Get ready for a great session with 4 short films straight from our official selection! After each screening, we interview the team behind the film and get to know more about their process and vision.
Check out these cool short films and teams you can watch/meet this session:
Ayla Çekin Satijn | Live-Action | 07’04’’
Asli, a young Turkish woman, no longer lives in the village where she grew up. She has a girlfriend with whom she lives together and has built a life of her own. There, she doesn't have to define herself to anyone. She desperately wants to go to Irem's engagement party but is scared that her old friends won't accept her. She has the prejudice that they won't accept her and her sexuality.
Emmanuel Tenenbaum | Live-Action | 19’20’’
Tom is a young trader in a London bank, whose recent performance has put his job on the line. When the first plane hits the World Trade Centre on the morning of September 11th 2001, Tom, convinced that it's a terrorist attack and not an accident, jumps into the biggest trade of his life. Based on a true story, adapted from the best-selling novel Swimming with Sharks by Joris Luyendijk.
Kim de Ruyter | Animation | 02’54’’
An animated short depicting the tensions of looking- and being looked at with glances of rejection and the effects these glances have on one's self-image. A personal film after the creator's own experiences with so-called ''reprehensible glances''.
Delano Sookha | Live-Action | 05’00’’
On the edge of insanity, a young woman finds her moments of freedom and rebellion while shooting pebbles… Knowing the powers that hold her are fast approaching, she cherishes that short moment of rebellion.
Festus Toll | Documentary | 20’52’’
Moral questions and the search for identity come together in this short documentary about what ‘home’ means as a halve European, halve African child.
