Short Film Bouquet

Following the great success of the past two years, Short Film Bouquet returns to ARTos Foundation with two screening nights of selected short films, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Français, the Instituto Cervantes (in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in Cyprus) and the Embassies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Austria (in collaboration with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Austrian Film Academy). Short Film Bouquet is taking place on the 2 & 3 November 2016 at 20:30, at ARTos Foundation.

The screening program consists of a variety of different films of German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Austrian filmmakers, with animation, comedy and fiction as well as experimental films with various thematic and aesthetic approaches.

The German and Austrian short film screenings are taking place within the framework of the Month of the German Language which is organised by the Cyprus Teachers of German Association in cooperation with the Embassies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the Goethe-Institut Cyprus and the Ministry of Education and Culture.

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Screening program and Synopses:

Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Total duration: 87 min

Everything will be ok (ALLES WIRD GUT)

30 min – Austria – 2015 – Patrick Vollrath – Fiction

Summary: A weekend-father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like always. But after a while a feeling creeps in, that this time something isn’t right – and an ominous journey begins.

Chicas Day

15 min – Spain – 2013 – Susan Béjar – Comedy

Summary: Today is a girls’ day out, everything is allowed… But don’t forget that this is just a game…

Sunday Lunch (Le repas dominical)

13 min – France – 2015 – Céline Devaux – Comedy

Summary: It’s Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions, but don’t listen to his answers; they give him advice but don’t follow them themselves. They caress him, they smack him, but it’s normal, it is lunch on Sunday.

Myself, Universe

2 min – Germany 2014 – Andreas Hykade – Animation

Summary: The filmmaker has discovered the secret of the universe and wants to share it with the viewers. Episode from a series in which the filmmaker addresses the audience directly.

A Curious Conjunction of Coincidences

9 min – Netherlands – 2011 – Joost Reijmers – Animation

Summary: Three seemingly unrelated incidents lead to an explosive climax in Amsterdam.

Fata Morgana

5 min – Netherlands – 2011 – Frodo Kuipers – Animation

Summary: Eduardo is fighting the urge to drink his last lemonade.

The Bathtub (Die Badewanne)

13 min – Germany – 2015 – Tim Ellrich – Fiction

Summary: Three brothers, Georg, Alexander and Niklas, are preparing an original present for their mother. But the idea to re-enact an old bathtub picture from their childhood, is way too stupid for the eldest one. Little by little they bare all and three brothers remain, who have grown apart.

Thursday, 3 November 2016

Total duration: 93 min

Dissonance

16 min – Germany – 2015 – Till Nowak – Animation

Summary: A genius musician lives a lonely life in a surreal, floating world. He plays the piano every day in a gigantic concert hall, but there is nobody to listen. One day his animated world collapses and he must face reality. He only has one wish: to share his music with his daughter, but her mother doesn‘t allow it.

Arts & Crafts Spectacular #3

2 min – Germany – 2015 – Ian Ritterskamp, Sébastien Wolf – Animation

Summary: A depiction of the shooting of Andy Warhol by Valerie Solanas and the ensuing events, through claymation.

Innocent (Inocente)

15 min – Spain – 2013 – Álvaro Pastor Gaspar – Comedy

Summary: Micky is a young man who wakes up hungover one day in bed with Elsa, a mentally handicapped young woman, and he has no idea how he got there. Little by little he comes to realize he is in a supervised living facility inhabited by last night’s hookup and her two housemates. As he tries to piece the night back together in his head, the supervisor of the group, Alicia, arrives.

The wordcutter (Le bûcheron des mots)

11 min – France – 2009 – Izu Troin – Fiction

Summary: In a country where people literally feed on letters from words gathered in trees, reading is vital not to die of boredom. A Wordcutter makes an encounter that will change his life forever.

Domino

2 min – Austria – 2014 – Anna Vasof – Experimental

Summary: Domino is a video, which combines the mechanism of a progression of dominoes falling with stop motion animation technique and introduces a new animation technique, the “Non-stop stop motion”.

Powder Placenta

9 min – Austria – 2015 – Katrina Daschner – Fiction

Summary: A fairytale that narrates the interconnectedness of seemingly separate spaces, spheres and strata, and shows how they are and desire to be intertwined. Once again and at long last, everything becomes one, no matter how they are normally categorized. Longing has come to an end, the celebration of life in all its glory has begun. (Olaf Möller)

House and Universe

4 min – Austria – 2015 – Antoinette Zwirchmayr – Experimental

Summary: The contemplative serenity Antoinette Zwirchmayr creates in House and Universe is offset by notions of restlessness and unease that the images of a recumbent, naked young woman – alternatingly shown in a sparse, bright motel room and the blooming desert landscape outside – provide. Shown only in fragments, the sleeper seems blissfully disconnected from her surroundings.

Carte Noire

2 min – Austria – 2014 – Michaela Grill – Experimental

Summary: White flashes in the dark of the night – as though carved out, dabbed in. Flickering specters, ghost-like visions. A real phantom ride, a suspenseful film. In this sinister road movie miniature, Michaela Grill draws her cinematic movement from abstraction through to alienation of concrete reality, arriving at a classical and highly-charged motif from popular culture and cinema: a lonely car ride on an empty road through a countryside – which more or less automatically sets off trans-genre associations.

Cat and Mice

9 min – Netherlands – 2010 – Nova van Dijk – Fiction

Summary: Janas makes a living by kidnapping cats and returning them for the reward money.

Dirkjan Rules

3 min – Netherlands – 2010 – Wilfred Ottenheijm & Remco Polman – Animation

Summary: Nerdy Dirkjan becomes leader of the world.

Drop Dead!

10 min – Netherlands – 2009 – Arne Toonen – Comedy

Summary: What begins as an exciting adventure takes a nightmarish turn…

Sunset from a Rooftop

10 min – Netherlands – 2009 – Marinus Groothof – Fiction

Summary: While Belgrade is being hit by NATO-bombings, Ivana is preparing herself for a night out and tell her boyfriend the news of her pregnancy.