SHORT MATTERS! (the last five)
5.12. and 11.12. 2013
At the beginning of January, Berlin will be hosting the annual European Film Awards. One of the fifteen short films that were awarded by festivals in Berlin, Rotterdam, Venice, Locarno and other cities will be chosen as the best one. For the first time in the Czech Republic, all fifteen selected shorts will be screened during three screenings taking place just before the announcement of the winner. Come and see them all before the one is known!
MORNING (UK/Ireland)
Cork Short Film Nominee:
Director: Cathy Brady | Producers: Sarah Woolner, Cathy Brady
Star: Eileen Walsh, Johnny Harris
Year: 2013 | Length: 20 min | Live Action
Star: Eileen Walsh, Johnny Harris
Year: 2013 | Length: 20 min | Live Action
A distraught woman doesn’t want to be disturbed, but the front doorbell keeps ringing and the caller won’t leave until she answers.
BUTTER LAMP (France/China)
Tampere Short Film Nominee:
Director: Hu Wei | Producers: Julien Féret, Yangxu Zhou
Star: Genden Punstok
Year: 2013 | Length: 15 min | Live Action
Year: 2013 | Length: 15 min | Live Action
A young photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them. On diverse and more or less exotic backgrounds, families present themselves to the photographer, through these shots,
the photographer will weave unique
links with each of the various villagers.LETTER (Russia/the Netherlands)
Krakow Short Film Nominee:
Director: Sergei Loznitsa | Producers: Maria Choustova-Baker, Sergei Loznitsa
Year: 2012 | Length: 20 min | Documentary
Year: 2012 | Length: 20 min | Documentary
A remote village in the North-West of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilisation. In this pristine setting no articulate human voice is heard, and pain is muted.
HOUSES WITH SMALL WINDOWS (Belgium)
Venice Short Film Nominee:
Directors: Bülent Öztürk | Producers: Bülent Öztürk, Mizgin Müjde Arslan
Star: Mizgin Müjde Arslan, Seyithan Altiparmak, Emine Korkmaz
Year: 2013 | Length: 15 min | Live Action
Year: 2013 | Length: 15 min | Live Action
22-year old Dilan pays for her forbidden love for a young man in a neighbouring village with her life. She has shamed the family and therefore must die at the hands of her own brothers. And as tradition will have it, the killing must be compensated.
A STORY FOR THE MODLINS (UK)
Sarajevo Short Film Nominee:
Director: Sergio Oksman | Producer: Sergio Oksman
Year: 2012 | Length: 26 min | Documentary
After appearing in the film ROSEMARY’S BABY by Roman Polanski, Elmer Modlin ran away with his family to a distant land where they lock themselves inside a dark apartment for thirty years.
Total lenght of the screening 97 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
