Barcelona Short Film and Video Festival 2017 Programme

BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM &VIDEO FESTIVAL 2017

zumzeig cinema

/OCT 1-2 2017/

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WELCOME!

BSF is an international, juried short film festival based in Barcelona. BSF screens outstanding short film, animation, docs, experimental and video art.

The stories of women and girls, and women makers, are underrepresented in film festivals, so we have particularly encouraged submissions from anyone identifying as a woman, non-binary, and/or anyone telling stories about women and girls.

A jury of filmmakers and video artists selected the winning categories including, Best International Short Film or Video 2017.

BSF is run by Assoicació Techne Barcelona, a non profit organization for the promotion and showcasing of art.

Associació Techne Barcelona supports a culture of equality, diversity and non-discrimination.

PROGRAMME

OCTOBER 2ND 5-8PM

October 1st & 2nd 2017 Zumzeig Cinema Carrer de Béjar, 53 Barcelona

5 PM

Introduction and PROGRAMME 2

6 PM

20 mins break.

6:20PM

Introduction and PROGRAMME 3

7:45PM

AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS

www.barcelonashortfilm.com

OCTOBER 1ST 12-2PM 12 TO 2PM Introduction

and PROGRAMME 1

October 1st 2017 TIME FLIES WHEN I AM HAVING FUN Director: Johan Tappert. Sweden, 2017. 4:30 mins. English.

From personal experience Marianne knows that time passes too quickly when she is having fun.

ICKY Director: Parastoo Cardgar, IRAN, 2017, 5:55 mins.

In the world of people with Rubik's cube head, there is a kid who is different from the others...

12 YELLOW STARS. Director: Henna-Riikka Halonen Finland/Israel, 2017 13:33 mins.

Finnish/English with Enlish subtitles. A surrealist story about disoriented girl and a boy in a strange new world and a man and a woman who face and are blocked by borders and walls. Based on a comic book The Raspberry Ice Cream War published by European Union in 1996.

TALES FROM THE JELLY FISH NEBULA. Director: Julian Olariu France, 2017, 5 mins.

The black box of a space station, near the Jelly Fish nebula, recorded the thoughts of an astronaut who died long ago.

SPIRIT AWAY Director: Betina Kuntzsch, Germany 2015, 6:15 mins. English.

The movie evolved from an interest in the biographies of psychiatric patients, whose creative works are represented in the Prinzhorn Collection.

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

October 1st 2017 HUM. DIRECTOR: Nathan Fagan, Ireland, 2017, 19 mins, English. ‘Hum’ is an intimate portrait of artist and singer-songwriter, Kevin Nolan. Diagnosed at 19 years old with schizoaffective disorder - which has been described as the 'unhappy marriage of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder’ BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT GRAVITY Director: Meghan McKnight, CANADA, 2017, 2:24 mins.

A music video for Amelia Curran.

MANSPREADING. Director: Rachel Ara, UK, 2015, 1 mins.

In 2015 the word "Manspreading" was officially entered into the English Dictionary...

VERNON AND VIOLET. Director: Nikoletta Kanakis. USA, 2017, 9:30 mins. English.

Violet, a taxidermist, falls in love with a mortician named Vernon. Does Violet have the right stuff to preserve their love forever?

LETHE. Director: Eric Romero. Scotland, 2017, 20 mins. English.

Lethe is a tragic suspense drama about a young amnesiac woman named Eve, who must piece together her fragmented memories while running from mysterious pursuers

October 2nd 2017 REMEMBER EVERYTHING TO FORGET NOTHING. Director: Paolo Caspian, ITALY, 2016, 2:45 mins.

Italian with English subtitles. A man is walking around Lampedusa, an Italian island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, reciting the names of the victims of October 3rd 2013, when more than 500 emigrants died while attempting to reach Europe.

I CAME FROM THE UNKNOWN TO SING. Director: Roxana Vilk, UK, 2016, 9 mins. Arabic/English with English subtitles.This short film, directed by award winning filmmaker Roxana Vilk, explores his poetry as the narrative thread to unravel the complex emotional journey he has traveled through and how he came to eventually call Edinburgh home.

HALF A MAN. Director: Kristina Kumrić, Croatia, 2016, 20 mins. Croatian with English subtitles. A village in the outback of Dalmatia, autumn of 1991.

The war is raging nearby. 10-year-old Mia and 12year-old Lorena are having a big day: their father, Mirko, is going to be released from the camp where he spent the last three months as a prisoner of war.

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST SPECIAL FX

BEFORE NOW. Director: Miglė KrižinauskaitėBernotienė. Lithuania, 2016, 6:44 mins.

Lithuanian with English subtitles.

The film is sincere, simple, but at the same time existential thought causing story. This documentary is mother’s and her four-year-old daughter’s dialogue.

October 2nd 2017 BOUND. Director: Monica Thomas, USA, 2015 6:28 mins.

A dance film in three parts.

BEST AUDIO THE WOMAN WHO WHIRLS. Director: Ella Wood, UK, 2017, 11:29 mins. English.

‘The Woman Who Whirls’ is a documentary and ethno-poetics of contemporary whirling practice. It speaks from and to the nature of whirling through visual and spoken non-linear narrative. .

THE BEAUTIFUL: THE STORIES SHE TELLS. Director: Maeve Jackson, USA, 2017, 3:15 mins.

English. As she removed the fabric from her head her identity was altered provoking questions of identity and culture. Throughout time women’s identities have been examined, as a whole, and within individual cultures. Hair is an identifier of ethnicity and a DNA trait that has evolved over time.

FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE. Director: Josep Maria Rius, Spain, 2017 2:13 mins.

Joma's animation by drawing in transformation.

Charcoal on paper. Exploring to see the people from their own standing point. Music by Toti Soler. .

October 2nd 2017 TAILOR. Director Calí dos Anjos, Brazil, 2017, 9:47 mins. Portuguese with English subtitles.

TAILOR is a transgender cartoonist that shares in his web page other trans people's experiences and their challenges in society.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT RITOURNELLE Director: Camille de Leu, Belgium, 2015, 18:51 mins. French with English subtitles. Three young sisters find themselves on the tracks of a train. All three are at a crossroads in their lives, they confront their ages and experiences, out of sight.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY HOLLYWOOD. EP2: The Lover. Director: Clemy Clarke. USA, 2016, 4:02 mins. English.

A webseries about the cruel world of casting calls.

In episode 2 "The Lover", a young woman declares her love to Hollywood EGO. Director: Lorenza Indovina, Italy, 2016, 13:54 mins. Italian with English subtitles.

In a landscape burnt by the sun, Luca and Carla travel along the ring road to the airport, from which the woman will leave for a short summer holiday.

PLUCK. Director: Mavi Phillips, Italy/USA, 2017.

17:07 mins. Italian/English.

A surrealist psychological adventure.

October 2nd 2017 PAUSE. Director: John C. Kelley. USA, 2012, 2:13 mins.

Pause is a bittersweet illustration of nostalgia’s destructive nature. The recall of a memory causes it to literally deteriorate in a series of paused VHS images of 1980s US suburban leisure

STUFF AS DREAMS. Director: Guli Silberstein, UK, 2017, 5:52 mins. A painterly moving collage composed from images of travelling with family, which might have been a dream or maybe not, intertwined with panicked news reports from scenes of terror that may or may not have happened.

SUITOR. Director: Alvaro Congosto. USA, 2016, 12 mins. English.

October 30th, 1938. During Orson Welles' infamous radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, a lonely man tries to bond with a panicked young woman as they fearfully wait for the end of the world together.

AT MY HOME / A CASA MIA. Director: Mario Piredda, Italy, 2016, 19 mins. Italian with English subtitles.

Left alone as only inhabitants of a deserted fishermen village, two elderly people, Lucia and Peppino, live in the hope that winter will never end.

BEST SHORT FILM. BEST PERFORMANCE (GIUSI MERLI).