Thursday 24th Oct, 7.30pm, Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery, Rawtenstall, BB4 6RE
Welcome to this award winning programme of short films and animations selected from this year’s Kinofilm European Short Film Festival in Manchester.
L’ACQUARIO (THE AQUARIUM)
Dir/Wri/Pro: Gianluca Zonta, Co-Wri: Alessandro Salentino, Pro: Camillo Esposito, Andrea Guidot, Serena Marconi, Italy, 2024, 14 min.
KINO BEST EU SHORT
A story that wants to address the risks and possibly drifts of the use of artificial intelligence, through a short film about love.
SOULMATE
Dir/Wri: Richard Fenwick, UK, 2023, 14 min
KINO BEST UK SHORT
Anna, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she’s forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.
TRCHOX TEREVNERI ERGY (THE SONG OF FLYING LEAVES)
Dir/Wri/Pro: Armine Anda, Wri: Roman Balayan, Armenia, 2023, 12:37 min. KINO KINO RUNNER-UP SHORT IN ANIMATION
Armenian Academy Award Winner, Best Animation.
A journey to a dream through an encounter between Suna, a twelve-year-old girl who uses leaves as a blanket, and an old man who possesses secret knowledge. A reflection on friendship between a father and daughter, a teacher and a student, an adult and a child, and the path that can run the impossible into possible.
CHICKEN GIRL
Wir/ Dir: Em Humble Pro: Milda Baginskaite, UK, 2023, 9:17 min
KINO AWARD FOR BEST NORTH WEST FILM
Chicken Girl can’t get golden eggs off her brain. With the assistance of her “better half”, Gary, This “college documentary” follows a deranged couple on their journey to gold.
INTERMISSION
2K5
Dir: Nicole Pott, Wir: Nicole Pott/ Maia Kipping, Pro: Tuli Litvak, UK, 2023, 15 min
KINO RUNNER-UP SHORT – FESTIVAL CHOICE
It’s 2005, Ellie and her ‘BFF 4lyf’, Zoe dream of the big stage. But, at twelve, for Ellie, it’s easy to be a dreamer and less easy to ignore the harsh realities as the only Black kid at school.
OYUNBOZAN (GAME, INTERUPTED)
Wir/Dir: Ilayda Iseri, Pro: Tolga Karacelik Fehmi Ozturk/, Turkey, 2023, 15 min. KINO BEST SHORT – IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
1979, Turkey: While the mood on the streets of capital Ankara is charged with tension shortly before the military coup, a young sister and brother experience subjective reality as the world around them changes.
COD & CHIPS
Dir/Wri: Matt Pidgeon, Pro: Deirdre Griffin, Ireland, 2023, 2 min
KINO HONOURABLE MENTION SHORT IN ANIMATION
A young man wants to end it all but is hampered by a nosey seagull. Can he find a way back from the edge?
LA VRAI DU FAUX (TRUE LIES)
Dir: Roni Levkowitz, France, 2023, 8:51 min
KINO RUNNER-UP – FESTIVAL CHOICE
In a world of lies, Julie, a young woman, takes her boyfriend, Anthony, to a specialist. This appointment is her last hope to cure him of the strange ailment tormenting him: he has stopped lying.
THE DANGEROUS BUSINESS OF CHEESE TOASTIES
Dir/Wri: Fin Heff, Pro: Lucas Teal, UK, 2024, 7:20 min
KINO RUNNER-UP – STUDENT SHORTS
Jon a broke university student starts a cheese toastie business to impress his girlfriend, but as the business grows, so does his ego. Rival food vendors, threatened by his success, work to shut down his business. In the end, Jon learns that what he needed was with him all along, as he shares a simple cheese toastie with his girlfriend.
Programme length 98 mins