PROGRAM
DAY>>>01
20>may>2014
www.osloshortcuts.blogspot.com
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BALKAN FILM BAZAAR>01
THE
CHANGE_dijana protic_CROATIA_2012_11min_experiment/documentary
The film was made under the sea in port of Vela Luka and around the island
of Korcula, with four cameras mounted on the platform which was dragged by a
diver.
HOME IS WHERE MY
AGE IS_anja strelec/tomislava jukic_CROATIA_2013_22min_doc
Portrait of the institution in which are put those for whom we never have
time. Elderly, our, yours, theirs.
KM_christos
nikou_GREECE_2012_12min_fiction
A man. A woman. In a car. Fastened. Immobile. Blood. Silence. Can you open
the door and get out?
GREEK CRISIS
LEXICON_yiorgos nalpantidis_GREECE_2012_7min_experiment
A list of word related to the Greek financial crisis. Through their
repetitive use, words become entities, detached from their speakers, they
construct the reality they are supposed to be desribing.
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ZOOM AUSTRIA>01
AU
PAIR
Director:
Paul Reisinger
15min
2012_fiction
An
honest look at the disturbing and mysterious power that love has over us when
we experience it for the first time.
TALFAHRT
Director:
Paul Reisinger
10min
2012_fiction
'Talfahrt'
(Descent) tells the tragic story of two lovers who can neither be with nor
without each other and of the alienation of those who are closest to us when we
don't share our deepest feelings.
FAR & NEAR
Director:
Jasmina Eleta
35min
2010_fiction
Amrik
Singh ekes out a living delivering newspapers. The news of his mother's death
leads to a series of setbacks. The difficult struggle to make it in Europe appears to be lost. Employer Gerhard Haschka
places his own mother in the care of Slovakian nurse. Until the death of Miss
Haschka, the two women develop an intimacy that Gerhard is incapable of
realizing. Gerhard and Amrik never encounter one another.
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DOKUBAZAAR>01
EL SUEÑO
kuba
lubniewski&mikolaj molenda_2012_poland/mexico_33min_documentary
Two
young surf dudes from Poland
- Kuba Łubniewski and Mikołaj Molenda - made this splish-splash documentary in Mexico
GOD'S LAKE
diana aszyk_2012_poland/ukraine_17min_documentary
A poetic tale of living on the lake of one Ukrainian family, for
which the lake has throughout generations been the focal point of life.
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OSLOANIMA>ZOOM POLAND
DARLING_izabela
plucinska_POLAND_2013_6min_animation
What is memory loss? In the labyrinth of fear, a
stranger becomes a close person and home turns into a trap. Groping her way
down the track of familiar objects and shapes, the character is trying to go
back to the life that used to be her own.
THE MYSTERY OF
MALAKKA MOUNTAIN_jakub wronski_POLAND_2012_20min_animation
„The
Mystery of Malakka Mountain” introduces us to the prepossessing universe;
shrouded in mystery, that cannot be mastered.
A young Junior leads a life of a very special boy – he smokes and holds
constant inner monologues on the most existential of issues…
ARS
MORIENDI_milosz marganski_POLAND_2013_7min_animation
To what extend can our live be planned? Do we ever let
the coincidence influence our plans? "Ars moriendi" seeks to answer
these questions.
BATHS_tomek
ducki_POLAND_2013_4min_animation
Two
elderly swimmers meet at the baths for their ritual swimming. This time they
are diving deeper than usual.
AFTERNOON_izabela
plucinska_POLAND_2013_3min_animation
In
her latest animation Izabela Plucinska returns to the motives that in 2006
inspired her to create her film Breakfast.
Similarly, Afternoon is a two-part
commentary on one single moment shared by a man and a woman.
AB OVO_anita
kwiatkowska – naqvi_POLAND_2013_5min_animation
Imagine your
body stops being only yours. Someone starts to live inside you, changing the
rules, taking more and more space, a milimeter every day, not caring that he
almost makes you explode. Would you be able to love this thing and call it your
child?
STEVEN AND THE
BEETLE_piotr loc hoang ngoc_POLAND_2012_12min_animation
Is
there a place for friendship in the world dominated by callous health
rules?
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WORLDMIX>01
SUPERVENUS_frederic
doazan_2013_FRANCE_3min_animation
A plastic surgeon creates in real time the new Venus.
LEAP IN
TIME_andreas reisenbauer_AUSTRIA_2010_8min_fiction
A young woman and an elder man on a park bench – but something is wrong – a
filmic mediation about time and memory.
STOCKHOLM_alvaro
martin_SPAIN_2013_8min_fiction
Tomas lives in a small trailer on the outskirts of the city. One day at school he is
commissioned to write a short essay
about his father…
THE
DIVE_delphine le courtois_FRANCE_2013_10min_fiction
Thirteen
years old and on the edge of adulthood, a boy on a diving board faces the
unknown.
AQUARIUM_philippe
gregoire_CANADA_2013_15min_fiction
The end of a relationship revels the emptiness left in woman's life by the
one she loves.
RAKES'
COMMITMENT_santi veiga_SPAIN_2012_14min_fiction
Rakes' commitment is a parable, with a lighthearted and humorous tone,
about social commitment and love, an unusual and memorable character, who needs
to find something in life to commit to.
DAY>>>02
21>may>2014
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DOKUBAZAAR>02
PLEASE, LOVE ME
maja brnusakova_2012_slovakia_19min_documentary
The
story about one young woman who didn’t get love in her childhood. Now she has
been looking for a big love on all wrong places and destroying her own life.
SURVEY ABOUT
WOMEN
mateusz
glowacki_2012_poland_30min_documentary
A film about women recounted from young men’s point of view. This
humorous picture of young generation proves that the fairer sex is
a riddle males still cannot guess.
REALITY 2.0
victor orozco
ramirez_2012_germany/mexico_11min_documentary
It
was autumn when I arrived in Germany Mexico Mexico
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ZOOM AUSTRIA>02
DRAKE
Director: Christoph
Rainer
2006_5min_fiction/experiment
A car is driving down a deserted road and stops so that its
passengers, a man, a woman and a child, could enjoy a fiery-red sky at sunset
and cicadas' chirping.
WALRUS
Director: Christoph
Rainer
2008_5min_fiction
A text message bursts out the inner despair of a young man.
Director: Christoph
Rainer
2009_6min_documentary
A
physical portrait of the human battle for recognition. Wrestling for a
lifetime: Geri K. Richmond.
FOAL
Director: Christoph
Rainer
2011_15min_fiction
A young pregnant woman enthusiastically hurls herself into
her new family, but her husband is worried and uncertain about their marriage.
UNTITLED
BRAZIL
Director: Christoph Rainer
2012_12min_fiction/documentary
Inmidst hectic Rio de Janeiro
LEAP
IN TIME
Director: Andreas Reisenbauer
2010_8min_fiction
A young woman and an elder man on a park bench – but something is wrong – a
filmic mediation about time and memory.
REQUIEM
FOR A ROBOT
Director: Christoph Rainer
2013_6min_fiction
Tortured
by a recurring nightmare, an alcoholic robot has nothing left but a corrupt
memory. In order to find out what has happened, he returns to his creator.
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BALKAN FILM BAZAAR>02
HAPPY ENDING
STORY_vid mercun_SLOVENIA_2013_19min_fiction
Film captures a young girl who tries to find reasons for her gloomy state
of mind with hope for some greater meaning. Through the symbolism and
metaphysical view we observe her inner transformation.
A SMALL
TIME/SPACE DISCONTINUUM_goce cvetanovski_MACEDONIA_2013_14min_fiction
An accidental discontinuum in time and space gives unexpected results.
THE LAST CRY OF
THE DRAGON_jamil hendi_ROMANIA/GERMANY_2013_33min_fiction
Toma arrives home after a long day's work. He was laid off and has no idea
how to let his wife know. She gives him a bitter welcome: the upstairs neighbor
has been screaming all day and their one year old son doesn't stop crying...
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OSLOANIMA>ZOOM SWEDEN
TAKE TO THE WOODS
Out on the street, noisy traffic that never ends. Trying to close
it out, but inside grows a monster who wants to beat its way out.
Sweden_2011_6min_animation/experiment
Director: Kristina Frank
NEXT DOOR LETTERS
Lilja
and Sandra decide to play Melitta a prank by sending her a love letter signed
with an invented name – a boy’s. When Lilja receives a letter in return the
correspondence leads to something entirely else.
Sweden_2011_14min_animation
Director:
Sascha Fülscher
HIDDEN
The
sound is an interview with Giancarlo, a hidden refugee child, and the images
are animated. Giancarlo has no permit to stay in Sweden Peru
and to the school in Sweden
Sweden_2002_8min_animation/documentary
Director: David Aronowitsch&Hanna Heilborn
BENJAMIN’S FLOWERS
Benjamin’s
lack of love and company has placed him on the blurry borderline between
fantasy and reality, where it can be hard to understand what’s real and not.
Sweden_2012_12min_animation
Director:
Malin Erixon
SLAVES
The conversations with two freed children from southern
Sudan, who were kidnapped by a government-supported militia and forced into
slavery.
Sweden_2008_15min_animation/documentary
Director: David Aronowitsch&Hanna Heilborn
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WORLDMIX>02
SILENCES OF A
GESTURE_pedro sousa_PORTUGAL_2014_5min_experiment/documentary
Capturing a moment that inevitably the time will erase.
DAYBREAK_george ungar_2013_CANADA_7min_experiment/animation
»Opening our eyes each new day, we stare for a few minutes into space,
seeing the first hearing the first sounds. It is neither night nor day
something in – between.«
MINERITA_raul de
la fuente_SPAIN/BOLIVIA_2013_27min_documentary
Cerro Rico in Potosi (Bolivia) is a lawless territory, characterised by
brutal violence. The miners risk their lives every day, digging for silver and
zinc in crumbling galleries. The ones that survive think they are entitled to
anything and everything.
NGUTU_felipe del
olmo/daniel valledor_SPAIN_2012_5min_fiction
Ngutu is a newspaper street vendor who hardly sells any copies at all.
Resentful, he starts watching the passerby closely in order to make progress in
his business.
VIGIA_marcel
barelli_SWITZERLAND_2013_8min_animation
»My grandfather is telling me a story that he made out, and asks me to make
a film out of it: because of the pollution, pesticides, and other toxic
substances, a bee decided to leave her hive, looking for a more comfortable
place for her to move in.«
DJI. DEATH
FAILS_dmitri voloshin_MOLDAVIA_2012_4min_animation
Dji is a terribly unlucky grim reaper. All he has to do is to collect the
soul of a dying man.
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OSLO SHORT CUTS
2014 international short film days and
film festival in Oslo is presenting newest international short and documentary
film productions to wide Oslo audiences at art venue SOUND OF MU>>>markveien_58>>>www.soundofmu.no
During two film
days between the 20th and 21st of May 2014 the festival will present a
selection of newest short and documentary films of different styles and
approaches from young film directors from many different countries and the
programming represents a glimpse into the current, mostly independent and non –
commercial international filmmaking. Final programming includes newest
international short and documentary film productions from different countries
with special focus on Austrian, Polish and Swedish filmmakers in the upcoming
2nd edition of OSLO SHORT CUTS film short&doc film days in Oslo. All films will be screened in original languages with
English subtitles.
Production of OSLO SHORT CUTS 2014 is being organized and
coordinated by European short film festival Ljubljana
International Short Film Festival >www.lisff.blogspot.com< (Slovenia) which is annually and continually
presenting young international, European and Balkan cinema in Ljubljana
(Slovenia) as well as other countries and cities in Europe>>>
Entrance to all screenings is free>>>