ZOOM SHORT FILM NIGHT
2015
PROGRAM>>>
04>february>2015
www.lisff.blogspot.com
werkstattkino
Fraunhoferstr.
9
80469 München
www.werkstattkino.de
80469 München
www.werkstattkino.de
15_00
>>> 16_00
ZOOM SWEDEN01
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 and he describes how it is
to be chased by the police. The film travels to Peru
and to the school in Sweden
but it mostly stays in the room where the interview took place. As an early and
groundbreaking animated documentary Hidden has influenced many films all
over the world.
Sweden, 2002,
8’
Director: David Aronowitsch&Hanna Heilborn
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ZOOM ISRAEL01
OUR BEST ROMANTIC YEARS_shlomi
hayun_ISRAEL_2011_15min
Shlomi
Hayun, a graduate who married his classmate, intereviews and observes numerous
couples who met in school. They look back, sometimes in anger, on their
filmmaking dreams and romances of schooldays and now.
UNDERDOG_eran
merav_ISRAEL_2002_21min
Natti,
a rejected boy in a boarding school, is unaware of this true situation. He
meets a girl he wants and learns some painful home truths.
DIPLOMA_yaelle
kayam_ISRAEL_2009_22min
It
is the night of the Jewish settlment masquerade party. Fifteen year old Samer
insists on taking her older sister Ayat to collect her diploma from the Palestinian University .
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ZOOM NORWAY01
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
Mine
Fifteen-year-old
Valentina moves from Russia
to Norway ,
to her mother and her mother's Norwegian fiancé...
Director: Hanne Larsen
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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>>> 19_30
ZOOM SWEDEN02
CIVIL
SERVANT P327JUM
Johan Grum is a civil servant. He loves to process different
matters and to read reports. Most of all he likes the everyday routines when
nothing out of the ordinary happens.
Director:
Johan Bjerkner
SEAWEED
Set
in the Swedish archipelago, Seaweed tells the story of an adolescent girl's
sudden confrontation with her biggest phobia.
Director:
Ida Svenonius
SNAIL IN SPACE
Mega
missiles on a spaceship are pointing at Earth, ready to evaporate all
humankind. The only one who can save the planet is a tiny, cowardly snail. We
follow his adventurous and dangerous faceoff.
Director:
Sanne Hellberg
OUT OF ERASERS
A
woman on her way home becomes a victim of a strange infection.
She soon realizes that an epidemic is spreading and there are larger forces at work.
While struggling to find a cure she also discovers that desperate times require hard choices.
She soon realizes that an epidemic is spreading and there are larger forces at work.
While struggling to find a cure she also discovers that desperate times require hard choices.
Director:
Erik Rosenlund
I'VE BEEN HERE_sarasvati shrestha_SWEDEN_2012_14min
Tyra
is 13 years old. Through her everyday life and its unexpected turns, we get to
know Tyra and her thoughts. A story about liberation, dreams and standing up
for yourself.
Director:
Sarasvati Shrestha
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.
Director:
Hanna Heilborn&David Aronowitsch
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>>> 20_30
ZOOM ISRAEL02
THE SUBSTITUTE_talya
lavie_ISRAEL_2005_19min
Zohara
is an Israeli soldier on an isolated military base who is about to get a
much-anticipated transfer. Her hopes are shattered when her substitute appears
to be suicidal.
TOLYA_rodeon
brodsky_ISRAEL_2009_10min
On
International Women's Day, when all his fellow alien workers call their distant
wives to greet them, Tolya remains speechless as he calls Natasha, his wife. He
can't pronounce anything but a whistling mumble with his toothless mouth.
COCK FIGHT_sigalit
liphshitz_ISRAEL_2000_14min
It
is a hot summer day. Israeli chicken breeder Marziano is driving his stock to
the market with his worker. Upon arriving at Palestinian read – block, they are
brought to a halt.
SLIDING FLORA_talaya
lavie_ISRAEL_2003_12min
Flora
is born in the field, that's what she keeps telling everyone. She is a waitress
in a coffee shop that requires complex acrobatic skills. Flora can not take it
anymore. But she still hasn't lost her dramatic talent...
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>>> 21_30
ZOOM NORWAY02
I Love You Too
Semir has spent the last two years living in his homeland Bosnia and in
Norway. With a wife and child both in Mostar and Lillehammer, unaware of each
others existence, the is living a double life.
Director: Dino Murselovic
Sniffer
One morning, in a gravity-less surreal world, a
"sniffer" at a deodorant factory, has to be saved from the ceiling by
his wife.
Director: Bobbie Peers
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
21_30
>>> 22_30
WORLD MIX
SUPERVENUS_frederic
doazan_2013_FRANCE_3min
A plastic surgeon creates in real time the new Venus.
STOCKHOLM_alvaro
martin_SPAIN_2013_8min
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…
RAKES' COMMITMENT_santi
veiga_SPAIN_2012_14min
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.
DAYBREAK_george
ungar_2013_CANADA_7min
»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
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?
NGUTU_felipe
del olmo/daniel valledor_SPAIN_2012_5min
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
»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
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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2nd edition of ZOOM short
film NIGHT 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 special focus on Swedish, Israeli
and Norwegian filmmakers.
All films will be screened in original
languages with English subtitles.
Production of ZOOM short film NIGHT in Munich is being organized
and coordinated by transnational short film festival Ljubljana International Short Film Festival >www.lisff.blogspot.com< (Slovenia) which is annually and continually
presenting young international and Balkan cinema in Ljubljana (Slovenia) as
well as other countries and cities across Europe.
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PARTNERS>>>
Swedish Embassy in Germany
Embassy of Israel in Germany
Norwegian Embassy in Germany
Art cinema WERKSTATTKINO in Munich