Shortfilms 4: Schräge Typen in einer schrägen Welt
DIE STADTMITTE, 9.30 p.m.
Private Waltz
United Kingdom, Duration: 5 min
Director: Marina Waltz
Cast: George Potts, Leander Deeny
A lonely doll maker discovers his latest creation has come to life. He can finally have the perfect woman who can be everything he has been dreaming of: mother, lover, confidant.... But his joy turns to fear as he realizes that his doll is a feminist who is hell bent on destroying her creator. Be careful what you wish for.
VICTOR
France, Duration: 14 min
Director: Paul Menville
Cast: Sylvain Monzat, Delia Espinat-Dief, Cécile Carles
At the end of his working week, Victor gets away at night in his 60's Mustang, listening to agressive punk rock music, he wanders across the streets of a small deserted town. Victor devotes his time to a mysterious passion that seems to scatter women dead bodies everywhere ...
Georg
Germany, Duration: 8 min
Director: Daniela Schramm Moura
Cast: Gerhard Polacek
Someday George has breakfast, towards him some frames hang on the wall, which include pictures of his last travels. In on picture he stands in front of the Eiffel Tower, in the other one in front of the Tower Bridge in London. Next to him on the table lays a picture of his last travel. After he finished breakfast, he went to his bedroom in order so look out for another frame. As he is looking into a box, he discovers a colorful baloon, which is going to change his whole life.
Ripples on the Water
United States, Duration: 14 min
Director: Alexander Falcon
Cast: Ruty Rutenberg, Paulina Michaels, Marlon Aquino
After losing his wife and contemplating suicide, Leo has a life-changing encounter with a young man who tries to rob him.
3000
Australia, Duration: 20 min
Director: Antonis Tsonis
Cast: Panos Natsis , Yiannis Papadopoulos, Daphne Patakia
When Leon’s best friend Ari shares tragic news about his battle with cancer, unemployed and desperate to help, Leon secretly decides to become a criminal to pay for more cancer treatments. Against the backdrop of contemporary Athens, Greece, Leon’s actions to save his best friend have irreversible consequences.
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Three Score and Ten
United Kingdom, Duration: 2 min
Director: Richard Jacobs
'Three Score and Ten' touches on the trawler disasters that shook the East Coast fishing towns and cities in the 1960's. With music from the Ballina Whalers, Three Score and Ten delivers a simple and honest look at a dangerous era of maritime history.
Insular
Portugal, Duration: 5 min
Director: Pablo Blanco
It all began by fleeing the noise. Then Fisterra's open sea brought her back the silence. In the old days, was believed to be the end of the world. It is perhaps because of this that the sea is like a sort of end point, an unmapped island where the vast horizon bring us the promise of peace. Yet is here where the ocean becomes stone, over which the future is projected. Or is it the past? The stone brings back images of Goya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, ignoring whether it is a dream or the sleep what destroys the myth of progress. Collective insomnia, irrational storm. Where does it go? On the way back, she wakes up. It has been a long time since she played on someone else's hands.
Polterheist
United Kingdom, Duration: 19 min
Director: David Gilbank
Cast: Kathryn Hanke, Jamie Smelt, Sid Akbar Ali
Two small time criminals kidnap a psychic medium and force her to contact the gang boss they murdered. The pair are desperate to discover where their recently deceased boss buried a stash of cash, but only succeed in unleashing a demon, bent on revenge.
'Our Place' – Verge Collection
Australia, Duration: 3 min
Director: John McGovarin
Cast: Ben Morris, Blake Hayt
A friendly hitch-hiking giant bails out a driver and hitches a ride to his place, fitting into the car thanks to his shrinking pills.
Salutami Damasco
Italy, Duration: 5 min
Director: Pino Maio
Three instruments and one voice, Naga showcase their rock made of surprising melodies, overwhelming power and cuddling softness, distorted guitar, strong drums, psycho basses but overall an unexpectedly strong voice that rises from the wall of sound. They sing in Italian and their sound gets inspiration from the most different sources: alternative rock, psychedelic music, pop, noise. Naga’s songs go straight to the point, alternating different moods like it happens in the urban life of the years 2010′. Music built around the tension and release, like an unavoidable anxiety followed by the moment of calm, to review it all.