This Year's One Country One Film Gets Theft
- 28·07·2016
The short film Theft (Hurto) by Jerónimo García Castela has joined one more international film and it is going to contend at the One Country One Film (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France).
One more year, a short film promoted at film festivals by [ The House of Films ] has joined the selection of the One Country One Film festival. The 7th One Country One Film —or Un Pays Un Film, in French— will carry the short film Theft (Hurto), directed by Jerónimo García Castela, to the village of Apchat (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) in the next days.
Theft, the short by Jerónimo García Castela, is going to take part at this festival on 29th, 30th, and 31st July.
The selection of the 7ème Un Pays Un Film is highly varied. 48 countries have sent 67 short films and full-length films for being part of the Official Competition of this contest. 52 out of the 67 candidates are premières in France. Additionally, 14 of them are European premières and and 6 are worldwide releases. One of the selected films of 2016 is, precisely, Theft by Jerónimo García Castela.
Indeed, Theft by Jerónimo García Castela is the representative of Spain at this festival. It is going to be screened on Sunday 31st July at 20:40 hours. If the schedule of the festival is accomplished, Theft will be the last short film shown before the closing gala of the One Country One Film 2016.
One more year, in this case Theft by Jerónimo García Castela, one short film promoted at film festivals by [ The House of Films ] has deserved the honour of representing its own country at this festival held under the rule of "one film representing one country." The first one was Goodbye, Doll (Adiós, muñeca) by Hugo Sanz in 2010 and later, in 2013, Alba by Isak Ferriz.
The Official Short Film Competition (Sélection Officielle: Courts-Métrages) consists of 48 short films.
The selected titles (in English) are:
- Pale Mirrors by Salem Salavati (Iran),
- The Butterfly Man by Edian Csüllög (Estonia),
- The Learning Alliance by Muhammad Umar Saee (Pakistan),
- Fragil by Rebecca Panian (Switzerland),
- Lesapán by Pavel Soukup (Czech Republic),
- Domingo by Raúl López Echeverría (Mexico),
- The Wind Suddenly by Edris Samani (Iran),
- The Harvest by Ross Bolidai (Mozambique),
- Noticed by Limor Diamant (USA),
- The Window by Faine Rivkatal (Israel),
- Ice Water by Jalal Saedpanah (Iran),
- Cuando el día nace by Eguia Santiago (Paraguay),
- End & Adn by S. Hong & J. Kim (South Korea),
- Moriom by Mark Olexa & Francesca Scalisi (Bangladesh),
- 3 Years, 3 Months & 2 Days by D. Rahmani & S. Valizadeh (Iran),
- Two Together by Anna Yanovskaya (Russia),
- Esel by Rafael Haider (Austria),
- Nuvola by Giulio Mastromauro (Italy),
- Luftschloss by Olga Dinnikova (Latvia),
- Paniek! by Joost Lieuwma & Daan Velsink (Netherlands),
- The Seed by Ifigenia Kotsoni (Greece),
- Lamorde by Orhan Dede (Niger),
- Ses souffles by Just Philippot (France),
- Anniversary by Marika Mohácsi (Hungary),
- João Batista by Rodrigo Meirele (Brazil),
- Upstairs Neighbour by Pooya Badkobeh (Iran),
- Bouddi by Supreet K. Singh (India),
- I Am Sami by Kae Bahar (Kurdistan),
- Amerika by Aleksandra Terpiska (Poland),
- Fryme by Artur Gorishti (Albania),
- The House in the Envelope by Sanela Salketic (Turkey),
- Au bruit des clochettes by Chabname Zariab (Afghanistan),
- Spring Rain by Po-Chou Chi (Taiwan),
- Glassy by Vasilian Khachik (Ukraine),
- Snowy Roofs by Moradi Haideh (Iran),
- The Border by Norman Tamkivi (United Kingdom),
- Lima by Afshin Roshanbakht & Vahid Jafari (Iran),
- Hasta que la celda nos separe by J. & M. Emmanuelli (Puerto Rico),
- Red Ochre - The Last Guards of the Holy Fire by T. Drabandt & F. Kabwe (Namibia),
- Getting Fat In A Healthy Way by Kevork Aslanyan (Bulgaria),
- The Doll Hospital by Sofia Saldanha (Portugal),
- Take a Seat Darling by Ali Nazari (Iran),
- Just Like You by Philip W. Da Silva (Sweden),
- L'ombre d'un autre by Léo Médard (Belgium),
- Fruit by Gerhard Funk (Germany),
- Fish by Saman Hosseinpuor (Iran),
- Little Deer by Le Thu Minh (Vietnam), and
- Theft by Jerónimo García Castela (Spain).
This selection includes 9 shorts filmed in Iran, the guest country of the current edition of the One Country One Film.
This year's One Country One Film has also organized an Official Full-Length Competition (Sélection Officielle: Longs-Métrages), composed of 6 international feature films, and a Young Selection (Sélection Officielle: Jeune Public), that has selected 12 short films.