Short Film Bouquet
2 & 3 November 2016, at 20:30
at ARTos Foundation
Following the great success of the past two years, Short Film Bouquet
returns to ARTos Foundation with two screening nights of selected short films,
in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Français, the Instituto Cervantes (in
collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in Cyprus) and the Embassies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Austria (in
collaboration with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
the Austrian Film Academy). Short Film Bouquet is taking place on the 2 & 3
November 2016 at 20:30, at ARTos Foundation.
The screening program consists of a variety of different films of German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Austrian filmmakers, with animation, comedy and fiction as
well as experimental films with various thematic and aesthetic approaches.
The German and Austrian short film screenings are taking place within
the framework of the Month of the German Language which is organised by
the Cyprus Teachers of German Association in cooperation with the Embassies of
Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the Goethe-Institut Cyprus and the Ministry
of Education and Culture.
English Subtitles
Free Entrance
Screening program and Synopses:
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
Total duration: 87 min
Everything will be ok (ALLES WIRD GUT)
30 min – Austria - 2015 - Patrick Vollrath - Fiction
Summary: A weekend-father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It
seems pretty much like always. But after a while a feeling creeps in, that this
time something isn't right – and an ominous journey begins.
Chicas Day
15 min – Spain - 2013 – Susan Béjar - Comedy
Summary: Today is a girls' day out, everything
is allowed… But don't forget that this is just a game…
Sunday Lunch (Le repas dominical)
13 min – France - 2015 – Céline Devaux – Comedy
Summary: It’s Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him
questions, but don't listen to his answers; they give him advice but don't
follow them themselves. They caress him, they smack him, but it's normal, it is
lunch on Sunday.
Myself, Universe
2 min – Germany 2014 - Andreas Hykade - Animation
Summary: The filmmaker has discovered the secret
of the universe and wants to share it with the viewers. Episode from a series
in which the filmmaker addresses the audience directly.
A Curious Conjunction of Coincidences
9 min – Netherlands – 2011 – Joost Reijmers –
Animation
Summary: Three seemingly unrelated incidents
lead to an explosive climax in Amsterdam.
Fata Morgana
5 min – Netherlands – 2011 – Frodo Kuipers –
Animation
Summary: Eduardo is fighting the urge to drink
his last lemonade.
The Bathtub (Die
Badewanne)
13 min
– Germany – 2015 - Tim Ellrich - Fiction
Summary: Three brothers, Georg, Alexander and
Niklas, are preparing an original present for their mother. But the idea to
re-enact an old bathtub picture from their childhood, is way too stupid for the
eldest one. Little by little they bare all and three brothers remain, who have
grown apart.
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Total duration: 93 min
Dissonance
16 min – Germany – 2015 – Till Nowak - Animation
Summary: A genius musician lives a lonely life in a
surreal, floating world. He plays the piano every day in a gigantic concert
hall, but there is nobody to listen. One day his animated world collapses and
he must face reality. He only has one wish: to share his music with his
daughter, but her mother doesn‘t allow it.
Arts
& Crafts Spectacular #3
2 min – Germany - 2015 - Ian Ritterskamp, Sébastien Wolf -
Animation
Summary: A depiction of the shooting of Andy Warhol by Valerie Solanas
and the ensuing events, through claymation.
Innocent (Inocente)
15 min – Spain - 2013 – Álvaro Pastor Gaspar - Comedy
Summary: Micky is a young man who wakes up hungover
one day in bed with Elsa, a mentally handicapped young woman, and he
has no idea how he got there. Little by little he comes to realize he is in a
supervised living facility inhabited by last night’s hookup and her two
housemates. As he tries to piece the night back together in his head, the
supervisor of the group, Alicia, arrives.
The wordcutter (Le bûcheron des mots)
11 min – France - 2009 – Izu Troin - Fiction
Summary: In a country where people literally feed on letters from words
gathered in trees, reading is vital not to die of boredom. A Wordcutter makes
an encounter that will change his life forever.
Domino
2 min – Austria – 2014 - Anna Vasof -
Experimental
Summary: Domino is a video, which combines the
mechanism of a progression of dominoes falling with stop motion animation
technique and introduces a new animation technique, the “Non-stop stop motion”.
Powder Placenta
9 min – Austria – 2015 - Katrina Daschner -
Fiction
Summary: A fairytale that narrates the
interconnectedness of seemingly separate spaces, spheres and strata, and shows
how they are and desire to be intertwined. Once again and at long last,
everything becomes one, no matter how they are normally categorized. Longing
has come to an end, the celebration of life in all its glory has begun. (Olaf Möller)
House and Universe
4 min – Austria – 2015 - Antoinette Zwirchmayr –
Experimental
Summary: The contemplative serenity Antoinette
Zwirchmayr creates in House and Universe is offset by notions of restlessness
and unease that the images of a recumbent, naked young woman – alternatingly
shown in a sparse, bright motel room and the blooming desert landscape outside
– provide. Shown only in fragments, the sleeper seems blissfully disconnected
from her surroundings.
Carte Noire
2 min – Austria – 2014 - Michaela Grill -
Experimental
Summary: White flashes in the dark of the night
- as though carved out, dabbed in. Flickering specters, ghost-like visions. A
real phantom ride, a suspenseful film. In this sinister road movie miniature,
Michaela Grill draws her cinematic movement from abstraction through to
alienation of concrete reality, arriving at a classical and highly-charged motif
from popular culture and cinema: a lonely car ride on an empty road through a countryside
- which more or less automatically sets off trans-genre associations.
Cat and Mice
9 min – Netherlands – 2010 – Nova van Dijk - Fiction
Summary: Janas makes a living by kidnapping cats and returning them for
the reward money.
Dirkjan Rules
3 min - Netherlands – 2010 – Wilfred Ottenheijm
& Remco Polman – Animation
Summary: Nerdy Dirkjan becomes leader of the
world.
Drop Dead!
10 min - Netherlands – 2009 – Arne Toonen – Comedy
Summary: What begins as an exciting adventure takes a nightmarish turn…
Sunset from a Rooftop
10 min – Netherlands – 2009 – Marinus Groothof - Fiction
Summary: While Belgrade is being hit by NATO-bombings, Ivana is
preparing herself for a night out and tell her boyfriend the news of her
pregnancy.
