Archive 2004
SHORT FILMS N-Z
Neulich 4
D: Jochen Kuhn, D 2003, 14 min, 35 mm, colour, GV
This is the fourth part of a series of short film notices on incidents in day-to-day life. In this film the author depicts dream pictures of the past night.
Noch Fragen?
D: Manoocher Khoshbakht, D 2003, 6:30 min, b/w, ES
A taxi driver in Hamburg has to hear day in day out the comments of her guests on the rainy weather. In addition, they keep asking her where she comes from – sometimes they’re friendly, sometimes caring, sometimes plain impudent. One day she has enough and takes unusual measures...
Paranoia
D: Hugo Mendoza Cruz, MEX 2003, 10 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
A man feels like he is being watched. This sensation will take him to his limits.
Soyons Attentifs
D: Thierry Sebban, F 2003, 7 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
A man, a suburban train by night... He tries to catch the train, he is tired. The train comes, but even inside, it does not seem secure. Another man comes in, swaying uncomfortably. Black and huge...
Toute une Histoire (Quite a Story)
D: Jean Rousselot, F 2003, 18 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
On the day a man informs his mother hat he will not be going to the traditional Sunday dinner at his Aunt Eliane’s. Everyone is shocked as he has never missed a family reunion before. He loses himself in day dreams about his one great love, a woman he met on a trip to the seaside when he was seventeen. He has never sought her out – until today...
Transformator
D: Antoine Cattin/Pavel Kostomarov, RUS/CH 2003, 16 min, Beta SP, colour, GS
On the way from Moscow the St. Petersburg a huge electric transformer falls off the truck carrying it. The hero of the film has to keep an eye on it till a crane can be sent to put it back on the truck. While waiting he tells how the accident happened.
Usar y Tirar
D: Daniel Garía Pablos, E 2003, 10 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
A workday in Madrid. The paths of a Cuban jogger, a woman car driver and an immigrant who sells handkerchiefs cross at a traffic light. Everything seems to take its normal and usual course until something unexpected, if not odd, takes place and the jogger has to deal with prejudices.
Vie et mort d'un instant d'ennui
D: Patrick Bossard, F 2003, 5 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Him and her in a café. A film is being shot. You already know the score, don’t you? Another one of those French films they talk so much in. About relationships and all that nonsense. You think you’ve seen it all a thousand times before, don’t you? But have you? The word "boredom" is on the tip of your tongue, isn’t it? Well, not just yours! Someone else thinks the same, someone you haven’t necessarily reckoned with...
Zur Zeit verstorben
D: Thomas Wendrich, D 2004, 17 min, 35 mm, colour, GV
After an angry family fight an old, and slightly confused man takes refuge with his equally aged friend at the town square of the village. To show he is still fit he offers to get some ice cream for his friend and himself. In deep harmony with the world the man sets off on his final trip. This is a film about a humorous but dying breed in Europe – the peasants.
Zwei Jahre und ein Tag
D: Sylvie Lazzarini, D 2004, 10 Min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Sasha, a young Serbian woman has been living in Berlin for years. One day, her grat love Boris is standing at the door. Everything is like it used to be; they make love, eat, dance and have a good time. But this happy world collapses when Boris informs her that he has come to take her back to Belgrad...