Future Shorts: Autumn Season 2015 (EN)

FUTURE SHORTS: Autumn Season 2015
November 3, 2015, 7.00 p.m.

While the weather is getting chillier and chillier, eight excellent short films from Autumn edition of the FUTURE SHORTS will warm up the audience at Kino Pod Baranami during 111 minutes of carefully selected examples of what is best in the world of shorts.

As always, FUTURE SHORTS will bring the audiences both laugh and tears. We will travel through three continents, all sorts of themes and ways of artistic expression. Although this time most of the titles are examples of classic narration, there is also a music video and an experimental film in the programme. In less than two hours we will learn, why are Marc Jacob sunglasses so special to a 9-year-old boy in Amsterdam, what it means to be an immigrant and what how does the lack of father affect a child.

Come and find out what it feels like to be part of the biggest pop-up film festival on Earth!

All films will be presented with both Polish and English subtitles.


TICKTES:
16 PLN (regular)
14 PLN (discount)




PROGRAMME:
(running time: 111’)

MARC JACOBS | MARC JACOBS
dir. Sam de Jong, Germany 2014, 16’ (fiction) 

Nine-year-old Soufyane lives in Amsterdam Noord and is preparing for a trip with his absent Moroccan father. His friends insist that he should get a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses, but Soufyane would rather wear Marc Jacobs. These amateur actors express their ideas of manhood and male rituals, concepts that come up against hard realities in the suburbs, something that Soufyane painfully learns, as the sun goes down and he turns up at his father’s place. 

BLACK SHEEP | BLACK SHEEP
dir. Christian Cerami, UK 2015, 16’ (fiction)

In the North of England, two adolescent brothers set out to attend an EDL street protest against radical Islam - but will the boys be convinced by the cause’s far-right beliefs? 
 
FALLEN LEAVES | FALLEN LEAVES
dir. Masha Kondakova, Ukraine 2015, 22’ (fiction)

It's autumn in the outskirts of Kyiv; Valya, a lonely 40-year-old caretaker, is burning fallen leaves in the forest. Before long she bumps into a charming stranger who soon manages to seduce his way into her flat. Once inside, Valya becomes a hostage in her own home. 

SOUND OF A MILLION INSECTS, LIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS
| SOUND OF A MILLION INSECTS, LIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS
dir. Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan 2014, 2’ (experimental)

Nishikawa buried 30 metres of 35mm negative film under fallen leaves alongside a country road, about 25 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, from the sunset of June 24 2014 to sunrise the following day. The night was beautiful, with a starry sky, and numerous summer insects were singing loudly. This film was exposed to the possible remains of the radioactive materials.

OH LUCY! | OH LUCY!
dir. Atsuko Hirayanag, Japan 2014, 22’ (fiction)

Setsuko, a 55-year-old single ‘office lady' in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new identity - Lucy - by her young, unconventional English instructor. Lucy awakens desires Setsuko never knew she had. When the instructor suddenly disappears, Setsuko must come to terms with what remains - herself. 
 
BEST - PETITE NOIR | BEST - PETITE NOIR
dir. Travys Owen, South Africa 2014, 4’ (music video)

The video explores how the ‘western’ first world still perceives Africa as a dark continent, largely unknown, exotic and distant. Only through visiting the continent can anyone gain a sense of its split identity; how incredibly and indescribably beautiful it is on the one hand, yet on the other hand, how raw and unforgiving it can be. 

HOT CHICKS | HOT CHICKS
dir. Ninja Thyberg, Sweden 2014, 14’ (fiction)

Five girls in a changing room are getting ready to shoot a music video for the tune ‘Hot Chicks’. As they get into character they discuss their work. Are they being treated as objects or do they consider themselves independent performers? 

YES WE LOVE | YES WE LOVE
dir. Hallvar Witzø, Norway 2014, 15’ (fiction)

Four generations - ten-year-old Birger, war hero Konrad (90), graduation queen Carina (18) and father-of-two Ola (46) - each with their own crisis, set in four different parts of Norway on Norwegian Constitution Day.


ORGANISERS:
Futureshorts Poland
Fundacja Ad Arte
Kino Pod Baranami


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