FEMME FATALE
Prague
Attractive, seductive… Capable of almost supernatural power of men-charming and enthralling. Sometimes she can become a victim when trapped in a desperate situation. That is Femme Fatale. And that is also the April iShorts screening which will present this wonderful figure from various perspectives of short film creators.
MY FIRST CLAIRE (USA)
Screen Writer and Director: Lou Howe
Star: Brandon Killham, Toni Wynne and Miles Fisher
Year: 2010 | Length: 18 min | Live action
11-year-old Teddy is confused as his parents are getting divorced and his friends are discovering girls. But when his new babysitter arrives, the beautiful and carefree Claire, he sets out to learn a thing or two about the opposite sex.
LOVE COMES BY LOOKING (NETHERLANDS)
Director: Mark de Cloe
Star: Sylvia Hoeks
Year: 2011 | Length: 4 min | Live action
From the „Life is Beautiful“ short film series about the little things in life.
EDINA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
Director: Nora Lakos
Star: Eszter Tompa, Boris Ler, Amina Begovic
Year: 2011 | Length: 18 min | Live action
Edina, is a playful story on a one night stand of a writer and his own creature.
PRECIOUS (GERMANY)
Director: Monica Menez
Star: Katherin Heck, Marco Fisher
Year: 2011 | Length: 3 min | Fashion film
Fashion film where modern girlfriend is baking a pizza in a very „sexy“ way
PETITE PUTE (FRANCE)
Director: Claudine Natkin
Star: Laurie Lévêque, Loïc Brabant, Florence-Iris Bouloc, Jean-Damien Détouillon
Year: 2011 | Length: 27 min | Live action
Léa is twenty years old. Léa works in the fishmonger's shop at the local supermarket. This evening, Léa would indeed like to go out: drink beers, smoke joints, let off steam with good music. But is is not going to happen like that. This evening, Léa is going to live for very first time.
YOU AND ME (GERMANY)
Director: Karsten Krause
Year: 2009 | Length: 4 min | Experimental
A woman is walking towards her husband's camera through four decades. A love story accompanied by the voice of another woman, reading a poem by E.E. Cummings. Touching, easy and poetic.
MILA CAOS (CUBA/GERMANY)
Director: Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau
Star: Yaniel Castillo, Rebecca Rodriguez Aragón, Paula Ali, Estrellita
Year: 2011 | Length: 18 min | Live action
Every weekend at an illegal drag show in a suburb of Havana, Sebastian, a 17-year-old Cuban teenager, transforms into „Mila Caos“. He suffers from his mother's indifference and dreams that she will see him on stage one day.
50–50 (AUSTRALIA)
Screen Writer and Director: Megan Riakos
Star: Jess McNamee, Oliver Ackland and Les Chantery
Year: 2011 | Length: 15 min | Live action
50–50 follows Nellie Cameron, a real life prostitute famous on the streets of Sydney in the 1920’s and 30’s. Nellie enjoys the perks of her world, the drugs, the money, the fame, but in her game she can’t afford to love.
Screening in English or with English subtitles.
