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International 1 #24

October 18, 20:00 | Theatersaal Puschkinhaus

international competition short films up to 15 min
Online available 15 - 30 October

Mind the Gap

Director: Gwenola Heck
Animation/ Deutschland 2024 / 1:16 Min
Synopsis:

When a town resident disappears under the ground, the supposed ambulance rushes to the rescue.

This is not a character, this is betrayal

Director: Romina Küper
Feature/ Deutschland 2024/ 13:20 min
Synopsis:

58-year-old hairdresser Melanie drives her son Stefan (32), a young author, to the first reading of his autobiographical debut novel THE SALON. While the journey becomes an excursion into his past for Stefan, Melanie feels an oppressive sense of unease: who is her son, who suddenly talks as rudely as the people on TV and looks as if he hasn’t washed for three weeks? How is she supposed to assert herself in an environment that is actually completely alien to her and in which she sees no place for herself?

Tennis, Oranges

Director: Sean Pecknold
Animation/ USA 2024/ 10:53 min
Synopsis:

A robot hoover suffering from burnout quits his job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose in a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in an endless loop.

hi grandpa

Director: Aleksander Pakulski
Feature Film/ Polen 2023/ 12:31 min
Synopsis:

A young nurse struggles between caring for a disabled elderly patient and her dying grandfather. Although she doesn’t have much time left, she tries to fulfil her grandfather’s last wish, namely to learn to play his favourite song on the harmonica before he closes his eyes forever.

Shoes and Hooves

Director: Viktória Traub
Animation/ Ungarn 2023/ 14:53 min
Synopsis:

Shoes and Hooves is set in a world populated by human-animal hybrids. The logic of the film universe is based on the fact that the characters’ traits are dominated by their animal side and their personalities are thus determined on an instinctive level. The plot describes the doomed love of Paula, the centaur girl, and Arnold, the crocodile man. While Paula dreams of having human feet and thus denies her identity as a horse, Arnold tries to suppress his inner predator.

The Push

Director: Ahmed Farrag
Feature Film/ Ägypten 2022/ 08:24 min
Synopsis:

All attempts by a married couple to push the broken-down family car fail, but a single push from the child miracle could change the family’s fate forever.

Love Has Nothing To Do With It

Director: Yotam Knispel
Feature Film/ Israel 2022/ 15:00 min
Synopsis:

Rina can’t see her son Dean, who is under house arrest at her home.
Dean’s trial begins tomorrow.
Rina doubts her ability to stand by him. Today she will have to look him in the eye and hear the truth.

La Perra

Director: Carla Melo Gampert
Animation/ Kolumbien 2023/ 14:05 min
Synopsis:

In Bogota, a bird girl leaves her parental home, her dominating mother and her faithful dog behind to explore her sexuality.

Superlune

Director: Lise Werckmeister
Feature Film/ Frankreich 2023/ 15:00 min
Synopsis:

Michèle lives with her daughter Suzanne. She is preparing to put on her first stage production with her friend Esther. The first meeting takes place in the town of her childhood. It is an opportunity for Michèle to return to her mother Gigi for a few hours … a few hours that will be anything but ordinary.

Underground

Director: Yiannis Christoforou
Animation/ Griechenland 2024/ 07:17 min
Synopsis:

The final shovel plunges the shot into darkness. ‘Undergound’ is a stop-motion film that seems to speak of death, but does exactly the opposite.

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