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Europe in Short - Section 1 (2022) Europe in Short - Section 1 (2022)

razno / 92 min

Techno, Mama 
Lithuania, 2021, 18'

directed by Saulius Baradinskas, screenplay Saulius Baradinskas, cinematography Vytautas Katkus 

Nikita loves listening to techno music and dreams of going to Berlin and visiting the famous “Berghain” Club. His mother Irena doesn’t know about his son’s dream and it isn’t long before their mutual expectations clash.

 

Homesick Lungs
Germany, 2021, 15'

directed by Felix Klee, screenplay Felix Klee, cinematography Felix Klee 

You can't bring back a dead horse, but there are ways to step into a place that has been lost.

 

That’s How the Summer Ended
Slovenia / Hungary / Italy, 2022

directed by Matjaž Ivanišin, screenplay Matjaž Ivanišin, cinematography Gregor Božič 

At the end of summer, as preparations for an air show are taking place in the sky, a man and a woman go to the water’s edge. But the arrival of a legendary aerobatic pilot will not be the event of the day for them.

Listen to the Beat of Our Images
France, French Guiana, 2021, 15'

directed by Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, screenplay Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime Jean-Baptiste 

Sixty years ago, the French government decided to establish its space centre in Kourou (French Guiana, South America). Six hundred Guianese people were expropriated to allow France to realize its dream of space conquest. Listen To The Beat Of Our Images gives voice to an invisibilized and silenced population.

 

Fardosa
Finland / Great Britain, 2021, 11'

directed by Rukia Mahamed, Iqlaas Osman, Anton Tammi, screenplay Rukia Mahamed, Iqlaas Osman, Anton Tammi, cinematography Erik Henriksson 

A coming-of-age film about a young Finnish-Somali girl named Fardosa (who “sees the world differently to others”) caught between her mother’s expectations and the allure of being young and free. Joyriding around Helsinki and its suburbs with her friends one night, Fardosa slips between reality and a dream state.

 

Heat Waves
The Netherlands, 2021, 21'

directed by Kent Chan, screenplay Kent Chan 

Heat Waves uses pop culture to deconstruct our collective amalgamation of the concept of ‘the tropics’. It is an imagined place made up of vastly different real places whose common trait is popular fetishization and, simultaneously, mass neglect in the face of climate catastrophe. One man’s paradise is another man’s existential threat.

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