SHORT MATTERS III
CINEMA "KINO BIZE", Sunday 03.12. / 14:00
FIGHT ON A SWEDISH BEACH!!
Simon Vahlne
Fiction / Sweden / 2016
EPIC BEACH FIGHT!! This is what happens when you yell sieg heil and call someone's wife a whore. He had it coming.
THE PARTY
Andrea Harkin
Fiction / Ireland / 2016
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.
WRITTEN/UNWRITTEN
SCRIS/NESCRIS
Adrian Silișteanu
Fiction / Romania / 2016
Outside a maternity ward, a Roma family is announced their underage daughter has just had a baby girl. Pardică (50) doesn’t seem to celebrate the moment; he is very displeased with this early pregnancy, for which he blames his wife. However, things become even tenser when a hospital employee asks them to sign some papers and discovers issues related to their IDs and their status as parents of the underage new mother. The imminent danger of state authorities separating them from their daughter
determines Pardică to take action.
UGLY
Redbear Easterman & Nikita Diakur
Animation / Germany / 2017
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’.
THE ARTIFICIAL HUMORS
OS HUMORES ARTIFICIAIS
Gabriel Abrantes
Fiction / Portugal / 2016
The Artificial Humors, is a film about humor, anthropology and artificial intelligence. It focuses on how humor is central to human relationships across, used as a form of social control, and one of the most complex forms of communication. The film was shot in Mato Grosso (Canarana and the Yawalapiti and Kamayura villages inside the Xingu Indigenous Park) and São Paulo. Blending a certain Hollywood aesthetic with documentary approaches, the film tells the story of an indigenous girl who falls in love with a robot that is a rising stand up comedian in Brazil. Gabriel Abrantes' films address historical, political and social matters while discussing postcolonial, gender and identity issues. His works create layers of unlikely readings, altering traditional narratives and touch upon the absurd, folklore, humor and politics.
Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.