Short fiction film competition – part I
WEDNESDAY, 05.03.2025, 10:00-12:00 (JCK, ST. Bankowa 28/30)
COMPLICATIONS
An intimate cam session unexpectedly turns into a suspenseful, life-and-death situation.
NOR, 2023, 14:00, dir./ prod. Ivar Aase
THE PROFESSIONAL PARENT
Ingrid lives in a small village in eastern Slovakia, where the Roma population is the victim of a tenacious stigma. Despite this, Ingrid decides to become the legal representative of a young Roma girl, which upsets the fragile balance of her home.
SVK, 2024, 14:30, dir. Erik Jasaň, prod. Marian Crisan, Erik Jasaň
MY FATHER’S SON
Although they don’t see each other often, Doma invites his half-brother Ádám to a fancy café. He claims their father wants to get back together with Ádám’s mother, and now they can expose them. Ádám doesn’t believe him, but the parents do turn up and a strange family portrait begins to unfold.
HUN, Apám fia, 2025, 12:53, dir. Vilmos Heim, prod. Gábor Osváth, Dániel Deák
THE MOULD
A father confronts some problems with his only son after death of his wife, and tries to raise him in his own way.
IRN, 2024, 24:00, dir. Mohammadreza Nourmandipour, prod. Leila Haghani, Mohammadreza Nourmandipour
PAVANE
For 30 years, Cora has woken up every morning at 4am to go work at the factory and raise her daughter, Alex, gone to Paris, much to Cora’s regret, to try to become a filmmaker. As Cora is about to retire, she would very much like Alex to finally abandon this risky choice, but Alex is preparing her first film.
FRA/BEL, 2023, 25:00, dir. Pauline Gay, prod. Nathalie Dennes
BLUR
A woman, to ease her husband’s conscience before his passing, presents a borrowed child in place of their own.
IRN, Taari, 2024, 14:55, dir. Sahrafatemeh Asadollahi, prod. Hassan Biouk Khan, Shabnam Shokravi
