7. LISFF - Ljubljanski mednarodni festival kratkih filmov (30.3.-1.4.2015.)
16.30-18.00 WORLD MIX
THE VOYAGE (In the end: The Beginning)
po-yen wang_Taiwan_2014_expriment/animation_7min
A visual poem rich in symbols that brings to mind a journey through space and time. By combining linear and circular concepts of time, “The Voyage” attempts to enable viewers to experience the eternal cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
REBALDA
elena otrepyeva_Russia_2014_documentary_33min
Ex-convict tries to start a new life with his family on a remote island in the labor to get seaweed. Surrounded by forest and sea together with companions in misfortune, they live in their “concentrated” world according to their rules. Challenging the system and society, they prove that they are able to preserve human dignity, ingenuousness, kindness and faith in people despite the twists and turns of life.
NOT TODAY
christina sivolap_Ukraine_2014_fiction_19min
The old man Lyosha and his ladie Christie decided to die happily in one day. But Lyosha has to finish something very important first…
THE ROOMER
anastasiya mateshko_Ukraine_2015_fiction_20min
Masha has anartriya disease. One day she woke up with a dead tenants and decided never to talk.
BANNER GIRL
dmitry mayorovo_Russia_2014_fiction_14min
Based on a story of Charles Bukowski “Something About A Viet Cong Flag”.
18.00-20.00 ZOOM SPAIN
HORIZONTE
aitor uribarri_Spain_2012_fiction_24min
The world as we know ended, only its ashes are left. In a desperate attempt to bring the family together, Ana and her mother begin a dangerous journey where they will face the monsters that now rule the Earth and an even more dangerous one: the one we all carry inside…
WHEN GIRLS COLLIDE
javier longobardo_Spain_2013_music/experiment_4min
Experimental pop music band whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic beats, glitch beats effects, and variety of traditional and unconventional instruments. Mum was formed in 1997.
THE FIELD
asier altuna_Spain_2014_documentary/experiment_13min
Arid soil, sun, wind. A procession crosses the landscape. The echoes of their prayer brings the rain.
SAILORS’ GRAVE
vuk jevremovic and collective _Spain_2014_animation_5min
The Sailors’ luck is drawn on his skin.
HUBERT LE BLONEN AZKEN HEGALDIA
koldo almandoz_Spain_2014_documentary/animation_10min
Life and death of a 20th century Icarus.
ANOMALOUS
aitor guetierrez_Spain_2014_fiction_15min
Don’t take your clothes off, please. Not tonight.
#SEISCIENTOS
rebeca diaz_Spain_2015_fiction_10min
Samuel, Marta and her enigmatic boyfriend, always present on the telephone, are part of a love triangle.
SNAILS!
geoffrey cowper_Spain_2012_fiction_17min
Joey is with his friends at a party in a park when he sees his ex-girlfriend there. He decides to go talk to her and tell her he still loves her, but a giant snail interrupts them!
20.00-22.00 ZOOM CROATIA
WHY DID THEY COME BY TRAIN
josko marusic_Croatia_2015_animation_14min
One Sunday afternoon, every day at the same time the train is arriving at the train station which is at the main square of a small town. Hundreds of strange beings took off the train. City residents will experience magnificent and mysterious encounter from which almost all the people fear the most.
CHOBAN
matija pisacic_Croatia_2014_animation_19min
Laika, a female dog, is kidnapped and then launched into outer space. Choban, her owner, starts to search for her and ends up in an underground city where he accidently embarks on a singing career. Meanwhile, Laika ends up on a planet inhabited by a mysterious black grandmother called Moira who tailors fate and bends time and space. Moira turns Laika into an anthropomorphic being that yearns to return to her master.
WOLF GAMES
jelena oroz_Croatia_2015_animation_5min
While waiting for her brothers to come home with meal, little she-wolf is taking care of house. Sometimes she likes to play while being alone. Even pretend to be someone else.
SECRET LABORATORY OF NICOLA TESLA
bruno razum_Croatia_2014_animation_11min
In a hidden lab, after Tesla's death, tremors caused by passing train, woke the robot.
The robot soon becomes aware that he is Tesla's creation, and in anticipation of his arrival is spending his time watching TV. Due to the life as single, robot becomes depressed, so when he sees a strange relationship between man and woman on tv, decides to make his life partner.
1000
danijel zezelj_Croatia_2014_animation_6min
The town sleeps under the even grey clouds. There is rarely a person left who remembers clear blue skies. Although the song, wind will tear them all clouds down, when thousand suns light up the town, can still be heard in harbor inns, it looks like no one truly counts on the return of the brightness any more. Only sailors stop by these inns, anyway.
WIENER BLUT
zlatko bourek&pavao stalter_Croatia_2014_animation_8min
The film represents an author's own memory of the dawn of the World War II in Germany. Mrs. Sarika is leaving to a Jewish retirement home, something what should have been a quite and peaceful end of life, turned into a terror of holocaust and she becomes a victim as well.
SHUNTER
davor medurecan_Croatia_2014_animation_8min
Young man is working on railroad as shunter. He lives in the house near by railroad. One day mouse comes into his house. Shunter feeds him and becoming friend with him. Days go by. One day pretty woman comes of the train straight in to his house. He falls in love with her but she is scared of a mouse…
LUST
irena jukic pranjic_Croatia_2014_animation_7min
The film is about how women idealize and romanticize love relationship and are prepared to take and bear in order to be loved.
LOVE & VEHICLES
drasko ivezic_Croatia/Denmark_2014_animation_14min
World full of different vehicles, with different couples, all travelling on a path filled with bizarre meaningless relationships. Two characters, who are almost like twins, just opposite gender. Throughout Love and Vehicles the two of them are mirroring each other, but still, they don’t meet. The vehicles, like a boat, a huge ship, a bicycle, a train and an airplane host little visual gags with different couples. At the final act, we see our main couple for the first time together, waiting for a bus. Are they going to get on the bus together and be as the other couples? Or does fate have other plans?
EVEN MONKEYS DIE
anja susanj_Croatia_2015_animation_7min
I have always been interested in that moment between living and non-living, the moment in which our existence comes to an end; in such a context He discovers his true self.
ARCADIAN FEVER
tea strazicic_Croatia_2015_animation_7min
"Arcadian Febra" (Dubrovnik Febra or temperature, fever) is a short film about the life cycle of parasitic alien species. The film includes a love story.
22.00-24.00 WORLD MIX
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUNIS
mohammed all otaiba_United Arab Emirates_2013_fiction_16min
Younis is a taxi driver, who has passed the age of retirement. He drives an old car, which has never dissapointed him. Today is his birthday…
THE NEIGHBOUR
nayla al khaja_United Arab Emirates_2014_fiction_19min
Sara has just moved to Dubai to a new job and the prospect of a fresh start, leaving behind a tragedy that has scarred her for life. The transition to her new world is not easy and she finds herself secluded and lonely at work and home, until one night she receives a knock on the door from her neighbour. She is confronted by an elderly Emirati woman, visibly annoyed at her playing her piano during prayer time yet not understanding a word that she speaks.
NO WOLF HAS A HOUSE
hana jusic_Croatia_2015_fiction_25min
Sandra loses control of her frightening fantasies at her husbands’ birthday party, surrounded by his family.
PAPA
girlin bassovskaja_Estonia_2014_animation_16min
Mother tries to keep together a family that is falling to pieces. It is nearly an impossible task if the other side is not making an equal effort. Also the child will miss love, while still trying to trust and love a person that might have never existed. There has been only imagination and hope, that this person is alive, or that he might be. He is being waited for... endlessly. And when he is finally there…would it then be the right time?
BUSKER
mitja mlakar_Slovenia_2014_fiction_10min
When similar fates meet in the middle of everyday rush.
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WOODS
anu laura tuttelberg_Estonia_2014_animation_10min
A fairy tale full of light, magic and nostalgia. A clay doll awakens in her surroundings, which become a surreal world in a constant flow of change. Shot with natural light, the visible changes of daylight emphasize the passing of time in the film.
HALF BABKA
jasmine elsen_Slovakia_2014_animation_5min
The film is about loneliness in the society. An old woman does everything with her cat, which is more like a toy for her. Sharing ice cream and knitting sweaters…but the cat decides to run away and she tries to replace it.
ESSENCE
martina mikusova_Slovakia_2014_animation_5min
The essence is a film about life, love and scent that can wear off quickly. The protagonist is a young woman, a performer who loses the essence she loved in her life. She decides to bring it back for a while, even if the scents are unstable and they wear off quickly.
DJI. DEATH SAILS
dmitri voloshin_Moldavia_2014_animation_6min
Dji is a terribly unlucky death, who doesn’t seem good at his job. This time he has to take the soul of a pirate, but that is easier said than done!