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programme 7 - SHORT

21. sep. 16.00 - vienna
27. sep. 19.00 - budapest



AIRHOSTESS-737
Thanasis Neofotistos



Greece, 2022
16'00"
Short



On a Boeing-737 a 39-y.o. flight attendant, Vanina, tries hard to hide her, obvious, discomfort. Everyone seems genuinely worried about her while she goes on complaining about her new braces. She blames her mother for not taking care of her teeth when she should. However, her colleagues know; this plane carries her mother's dead body to her hometown. When the turbulence become threatening, Vanina faces an urgent need to see her mother in what proves to be a last chance for reconciliation.


Thanasis Neofotistos is a Film Director, Writer & Architect from Greece. Member of European Film Academy (EFA), Berlinale & Sarajevo Talents alumnus and Head Programmer of Student Int’l Competition of Drama Int. Short Film Festival. But most importantly, member of the LGBTQI+ community! His new short film AIRHOSTESS-737 (16'-2022) premiered in 75th Locarno IFF 2022 and then at 47th TIFF Toronto Film Festival!...



ALEX'S MACHINE
Mael Le Mée



France, 2022
25'00"
Short



Alex is the only girl in her "automotive biomechanics" class. For her degree, she has chosen to build an engine made of artificial flesh. One night, Chloé, who shares her boarding school room, discovers that Alex takes a singular pleasure in working on her living machine...



ANOTHER NEST
Márk Beleznai



Hungary, 2022
17'24"
Short



Ádám lives the calm life of a small-time pot dealer in his late grandma’s prefab apartment in the outskirts of Budapest. Since he left home, he created himself a low-key but functional life, which no one can really disturb. No one but perhaps Bence, his 14 year old half-brother who just left home and is looking for refuge at Ádám’s place.


Márk Beleznai is a Budapest based 29 year old director and is currently a student specialized in filmmaking. He also works as a projectionist in a small art-house cinema called Cirko-Gejzír. His main focus is directing, but he also studies editing, cinematography and scriptwriting. His first notable short film, Agapé, which was made with fellow students at Budapest Metropolitan University, has been accepted for various festivals, such as the Cinéfondation selection of Festival de Cannes, and won several awards.



BACKSTAGE
Máté Papp



Hungary, 2022
12'56"
Short



This story is about a girl’s secret dream of being a performer. But she is not just an ordinary girl, since her job is assisting the actors and helping them get ready as well as doing other odd jobs around the theater. Her life is constantly surrounded by her dream, but unfortunately in a very different context.



FÁR
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter



Iceland, 2023
5'13"
Short



A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.



KILLING OURSELVES
Maya Yadlin



Israel, 2022
15'00"
Short



Maya takes her parents and sister to the desert in order to film them for an additional scene in her film. But the day of filming turns into a never-ending family argument, and it becomes unclear whether they will even manage to cooperate and become a team.


Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 8.4.92. From 2009 – 2010 she studied cinema in ”Hadarim high school” and worked on many film sets. From 2014 – 2019 she was a student in “Minshar school of art” in Tel Aviv. Since 2014 she has been working as a freelance editor. Most of her films she writes are about her family and in which she plays along with her real family members... In 2022 she directed and wrote the short film “Killing ourselves”, sponsored by “Gesher Film Foundation” and premiered at “Jerusalem film festival “ and won the Best Live Action Film...



MAMMA
Aslak Danbolt



Norway, 2021
15'00"
Short



It’s Christmas Eve, and Synnøve is searching for her drug-addicted daughter Michelle in an almost desolated city. (Synnøve and Michelle are mother and daughter in real life and play versions of themselves in a story that is very close to their own lives.)


Aslak Danbolt is a Norwegian filmmaker from Bergen, who lives and works out of Oslo, Norway. He studied Documentary Directing at Lillehammer University College and graduated with «Martin-the Ghost» in 2009, which premiered in competition at IDFA that year. In 2010 he was selected for The Berlinale Talent Campus. From 2011 to 2014 he attended The London Film School, where he focused on writing and directing fiction. His grad film from the MA program “Last Base”, was selected for more than 120 festivals (including Tribeca, Chicago & Slamdance) and won numerous awards...



NOCTURNAL BURGER
Reema Maya



United States, 2023
27'27"
Short



A 13-year-old girl and a 30-something man are brought to a police station in Mumbai in the middle of the night by two strangers. Amidst questionable motives and unreliable narrators, a frustrated female constable investigates what happened that night, and what could’ve happened.


Reema Maya aka Reema Sengupta is an award-winning filmmaker, known for her socially relevant independent work and eclectic commercial work. Reema’s short film Counterfeit Kunkoo had its world premier at the Sundance Film Festival 2018, where it was the first Indian fiction short to be nominated in 16 years...



O QUE RESTA
Daniel Soares



Portugal, 2021
20'00"
Short



Emilio, is a lifelong farmer in his 80’s who lives alone on his abandoned farm. Everyone close is gone. One animal is all there is left. Today is the day he decides to sell it.



SAME OLD
Lloyd Lee Choi



Canada, 2022
15'10"
Short



One bad night for a New York City delivery driver.



THE DEVIL
Jan Bujnowski



Poland, 2022
19'07"
Short



In research on the religiosity of Poles conducted in the 1990s by OBOP, the percentage of believers has always fluctuated around 95%. At the same time, the unemployment rates also reached record values. The crisis strengthened the society's need for spirituality, which allowed things not necessarily possible to happen in other times .


Jan Bujnowski (born 18.11.1994, Białystok) Student of Film Direction at National Film School in Łódź. He also studied journalism and history of art at University of Warsaw. His short films ”Time machine”, ”The Crossword”, ”The Olympian” and "The Devil" were screened at over 60 film festivals in the world.



THE LOVE OF THINGS ONE CAN LOSE
Jákob Ladányi Jancsó



Hungary, 2022
19'59"
Short



How can we experience intimacy if we are unable to express love? Adél, a Generation Z teenager, pushes her boundaries in search of her own identity. Her boyfriend, a typical man-child, drives her into more self-destructive behaviour. Can she feel free without knowing what it means?


Jakob Ladányi Jancsó was born in Hamburg in 1989. He got his degree in psychology at the Freie Universitat Berlin, then he studied film directing at the University of Theatrical and Film Arts in Budapest. He finishes his master studies as film director in 2022 at the Filmakademie Wien.



TITS
Eivind Landsvik



Norway, 2023
11'49"
Short



Following an unpleasant run in at the beach, teenagers Oscar and Iben are left behind by their friends.



XIAOHUI HE TA DE NIU
Xinying Lao



China, 2023
15'00"
Short



Except for mountain landscapes, magical rocks, and a few other kids, the village where Xiaohui lives with his grandfather and two cows has nothing to offer. The nine-year-old sorely misses his parents who work in the city. When grandpa has to sell a calf, the clever grandson tries everything to prevent the separation of mother and child. A soulful cry for love in times of capitalism.


Xinying Lao was born in Guangxi, China in 1997. Xinying Lao is a Chinese filmmaker and a third-year Graduate Film student at New York University. She is a director, writer, and editor. She has made several doc shorts and narrative shorts. She studied journalism as an undergraduate, which brought her into contact with people from different classes in society. In her films, she is dedicated to conveying the vulnerability that people are afraid to express in reality. Xiaohui and His Cows is her second-year film project at NYU.



PROGRAMME 7 - SHORT,
SUPER SHORT

22. NOV. 20.00 - BUDAPEST



THE LAST IMAFE OF FATHER
Stefan Djordjevic



Serbia, 2019
20'00"
Short



Dushan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dushan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dushan is all he has.



AFTER THE BEEP
Florian Bison



United States, 2019
2'33"
Super Short



'After The Beep' chronicles the day to day life of a mother and her young son living in New York City. Bridging between her motocycle gang and her duties as a parent, she is urged to redefine the image of a single mother when she receives a message from her estranged ex after 2 years of silence.



THE MISSING TRAIT
Riccardo Roan



Italy, 2018
9'30"
Short



A man with a hidden face, is looking for an essential response between memories and doubts intrinsic of a surrealist vision.



MagRalen
Maryam Zarei



Canada, 2019
18'20"
Short



A family of four live in a wrecking yard in Iran, suburban or Tehran. Mother and father both work at the same yard, dismantling and wrecking old cars. The two kids, a twelve year boy (Nima) and a four year girl (Tara), spend their time playing around the yard, and specially in an old emptied car which they have painted and decorated for themselves...



WHY SO SIRIUS?
Karel Sindelár



Czech Republic, 2019
14'58"
Short



An Eastern Europe Dark comedy from Czech Republic. No help anywhere, no signal. Too far to reach anywhere on foot. Two scared women, one of which ran over the husband of the other, will sooner or later have to deal with a situation in which no tested procedures apply. No natural patterns of behaviour. A black comedy about the absurdity of human interaction. About life and death. About cars, misunderstanding and a little bit about LARP.



ANNA
Dekel Berenson



Ukraine, 2019
15'00"
Short



Anna, a middle-aged single mother, lives in a small industrial town in war-torn Eastern Ukraine. She works in a meat processing plant, lives in a rundown apartment and dreams for a better life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter. Desperate for a change, she is lured by a radio advertisement to attend a party organized for foreign men who are touring the country, searching for love.



NIGHT WALKING
Ann Sirot, Raphäel Balboni



France, 2018
4'37"
Super Short



To fall asleep, we need to close your eyes, and after a few minutes, it will happen naturally. Or not at all. But then, what should we do ? Rub our toes together ? Think of ice cream ? Challenge the monsters ? Go on a quest to find sleep ? Search the night with headlamps in order to find out where it's hiding ?



WATERMELON JUICE
Irene Moray



Spain, 2019
22'23"
Short



Barbara and Pol spend a few days on holiday with a group of friends in a house surrounded by nature. They want to have a good time and find a peaceful space where they can enjoy their intimacy. With the support of Pol, in the midst of nature, between tears and laughter, Barbara will heal old wounds and redefine her sexuality.



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