Official Section
The OFFICIAL SECTION of the 11th International Fil Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria comprises a dozen or so titles of full-feature films presented in the competitive section of the Festival. The criteria used to admit both the full-feature films and shorts to enter the competitive sections are simple, but demanding: creative cinema in any form (fiction or non-fiction) which makes manifest a diversity of different outlooks and geographical perspectives within contemporary independent film.
Opening Gala
Competing full length features
- BYAKUYA / A White Night. Masahiro Kobayashi, Japón 2009.
- SHAM MOH / At the End of Daybreak. Ho Yuhang, Malasia, Corea del Sur 94 m..
- CONTACT HIGH. Michael Glawogger, Alemania, Austria, Luxemburgo, Polonia 2009.
- FELICIA INAINTE DE TOATE / First of All, Felicia. Razvan Radulescu, Melissa de Raaf, Rumanía 120 m..
- IRÈNE / Irene. Alain Cavalier, Francia 2009.
- LOLA. Brillante Mendoza, Filipinas 2009.
- MY TEHRAN FOR SALE. Granaz Moussavi, Australia, Irán 2009.
- NE CHANGE RIEN. Pedro Costa, Portugal, Francia 2009.
- PAJU. Park Chan-ok, Corea del sur 110 m..
- PAPER HEART. Nicholas Jasenovec, Estados Unidos 88 m..
- SATURN RETURNS. Lior Shamriz, Alemania, Israel 2009.
- LA DONATION. Bernard Émond, Canadá 2009.
- TODOS MIENTEN. Matías Piñeiro, Argentina 75 m..
- VILLA AMALIA. Benoît Jacquot, Francia 2009.
Closing Gala
Short films in Competition
- A MONTANHA MÁGICA. Petrus Cariry, Brasil 2009.
- THE MOMENT. Wong Men Hoi, China 2009.
- A MONTANHA MÁGICA. Petrus Cariry, Brasil 2009.
- PYATNASHKI / Tag. Natalia Uglitskikh, Rusia 2008.
- NENHUM NOME / Nameless. Gonçalo Waddington, Portugal 2010.
- RITA. Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza, Italia 2009.
- ARISTERA DEXIA / Left-Right. Argyris Germanidis, Stavros Raptis, Grecia 2009.
- LE DEUIL DE LA CIGOGNE JOYEUSE / The Mourning of the Merry Stork. Eileen Hofer-Boutros, Líbano, Suiza 2009.
- LA NOCHEBUENA DE PACO Y MANOLO. Alejandro Furth, Estados Unidos 2009.
- JA HOCHU ZHIT’ DOLGO-DOLG / I Need a Long Long-Life. Stas Kononov, Rusia 2010.
- EDGE OF THE DESERT. Lea Nakonechny, Canadá 2009.
- CASTILLO. Jorge Tur Moltó, España 2009.
- EN EL INSOMNIO. José Ángel Alayón Dévora, España 2009.
Special Sessions