Favourite Shorts Night

Saturday – August 24th, 2013
10:30 pm – Open Air Screen

Favourite Shorts Night

MEIN GROßVATER WOLFGANG
Audience Award Kurzsüchtig – Das Leipziger Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
Documentary / Germany 2012 / 10:30 min / Director: Hannes Schilling
Wolfgang is 84 and newly in love. „Like a butterfly that ecloses from it’s pupa and suddenly starts to fly.“

OH WILLY
Audience Award Animafest Zagreb, Croatia
Animation / Belgium, France, Netherlands 2011 / 17 min / Director: Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels
Following the death of his mother, Willy returns to the naturists community where he was raised. Melancholic when facing his memories, Willy decides to run away in the nature where he finds the maternal protection of a big hairy animal.

FELIX
Audience Award Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg, Germany
Fiction / Germany 2011 / 1 min / Director: Anselm Belser
The other day, at the supermarket …

LA NUIT DE L ́OURS / THE NIGHT OF THE BEAR
Audience Award Fantoche – Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm Baden, Schweiz
Animation / Switzerland 2012 / 24 min / Directors: Frédéric & Samuel Guillaume
In a city of disconcerting nature, homeless animals are looking for shelter for the night. They take refuge in the Bear’s house, creating an ephemeral community that will dissolve with the first rays of sun. A tale of exclusion as recounted by crossed destinies out of sync.

MI PAPÁ ES DIRECTOR DE CINE
Audience Award Festival de Cine de Tarazona y el Moncayo, Spanien
Documentary / Spain 2012 / 4 min / Director: Germán Roda
4-year-old Alba’s dad is a film director. Well, what can you do?

WIND
Audience Award Kurzsüchtig – Das Leipziger Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
Animation / Germany 2012 / 3:50 min / Director: Robert Löbel
A short tale from a very windy country.

JOGHURT MIT WACHS
Audience Award VIS – Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria
Animation / Austria 2013 / 3:20 min / Director: Gabriel Tempea
An essay about the correlation between wax in a yogurz jars and blackouts in Romania in the 80s.

LES FILLES DU SAMEDI / SATURDAY GIRLS
Audience Award Aspen Filmfest, USA
Fiction / France 2011 / 15 min / Director: Émilie Cherpitel
Eva wakes up hungover and alone in an unfamiliar apartment. Her lover from the previous night is nowhere to be found, but Leon – his little brother – is there, unattended. She is left with no choice but to look after him for the day.

L’EQUIP PETIT / THE LITTLE TEAM
Audience Award El Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños (…y no tan Niños), Mexico
Documentary / Spain 2011 / 9 min / Director: Roger Gómez, Dani Resines
Fourteen little kids go over an unsolved football mystery.

Saturday – August 24th, 2013
10:30 pm – Open Air Screen

Some Impressions of the Favourite Shorts Night 2011

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