Favourite Shorts Night 2012

Saturday, September 1st
10:30 pm Open Air Screen

See 11 entertaining audience award winning shorts from all over the world on our open air screen and vote for your favourite film with noisemakers, balloons and sparklers. After the screening join us at the one and only FFF-Tanzfest with DJ Badre.

FRATZENGULASCH

Audience Award International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
Animation / 2011 / no dialogue / 5 min /Directors: Timo Schierhorn, Katharina Duve

A massive class photo from the early 20th century becomes a comical but also dark party-playground.

LUMINARIS

Audience Award Annecy Film Festival, France
Animation / Argentina 2011 / no dialogue / 6:20 min / Director: Juan Pablo Zaramella

In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.

FROM DAD TO SON

Audience Award goEast – Festival des mittel- und osteuropäischen Films, Wiesbaden, Deutschland
Animation / Germany 2012 / no dialogue / 6 min / Director: Nils Knoblich

A prisoner receives the message that his old father needs help with tilling the field. In his desperate situation the prisoner suddenly has the idea to use the guards to till his dad’s land.

THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD

Audience Award Giraf7 Animation Festival Calgary, Kanada
Animation / Großbritannien 2011 / Englisch / 15 min / Regie: Will Anderson

A ‘Behind-the-scenes’ look at an Animator/Filmmaker as he struggles with his character.

THE MAN WHO LIVED ON HIS BIKE

Audience Award Francophone Film Festival of Kalamazoo, USA
Fiction / Canada 2012 / no dialogue / 3 min / Director: Guillaume Blanchet

Riding through the streets of Montreal by bike. 382 days. He just loves it.

KOYAA THE EXTRAORDIANARY

Audience Award Animateka International Animation Film Festival, Slovenia
Animation / Slovenia 2011 / no dialogue / 3 min / Director: Kolja Saksida

Koyaa tackles everyday situations in his own wacky way. In the morning, he wants to tie his shoes but the naughty laces won’t listen. Luckily, he’s not alone on the remote mountain ledge: when things start getting crazy, his friend the wise Raven is always ready to help.

LAS PALMAS

Audience Award Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Bristol, UK
Spielfilm / Schweden 2011 / no dialogue / 13:30 min / Director: Johannes Nyholm

A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to make new friends and have a good time.

HEIMATLAND

Audience Award Fantoche Animation Film Festival, Switzerland
Animation / Switzerland 2010 / no dialogue / 6 min / Director: Marius Portmann, Andrea Schneider, Fabio Friedli, Loretta Arnold

Hausi, a Swiss patriot, leads an ordered and happy life in his humble home. Everything seems to be peaceful until the day a foreigner moves in next door and turns his world upside down.

THE CENTRIFUGE BRAIN PROJECT

Audience Award Filmfestival Münster, Germany
Fiction / Deutschland 2011 / 6:35 min / Director: Till Nowak

The Centrifuge Brain Project is a scientific experiment started in the 1970s. Dr Laslowicz explains the project that involves amusement park rides supposed to enhance human brain capacity.

A MORNING STROLL

Audience Award Anima – Cartoon and Animation Film Festival Brussels, Belgium
Animation / UK 2011 / English / 6:47 min / Director: Grant Ochart

When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we’re left to wonder which on eis the real city slicker.

SKALLAMANN / BALDGUY

Audience Award Milano Film Festival, Italy
Musical / Norway 2011 / Norwegian / English Subtitles / 11:58 min / Director: Maria Bock

A young man confesses something outrageous to his parents: He has made out with a baldguy.

Some Impressions of last year´s Favourite Shorts Night

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