27. International Film Festival ZOOM – ZBLIŻENIA 04 – 10.03.2024 / Jelenia Góra / Poland

Short fiction film competition – part II

Short fiction film competition – part II

WEDNESDAY, 08.03.2023, 12:20-14:25 (LOT CINEMA, st. POCZTOWA 11)
9 Kierre (Spiral) – Salla Sorru, Eva-Maria Koskinen (FIN)

SPIRAL

After not seeing each other for years, Anna and her former school bully, Jasmine, meet by coincidence when Jasmine brings her daughter to Anna’s dance class. The encounter turns a cheerful dance class into a battle for status where emotions blur Anna’s judgment.

FIN, Kierre, 18:00, 2022, dir. Salla Sorru, Eva-Maria Koskinen, prod. Paria Eskandari

THE OTHER

Ivan is turning 18 years old. After a long night of celebration with his friends he returns home intending to sleep late, but his mother wakes him up to congratulate him and give him a watch as a gift. Ivan gets angry, sends his mother out of the room and finally runs away from home.  After a long trip he enters a house looking for an object that he was promised years ago.

ESP, El Otro , 18:00, 2022, dir.Marc Gázquez, prod. Sandra Soriano Travé

 

 

10 El Otro (THE OTHER) – Marc Gázquez (ESP)
11 Solo (Solitude) – Alberto Gross Molo (ESP)

SOLO

Alone and strangled, Fran has to deal with his father’s constant need for attention and an oppressive job. But when his son Dani is expelled from school, he is overwhelmed. Trying to solve the problems the teenager gets into, Fran is becoming more and more absent. His son’s behaviour is pushing him to the limit, not understanding that Dani is just asking for his attention.

ESP, Solitude, 20:00, 2022, dir. Alberto Gross Molo, prod. Laura Egidos Plaja, David Aymerich

 

BLACK SOLDIER

France, 1986. When Hughes, a young man from the French West Indies, discovers the new Freetime ad, it is a shock : France, the country where he was born, to which he owes his life and his identity, considers him a cannibal. This is the start of a radical awareness fueled by anger and frustration.

FRA, 26:59, 2021, dir. Jimmy Laporal-Trésor , prod. Manuel Chiche, Nicolas Blanc, Violaine Barbaroux, Sarah Egry

12 Black Soldier – Jimmy Laporal-Trésor (FRA)
13 La Poule Noire (The Black Hen) –Marion Clauzel (FRA)

THE BLACK HEN

In the warmth of the holiday home, four-year-old Auguste feels abandoned by his mother and turns his attention to the black hen. He goes to the henhouse every morning, as early as possible, to be the first to pick up the egg. But one day, the nest remains desperately empty…

FRA, La Poule Noire, 13:00, 2022, dir. Marion Clauzel, prod. Archibald Martin

 

THE RED SUITCASE

An Iranian teenager decides to take off her Hijab in a life changing situation.

LUX, 17:30, 2022, dir./ prod. Cyrus Neshvad

14 The Red Suitcase – CYRUS NESHVAD (LUX)
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