SHORT MATTERS!
7., 13., and 14.12. 2016
Do you want to see the best short films in Europe? We do, too! Let's check out the selection of the best European short films according to the European Film Academy! And then we can start betting on which one will win the European Oscar this year!
HOME (Kosovo/UK)
Vila do Conde Short Film Nominee
Director: Daniel Mulloy | Producers: Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke, Matthias Wermke |
Star: Jack O'Connell, Holliday Grainger, Tahliya Lowles |
Year: 2016 | Length: 20 min | Live Action |
Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family leave, on what appears to be a holiday.
SMALL TALK (Norway)
Tampere Short Film Nominee
Directors: Even Hafnor, Lisa Brooke Hansen | Producer: J.M. Puntervold |
Star: Hamza Ahmed, Eivind Bøksle, Hanne Dalane |
Year: 2015 | Length: 21 min | Live Action |
Welcome to the Dvergsnes family! In this short film we follow the Dvergsnes family from Kristiansand, Norway, through three events that took place during the fall and winter of 2014.
THE GOODBYE (Spain)
Valladolid Short Film Nominee
Director: Clara Roquet | Producers: Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Danielle Schleif |
Star: Júlia Danés, Mercè Pons, Jenny Rios |
Year: 2015 | Length: 15 min | Live Action |
A Bolivian maid attempts to honor her late mistress's last wishes.
90 DEGREES NORTH (Germany)
Cork Short Film Nominee
Director: Detsky Graffam | Producer: Marianne Graffam |
Star: Carsten Clemens, Stefan Dietrich, Jürgen Haug |
Year: 2015 | Length: 21 min | Live Action |
A 30-sth. businessman gets stuck on a man-eating traffic island in the middle of a forest for an entire year.
Edmond (UK)
Uppsala Short Film Nominee
Director: Nina Gantz | Producer: Emilie Jouffroy |
Year: 2015 | Length: 10 min | Animation |
A stop motion film about an oddball felted character who slips through floors into the past and the deepest parts of his psyche in his pursuit of self-understanding.
A MAN RETURNED (UK/Lebanon/Denmark/the Netherlands)
Berlin Short Film Nominee
Director: Mahdi Fleifel | Producers: Patrick Campbell, Mahdi Fleifel |
Star: Reda Al-Saleh |
Year: 2015 | Length: 30 min | Documentary Film |
Reda’s dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh ended after being deported from Greece. He returned with a heroin addiction. The camp was being torn apart by internal strife. Against all odds he decides to marry his childhood sweetheart. A love story, as bittersweet as the camp itself.
Total length of the screening 116 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
