Shorts Attack in February 2025

8 Filme in 90 Minuten – with German subtitles

People come together in an enjoyable way to play chess, enjoy art, play sport and party. Parameters often change unexpectedly: Stuffed animals suffer, language goes crazy, neighbors misbehave, mysterious things become real and crazy physics has an impact on everything.

The Program:

A STORY ABOUT A MONKEY, A BEAR AND A CATERPILLAR
Rebeka Kruus, Dashka Dementeva
Estonia 2023
Animation – 3:30 min
Chees!
Three masked animals play chess, but behind their moves a certain discontent is brewing. When the bear disappears, the game takes an unexpected turn.

CONFONTAFAGIONFION
Quentin Ogier
France 2024
3:30 min
Live Action
Language virus
Oscar is about to go on stage to perform Hamlet when he is suddenly overcome by a strange affliction …

AUFNAHMEN EINER WETTERKAMERA
Bernhard Wenger
Austria, Germany 2023
18:30 min
Live Action
Ski holiday
A ski resort in the scenic Austrian Alps. A weather camera installed to display majestic mountain panoramas, captures human abominations.

UNKNOWN QUANTUM OBJECTS
Alessandro Bavari
Italy 2024
7 min
Experimental
Physics
Hypothetically, there are 64 dimensions, though we’ve only been able to observe 24 of them up until now. Meaning: 40 remain unexplored.

OBRAZA / Resentment
Gleb Osatinski
Lituania, Ukraine, USA 2024
30 min
Live Action
Ressentiments
Ukraine, Sowjetunion, 1990. Der 17-jährige
Ukraine, the Soviet Union, 1990. Like many teenagers, 17-year-old Yasha is rebelling.

HYMN OF THE PLAGUE / Gimn Chume
Alexander Epikhov, Dimitri Gorbaty, Philipp Ivanov
Germany, Russia 2024
12:30
Live Action
Orchester
An orchestra aims to record a composition from Pushkin’s play „A Feast in the Time of the Plague“ inside an old Soviet recording studio.

PAPIER MACHÉ
Simon Madore
Canada 2024
4:30 min
Live Action
Animal thriller
The turbulent life of a piñata that is continually destroyed and reinvented. A whimsical cycle of existence and survival.

SPÄTSOMMER 91
Olaf Held
Germany 2024
3 min
Dokumentarfilm
Party!
Found film material from a birthday celebration in 1991. The salt ran out and memory has now faded, obscured by the veil of time.

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 266 of Shorts Attack!