Short Films 2021
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- DirectorMadeline SharafianA rabbit attempts to dig a burrow and learns there's no shame in asking for help.
- DirectorJohn SmithFragments of COVID-19 related speeches by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson accompany views from the windows of a London residence during the COVID lockdown.
- DirectorBaker KarimStarsAlexander KarimSaga GärdeMichael Norlind2121. Earth has become uninhabitable and some have been chosen to leave the planet. Max is not among the chosen ones, but his goal is to get aboard the Ark, at any cost. "Earthbound" is the first Swedish Afrofuturistic film.
- DirectorJerry CarlssonStarsErik NilssonKhalil Ben GharbiaElin HugosonOskar is on the night train, heading home after an interview in Stockholm. With a long night ahead of him, he makes eye contact with Ahmad. For the first time he meets the gaze of someone who feels the same desire as he does.
- DirectorMorgan QuaintanceTaking two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago's South Side as a point of departure, South presents an expressionistic investigation of the power of individual and collective voice. Interlinked with Morgan Quaintance's own biography, the film also considers questions of mortality and the will to transcend a world typified by concrete relations.
- DirectorMarine BlinStarsSaâlla KitarA young girl has suffered due to the silence of adults, and feels that her right to mourn has been taken away. As an adult, she talks about the tender gestures that bind her to the departed.
- DirectorDaniel BoocockStarsLasse VossDan Boie KratfeldtJak CorrieOn the moors of a desolate land where the silence of the wind reigns, a mysterious man challenges four bloodthirsty savages whose thirst for dominance is thriving
- DirectorNoé DebréStarsThomas BlumenthalVincent MacaigneInas ChantiHis ex, Marie, became an Instagram star (thanks to an activist group focused on the female orgasm). Depressed, Igor believes this is a deliberate campaign to prevent him from finding someone else.
- DirectorMoly KaneStarsMadjiguene SeckKhadim SèneRokhaya TouréA young woman prepares for her marriage while desperately and courageously trying to erase her past.
- DirectorRoman HodelStarsFedayi SanIshak SanSalih SanShort documentary presents a high-tension soccer match from the perspective of an ever-vigilant referee.
- DirectorAdriano ValerioDesperate to break free, he comes to Shanghai, only to be confined in an empty apartment by the pandemic lockdown. He has to escape his loneliness and nightmares again.
- DirectorMarlies SmeengeAt the International Butler Academy in Limburg, people from all over the world are trained to become a butler for the elite. Under a lot of pressure, they learn the old ways of butlering. An observational and absurdist documentary that gives us a glimpse of the perfectionist world of the butler profession.
- DirectorMaxime MartinotStarsMorgane LongIn Marguerite Duras' chilling story, thousands of antelopes from all over the continent gallop towards an inevitable fate. A meeting between humans and nature in mesmerizing drone footage from YouTube slowly raises poignant questions: who is surveilling whom, where are we headed, and what fate awaits us in a world such as this?
- DirectorEric PiccoliStarsRichard PiccoliIntimate and loving portrait by a son whose 70-years-old father is an Elvis impersonator.
- DirectorAshley WilliamsStarsGiancarlo SbarbaroAshley WilliamsWhat happens when a pregnant vegan suddenly craves meat? In this exploration of ethical meat-eating and parenthood, Lane hires a butcher to teach her how to be a responsible carnivore and ends up learning about a whole new side of herself.
- DirectorFarah NabulsiStarsSaleh BakriMaryam KanjMariam BashaOn his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
- DirectorElvira LindStarsOscar IsaacAlia ShawkatBrian PetsosWhen a corrections officer is transferred to the letter room, he soon finds himself enmeshed in a prisoner's deeply private life.
- DirectorFernando PomaresStarsNarjis El-Badaoüi AraissiDiia Alekhaiem JeludAmjad AlmussaThe texture of memory gains bearing and its own sounds in a narrative which, stemming from image fragments (such as our memories), refuses to reiterate the expectation of violence and aggression in the bodies of Syrian men persecuted in certain territories. These bodies are managed by nothing but tenderness, fraternity. And this time narrated from the point of view of a woman, who also speaks of these cyclical processes of caring for one another.
- DirectorLucía Aleñar IglesiasStarsZoe SteinCaterina AlordaCarla CastañéSpending her summer in Mallorca, Antonia comes to recognize the latent similarities between her and her dead grandmother and discovers a power over her mourning grandfather. She can't resist playing dress-up, but it becomes unclear who is inhabiting who.
- DirectorVinícius LopesLuciana MazetoIn Brazil, the inhabitants of Teewald, a German colony founded at the end of the 19th century, are still proud of their Germanic roots. Starting with the text of German-Turkish researcher Ilhami Paker, which uses irony to analyse different migratory movements, the film questions the complex process of constructing a national identity.
- DirectorBenjamin de BurcaBárbara WagnerIn the sports court of a school, dancers rehearse under the watchful eye of a choreographer. Tensions haunt personal desires as they are observed by a rival troupe.
- DirectorGabrielle StemmerOn YouTube, hundreds of women film themselves doing housework in their homes.
- DirectorGabriel HerreraStarsDavid IllescasÁngel MoralesLisandro RoblesThere he sits proudly on his motorbike, encompassed in majestic red and the dazzling admiration of the others.
- DirectorQuike FrancesStarsEugenio BaronaEric FrancésAna GarabitoA hunter goes out of home, with a pair of eggs, searching for his next trophy.
- DirectorBrandán CerviñoA year after her first communion, Andrea instructs her cousin to edit the recordings of the event according to her aesthetic preferences. Additionally, Andrea looks back on the day of that religious ritual and is impelled to reflect upon what it means in her life. As such, the film investigates the hybrid and contradictory nature between ancient beliefs and the contemporary universe of children, with the charisma, spontaneity, and sincerity of a character who posits an important and fundamental question: Does God exist?