March, 18th-19th 2014 – 6.00 p.m.
Klub na Deitsite na Kulturata,
 Konstantin Irechek Str. 2, Ruse

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for already 50 years takes place in the Ruhr region and is among the most important short film institutions in the world. On the screenings in Ruse a selection from the International Competition 2013 and the Artist Film & Video 2013 competition will be presented.

18 March, 6.00 p.m.
International Competition 2013

Biography
(Sweden, 2012, 21 min., Dir.: Magnus Bärtås)
He distinguished himself from early years with his large body and uncontrollable laughter, a photographic memory and a knowledge that surpassed the teacher’s. He managed to reach the top of the Swedish Social Democracy, but he had a secret.

Dad’s Stick
(United Kingdom, 2012, 5 min., Dir.: John Smith)
An oblique portrait of the filmmaker’s father based upon three objects that he showed him shortly before he died.

Sharaf
(Sweden, 2012, 13 min., Dir.: Hanna Heilborn, David Aronowitsch)
The boat was like a little fly in the sea, in two-metre high waves. We just drifted without any food or water.” Sharaf, 17, is one of thousands of boat-refugees who have arrived in Gran Canaria over the past couple of years.

Buffalo Death Mask
(Canada, 2013, 23 min., Dir.: Mike Hoolboom)
Life and death before the cocktail.

Ziegenort
(Poland, 2013, 19 min., Dir.: Tomasz Popakul)
Fish Boy is half boy / half fish. He lives in a seemingly idyllic fishing village where his father wants to teach him how to become a fisherman. The rejection he experiences in his village affects his relationship with himself.

19 March, 6.00 p.m.
Artist Film and Video 2013

Toxic Camera
(Ukraine, United Kingdom, 2012, 21 min., Dir.: Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson)
A cinematic reflection of a disaster inspired by the film “Chernobyl: A Chronicle of Difficult Weeks” made by Soviet filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko. On processing his film, he realised that radiation was effectively “visible” on the film material itself.

Off-White Tulips
(Turkey, Germany, 2013, 24 min., Dir.: Aykan Safoglu)
Concentrating on James Baldwin’s extended stays in Istanbul, the video explores the limits of an autobiography mostly relying on found materials such as Sedat Pakay’s photography.

Nation Estate
(Denmark, Palestinian Territories, 2012, 9 min., Dir.: Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind)
A cinematic sci-fi attempt at a vertical solution for Palestinian nation building: a colossal sky scraper housing the entire Palestinian population – who eventually live high life.

Museum of Imagination
(India, 2012, 20 min., Dir.: Amit Dutta)
In the year 2011-2012, the filmmaker recorded, over a period of time, several conversations with Prof. B.N. Goswamy, an important art historian of India, covering his entire body of work. Interspersed with his talks were also some silences. This film draws upon some of those moments of silence and weaves with them a web of ideas and images that fill the art-historian’s mind scape.

Journal
(Belgium, 2013, 16 min., Dir.: Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat)
Based on a series of photographs taken of official visitors to Yad Vashem “Journal” questions the production of narratives and their plenitude: historical, chronological, institutional, visual, time-based, personal and the narrative of absence.

The movies will be shown in the original language with English subtitles.

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http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/distribution/programme.html

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