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Earlier this week, Filminute — the short film competition which Filmmaker partnered with last month — announced the winners of this year’s awards. On the site in September, we featured five one-minute films: Christian Fischer’s Indian Mystery, Stijn Ghijsen and Tara Fallaux’s Sarina, Rafael Morais and Vijessna Ferkic’s Still Here, Ant Blades’ Wildebeest and Jeanne and Louise Traon’s Colloque Sentimental.

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London/Bucharest/Toronto, October 10, 2012 – Awards for the 7th edition of Filminute, the

international one-minute film festival, were announced today. UK director Ant Blade’s dramatic and

hilarious animation Chop Chop took top honours with the jury, while fellow Brit Ben Jacobson’s

comic thriller, Candy Crime, was the favourite selected by Filminute’s voting public.

The 7-member international jury which included Prasoon Joshi, Radu Jude, Arjun Basu, Lenora Hume

& Gyorgy Karpati, gave animation its strongest year ever at the festival with Best Filminute...

Throughout the month of September, Filmmaker is partnering with the online short film competition Filminute, hosting five of its nominated titles and running interviews with the director’s of these one-minute movies.

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Rafael Morais began acting at the age of 14. At 18 he was cast as the lead in the critically acclaimed feature film How to Draw a Perfect Circle (Official submission to the Academy Awards). Having screened at the Toronto, Palm Springs, Miami, San Sebastian and several other festivals, João Canijo’s Blood of My Blood has already earned him accolades for his portrayal of a young criminal that puts his entire family at stake. Rafael Morais had his directorial debut in 2011 with You are the Blood (official selection of IndieLisboa and NewFilm Makers Los Angeles). Rafael Morais...

★★★★☆ Conceived from an extended email discussion on the current state of German cinema, the Dreileben trilogy brings together three of the nations finest filmmakers - Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler - each bringing their own unique style of storytelling to the individual chapters. The 'Dreileben' of the title is a small fictional German town, surrounded by dense forest, where a number of events transpire after the escape of a convicted child molester from a secure hospital, highlighted in Dreileben 1: Beats Being Dead (2011).

Petzold's contribution to the trilogy is a sharply-shot, well-paced character drama as young hospital intern Johannes (Jacob Matschenz) falls for enigmatic Bosnian immigrant Ana (Luna Mijovic), whom he meets at a petrol station (moments before being punched in the face by her biker boyfriend). Their early relationship is tentative yet tender, with Ana eventually moving out from her mother's flat and in with her new lover.