Shorts Attack in March 2023:

Theatrical release: March 9, 2023

On March 12, the festive award ceremony of the Oscars® will take place in Los Angeles. Of the pre-nominated films on the shortlist, 5 films will be nominated per section. One of them will win

interfilm brings the two programs exclusively to German cinemas:

Oscar® Shorts LIVE ACTION – with German subtitles
Oscar® Shorts ANIMATION – with German subtitles

Program 1

Oscar® Shorts 2023 – LIVE ACTION

5 films in 110 Minuten – with German subtitles

AN IRISH GOODBYE
Tom Berkeley & Ross White
Northern Ireland 2022
23 min
Sibling twist
On a farm in rural Northern Ireland, estranged brothers are forced to reunite following the untimely death of their mother. But when the pair discover an unfulfilled bucket list belonging to their late mum …

 

IVALU
Anders Walter
Denmark 2022
16 min
Child wanted
Ivalu is gone. Her little sister is desperate to find her and her father does not care. The vast Greenlandic nature holds secrets. Where is Ivalu? She´s gonna go deep into the nature.

 

LE PUPILLE
Alice Rohrwacher
Italy 2022
37 Minuten
Longing in boarding school
A coming-of-age story about rebellious girls in a strict Catholic boarding school in a time of scarcity and war. It is about the pure and selfish desires, freedom and devotion.

 

NIGHT RIDE
Eirik Tveiten
Norway 2020
15 min
Tram adventure
It is a cold night in December. As Ebba waits for the tram, an unexpected turn of events transforms the ride home into something she was not expecting. And: It´s raining.

 

THE RED SUITCASE
Cyrus Neshvad
Luxembourg 2022
18 min
Control fear
Luxembourg Airport. Late in the evening. A 16-year-old iranian teenager is frightened to take her red suitcase on the automatic carpet. She keeps pushing back the moment to go through the arrival gate …

 

Programm 2

Oscar® Shorts 2023 – ANIMATION

5 films in 90 minutes – with German subtitles

THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE
Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy
England 2022
34 min
Friedship with animals
The film follows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse who form an unexpected friendship and together they search for their home. It becomes a poetic adventure.

 

THE FLYING SAILOR
Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby
Canada 2022
8 min
Seafarer epic
When a nearby ship explodes, a sailor is launched on an unexpected existential voyage – inspired by the real life catastrophic Halifax Explosion of 1917. So inspired by true events..

 

ICE MERCHANTS
João Gonzalez
France / Portugal / England 2022
14 min
Icecream Delivery
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

 

MY YEAR OF DICKS
Sara Gunnarsdóttir
USA 2022
24 min
Happiness search
It’s 1991, and Pam – a stubborn 15-year-old from the outskirts of Houston – embarks on a comedic journey of disappointment and self-discovery as she seeks the right boy to lose her virginity with.

AN OSTRICH TOLD ME THE WORLD IS FAKE AND I BELIEVE IT
Lachlan Pendragon
Australia 2021
11 min
Truth comedy
A young call-centre employee uncovers the flaws in his stop-motion universe with the help of a mysterious talking ostrich.

 

 

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 243 of Shorts Attack!