KINOFILM Festival Presents EURO CINE WEST PROGRAMME
Tues 13th May, 8:15pm at Mini Cini, Ducie Street Warehouse
Euro Cine – West offers a rich collection of shorts from across Western Europe, capturing the quirks, beauty, and drama of everyday life. From late-night metro encounters to Irish farmyards, Dutch hauntings to Finnish highways, this programme is a vibrant tour of the region’s cinematic talents.
CLOSED EYES
Dir/Wri/Prod: Victoria Koberstein, Germany, 2024, 9:50 min
In the late nineties, the sisters Lilith and Medea grow up under the weight of a strict parental home. Their relationship is driven by rivalry until one of their conflicts escalates violently, forcing Medea to make a decision: whether to protect or expose her younger sister.
PRAYER ON THE SEA
Dir/Wri: Martin Gerigk, Germany, 2024, 6:30 min
A composer recounts a dream from his youth that inspired the slow movement of his first string quartet, Prayer of the Sea. The dream, depicting a peaceful dissolution into the sea and wind, symbolized his future death. Decades later, rediscovering a drawing from the quartet’s premiere – perfectly capturing the dream’s essence – revived its emotions.
CALF
Dir/Wri: Jamie O’ Rourke, Prod: Gregory Burrowes, Ireland, 2023, 14:00 min
A sinister farm accident leaves Cáit with a terrible decision to make.
In this shocking and stylistically assured drama a calf is about to be born. The accident that suddenly strikes the farm illuminates the trauma which has been tucked away and deafened by the noise of the farm and its constant need for tending.
DATE NIGHT
Dir/Wri/Prod: Roman Roth, Germany, 2024, 12:22 min
Relationships are changing these days: Open relationships? Affairs? Yes or no? And if so, what rules apply? The short comedy “Date Night” delves into this in more detail. But things turn out differently.
DORMANT
Dir/Wri/Prod: Niels Bourgonje, Netherlands, 2024, 8:51 min
A man cares for his comatose wife at home. After a transgression, he fears something sinister has awakened in her.
ULTRAPOLICE
Dir/Wri/Prod: Thibault Fauconnet, France, 2024, 5:30 min
At a crime scene, a forensic man finds out that one of his colleagues erase an evidence. Caught red handed, he chases his colleague who’s running away.
THIS IS NOT A CHARACTER, THIS IS A BETRAYAL
Dir: Romina Kuper, Wri: Romina Kuper, Max Lindemann, Prod: Katharina Mumper, Maxine Paatzsch, Isabella Muller de Paula, Germany, 2024, 13:20 min
An acclaimed debut novel. A reading at the Stuttgart Literaturhaus. A car ride through the Ruhr region into the Swabian province. A mother and her son, separated by the shame of their origins.
BETWEEN THE LINES
Dir/Wri: Niklas Pollmann, Austria, 2024, 19:59 min
Your place or mine? A fleeting acquaintance can be exciting, adventurous, funny, but also opaque or even threatening. Shot in a single shot, “Between The Lines” explores the nuances of such a situation. Between the tracks of an underground station, the outlines of two people and their stories slowly emerge.
PENA’S SPECIAL HAULING
Dir/Wri/Prod: Anssi Kasitonni, Finland, 2024, 11:42 min
Pena has been a truck driver for five decades. Recently his memory hasn´t been so good and has caused him a few problems here and there. Finally the law enforcement have caught up with him as well. Luckily he has friends and family who support him during his journey as a hauler who drives only on weekends.
Total Runtime: 01:42:24
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