LISFF2015
DAY_01
30>march>2015
17_00
>>> 18_00
WORLD MIX
A SUMMER
clemence
marcadier_FRANCE_2014_fiction_12min
Summer holidays. David, 16, is bored to death, alone at home.
To help his father, absent, David has to deliver a microwave to a local
resident.
SEPTEMBER
thibault chollet_FRANCE_2011_animation_3min
An extravaganza of reconstruction starting with ships awash
in the deep blue and ending in a solitary exit.
85625
maciej
jarczynski_POLAND_2014_documentary/animation_19min
Documentary
film about Zbigniew Kolakowski who got as a teenager to two concentration camps
in Germany
THE UNIVERSE IN US
lisa krane_GERMANY_2015_fiction_30min
Doctors
find a sever anatomic abnormality in the body of young dancer Li – a second
fully developed heart has grown in her chest.
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ZOOM SPAIN
THE NET
samuel
quiles_SPAIN_2013_fiction_10min
Esperanza waits for the sea to return her husband. Clinging to an old
fishing net she tries to keep her memories from fading away, but her grandson
Fabian is intent on destroying them tearing the net by playing football.
STELA
ainhoa
menendez_SPAIN_2014_fiction_20min
Claudia has a very special relationship with her daughter Elia. They share
a fantasy world that appears when Claudia tells a story to her daughter. In that
world, they are Stela and Zina, a queen and a princess from his kingdom.
CHILDREN OF THE
RIVER
javier
macipe_SPAIN_2014_fiction_14min
In the riverside neighbourhood of Oporto, all the children prove their
courage by jumping from the stunning bridge Luis I into the Duero river. Leo
has never done it before. He is different, but he is getting tired of everyone
thinking he is a coward.
ZEBRA
felix fernandez
de castro_SPAIN_2013_fiction_11min
Chance mingles the fate of a vet from Barcelonas' ZOO, a skinhead and a
female orangutan about to give a birth.
FLASH
alberto ruiz
rojo_SPAIN_2014_fiction/experiment_7min
When a man looks at the photo strip he just took of hilmself in a photo
booth, he cannot believe what he sees.
A2042
david castro
gonzalez_SPAIN_2013_fiction_2min
A man has a panic attack in the street overnight. Why?
THE LAST VOYAGE
OF EVA JOCELYN
daniel burgui
iguzkiza&andres salaberri pueyo_SPAIN&PHILIPPINES_2014_documentary_22min
Nine months after typhoon Yolanda ripped through the Philippines, the
3000-ton vessel Eva Jocelyn and three of its crew members are still stranded
among the houses of the district 68 of Tacloban City. They still do not know
what will happen to them.
LINE UP
alex julia
rich_SPAIN&USA_2014_fiction_20min
A man works in a record shop in Detroit and lives a unique experience
thanks to a mysterious record.
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ZOOM GERMANY
BAHAR IN WONDERLAND
behrooz karamizade_GERMANY_2013_fiction_16min
Where do
you hide from danger, when you cannot hide anywhere? The Kurdish girl Bahar
believes she has found a way. “Bahar in Wonderland” is a story of Bahar, little
girl, who given circumstances she is in, is not able to be a child. She is
escaping with her father from Syria
to Germany
ROADTRIP
xaver xylophone_GERMANY_2014_animation_20min
A hand
drawn film about failure, insomnia, a red motorbike, and pretty bargirls, the
desolateness of Berlin
A GIRLS’ DAY
An
emotional and strongly subjective movie about the question of what happiness
is. At 19, Yasmin is in search of her own happiness and trying to understand her
life, as well as the difficult relationship with her mother, a former heroin
addict.
TORN
elmar imanov&engin
kundag_GERMANY&AZERBAIJAN_2014_fiction_22min
Two
lives, two worlds: a man and a child. A kid who wants to be friend with the
neighboring children. A man who has a date with a woman on a roof. The world of
adults and the world of children. They are related but they are torn.
INTRUSION
natalie plaskura_GERMANY_2012_fiction/experiment_12min
Short
film INSTRUSION does not tell a classical story. The main focus lies on the
visual design which has the intention to convey a mood.
THE BOX
sascha zimmermann_GERMANY_2013_fiction/horror_15min
Hannah,
a young woman, wakes up locked in a dark wooden box. She has no clue how she
got there. She pleads for her freedom. All she wants is out of the box until
she watches a small crack while a gruesome surgery takes place just feet away.
DAY_02
31>march>2015
17_00
>>> 18_00
ZOOM SPAIN
ELENA ASINS – GENESIS
alvaro gimenes sarmiento_SPAIN_2014_documentary_17min
Elena
Asins has lived for over 20 years in Azpirotz, a small village in the northeast
of Navarra. From there she develops one of the most significant artistic
carriers in the Spanish contemporary art scene.
SAFARI
gerardo
herrero_SPAIN_2014_fiction_15min
It
is an ordinary day in an American high school, but that day will not be like
the others…
I’M SO HAPPY
juan gautier_SPAIN_2014_fiction_20min
Fran
is finishing the internship while she takes care of her sick mother. In two
days, she will be under surgery and her brother appears to take over the
situation.
A WHOLE FUTURE TOGETHER
pablo remon_SPAIN_2014_fiction_15min
Bankers.
Harassment. Love?
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WORLD MIX
SHADES OF GREY
alexandra
averyanova_RUSSIA_2014_animation_7min
Early
20th century. Saint
Petersburg Petersburg
SAILORS’ SONG
gabriel
tzafka_DENMARK_2014_fiction_17min
A
sailor returns home to Denmark
EXIT RIGHT
ruper holler&bernhard
wenger_AUSTRIA_2015_fiction_7min
Look
away or intervene? When a black man is victim of unfounded, racial abuse in a
packed bus, there is only one passenger who will not ignore the situation like
everyone else.
NEON LIGHTS
barbara s.
muller_AUSTRIA_2014_fiction_15min
In
a bar, Martin, the cop, runs into his girlfriend Eva. Their small talk soon
turns serious and Martins’ intentions become very clear: but neither here nor
with his current girlfriend does he find any answer. Furious, he drives through
the lonely winter night lit up by neon lights. Just avoiding an accident, he
ends up in a brothel. However, reality soon catches up with him…
LOTHAR
luca zuberbuhler_SWITZERLAND_2013_fiction_14min
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
protect the world he locks himself into a subterranean home, isolated from the
outer world. One day, an accident happens. Despite all of the care taken, he
breaks his beloved toaster, an early gift from his mother. The broken toaster
compels him to leave his residence. Shortly after taking this risk, Lothar runs
the world into great danger.
NIGHT WINTER
PEOPLE
valery
polienko_RUSSIA_2014_fiction_20min
– So will you show the bomb? – Have a look. – Will you let
me hold it? – Take it. You know, it’s boring to live in this world, gentlemen.
When there’s nothing to blow up. And so what, really? Well, mansions with the
dead, well, the sick in a taxi… A small hive in a box on the wheels.12 souls in
a cold piece of iron. And now it’ll blow up! And here is the feat and holiday
and an inexplicable anguish is gone… And maybe something will clear up with
love. Because how else? Some evening anyway should be the last. Why not this?
Well, we’ll have a talk then. How, where and why? And who those winter night
people are…
ME TUBE: AUGUST
SINGS CARMEN HABANERA
daniel
moshen_AUSTRIA_2013_experiment/music_4min
MeTube, a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video
bloggers, gifted and less gifted self-promoters on Internet, has attracted
international attention. No less than George Bizets' Habanera from Carmen which
has been reinterpreted for MeTube and enhanced with electronic music.
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ZOOM GERMANY
SWEETHEART
miguel angelo
pate_GERMANY&USA_2015_fiction_26min
A mysterious asteroid crashes into the Pacific Ocean, causing all the
adults on Earth to degenerate and lose all human values. A young girl,
Sweetheart, fights for the survival of herself and her infant brother in this
brutal new world, where her own parents are no longer who they appear to be,
and nowhere is safe.
SUN SUN SUN
leonel
dietsche_GERMANY_2015_fiction_15min
Impressions of a day of an addicts' monotonous life, always with the same
cycle of running, finding money, gambling and taking drugs.
BOULEVARDS' END
nora
fingscheidt_GERMANY_2014_documentary_15min
At the end of Washington Boulevard, where Los Angeles' streets merge into
ocean, the Venice Pier begins. The rough concrete pier braves Pacific storms
and provides stillness and stablity to its visitors. Here we meet two
immigrants who take us on their journey through history.
CAUGHT
marko
valic_GERMANY&CROATIA_2015_fiction_11min
In an idyllic village a poet is living between intoxication, desperation
and prayer. But what is it that made him a broken man? The personal fate of the
protagonist becomes an universal anti-war-story.
DREAM TO BE A
DIVER
erik
schiesko_GERMANY_2014_fiction_6min
A story about a girl who dreams of becoming a diver and who carries out all
necessary preparations to reach that goal, but in the end never takes the last
step: the dive.
FAINT
natalie
plaskura_GERMANY_2014_fiction/expriment_6min
The time stands still, the moments are everlasting.
ALIENATION
laura
lehmus_GERMANY_2014_animation_7min
An animation short story about puberty, based on real life interviews with
teenagers.
DEJA – MOO
stefan
muller_GERMANY_2013_animation_10min
It could have been a nice Saturday…were it not a mad cow, hysteric mother
and two ambulance men, who are all good at one thing mainly: Creating chaos.
HERMES &
APHRODITE
gregor
zootzky_GERMANY_2013_animation_10min
What happens if you have to find out first whether you are a boy or a girl?
The story of a child who begins to discover his true indentity in puberty.
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ZOOM POLAND
UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
marcin
wojciechowski_POLAND_2014_animation/experiment_8min
A narrated animation in the form of a journal
produced as a combination of drawings and graphics. An attempt to find visual
equivalents for decomposition and mental deconstruction of personality/person
as well as to show desperate efforts aiming at its reconstructing, merging.
It’s a peculiar game of graphic representations of mental states which
accompany daily struggle with reality, including questions such as: "who
am I?, "what do I consist of?".
FROM BED THOU
AROUSE
bartek
konopka_POLAND_2014_fiction_23min
A
comically absurd parable that tells the story of a furniture-beds maker who,
after the fall of communism, expands his business, from camp beds right through
to run-ins with the mafia. He pays a price in his private life for getting
drunk on freedom and capitalism. The Polish transformation from a bed point of
view, or 20 scenes from the groundbreaking events in Poland
ZIEGENORT
tomasz
popakul_POLAND_2014_animation_19min
Fish
Boy is a teenager facing the challenges of growing up. His problems are
especially severe, as he is different from all others: He is half boy, half
fish. His drama is set against the background of a seemingly idyllic fishing
village, where his father wants to teach him how to become a fisherman. The
boy‘s struggle with the stigma of rejection takes place in several dimensions
of interpersonal relationships. Ultimately, it also affects Fish Boy‘s
relationship with himself.
REAL HONEY
slawomir
witek_POLAND_2013_fiction_18min
An old, poor woman sells honey by the
roadside. She does not conceal her displeasure at the nearby presence of
prostitutes. It so happens, however, that she gets to know one of them closer
and helps her to avoid serious trouble. Will the girl show gratitude for the
selfless help?
OF
A FOREST
katarzyna
melnyk_POLAND_2014_animation_4min
In
her subtle animation Katarzyna Melnyk draws a portayal of a dog living among
people. Its life is ruled by the rhythm of the human day which sets the time
for eating or training. At night, when the lights in the neighbourhood go down,
the forest brims with sounds. Little by little the dog’s repressed instincts
start to call out. This hand drawn animation, “Of a forest”, is a film about longing for freedom.
MOKO
marta
szymanska_POLAND_2014_animation_5min
Moko
is a dynamic story about shapes, colours and ornaments. It’s a variation on a
theme of Polynesian myth of the Creation. A story of first parents and first
lovers imerges from the multicoloured artistic and musical impression. The
hypnotizing ornaments teem with life and affect the characters.
TO THY HEART
ewa
borysewicz_POLAND_2013_animation_10min
There’s a
candy bubble gum, there’s a swing, so there must be love as well - somewhere. A
secular litany and a story of a relationship, resounding through a tower block
estate.
KILLING AUNTIE
mateusz glowacki_POLAND_2013_fiction_30min
Jurek, who
is twenty three, lives with his aunt who does her best to provide the boy with
everything he may need. Tired by the stability and security of life under
constant care, he decides to change his fate. To quiet down his aunt’s
incessant jabbering he reaches for a hammer. The film, based on the
unfinished novel ‘Killing Auntie’ by Andrzej Bursa, is a story about the
need of deliverance, full of unobtrusive absurd and black humour.
DAY_03
01>april>2015
16_30
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WORLD MIX
THE VOYAGE (In the end: The Beginning)
po-yen wang_TAIWAN_2014_expriment/animation_7min
A visual
poem rich in symbols that brings to mind a journey through space and time. By
combining linear and circular concepts of time, “The Voyage” attempts to enable
viewers to experience the eternal cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
REBALDA
elena otrepyeva_RUSSIA_2014_documentary_33min
Ex-convict tries to start a new life with his family on a remote island
in the labor to get seaweed. Surrounded by forest and sea together with
companions in misfortune, they live in their “concentrated” world according to
their rules. Challenging the system and society, they prove that they are able
to preserve human dignity, ingenuousness, kindness and faith in people despite
the twists and turns of life.
NOT TODAY
christina sivolap_UKRAINE_2014_fiction_19min
The old man Lyosha and his ladie Christie decided to die happily in one
day. But Lyosha has to finish something very important first…
THE ROOMER
anastasiya mateshko_UKRAINE_2015_fiction_20min
Masha has anartriya
disease. One day she woke up with a dead tenants and decided never to talk.
BANNER GIRL
dmitry mayorovo_RUSSIA_2014_fiction_14min
Based on a
story of Charles Bukowski “Something About A Viet Cong Flag”.
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ZOOM SPAIN
HORIZONTE
aitor uribarri_SPAIN_2012_fiction_24min
The
world as we know ended, only its ashes are left. In a desperate attempt to
bring the family together, Ana and her mother begin a dangerous journey where
they will face the monsters that now rule the Earth and an even more dangerous one:
the one we all carry inside…
WHEN GIRLS COLLIDE
javier longobardo_SPAIN_2013_music/experiment_4min
Experimental
pop music band whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic beats,
glitch beats effects, and variety of traditional and unconventional
instruments. Mum was formed in 1997.
THE FIELD
asier altuna_SPAIN_2014_documentary/experiment_13min
Arid soil,
sun, wind. A procession crosses the landscape. The echoes of their prayer
brings the rain.
SAILORS’ GRAVE
vuk jevremovic and collective _SPAIN_2014_animation_5min
The
Sailors’ luck is drawn on his skin.
HUBERT LE BLONEN AZKEN HEGALDIA
koldo almandoz_SPAIN_2014_documentary/animation_10min
Life and
death of a 20th century Icarus.
ANOMALOUS
aitor guetierrez_SPAIN_2014_fiction_15min
Don’t take
your clothes off, please. Not tonight.
#SEISCIENTOS
rebeca diaz_SPAIN_2015_fiction_10min
Samuel,
Marta and her enigmatic boyfriend, always present on the telephone, are part of
a love triangle.
SNAILS!
geoffrey cowper_SPAIN_2012_fiction_17min
Joey is
with his friends at a party in a park when he sees his ex-girlfriend there. He
decides to go talk to her and tell her he still loves her, but a giant snail
interrupts them!
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ZOOM CROATIA
WHY DID THEY
COME BY TRAIN
josko marusic_CROATIA_2015_animation_14min
One Sunday
afternoon, every day at the same time the train is arriving at the train
station which is at the main square of a small town. Hundreds of strange beings
took off the train. City residents will experience magnificent and mysterious
encounter from which almost all the people fear the most.
CHOBAN
matija pisacic_CROATIA_2014_animation_19min
Laika, a female dog, is kidnapped and then launched into outer
space. Choban, her owner, starts to search for her and ends up in an
underground city where he accidently embarks on a singing career. Meanwhile,
Laika ends up on a planet inhabited by a mysterious black grandmother called
Moira who tailors fate and bends time and space. Moira turns Laika into an
anthropomorphic being that yearns to return to her master.
WOLF GAMES
jelena
oroz_CROATIA_2015_animation_5min
While waiting for
her brothers to come home with meal, little she-wolf is taking care of house.
Sometimes she likes to play while being alone. Even pretend to be someone else.
SECRET LABORATORY OF NICOLA TESLA
bruno razum_CROATIA_2014_animation_11min
In a hidden lab,
after Tesla's death, tremors caused by passing train, woke the robot.
The robot soon
becomes aware that he is Tesla's creation, and in anticipation of his arrival
is spending his time watching TV. Due to the life as single, robot becomes
depressed, so when he sees a strange relationship between man and woman on tv,
decides to make his life partner.
1000
danijel zezelj_CROATIA_2014_animation_6min
The town sleeps
under the even grey clouds. There is rarely a person left who remembers clear
blue skies. Although the song, wind will tear them all clouds down, when thousand
suns light up the town, can still be heard in harbor inns, it looks like no one
truly counts on the return of the brightness any more. Only sailors stop by
these inns, anyway.
WIENER BLUT
zlatko bourek&pavao
stalter_CROATIA_2014_animation_8min
The film
represents an author's own memory of the dawn of the World War II in Germany
SHUNTER
davor medurecan_CROATIA_2014_animation_8min
Young man is working
on railroad as shunter. He lives in the house near by railroad. One day mouse
comes into his house. Shunter feeds him and becoming friend with him. Days go
by. One day pretty woman comes of the train straight in to his house. He falls
in love with her but she is scared of a mouse…
LUST
irena jukic pranjic_CROATIA_2014_animation_7min
The film is about
how women idealize and romanticize love relationship and are prepared to take
and bear in order to be loved.
LOVE & VEHICLES
drasko ivezic_CROATIA/DENMARK_2014_animation_14min
World full of
different vehicles, with different couples, all travelling on a path filled
with bizarre meaningless relationships. Two characters, who are almost like
twins, just opposite gender. Throughout Love and Vehicles the two of them are
mirroring each other, but still, they don’t meet. The vehicles, like a boat, a
huge ship, a bicycle, a train and an airplane host little visual gags with
different couples. At the final act, we see our main couple for the first time
together, waiting for a bus. Are they going to get on the bus together and be
as the other couples? Or does fate have other plans?
EVEN MONKEYS DIE
anja susanj_CROATIA_2015_animation_7min
I have always been
interested in that moment between living and non-living, the moment in which
our existence comes to an end; in such a context He discovers his true self.
ARCADIAN FEVER
tea strazicic_CROATIA_2015_animation_7min
"Arcadian
Febra" (Dubrovnik Febra or temperature, fever) is a short film about the
life cycle of parasitic alien species. The film includes a love story.
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WORLD MIX
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUNIS
mohammed all otaiba_United Arab
Emirates_2013_fiction_16min
Younis is a taxi
driver, who has passed the age of retirement. He drives an old car, which has
never dissapointed him. Today is his birthday…
THE NEIGHBOUR
nayla al khaja_United Arab Emirates_2014_fiction_19min
Sara
has just moved to Dubai
NO WOLF HAS A HOUSE
hana jusic_CROATIA_2015_fiction_25min
Sandra loses
control of her frightening fantasies at her husbands’ birthday party,
surrounded by his family.
PAPA
girlin bassovskaja_ESTONIA_2014_animation_16min
Mother tries to keep
together a family that is falling to pieces. It is nearly an impossible task if
the other side is not making an equal effort. Also the child will miss love,
while still trying to trust and love a person that might have never existed.
There has been only imagination and hope, that this person is alive, or that he
might be. He is being waited for... endlessly. And when he is finally
there…would it then be the right time?
BUSKER
mitja mlakar_SLOVENIA_2014_fiction_10min
When similar fates meet in the middle of everyday rush.
ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE WOODS
anu laura
tuttelberg_ESTONIA_2014_animation_10min
A
fairy tale full of light, magic and nostalgia. A clay doll awakens in her
surroundings, which become a surreal world in a constant flow of change. Shot
with natural light, the visible changes of daylight emphasize the passing of
time in the film.
HALF BABKA
jasmine elsen_SLOVAKIA_2014_animation_5min
The film is about
loneliness in the society. An old woman does everything with her cat, which is
more like a toy for her. Sharing ice cream and knitting sweaters…but the cat
decides to run away and she tries to replace it.
ESSENCE
martina mikusova_SLOVAKIA_2014_animation_5min
The essence is a
film about life, love and scent that can wear off quickly. The protagonist is a
young woman, a performer who loses the essence she loved in her life. She
decides to bring it back for a while, even if the scents are unstable and they
wear off quickly.
DJI. DEATH SAILS
dmitri voloshin_MOLDAVIA_2014_animation_6min
Dji is a terribly
unlucky death, who doesn’t seem good at his job. This time he has to take the
soul of a pirate, but that is easier said than done!