International Shorts

Maltings cinema
Sunday 23 16.00

An engaging selection of award-winning short films from around the world.
No official cert. Sugg. cert. 18

Harrachov
Netherlands/UK, 2006, Beta SP, 10 min 30 sec
dir: Matt Hulse, Joost Van Veen
prod: Esther Urlus

A fantastical fusion of live action, animation and kinetic sculpture. A mysterious force exerts irresistible power over certain objects, taking them on a series of unique journeys and ultimately creating a monstrous machine that is both comic and sinister.

Orquesta Tipica
Argentina, 2005, DVD, 5 min
dir: Nicholas Entel

The Orquesta Tipica Fernández Fierro is the leading Tango orchestra in Argentina. This film tells the story of what happens to their fans and the police when they undertake an impromptu street performance. A taster for the feature version to be shown in the Barrels Ale House later on in the Festival (see page 15).

The Spectacle
Finland, 2006, DigiBeta, 3 min 14 sec
dir/script: Jan Ijäs
prod: Paula Korva

Nowadays, Mansour Khosnami lives in Finland. Here he recalls his cinematic memories from the Iran of the early ‘60s and how when Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus was shown in Tehran, it changed the course of at least one person’s life.

The Nautical Education
Canada, 2006, DVD, 2 min 30 sec
dir/prod/script: Christian Laurence

You will be cold. You will be scared. You will want to give up. Only true heroes triumph.

Mammal
Germany, 2007, Beta SP, 7 min 25 sec
dir/prod/script: Astrid Reiger
co-dir: Bernd Thiele

In a surprising narrative and mythological pictures, this film describes the symbiotic relationship between a mother and her son. Sensuality, animalistic tendencies and permanent attempts to escape are one side, protecting care and fear of change on the other.

Joyride
Ireland, 2006, Beta SP, 6 min
dir: Margaret Corkery
prod: David Doran

On a stormy night, two girls and two boys drive up a dark, derelict laneway looking for thrills. Very quickly, the night turns sinister.

Birds
France, 2007, Beta SP, 3 min
dir/prod: Pleix

In extreme slow-motion a group of well-groomed canines leap, pose and shake their magnificent manes for the camera against a strange ‘80s neon backdrop.

History is a Silent Film
India, 2006, Beta SP, 15 min
dir: K. M. Madhusudhanan

Usmanbhai, a cinema projector repairer, discovers the truth behind his father’s disappearance from filmstrips that came with projectors brought to him for repair.

Forsaken
Canada, 2005, DVD, 5 min
dir/script: Laura Taler

A song, a dance, two women and a man. It can only lead to one place. The old theme of lost love sung by a triumphant heroine with a heart-breaking voice.

Tyger
Brazil, 2006, Beta SP, 4 min 30 sec
dir/prod: Guilherme Marcondes

A giant tiger appears mysteriously in a big city. It will reveal the hidden reality of an otherwise ordinary night.

Tanghi Argentini
Belgium, 2006, Beta SP, 14 min
dir: Guido Thys
script: Geert Verbanck

Despite the faceless, cold atmosphere at his workplace, an office clerk tries to make his colleagues happy. Instead of the classical clichéd Christmas gifts, he wants to give them something real and precious.

A Man’s Got to Do What a Man’s Got’s to Do
Germany, 2006, Beta SP, 9 min
dir: Harald Schleicher
What does it take to become a man, to stay a man? Difficult questions that not only men are aware of.