SHORT MATTERS!
6., 11., 12. and 13.12. 2017
The best European short films are back! Come see the films nominated by 15 European festivals for Europe''s Oscar! One of them will win, can you guess which one?
COPA-LOCA (Greece)
Sarajevo Short Film Nominee
Director: Christos Massalas | Producer: Christos Massalas |
Star: Elsa Lekakou, Jenny Hiloudaki, Pavlos Iordanopoulos |
Year: 2017 | Length: 14 min | Live Action |
This is the story of Copa-Loca, an abandoned Greek summer resort. Paulina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.
FIGHT ON A SWEDISH BEACH!! (Sweden)
Valladolid Short Film Nominee
Director: Simon Vahlne | Producers: Axel Danielson, Ellen Hallin |
Star: Stefan Holmberg, Lotti Sjödin, Hugo Nylén, William Davidsson |
Year: 2016 | Length: 15 min | Live Action |
This is what happens when you yell sieg heil and call someone's wife a whore. He had it coming.
THE PARTY (Ireland)
Cork Short Film Nominee
Director: Andrea Harkin | Producers: Farah Abushwesha, Emmet Fleming |
Star: Anthony Boyle, Niall McNamee, Eileen O'Higgins |
Year: 2016 | Length: 14 min | Live Action |
Belfast 1972. Laurence welcomes his cousin and man-on-the-run Mickey to a party of drinking, dancing and young love. By morning, reality catches up with them.
THE CIRCLE (Turkey)
Drama Short Film Nominee
Director: Rûken Tekeş | Producer: Rûken Tekeş |
Star: Delila Kaya, Emircan Kaya, Şehmuz Demirtaş, Müfit Aytekin |
Year: 2016 | Length: 14 min | Live Action |
In Mesopotamia, there are children of different ethnicities, religions and languages. Zelal, 7 years old petite girl, is an ethnic Kurd as well as religiously an Ezidi (Yazidi). An ordinary school day turns into a life changing event for Zelal and her introvert admirer, Zeki, after their Turkish teacher introduces the letter of the week "O"…
EN LA BOCA (Switzerland/Argentina)
Krakow Short Film Nominee
Director: Matteo Gariglio | Producer: Matteo Gariglio |
Star: Molina Family |
Year: 2016 | Length: 26 min | Documentary Film |
In Buenos Aires, the Molina family lives and works in the shadows of the legendary Boca Juniors stadium. Selling fake tickets to the soccer games, they constantly get in conflict with the corrupt police. As her family sinks deeper into this underworld, the mother tries in vain to keep them all from falling apart.
LOVE (Hungary/France)
Uppsala Short Film Nominee
Director: Réka Bucsi | Producers: Marc Bodin-Joyeux, Gábor Osváth |
Year: 2016 | Length: 15 min | Animation |
A short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Abstract haiku-like situations reveal the change in atmosphere on one planet, caused by the change of gravity and light. This pulsing planet makes the inhabitants become one with each other in various ways.
UGLY (Germany)
Bristol Short Film Nominee
Director: Nikita Diakur | Producer: Nikita Diakur |
Year: 2017 | Length: 12 min | Animation |
An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.
Total length of the screening 109 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
