PROGRAM

27>january>2014
www.lisff.blogspot.com
werkstattkino
Fraunhoferstr. 9
80469 München
www.werkstattkino.de

15_00 >>> 16_00
ZOOM AUSTRIA01
JewelLabs Pictures_vienna

AU PAIR
Director: Paul Reisinger
15min
2012
An honest look at the disturbing and mysterious power that love has over us when we experience it for the first time.

TALFAHRT
Director: Paul Reisinger
10min
2012
'Talfahrt' (Descent) tells the tragic story of two lovers who can neither be with nor without each other and of the alienation of those who are closest to us when we don't share our deepest feelings.

FAR & NEAR
Director: Jasmina Eleta
35min
2010
Amrik Singh ekes out a living delivering newspapers. The news of his mother's death leads to a series of setbacks. The difficult struggle to make it in Europe appears to be lost. Employer Gerhard Haschka places his own mother in the care of Slovakian nurse. Until the death of Miss Haschka, the two women develop an intimacy that Gerhard is incapable of realizing. Gerhard and Amrik never encounter one another.

16_00 >>> 17_00
ZOOM AUSTRIA02>IN FOCUS_Oliver Ressler

The Plundering_40min_2013
The film The Plundering focuses on four cases of aggressive, state-property privatization policies in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. Through interviews, it discusses the privatization of the water system in Tbilisi and of Tbilisi’s popular market, the Dezerter Bazaar. A newly emerging movement prevented the attempted sell-off of the National Scientific Library, and the destruction and conversion of the historical Gudiashvili Square in Tbilisi’s city center into a shopping mall.

Socialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What comes Next?_19min_2010
The film “Socialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What comes Next?” was recorded in Armenia in summer 2010 in Yerevan’s largest bazaar, called “Bangladesh”. Every day more than 1000 people try to survive as traders in the “Bangladesh” bazaar, where an average vendor does not earn more than 100 to 250 Euros per month. In the film, the market’s traders talk about their struggles to survive during crises in a post-socialist state that closed most Soviet-era factories and dissolved social safety nets.

17_00 >>> 18_00
ZOOM NORWAY

Spacewrecked
Having survived the end of the world, two Norwegians have spent the last twenty years in a cramped space station. Waiting to be saved by the ship Vascodagama, Mikkel tries to keep his spirits high, while Gard starts to lose patience.
Director: Kalle Doniselli Gulbrandsen
Norway, 2011, 14'

Nesting Place
A woman has obsessive-compulsive thoughts about a certain knife and killing her husband. She is afraid that she might actually hurt someone so she goes to see a psychologist to get help.
Director: Alam Ali
Norway, 2011, 14'

Behind the Door
A stop-motion animated graduation film about a dark world
where a girl and a man are trapped in a strange net, where
life unfolds rapidly until roles are suddenly reversed.
Director: Helga Fjeldså& Stein-Christian Fagerbakken
Norway, 2011, 11'

Paradox
A young girl finds out that she has to move. In desperation she convinces her boyfriend to escape to the mountains with her. But there she discovers something that changes her perception of life completely.
Director: Rolv Lyssand Bjørø
Norway, 2011, 19'

18_00 >>> 19_00
BALKAN FILM BAZAAR>balkan mix_1

THE FIRST LADY OF DUBRAVA
barbara vekaric_20min_2011_CROATIA_fiction
Amra is an attractive and talented teenager living in the outskirts of Zagreb whose dirty rap made her quite popular in the neighborhood. Dina is her chubby, clumsy and spoiled younger sister who suffers from asthma and often feigns or exaggerates her illness to drive her older sister up the wall. Amra and her “manager” plan to shoot a hot music video for her big break-through hit to be “Girl from da hood”, but she learns last minute that she’s to babysit Dina instead, while her parents go Bosnia. Not willing to sacrifice her “big chance”, Amra takes Dina along and puts her life at risk.

THE SOUND AT THE WINDOW
nursel dogan_20min_2012_TURKEY_fiction
Gülizar had to move from her small village to the big city. She can’t speak any language except her native language is Kurdish. Everything is very different for her including the culture, language in the big metropolis Istanbul. She has to face a lot of challenges even she couldn’t speak with a doctor, which is one of the most basic rights.

PRAY
thelyia petraki_18min_2012_GREECE_fiction
Pray describes that moment in life when someone realizes the world is far from perfect. The story is about a girl who's been sentenced by the court of law to be buried alive, but no one around her seems to care.

19_00 >>> 20_00
ZOOM AUSTRIA03>IN FOCUS_Christoph Rainer

Drake
Director: Christoph Rainer
2006
5min
A car is driving down a deserted road and stops so that its passengers, a man, a woman and a child, could enjoy a fiery-red sky at sunset and cicadas' chirping.

Walrus
Director: Christoph Rainer
2008
5min
A text message bursts out the inner despair of a young man.

Catafalque
Director: Christoph Rainer
2010
12min
Two brothers attempt to hide from their tyrannous father in the shadows of a dark basement in Catafalque.

Foal
Director: Christoph Rainer
2011
15min
A young pregnant woman enthusiastically hurls herself into her new family, but her husband is worried and uncertain about their marriage.

Untitled Brazil Project
Director: Christoph Rainer
2012
12min
Inmidst hectic Rio de Janeiro a street musician, a young director, the massive statue of Christ and even a computer avatar interact in this multi-layered father-son tale.

Requiem For A Robot
Director: Christoph Rainer
2013
6min
Tortured by a recurring nightmare, an alcoholic robot has nothing left but a corrupt memory. In order to find out what has happened, he returns to his creator.

20_00 >>> 22_00
BALKAN FILM BAZAAR>balkan mix_2

FIBONACCI BREAD
danijel zezelj_8min_2012_CROATIA_animation
Fibo the baker makes bread and rolls every night, and in the morning, he rides his bicycle through the labyrinth of the city to take them to his customers. During an afternoon nap, a dream reveals to him the geometrical golden rule behind the pattern of his daily routine. This discovery leads to the encounter with the city's secret and most unusual visitor...

SON OF SATAN
marko djeska_10min_2012_CROATIA_animation
A benign demon deeply disapointed with his life in hell and drunkard father one day decides to leave his home...

WHY ELEPHANTS?
marko mestrovic_8min_2012_CROATIA_animation
Character is trying to give an answer on a simple question. He is wondering through the labyrinth of intuitive visions. In some way this question determines his life. His answer is again the same...Do we have answers on important questions at all?

MEAT
ivan mirko senjanovic_8min_2012_CROATIA_animation
Short story about meat...

DEAR KENO
natko stipanicev_6min_2012_CROATIA_animation
A young, innocent country girl comes to big city for work. There she meets charming, older business man and their lives intertwine.

THE TALE OF THE WALL INHABITANTS
andrej boka_16min_2012_SERBIA_fiction
The conflict between door and windows is threatening to escalate.

ONE
matija radeljak_15min_2011_CROATIA_fiction
She reached the bottom. He is about to...

LEADER
gabriel tzafka_27min_2011_SERBIA/GREECE_fiction
Boris is a twelve year old boy who lives with his grandparent in Serbia. They both earn their living by playing music on trains. One night an unknown woman appears out of nowhere claiming she is Boris's mother. Since he moved to Athens five years later his way of life has radically changed, likewise himself.

YOU LOOK GREAT WHEN I AM FUCKED UP
luka bursac_26min_2012_SERBIA_fiction
Sale is angry young man who goes to his brother 18th birthday. This night will change his life in coming of age drama about fears, idols and love...
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Film event ZOOM short and doc film NIGHT 2014 is a regional and  international film initiative in Munich focused on presentations of newest international short and documentary film productions to wide Munich audiences.

1st edition of ZOOM short and doc film NIGHT 2014 in Munich presents a selection of newest short and documentary films of different styles and approaches from young film directors from many different countries and the programming represents a glimpse into the current, mostly independent and non – commercial international filmmaking. Final programming includes newest international short and documentary film productions from different countries with special focus on Austrian, Norwegian and Balkan filmmakers. All films will be screened in original languages with English subtitles.
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PARTNERS
Austrian Cultural Forum in Berlin
Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Austrian Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture
Norwegian Embassy in Germany