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Javier Fesser Short Films
Sun 5th April 2:30pm
Meet the Director Session
A selection of award winning short films by the inimitable Javier Fésser handpicked by Fésser himself, including the Oscar nominated Binta y La Gran Idea. Colourful, surreal, hilarious and moving, this program offers a diverse feast of wildly imaginative films. Following the screening, Javier Fésser will be hosting a Question and Answer session in which he will also comment on his marvellous film Camino, which swept the 2009 Spanish Academy Awards. (see website for further details)
Featuring:
Binta and the Great Idea (Binta y la Gran Idea)
The Trompet Secret (El Sectreto de la Trompeta)
Pancho and Pincho
The Phone Box (La Cabina)
*Coloured Man (Homme de Couleur) View short film
The Pinkerton (Los Pinkerton)
Javi and Lucy
Screening followed by Q & A Session
AWARDS
Binta and the Great Idea
Oscar Nomination Academy Awards 2007
Dixie Film Festival Festival Prize 2006
Chicago International Children's Film Festival Montgomery Prize 2004
The Trompet Secret
Clermont-Ferrand Film International Film Festival Special Youth Jury Award 1996
Regensburg Short Film Week Audience Award 1996
* Coloured Man is the only film selected that has not been directed by Javier Fésser, it is directed by African, Fatou Bamako.
Fatou Bamako
Fatoumata Khsadiakhou Bamako (Fatou Bamako) was born in Andyel, a town in the mountains of Fouta Djalón, bordering Senegal and Guinea Conakry. At thirteen, Fatou was able to go to secondary school and moved to Kedougou where she lived for almost five years with her mother's sister. With a camera - the gift from a Spanish tourist, Fatou began to discover the world of the image, with her works displayed in Catholic schools in Mako, Tambakounda and Tongoroncoto. Convinced of her innate talent, a French priest suggested to a Spanish association of cooperation that they finance her studies at the University of the Arts in Dakar, where she began her degree in 1999. In 2003, she finished her master's degree with a thesis specialising in cinema and Internet. In order to document this work she made contact with the Notodo Film Festival team in Spain. In spite of the limited resources and the challenges she faced being an emerging female filmmaker, Fatou finally realised her first short. Homme de Couleur (Coloured Man) is a forceful, mature and fascinating piece that makes us suspect that we have before us one of Africa's creators with a great future to project her films beyond the continent.
