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Browse through the detailed list of the screening films of the 2nd-3rd Oslo Short Film Festival edition and explore our diverse programme.
Films 2020
At Night, I Dream
Entirely shot in the elevator of a retirement home, "At Night, I dream", is a documentary about tender encounters with fellow human beings. A tale about age, aging, loss, love, longing, mourning and the power of human connection. "La Nuit, je rêve" touches the daily life of the residents, their relationship with the care staff, their relationship to life and finally also our own relationship to age and to the elderly, who are so often excluded and sidelined from our lives. The lift interested me as a place of exchange because it is a central feature in a retirement home, since without it, people remain confined to their rooms. The elevator also symbolizes them being stuck in a place they not necessarily all want to be in or are happy to be in.
Frédérique Buck
Biggie & Shrimp
On a downbeat housing estate, a teen must confront his self-identity and masculinity, putting his only true friendship at risk.
Harvey Hayes
Broken Waves
When journalists and international aid leave, what remains of a humanitarian crisis? What are the traces left by the uprooting of millions of humans? What do we remember from the journey of anonymous crowds? In Broken waves, we follow the photographer Frédéric Séguin in a pilgrimage, during which he returns to the highlights of the Syrian refugee crisis, and tries to find the people he has photographed between 2015 and 2017. In the fields, once muddy and full of tents, nature is taking back its rights. On the banks of the Greek Islands, the waves have already forgotten the tragedies of yesterday. But yet, scars remain alive in those who have been uprooted.
Patrick Francke-Sirois, Thierry Sirois
Campesinos
A glimpse into the secluded lives of Patagonian cowboys (Gauchos) living at the end of the world in isolation. A stunning portrait of sacrifice, tradition and endurance in extreme conditions, uncovering what it truly means to be alone.
Matias Bolla
Downs of the Dead
You wouldn't wanna be stuck at work when the Zombie Apocalypse breaks out. Especially if you work at a housing for the mentally challenged. When the zombie- apocalypse breaks out at «Soltoppen» housing for the mentally challenged it’s up to nurse Morten and resident Arvid to save them.
Even Husby Grødahl
I am Fatou
Fatou is a 23-year-old Italian girl of Senegalese origin. She lives in a suburb of Rome with his mother, who would like to educate according to the rigid impositions of her culture of origin. But Fatou is looking for her own identity that combines his black Muslim being with Italian society, and unlike most of his peers, the social stigma of the immigrant is imprinted on her, who isolates her and reduces her friendships with other young children of foreigners. Her authentic passion and screen against prejudice is singing: music is what will never betray herself.
Amir Ramadan
Into the Dark
Battling subzero temperatures and forty-foot seas, a team of scientists embark on a perilous winter expedition into the darkest regions of the Arctic. Their mission: to understand how trace amounts of light may be radically altering the mysterious world of the polar night. What they discover has implications for the global climate and the future of the Arctic.
Michael O. Snyder
Lasagna (Eve Without Adam)
Coming close to her husband’s executions, Mirna (50) was asked to come with a Lasagna to the prison. Rudi (Mirna’s husband, 51) was arrested with the possession of 8kg of coc- caine at Soekarno Hatta International Airport. He was accused of smuggling drugs from Italy to Indonesia. Lost in court, facing hard reality that he was sentenced to death. Rudi wished to enjoy his last Lasagna with Mirna. Mirna cooked the most delicious Lasagna for her husband. But when finally his eyes met hers, Rudi chooses not to eat the Lasagna. He wanted the Lasagna to be a witness of their goodbyes. In the end, Mirna and Rudi danced with their beautiful and delicious Lasagna watching them. Lasagna is Rudi and Mirna’s favorite comfort meal when they both went to Pharmacy Faculty in University of Naples, Italy. Lasagna isn’t just food for them, but also witness of their love, rage and happiness. Lasagna saw everything.
Adi Victory
Lucienne
At 80, Lucienne did not say her last word. Affected with Alzheimer’s disease, she lives in a specialized retirement home. Her daily life is difficult and Lucienne wants to go back to her house in Guadeloupe. To succeed in her escape, she makes plan with Gabriel, her lover, and uses her boundless imagination…
Aurélie Cardin
Neighborhood Golf Association
For the past 10 years, street photographer Patrick Barr aka Tiger Hood has become a local legend known for bringing golf to the streets of NYC. It’s a game that requires only three items: a golf club, a newspaper-stuffed milk carton, and a crate. What was initially just a way for Barr to pass time has gained traction from major news outlets and celebrities on a global scale. However, street golf seems to overshadow his true passion… photography. Barr’s archive consists of thousands of mind blowing film photographs of NYC from the 1990’s to 2000’s. His goal was to preserve a time and place that he predicted would dissolve in the coming years. With his archive as evidence, he predicted correctly. “Neighborhood Golf Association” is a short documentary by long time friend, Nicolas Heller aka New York Nico. The 12-minute film explores a day in the life of Barr supplemented by archive footage collected over their three-year friendship.
Nicolas Heller
Oh, Sorry
A grieving young woman leans on her younger brother for emotional support until a spontaneous night out forces her to confront her denial.
Justin Giddings & Ryan Welsh
Something to Give
This film serves as a collective grief ritual. A journey of reckonings and resilience. Experience a celebration of the power of the human heart amid the aftermath of atrocities in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Both survivors and perpetrators, collectively and individually, source forgiveness and peace from within. Password on vimeo is: somethingtogive
Gareth Gwyn
Tattoo
The young Iranian woman had not been expecting this kind of examination. She only wanted to renew her driver’s license, but when the officials noticed a scar on her wrist and her tattoo, they began looking at her with suspicion. Suddenly she is trapped, forced to answer personal questions and exposed to insinuations. The camera captures the growing uneasiness with clinical precision.
Farhad Delaram
The Last fishing journey
"Will lake fishing stand alonside the old forgotten jobs?" On the shores of a Swiss lake, an old fisherman sees is job coming to a critic turn because of the actual planet conditions. The long tradition that drive a fisherman's family is maybe coming to an end…
Tanguy Guinchard
The Little Mermaid
At the end of their studies, Simon, Paul and Wallace, lifelong friends, chip in to buy a three day resurrection service with which they bring back to life their friend Diane, who passed away three years earlier. Reunited again, they head off on a last journey to the sea.
Manon Amacouty
Unpot
"unpot" features Kyung-Ja, a woman iwith Alzheimer's disease, and describes her last day before she is sent to a nursing home; this is her last day outside of confinement. For her children and others around her, she is a problematic old lady, but she has her own world and her last desires. The movie follows her throughout her day: from morning when her older daughter helps her to pack her belongings, to evening as she spends the night with her younger daughter.
Huieun Park
Veil
It’s Dana’s bachelorette party, she’s getting married in two days. A pink swan floats across a turquoise pool, against a desert backdrop. The girls are pretty and drunk, the music loud. As the party continues, we witness a miasma of lies and concealments spread and poison the atmosphere. A chance encounter with Hamis, an African asylum seeker employed at the party, will bring the party-goers and Dana herself face to face with an uncomfortable truth
Orit Fouks Rotem
Films 2021
A House
Sweden’s largest and oldest co-living house lies on the outskirts of Stockholm. It has 300 residents, all of them women. For more than eighty years, the house has been a sanctuary for women who have rejected marriage as a form of life. Lately, a new generation of younger women have started to move in. A seemingly minor change, but one that could distort – or revive – the house’s original purpose.
Fanny Rosell
David
David needs help. So does David. A severely depressed man reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He’s not the only one who needs help.
Zachary Woods
Do.Solo.Pin
A young single mother, Shahla, is the caregiver to an elderly who is suffering from chronic depression. The man's daughter lives overseas and Shahla video calls with her everyday to give her an update on her father's health. Shahla makes a difficult decision and will have to face the consequences.
Javad Atefeh
Hysteria
A dark horror-comedy about people and behaviour in the middle of a national panic. Hannele is going out for a walk with her friend when suddenly a dense and dangerous fog rises. Hannele locks herself into her car, but her friend is stuck outside. Is there anything left to do?
Anssi Määttä
It’s So Charming
Silvia, who is pregnant, is at her parents in-law wedding anniversary, and she has been looking forward to it because its the first time she is meeting her boyfriend’s, Christian, side of the family. Though she quickly realises, that Christian has a horrible relationship with his father, Thorsten. Silvia and Christian had planned to announce the pregnancy, but can’t seem to find an appropriate time for it, due to the dysfunctional father-son relationship. Therefore Silvia decides to reconcile the 2 men, though this Is proving easier said than done. "It is so Lovely” is a comedy-drama, which the main theme is being able to set boundaries, even though there may not be an appropriate time for doing this.
Svend Colding
Milk Me
In a remote Norwegian valley, the young farmer Per lives his lonely life. He shares the farm with “Vigdis,” his only cow. Their peaceful days will shortly end when Per discovers techno music. He falls in love with the techno, and Vigdis and the farm becomes a second priority.
Jørgen Jensås Sivertsen
Priest. Punk. Anarchist.
Documentary film Priest. Punk. Anarchist. opens up a new perspectives on religion and anarchism. The protagonist Nuusa is not only a young female pastor, she is also a punk and a devoted anarchist. She sings loud hard core punk. Nuusa wants to change the church. She wants that the church will return to its anarchist roots. Here is a music video by Nuusa's hc-punk band called Seurat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdk67jeQHg
Olli Laine
Shadows on the Rails
Shadows on the Rails is a documentary film about surviving traumatic fatal accidents taken place in railways. The film is following four locomotive drivers, Kake, Markku, Ismo ja Kari who are gathering in summer cottage to discuss their experiences and ways of surviving trauma of someone committing a suicide on the railways. One of the drivers is still holding repressed feelings on his own experience. Through talking a peer support he can release pain and continue his life. The film is showing how peer support and talking is important while surviving something grave and serious.
Elias Kahla
Silence
How does it feel like when you come to understand that you are a pedophile? This theme touches upon many, yet it remains unspoken.
Saara Hakkarainen
Sticker
After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.
Georgi M. Unkovski
Suite
An employee is paid to fake the life of his clients in a flat. What makes a life and can you create it by imitation?
Fabio Thieme