The 3rd International Short Film Festival was held in Valletta on the 6th, 7th and 8th of July. The festival culminated at the Westside Selekt screenings at Gardjola gardens, a ravelin within the bastions of the fortress capital city Valletta. The festival placed special emphasis on Nordic cinema and invited the organisers of Cosmic Zoom, an underground film festival held in Copenhagen, Denmark, to attend the event and promote works from Scandinavian works. The highlight of the programme featured rare works by the great and elusive Danish animator Lejf Marcussen, one of the most prolific and artistically successful animators in Denmark, who in 1991 received the Norman McLaren Heritage Award for his body of work.
Kinemastik also hosted graduates from the Royal College of Art, UK, to attend the screenings of their works and provide a workshop that was open to the general public. They also provided much entertainment with their dance moves at the festival party on Saturday night.
Kinemastik also held an exhibition by British artist Neal Fox at The Pub in Valletta that ran concurrently to the festival. Mr Fox attended the opening of his exhibition dedicated to Oliver Reed, the silver-tongued British actor who spent his last hours in this very pub.
A festival party was held at Lo Squero Floriana with Dj Uncle Al from Brighton spinning records until daybreak.
