Film event ZOOM short and doc
film NIGHT 2014 is a regional and
international film initiative in Tirana focused on presentations of
newest international short and documentary film productions to wide Tirana
audiences at art venue TIRANA EKSPRES>>>
ZOOM short and doc film NIGHT 2014 will present 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
Norwegian and Swedish filmmakers in the upcoming April edition of ZOOM film
event in Tirana. All films will be screened in original languages with English
subtitles.
Production of ZOOM short and doc
film NIGHT 2014 is being organized and coordinated by European short
film festival Ljubljana International
Short Film Festival (Slovenia) which is annually and continually presenting
young European and Balkan cinema in Ljubljana (Slovenia) as well as other
countries and cities in Europe, including now also Tirana.
Entrance to all screenings is free>>>
PROGRAM
14>april>2014
Tirana Ekspres
Rruga George W.
Bush, Pall. 19, Entrance 3
www.tiranaekspres.com
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ZOOM NORWAY>01
Shadowlands
A
remote face-off between a group of demonstrators and the security forces in the
chiaroscuro of a urban landscape. "Shadowlands" builds it's imagery
on the analogy between the cinematic and the historical processes.
Director: Michel Pavlou
Sáiva
A girl is looking for her
dead boyfriend in the mythological Sami landscape. She turns to an old woman,
who is a noaide, for help.
Director:
Tuva Synnevåg
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'
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
Water Lilies
in Bloom
The suspended synchronized swimming
guru Labanosov entices overweight women to join him in his mission to prove
Isaac Newton wrong at the Championships.
Director: Emil Stang Lund
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ZOOM SWEDEN>01
TAKE TO THE WOODS
Out on the street, noisy traffic that never ends. Trying to close
it out, but inside grows a monster who wants to beat its way out.
Director: Kristina Frank
I WANT IT ALL
Six months after finishing school, twenty-year-old Minna
gets back from a backpacking trip around the world, eager to begin the rest of
her adult life. But at the same time, she feels uncertain of her future. She
doesn't know anymore what she wants, because there's too much to choose from.
And how will her boyfriend Philip respond? Has he forgiven her for letting him
down?
Director:
Maria Eriksson
NEXT DOOR LETTERS
Lilja
and Sandra decide to play Melitta a prank by sending her a love letter signed
with an invented name – a boy’s. When Lilja receives a letter in return the
correspondence leads to something entirely else.
Director:
Sascha Fülscher
HIDDEN
The
sound is an interview with Giancarlo, a hidden refugee child, and the images
are animated. Giancarlo has no permit to stay in Sweden Peru
and to the school in Sweden
Sweden, 2002, 8’
Director: David Aronowitsch&Hanna Heilborn
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WORLDMIX>01
SUPERVENUS_frederic
doazan_2013_FRANCE_3min_animation
A plastic surgeon creates in real time the new Venus.
LEAP IN
TIME_andreas reisenbauer_AUSTRIA_2010_8min_fiction
A young woman and an elder man on a park bench – but something is wrong – a
filmic mediation about time and memory.
STOCKHOLM_alvaro
martin_SPAIN_2013_8min_fiction
Tomas lives in a small trailer on the outskirts of the city. One day at school he is
commissioned to write a short essay
about his father…
THE
DIVE_delphine le courtois_FRANCE_2013_10min_fiction
Thirteen
years old and on the edge of adulthood, a boy on a diving board faces the
unknown.
AQUARIUM_philippe
gregoire_CANADA_2013_15min_fiction
The end of a relationship revels the emptiness left in woman's life by the
one she loves.
RAKES'
COMMITMENT_santi veiga_SPAIN_2012_14min_fiction
Rakes' commitment is a parable, with a lighthearted and humorous tone,
about social commitment and love, an unusual and memorable character, who needs
to find something in life to commit to.
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ZOOM NORWAY>02
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
Before She Came, After He
Left
Christian is visiting his home village with his fiancée. But what
are the true reasons for the visit? A strong visual and evocative story about a
young man's inner struggle, the sorrow of a love that once was and the balance
with the new love that has occurred.
Director: Marja Bål Nango
Strange Fish
On a wind-swept island in
the North Sea , Margarethe has served her
traditional fish stew in her diner for years. One day, the lovely Julia
unexpectedly moves into the closed down fish factory next door and opens a
Sushi Bar. Margarethe takes up the fight against this strange new way of eating
fish.
Director: Mikal Hovland
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BALKAN
FILM BAZAAR
HAPPY ENDING
STORY_vid mercun_SLOVENIA_2013_19min_fiction
Film captures a young girl who tries to find reasons for her gloomy state
of mind with hope for some greater meaning. Through the symbolism and
metaphysical view we observe her inner transformation.
A SMALL
TIME/SPACE DISCONTINUUM_goce cvetanovski_MACEDONIA_2013_14min_fiction
An accidental discontinuum in time and space gives unexpected results.
THE LAST CRY OF
THE DRAGON_jamil hendi_ROMANIA/GERMANY_2013_33min_fiction
Toma arrives home after a long day's work. He was laid off and has no idea
how to let his wife know. She gives him a bitter welcome: the upstairs neighbor
has been screaming all day and their one year old son doesn't stop crying...
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ZOOM SWEDEN>02
SEAWEED
Set
in the Swedish archipelago, Seaweed tells the story of an adolescent girl's
sudden confrontation with her biggest phobia.
Sweden, 2010, 5'
Director: Ida Svenonius
BIRD HIGH UP
A bird is flying from left to right.
Start doing that thing with your arms please.
Sweden,
2011, 3'
Director: Mårten Nilsson
SLAVES
The conversations with two freed children from southern
Sudan, who were kidnapped by a government-supported militia and forced into
slavery, were recorded on audio in a documentary fashion. The filmmakers stress
this fact by keeping the sound of them adjusting the recording equipment before
the conversation begins, by not editing out the children's interpreter, and by
not adding any music. The conversations took place in 2003, when the
20-year-long civil war in southern Sudan was drawing to a close. The last names
of the two children, aged 9 and 15, have been bleeped out to protect their
privacy. In this manner, the three-dimensional, stylistically simplified
computer animation, with realistic depth of field and lighting, is a safeguard
for their identity. Furthermore, the choice for animation offers the
possibility to represent the horrific experiences the children describe. In
these scenes, we hear them in voice-over as the almost black-and-white images
turn into bright colours: flaming red when the village is set ablaze and the
children, confronted with the murder and molestation of their families, are
taken off by the militia. And a shadowy and almost abstract series of images
full of colours as one of them tells of a dream about his parents.
Sweden, 2008,
15’
Director: David Aronowitsch&Hanna Heilborn
O
HOLY NIGHT
O
Holy Night, depicts one Christmas Eve of a lonely old man who's visited by an
equally alone nurse. It's about the will and the unwillingness to let people in
to your life. How we try to hide our feelings, afraid of what might happen if
we don't.
Sweden, 2010,
10'
Director: Niklas Andersson
BENJAMIN’S FLOWERS
Benjamin’s
lack of love and company has placed him on the blurry borderline between
fantasy and reality, where it can be hard to understand what’s real and not.
Director:
Malin Erixon
SHARAF
"The boat was like a fly on
the ocean. We just drifted without food or water." 17 year-old Sharaf is
one of many refugees who have arrived in Gran Canaria in recent years. Sharaf's
story gives a voice to those who made it through the journey alive, but also to
those who died at sea.
Sweden, 2012, 14’
Director: Hanna Heilborn&David
Aronowitsch
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ZOOM NORWAY>03
To Guard a
Mountain
Isa the shepherd must
obey when his father commands him to find a lost lamb. On top of the mountain,
his little brother and companion, Hamid, gets injured. Isa must decide whether
follow his orders or his instinct.
Director: Izer
Aliu
Mine
Fifteen-year-old
Valentina moves from Russia
to Norway
Director: Hanne Larsen
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WORLDMIX>02
SILENCES OF A
GESTURE_pedro sousa_PORTUGAL_2014_5min_experiment/documentary
Capturing a moment that inevitably the time will erase.
DARLING_izabela
plucinska_GERMANY/POLAND_2013_6min_animation
What is memory loss? In the labyrinth of fear, a
stranger becomes a close person and home turns into a trap. Groping her way
down the track of familiar objects and shapes, the character is trying to go
back to the life that used to be her own.
DAYBREAK_george
ungar_2013_CANADA_7min_experiment/animation
»Opening our eyes each new day, we stare for a few minutes into space,
seeing the first hearing the first sounds. It is neither night nor day
something in – between.«
AB OVO_anita
kwiatkowska – naqvi_POLAND_2013_5min_animation
Imagine your
body stops being only yours. Someone starts to live inside you, changing the
rules, taking more and more space, a milimeter every day, not caring that he
almost makes you explode. Would you be able to love this thing and call it your
child?
MINERITA_raul de
la fuente_SPAIN/BOLIVIA_2013_27min_documentary
Cerro Rico in Potosi (Bolivia) is a lawless territory, characterised by
brutal violence. The miners risk their lives every day, digging for silver and
zinc in crumbling galleries. The ones that survive think they are entitled to
anything and everything.
NGUTU_felipe del
olmo/daniel valledor_SPAIN_2012_5min_fiction
Ngutu is a newspaper street vendor who hardly sells any copies at all.
Resentful, he starts watching the passerby closely in order to make progress in
his business.
VIGIA_marcel
barelli_SWITZERLAND_2013_8min_animation
»My grandfather is telling me a story that he made out, and asks me to make
a film out of it: because of the pollution, pesticides, and other toxic
substances, a bee decided to leave her hive, looking for a more comfortable
place for her to move in.«
DJI. DEATH
FAILS_dmitri voloshin_MOLDAVIA_2012_4min_animation
Dji is a terribly unlucky grim reaper. All he has to do is to collect the
soul of a dying man.
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