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International Competition
Short Films
# 2 |
Saturday 7, April 2018 / 10 pm
ACUDkino
Berlin / Germany
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Everything Is Far Away |
Totul e foarte departe |
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Emanuel Pârvu
Romania
2018 | 0:15:00
A 40th birthday surprise visit from mum. A compassionate story about
20 family ties, the desire to get close and the (valid) reasons to stay away.
Rotterdam / B / sceening file kommt, kam aber nicht /
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| GERMAN PREMIERE |
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A Gentle Night |
Xiou cheng er yue |
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Yang Oiu
China
2017 | 0:15:00
In a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing,
refuses to go gentle into this good night. |
| BERLIN PREMIERE |
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Non Castus |
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Andrea Castillo
Spain
2017 | 0:29:00
Hit by financial difficulties, Trinidad takes her 21-year-old son
Camilo to a rural area in south Chile to start a new life. The
solitude brings a new intimacy to their relationship which grows
beyond their control. Andrea Castillo composes a sensitive and humane
mother-son relationship with an open heart and mind. |
| GERMAN PREMIERE |
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A Short Film about Education |
Un Cortometraje sobre la educación |
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Sebastián Arancibia
Chile
2017 | 0:18:00
Jorge is a fifty-year-old math teacher who is hired at a school with
serious bullying issues. His feeling of powerlessness will lead to his
own morals being corrupted. |
| GERMAN PREMIERE |
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Pastel |
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Robert Shupe
USA
2017 | 0:10:00
A troubled woman has a bizarre encounter with a transient man on the
streets of Las Vegas. |
| GERMAN PREMIERE |
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Kampung Tapir |
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Aw See Wee
Malaysia
2017 | 0:17:00
A Sunday afternoon, migrant worker Anne and her husband leave their
five years old daughter from Kampung Tapir (Tapir Village),
Malaysia.On the way to Singapore, the bus their ride hit a wild
Malayan tapir which wanted to cross the road, but no one is eager to
save it.In the struggling of choosing a country to settle down, Anne
founds that she is like this endangered species, still drifting places
to find their own better life. |
| GERMAN PREMIERE |
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Aprile 7 - 9, 2018
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.
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