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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 > 02
onsdag 21. mai fra kl 17.00 – 22.00

Kl 17.00 – 18.00 DOKUBAZAAR > 02

PLEASE, LOVE ME maja brnusakova_2012_slovakia
19 min_documentary
The story about one young woman who didn’t get love in her childhood. Now she has been looking for a big love on all wrong places and destroying her own life.

SURVEY ABOUT WOMEN mateusz glowacki_2012 poland_30 min_documentary
A film about women recounted from young men’s point of view. This humorous picture of young generation proves that the fairer sex is a riddle males still cannot guess.

REALITY 2.0 victor orozco ramirez_2012 germany/mexico_11 min_documentary
It was autumn when I arrived in Germany. I thought that in this exotic country I could distance myself a little bit from Mexico, but I was wrong. Drug traffickers managed to take me back in a ruthless way. A short animated documentary about the drug-related violence in Mexico.

Kl 18.00 – 19.00 ZOOM AUSTRIA > 02

DRAKE Director: Christoph Rainer_2006_5 min fiction/experiment
A car is driving down a deserted road and stops so that its passengers, a man, a woman and a child, could enjoy a fiery-red sky at sunset and cicadas’ chirping.

WALRUS Director: Christoph Rainer_2008_5 minfiction
A text message bursts out the inner despair of a young man.

RICHMOND Director: Christoph Rainer_2009_6 min documentary
A physical portrait of the human battle for recognition. Wrestling for a lifetime: Geri K. Richmond.

FOAL Director: Christoph Rainer_2011_15 minfiction
A young pregnant woman enthusiastically hurls herself into her new family, but her husband is worried and uncertain about their marriage.

UNTITLED BRAZIL PROJECT Director: Christoph Rainer_2012_12 minfiction/documentary
Inmidst hectic Rio de Janeiro a street musician, a young director, the massive statue of Christ and even a computer avatar interact in this multi-layered father-son tale.

LEAP IN TIME Director: Andreas Reisenbauer_2010
8 min_fiction
A young woman and an elder man on a park bench – but something is wrong – a filmic mediation about time and memory.

REQUIEM FOR A ROBOT Director: Christoph Rainer 2013_6 min_fiction
Tortured by a recurring nightmare, an alcoholic robot has nothing left but a corrupt memory. In order to find out what has happened, he returns to his creator.

Kl 19.00 – 20.00 BALKAN FILM BAZAAR > 02

HAPPY ENDING STORY vid mercun_SLOVENIA_2013 19 min_fiction
Film captures a young girl who tries to find reasons for her gloomy state of mind with hope for some greater meaning. Through the symbolism and metaphysical view we observe her inner transformation.

A SMALL TIME/SPACE DISCONTINUUM goce cvetanovski_MACEDONIA_2013_14 minfiction
An accidental discontinuum in time and space gives unexpected results.

THE LAST CRY OF THE DRAGON jamil hendi ROMANIA/GERMANY_2013_33 min_fiction
Toma arrives home after a long day’s work. He was laid off and has no idea how to let his wife know. She gives him a bitter welcome: the upstairs neighbor has been screaming all day and their one year old son doesn’t stop crying…

Kl 20.00 – 21.00 OSLOANIMA > ZOOM SWEDEN

TAKE TO THE WOODS
Out on the street, noisy traffic that never ends. Trying to close it out, but inside grows a monster who wants to beat its way out.
Sweden_2011_6min_animation/experiment
Director: Kristina Frank

NEXT DOOR LETTERS
Lilja and Sandra decide to play Melitta a prank by sending her a love letter signed with an invented name – a boy’s. When Lilja receives a letter in return the correspondence leads to something entirely else.
Sweden_2011_14min_animation
Director: Sascha Fülscher

HIDDEN
The sound is an interview with Giancarlo, a hidden refugee child, and the images are animated. Giancarlo has no permit to stay in Sweden and he describes how it is to be chased by the police. The film travels to Peru and to the school in Sweden but it mostly stays in the room where the interview took place. As an early and groundbreaking animated documentary Hidden has influenced many films all over the world.
Sweden_2002_8min_animation/documentary
Director: David Aronowitsch&Hanna Heilborn

BENJAMIN’S FLOWERS
Benjamin’s lack of love and company has placed him on the blurry borderline between fantasy and reality, where it can be hard to understand what’s real and not.
Sweden_2012_12min_animation
Director: Malin Erixon

SLAVES
The conversations with two freed children from southern Sudan, who were kidnapped by a government-supported militia and forced into slavery.
Sweden_2008_15min_animation/documentary
Director: David Aronowitsch&Hanna Heilborn

Kl 21.00 – 22.00 WORLDMIX > 02

SILENCES OF A GESTURE pedro sousa_PORTUGAL_2014_5 minexperiment/documentary
Capturing a moment that inevitably the time will erase.

DAYBREAK george ungar_2013_CANADA_7 minexperiment/animation
»Opening our eyes each new day, we stare for a few minutes into space, seeing the first hearing the first sounds. It is neither night nor day something in – between.«

MINERITA raul de la fuente_SPAIN/BOLIVIA_2013_27 mindocumentary
Cerro Rico in Potosi (Bolivia) is a lawless territory, characterised by brutal violence. The miners risk their lives every day, digging for silver and zinc in crumbling galleries. The ones that survive think they are entitled to anything and everything.

NGUTU felipe del olmo/daniel valledor_SPAIN_2012_5 minfiction
Ngutu is a newspaper street vendor who hardly sells any copies at all. Resentful, he starts watching the passerby closely in order to make progress in his business.

VIGIA marcel barelli_SWITZERLAND_2013_8 minanimation
»My grandfather is telling me a story that he made out, and asks me to make a film out of it: because of the pollution, pesticides, and other toxic substances, a bee decided to leave her hive, looking for a more comfortable place for her to move in.«

DJI. DEATH FAILS dmitri voloshin_MOLDAVIA_2012_4 minanimation
Dji is a terribly unlucky grim reaper. All he has to do is to collect the soul of a dying man.