THE END IS NEAR
4., 9., 11. and 12.12. 2019
Christmas and the end of the year can be a trying time. The crowds are trying to trample you in shopping malls, stuffed Santa Clauses smile maniacally overhead, your liver stiffening from the flood of Christmas parties and the glucometer bursting from piles of candy. So, iShorts decided to end 2019 with one big Apocalypse. A series of films about future worlds, the days of solar eclipse or personal endings and their private consequences. The Big Bang will come in December and experience it with us.
CARGO (AUSTRALIA)
Directors: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke | Producers: Daniel Foeldes, Ben Howling, Marcus Newman, Yolanda Ramke |
Star: Andy Rodoreda, Alison Gallagher, Ruth Venn |
Year: 2015 | Length: 7 min | Live Action |
Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect his infant daughter.
PANDAS (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
Director: Matúš Vizár | Producer: Peter Badač |
Year: 2012 | Length: 12 min | Animation |
The story of the species that everybody takes care of.
MILTON (USA)
Director: Tim Wilkime | Producer: Pamela Robison |
Star: Elaine Carroll, John Ennis, Robert Evans |
Year: 2019 | Length: 11 min | Live Action |
Nothing lasts forever, except first impressions.
BIOPUNK (UK)
Director: Liam Garvo
| Producer: James Heath |
Star: Katie Sheridan, Charlie Jones, Benjamin Tuttlebee |
Year: 2017 | Length: 7 min | Live Action |
Set in a dystopian London in 2054, corporate gene hacking has gone terribly wrong and killed billions of people while mutating others into something other than human.
NINE LIVES (Czech Republic)
Director: Vojtěch Papp | Producer: FAMO Písek |
Star: Elaine Carroll, John Ennis, Robert Evans |
Year: 2019 | Length: 8 min | Animation |
„I’m an old, grumpy cat. Everybody hates me and I hate everybody. I hate this day just like all the other days. But I think this day will be the last one. Yes, today I will end it all. How hard can it be to end up with life?“ Well, harder than it seems, my friend.
BREAKER (JAPAN)
Director: Philippe McKie | Producer: Philippe McKie |
Star: Allie Hanzawa, Kazuya Shimizu, Yuka Tomatsu |
Year: 2017 | Length: 11 min | Live Action |
In tomorrow's Tokyo, the technologically-enhanced body of a young mercenary hacker is overrun by a sentient data weapon. Wanted, the parasitic A.I becomes her only ally as she is chased across the city by those seeking to salvage it.
LOST WORLD (CAMBODIA/SINGAPORE)
Director: Kalyanee Mam | Producers: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Adam Loften, Kalyanee Mam |
Star: Vy Phalla, Vy Seyrah, Ming Pheap |
Year: 2018 | Length: 16 min | Documentary film |
As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia's mangrove forests, an ecosystem, a communal way of life, and one woman's relationship to her beloved home are faced with the threat of erasure.
SOULS OF TOTALITY (UK/USA)
Director: Richard Raymond | Producers: James Mitchell, Nousha Raymond, Richard Raymond, John Trefry |
Star: Tatiana Maslany, Tom Cullen, Joseph Ollman |
Year: 2018 | Length: 19 min | Live Action |
Set during the Great American Eclipse, this is a story about the sacrifices we make for love and the intensity of a looming moment that can change everything.
Total length of the screening 90 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
