The SHORT MATTERS! programme will be screened at a series of festivals around the world. Details will follow.
See the full tour schedule for 2011here.
PROGRAMME
EFA Short Film Nominee Ghent 2011
BERIK
Denmark, 16 min., fiction
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Daniel Joseph Borgman
PRODUCED BY: Katja Adomeit
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Niels Buchholzer
EDITOR: Dan Loghin
SOUND DESIGN: Frank Mølgaard Knudsen
ORIGINAL SCORE: Jonas Colstrup
CAST: Berik Sysdikow, Adil Mukataev, Abdi Iskakov & Aziz Kaliev
A short drama about friendship and understanding, taking place in Semey, Kazakhstan. Berik, 33, blind and deformed due to radiation poisoning, spends his days at home alone, while his brother is at work. That is until Adil, 11, the smallest and least popular of the kids in the apartment block, turns up on Berik’s doorstep looking for the local bully’s football, which he has lost.
EFA Short Film Nominee Valladolid 2011
SMÅ BARN, STORA ORD (Little Children, Big Words)
Sweden, 12 min., fiction
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Lisa James Larsson
PRODUCED BY: Andreas Emanuelsson
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Frida Wendel
EDITOR: Roberth Nordh
SOUND: Kim Creutzer & Sarah Jansson Patient
CAST: Cecilia Milocco, Axel Andersson & Polly Kisch
When it’s Alex’s turn to tell his seven year old class mates what he wants to be when he grows up an uncomfortable discussion begins about the meaning of an unknown but loaded word. The teacher’s explanation reveals her own story – a story of victim and offender.
EFA Short Film Nominee Cork 2011
HÄNDELSE VID BANK (Incident by a Bank)
Sweden, 12 min., fiction
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & EDITED BY: Ruben Östlund
PRODUCED BY: Marie Kjellson & Erik Hemmendorff
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Marius Dybwad Brandrud
ART DIRECTION: Pia Aleborg
SOUND: Jan Alvermark
MIX: Owe Svensson & Jan Alvermark / Studio 24
CAST: Henrik Vikman, Lars Melin, Bahador Foladi, Ramtin Parvaneh, Leif Edlund Johansson & Rasmus Lindgren
A detailed and humorous real-time account of a failed bank robbery, an observation of how people react to the unexpected. Shot in a single take and with over 96 people meticulously choreographed, the film recreates an actual event that took place in 2006.
EFA Short Film Nominee Bristol 2011
DERBY
Romania, 15 min., fiction
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY: Paul Negoescu
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Andrei Butica
EDITOR: Alexandru Radu
SOUND: Dan-Stefan Rucareanu, Filip Muresan
ORIGINAL SCORE: Roxana Mocanu
CAST: Bogdan Voda, Maria Mitu, Nicolas Teodorescu & Clara Voda
Mircea has a 15-year-old daughter whose boyfriend is invited to dine with the family. He arrives earlier and they go to her bedroom. While watching TV, Mircea can hear his daughter moaning from her room. The dinner starts and Mircea finds out that the boyfriend supports a different football team.
EFA Short Film Nominee Angers 2011
JESSI
Germany, 31 min., fiction
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Mariejosephin Schneider
PRODUCED BY: Hartmut Bitomsky, Bodo Knapheide & Maximilian Müllner
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jenny Lou Ziegel
EDITOR: Inge Schneider
SOUND: Benny Dunker
ORIGINAL SCORE: Robert Rabenalt, Marian Mentrup
CAST: Luzie Ahrens, Sophie Rogall, Jasmin Rischar & Michaela Hinnenthal
11-year-old Jessi lives with a foster family, her mother is in prison. Her longing for identity takes her back to the village she grew up in. Here she discovers that her search will have to continue beyond the confines of her old life.
EFA Short Film Nominee Rotterdam 2011
I LUPI (The Wolves)
Italy/the Netherlands, 17 min., documentary
WRITTEN, DIRECTED, FILMED, EDITED & PRODUCED BY: Alberto De Michele
I LUPI (The Wolves) are a group of 40- to 70-year-old thieves from the north of Italy.
The only time they steal is when there’s a dense fog that makes everything invisible, including them. They rob houses, banks, jewellers, trucks – anything they can profit from. The video I LUPI was made in collaboration with the Wolves themselves and the artist’s father.
EFA Short Film Nominee Berlin 2011
ÅTERFÖDELSEN (The Unliving)
Sweden, 28 min., fiction
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Hugo Lilja
PRODUCED BY: Bonnie Skoog Feeney
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Benjam Orre
EDITOR: Rickard Krantz
SOUND: Johanna Printz
ORIGINAL SCORE: Sebastian Lakatos
CAST: Emelie Jonsson, Jonatan Rodriguez, Anneli Martini, Anna Uddenberg, Albin Grenholm, Peter Järn, Jacob Molin, Fredrik Wagner & Justus Petterson
Thirty years after a zombie outbreak, people have started taming and using the zombies as cheap workforce. A young couple, Katrine and Mark, struggle with the tedious everyday life of dirty zombie catching, bloody lobotomy experiments and a relationship on the verge of falling apart.
EFA Short Film Nominee Tampere 2011
APELE TAC (Silent River)
Germany/Romania, 30 min., fiction
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Anca Miruna Lăzărescu
PRODUCED BY: David Lindner Leporda, Daniel Schmidt & Catalin Mitulescu
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Christian Stangassinger
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Cinzia Fossati & Dragos Epure
EDITOR: Dan Olteanu
RECORDING SUPERVISORS: Thorsten Bolzé, Alexandru Dragomir
CAST: Toma Cuzin, Andi Vasluianu, Patricia Moga, Marius Ursu, Doru Oniga, Catalin Oniga & Branko Tomovic
Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Both need each other, yet there is mutual distrust. One night Gregor finds his doubts confirmed. In the end only hope is left.
EFA Short Film Nominee Cracow 2011
PAPARAZZI
Poland, 33 min., documentary
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Piotr Bernaś
PRODUCED BY: Adam Ślesicki
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Dominika Płazińska
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Łukasz Żal & Piotr Bernaś
EDITORS: Marek Skrzecz & Piotr Bernaś
SOUND: Dariusz Wancerz
The film presents a behind-the-scenes look at a much derided profession. PAPARAZZI is the first Polish film to explore this topic. Bernaś looks at some of the most significant media incidents in Poland in 2010 from the point of view of the paparazzi – from the hunt for Roman Polanski to the Smoleńsk plane crash. However, in the foreground we see the dramatic story of a man who makes controversial choices on a daily basis, and who consequently pays a heavy emotional, personal and ethical price. The main protagonist appears to be as ruthless towards himself as towards the world in which he hunts.
EFA Short Film Nominee Grimstad 2011
LA GRAN CARRERA (The Great Race)
Spain, 7 min., fiction
DIRECTED & EDITED BY: Kote Camacho
WRITTEN BY: Kote Camacho, based on an original idea by Asier Altuna
PRODUCED BY: Marian Fernández Pascal
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, SOUND & ANIMATION: Kote Camacho
ART DIRECTION: Ander Lendinez CAST: Eriz Alberdi, Iñaki Urrutia, Charly Urbina, Puri Urretabizkaia, Ana Elordi, Joseba Apaolaza, Aitor Mendizabal, Eider Pikabea, Mikel Díez, Pedro Arnáez, Toni Sánchez, Pilar Guerra, Matxalen de Pedro, Beñat Mendizabal & Andoni Mendizabal
1914: a horrible crime is suddenly committed in the Lasarte racetrack. How it happened is a mystery. Only one thing is for sure: best horses in the world have registered, and heavy betters have gathered for a race with a never-before-seen prize for the winning horse: the half-million Grand Prize.
EFA Short Film Nominee Vila do Conde 2011
DIMANCHES (Sundays)
Belgium, 16 min., fiction
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Valéry Rosier
PRODUCED BY: Nicolas Guiot, Valéry Rosier & Fred De Loof
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Olivier Boonjing
EDITOR: Nicolas Rumpl
SOUND: Arnaud Calvar
CAST: Germaine Dervaux, Jonathan Masure, Fernande Delcroix, Odette Beaudart, Monique Parent, Andrée Vanopdenbosch, André Delcroix, Jean-Louis Lejeune, Muriel Deghelt, André Caron, José Delroisse, Denise Lhotte, André Lefèbvre & Grégory Masquelier-Huys
Sundays or how Mankind faces the passage of time.
That free time we are trying to fill at all costs.
That same time we look at passing by, with laughter or boredom.
EFA Short Film Nominee Sarajevo 2011
TSE (Out)
Israel, 35 min., fiction
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Roee Rosen
PRODUCED BY: Sharon Benraf & Roee Rosen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Avner Shahaf
EDITOR: Max Lomberg
SOUND: Binya Reches
CAST: Ela Shapira, Yoana Gonen, Igor Krutogolov & Boris Martzinovsky
A BDSM session turns into a political exorcism when the submissive responds to the blows by spewing out quotes of Israel’s minister of foreign affairs, Avigdor Lieberman. The film, concentrating on the theme of possession, is a hybrid of a fictional scene harking to horror movies.
EFA Short Film Nominee Locarno 2011
OPOWIEŚCI Z CHŁODNI (Frozen Stories)
Poland, 26 min., fiction
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Grzegorz Jaroszuk
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Marcin Władyniak
EDITOR: Barbara Fronc
ORIGINAL SCORE: Michał Marecki
ART DIRECTION: Magda Samborska
CAST: Justyna Wasilewska, Piotr Żurawski, Andrzej Walden & Piotr Trojan
The worst employees of a supermarket have to find goal in their life. They have two days to make it.
EFA Short Film Nominee Venice 2011
HYPERCRISIS
Austria 2011, 17 min., experimental
WRITTEN, DIRECTED, Edited & PRODUCED BY: Josef Dabernig
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Christian Giesser
SOUND: Elisabeth Hildebrandt & Michael Palm
CAST: Harutyun Alpetyan, Arusiak Arevshatyan, Eduard Arevshatyan, Ruben Arevshatyan, Shushan Arevshatyan, Josef Dabernig, Wolfgang Dabernig, Angela Dolidze, Alfons Egger, Goschka Gawlik, Isabella Hollauf, Zaruhi Hovhannisyan, Christian Kravagna, Gagik Nshanyan, Karen Poghosyan, Daniel Shvelidze, Konstantin Shvelidze, Murtaz Shvelidze, Ingeburg Wurzer & Otto Zitko
The former recreation home for Soviet cinematographers in the South Caucasus has been re-purposed to accommodate writers. But that does not seem to work very well either. At present, only Boris Martow from Moscow, a talent from the promising times of the perestroika, is on the guest list.
Amidst the faded glory of the institution for privileged artists, the poet tries to overcome his continuing creative crisis.
EFA Short Film Nominee Drama 2011
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2011
THE WHOLLY FAMILY
Italy, 20 min., fiction
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Terry Gilliam
PRODUCED BY: Gabriele Oricchio & Amy Gilliam
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Nicola Pecorini
EDITOR: Mick Audsley
SOUND: Andre Jacquemin
CAST: Cristiana Capotondi, Douglas Dean, Nicolas Connolly, Sergio Solli, Nico Cirasola, Renato de Maria & Antonino Iuorio
A crowded street in Naples city center, plenty of shops selling presepi.
A wealthy American couple and Jake, their 10 year-old child, try to push their way through the crowd. While husband and wife argue which street to take, the boy is unwillingly separated from them and taken on a dreamlike journey between reality and imagination throughout the most hidden places and symbols of Naples.