HELSINKI SHORT CUTS
9_10_APRIL_2011
Kino Engel_helsinki
DAY 1
09_april_2011
16_00 > 18_00 BALKAN FILM BAZAAR_01
18_00 > 20_00 ZOOM AUSTRIA
20_00 > 22_00 ZOOM GERMANY_01
22_00 > 24_00 ZOOM SPAIN
DAY 2
10_april_2011
16_00 > 18_00 WORLDS_01
18_00 > 20_00 BALKAN FILM BAZAAR_02
20_00 > 22_00 ZOOM GERMANY_02
22_00 > 24_00 WORLDS_02
PROGRAMME
09_april_2011
BALKAN FILM BAZAAR01
16_00 > 18_00
I SPEAK TRUE THINGS_marko tadic_6min_CROATIA_2010_animation
Stories about the island circulated around Europe for centuries, telling that it was the promissed land of the saints, an eartly paradise where fairies and magicians lived. This is a story of a life long search for the island.
THE COMPASSIONATE SAMARITAN_boban poposki_17min_MACEDONIA_2010_documentary
Tragic story about a child’s life. Moments of fights with the destiny, days filled with pain and hope. Parents of a 9 year old boy suffering a rear disease reveal the story of their fight, how everything began and what they’ve been through. “Jovan won’t die. Jovan will be the most beautiful child, just as he was before”. His mother ends the documentary shading tears.
SUPERCOOL_goran radovanovic_5min_SERBIA_2010_animation
While the house lady is away, the laundry machine tears the socks to shreds and the SuperCool brand glove comes to clear her mess and grows the socks back.
VIVE LA CRISE!_alexei gubenco_3min_ROMANIA_2009_animation
Deforestation, property development, pollution, money, and a lot of food - all this is going to change... The economic crisis is coming!
THAT’S OUR CHILD_elma islamovic_15min_Bosnia&Herzegovina_2010_documentary
Sasa, Jasenko and Alma are gay people living in Sarajevo and Tuzla, talking about their 'coming out' process, relationships with parents, friends and boyfriends/girlfriends. Sasa’s parents gave up on him when he told them he was gay. Alex is a transsexual, in the process of transition, and still needs to tell his father about process. Subject of gay people (and transsexual also) in Bosnia and Herzegovina is huge tabboo, and this film opens up the necessery dialogue between these people and those who are strogly against something they apparently don’t understand and don’t wish to understand.
RECYCLING_branko istvancic_15min_CROATIA_2010_fiction
Early in the morning Roma minority family goes from the European city periphery to the city dump collecting goods. They found almost new garment, suit and tie. They put clothes on their eldest son Safet and together with the neighbours go to the most modern factory for recycling in the city. It is Safets’ first working day.
MR. CEVDETS’ CARNATION_selin togay_15min_TURKEY_2010_fiction
Cevdet is the crazy man of the town. He falls in love with a plastic manqueen. But something goes in wrong way. And one day, he sees his lover with another man.
STANKA GOES HOME_maya vitkova_15min_BULGARIA_2010_fiction
When Mrs. Stanka Atanasova, an elderly and sick woman, enters her block of flats, she discovers that the elevator is out of order. Stanka must use the stairs to get to the ninth floor, and what for most of us is a simple task, becomes a challenge for her.
SHADOW_bilgi diren gunes_7min_TURKEY_2010_experiment
We usually put away our past memories in the dusty corners of our mind and forget about them for a while. When the time comes, these memories come crashing back and they play shadow games on our mind...
CHOCOLATE CAKE_dorotea vucic_15min_CROATIA_2010_fiction
After her husband's death, Višnja is left with no one to cook for. Her children have left and she cannot see any meaning in life anymore. Shortly after she meets a „petty“ thief Stalone and asks him for a favor. But her plan soon goes sour...
ZOOM AUSTRIA
18_00 > 20_00
MASKS_kawo reland_16min_AUSTRIA_2008_fiction
LUCY_christiane dorner_4min_AUSTRIA_2008_animation
Lucy is about a young woman who has troubles coping with her life and retreats to her own world. After she realizes what’s going on within herself, she tries to escape and starts fighting a battle between rationality and fear.
COMES LOVE_marc jago_29min_AUSTRIA_2009_fiction
Three women, three men, 36 sleepless hours. War and peace. Melancholy and joy. “Comes love and nothing can be done.“ (Billie Holiday)
TILL YOU DIE_alex k. lee_25min_AUSTRIA_2008_fiction/experiment
It is said that dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire -- and which dance could be better suited than tango to express a myriad of emotions like confusion, happiness, anger, love, or resignation? The film begins with a young woman dying in the streets. When she awakes, she believes that she escaped a bad dream, but her normal life turns out to be a continuation of her bad dream, until she has to realize that death has entered her life uninvited a long time ago, catching her in a cycle only she can end.
CATAFALAQUE_christoph rainer_12min_AUSTRIA_2009_fiction
Two brothers attempt to hide from their tyrannous father in the shadows of a dark basement in Catafalque.
LITTLE WORLD_marco f. zimprich_19min_AUSTRIA_2009_fiction
Sebastian's world revolves around old vinyls, his home and a pretty counter girl working in a vintage record store. As days go by, their worlds will never be the same.
FAWN_christoph rainer_6min_AUSTRIA_2007_fiction/experiment
A dystopia of smashed images. Black in grey in black flickers gently over the screen. A physical force emerges of the unarticulated movements of contours and shadows. And besides that, there’s a slack-jawed, fable girl trying to reconstruct her relationship to the world as a silhouette.
SISTER_michael rittmannsberger_6min_AUSTRIA_2010_fiction/experiment
A couple takes their two daughters to the seaside. It is an ordinary day until one of the girls disappears and drowns. The parents cannot bear the loss and their other daughter goes searching for her sister. She appears to be in shock and does not even shed a tear; her eyes mirror guilt, fear and loneliness.
ZOOM GERMANY01
20_00 > 22_00
BIRDLAND_jimmy grassiant_7min_GERMANY_2009_fiction
A girl and a man - a duel and a duet. The girl with the saxophone has a dream: She wants to become a star, she wants the big show and the big breakthrough. But there’s this special guy with the saxophone getting in Sophie’s way, again and again. Who will win, who will lose?
CHORD_simon rauh_12min_GERMANY_2008_experiment
"Nocturnal-blue figures move through a dark, abstract landscape, their motions jerky and sharply-awkward – animated sculptures as dream and trance-like inscapes of the living. Three dancers, formerly with the Staatstheater Darmstadt’s company, are the protagonists of this surreal film. Its spell-binding allure stems from use of the pixilation technique, whereby the dancers dramatically slowed down their movements – to one step in two minutes – and the thousands of stills taken of them were composed into the alienating sequences we see. The result resonates as a 12 minute-long chord composed of movement, minimalist sound and shimmering colors; a mythical drama of archetypes 'die Androgyne, die Weibliche, die Starke' [the androgynous, the feminine, the strong] (Simon Rauh). Yet for all its enigmatic nature, the film is steeped in the great cinematic mysteries of Departure, Discovery, Self-discovery; Danger and Suffering; Drama and Tragedy. An atmospheric nocturne, the film has a hypnotic, reverberating lure – and is aesthetically a delight."
THE LOVERS_caroline kox_22min_GERMANY_2009_fiction
Two young musicians travel to the country side to record their music. Another friend is visiting them, they get drunk, lost and wild. „The lovers“ is a film about young men finding their ways and about an intimate friendship between two talented musicians.
THE HOUR OF THE MATRONS’_jurgen eckloff_16min_GERMANY_2008_animation
A mysterious landscape inhabited by the Matrone's. Words and letters cross the way, a river and a balloon. The circle of life is the hour of the Matrone's!
OUTRAGE_theo solnik_22min_GERMANY_2009_fiction
Voluntarily imprisoned in a love nourished by dependency and jealousy, the Finnish tango singer Helena sees suddenly the possibility to show her destiny a new way to take. After several briefings with her best friend Aino, which just can’t spare her for the details of her almost sportive meetings with her lovers, Helena
TERRITORY_wei hou_2min_GERMANY_2009_animation
Based on a Taoist fable, this animation tells the story of the battle for more territories between two countries, all on tiny snail horns. HUGE and TINY are not only visual but psychological effects.
FAMILY PLANNING_willy rollé_10min_GERMANY_2009_fiction
Two people get a child, that was ordered at the enterprise “GenTech BDB”. JOSEPH did not know anything about this order. He does not want the child and begins to argue with MARY. The quarrel is so strong that the man and the woman call their relationship into question.
ZOOM SPAIN
22_00 > 24_00
CABARET KADNE_anna solanas & marc riba_5min_SPAIN_2008_animation
Otto and Lola, two cabaret artists, fill their lives with their passion: acting.
THE HOMOGENICS_gerard freixes ribera_4min_SPAIN_2010_experiment
We are becoming stereotypes. The same people living in uniformized houses. This family sitcom is an extreme example of all this.
ON A DAY IN APRIL_claire walka_3min_SPAIN_2009_experiment
In a fragmentary, associative and kaleidoscopic way the film shows memories of a happy and important time that two young lovers had together beginning on a day in April and maybe going on till today. A visual mixture of real video, animations and modified photographs.
Mental leaps, leaps in time, emotions and insights.
Mental leaps, leaps in time, emotions and insights.
360º_maja djokic_9min_SPAIN_2009_fiction
A young woman is followed by somebody on a busy morning in a big city. Her reaction is rather unusual…
CASUAL_aitor echeverria_9min_SPAIN_2008_fiction
In the awakening of the district, the music of the daily actions brings us over to persons who coexist and are not known. Lives that the coincidence joins or that the routine separates.
THE STORYMAKER_josé gómez gallego_15min_SPAIN_2009_fiction
"With my hammer I forge the story of every life, of every person. The most wonderful moments, the most humble, the most fabulous... All of them have been conceived by me."
THE DAM_jorge rivero_16min_SPAIN_2009_documentary
In 1946 one of the most colossal projects ever undertaken in Europe was begun: the construction of the Salime reservoir in a remote mountainous part of Asturias
5 MEMORIES_alejandra marquez & oriana alcaine_12min_SPAIN_2009_fiction
Who has never had the experience of forgetting something that is totally obvious? Irma, for example, can’t think of the fifth and last ingredient of her well-loved fish soup. So she embarks on a journey to her subconscious that proves to be wonderfully surreal, playfully imaginative and colorful.
LA TAMA_martin costa_19min_SPAIN_2009_fiction
Tama is a troubled teenager. Tired of constantly fighting with her mother, she takes off on a journey with no return.
NEW TIMES_jorge dorado_18min_SPAIN_2010_documentary
Kine and Aliou are two young Senegalese with the same dream: to found a family. But every dream involves a risk, and each one will face it their own way.
10_april_2011
WORLDS01
16_00 > 18_00
DAISY CUTTER_enrique garcia & ruben salazar_7min_SPAIN_2010_animation
Daisy Cutter tells the story of a ten years old girl, Zaira, who (like many others) experiences the injustice of war, with the perspective that her tender and naive eyes allow her. Zaira gathers daisies every day for a friend that she misses; so as not to forget him, so as not to lose him.
HAPPY PURCHASE_zhora kryzhovnikov_8min_RUSSIA_2010_fiction
Near future. Human-like robots are in open market. Sveta acquires a nice Robot to solve her personal problems. Robot is tuned up automatically to fit the owner’s character. But she is on her way to know who she truly needs.
AMAR_isabel herguera_8min_SPAIN_2010_animation
Inés travels to India
PANTA RHEI_amos holzman_21min_ISRAEL_2010_fiction
Two days in the life of Arik, 17 years old. Sharp cuts between scenes in school, his relationships and the military recruiting office.
THE REFEREE_mattias low_29min_SWEDEN_2010_documentary
Swedish soccer referee Martin Hansson had a successful journey towards his vision in life, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Then one dark night in Paris on November 18th, 2009, all hell broke loose...
PEAL_amin taghipour_5min_IRAN_2010_animation
An old man is wandering in snowy field and trying to hunt birds by throwing stones. After him in the same place a young fellow comes and hunt many birds and unknown creatures by his gun in barbaric way. But mystically he is killed by old man.
It is one day in the life of two friends Moscovites. Their Moscow
BALKAN FILM BAZAAR02
18_00 > 20_00
THE VEIL_omer cacan_8min_TURKEY_2009_fiction
The Veil is a story of women who became mothers when they were still children themselves. A story of an endless cycle of desperation, that turns into a kind of destiny. It is a story of silent acquiescence. Cemile lives in a sod-roofed house in a distant village. Her story finishes in one long dark night. In one long and dark night, it starts over again.
HOW TO DEAL WITH NONSENSE_veronica solomon_5min_ROM/GER_2010_animation
Does the world seem to you coherent and comprehensible? ... But why struggle to understand when we can joyfully slide through so many layers of nonsense... The Spherical Mother Superior keeps the broth boiling and the steam rising, and all the rumors will be taken to the Great Hamster in the sky. And then...? Don’t worry, there’s a happy end.
THE SON_dimitris nakos_6min_GREECE_2010_fiction
The parents of an eight years old boy, listening embarrassed to his questions, answer with a funny “non-frankness”. When the son became a father himself some years later, although his intention was for the opposite, the story is repeated.
LISTENING TO ISTANBUL_veysel cihan hizar_8min_TURKEY_2010_documentary
We listen in silence as Istanbul
DERBY_paul negoescu_15min_ROMANIA/GERMANY_2010_fiction
One night, Mircea, hears his fifteen year old daughter having sex with her boyfriend in her bedroom.
ANYTHING FOR YOU_toma waszarow_19min_BULGARIA_2009_fiction
Ana thinks she knows exactly what she wants with men. And with life in general. Tonight though, her views will face a tough challenge. A meeting awaits her, and it will turn her world upside down.
PARTY_dalibor matanic_15min_CROATIA_2009_fiction
«Party» is the story set in a sunny, bright summer day in Vukovar. Enjoying and living day like that it seams almost impossible to believe that the brightness and joy can be easily interrupted. «Party» is a part 2 of six short films dealing with intimacy of six different parts of planet Earth on the same day.
RICOCHET_emir kapetanovic_25min_Bosnia&Herzegovina_2010_documentary
Short documentary about rap music scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
ZOOM GERMANY02
20_00 > 22_00
DESTINATION FINALE_philip widmann_9min_GERMANY_2008_experiment/documentary
A man, presumably of Vietnamese origin, travels Europe . Shortly after, American troops enter the ground war in Vietnam
JOURNEY ON A TRAIN_fjodor donderer_17min_GERMANY_2009_documentary
It is November, on the route Berlin – Köln – Bruxelles – London
KOKON_till kleinert_7min_GERMANY_2009_fiction
A coming of age story filmed with enormous amount of intimacy that will bring in mind memories of the importance of a new teen hairdo.
TRICKSTER_alexander pohl_15min_GERMANY_2008_animation
The Protagonist, the Auguste, projected onto a huge screen of a pittoresque cinema as a metaphor for the subconscious mind of the audience, undergoes an existential development, dreaming of his counterpart, the whiteface clown and finally finding his true identity, the immortal archetype of the Trickster.
ANNA BLUME_vessela dantcheva_9min_GERMANY_2009_animation
Anna Blume is a visual poetry about the lust of a man chasing a woman. The story takes on a surreal journey dictated by the mind of the poet. Lust and ingestion, disguised in love, drive the two characters to an end where love turns to be a very lonesome and strange place. The film is based on and inspired by the emblematic love poem from 1919 "An Anna Blume" by Kurt Schwitters.
RAINBOW ANGEL_anna kasten_7min_GERMANY_2007_fiction
First they are red, then blue, then purple, then green, then yellow and then they disappear. And then they reappear, but in different places. The colorful patches have to go through all the colors of the rainbow before they fade away. That’s why it’s called rainbow skin. That’s how his big brother explained it to him. He’s a rainbow angel. And one day he will have to fly away.
PONZO_steffen dollhopf_17min_GERMANY_2008_fiction
As a Ponzo-effect is called a visual illusion of perspective - Things are not always as they appear at first glance. It is up to us how and what we see in our life, as well as in our own memories and how we interpret it. "Ponzo" is an experiment between film and interactive game. Designed to see it not only once. Surfaces and views not only to investigate but also to break through. Things you can see, hear, understand step by step and draw your own conclusions. As in life, it's up to yourself!
BACKYARD_ana felicia scutelnicu_15min_GERMANY_2010
Story of three Russian immigrants in Berlin
WORLDS02
22_00 > 24_00
DUBUS_alexei dmitriev_5min_RUSSIA_2005_experiment
A slow dance of the classical cinema to the music of Zelany Rashoho.
LAVAN_guilhad emilio schenker_28min_ISRAEL_2010_fiction/experiment
Gioza, one of the female "White Torture" prison guards, falls into an obsessive love with Nick, the prisoner under her supervision, without him knowing of her existence. When Nick is facing the prison's “final procedure”, Gioza must choose between her love to Nick and obedience to prison rules.
ONE BULLET_attila veres_19min_HUNGARY_2010_fiction
Milos takes a risk to either multiply or lose his boss’s money. He’s got only one bullet. He doesn’t know that it will decide his fate.
STEREOSCOPY_xacio bano_12min_SPAIN_2011_fiction
Emilio lives on his own taking refuge in the anonymity of the city. One day on his way to work he is knocked down and he lost his left eyesight. The doctors transplanted the eye of another person and he starts to see his donor’s life.
STAIRS_mateusz staniszew_7min_POLAND_2010_animation
This short film is about an old man who is getting an urgent official note from an Office. He must get to the Office by 14.00 o'clock. As we will see this simple matter will become almost impossible.
WARdisease_marie magescas_9min_FRANCE_2010_experiment
On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Five of these UN member countries are today the biggest arms dealers in the world.
THE EYES_elika rezaee_4min_IRAN_2010_fiction/experiment
A man who has the passion of the photography in his heart, had been injured in the war. After the war, he still loves to capture the world but…
STONES_eduard tadevosyan_30min_RUSSIA/ARMENIA_2010_fiction
How to get rid of immortality that torments with the burden of your own mistake? How to turn back time and to live through your own life only? How many hearts in love are there left to be saved to receive forgiveness for the daughter’s destroyed love? And how to forgive yourself?
HELSINKI SHORT CUTS
9_10_APRIL_2011
Kino Engel_helsinki