ZOOM SHORT FILM NIGHT PRISHTINA, TEATRI ODA

 MAY 12th, 2015

 19_00 >>> 20_00 ZOOM NORWAY

STEPS
Director: Jørgen Klüver
A young woman is faced with an apparently insignificant act, but which has huge symbolic consequences. Steps is a story about how one's psychological state will always be expressed physically, told through music and dance.
NORWAY
2014
6min

MONOPOLIS II – The City of Swords
Director: Erik Wessel
Animated art film. A future portrait of the world as we hope it will not become: A beautiful place in which it's impossible to live. References to Fritz Lang, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguy.
NORWAY
2014
13min

PROSPEROUS MOUNTAIN
Director: Heidi C. Morstang
Global plant diversity rapidly declines; climate change and political conflicts threaten the presence of international seed banks. A global seed vault has been constructed in the Arctic in order to store duplicates of food crop seeds and secure the world's future supply.
NORWAY
2013
16min

DATE SETTERS
Director: Alam Ali
For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd. NORWAY 2012 8min

LET IT GO
Director: Alam Ali
Short/music video for composer and audio/visual artist from Iceland, Kira Kira.
NORWAY
2013
5min

20_00 >>> 21_00 ZOOM FINLAND

HYPERMARKET NATION
paula korva_FINLAND_2011_26min
Brothers Ingvar and Stig Palmen run a small grocery store in the suburbs of Helsinki. The store has persisted through six decades but is now faced with fierce competition from huge hypermarkets.

MOTHERS
elina hyvarinen_FINLAND_2011_10min
A poetic short story about becoming a mother. Based on archive footage.

MIGRATORY BIRD
katja lautamatti_FINLAND_2012_24min
Esther, 9 years, was born in the Middle East to parents who were illegal immigrant workers from Nigeria. The film is a portrait of Esther, a child ever prepared to pack her bags.

21_00 >>> 22_00 WORLD MIX

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.

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.

ROADTRIP
xaver xylophone_GERMANY_2014_animation_20min
A hand drawn film about failure, insomnia, a red motorbike, and pretty bargirls, the desolateness of Berlin (even in summer) and waterproof socks.

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.

22_00 >>> 23_00 ZOOM NORWAY

PORTRAITS FROM VARANGERFJORD
Director: Egil Pedersen
A feel-good documentary depicting the life, soul and culture of the Southern Sami people in Varangerfjord through unique personal portraits.
NORWAY
2013
13min

BEAR
Director: Bård Ivar Engelsås
A solitary hunter struggles to stay alive in the brutal wilderness. When he encounters a teddybear left alone in the snow, he starts failing as a survivor. Soon both he himself and the bear are in danger of being destroyed.
NORWAY
2013
17min

CLUB 7
Director: Even G. Benestad, August B. Hanssen
Club 7 was the most distinctive Oslo forum for counter culture and the hippie movement from the 1960s and the following two decades. A symphonic and associative film exploring the years and the contemporary times of a place that has been described as 20 years of continuous improvisation.
NORWAY
2014
25min

 MAY 13th, 2015

 18_00 >>> 19_00 ZOOM FINLAND

THE ZONE
Lauri Randla_2011_FINLAND_19min_fiction
A group of Soviet soldiers who are involved in testing of nuclear weapons are stranded in their nuclear base. They have to dig their way out and try to fight against their invisible enemy, radiactive radiation.

SO IT GOES
Antti Heikki Pesonen_2012_FINLAND_24_fiction
Story about a working class woman called Elli who has never travelled outside of Finland.

TWO WAYS
Mika Kurvinen_2011_FINLAND_19min_fiction
Marco is a German drifter – a failed musician, who get a job driving a fancy car from Berlin to Finland.

19_00 >>> 20_00 ZOOM NORWAY

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Director: Aasne Vaa Greibrokk
We had three rules: 1. We must not know anything about each other. 2. We meet the first Friday of the month, for a year. 3. Afterwards, we will never see each other again.
NORWAY
2012
23min

THREATS
Director: Anne Merete Gaup A reindeer herder family is trying to live their life in peace, while political solutions threaten their livelihoods. The dilemma is when children also are forced to cope with the politics.
NORWAY
2013
11min

OLD FRIENDS
Director: Sverre Ferd
Two elderly German men arrive at a camping site in Southern Norway the summer of 1990. They are on familiar ground to find something they once buried – for a very special reason. What do you do when you are confronted with the dark sides of your own country's history? A feel-good film about a difficult topic.
NORWAY
2013
17min

 20_00 >>> 21_00 WORLD MIX

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…

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.

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.

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.

21_00 >>> 22_00 ZOOM NORWAY

AND THEN I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU
Director: Sunniva Tangvik Kveum The film is about childrens way of understanding and dealing with difficult situations through imagination and plays. As a child, you can feel kind of excluded, and that your vote are not really counts. Adult explanation may seem inadequate or childish. Lo and Eddy tries through play and imagination to understand and relate to the different forms and expressions of madness and to find their place in the adult world.
NORWAY
2013
16min

GRANDFATHER'S BOAT
Director: Sondre Sandbakken A young boy wants to cheer up his sick grandfather. So he sets out on a long journey to get his old wooden boat. On the way, the boy meets a couple of people and animals that help him to get the boat all the way back to his grandfather.
NORWAY
2013
11min

GILRS WHO DON'T WASH THEIR HANDS
Director: Eir Tangvik Kveum When Miriam draws Simon to a party with her friends where she is confronted with their own prejudices about modern relationships should work. The struggle for power and tensions between the sexes escalates. In between all the sharp lines, we as the audience is allowed short intimate breathing pauses with every one of the girls in the bathroom. With this film I wanted to research into how my own generation of girls thinks about relationships. I would play with the gender roles and put strong characters against each other. I wanted to show how I perceive today's girls thoughts about relationship and sex, both in groups and alone.
NORWAY
2013
20min

SPACE ODDITY
Director: Sunniva Tangvik Kveum
February 15th 2013. A meteor has burned its way through the atmosphere over the Ural region in Russia, its dazzling light brighter than the sun. In Kabelvåg, a small town in the north of Norway, the three close friends Ruby, Sebastian and Daniel celebrate their graduation. They have made plans for a future together, but much like the meteor, their destination and journey remains unclear.
NORWAY
2013
12min

 22_00 >>> 23_00 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…

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.

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.

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.

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!