International Shorts - Short Package
Comedy, Drama, Short, International |
2016 |
1hr 47min
CAST: Various DIRECTOR: Various
CAST: Various DIRECTOR: Various
D: Michal Grzybowski
A story based on facts. Aaron, a quiet, introverted Israeli opera singer, a star who doesn't shine so bright anymore, arrives in a little theatre in rural Poland to give a guest performance. He evokes both admiration and respect among the theatre staff. Aaron doesn't feel comfortable in the country where Jews suffered so much but, as a professional, he tries to integrate with the crew. During one of rehearsals, he feels that somebody is watching him. To his horror, the man he notices behind the curtain looks like... Adolf Hitler. When he shares his anxiety with the theatre director, she decides that the singer must have lost his mind. Aaron, however, insists that he has become a victim of a cruel joke. What follows is escalation of this absurd situation, caused by a mix of Aaron's paranoia and a certain doze of anti-Semitism, which poses a threat of starting an international scandal and might result in the premiere being cancelled.
Madam Black - New Zealand (12mins)
D: Ivan Barge
When a glamour photographer runs over a child's pet, he's forced to fabricate a story about its disappearance.
The Kiss - Mexico (12mins)
D: Carlos D. Avila
Daniel just wants an honest, sober appraisal of how he kisses. Ale is unconvinced. Is a kiss between friends ever 'just a kiss'? What was meant to be a quiet night in doing laundry quickly becomes a thorough deconstruction of Ale and Daniel's friendship.
(a)live - France (13mins)
D: Maud Forget
Nathalie, twenty six years, lives with her mother with whom she maintains conflicting relationships. her everyday life sinks and melancolique is enlighted by her meetings between friends and her passion secrete for her neighbor, Guillaume, who she meets every morning without ever daring to speak to him.
The Treehouse - UK (17mins)
D: Amy Coop
In the shadow of a family funeral a young boy retreats to the treehouse he built with his father and shuts himself in and the rest of the world out. Whilst there he is befriended by an enigmatic young girl from next door who helps him to come to terms with his loss and face up to the future.
Dignity - UK (7mins)
D: Tom Verrall
A retired sea-captain - trapped, lonely and frail - discovers someone to live for”¦
Dream to be a Diver - Germany (5mins)
D: Erik Schiesko & Laura Maria Hänsel
The story is about a girl who her whole live dreams of becoming a diver and who carries out all the necessary preparations to reach that goal, but in the end never takes the last step: the dive.
Twisted - Australia (6mins)
D: Stuart Bowen
School reunions are strange for anyone, but especially our socially awkward hero. But he’s been waiting for this night and today might just be his lucky day! Surely, the girl of his dreams, the one that got away, his schoolyard crush will be there. As he walks into his old school hall, he spots her, and she is sitting alone! He’s stunned, she is just as beautiful as he remembers, but he also remembers what it was like trying to talk to her when they were kids”¦and nothing has changed. Will nerves get the better of him? Not this day!
Russian Roulette - UK (5mins)
D: Ben Aston
London seems a little less lonely when Lucy meets a cosmonaut on chat roulette”¦
