2019 Short Movies Catalogue

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Jan Rehwinkel, Germany - "In this camera-less film I work on serial drawings and their relation to time."

4:44

Lindon Shimizu, Finalnd - "In Japan a legend tells that if you look at a mirror at 4:44 AM it opens a portal to another dimension. "

A Monologue in the Intermission

Peter Vulchev, Bulgaria - “A Monologue in the Intermission” is a documentary movie, portrait of the prima ballerina Vessa Tonova. The movie is filmed for six hours only, during the play “Swan Lake” in Sofia Opera and Ballet in 2014.

ABIURA

Giovanni B.Algieri, Italy - Fofo, un umile e onesto operaio in pensione, carica strana gente a bordo del suo vecchio furgoncino per accompagnarli al seggio elettorale.

Alpha

Emiliano Trovati, Italia - Alpha is 18 years old. The Public Prosecutor has recently decided to transfer him from the Sprar of Palermo to that of Roccabascerana, a small village of Irpina, in the province of Avellino.

BARCELONA

GLORIA LATTANZI, Scotland - Barcelona is a short film that explores the fractured relationship between a teen girl (Alice) and her overbearing mother (Fiona).

Chasing Sparks

Lucas Moreira, Portugal - "A boy chases inspiration until he finds the need to have something more: an original idea."

Cherry

Antonella Spatti, Italy - It's summer. A boy and a girl are in the shade of a tree in the middle of an expanse of lawn. There is nothing else around.

Doppio Sei (Midnight)

Pierluigi Braca/Luigi Montebello, Italy - "Fiumicino. 1996. Two lovers, one game. The violent end of a relationship through the faces of a dice."

Fixação/Obsession

Kellen Auxiliadora Pereira, Brasil - Carlos, a successful professional sees his routine modified after listening to a song and being attacked by the Earworm phenomenon.

His song for Yuri Gagarin

Rene Nuijens, Netherland - ‘RINGO ROCKET STAR and his song for Yuri Gagarin' is a dry tragic musical comedy (short) film about a gipsy guy who think he can be famous by writing a song for the first man in the space 'YURI GAGARIN'.

Humam

Carmelo Segreto, Italy - “Perché odi così tanto tuo figlio Fëdor Pavlovič? Che male ti ha fatto?” “Lui a me non ne ha fatto: ma io ne ho fatto tanto a lui.” (Fëdor Dostoevskij – I fratelli Karamazov)

I FUTURIERI

SIMONE D’ANGELO, Italy - “Cosa sarebbe successo se nel 1796 fossero esistiti i social network?”1796. Vincenzo Cuoco torna nel suo paese natale. Intorno a lui, il mondo sta cambiando: la rivoluzione è alla porte, e nuove idee stanno prendendo piede.

Im Bären

LILIAN SASSANELLI, Germany/Italy - A day in the life of an Italian girl who has just moved to Berlin. Antonia, having to go through a series of grotesque castings to find a house, is looking for a room but also for herself.

Intimacy

Fred Luz, Brasil - An intimate and sensitive dive. An invitation to life, to routine and to love.

Like and Follow

Tobias Schlage/ Brent Forrest, Japan - When a kid starts spending time in the real world, it's up to his smartphone to bring his attention back to where it belongs.

LOOPED LOVE

Alessandro Marzullo, Italy - The story is set in a film that repeats itself endlessly. The characters only live within their own shots, but they are unaware of this.

Mesophase

Espen Tversland - 2019 Selection of Video Art - "Artificial life as energy"

Minor Key

Ivan Sainz-Pardo, Spain - "The moving story about a man locked in a Portuguese Fado"

Moon of mining blood

Jaime Garcia Parra - The life of the miners of the early twentieth century is governed by a maxim: "no fear, no rest, sun in heaven, work on earth.

Nirvana

Marta Fernandez - Nirvana is to shed the body-spirit, discover the unborn.

Patchwork

Maria Muro - Patchwork is based on the real life of Loly, a woman from a little town in the north of Spain, a place educated by old and deep beliefs where she has gown up and has raised a family.

Pattern Cognition

Thorstein Fleisch - "It's late. You've been working on those numbers the whole day. The screen in front of you seems to be vibrating. You close your eyes."

PERCHÉ HO PECCATO

GIOVANNI DINATALE, Italy - In the place of forgiveness, the confessional, a man will make a shocking revelation to his confessor.

Raquel Times Ten

Chris O'Neill, Ireland - Raquel Times Ten features 53 seconds of silent footage with actor Raquel Nave (Welcome To New York, Bizarre) which has been duplicated from one VHS recording to another, and that copied to another VHS cassette, and that to another VHS cassette...

Sembra Un Giorno Di Festa

Stefano Schiavone/ Giacomo Natola , Italy - Il primo ministro presenta un disegno di legge in modo infantile. Il risultato di un gioco tic-tac deciderà le politiche di immigrazione del Paese.

Smartphone

Antonella Santarelli, Italy - 2019 Selection of Fiction and Docu-Film Short Movies

Take care of me

Mario Vitale , Italy - Alice is tormented from a recurring nightmare that nightly brings her back a trauma of a suffered violence. Shout down, Alice stopped talking and starts to comunIcate with the whole world only with short sentences written in some colored post-it notes.

THE GIFT

Dumitru Grosei, Romania - A kid gets a pair of binoculars as a Christmas gift, but what he wants more is to go hunting with his father.

The immortality of the crab

Giacomo Manzotti, Italy - The Immortality of the crab is an experimental animated short film shot on super 8 film, made with in-camera editing and no post production.

The Last Cigarette On Earth: A Steampunk Adventure

Matic Grgic, Slovenia - In a parallel-future world, flying locomotives and mechanical heli-horses populate the sky, skyscrapers protrude from the clouds and the moon is a huge garbage dump, kept afloat by steam power.

The River

Yuri Pirondi - Rather than relying on a traditional narrative “The River” takes the form of almost-nonverbal documentary, a journey of the soul that explores the rumbling course of the water. 

Tight Spot

Kevin Haefelin, Switzerland - Shining the shoes of a walk-in customer, a shiner discovers his client’s dark secret.

Traction/Compression (Limit)

Lorenzo Papanti, Italy - Each entity is continually subjected by opposing efforts of traction and compression within its matter, in a perennial intangible condition. Through the visual overturning, the two opposites are isolated and shown in their drama, in the always vain effort of removal and approach to the external limit.