Exceptionally many films have taken part in the Méliès d’Argent competition series for fantasy films at Espoo Ciné this year: nine feature films and ten short films. Pleasingly four Finnish short films were presented in the short film competition series. Also screened at the festival are two Méliès d’Argent winners from earlier this year.
The jury of the competition consisted of film director Zaida Bergroth (head of the jury), screenwriter and film director CHRZU, journalist Anu Silfverberg and production manager Essi Suomela. The jury decided as follows:
Espoo Ciné’s nominee to the Méliès d’Or award for short films:
El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 (The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5)
In this film fantasy takes on a very literal meaning: flight from reality. The protagonist of the film leads his life alone but the fantasy of an “encounter of the third kind” gives him a sense of meaning. The message he perceives to receive from the creatures of Nebulosa-5 allows him to feel important and noticed. The film’s view of the end of the world is full of hope: afterwards everything will be different. The film looks at its subject with a sensitive gaze: the protagonist is touching and recognizable. The film is visually interesting and descriptive. El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 is a warmhearted and humoristic, yet a melancholic film.
Espoo Ciné’s winner of Méliès d’Argent award:
Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Amer
Amer is a stylistically flawless, yet a very experimental adaptation of the Italian giallo genre. The film is shamelessly direct in the way it deals with urges, fears and the feeling of shame. The protagonist’s sexual awakening and development is presented through horror imagery. The point of view is interestingly subjective: the age period of the main character determines the visual style of each segment in the film. Giallo films are traditionally murder mysteries, and also in this film tension is built by withholding information from the spectator. In the end, however, the viewer is rewarded. Amer speaks to the viewer more through the senses and individual images than through a narrative. The spectator is left haunted by sounds and images. The film plays with the limits of its viewers’ tolerance.
Tags: Amer, El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5, Espoo Ciné, Espoo Ciné International Film Festival 2010, Méliès d'Argent
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