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Browse through the detailed list of the official nominations of the 7th Oslo Short Film Festival edition.
Aïcha
Elsa, 12 years old, meets her Algerian grandfather for the first time… and discovers that her mother has been hiding a significant part of her identity from her.
Coralie Lavergne
Berlin. Everything’s-changed Place
On the construction site, the steam hammer is heaving. As early as the 1920s, the underground was being built at Berlin's Alexanderplatz. Alfred Döblin's metropolitan novel underpins the images of today's Alex. Fiction and documentation seem inseparable. The construction site itself becomes a stage and even transforms into a media production.
Wolfgang Friedrich Müller
Beyond Words
How can we make meaningful contact after language fails us? In Kim Brand’s ‘Beyond Words’ the viewer is taken to a realm where language takes second place to improvised sound. The singers of the Genetic Choir Ensemble visit nursing homes and interact with residents living with dementia. The improvising singers show great sensitivity to the residents, who are at times extremely vulnerable. By listening and improvising with sound, rhythm, touch and melody, the singers seek connection with the elderly. Moments of melancholy and cheerfulness go hand in hand in this short, black and white documentary that shows what singing can do when other forms of communication have been lost.
Kim Brand
Bonaca
A young man's typical summer morning row takes a surprising turn when he stumbles upon an unusual sight on the secluded sea inlet.
Luka Vlaho
Checkpoint: Valid
Nora, Selma, and Arina, three young girls from a tight-knit, multicultural dance community in Oslo’s East End, travel to an audition that introduces them to an unfamiliar world. As they navigate the audition process, they encounter people whose backgrounds and experiences feel distant from their own, subtly revealing cultural divides. This experience challenges their confidence, their bonds, and their understanding of themselves.
Martin T. B. Thomas
Family Sunday
In a peripheral zone of Mexico City, the collection of money from merchants and residents of the area is an everyday occurrence. On a sunny Sunday, in a housing unit located in one of these areas, a merchant has not paid his fee and the sicarios have come to give him an ultimatum.
Gerardo Del Razo
Gate 3 to 14
Just shortly after the explosion that happened on August 2020, two young filmmakers make their way out of the Beirut Port after assisting with the search and rescue efforts – using cinema equipment.
Karen Abou Jaoudeh
Molkom-Core
At a farewell camping trip, an intelligent but immature young man struggles to recapture his glory days with his two best friends, but they quickly grow tired of his antics.
Carl Axel Eduard
On Air
A major cyberattack in the wake of the Ukrainian war left Norway's Arctic Islands without means to communicate. On Air explores the vital role of radio amateurs in keeping our backup communication systems alive. Set against a striking arctic backdrop, the film reflects on society's digital vulnerabilities and the enduring importance of analog technology.
Astrid Ardagh
Porajmos. In Memory of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust
The presentation and release of this short film, falls exactly on the 80th anniversary of the commemoration of the Roma and Sinti holocaust, proclaimed by the European Parliament in 2015. This short video is a film without words. It uses images that tell the story of Roma and Sinti life before Nazism, and then, during their extermination. Estimates of the death toll range from 500,000 to 1 million. The images, as well as the music, were donated by the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Porajamos, in Romanesque, means "to devour" or "sexual violence". Although the 2nd World War ended in 1945, the Roma Holocaust is commemorated in terms of two tragic events that took place at Auschwitz in March 1944 and August 1944. In March, the camp's Roma rebelled against the Nazis. But on August 2, they were all exterminated in a single night. The film also contains an animation.
Giovanni Princigalli
Red Thumb
A gardener tries to control his environment as he discovers a pulsing red plant. As it physically grows so does their connection, becoming his prized blooming obsession.
Kolya Kishinsky, Geneva Huffman
Sewing Machine
Sewing Machine is a film about the town of Pechory (Petseri) and its people, told through the life story of my great-grandmother and her newborn baby who had to be hidden in a sewing machine box.
Ülo Pikkov
Sorry I’m Late (but I Brought a Choir)
Nina isn't exactly thrilled when Stian shows up late to her housewarming party – with an entire choir he picked up on the tram. Boisterous, drunk, and silly, the motley troupe in the stairwell quickly tests the hostess's patience.
Håkon Anton Olavsen
Spark Wheel
A spiraling dad reunites with his morally slippery friend and finds that true friendship isn't always so friendly. Benny Klein is going through a rough patch. His marriage crumbling, his career stalled, he's had some bad days. But things are looking up, at least for one weekend, when his dear friend Pep Pelletier visits—carrying two totes packed with good food and fine wine. Just before hitting the road, however, Pep decides to bring along his daughter, Frances. That's when the weekend takes a turn. A story of middle age, youthful mojo, and misplaced ladles, Spark Wheel proves once and for all that you're only as old as you feel. And look. And act.
Billy Kent
Stranger
The old farmer Vidar struggles to take care of his rundown farm alone, when a stranger appears and uninvited begins to help him. As the stranger proves to be very useful to Vidar, he slowly lets him into his life, which proves to challenge his existence.
Jens Glomnes Hertzberg
The Banner
The Banner is wrong, the Banner won't arrive on time and the event cannot start without the Banner. This is what torments Rafael Crivelli, the owner of a small publishing house who needs the Banner to be fixed on time for the event he is about to put on with his new partners. In the frenzy to have the Banner in time and form, he ends up involving his children, perhaps as an excuse to be able to open up to them for the first time.
Tomás Terzano
The Sound of Ventilation
Throughout my filmmaking life, ventilation sound has been a constant nuisance. I have argued with janitors to turn it off, moved shooting sessions to avoid it and sat in the cutting room for long hours to edit it out. Then a conference about ventilation sound comes along and I am invited to make a film about ventilation sound. It turns everything around. Ventilation suddenly gets a starring role! I go back into my archives from 10 years of recordings as a video producer at the University of Oslo and let ventilation speak with its own voice. Through recordings from conferences, fieldwork and case videos, we get to know the ubiquitous ventilation better. It turns out to have a unique and mysterious story to tell.
Audun Bjerknes
TSHEGL
Beneath the picturesque surface of South Tyrol lies a world often misunderstood—a world where farmers are unfairly viewed as backward and insular. However, this film uncovers the genuine life of a young farmer, revealing his challenges and his unique world. Here, tradition isn’t seen as outdated but as a conscious way of living. Through Tobias’s perspective, we discover that progress and tradition can coexist. The film captures the raw, authentic moments of rural life, where evenings are spent scraping dirt from under your fingernails instead of going out to clubs. It shatters stereotypes, offering a respite from the fast-paced world and inviting viewers to delve deeper into a life often overlooked.
Philipp Silbernagl
Zima
It grows slowly as an icicle, but one day it drops and crashes. Anka loves cats. And Jesus. In a winter silence the lagoon freezes and the unspoken resurfaces like crack on ice. Mosaic portrait of a small fisherman's village where human to human, human to animal, animal to animal interdepend on a delicate balance of warm tender care and cold emotional cruelty. An eerie story of loneliness and community narrated with magical realism.
Tomek Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki