Underskog

International short film days and film festival in Oslo is presenting newest international short and documentary film productions to wide Oslo audiences at art venue Sound of Mu!
During two film days between the 20th and 21st of May 2014 the festival will present a selection of newest short and documentary films of different styles and approaches from young film directors from many different countries and the programming represents a glimpse into the current, mostly independent and non – commercial international filmmaking. Final programming includes newest international short and documentary film productions from different countries with special focus on Austrian, Polish and Swedish filmmakers in the upcoming 2nd edition of OSLO SHORT CUTS film short&doc film days in Oslo. All films will be screened in original languages with English subtitles.
Entrance to all screenings is free!

Production of OSLO SHORT CUTS 2014 is being organized and coordinated by Ljubljana International Short Film Festival which is annually and continually presenting young international, European and Balkan cinema in Ljubljana (Slovenia) as well as other countries and cities in Europe.

PROGRAM DAG > 01
tirsdag 20. mai fra kl 17.00 – 22.00

Kl 17.00 –18.00 BALKAN FILM BAZAR > 01

THE CHANGE dijana protic_CROATIA_2012_11 min experiment/documentary
The film was made under the sea in port of Vela Luka and around the island of Korcula, with four cameras mounted on the platform which was dragged by a diver.

HOME IS WHERE MY AGE ISanja strelec/tomislava jukic_CROATIA_2013_22 mindoc
Portrait of the institution in which are put those for whom we never have time. Elderly, our, yours, theirs.

KM christos nikou_GREECE_2012_12 minfiction
A man. A woman. In a car. Fastened. Immobile. Blood. Silence. Can you open the door and get out?

GREEK CRISIS LEXICONyiorgos nalpantidis_GREECE 2012_7 min_experiment
A list of word related to the Greek financial crisis. Through their repetitive use, words become entities, detached from their speakers, they construct the reality they are supposed to be desribing.

Kl 18.00 – 19.00 ZOOM AUSTRIA > 01

AU PAIR Director: Paul Reisinger_15 min_2012fiction
An honest look at the disturbing and mysterious power that love has over us when we experience it for the first time.

TALFAHRT Director: Paul Reisinger_10 min_2012 fiction
‘Talfahrt’ (Descent) tells the tragic story of two lovers who can neither be with nor without each other and of the alienation of those who are closest to us when we don’t share our deepest feelings.

FAR & NEAR Director: Jasmina Eleta_35 min_2010 fiction
Amrik Singh ekes out a living delivering newspapers. The news of his mother’s death leads to a series of setbacks. The difficult struggle to make it in Europe appears to be lost. Employer Gerhard Haschka places his own mother in the care of Slovakian nurse. Until the death of Miss Haschka, the two women develop an intimacy that Gerhard is incapable of realizing. Gerhard and Amrik never encounter one another.

Kl 19.00 – 20.00 DOKUBAZAAR > 01

EL SUEÑO kuba lubniewski&mikolaj molenda_2012 poland/mexico_33min_documentary
Two young surf dudes from Poland – Kuba ?ubniewski and Miko?aj Molenda – made this splish-splash documentary in Mexico’s Puerto Escondido. The film follows four fellow surfers as they grace the waves and maneuver their way through the coast’s surf culture.

GOD’S LAKE diana aszyk_2012_poland/ukraine_17min documentary
A poetic tale of living on the lake of one Ukrainian family, for which the lake has throughout generations been the focal point of life.

Kl 20.00– 21.00 OSLOANIMA > ZOOM POLAND

DARLING izabela plucinska_POLAND_2013_6min animation
What is memory loss? In the labyrinth of fear, a stranger becomes a close person and home turns into a trap. Groping her way down the track of familiar objects and shapes, the character is trying to go back to the life that used to be her own.

THE MYSTERY OF MALAKKA MOUNTAIN jakub wronski POLAND_2012_20min_animation
“The Mystery of Malakka Mountain” introduces us to the prepossessing universe; shrouded in mystery, that cannot be mastered. A young Junior leads a life of a very special boy – he smokes and holds constant inner monologues on the most existential of issues…

ARS MORIENDI milosz marganski_POLAND_2013 7min_animation
To what extend can our live be planned? Do we ever let the coincidence influence our plans? “Ars moriendi” seeks to answer these questions.

BATHS tomek ducki_POLAND_2013_4minanimation
Two elderly swimmers meet at the baths for their ritual swimming. This time they are diving deeper than usual.

AFTERNOON izabela plucinska_POLAND_2013_3min animation
In her latest animation Izabela Plucinska returns to the motives that in 2006 inspired her to create her film Breakfast. Similarly, Afternoon is a two-part commentary on one single moment shared by a man and a woman.

AB OVO anita kwiatkowska – naqvi_POLAND_2013 5min_animation
Imagine your body stops being only yours. Someone starts to live inside you, changing the rules, taking more and more space, a milimeter every day, not caring that he almost makes you explode. Would you be able to love this thing and call it your child?

STEVEN AND THE BEETLE piotr loc hoang ngoc POLAND_2012_12min_animation
Is there a place for friendship in the world dominated by callous health rules?

Kl 21.00 – 22.00 WORLDMIX > 01

SUPERVENUS frederic doazan_2013_FRANCE_3min animation
A plastic surgeon creates in real time the new Venus.

LEAP IN TIME andreas reisenbauer_AUSTRIA_2010 8min_fiction
A young woman and an elder man on a park bench – but something is wrong – a filmic mediation about time and memory.

STOCKHOLM alvaro martin_SPAIN_2013_8minfiction
Tomas lives in a small trailer on the outskirts of the city. One day at school he is commissioned to write a short essay about his father…

THE DIVE delphine le courtois_FRANCE_2013_10min fiction
Thirteen years old and on the edge of adulthood, a boy on a diving board faces the unknown.

AQUARIUM philippe gregoire_CANADA_2013_15min fiction
The end of a relationship revels the emptiness left in woman’s life by the one she loves.

RAKES’ COMMITMENT santi veiga_SPAIN_2012_14min fiction
Rakes’ commitment is a parable, with a lighthearted and humorous tone, about social commitment and love, an unusual and memorable character, who needs to find something in life to commit to.