MIFF Drama (Program Two)
8:30 pm - Saturday, November 3, 2007 at Los Mangos
Sexy Thing
Dir. Denie Pentecost - Australia - 14m
contact: Heather Oxenha
hoxenham@bigpond.net.au
On a dry suburban day, a 12 year old is caught between the conflicting worlds of family, friendship and imagination. Struggling to endure a confusing love, and longing simply to be seen, the child survives by transforming pain into beauty.
La Voz de los Silenciados (The Voice of the Voiceless)
Dir. Monihan Monihan - Guatemala - 22m
monihan@bricolagista.com
Based on actual events, LA VOZ is the story of Olga, a young deaf/mute woman from Guatemala's Malacatan region, who receives what appears to be a scholarship from a faith-based sign language school located in Brooklyn, New York.
Die Flugbegleiterin
Dir. Marcin Glowacki - Germany - 10m
marcing@web.de
An overweight women going to a beauty clinic with her intense, changing her life.
Lesson Number Five
Dir. Philippe Skaff - Lebanon - 20m.
contact: joumana.haddad@greybeirut.com
In the ancient Mediterranean city of Byblos, an eccentric English teacher helps a gaggle of old men obtain Green Cards and emigrate to the United States, but after ‘9/11’, they’re getting into more than they bargained for….
Photomateurs
Directed by: Pascal Tosi - France - 10 m.
tosipascal@wanadoo.fr
1952, a very strange photo camera. It makes it possible to steal reality, but the pictures rebel against the photographer...Who will win ? The pictures or the photographer ?
