9.11.2023, 17:00, Kino Cameo
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10.11.2023, 17:00, Maxx 4
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The European Film Awards are the European equivalent to the American Oscars. Every year, the European Film Academy awards a prize for the best short film. 29 festivals (including Berlinale, the Venice IFF, the Locarno Film Festival, as well as Kurzfilmtage) submit the choices of their respective juries to the Academy.
With this selection of films nominated in 2022, we are presenting some of best works of the current European short film scene. The works address the complex connections between family and tradition.
Granny’s Sexual Life
Émilie Pigeard/Urška Djukić / Slovenia/France 2021 / 13'40" / DCP / colour / Slovenian / Doc/Ani
A trip into grandmother’s youth and the memories of her intimate life illustrate the status of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century.
Will My Parents Come to See Me
Mo Harawe / Austria/Germany/Somalia 2022 / 28' / DCP / colour / Somali / Fic
An experienced Somali policewoman once again accompanies a young inmate through the procedures of the Somali justice system.
Techno, Mama
Saulius Baradinskas / Lithuania 2021 / 18' / DCP / colour / Lithuanian / Fic
Nikita loves to listen to techno music and dreams of going to Berlin to visit the famous club Berghain. His mother Irena doesn’t know about her son’s dreams, and soon enough, their differing expectations clash.
Love, Dad
Diana Cam Van Nguyen / Slovakia/Czech Republic 2021 / 12'46" / DCP / colour/black & white / Czech / Ani
A short film about ties and chasms between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hopes of finding the connection again. She puts in writing what cannot be said, blaming him for the family's break-up but also trying to understand.
Ice Merchants
João Gonzalez / Portugal 2022 / 14'33" / colour / no dialogue / Ani
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, where they sell the ice they produce daily.