1954 :: Vesper International Film Festival

[Thaumantica]

V
VESPER
1954
:: International Film Festival ::
Held from February 1st through February 15th
Open to All Filmmakers & Cinema Ministries

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Mission Statement: to expose and promote cinematic experiences to the Cantigian audience and the European world. Vesper international film festival values free speech & art; we are obligated not to censor, edit, or otherwise alter official entries.

Award Categories: Voyager Award (Best Picture) ; Public Opinion Prize (Best Picture Determined by Guests) ; Feature Documentary ; Feature Animation ; Feature Short Film ; Best Actor ; Best Actress


Entry Submission Template:

FEATURE TITLE
An August Romance

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Bernard Méthot

FEATURE CAST
Lilianne Perrault, Roderick Dosset

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Young Margaux is a Military Hospital Nurse during the August Catastrophe, inexperienced in the ways of the world and naive to men and the war they are fighting. When an injured Corporal Schommer arrives at the hospital in a coma she falls in love with her idea of who Corporal Schommer could be: brave, romantic, chivalrous. When Schommer awakes however he is a vastly different man: abusive, cynical, and manipulative of Margaux's expectations of love. As peacetime reaches Cantignia, Margaux's war to preserve her innocence from a possessive man begins.


OOC: This will be the third annual VIFF, the first one I've lost the link to but here was the second: http://www.europe-game.eu/showthread.php?t=10651; then here were the winners:

You must be registered for see links

; This is a fun little cultural diversion from regular world politics and conflict, and a good way to capture what people around the world are watching.

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[Thaumantica]

Film submissions from the Covenant of Cantignia:


FEATURE TITLE
An August Romance

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Bernard Méthot

FEATURE CAST
Lilianne Perrault, Roderick Dosset

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Young Margaux is a Military Hospital Nurse during the August Catastrophe, inexperienced in the ways of the world and naive to men and the war they are fighting. When an injured Corporal Schommer arrives at the hospital in a coma she falls in love with her idea of who Corporal Schommer could be: brave, romantic, chivalrous. When Schommer awakes however he is a vastly different man: abusive, cynical, and manipulative of Margaux's expectations of love. As peacetime reaches Cantignia, Margaux's war to preserve her innocence from a possessive man begins.

FEATURE TITLE
A Corrupt Game (Documentary)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Matthew Afimov

FEATURE CAST
Red Flag football club, Hakata 1901 football club, One World Series of Football officials

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
A follow-up to "One World, One Flag" that followed Red Flag Cazma's stellar performance at the One World Series of Football - this documentary exposes how one of their matches in the draw, against Touzen based Hakata 1901, may have been won by much more than skill. Afimov, the film's director, joins in many Touzeners accusations that the match was fixed by Cantigian Officials in Red Flag's favor.


FEATURE TITLE
The Steamborn (Animated)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Ernest Highman

FEATURE CAST
Jonas De Winter (Voice), Morgan Rutheford (Voice)

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
In a whirlwind world of steampowered robots, a small weak robot is invented by his steam powered parents but condemned to be small forever. 'Kidd', the small robot seeks to augment himself despite his parents wishes so he can be as large and strong as his robotic peers.


FEATURE TITLE
Bad Medicine (Short Film)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Gideon Lowell

FEATURE CAST
Levi Emerson

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
An elderly doctor is questioned by investigators when several of his recent patients perish not long after seeing him. He soon discovers that the medicine he has been prescribing is the cause, in great shame he takes own medicine only to find that it does not exactly kill people - it sends them in to extreme paralysis. Like his patients, he is to be buried alive.
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[Saaremaa]

Film submissions from the Caliphate of Saraar:

FEATURE TITLE
Sunset in the Land's End

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Ciaran McIver

FEATURE CAST
Sean McCartán, Asha Odinga, Imamu Adnan

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
In the early 40s in Saraar, Ryan Hayden (Sean McCartán) is the youngest child of a wealthy landowner in Stone Town. While his mother left them to return to Ivernia and his brothers joined the Christ's Resistance Army, he lives his own drama as he observes that he falls in love with their maid, Astur (Asha Odinga), who comes from northern Saraar. A thing that he is scared to think of, as a relationship between a white man and a black woman was so outlandish that some people though that even thinking of would be a sin. A coming-of-age story about the transformation of a naive boy into a mature man, all of those happening in the backdrop of a time of concern and fear, as Estria Nua ó Dheas becomes Garissa and Kamara's (Imamu Adnan) dictatorship begins.
FEATURE TITLE
The Snake's Tongue (Documentary)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Sefu Samoei

FEATURE CAST
Jenerali Simba Kamara, Jenerali Kibwe Sesay, Caliph Cigaal bin-Ali el-Kader, Ayatollah Axamed Maslah

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
An underground documentary made in late 1953, depicting a view of the realities of the Saraari society under the "Democratic Republic", especially under the rule of Jenerali Simba Kamara in the early days of the regime. The movie shows the main events taking place in Garissa, when Caliph Cigaal bin-Ali is killed by Kamara, and Ayatollah Maslah betrays the Muslims and allies with the military. The speeches shown in the motion picture show the great differences between the Kamarist rhetoric and the daily realities in the Saraari capital, showing how manipulative and deceptive a man can become to reach his goal, taking control of the state.

 

[Valkany]

Film Submissions from Valkany
I

Feature title
Fathers and Sons at War

Feature Director
Karl Depaztet

Feature Cast
Petr Vokranof
Klaus Von Steihlangel
Sarah Prenztiktot
Vasili Krumsberg

Feature Description
A film about a failed revolution in Valkany's three largest cities and the devide between the various generations. Based on actual events of the December Revolt (1909) this film is a testament to Valkany's world famous military cinematography and a true masterpiece. It follows the story of a young man named James Pinesvehn, a supporter of various revolutionary and anti-monrchy groups, his father George Pinesvehn, a Reserve Army Officer, Wolfwang Von Kriegswehr, an 19 year old Soldier and Elena Kriengerstof, a liberal college student. This film showcases both the historical events and personal stories of the December Revolt and reminds us of Valkany's most recent crisis, the January Revolt.

II

Feature Title
Sons of Zessionsford

Feature Director
Viktor Sokolov

Feature Cast
Jahrl Jaeger
Irina Popolktoteva
Dimtri Klausbureau

Feature Description
September 1943. Skdova, Central Valkany. Skdova, an industrial city in central Valkany finds herself under siege by heavy enemy forces for nearly two years and is in a dire situation. The city's defenders must fight back while being outnumbered and outgunned greatly. And in this climate of death and destruction a 17 year old man that has been conscripted to the Landwehr must survive the horrors of war to save both his honour, his nation and his love. His only love lives in Dimitrisburg far away from him with their last goodbye being so sudden and recent neither of them can stand this unfair war. But how much is he willing to sacrifice for his cause? When duty gets in the way of love which will prevail? The title is a reference to the Siege of Zessionsford (1812) the largest siege in European history until almost a century later.

III

Feature Title
Grey

Feature Director
Rafl Saavtrofh

Feature Cast
Johann Stauffenberg
Saame Yunan
Petr Stavroforus

Feature Description
It's easier to see the world in black and white. But what do you do with grey? Our story takes place in the cosmopolitan city of Dimitrisburg in 1924, when valkany was essentially an Apartheid. Troops going door to door rounding up Muslims, Gypsies and other "unwanted" persons, deporting everyone they can and shooting anyone giving them trouble. And in this climate of racial tensions Saame, a young Muslim girl falls in love with Fritz, a young ethnic Valkanian. At the same time Ivan, an Internal Trooper, struggles with his actions as he is forced to destroy the lives of people every day for simply being born different. And while history may tell us that by the time the Apartheid in Valkany had fallen less than 2,000 non "pure" Valkanians remained in Valkany this tale of understanding and love teaches us that nobody is born to hate, but everyone is born to love.

IV

Feature Title
The Last Days of Spring

Feature Director
Georgius Resactsberg

Feature Actors
Jahvaal Svenskron
Theresa Awnsberg
Johann Hendfeld (Voice)

Feature Description
In a futuristic world a 32 year old man has been diagnosed with final-stage cancer and is expected to live no more than 6 months. He and his wife have decided to help their household service robot understand human emotions and relationships and why while fear may be our strongest emotion love is our most important one. A great example of Greek-Valkanian cinematography this showcases South Valkany's stunning natural environment.

 

[Valkany]

I replaced my fourth entry (A space Iliad) with another movie (The Last Days of Spring).

 

[Viken]

Film submissions from the Norse Kingdom of Vestrland:



FEATURE TITLE
The Dark Way (Að Dökk Vegur)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Jón Craster

FEATURE CAST
Laura Oddleifdottir, Johanson Storvirk, Lili Ostrovik

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
When half of the humans inexplicably fall asleep, what emerges is a doomsday scenario: burning buildings, lack of electricity, and desperate people running aimlessly through the streets. Nothing else works, and hospitals are crowded with victims of what appears to be a terrible epidemic. However, the situation gets worse when a part of the "dormant" awakens with an uncontrollable thirst for blood. A war begins on a scale never before recorded, between humans and vampires, which is called "The Dark Way"..



FEATURE TITLE
Ice and Darkness (Ís og myrkur)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Gudrod Malcolmson

FEATURE CAST
Fern Nurgik, Lanna Huityks

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The movie tells the story of two families - Hroar and Hrothgar -, and how they evolve through 200 years of history, from 1745 to 1945. Living in the province of Vinland, in southern Vestrland, both families experience the transformations of the country.



FEATURE TITLE
In Life and Death (Í lífi og dauða)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Asmundr Steinfidr

FEATURE CAST
Oraekia Bjar, Vidarr Snorra, Myrun Raegnalddottir

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
"In Life and Death" follows the character of Hanne, a young woman that has married the widower Steinthor Arason. As Hanne attempts to acclimate to her new marriage and responsibilities, she discovers that his dead wife Kristina still seems to have a hold over the household.

 

[Portusgalia]

FEATURE TITLE
The Song of Lisbon (A Canção de Lisboa)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
José Cottinelli Telmo

FEATURE CAST
Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa and António Silva

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Vasco (Vasco Santana) is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts from Trás-os-Montes, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice (Beatriz Costa), a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano (António Silva), who is familiar with Vasco's debts.
After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.

 

[Thaumantica]

OOC: A lot of time left yet to submit. We had fifteen different nations submit last year, and I think it was nineteen the year before that. Let's get some [MENTION=1187]Ivernia[/MENTION], [MENTION=1178]Østveg[/MENTION], [MENTION=18]Eiffelland[/MENTION] action in here.

 

[Rheinbund]

FEATURE TITLE
Zurück nach Trier (Back to Trier)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Detmold König

FEATURE CAST
Michael Kittel, Franziska Lutz, Gerda Köppen

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Thomas Liere (Michael Kittel) was born in Trier, but now he lives in Niedersengricht, a small village in the hills of Northern Eiffelland. Seventeen years ago, he married Elsa, the woman (Franziska Lutz) he had made pregnant. The first years had been nice, but now his marriage is close to dead. When he discovers that his child is from somebody else, he decides to leave Niedersengricht and to go back to Trier. There he travels through the city to call the days of his youth back. He even searches the city for his first girlfriend.

OOC: Edit: I have to say that I copied this storyline from a German writer. The book is called "Geisterfahrer", and the writer is Tom Liehr.

 

[Ivernia]

FEATURE TITLE
Dúnmharú ag 10,000 troigh! (Murder at 10,000 feet!)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Sean Mag Aoidh

FEATURE CAST
Colm Ó Gallchobhair, Seamus Ó Donnabhain, Aisling Ó Maolomhnaigh

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
A murder mystery film. A luxury travel airship traversing the great southern airway passes the halfway point from Vedrarfjord in Ivernia to Dún Ó Dheas in the Commonwealth over the Great Thaumantic Ocean. Suddenly a murder is discovered, and yet the Airship must continue on to Dún Ó Dheas with no opportunity to stop or land for two days. With the passengers in panic it is up to retired Detective Tadhg O'Malley to solve a case before the murder count goes any higher. Tadhg must solve a dangerous case while dealing with his own personal demons surrounding his retirement from the Vedrarfjord Garda Síochána.

 

[The Federation]

FEATURE TITLE
Lucas

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Terrence Hillier

FEATURE CAST
Robert King AS Lucas, Sofia Westwood AS Lucas' Wife and John Miami AS Chief of the Chautauqua Nation.

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Featuring the veteran Robert King as a vengeful Forest Ranger and starring for the first time a Native Sylvanian (Miami), Lucas is a historical piece that takes place at the start of the great wars between Sylvanian settlers and the Natives who at the time were being pushed out of their homeland slowly and surely. Lucas is a Forest Ranger, charged with keeping a lookout for Chautauqua raiding parties, he spends his time traversing the newly discovered Twin Echo mountains and keeping watch for the settlement of the same name. Taken hostage by Chautauqua hunters, Lucas is forced to watch as Twin Echo is burned to the ground by native warriors and the women, including his wife, are raped and murdered. Lucas is let go and sent east to tell the tale of the native victory at Twin Echo, Lucas instead rallies the survivors and the settlers of nearby towns into a citizen army and pushes back west to murder as many natives as they can. Lucas is praised for it's historical accuracy and for showing the grim realities of the start of the conflict between the major tribes of Sylvania and the growing Sylvanian Republic. John Miami has been the center of controversy for starring in what the last of his tribe, now living in Beautancus, consider to be a propaganda piece. Sylvanian movie reviewers have praised the film for its neutrality in the matter of the what is known to White Sylvanians as the Great Conflagration and to native peoples as the Rape of Chautauqua (Sylvania).

 

[Socialist Commonwealth]

FEATURE TITLE
Kings of the streets

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Janez Gorenc

FEATURE CAST
Janez Gorenc

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The Haemian Straw is a national legend in Carentania, the national dog breed of the country. In this documentary, Janez Gorenc follows not only the lifes of the members of a pack of street dogs, but also explores the symbolism this half-wild breed of pariah dogs has achieved. How come that these proud and stubborn dogs, which have roamed human settlements in Haemia since antiquity, have a social status so fundamentally different from the way that street dogs are treated in the remainder of Europe? At the end, Janez Gorenc can offer no conclusive answers, but his travel offers a lot food for thought.



FEATURE TITLE
The Red Guard - Rain of death

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Gregor Turk

FEATURE CAST
Anton Kotnik, Mateja Pavlin, Aleksander Knez, Branko Zadravec

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The movie-adaption of the famous Carentanian novels about the RAI agent Janez Zver promise to bring a densely action packed thriller to the cinemas of Europe. Janez Zver has been sent to track down General Zhu Zhu of Imperial Yujin, responsible for countless massacres, and to bring him to justice. But there is more than meets the eye and when it becomes apparent that Zhu Zhu is but the minion of a bigger evil, Agent Zver needs all his cunning, courage and sex-appeal to save the world and socialism from imminent doom.



FEATURE TITLE
Little Brave Witch

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Marija Kotnik

FEATURE CAST
Marija Kotnik, Ana Kralj, Anja Kralj

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Another movie adaption of a famous Carentanian book series, the Little Brave Witch is an animated film about the adventures of the eponimous little witch who has to grow up in a world afraid of her powers and often openly hostile to someone, who is but a little girl born into unusual circumstances. The books are a longstanding favourite with the womens right movement and just like them, the book deals heavily with issues of feminine self-respect and consciousness. Its art is inspired by Touzen animation movies and Little Brave Witch promises to offer a never seen before fusion of the best of western and eastern movie traditions.

 

[Tyvia]

FEATURE TITLE
In Darkness Dwells

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Enestos Luconna

FEATURE CAST
Iccios Dannoscaleva, Galbos Helicosga, Rufos Mkanner (the black-Etnaean actor from "Wings Incorporeal" fame)

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
A biopic about Bolgios Gaesiga Isarnegenos, the original leader of the first Crown expedition to Dumnisigda. Though fraught with historical inaccuracies, the film nevertheless does detail his slow ascent higher and higher into the primordial jungles and uplands of that dark country, and his experiences with the natives for whom he'd later develop some fondness. The film exposes Gaesiga's own flaws and highlights his beliefs, dealing with the topic of the ideal of the "noble savage", and--while presenting it--thoroughly opposing the notion of the "white man's burden." An anti-colonialist work, it was originally banned during production, before being approved by independent Crown review and filming allowed to resume.


FEATURE TITLE
Conquering Aetnos

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Ollovos Macoleaga

FEATURE CAST
Dannicos & Maricos Matugenos, Roveca Segovita, Suicca Vornnaxa, & others

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
A tale about a class of school-children who make it their goal to climb Aetnos, the highest mountain of the Abaine ridge. The film details their preparation and their subsequent ascent, with tragedy unfolding as accidents and disputes between them slowly occur. The ending is known to upset some viewers, with the children all perishing despite eventually reaching the summit. When questioned, director Macoleaga stated that the film was "laden" with allegory, and that it shouldn't be taken in any way as simply a direct representation of the turmoil these children faced.

 

[Natal]

Film submissions from the Socialist Republic of Tyrrhenia:

FEATURE TITLE
Dislocation

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Andreas Sanna

FEATURE CAST
Loukas Megalos, Chara Areleous, Mihail Demetrious

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Panos (Loukas Megalos) is recently freed from jail after 10 years of incarceration simply because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. As he tries to return to his normal life, he finds out that Xenia (Chara Areleous), his girlfriend, is living now with some other man and his old friends don't want to accept him, believing that he really was involved in a murder. While contemplating suicide, he meets Dionysios (Mihail Demetrious), a writer who wants to make a tour of Tyrrhenia to get rid of his writer's block and agrees to take Panos with him. The trip makes Panos understand that the world didn't end there and there is no reason to simply renounce all the good things in life when you reach an impasse.
FEATURE TITLE
The People's Exhibition (Documentary)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Elias Metaxas

FEATURE CAST
Commissar of Health and Social Provisions Aniketos Papanikolaou, Arnold Guillemot, people in Dhekelia

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The documentary follows the preparations and the shows at the International Socialist Exhibition in Dhekelia that took place in autumn 1953. The scope of the documentary is to show the people of all races, ethnic groups, cultures and societies coming together in Dhekelia to try to plan a better future for the world. The documentary shows speeches of the Commissar Aniketos Papanikolaou, who opened the exhibition and Arnold Guillemot, who came to Dhekelia representing the Cantignian Scarlet Society.

OOC: If needed, I would delete the Saraari entries.

 

[Thaumantica]

Popular Opinion Prize :: VIFF '54

V
VESPER
:: International Film Festival ::
Public Opinion Prize Voting Held from February 5 through 12


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[Thaumantica]

FEATURE TITLE
Dislocation

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Andreas Sanna

FEATURE CAST
Loukas Megalos, Chara Areleous, Mihail Demetrious

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Panos (Loukas Megalos) is recently freed from jail after 10 years of incarceration simply because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. As he tries to return to his normal life, he finds out that Xenia (Chara Areleous), his girlfriend, is living now with some other man and his old friends don't want to accept him, believing that he really was involved in a murder. While contemplating suicide, he meets Dionysios (Mihail Demetrious), a writer who wants to make a tour of Tyrrhenia to get rid of his writer's block and agrees to take Panos with him. The trip makes Panos understand that the world didn't end there and there is no reason to simply renounce all the good things in life when you reach an impasse.

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FEATURE TITLE
Conquering Aetnos

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Ollovos Macoleaga

FEATURE CAST
Dannicos & Maricos Matugenos, Roveca Segovita, Suicca Vornnaxa, & others

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
A tale about a class of school-children who make it their goal to climb Aetnos, the highest mountain of the Abaine ridge. The film details their preparation and their subsequent ascent, with tragedy unfolding as accidents and disputes between them slowly occur. The ending is known to upset some viewers, with the children all perishing despite eventually reaching the summit. When questioned, director Macoleaga stated that the film was "laden" with allegory, and that it shouldn't be taken in any way as simply a direct representation of the turmoil these children faced.

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FEATURE TITLE
The Red Guard - Rain of death

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Gregor Turk

FEATURE CAST
Anton Kotnik, Mateja Pavlin, Aleksander Knez, Branko Zadravec

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The movie-adaption of the famous Carentanian novels about the RAI agent Janez Zver promise to bring a densely action packed thriller to the cinemas of Europe. Janez Zver has been sent to track down General Zhu Zhu of Imperial Yujin, responsible for countless massacres, and to bring him to justice. But there is more than meets the eye and when it becomes apparent that Zhu Zhu is but the minion of a bigger evil, Agent Zver needs all his cunning, courage and sex-appeal to save the world and socialism from imminent doom.

---

FEATURE TITLE
Lucas

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Terrence Hillier

FEATURE CAST
Robert King AS Lucas, Sofia Westwood AS Lucas' Wife and John Miami AS Chief of the Chautauqua Nation.

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Featuring the veteran Robert King as a vengeful Forest Ranger and starring for the first time a Native Sylvanian (Miami), Lucas is a historical piece that takes place at the start of the great wars between Sylvanian settlers and the Natives who at the time were being pushed out of their homeland slowly and surely. Lucas is a Forest Ranger, charged with keeping a lookout for Chautauqua raiding parties, he spends his time traversing the newly discovered Twin Echo mountains and keeping watch for the settlement of the same name. Taken hostage by Chautauqua hunters, Lucas is forced to watch as Twin Echo is burned to the ground by native warriors and the women, including his wife, are raped and murdered. Lucas is let go and sent east to tell the tale of the native victory at Twin Echo, Lucas instead rallies the survivors and the settlers of nearby towns into a citizen army and pushes back west to murder as many natives as they can. Lucas is praised for it's historical accuracy and for showing the grim realities of the start of the conflict between the major tribes of Sylvania and the growing Sylvanian Republic. John Miami has been the center of controversy for starring in what the last of his tribe, now living in Beautancus, consider to be a propaganda piece. Sylvanian movie reviewers have praised the film for its neutrality in the matter of the what is known to White Sylvanians as the Great Conflagration and to native peoples as the Rape of Chautauqua (Sylvania).

---

FEATURE TITLE
An August Romance

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Bernard Méthot

FEATURE CAST
Lilianne Perrault, Roderick Dosset

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Young Margaux is a Military Hospital Nurse during the August Catastrophe, inexperienced in the ways of the world and naive to men and the war they are fighting. When an injured Corporal Schommer arrives at the hospital in a coma she falls in love with her idea of who Corporal Schommer could be: brave, romantic, chivalrous. When Schommer awakes however he is a vastly different man: abusive, cynical, and manipulative of Margaux's expectations of love. As peacetime reaches Cantignia, Margaux's war to preserve her innocence from a possessive man begins.

---

FEATURE TITLE
Sunset in the Land's End

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Ciaran McIver

FEATURE CAST
Sean McCartán, Asha Odinga, Imamu Adnan

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
In the early 40s in Saraar, Ryan Hayden (Sean McCartán) is the youngest child of a wealthy landowner in Stone Town. While his mother left them to return to Ivernia and his brothers joined the Christ's Resistance Army, he lives his own drama as he observes that he falls in love with their maid, Astur (Asha Odinga), who comes from northern Saraar. A thing that he is scared to think of, as a relationship between a white man and a black woman was so outlandish that some people though that even thinking of would be a sin. A coming-of-age story about the transformation of a naive boy into a mature man, all of those happening in the backdrop of a time of concern and fear, as Estria Nua ó Dheas becomes Garissa and Kamara's (Imamu Adnan) dictatorship begins.

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Feature Title
Grey

Feature Director
Rafl Saavtrofh

Feature Cast
Johann Stauffenberg
Saame Yunan
Petr Stavroforus

Feature Description
It's easier to see the world in black and white. But what do you do with grey? Our story takes place in the cosmopolitan city of Dimitrisburg in 1924, when valkany was essentially an Apartheid. Troops going door to door rounding up Muslims, Gypsies and other "unwanted" persons, deporting everyone they can and shooting anyone giving them trouble. And in this climate of racial tensions Saame, a young Muslim girl falls in love with Fritz, a young ethnic Valkanian. At the same time Ivan, an Internal Trooper, struggles with his actions as he is forced to destroy the lives of people every day for simply being born different. And while history may tell us that by the time the Apartheid in Valkany had fallen less than 2,000 non "pure" Valkanians remained in Valkany this tale of understanding and love teaches us that nobody is born to hate, but everyone is born to love.

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FEATURE TITLE
Ice and Darkness (Ís og myrkur)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Gudrod Malcolmson

FEATURE CAST
Fern Nurgik, Lanna Huityks

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The movie tells the story of two families - Hroar and Hrothgar -, and how they evolve through 200 years of history, from 1745 to 1945. Living in the province of Vinland, in southern Vestrland, both families experience the transformations of the country.

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FEATURE TITLE
The Song of Lisbon (A Canção de Lisboa)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
José Cottinelli Telmo

FEATURE CAST
Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa and António Silva

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Vasco (Vasco Santana) is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts from Trás-os-Montes, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice (Beatriz Costa), a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano (António Silva), who is familiar with Vasco's debts.
After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.

---

FEATURE TITLE
Zurück nach Trier (Back to Trier)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Detmold König

FEATURE CAST
Michael Kittel, Franziska Lutz, Gerda Köppen

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Thomas Liere (Michael Kittel) was born in Trier, but now he lives in Niedersengricht, a small village in the hills of Northern Eiffelland. Seventeen years ago, he married Elsa, the woman (Franziska Lutz) he had made pregnant. The first years had been nice, but now his marriage is close to dead. When he discovers that his child is from somebody else, he decides to leave Niedersengricht and to go back to Trier. There he travels through the city to call the days of his youth back. He even searches the city for his first girlfriend.

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FEATURE TITLE
Dúnmharú ag 10,000 troigh! (Murder at 10,000 feet!)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Sean Mag Aoidh

FEATURE CAST
Colm Ó Gallchobhair, Seamus Ó Donnabhain, Aisling Ó Maolomhnaigh

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
A murder mystery film. A luxury travel airship traversing the great southern airway passes the halfway point from Vedrarfjord in Ivernia to Dún Ó Dheas in the Commonwealth over the Great Thaumantic Ocean. Suddenly a murder is discovered, and yet the Airship must continue on to Dún Ó Dheas with no opportunity to stop or land for two days. With the passengers in panic it is up to retired Detective Tadhg O'Malley to solve a case before the murder count goes any higher. Tadhg must solve a dangerous case while dealing with his own personal demons surrounding his retirement from the Vedrarfjord Garda Síochána.

 

[Thaumantica]

V
VESPER
:: International Film Festival ::
Public Opinion Prize Voting Held from February 5 through 12

1 Day of screening remains for popular opinion voters (open to all viewers).
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[Thaumantica]

Popular Opinion Prize :: VIFF '54 (Runoff Vote)

V
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:: International Film Festival ::
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FEATURE TITLE
Ice and Darkness (Ís og myrkur)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Gudrod Malcolmson

FEATURE CAST
Fern Nurgik, Lanna Huityks

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The movie tells the story of two families - Hroar and Hrothgar -, and how they evolve through 200 years of history, from 1745 to 1945. Living in the province of Vinland, in southern

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, both families experience the transformations of the country.


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FEATURE TITLE
Lucas

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Terrence Hillier

FEATURE CAST
Robert King AS Lucas, Sofia Westwood AS Lucas' Wife and John Miami AS Chief of the Chautauqua Nation.

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Featuring the veteran Robert King as a vengeful Forest Ranger and starring for the first time a Native Sylvanian (Miami), Lucas is a historical piece that takes place at the start of the great wars between Sylvanian settlers and the Natives who at the time were being pushed out of their homeland slowly and surely. Lucas is a Forest Ranger, charged with keeping a lookout for Chautauqua raiding parties, he spends his time traversing the newly discovered Twin Echo mountains and keeping watch for the settlement of the same name. Taken hostage by Chautauqua hunters, Lucas is forced to watch as Twin Echo is burned to the ground by native warriors and the women, including his wife, are raped and murdered. Lucas is let go and sent east to tell the tale of the native victory at Twin Echo, Lucas instead rallies the survivors and the settlers of nearby towns into a citizen army and pushes back west to murder as many natives as they can. Lucas is praised for it's historical accuracy and for showing the grim realities of the start of the conflict between the major tribes of Sylvania and the growing Sylvanian Republic. John Miami has been the center of controversy for starring in what the last of his tribe, now living in Beautancus, consider to be a propaganda piece. Sylvanian movie reviewers have praised the film for its neutrality in the matter of the what is known to White Sylvanians as the Great Conflagration and to native peoples as the Rape of Chautauqua (Sylvania).