Jordan Short Film Festival 2009

Jordan Short Film Festival 2009 Awards November 14, 2009 JSFF'09 OFFICIAL JURY AWARDS Best Arab Short Film (3000 USD) \| Gaza-London by Dima Hamdan \| UK/Palestine \| 14:24 min \| 2009 \| Fiction Synopsis: December 2008. A massive Israeli assault on Gaza in underway. Mahmoud is in London, his mother's trapped in Gaza, and he's lost all contact with her. Best International Short Film (3000 USD) \| LoopLoop by Patrick Bergeron \| Canada \| 5 min \| 2008 \| Experimental Synopsis: In a train going to Hanoi in Vietnam, the houses boarding the railroad are passing by. Using animation and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind. JSFF'09 CULTURAL ACTIVISTS JURY AWARDS Special Mention - Eternal by Steve Woods \| Ireland \| 7 min \| 2009 \| Experimental Synopsis: Dance is resistance. Palestine is eternal. Special Mention - Cake with Cream \| Ahmed Magdy \| Egypt \| 9:32 min \| 2009 \| Fiction Synopsis: Under the cold concrete bridge, and between piles of trash and garbage. There’s a glance of hope to find some love and happiness. And there’s also cake with cream. Official Selection '09 (Visit later for more details on selected films, schedule, screening locations, and country spotlight program) Nov 11 - 14, 2009 @ Mohtaraf Remaal Arab Short Film Competition
Film	Director	Country	Length (m/s)		Year	Genre
Encyclopaedia Britannica	Sohail Dahdal	Palestine	5		2009	Fiction
A Day Full of Fun	Randa Abo Eldahab	Egypt	5	37	2008	Fiction
Hamorabi	Dima Abu Ghoush and Ala' Abu Ghoush	Palestine	15		2008	Documentary
When The Sun Sets	Salman Awamleh	Jordan	18	55	2009	Fiction
Cake with Cream	Ahmed Magdy	Egypt	9	32	2009	Fiction
Unclaimed	Mohsen Gouda	Egypt	10	17	2008	Fiction
Bayad	Khaled Kelbani	Oman	8	35	2009	Experimental
Gaza-London	Dima Hamdan	Palestine	14	24	2009	Fiction
Shorood	Bader Alhmoud	Saudi Arabia	10	3	2008	Fiction
Liberté Provisoire	Naoufel Berraoui	Morocco	15	5	2008	Fiction
Amal's Cloud	Rawia Alabdullah	UAE	9	25	2009	Fiction
Magic Powder	Abdallah Dgheimat	Jordan	5		2009	Documentary
Just Another Nice Day	Sami Osheibat	Jordan	5		2009	Documentary
Yesterday	Ammar Al-Koheji	Bahrain	18		2009	Fiction
Madness of Love	Alaa Arabi Katbi	Syria	19		2008	Fiction
Time of Breadth	Ali El-Darsa	Lebanon	8	37	2009	Documentary
Sellam and Démétan	Mohamed Amin Benamraoui	Morocco	14		2008	Fiction
A Game	Marwa Zein	Egypt	6	40	2009	Fiction
Take Me Away	Assia Lakhlif	Morocco	22	40	2008	Fiction
In The Name of Art	Mardo El-Noor	Iraq	11	23	2008	Animation

Film	Director	Country	Length (m/s)		Year	Genre
LoopLoop	Patrick Bergeron	Canada	5		2008	Experimental
Absent	Guillermo Asensio	Spain	10		2009	Fiction
No Way Through	Alexandra Monro & Sheila Menon	UK	7	11	2009	Fiction
Eternal	Steve Woods	Ireland	7		2009	Experimental
Northern Lights	Kristoffer Kiørboe	Denmark	25	45	2009	Fiction
Outing	Jow Zhi Wei	Singapore	17	43	2009	Fiction
House Guest	Ben Mitchell	UK	14	45	2008	Animation
On the Wrong Foot	Vincent van Zelm	Netherlands	12	42	2009	Fiction
The Frozen	Naghi Nemati	Iran	13		2009	Fiction
Desert in the Coffeehouse	Pamela Nice	USA	27	30	2009	Documentary
Malfunction	Ayce Kartal	Turkey	7	44	2009	Animation
The City	Martin Chab	Sweden	5		2009	Experimental
Reject	Milad Sabetkar	Iran	6		2009	Fiction
Autosuggestion	Vasilis Siafakas	Greece	11	30	2008	Fiction
Crazy Hands	Charlie Graley	UK	7	16	2009	Fiction
Home	Francesco Filippi	Italy	15	26	2009	Fiction
D-Construct	Eduardo Bunster	Chile	30		2009	Fiction
90cm	Naranipuzha Shanavas	India	17	12	2009	Fiction
Despair	Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov	Russia	24	30	2009	Experimental
The Pipe	Dmitriy Averin	Russia	12	49	2009	Fiction