OPENING FILM: Operation Libertad
Bom Dia Inhambane (Documentary Feature) – Mozambique/Austria
SYNOPSIS
BOM DIA INHAMBANE is a documentary film about the music scene around
Mozambique´s province-capital of Inhambane. The austrian musician Roland Pickl is running the small recording studio Bom Dia where he produces and records local bands and music projects. Together with his friend the mozambican rapper and musician Helio D., he takes us to numerous musicians of the area. At spontaneous jam sessions, rehearsals and organized concerts an extremely vivid music culture is presented. Against all odds a great range of virtuosity and a groovy lust for life unfolds. We meet a legendary traditional timbila orchestra, a local party band, Inhambane´s most prominent reggae rasta prophet, a singing shoemaker they call the „Big Boss of Marrabenta“ as well as a group of swinging elderly ladies shaking off their trials and tribulations. In addition the two are the initiators of Positivo Moçambique, an association that conducts HIV/Aids awareness work in schools.They use music as an effective medium to promote awareness and fight taboos.
Directed by Falko Purner, Daniel Jarosch
Jim & Joan: A Voodoo Tale (Feature) – Nigeria
SYNOPSIS
A runaway Voodoo priestess is led to a young man. They become a couple and he is trapped in her snare of black magic, lost in her seduction, and supernatural domination he becomes helpless and finds himself a mere instrument in the hand of a higher, darker force and an even more sinister agenda, beyond his wildest imaginations.
Directed by C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi
Heroes & Zeros (Feature) – Nigeria
SYNOPSIS
Heroes and Zeros is the story of destructive pursuance of Tonia (Nadia Buari) by Amos Fele (Bimbo Manuel). Ten years ago, Amos Fele was a wealthy celebrity director in the Nigerian film industry. Now he lives in a ramshackle flat, doing occasional low-paying TV commercials for nameless products. He’s a daily comic relief on the local soccer practice pitch: because though he’s already 45 years old, he nurses a new, insane dream of making it into the dollar-soaked world of international soccer! His joyless marriage to Tinuke (Tina Mba), a junior bank worker, is crumbling fast, especially after the death of their only child.
Directed by Niji Akanni
TRANSTHREEDED – A transformers spoof (Short Animation) – Spain
TRAILER: Transthreeded (2010) – A Transformers spoof from Avaray on Vimeo.
SYNOPSIS
Universe, the last frontier. Conquest, the only reason to function. Earth, the next target. However, sometimes size matters, especially if you’re an alien invader robot.
Directed by Andrés Vidal
ELLA SHE (Short Animation) -Spain
“ella” trailer from ladat on Vimeo.
SYNOPSIS
In Palma de Mallorca, 5 year old kid through innocence, and common life coincidences, an African-American homeless non-sense remember his life going back 45 years in New York. All together makes change his life at last to find the way to happiness.
Directed by Juan Montes De Oca