International Short Cinema - Program 2

International Short Cinema - Program 2

The Silence
Italy | Dir. Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari
Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees in Italy. On their visit to the doctor, Fatma has to translate what the doctor tells to her mother but she keeps silent.

15 min. | Italian, Kurdish and English | English subtitles | Fiction

Love
Hungary/France | Dir.: Réka Bucsi
Love describes affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Abstract haiku-like situations reveal the change in atmosphere on one planet, caused by the change of gravity and light.

15 min.| no dialogue | Animation

Because The World Never Stops
Sweden | Dir.: Maximilien Van Aertryck, Axel Danielson
Shot behind the scenes during a live broadcast, Because the World Never Stops is a revelatory look at the hidden side of the evening news

10 min. | Swedish | English Subtitles | Documentary

Crystal Lake
USA | Dir. Jennifer Reeder
A group of young girls who take over a skate park. The film is an anthem for young feminists and presents female friendship as a means to survive adolescence.

20 min. | English | Fiction

What Tears Us Apart
France | Dir.: Hu Wei
Isabelle Huppert, Nai An and André Wilms star in a film that reflects on the origin of identity among a diaspora. After a long separation, an encounter. Two families. One child.

18 min. | English, French and Chinese | English subtitles | Fiction

The Committee
Sweden/Norway/Finland | Dir. Gunhild Enger, Jenni Toivoniemi
Three delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide which piece of art should be placed at the border of their countries. But the committee is in for a surprise…

14 min. | English, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish | English subtitles | Fiction

The filmmakers will be attending the October 20 screening.