Shorts Attack in May 2024

6 films in 80 minutes – with German subtitles

Longing & Reality: The 6 films from the short film competition of the 2023 Cannes Festival celebrate female fantasies and shed light on aspects of global reality. The animation „27 (Vingt-sept)“ won the Palme d’Or.

The program:

FÁR (Intrusion)
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Island 2023
Live Action – 5 min
Decision pressure
At a downtown café, three business colleagues are discussing a future investment opportunity when a seagull hits the cafe’s window right in front of them. Anna, one of the colleagues, tries to ignore the event.

27 (Vingt-sept)
Flóra Anna Buda
Hungary, France 2023
Animation – 10:30 min
Erotic liberation
Living with her mom again, 27-year-old Alice is preoccupied by the fact that she can’t express her sexuality fully, and brings the issue up with her friends too.

EVENT THOUGH IT´S NIGHT
Guillermo García López
France / Spain
Live Action – 16 min
Urban Reality
La Cañada, Europe’s largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid: In the firelight, among Roma legends of a possible future, a 13-year-old boy, discovers that his best friend Nasser is leaving forever.

THE BITCH (La Perra)
Carla Melo Gampert
Columbia / France
14 min
Animation
Fantasy
A daughter, a mother and a dog. About being a bitch, being a woman and the wild diversions of life. This is wild!

AS IT WAS
Anastasiia Solonevych, Damian Kocur
Poland / Ukraine 2023
Live Action – 15:30 min
War processing
After a year in Berlin, Lera heads back to her hometown Kyiv for Christmas. There, she experiences first-hand the new everyday life during wartime with old friends and family.

PEEPING MOM
Francis Canitrot
France 2023
Animation – 14 min
Obsession with sex
Eli lives with Marie, his strong-willed mother. Nostalgic for an unbridled youth, “the sex” is an obsession with the old lady. Intrusive, she would like her son to have the same sexual fulfillment as her.

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 257 of Shorts Attack!