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UNICA 2007 SELECTION (2 DVDs) (Library ref no. 102)
| UNICA
is the world festival for amateur/non-commercial films. Each
nation chooses a programme of around an hour's length. An
international jury awards medals for the best films and a prize
for the best national programme. There is also the World Minute
Movie Cup for one-minute films where the winner is chosen by
audience vote. After each festival a compilation of some of the
most interesting films is made available to all member nations.
This is for free loan - you only pay postage. UNICA moves to a different country each year. In 2007 the event was held at Liptovsky-Mikulas in Slovakia. DISC ONE
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SÉRKOCINI (Safety Matches)
- subtitled by Didzis Eglitis & Kaspars Cirsis (LTV) A camping trip to a local lake sounds idyllic, but for one young family things do not go as well as they might hope. A drama with hope. |
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Gold Medal 13mins |
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L'ÂME SEULE (The Lonely Soul)
- no dialogue by Sebastien Leroux, Claude Berthier & Maximilien Royo (FRA) A poignant animation about a yellow clay man looking for love, and for a moment he finds it ... |
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Gold Medal 5 mins |
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STRIPPED by Mark Jackson (GBR) At the end of a date any girl likes to kick off her shoes, shrug out of the party clothes and unwind. But this is not just any girl ... A laugh-out-loud comedy. |
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Silver Medal 3 mins |
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KID BETUN - subtitled by Raúl Mancilla (ESP) A documentary about a boy from the tough part of Cadiz, who briefly won fame and popularity as a boxer but is now a boot-black and sandwich man. The very human story is told by the old man himself with humour and a touch of pathos. |
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Silver Medal 30 mins |
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WEISS (White) - no
dialogue by Florian Grolig (DEU) The black-ink man wakes up in a world where everything is white: walls, floors, ceiling, doors, obstacles in the way. Only his shadow gives a clue about what surrounds him. A fascinating visual puzzle of an animaion. |
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Silver Medal 6 mins |
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PEU DE CHOSE (A Little Thing)
- subtitled / black-and-white by Emmanuel Guy (FRA) A gripping drama where a dinner-party is ruined when the host objects to anti-semitic comments from a guest ... but the guest is his wife's boss. How far should one go on a point of principle? |
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Silver Medal 20 mins |
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| 7. |
YEK JORE AB (A Thimbleful of
Water) - subtitled (few needed) by Ahmad Arjmandi (IRA) A badly handicapped street hawker tries to rescue a goldfish left behind by a careless young girl. His clumsiness makes things worse and the fish nearly dies for lack of a splash of water. But there is a happy ending. |
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Silver Medal 11 mins |
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NASZIDO (Mating Season)
- subtitled by Ágotha Juhász (HUN) A totally mesmeric, beautiful film about frogs. A school group discovers them and admires them. And then it turns to horror as the food industry takes the only parts of frogs that interest them. An extremely powerful film. |
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Silver Medal 12 mins |
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World Minute Movie Cup - top four- no
dialogue
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TROJUHOLNIK (The Triangle) by Jan Kuska (SVK) Winner: a comedy based on European laws about placing a warning triangle in the path of approaching traffic when you have broken down. |
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Comedy 1 mins |
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THE REMOTE CONTROL by Mike Shaw (GB) Experimenting with the tv remote can have some strange impact on the user with possibly fatal results.. |
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Comedy 1 mins |
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PAN JARYN (Mr. Jaryn) by Jaroslav Nykl (CZE) The jolly farmer wants to feed his chickens but does not take into account just how hungry they are, |
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Comedy 1 mins |
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UP TO DATE byJosef Trixl (AUT) How does a beggar fare in today's almost cashless society? |
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Comedy
1 mins
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MILA - subtitled by Piotr Ryczko (POL) 9 year-old Mila, who is slowly fading away because of cancer, discovers a new world of fantasy which connects the two crucial moments in life: birth and death. A Moving but ultimately positive drama. |
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Gold Medal 15 mins |
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| 14. |
WOOLF - no dialogue by Juraj Kubinec (SVK) It's a familiar scene: into the bar comes a stranger of a different type and eveything stops ... but here the incomer is a girl whose sexy dancing intrigues and distracts ... an animated comedy with a fairytale denouement. |
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Gold Medal 4 mins |
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| 15. |
FARSHE CHOOB (The Wooden
Carpet) - no dialogue by Abdolrahman Mirani (IRN) A team of men move two very long tree-trunks across extremely difficult country, often at considerable risk to themselves. There are moments of humour and a thoroughly satisfying conclusion to this documentary. |
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Silver Medal 20 mins |
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| 16. |
FREEDOM - subtitled
(few needed). by Eun Jong Choi (KOR) Kuru is dreams of escaping his routine job, but freedom is not so straightforward as it seems. An experimental drama with a human heart. |
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Silver Medal 14 mins |
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| 17. |
BLATO (Marsh) no
dialogue by Václav Hrzina (CZE) Bogged down in their humdrum life a husband, by chance, glimpses his wife through a window. It rekindles their relationship. A quiet, touching drama. |
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Silver Medal 11 mins |
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| 18. |
MOST (The Bridge) -
subtitled by Mag. Haris Bilajbeghovic (AUT) Re-enactment documentary about a massacre during the Bosnia / Herzegovina war. Most of those involved in the film has experience of the event. Thoughtful and powerful. |
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Silver Medal 12 mins |
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SZALONTUDO (Tripe and Onions)
- no dialogue by Márton Szirmai (HUN) Confusion about whose plate of food it is causes a polite, restrained contest to see who can eat most of it. A genteel, wordless comedy. |
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Silver Medal 7 mins |
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| 20. |
DER FLIEGENDE FISCHER
(The Flying Fisherman) - subtitled by Werner Czarnecki A beautifully shot documentary about Kingfishers starting in winter and going through the pairing and breeding seasons. |
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Silver Medal 15 mins |
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JARO (Spring)
- no dialogue by Jaroslav Nykl (CZE) A rare chance to see one of the colourful and delightful animations by this Czech master. When Spring arrived a little bee has to get busy. |
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Silver Medal 4 mins |
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Total running time 197mins. DVD
Price free - pay postage.
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