The Furrious Film Festival

[miokalia]

The entire street was decorated in banners and brightly-colored crate-paper. The town full of filmmakers, enthusiasts and tourists. This is a film festival indeed.

Several limousines arrive and a big deal is made out of their enterence into the theatre. It is opening day, and the opening ceremonies are about to begin.
The theatre is brimming, abuzz with excitement. For this is the largest most conspicuous festival in the Federation.

The speaker, a raptor comes up to the podium next to the extra-large screen.

He has a thick Kohtohkhan accent, rolling every R and almost expectorating on every H:
"I don't beleive in long, winding, poetic speeches for opening ceremonies... So I will make this short:
Film has many purposes. For some, it is about telling a story, for others it is about capturing the moment, and for others it is about conveying a message.
And film, like all art, doesn't happen in a vacuum. That is why we have festivals such as this. To facilitate the dialogue of film as art between artists and cultures. Now, before I bore you with a doctoral thesis on the motion picture art. I'm going to walk away from this podium, and sit with the other academics and be snobby"

A slight chuckle rolls over the audience.
The raptor tailswishes in reassurance that the joke worked in not just his own native language.
He continued,

"I have just a few more things to say:
It is wonderful that so many films from all around can be shown in one venue. And...
I really hope this translated properly but...
We have a saying in Kohtohkhan, it is:
'When Man is like face, magnetize fruit and make pants from wheat'"

The audience is clearly confused, some are not sure wether to laugh or just smile and nod.
The raptor sees the apparent confusion and rushes to rectify it:

"Um... it is joke. You make laugh", he says in broken English, having run out of grammatically-correct speech cards.

A slight giggle comes over the audience, and the raptor smiles and leaves the podium.


The house-lights dim and the show begins.


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[The Union of Tinis]

Pargalo: The House of Genius[/b]
Director: Robert Skullways
Producer: Chiril Ufizit Longtail
Nation of Origion: Tinis
Genre: Dramatized Documentary
Release Date: 3/28/06
Length: 3 hr. 25 min.
Format: Color, aspect ratio 2.35:1

Synopsis: This film follows the live of The Lady Genius (Margrette Sinze/Alia Zantoni) through her early life as the sole heiress of an old Pargalonian fortune, her education and quests to understand the cosmos, the Pargalonian rebellion, and the formation of her 'house'. The second half of the film highlights the political intrigues and infighting between the seven honorable houses of Pargalo. The film ends with the fleeing of the five allied houses that set sail for Tinis and the death of Genius.

Plot: A young Genius of the Jergar line (Margrette Sinze) bucks the traditions of her family after her parent's death. Now the sole heir of a large fortune she sells off the family businesses and converts their lands into a series of large schools all before the age of fifteen. Her guardian Miles Ulbreck (Kinzar Fluff) helps her make the schools successful while Genius finds herself engrossed ever more in academic pursuits. Ten years later, a slightly older Genius (Alia Zantoni) is speaking before the old parliament of Pargalo on the need to reform the rapid industrialization of the small country before the nation runs out of natural resources. Near the end of her speech gun fire is heard outside, signaling the start of the massive uprising that did away with the old government. In the following scenes Genius fleas and starts gathering her former students and the academics of Pargalo to her schools in hopes of keeping the light of knowledge from growing dim in Pargalo.

During this period, Genius befriends several furs, such as Yabsin Gosadi (Ubrian Edgars), Izixs son of Isto (Illix Ilkan), Toson Mlavis (Randy Sume), and Yalia Chankar (Kinzo Chankar). General Kizik seizes control of the Pargalo capital city Zarx and uses what is left of the army to establish an iron fist control over Pargalo. Kizik disbands Genius' schools and fearing for their lives all but a few of her students, Yabsin Gosadi, and Miles Ulbreck flee the school and take refugee else where. At the climax of the movie General Kizik is assassinated and anarchy returns. The seven honorable houses of Pargalo begin to take shape as many of Genius' die hard students return to her school. Meanwhile Izixs organizes rural furs as does Toson. The other houses take shape as Dykon (Henry Shanes) emerges from the sewers of Zarx, Epshar Hon (Galius Markos Donza) organized the lower class workers who had been those most hurt by the fighting, Wune Alcansir (Ocmin Balshir) gathers the once powerful industrialist, and Major Jirie (Vincent Sim) organizes what is left of the army. Recognizing each other as the most influential groups either in numbers, strategy, or influence, the seven leaders meet and create the honor code of the houses.

The last hour of the movie is centered on the interactions of the five main leaders from the point of view of Genius. Genius falls in love with Toson Mlavis for a short time until Toson challenges Yabsin Gosadi to an honorable duel to settle water rights for several important farms under his houses' control. Yabsin Gosadi is slain and Genius turns on her former lover and concentrates her full efforts to defeating Toson's house under the code. As she attempts this, she then falls for Izixs, despite the growing distrust between their houses. As the infighting between the houses increase, Wune and Jirie join forces to seize control of important aspects of Pargalo, effectively shutting down the efforts of the other houses to gain mastery under the honorable system. The other five houses prepare to leave, seeing fleeing as the only way not to be destroyed. Genius is capture by Wune who tries to pry great scientific secrets from her mind but fails. Izixs attempts to rescue her but is unable to and Genius kills herself to avoid being torture for her knowledge. The movie ends with the many ships of the houses leaving Pargalo forever and Genius' last breaths.

Soundtrack Features:
An orchestral score by: Sockan Gistal Ivrixil
Vocals by: The North End Choir, Enyio, and Frost GaChiln

Also music by Hrembor, Sofia Wren, Quality, and Tsupk

Highlighted Scene:
"To first blood," says Dykon. "This is a simple matter so I don't want to cause to many bad feelings today."

"Oh Dykon," says the voluptuous skunk in finely crafted armor, pointing a rapier to wards the wolf. "accepted. But I think Shimi over there has given me enough reason to have bad feelings today."

Dykon, in bulkier armor and wielding a glave like weapon swings at Genius and misses. "What's the story brain face."

Genius swings to pin the glave but only knocks it back. Dykon hops backward to avoid her thrust.

"You see Dykon, Shimi is spreading rumors that my house has turned anti-human."

Dykon spins, trying to knock Genius in the head with his glave. A larger weapon than necessary for 'first blood' combat. "So? You did call for the human allies on the far side [aka, the world outside the federation] to slay one of their own."

Genius smiles and thrusts at Dykon's arm, nicking him slightly as her rapier passes through the elbow in his armor.

"The match is mine today sewer crawler." Dykon already angry, narrows his eyes which are visible through his visor. "And genocidal maniacs like that human deserve a just punishment. Besides, Shimi would easily join up with the Aryan wannabe if they were both the same species."

Genius pulls her rapier out. "And next time obey the honor rules and bring a weapon appropriate for first blood battles. My helmet won't protect me from something like that."

Dykon growls. "Very well, we relinquish control of the highway to your house. But I'm sure you're lover will challenge you for it now?"

Genius smiles while taking off her helmet. "Oh he will. He wouldn't be the tail biter I fell in love with if he wasn't. Now put your tail between those legs and leave. And don't return until you've either mastered that weapon or go back to your daggers."

[miokalia]

Wrecking Blythehaven[/u]
Director: Kadhato Darrito
Producer: Danube Ral-Tatomi
Nation of Origin: Miokalia
Genre: Comedy Adventure / Art-Film
Language: English Dubbed (orginal: Kohtohkhan Raptoric)
Length: 182 Minutes
Format: Color, aspect ratio: 2.1:1 (Kino-H Tdaroflex)



Synopsis:[/b]
Marvin Watts (Holt Tragoya) has reached the breaking point. He's a dinosaur in a tightly-knit human community, with adopted parents who is absolutely confident that there is more to life than his militantly-isolated small town. After being called everything from a monster to a demon, he finally meets up with Jack Tennison (Micah Tyvek), one of the few humans in town who is also disillusioned with the town's overly conservative rurality. After avenging the murder of Tennison's father by commiting an elaborate and bizarre act of vandalism (involving sending a large car through a storefront owned by the killer) the two decide to leave town. They pick up Diego Dara (Aaron Vince) an old family friend of Watts' and meet up with Ferdo 640 (Gokona Dorriyawa), a mechanical dragon who's been hiding at the bottom of a junk-yard for years and embark on a journey to escape the "uncivilized nothing" between Miokalia and Baradun. Along the way, they enounter a hunter-gatherer cult who tries to sacrifice Ferdo. A shanty-village of perpetually-dying people who've managed to stay alive (but continue to age) for 400 years. A walled city where the artisans and craftsmen are attempting to overthrow an oppressive monarchy. They help Abagail (Marissa Gomi) a young feline adult escape a dreary future in a town made up entirely of gas stations and fast-food chain stores. They escape a mob of angry human townsfolk armed with a neutron bomb.
All for the goal of reaching the town of Kantida, a small town just inside the border of Miokalia. From which, they are told, one can go anywhere they want to in the world.

Soundtrack Features:
( A moving and unique, spacey electronic music incidental soundtrack by: M82 )
Plus songs by:
Yellow Day
The Telephone Service
The Earwigs
Jefferson Submarine
FLO


Highlighted Scene
Outside the nameless town entirely composed of fast-food restaurants and gas stations
Watts: "I want to break something here"
Diego: "Oh for Crissake! Haven't we done enough?"
Watts: "No... No we haven't."
Jack: "I don't know, I really don't think it's that bad of an idea. Just look at that place." (points to the impossibly large collection of tall, highway fast-food and gas-station signs in the distance)
Ferdo: "I don't think I'm going to blend in so well here."
Diego: "We are *not* going to do anything more to these people."
Watts confronts Diego, with his tail straightened in anxiousness. "I don't suppose being chased around by suburbanites turned savages from lack of electricity and gas to drive their cars with, having to resort to living 'in tune' with nature and trying to sacrifice Ferdo here to their little agrarian "daemon-god" was really something they've 'done' to us now is it?"
Watts relaxed and finished: "You do whatever you want. I'm angry and I'm going to take it out on them!"
Jack: "Call us if you get arrested"
Ferdo: "Assuming they actually have phones where we're going"


Highlighted Lines
"You were lying when you said you didn’t have a soul, weren't you?" (Jack to Ferdo)
"How the heck am I supposed to tell someone that close to death (but somehow not) that I'd rather *not* be touched by them?" (Watts to Diego referring to the Town of Prepetually Aged Immortals)
"Wow... well... if you throw that at me, and detonate it, then it you'll also wipe your entire people from existence. So let's just *not* have any of that annihilation thing today." (Watts to the King with the Neutron Bomb)
"I really am sorry. I must apologize for Ferdo, it is not his fault that his very existence threatens your ideology. It's not my fault either... Have you tried blaming your leaders or perhaps your dead? You know those dead... with the whole zombie-ghosty thing. Yep.... those Keee-razy dead. Indeed. It's all their fault." (Abagail addressing the Count of New Oldenburg)
"I am full of corn and it is sporty!" (Watts to Jack)
"I am cuter than all of you. And there is nothing you can do about it!" (Abagail to Jack, Diego, Ferdo)
"I feel slightly under-represented here. Can I please be loved too?" (Ferdo to Diego, Jack, Abagail)

[miokalia]

Black Cloud Balloon (original title: Hnei Nalvf-yu Kovoya)[/u]
Director: Tamarisk Dotze
Producer: Tamarisk Dotze / Studio Cklaklaron
Caito Rodalatar / Dorofilm South Features
Nation of Origin: Miokalia
Genre: Dramatized Documentary (with political undertones)
Language: Kohtohkhan Raptoric (Subtitled in English)
Length: 155 Minutes
Format: Color, aspect ratio: 2.35:1



Synopsis:[/u]
The film documents the story of Hsoi Dova (Asule Xotal), a Malych who crosses the border into a territory where no non-humans are protected, where there are no non-human rights. He braves inhospitable landscape, weather and most of all, the gangs that rule the territory with a shower of bullets. All so he can rescue his next-of-kin, Darbun (Sotz Karga), who was kidnapped and stolen away. After doing so and discovering the extent to which non-humans of all kinds live in fear, he decides to join a resistence movement, he is destroyed in an attempt to assassinate the infamous Duke Dallas Einterbaum (Nelson Dylandon), the ruthless leader of the lawless territory who exhibits a noticible disregard for life, and holds a fierce hatred of the Malych. The rescued sibling then takes up arms, feeling that he must continue the cause, but is quickly hit by a mortar blast and is partially incapacitated. After the incident, a news crewmember, Ryan Dander (Tyler Fletchington) a canine from the GBWT finds Darbun charred, and partially destroyed on the site while shooting footage for a newscast. Moved by the strangely disturbing site of what he thought was a dead Malych, Ryan takes the photograph that later won him an award for photo journalism of the barely connected pieces of a reptile-like entity amongst the collateral damage of guerilla warfare. Then upon realizing the entity was still alive, he pulled it out of the rubble and brought it back with him to the GBWT. The film ends with the re-assembled Darbun Dova just after speaking on the topic of non-human rights in Tinis, advocating an approach of 'moral militantism'. As he vows that someday, he would like to personally rectify the injustices he went though in what is now Miokalia's Northern Continental Republic Territory.


Soundtrack Features:[/u]
A fiercely melodic and emotive soundtrack consisting of a full traditional saurian orchestra.
Composed by: Svak Corigon

with solos by raptor pianist: Doriciyn Tako-Kohdalia
and the talents of fox vocalist: Tristen Wimbley


Highlighted Scene:[/u]
Darbun sits in a tent with Commander Ronalds of the Anthro Resistence Front.
Ronalds speaks into the radio-phone: "Get me Stover, Get me General Stover now."
(pause as an explosion can be heard outside)
Ronalds: "Mother of..." (slams the hand-set down)
He hangs his head, "It's like we don't even exist... Dincota has the weapons but won't use them because of a ******* treaty! Malychis doesn't even seem to care that their own are being totally annihilated. Do they not see that this is turning into a genocide here?!"
He looks over at Darbun, whose been staring blankly out the door for a while now.
"What the **** does it take for your species to declare a ******* war on somebody? Why aren't there those giant black drop-ships raining wrath down upon those *******? What the hell is going on? Hasn't your ******* central awareness figured it out yet that you and everyone else around you are getting attacked?!"
Darbun is a bit surprized by the sudden outburst and says:
"The system is dumb. It thinks that as long as it can crank-out more of us faster than they can blow us apart, there is no threat to the species. Which is stupid."
(pause as there is another explosion outside. Enemies are approaching the tent.)
Ronalds picks up a miniaturized eight-barrel gatling-gun and loads a cartridge into it.
Darbun says: "Yeah, there coming, probably about twenty of them."
Ronalds sighs
Darbun says: "Since we're probably both going to die in this, let's make a deal: When you get to your afterlife, tell the guy in charge to intervene on our behalf in this war, And when my programming gets ejected and transmitted off to the central awareness, I'll ask it to do the same. Deal?"
He picks up two ammunition boxes and feeds the ribbon of bullets into slots in his armour. Then gun barrels emerge from panels all over his body.
Ronalds says: "Definately"
The two step outside and begin firing into the overwhelming onslaught.



Reactions Since Release and Critical Acclaim:[/u]

"Frighteningly gritty and full of angst. Dotze's direction is artistic and passionate, Xotal's performance is genuine..."
-Dorigan Times-Call

"This is not a happy movie... ...watching some of these scenes is an experience not all that unlike chewing on aluminum foil... Dotze trully captures the chaos of warfare and the revolutionary spirit while making every effort to not ignore the often over-looked tragedies that happen in such cicrumstances."
-DCN news

"I left the theatre feeling physically ill, the warfare scenes were like having the fur on your belly slowly and painfully pulled out. If all the world leaders saw this movie, there would never, ever be another war ever again...
...and the worst part is, the most disturbing scenes were based off of things that happened right here in our own town."
-Atrias Register

[The Union of Tinis]

Visiting Alchak

Director: Hoggle Bent
Producer: Hoggle Bent
Nation of Origin: Tinis
Genre: Art Film
Language: Old Tinisian, Pargaolo, Tinisian English (New Tinisian), Shimandies (Subtittled in English and Shimandies)
Length: 1 hr. 58 min.
Format: Black and white, aspect ration 2.35:1

Synopsis: This is Hoggle Bent's third film based around his experiences in the 1980s (Tinisian/Western Calendar). The previous two films highlighted his descent into the underworld of southern Shimandu and his eventual disillusionment with that way of life. Like the previous two films, Bent's unusual style of seemingly random flash backs, animated hallucinations, stirring soliloquies, and grotesque violence returns as he travels through the country side of Shimandu, Prefectures, and Tinis, seeking the mysterious 'Title of Sor'. This quest was given to him at the end of his previous film during a vision of his dead mother, aptly named the "Title of Sor". Not having any idea what this thing might be, he leaves his old stomping grounds in the opening spasm at the start of the film. Interwoven with conversations with the locals he encounters on his journey, Bent suffers heroin with-drawl depicted in a variety of mind bending scenes. When he crosses the boarder into Venerable Prefectures the hallucinations cease but are replaced by other horrible vision and observations about the world he's traveling through. The film closes with a broken Bent entering the city of Forest in Tinis and being befriended by a small group of carpenters who take the former criminal and junkie under their wing to teach him their trade. Oddly enough, the last few frames which are hard to catch give a hint as to what the 'Title of Sor' is.

Soundtrack Features:
The Tinis National Sympony Orchestra
Glowing Jams The Third
Disreputable Docks
Open for Business
The Cam
Opportunity of Betterment
Sofia Wren
Uptimes in Space

Highlighted Scene[/b]
Voice over in Shimandies: "Tell me again why you love me."

"You see that windmill? I'm just plain sure the boys will being tak'en her down before to longs," says a stripped feline in a straw hat in Old Tinisian.

Voice over: "But I thought you loved me."

"Ya see, if they didn't take it down, that over pass-a-ma-thing couldn't pass through. Doesn't that make sense?"

Voice over: "Oh you do love me. Will you be mine forever? And ever?"

The image of the cat is replaced with that of an odd scene of a mouse, Hoggle Bent, who's insides, depicted by folded red napkins, are lying on the floor of a busy restaurant. He is crying.

Voice over: "I knew you would. I knew you wouldn't. I knew you would. I knew you wouldn't. Where are you this name, this title I do seek. Did that cat eat it too? But I'm alive. I'm alive. You didn't love me. You didn't love me that much. You failed to love me. You're too proper. You're too skittish. My blood, my torment. They are me and you. Huh? Oh yeah, no more poetry. No more poetry. No more poetry. He doesn't have it."

The scene returns to the cat in the straw hat.

Voice over: "You don't have it. I must leave now. Before you find you do love me. That much."