GRAZ SHORT FILM NIGHT_2013

07_FEBRUARY_2013

16_00 >>> 18_00
WORLDS_01

DECAPODA SHOCK
Javier Chillon_9min_SPAIN_2011_fiction
An astronaut returns to Earth after fatal accident on a distant planet.

LETTER OF A MAN TO MAN
Fjodor Donderer_18min_GERMANY_2011_fiction/experiment
Jonas was a 21-year-old man. He was poor. And he did nothing to improve his situation.

OUR FATHER
Marius Ivaskevicius_28min_LITHUANIA_2010_fiction
They seem to be an ordinary family. Bored sons are watching TV, the mother is sitting at a kitchen table and writing a letter and the daughter is preparing dinner. Only when the authoritarian father appears does it become clear that their family ties are not based on love but on absolute obedience. The family sits to dinner together attempting to perform everyday rituals but each action is streaked with fear. After a short visit made by the father, the house is filled with silence. The terrifying truth will come to light a moment later.

KATEBEGITIK
Iban Del Campo_8min_SPAIN_2011_fiction
A million keys a day could be a great excuse to trigger passion.

LOOKING FOR ILONGA
Tim Huebschle_18min_NAMIBIA_2011_fiction
One day a man arrives at Simon's home and claims that his wife Elizabeth has borrowed a lot of money from him - and indeed she did. Simon is faced with one option only: he has to repay his family's debts. Ripped from his comfortable rural lifestyle, he travels far away to the big city, hoping to work off the debts. But from the moment he sets foot in the city, everything seems to be against Simon...

18_00 >>> 20_00
WORLDS_02

DIVING INTO HELENA
Julianna Schwindt_5min_ARGENTINA_2010_fiction
Elena is inmersed in a world that only she sees.

ACHEMI (MY NAME IS)
Aina Gomez Piza_20min_SPAIN/GHANA_2011_documentary
Mary coffie, founder of the Otrokper orphanage home, tells us the stories of the orphans she takes in. The loss of their families draws a new and larger family in the orphanage, with Mary coffie as their common mother.

SEE ME
Joonas Rutanen_15min_FINLAND_2011_fiction
Saana wants to be found...

CRECE
Laura Calavia Safont_18min_SPAIN_2011_fiction
Silvia is tired of everything going wrong. She has decided to die, but even suicidal plans go wrong!

LUCIANO
Dani De La Orden&Cyprien Clement-Delmas_11min_SPAIN_2011_fiction
Luciano is making a special circuit for someone very special.

BITTER MILK
Nasser Zamiri_29min_IRAN/AFGHANISTAN_2011_fiction
As a result of bombarding, many people of the war-torn Afghanistan have gone homeless and more poverty-stricken. In order to earn a living and after many sufferings, Azizs´ family and some other Afghan families are going to Pakistani border with their infants to...

20_00 >>> 22_00
CENTRAL EUROPE NOW

IN ICEDORAS´ DANCE
Tatiana Ishina_17min_RUSSIA_2011_fiction/experiment/dance
A parable about features of love of women at different ages, which is expressed in a dance.

HAPPINESS
Michal Mroz_8min_POLAND_2008_animation
Stop motion animation about sorrow, loneliness, sadness, but also about happiness.

ROAD TO
Taisiya Igumentseva_31min_RUSSIA_2011_fiction
The main character Sergey works as a shop assistant in department of unusual goods, his life doesn’t differ from lives of millions people…until the night falls on the city.

SCARECROW
Alzbeta Gavendova_20min_SLOVAKIA_2011_documentary
Documentary full of firemen, theater, traditions and scarecrows.

LUCKY DAY FOREVER
Alek Wasilewski_17min_POLAND_2011_animation
Prole 514 dreams about winning the Great Lottery. The lottery winner is transformed and allowed admission into the elite White society, where everyone is beautiful, young and happy and people spend their carefree lives solely on fun and partying. On day, 514s´ wish comes true...but?

FINALE
Balazs Simonyi_8min_HUNGARY_2011_fiction
Two men are waiting in the night for their greatest hits.

DOKUBAZAAR_2013
GRAZ
08_FEBRUARY_2013

16_00 >>> 18_00
Dokubazaar_01

MOOD FOR NOSTALGIA
Robi Uppin&Maria Kivirand_2012_estonia_30min_documentary
Short documentary "Mood for Nostalgia" is about friendship between neighbours who have known each other for entire life. A cold winter, silence, loneliness and thoughts of nostalgia are surrounding their every day life. Their sincerity opens up a world of unusual friendship in isolated countryside of Estonia.
WORLD ACCORDING TO HANA AND STAS
Tomasz Jurkiewicz_2011_poland_28min_documentary
A year in the life of Hania and Stas, a married couple in their 50s, who have had their ups and downs, but now live in a village near Krakow, in harmony with nature, despite the fast changes around them. A story of an older face of love and a struggle to keep one´s dignity in the face of dynamic changes in the countryside in the 21st century Poland.

THE GIRL FROM THE READING PRIMER
Edyta Wroblewska_2010_poland_28min_documentary
Marek Edelman was a widely recognized leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. But how many people have heard of his wife, Ala? Ala’s life was extraordinary from the very beginning. Before the war, as a little girl, she became a major character in the most popular reading primer in Poland. She was a ghetto survivor, afterwards she devoted all her attention to children of the world – in Asia, in Africa and in Europe. She helped to save lives and heal hundreds of kids. The film, enriched with some animated footage, tells the fascinating story of Ala from the Polish reading primer.

18_00 >>> 20_00
Dokubazaar_02

HERMENEUTICS
Alexei Dmitriev_2012_russia_3min_documentary
This piece is a visual illustration of what hermeneutics is. With the cunning
use of WWII footage it makes you believe that you are watching a proper war film. When you already expect the usual archive movie routine – everything changes. And you find yourself watching a completely different film.

DAY BY DAY AND FROM MONTH TO MONTH
Laszlo Kabai_2009_hungary_22min_documentary
”I like this world of farms because it guarantees a calming way of life for human…calmness…in fact it is much more primitive than usual…but much more balanced because the man is not forced to rush that can be experienced at present…”

AND I FOUND YOU!       
Lev Grishin&Marta Antonicheva_2012_russia_15min_documentary
Short film about a long human life. The starting point of it was the death of an old lady`s husband, whom she knew from the very childhood. Her memories reversing hold the viewer through their long family life to the main event – their wedding. Thus, the picture begins with the death (a formal final) and ends with a heroes dating story. A film is built on the process of memory. This process is a gradual reunification of lost happiness and return to it.

INVISIBLE BORDER
Hrafnsson Haukur Margeir_2010_poland_10min_documentary
No formal barrier on “Gypsy Street” separates the “haves” from “have nots” but the division is tangible. Visually compelling, with frank interviews from locals, this film proves that class systems do little more than engender prejudice and fundamentally divide human beings who live mere steps apart.

SCRAP ODYSSEY
Pawel Ferdek&Lukasz Gutt_2010_poland/kyrgyzstan_48min_doc
Almost all metal scrap was sold from Kyrgyzstan to China. This film shows the global phenomenon in micro scale: by hard work of Russian truck driver, slow rhythm of one Kyrgyz family, and few events from long journey across Tien Shan Mountains.

20_00 >>> 22_00
Dokubazaar_03

PIT HOLE
Jiri Stejskal_2011_czech republic/estonia/ukraine_23min_documentary
"Pit-Hole" or "Яма" is a story about unusual Kiev family fighting against real estate lawlessness. Nataliya, the head of the family, is trying to preserve the family village house, now surrounded by modern living quarters. Besides that she has to take care of her four children, two husbands and a little herd of mischievous goats. Is Ukraine real democratic country?

DAGARAMA
Boguslaw Hynek_2010_poland_20min_documentary
Jan Głuszak, better known by his artistic nickname Dagarama. He was a visionary, a creator of unique architectonical designs, a philosopher, a poet. The film oscillates between the visible and the invisible. It raises an eternal theme of existence and faith. It is a story about vulnerability, anguish and forced adaptation to ‘narrow' reality. The turning point in the film is self-burning of Głuszak's hand. This act has its mystical significance – it's a kind of sacrifice.

DECLARATION OF IMMORTALITY
Marcin Koszalka_2010_poland_30min_documentary
The film focuses on the decline of the career of the great climbing master, provoking his reflection on his future life, when he will no longer be able to climb mountains. It’s a moving story about inability to come to terms with old age and about desire of immortality. 

09_FEBRUARY_2013

16_00 >>> 18_00
MADE IN FINLAND_01
Fresh documentary film productions from young Finnish filmakers

WHITE AREA
Anssi Pulkkinen_2011_finland_30min_experiment
Suicide is the most common individual cause of death among young men in Finland. The film depicts this departure as a ritualistic process.

HYPERMARKET NATION
Paula Korva_2011_finland_26min_documentary
Brothers Ingvar and Stig Palmen run a small grocery store in the suburbs of Helsinki. The store has persisted through six decades but is now faced with fierce competition from huge hypermarkets.

PIZZA DE PARIS
Sera Martikainen_2011_finland_13min_documentary
Step inside a pizza place and, please, stay for a while. There is no hurry though there is much to do.

DIARY OF A JOURNEY
Moona Pennanen_2011_finland_7min_documentary
An inner portray of a man who searches for reasons to live at the brink of life and death.

THE ELK WHISPERER
Ilkka Rautio_2011_finland_17min_documenary
Short documentary about encounter between Elk Whisperer and Elk at the beginning of hunting season.

MOTHERS
Elina Hyvarinen_2011_finland_10min_documentary
A poetic short story about becoming a mother. Based on archive footage.

18_00 >>> 20_00
MADE IN FINLAND_02
Fresh documentary film productions from young Finnish filmakers

A MOMENT TO REMEMBER
Riitta Helminen_2011_finland_30min_documentary
A story on drug abusers who have turned their lives around and become devoted mothers.

BURDEN OF MY HEART
Iris Olsson_2011_finland_45min_documentary
If everyone you loved has died. Are you still alive?

MIGRATORY BIRD
Katja Lautamatti_2012_finland_24min_documentary
Esther, 9 years, was born in the Middle East to parents who were illegal immigrant workers from Nigeria. The film is a portrait of Esther, a child ever prepared to pack her bags.

20_00 >>> 22_00
Dokubazaar_04

BLUE SHEEP
Noel Galvez_2011_spain_30min_documentary
A magical story between a documentary and a fictional plot that take us to Villamayor de Campos in Zamora (Spain) where many neighbours are affected by cancer, caused by an energy tower.

MACHINE MAN
Alfonso Moral&Roser Corella_2011_spain/bangladesh_14min_doc
The film takes place in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where the ”machine men” execute different physical works and where a mass of millions of people become the driving force behind the city.

ANOTHER NIGHT ON EARTH
David Munoz_2012_spain/egypt_52min_documentary
Egypt, a country in revolution. Cairo, a city with the worst traffic in the world. In the taxis that cross all over the city, dozens of people discuss about their present and future, while we the audience discover all the detail that make up their lives in the midst of one of the most important periods in the recent history of the African nation.

short and documentary film days in GRAZ
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