Future Film Festival
FFF
Since 1999, Future Film Festival has become the most significant Italian event dedicated to animation and special effects. Every year, the most important film-directors, art-directors and creative-producers come to Bologna to show their own films’ premiéres, backstages of their successes and exclusive pictures from new productions. A preview of the future, but not only: Future Film Festival dedicates retrospectives to the history of animated cinema and sci-fi.
8th edition
2006 | 18 - 22 January
Best Short Film - Future Film Short Contest
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Bek
Beak
Netherlands | Sep 2004 | 12:30
Director: Lucette Braune
A little girl is born with wings instead of arms and with a beak where a mouth should be.
3
City Paradise
United Kingdom | 2004 | 5:58
Director: Gaëlle Denis
When Tomoko arrives in London, she has no idea that soon she will discover a mysterious secret hidden beneath the city.
28
Empire
France | Apr 2005 | 4:00
Director: Édouard Salier
The Pax Americana takes care on our peace, ensures our comfort, guarantees our prosperity…
An idyllic postcard of the new Empire.
An idyllic postcard of the new Empire.
4
Fallen Art
Poland | Sep 2004 | 5:50
Director: Tomek Baginski
In an old forgotten military base far from civilization, a group of deranged military officers nurture their insanity.
11
The Fan and the Flower
United States | 2005 | 7:10
Director: Bill Plympton
An ill fated and unconsummated romance between a fan and a flower magically creates a fairy tale ending.
7
Flesh
France | Jul 2005 | 10:00
Director: Édouard Salier
The Empire unveils everything but sees nothing. Its enemies idealize everything but tolerate nothing. For some, the earthly orgasm of virtual whores. ...
6
La Leyenda del Espantapajaros
The Legend of the Scarecrow
Spain | Mar 2005 | 11:00
Director: Marco Besas
The life of a scarecrow changes radically when he decides to become friends with the birds
10
La révolution des crabes
The Crab Revolution
France | 2004 | 4:50
Director: Arthur de Pins
In the browny waters of the Gironde estuary, between the rocks repainted with fuel and the muddy sand that provides a home for the best oysters in the...
13
Little Things
United Kingdom | 2004 | 11:00
Director: Daniel Greaves
It's the little things that frustrate us all. Everyday sketches of a dysfunctional world in which nothing quite works and everybody has their foibles.
13
Maestro
Hungary | 2004 | 4:25
Director: Géza M Tóth
Five minutes before the big performance, the maestro is getting ready behind the curtains. Time is slowly ticking away...
14
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Overtime
Piñata
Puleng
La Leyenda del Espantapajaros (The Legend of the Scarecrow)
Viaje a Marte (Journey to Mars)
The Fan and the Flower
Piñata
Puleng
La Leyenda del Espantapajaros (The Legend of the Scarecrow)
Viaje a Marte (Journey to Mars)
The Fan and the Flower
Short film types screened
Fiction / Live action Animation
Documentary Experimental Music videoCompetition and rewards
International competition
No cash awards No screening fees
Information on this profile is provided by the event and/or compiled from available sources | Profile updated 9 Mar 2010