AS ROSAS BRANCAS THE WHITE ROSES
TITS
VETRARMORGUN WINTER MORNING
DIRECTOR Diogo Costa Amarante CAST Francisco Rodriguez, Carolina Tamez, Cristina Tamez, Oisín Monaghan BERLINALE SHORTS WETTBEWERB Portugal/USA 2013, 20’, Spanish/English/English ST
DIRECTOR Alex Winckler CAST Josh Beaney-Ford, Aaron Ishmael, Declan Mason, Arthur Byrne, Mike Wozniak, Gerard Horan, Juliet Cowan, Colin Hoult GENERATION 14PLUS KURZFILM Great Britain 2013, 16’, English/Without ST
DIRECTOR Sakaris Stórá CAST Armgarð Mortensen, Helena Heðinsdóttir, Sissal Tókadóttir Dahl, Rasmus V. Samuelsen, Erla Drós Simonsen, Hugin Bjørnson Knudsen, Jensina Olsen GENERATION 14PLUS KURZFILM Faroe Islands 2013, 19’, Faroese/English ST
10.02. / 22:00 CinemaxX 3 11.02. / 17:45 Colosseum 1
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10.02. / 15:00 CinemaxX 1 12.02. / 11:00 HAU1
13.02. / 16:00 CinemaxX 5 16.02. / 17:00 International
13.02. / 14:30 CinemaxX 1 15.02. / 17:30 CinemaxX 1
12.02. / 17:30 CinemaxX 1 13.02. / 10:30 CinemaxX 1
16.02. / 17:00 International
14.02. / 14:30 CinemaxX 1 16.02. / 17:00 International
Sam, 13, hopes to conceal his breasts with a tightly worn leather belt. This slender teenager is going through a particularly tough time at his authoritarian boys’ school on account of a hormonal disorder. Desperate, he tries everything he can to avoid swimming lessons, but his worst fears are confirmed when he discovers a pink bra hanging from his peg. Nonetheless, Sam manages to find the courage to face up to one of the ringleaders and refuses to be blackmailed. The film displays a great deal of empathy for its protagonist’s fears and anxieties but also exudes charm and subtle humour.
Maria hesitates when her best friend Birita offers her some pills, but – what the hell? Her mother’s away and they are both desperate to have some fun tonight. They set off and, once the drug takes effect, start euphorically planning how they might finally escape their dreary island. But they only manage to wind up at a party where they continue celebrating. Maria’s pupils are wide open in her delicate face. She may be high, but she doesn’t feel at all well any more. It now transpires that Birita has plans for her friend: she wants Maria finally to have sex with a boy and put a stop to the stupid gossip about her being a lesbian. The film stays very close to its protagonists; it succeeds in depicting their insecurities and making apparent their fears and their pain without ridiculing them.
A group of people dance at a sports ground to the music of Supertramp. The siblings take flowers to a grave in the deep snow, wearing floral wreaths in their hair. The father directs them. They embrace one another. Memories are invoked by pictures enclosed inside Gabriel’s, the brother’s, amulet. The mother is dead – how will they fill the void she left behind? Each individual family member tries to find their way, is obliged to redefine their course. Calm are the images and gestures that lead us through this film. The colours of night are also the colours of mourning. Mystical imagery and thoughts tangibly resound in the here and now. Who has the stronger powers of recollection – the horse or the elephant? Of the utmost importance however, is the question of how to proceed with the mother inside one’s heart. ‘There are times, when all the world’s asleep, the questions run too deep for such a simple man, won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned, I know it sounds absurd, but please tell me who I am.’ (Supertramp)