which tends to be only used for further data processing. This experimental short film offers an insight into footage shot trough Laser-Scanning-Microscopes. The smallest organisms and structures will by scanned step by step and hence result into an image pile.
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OFFICIAL SELECTION SUMMER 2016
Playing Lecuona (Spain) by Pavel Giroud and JuanMa Villar Betancort
No Place Like Home (UK) by Emily Langdon Smith
Through the mist (Russia) by Maksim Schastnev
According To Ben Adams (Australia) by Dan Noah, Bramwell Noah
Showdown at Tiger Beach (USA) by Paul Cater Deaton
Pierpaolo (Spain) by Miguel Angel Barroso
Pechorin (Russia) by Roman Khrushch
Footprints (Canada) by Kevin Saychareun
Esruc (Taiwan) by Syu,Pei-Hua
Allegoria (Spain) by Nobilis Bellator
I Am Afraid - II (Spain) by Nobilis Bellator
Circles (Czech Republic) by Martin Cenkl
Añoranza (Belgium) by Flo Flamme
A Conscious Dream (Italy) by Federico Telerman, Nicolas Uboldi, Giuseppe Oliverio
Lithics (USA) by Edward Ramsay-Morin
Hangover (Spain) by Alberto Martín-Aragón
Stationary (UK) by Seb Whyte
Xo (USA) by Brian Ratigan
Cold Matchsitck (Portugal) by Ricardo Franco
Cap'n Flapjack: The Curse of the Sticky Anchor (USA) by josh steinbauer
Maskoun (Arabic) (Lebanon) by Sharif Abdunnur, Krystle Houiess
Rabbit Blood (Turkey) by Yagmur Altan
Love surfing (Egypt) by Theresa Khalil
Salvame (Dominican Republic) by Victor grullon
Lifeline (China) by Bin Li
Bright Spot (Cayman Islands) by Tamer Soliman , Rob Tyler
Horn (South Korea) by Byun, Sungbin
Ariel (UK) by Macéo Bhardwaj
My Father's Land (Bahamas) by Miquel Galofre, K. Tyler Johnston
Breathe (USA) by Paul Kowalski
God is dead (South Korea) by Hye-jin Kim, Hye-ryung Kim
Epidemic (Hong Kong) by Kevin Rachim Luk
Lamia (France) by Christophe Karabache
K.E.R.O.S.E.N.E poems from the planet (Finland) by Jukka- Pekka Jalovaara
Konnichiwa Kuma-San! (USA) by jennifer revit
Black Skies (Puerto Rico) by Alexis Aguirre
The Weekend Sailor (Mexico) by Bernardo Arsuaga
Indian Summer (Canada) by Yanie Dupont-Hébert
Courage (Brazil) by Sebastião Braga
Beyond (France) by Jean-Baptiste BECQ
I would like to be enraptured, muzzled, and on my back tattooed (Brazil) by Andy Malafaia
The Banisher of Thought (Norway) by Andreas Daugstad Leonardsen
Red All Over (USA) by John Wayne S. III
Just talking to her (South Korea) by Euiyoung Lim
BLOOD MOON (Brazil) by Rezm Orah
SWEET GIRLS (Switzerland) by Jean-Paul Cardinaux, Xavier Ruiz
Fuera del agua (Out of the water) (Puerto Rico) by Pati Cruz
Blockbuster - A Life in Moving Pictures (Austria) by Vlado Priborsky
Come what may (France) by Lara Jouaux
La Pintura (Netherlands) by Cinegringos
Maniacs (Sweden) by Isabella Carbonell
Twilight (Cuba) by Juan Pablo Daranas Molina
She(s) (France) by Jason Roffe
Barker (USA) by Lauren Carr
Running Vision (USA) by Taylor Shain
Billets Doux (France) by Simon Thoral
Amoo Nowruz (Iran) by farkhondeh torabi
Maya (UK) by Veemsen Lama
The Testament (Germany) by Oleksandra Geylyk
Little Pig (USA) by Thong Nguyen
Amerindian Fingerprint (France) by Pierre-Nicolas Durand
Shu-De! (USA) by Michael R Faulkner
Backtrack (France) by Baptiste Drapeau
Kaleidoscope (Germany) by Telemach Wiesinger
Exit Thread (Canada) by Paul Andrew Kimball
A Bumpy Ride (USA) by Chang Shu
A Sovereign Dream (Portugal) by Gonçalo Guerra
To the forest of clouds (France) by Robin Hunzinger
Round And Round (Russia) by Alla Cheremisina
haruka (Japan) by Daisuke Horide
Passing Through (USA) by Autumn Mist Belk
Bottomless (USA) by Véronique Vanblaere
Queen Myrai (Canada) by LE BORGNE Jonathan
Between Worlds (Trinidad and Tobago) by James O'Connor
Solitary (USA) by Daniel Ruczko
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