Shorts Attack in June

10 strange films.

 

The Programme:

RAIN
Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Sweden 2014
Short Fiction without dialogue – 9 min
Weather-Comedy
A woman wakes up from rain on her pillow. When she gets out of bed the rain
follows her. She carries the rain with her through the day.

 

MILLIONAIRS
Stéphane Bergmans
Belgium 2013
Short Fiction engl
15 min
Lotto-Tradegy
For years, a woman played lotto with the same numbers and never won a penny. When she dies, her sons keep the tradition going…

 

A(R)MEN
Thomas Lunde
Norway
2014
Short Fiction engl.
14 min
Work-Thriller
The perils of losing an arm… and growing it back again.

 

LIKE RABBITS / Comme des Lapins
Osman Cerfon
France
2012
Animation without dialogue
8 min
Funfair-Animation
Chapter 2 of „Sticky Ends“ keeps it surreal at the fair and elsewhere.

 

DRING OF THE DEAD
Mathieu Auvray, Gael Pouvreau
France 2013
Short Fiction engl.
4:30 min
Zombie-Film
„The blue Danube“ – your only hope. But what if someone actually picks up at the end of the wait loop?

 

HAPPY B-DAY
Holger Frick
Germany 2013
Short Fiction dt.
8 min
Sport-Grotesque
On this cold, snowy morning, Tobias could not have imagined in his wildest dreams what would happen to him. Especially since it’s his birthday!

 

SMOKING WILL KILL YOU
Raphael Sammut
Australia 2010 – 4 min
Short Fiction engl.
Smoker-Parody
Cigarettes don’t kill people, people kill people. His life was simple and uncomplicated. Her’s was contrived and controlled. Like a monkey with a gun, these two should never have met.

 

HOT DOG
Bill Plympton
USA 2008
Animation without dialogue
6 min
Dog adventure
In this episode our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain the affection he so richly deserves.

 

GUMMIFAUST
Marc Steck
Germany 2014
Short Fiction engl. ST.
9 min
Theater-Thriller
A theatre critic hardly finds anything nice to say when he watches an ironic reinterpretation of Goethe’s Faust in a little off-theatre.

 

IN PASSING
Alan Miller
USA 2013
Short Fiction without dialogue
5 min
Suicide-Comedy
At a funeral, Jen meets Audrey, a grief stricken woman with a secret. Audrey’s devastation is overpowering and Jen is drawn in, uncovering a confronting truth.

 

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 160 of Shorts Attack!