49th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Germany, May 1 - May 6 2003

The jury

Bernard Bastide (France), Sasa Radojevic (Serbia), Sibylle Dahrendorf (Germany)

Awarded films

Lift by Marc Isaacs
(UK, 2001, 25 mins)

Reports

Dusan Makavejev's Short Films Retrospective by Sasa Radojevic
Short Films, in Times of War by Sibylle Dahrendorf
The Prizes Awarded in Oberhausen by Bernard Bastide

The jury’s statement:

“In his documentary the filmmaker is observing day per day, how life is going on inside a lift. He becomes the privileged witness of the small theatre of ordinary life: unemployment, loneliness, neighbourhood, what’s going right or wrong in their lives. Involved in this process, the spectator himself becomes more and more familiar with the characters, each of them an essence of humanity, abandoning them with regrets.”

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