The 20th Int Short Film Festival will be held  in São Paulo, from August 20th to 28th, 2009, showing a sellection of the best of national and international short film production. It is the leading event for short films in Latin-America and a very special meeting place where filmmakers can exchange esthetics, political and economic experiences related to shorts.

Bringing an expressive selection of films in the international program, a showcase of Latin American shorts and the largest annual display for the Brazilian production, having surpassed the mark of 25.000 audience in 2008.

BRITISH FILMS

(visit the festival site: www.kinoforum.org

MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL – INTERNACIONAL 01
21/08 - 15H00 - Cinemateca - Sala BNDES
22/08 - 16H00 - Espaço Unibanco Augusta
23/08 - 19H00 - CineSESC

SPACE TRAVEL ACCORDING TO JOHN / VIAGEM AO ESPAÇO SEGUNDO JOHN *
Jamie Stone and Anders Jedenfors
Scotland
3', color, video, 2008  

10-year-old John theorises on the miracle of space travel and speculates about life on Mars and what the future might hold.

THE CONSERVATORY / O CONSERVATÓRIO *
Matilda Tristram
England
3', color, video, 2008  

What to do on a peaceful afternoon when you are upset but you don't know why.

MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL – INTERNACIONAL 02
22/08 - 19H00 - CineSESC
23/08 - 21H00 - Cinemateca - Sala BNDES
24/08 - 18H00 - Espaço Unibanco Augusta

TOP GIRL   *
Rebecca Johnson
England
18', color, 35mm, 2008  

Brixton rude girls Donna and Felicia are inseparable friends but Donna is unquestionably TOP GIRL. Tender and comic, it is a story about growing up in a man's world.

MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL – INTERNACIONAL 04
23/08 - 15H00 - CineSESC
26/08 - 16H00 - Espaço Unibanco Augusta
27/08 - 19H00 - Cinemateca - Sala BNDES

PLANE DAYS /  DIAS DE AVIÃO *
Benjamin Kracun, Ewan McNicol
England
15', color, video, 2008  

Old friends. Young friends. Lovers and loners. With a flask of tea or a bottle of wine to keep warm, every day is a new day around the perimeter fence at Heathrow. Every day is a plane day.

MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL – INTERNACIONAL 05
25/08 - 20H00 - Espaço Unibanco Augusta
26/08 - 21H00 - CineSESC
28/08 - 15H00 - Cinemateca - Sala BNDES

VOYAGE D'AFFAIRES / BUSINESS TRIP / VIAGEM DE NEGÓCIOS *
Sean Ellis
France, England
11', color, 35mm, 2008  

A man checks into a hotel for a 7 day business trip.

MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL – INTERNACIONAL 07*
23/08 - 20H00 - Espaço Unibanco Augusta
26/08 - 15H00 - Cinemateca - Sala BNDES
27/08 - 21H00 - CineSESC

DIX / TEN / DEZ
Bif
France, England
7', color, 35mm, 2008  

Marc needs the paving stones on which he walks to move, for fear of stepping on the lines. He starts a treatment to overcome his phobia.

MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL – INTERNACIONAL 09
24/08 - 21H00 - CineSESC
26/08 - 20H00 - Espaço Unibanco Augusta
27/08 - 15H00 - Cinemateca - Sala BNDES

AFTER TOMORROW / DEPOIS DE AMANHÃ *
Emma Sullivan
England
15', color, 35mm, 2008  

Returning to the village of his estranged wife, James grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guest house refuses to let him leave. A psychological suspense with a surprising yet moving denouement.

PROGRAMAS ESPECIAIS > SIGNES DE NUIT
27/08 - 11H00 - Faap
28/08 - 20H00 - Cinemateca - Sala Petrobras

EDDIE PROCTOR
Susanna Wallin -
England-
5', color, video, 2007

There’ll come a day when a man will have to face his age and all that he’s lost

SPECIAL PROGRAMMES > WEEK OF THE CRITIC
21/08 - 19H00 - CineSES
24/08 - 19H00 - Cinusp
25/08 - 15H00 - Cinemateca - Sala BNDES

TOGETHER / JUNTOS
Eicke Bettinga
Germany, England
14', color, video, 2009

Rob is driving back home. It has been a year since his brother passed away. The family still can’t deal with the loss, and his father seems to think that Rob got over the tragedy way too fast.

SPECIAL PROGRAMMES . CHILDREN - TEENAGERS
21/08 - 18H00 - Centro Cultural da Juventude
22/08 - 17H00 - Cinemateca - Sala BNDES
23/08 - 16H00 - Centro Cultural São Paulo
26/08 - 16H00 - Museu da Imagem e do Som
27/08 - 10H00 - Cineclube Grajaú

PLAY
Muriel d'Ansembourg
England
11', b&w, video, 2008

Leila would rather be one of the boys except that some of them are starting to notice her changes.