SHORTS FOR THE SUMMER
8. and 12.6. 2023
Hot days, sunlight, lazy afternoons by the water. It is essential to be well prepared for the summer and to do so you should pack a great amount of quality shorts to your backpack for the holidays. We will gladly take care of the cinematic ones for you in our holiday anthology, which include fleeting summer love even the melancholy of the setting sun. Thanks to the thematically varied programme in genre even in geography, you can tune yourself into days off and find a manual how not to spend these days.
GOLONDRINAS (SPAIN)
Directors: Sara BambaIvan, Martin Ruedas | Producer: Veronica Severino |
Star: Laura Angulo, Julia Bamba Martín, Soledad Caltana |
Year: 2021 | Length: 13 min | Live action |
Swallows always come back in summer.
JULI. (NORWAY)
Director: Mauritz Brekke Solberg | Producer: Rebekka Rognøy |
Star: Ayan Ahmed, Ylva Fuglerud, Alfred Ekker Strande |
Year: 2022 | Length: 17 min | Live action |
In "July." Tarjei meets his old friends during the summer holidays, some years after they left high school. The group is faced with a difficult choice during a childish game and Tarjei involuntarily witnesses his own moral shortcomings.
REVELATION OF JOHN (SLOVAKIA)
Director: Andrej Kolenčík | Producer: VŠMU, Admiral Films |
Star: Eva Pavlíková, Viliam Hriadel, Marek Obuch |
Year: 2022 | Length: 12 min | Live action |
To live one’s last days in peace and fulfillment in the company of a loved one. Light and buzzing of cosmic orbs. Quiet, slowly trickling film rejects the consumer world, medicine, and eternal rushing and pays homage to peaceful old age with a touch of spirituality and intimacy.
PEEPS (AUSTRALIA)
Director: Sophie Somerville | Producer: Courtney Bombell |
Star: Ella Callow-Sussex, Shaelyn Connor, Shyla Farrugia |
Year: 2019 | Length: 18 min | Live action |
Narrated by the birds that roost in the rafters of a shopping centre, "Peeps" is a portrait of five unique teenage girls in contemporary Australia.
Always Summer (Belgium)
Director: Hans Dessers | Producers: Hans Dessers, Simon Van Laar |
Star: Tom Vermeir, Flo Martens |
Year: 2023 | Length: 20 min | Live action |
Always Summer is a psychological drama about a father and daughter who spend the weekend together. It's a universal tale of grief and the enduring power of love.
Sing for Us (Czech Republic)
Director: Tereza Halamová | Producer: FAMU |
Star: Karolína Lipowská, Anežka Pithartová, Ludmila Šafářová, Tomáš Masaryk, Max Pek, Radek Fejfar |
Year: 2020 | Length: 23 min | Live action |
A stifling and seemingly boring summer afternoon bring fourteen-year-old Eva face to face with several challenges. Although she can hide from the heat of the sun in the swashing waters of the nearby pond, there is no hiding from the desire for love and acceptance from a group of older friends. A sensitive portrait of coming of age is supported by poetic cinematography which allows us a glimpse into the self-conscious soul of a shy adolescent girl.
Total length of the screening 103 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
