THE NIGHTS

         OPENING NIGHT Friday 7th at 9pm (admission free)
         SHORT FILM NIGHT Saturday 8th at 9pm
         ABSURD NIGHT Thursday 13th at 9pm
         FANTASTIC SHORT MOVIES (Europe in shorts IX) Friday 14th October at 9pm
         CLOSING NIGHT SHOW Saturday 15th at 9pm (admission free)

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OPENING NIGHT
Friday 7th at 9pm (admission free)

The opening night, orchestrated by Pierre Richards, will transport us from virtuality to reality and the young organizers will have great screen presence, literally as well as figuratively.

Presentation of the Festival and its guests: the directors of the films in competition, the young winners of the scriptwriting competition, the juries, the young Europeans etc.

Prize giving to the winners of the scriptwriting competition.

Screenings of the two short films made in Gonfreville lOrcher:

AB/2, (13) film directed by the young festival organizers, with the help of plastic artist and video maker David Loureiro. To our Western Saharan Friends (10) film directed by young people from Gonfreville lOrcher, with the help of director Jean-Marie Chtelier. Deeply marked by their stay in JRefia, a group of youngsters from Gonfreville lOrcher decided to start up filmed correspondence with their newly made Western Saharan friends. Wishing initially to present their country and their way of life, which is so different from the daily lives of the inhabitants of the camps in the Algerian desert, these young letter writers have filled this first letter with humour, lightness and absurdity, appropriately seizing the festivals theme.

Cine mix
Burlesque short films accompanied by live music from Yannick Lecoeur (aka Princesse Rotative) and Laurent Feuillet (aka Lila narrative) from Pure Noire. Featuring recorded sound, live manipulation of objects and electronic instruments, their offbeat sound universe is a collage of cartoon sounds, hip-hop abstracts and fragile melodies.
www.pureenoire.com

ONE WEEK by Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline / United States / 1920 / black and white / 22 / cast Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts A young couple are given a put-it-together house. It will be assembled in no time at all. Easy. If a rival had not switched around the numbers on the boxes, that is.

KIRIKI, JAPANESE ACROBATS (KIRIKI, ACROBATES JAPONAIS) by Segundo de Chomon / France / 1907 / colour / 240 A totally incredible acrobatic number, unless theres something we dont know!

NOW YOU TELL ONE by Charley Bowers & H.L. Muller / United States / 1926 / balck & white / 20 / cast Charley Bowers The Liars Club is meeting to choose the most unbelievable story. Charley, the incredible inventor of a universal grafting process, has a story, which looks very likely to win.

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SHORT FILMS NIGHT
Saturday 8th at 9pm


9pm Program 1

THE KISS (LE BAISER) Stefan Le Lay / France / fiction / 2004 / colour & black and white / 5 / without dialogue / cast Guillaume de Tonquedec and Sara Viot A young woman has a date with a young man to share a first kiss. But a purely cinematographic event stops the realization of their love.	LIVE FROM DEATH ROW (MORT LCRAN) Alexis Ferrebeuf / France / fiction / 2005 / colour / 14 / cast Lambert Wilson, MC Solaar, Staquet Georges A prisoner on death row, randomly selected in prison, gets the chance to be set free during a new television show, presented by an unscrupulous game show host.
CHYENNE Alexander Meier / Sweden / fiction / 2004 / colour / 5 / without dialogue / cast Deleila Piasko, Henry On the bleak lawn between two buildings, Chyenne, a little girl, sneaks up to a raven. She starts a game and soon the bird joins her. Who will be the winner?	DYING OF LOVE (MORIR DE AMOR) Gil Alkabetz / Germany / animation (2D) / 2004 / colour & black and white / 13 / without dialogue While their owner is having his siesta, two old caged parrots rake up memories from the past.
HEART OF HEARTS (FOR INTRIEUR) Patrick Poubel / France / fiction / 2004 / black and white / 10 / cast Patrick Zard, Bernard Blancan, Natalia Dontcheva, Bernard Haller, Maxence Perrin The short story of a small boy named Criquet, and his grandfather, a real collector of souvenirs, who carries out his dream of flying, leaving his grandson a pure moment of eternity.	ANGEL AND BROTHER (ENGEL & BROER) Hanro Smitsman / Netherlands / fiction / 2004 / colour / 9 / cast Sterre Herstel, Nils Verkooyen, Eva van Heijningen Two children are playing on a garbage dump, acting out their parent's divorce, which leads to an unexpected ending.
BON VOYAGE Kapwani Kiwanga / United Kingdom (Scotland), France / documentary / 2004 / colour / 3 A visual guide to immigration, contrasting images of arrivals and departures at Montparnasse rail station with the woman who tends and cleans the toilets.	PAUL Ccile Rousset / France / documentary & animation / 2004 / black and white / 7 / with the voice of Paul Rieger Paul was my neighbour for about 15 years. Hes an actor and today is 83 years old. I recorded this footage of him when he was talking about his life and then I mixed the real footage with animation to get a portrait, which resembles this man for me. In this portrait anecdotes of his life, past and present, are mixed.
BORN TO BE ALIVE Dimitri Cohen Tanugi, Sylvre Bastien, Mickael Pressouyre, Marie Verhoeven / France / animation (3D) / 2004 / colour / 7 / without dialogue A cat with a big head tries to kill selfbut in vain!	THE BIGOUDEN MIGRATION (LA MIGRATION BIGOUDEN) Alexandre Heboyan, Fafah Togora and Eric Castaing / France / animation / 2004 / colour / 2 / without dialogue The story takes place by a cliff in Brittany. As night falls, Bigouden women come together to take part in a mysterious ritual. The pancake dance begins.
.TIBBAR (.NIJNOK) Leo Wentink / Netherlands / documentary / 2004 / colour / 12 / without dialogue In the Dutch countryside is a farm. There is no sound of chickens or cows are not there. It doesnt stink of pigs either. There is no smell or sound. In the long low barns live 20,000 white rabbits.	MY BEAUTIFUL SMILE (MON BEAU SOURIRE) Angle Diabang Brenter / Senegal / documentary / 2005 / colour / 5 Gum tattooing is a very widespread custom in West Africa. Long ago, women did not express their pain during the ceremony, so as not to dishonour their family. This seduction ritual is still perpetuated today, to the rhythm of the dances and chanting of yesteryear. Some women even let out some strangled cries.
WAR LORDS (OUAR LORDS) Jean-Paul Suau / France / animation / 2004 / colour/ 3 / without dialogue Two dictators fight at a frontier.	SHIT (PUTAIN) Thomas Pison / France / fiction / colour / 6 A budding film writer has the difficult task of writing a screenplay. This film parodies all his initial inner questions regarding his dialogues, setting and the coherence of his writing.

11pm Program 2

CICI Jan Bohuslav / Czech Republic / animation (drawings) / 2003 / colour / 2 / without dialogue Conscience about justice and human shadow Inspiration about artistic works, the flash of inspiration and uncertain results Cici about enforced caress	THE LEGEND OF THE SCARECROW (LA LEYENDA DEL ESPANTAPAJARAS) Marco Besas / Spain / animation (3D) / 2005 / colour / 10 A scarecrows life changes radically when he decides to become friend with the birds.
THE OVERSEAS FRIEND (LAMI Y A BON) Rachid Bouchaneb / France, Germany / fiction & animation (drawings) / 2004 / colour / 8 France declares war on Germany in 1939. The French colonies are an important reserve of men. Aby, a Senegalese man, is called up to come to the assistance of the motherland. The rout by the French army leads Aby to a prisoner of war camp in Germany. Set free in 1944, he returns home.	NEVER EVEN (NIE SOLO SEIN) Jan Schomburg / Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, North Ireland / fiction / 2004 / colour / 10 / cast Sandra Borgmann, Jakob Hfner One morning Max finds himself in a world, in which time runs backwards.Will he find his way through this strange world, without a beginning. Never even?
HOME GAME (HJEMMEKAMP) Martin Lund / Norway / fiction / 2004 / colour / 10 / cast Enrik Thodesen, Geir Atle Johnsen, Kenneth Fredheim, Jrn Westerheim, Stian Fongaard A film about the hardest, most common fight of them all.	THE KID WHO PLAYED WITH TRAINS (EL NINO QUE JUGABA CON TRENES) Jorge Blas / Spain / fiction / 2004 / colour / 10 / cast Emilio Bual, Judith Diakhate, Julio Adu An emigrant child obsessed with trains lives in a rural zone in the contempory Europe. One day, he discovers the biggest train he has ever seen and he decides to set out on a dangerous adventure in search of that fantastic train.
GOOD LUCK, MR GORSKY ! (HELL OG LIKKE, HERRE GORSKY) Astrid A. Aakra / Norway / animation / 2002 / colour / 5 Theres a woman behind every important event, even one of the greatest in human history: the first lunar landing.	NOCHE DE RONDA Carlos Navarro, Gabriel Martinez Rodriguez and Emilio de la Rosa / Spain / animation / 2002 / colour / 5 / without dialogue An old lady goes out every night to get meals for the poor.
ILL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS Miguel Vivas / Portugal / fiction / 2003 / colour / 20 / cast Adelino Tavares, So Jos Correia, Sofia Aparicio Lucio is the only one to fight against the zombies who haunt his village. He hides his wife Ana in the basement of his house. The villagers gather in the local inn to try and forget.

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ABSURD NIGHT
Thursday 13th at 9pm


9pm - Absurd short films

OBY Max Stolzenberg, Anja Perl / Germany / fiction / 2003 / colour / 5 / without dialogue / cast Yvonne Johna Did you ever hear something behind you, while making pancakes, and turned around and saw something, which does something youre never dreamed of?	WORLD-WIDE DRINKING BINGE (LA CUITE MONDIALE) Yannick Lecoeur / France / fiction / 2004 / colour / 7 A new type of fizzy drink appears in supermarkets and quickly meets with worldwide success. Scientists discover the side effects of this drink, which endanger the very foundation of our civilisation.
NOTICE Roelof van den Bergh / Netherlands / animation (drawings, 2D) / 2004 / colour / 2 / without dialogue A lady prepares to go out, to join life. Because life is as unpredictable as the weather she cant get prepared suitably and doesnt get to go out, to join life. Being unable to anticipate her destination she still claims control over her departure.	CRAB REVOLUTION (LA RVOLUTION DES CRABES) Arthur de Pins / France / animation / 2004 / black and white / 4 The crabs of the Gironde estuary have a major drawback. They cannot change direction and always have to follow the same, straight line. How do they manage their tragic destiny?
PANORAMA Marinca Villanova / Fiction / France / 2004 / colour / 14 / cast Hloise Adam, Benjamin Bellecour, Patrick Bonnel, Elli Medeiros A family travelling on their holiday. Each one disappears, one after the other, to the great delight of all.	SELFISH (LGOISTE) Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol / France / animation / 1996 / colour / 4 The hero proudly wears the adjective selfish like a coat of arms. Then an accident suddenly differentiates him from his double his partner, the human mirror. This film is a grotesque farce about human selfishness, stretched to the absurd.
OPENING TRIAL (ESSAI DOUVERTURE) Luc Moullet / France / fiction / 1988 / colour / 15 / cast Luc Moullet, Antonin Dalmasso, Richard Copans, Franoise Buraux A human being tries to open a bottle of Coca-Cola, by all possible means. Will he manage?	VOSTOK 1' Jan Andersen / France / fiction / 2003 / black and white / 3 / without dialogue / cast Jan Andersen 7.30am 16th March 2003, the rocket Vostok 1 is on its launching pad to attempt lift-off.
INSOMNIA (BEZMIEGS) Vladimir Leschiov / Latvia / animation / 2004 / colour / 7 / without dialogue She creeps into the night, like a cat, asking him for something to eat. All she wants is for him to go and get some milk, somewhere between the land of sleep and reality. Her name is Insomnia.	NATURAL GLASSES (NATURLIGE BRILLER) Jens Lien / Norway / fiction / 2001 / colour / 2 / without dialogue / cast Pekka Veberg A film about the man who wanted a more beautiful day.
THEYRE COMING (ILS ARRIVENT) Stephan Ferens, Jean-Franois Goize / France / fiction / 2001 / colour / 5 / cast Eric Debrosse, Anne Massina, Sgolne Piaton Bernier, an executive in a big firm, arrives one morning with the firm intention of finally making love to the beautiful Christine, his manager. Bernier puts out all the stops and has his case well argued.	MIGRATION Sbastien Sort / France / fiction / 2004 / colour / 11 / cast Ren Sauloup, Pascal Bonnelle, Simone Champaillier, Vincent Bordes Jean-Christophe is a supermarket duck. His life changes the day he realizes the emptiness of his existence.
COW Michael Bennett / New-Zealand / fiction / 2001 / colour / 12 / cast Ian Mune, Martyn Sanderson A tale of two men and a cow, lost at sea, looking for land.	A HEAP OF TROUBLE (UN TAS DENNUIS) Steve Sullivan / United Kingdom / fiction / 2000 / colour / 4 cast Jo Price, Andrew Schofield, Kathryn Dimery, Ceri Tudno, Paul Dean Taylor A crazy wind hovers over a little Welsh village. Seven man parade, naked and singing, then an eighth man, then a ninth. The song acts like a spell inviting the inhabitants to this singular parade. This film, which is rather funny rather than crude, may, however, disturb younger viewers.
THE COCK IS DEAD (LE COQ EST MORT) Zoltan Spirandelli / France / Experimental / 1988 / colour / 11 / cast Zoltan Spirandelli The filmmakers original idea find an exchange between the image and the movie theatre

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THE ATTACK OF THE GIANT MOUSAKA Panos H. Koutras / Greece / fiction / 1999 / colour / 103 / cast Yiannis Aggelakis, Myriam Vourou, Christos Mantakas

Take a handful of gay astrophysicists in pink overcoats, a stout transvestite and a team of buxom intergalactic blondes. Throw in a giant, soggy and deadly Mousaka. Sprinkle with a good dose of starving journalists and transport the lot to the streets and suburbs of Athens. Leave to simmer for exactly 1 hour, 43 minutes and you get a wild trash-kitsch homage to the 1950s Z series science fiction films, lightly spiced la John Waters. Its pitifully stupid but such fun!

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FANTASTIC SHORT MOVIES (Europe in shorts IX)
Friday 14th at 9pm


Program of the European Coordination of Film Festivals

A MARGEM-ASIDE Joao Carrilho / Portugal / fiction / 2001 / colour / 12 / cast Ana Enes, Paulo Patraquim, Rodrigo Aguilar A couple and their son, a summer house.	COPY SHOP Virgil Widrich / Austria / experimental fiction / 2001 / black and white / 12 / without dialogue / cast Johannes Silberschneider, Elisabeth Ebner-Haid The story of a man who makes photocopies of himself, until they fill up the entire world.
LA FLAMME Ron Dyens / France / fiction / 2001 / colour & black and white / 3 / without dialogue / cast Lucie Duchne, Rgis Romele The Roaring Twenties, two lovers on the beach and a lot of technical problems between them.	KALA-FISH Jonathan Davies / Finland / fiction / 2002 / colour / 12 / without dialogue Jonathan Davies / Finlande / fiction / 2002 / couleur / 12 / sans parole The story of a fish.
NOSFERATU TANGO Zoltan Horvath / Sweden, France / animation / 2002 / colour / 13 / without dialogue A mosquito falls madly in love with a vampire. Together they go looking for fresh blood in a baroque, bizarre and dangerous world.	OH MY GOD !? Christophe van Rompaey / Belgium / fiction / 2001 / colour / 9 / cast Cir Lethem, Sam Louwyck, Jonas Boel A young woman wakes up to find herself locked in the trunk of a car. This is not exactly how she imagined her birthday.
PARADISIAQUE Igor Pejic / France / animation / 2001 / colour / 4 / without dialogue An alien arrives on Earth by accident. He discovers flowers, plants, animals and man.	TAG 26 Andreas Samland / Germany / fiction / 2002 / colour / 18 / without dialogue / cast Ronnie Marziller, Peter Beck 26 days after the catastrophe. Two survivors are searching for others They run out of petrol.
THE ADVENTURES OF KLAUS IN CONTROL OF THE FORKLIFT TRUCK (STAPLERFAHRER KLAUS FORKLIFT DRIVER KLAUS) Jrg Wagner and Stefan Prehn / Gemany / fiction / 2001 / 9 ' / colour / cast Dieter Dost, Konstantin Graudus, Douglas Welbat, Jrgen Kossel A bloody parody on company instruction videos about the inherent dangers of driving a forklift.

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CLOSING NIGHT SHOW
Saturday 15th at 9pm (Admission free)

Mobs et travaux (in a friendly re-formation, just for the evening), the Sac de noeud company, (absurd on every floor) and the group LFIJ (future heritage of Le Havre rap), will wind down this 6th edition of the du Grain Dmoudre Film Festival with us. Screening of films made during the festival - The film by pupils from Gonfreville lOrcher and Brighton, England - The film by the Young Europeans - Montage of workshop extracts Prize giving original trophies created by Franois Troquet, made at the Bocquel Foundary: These following prizes will be awarded: Grain dor for best feature-length film Grain dor for best Short film Grain for the best script Grain for best feature-lengh film awarded by the public Grain for best short film awarded by the public Screening of winning Grain dor short film and winning Grain dor feature-length film (subject to availability of copies)

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