Our guest at Shorts Attack in October:

SHNIT international: Global Cinema

The shnit International Shortfilmfestival from Switzerland presents the highlight programme 2015 and invites the audience at events worldwide to rate the films online.

7  to 18 October 2015 – 8 films in 100 minutes

Within 12 days the audience in five continents choose their favourites online. 

So, deside on the shnit CINEMAS Award worth 20.000 Dollar!

The programme not only gets screened in Switzerland and Germany, but also  in Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Kairo, Kapstadt, Kyoto, San José and Moskow.

shnit FINALE will be held from October 17th – 18th in New York.

 

The programme:

A SINGLE LIFE
Job, Joris & Marieke
Netherlands
2014
2 min
Animation
When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life. And her life turns strange!

 

BEAUTY
Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
Italy
2014
10 min
Animation
About the most important emotions of life, from birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear. It is a tribute to art, to life and their disarming beauty.

 

CONTRAPELO
Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer
Mexico/USA
2014
19:30 min
Fiction
Contrapelo is the story of a proud Mexican barber who is forced to shave the leader of a drug cartel. His life becomes thrilling.

 

LOVE IS BLIND
Dan Hodgson
UK
2015
6 min
Fiction
Alice in the passionate embrace of a young lover: she finally succumbs to temptation and finds herself in the midst of an emotional minefield.

 

FATHER / Père
Lotfi Achour
Tunisia/France
2014
18 min
Fiction
Hédi is a taxi driver in Tunis. One evening he drives to the hospital a pregnant young woman who is going into labor.

 

MOONKUP – A PERIOD COMEDY
Pierre Mazingarbe
France
2015
25:00 min
Fiction
Like all the women of Europe, Eva gives her menstrual blood to keep peace in place between humans and vampires. But this injustice must end…

 

UNLEADED / Sans Plomb
Emmanuel Tenenbaum
Canada/Netherlands/France
2015
7 min
Fiction
An environmental activist has a plan against an international oil firm and gets involved into a strange thriller.

 

HERMAN THE GERMAN
Michael Binz
Germany 2015
15:00
Fiction
Herman is one of the most experienced bomb defusers in Germany. After a medical examination Herman learns that he suffers from the very rare Kahnawake syndrome, which means: his emotion „fear“ falls out.

 

 

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 164 of Shorts Attack!