That night will feature some of the best international short films from the Oberhausen Film Festival – which are probably some of the best in the world! A very special hour-long programme.

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Six for the most part documentary and experimental video works that take a close look at human and animal behaviour. 

In Finland, the elk and the elk whisperer stalk each other until the final showdown, while Elodie Pong playfully riffs on the term “Ersatz” in a dialogue between two people. 

In “Snow Tapes”, winner of the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen, stones are cast at young Palestinians. 

What is fiction here, and what is documentary? The diversity of current international short film production is just waiting to be discovered in this programme.

FULL PROGRAMME:

SNOW TAPES (Israel/Palestinian territories 2011, 14’, colour, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles, by Mich’ael Zupraner)

Watching home movies with the AlHaddad family, Hebron, West Bank: snow, settlers, and souvenirs. Images of stones thrown and beatings blend in with humorous digressions, cinematographic critiques, and the obligatory tea ritual of Arab hospitality.

ERSATZ (Switzerland/France 2011, 4‘, French and German with English subtitles, by Elodie Pong)

In an exchange about the meaning of the word ‘Ersatz‘, the two protagonists engage in an absurd and poetical discussion. Their pictorial dialogue about the idea of replaceability turns into a humorous and philosophical meditation.

MALODy (Canada 2012, 12‘, DCP + BluRay + DVD, colour, English, by Phillip Barker)

Malody is terminally ill. She sits with her father in a restaurant inside a big wooden wheel. A little girl enters and turns the restaurant upside down. Malody dies and is taken to a river by her dad. She is brought back to life by the little girl.

HiRViKuiSKAAJA (The Elk Whisperer, Finland 2011, 19‘, colour, no dialogue, by ilkka Rautio)

A short documentary about an encounter between elk whisperer and elk at the beginning of the hunting season.

NO ESTOy MuERTO, SOLO ESTOy DORMiDO (I‘m Not Dead, Only Asleep, Netherlands 2011, 25‘, colour, Spanish with English subtitles, by Juan S. Lopez Maas)

According to a Peruvian saying the soul of a deceased person returns in the form of a donkey. The portrait of two Peruvian families who have a special bond with a donkey.

CAFé REGuLAR, CAiRO (Egypt/India 2011, 11‘, colour, Arabic with English subtitles, by Ritesh Batra)

A young couple finds itself  speaking about things they have never spoken about before, as they try to find their own place in a changing world.

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