BALKAN FILM BAZAAR

tirsdag 12. april 2011
kl. 14:0016:00
Pris: Gratis

Tirsdag 12. april i Lillesalen, Chateau Neuf: BALKAN FILM BAZAAR – nyere kortfilmer fra balkanområdet. Også: Kl 22 spiller det norske bandet RAKIJA balkan influert musikk i BokCaféen. En balkansk helaften!

Onsdag 13. april i Klubbscenen, Chateau Neuf: OSLO SHORT FILM NIGHT 2011 – europeiske kortfilmer i alle sjangre. Legg merke til et spesielt fokus på Finske kortfilmer i år!

Kveldene kjøres i bolker. Gratis inngang hele kvelden!

 

 

PROGRAM BALKAN FILM BAZAAR:

16_00 > 18_00

DAY OUT_nikos apostolopoulos & katerina gerothanasi_15min_GREECE_2010_fiction A young boy is forbidden to go out from his parents´ flat.

DOG/RABBIT_nebojsa slijepcevic_13min_CROATIA_2011_animation Story about a starving stray dog and a fat pet rabbit and between them an obsessive and possessive…

HELIXBAUHAUS_goran trbuljak_7min_CROATIA_2010_animation/experiment A special “eye“ is watching us from above. Like from a satellite it zooms in the houses and smaller objects which some call trash…lying around bigger buildings. Corks, forks, cigarette butts…. become so interesting to this “eye” that it begins to explore who tossed or lost them… The “eye’s” attention is grabbed by the amount of chewing gums glued to the asphalt… Here it picks stories to be told…

ACCELERATION_andrej rehak_11min_CROATIA_2010_animation/experiment Through the scenario where two runners run at different speed frames, where one of them is a memory projection of another, which means that he is left in frozen space time loop without acceleration, through the phenomenon of expansion of space and time as a consequence of acceleration, i.e. constant speed change of accelerating frame of reference, the film explores the relationship between the systems of different velocities and difference in their perception. This film is a rebus which joins the world of the small (quantum mechanics) and the world of the big (theory of relativity) by introducing speed as a unique space-time scalar.

FIRST THING_martina lukanovic_7min_CROATIA_2010_animation A young woman goes through her morning coffee ritual. The space surrounding her is invisible, characteristic of the passage from dream into waking state. Only when the smell of coffee fills her home, the objects around her become real.

NINA, PLEASE_barbara vekaric_15min_CROATIA_2010_fiction After giving a birth to her daughter, Nina is not in the mood for sex. Their marriage is in crisis and they barely speak to each other. Nina loves Neven in a friendly way, and is grateful for everything that he affords her, but isn’t attracted to him anymore. Neven is a faithful husband, and doesn’t want to cheat on his wife, but his patience has a limit. When Nina’s brother Andrija and his girlfriend Kristina visit them for a weekend, Neven uses their presence to force Nina to do her “marriage obligations”.

THE GREEK CRISIS EXPLAINED_nomint_3min_GREECE_2010_animation “The Greek Crisis Explained” Trilogy is NOMINT’s interpretation of Greek Financial Crisis. And so the story goes: Greece, a spoiled young girl gets devoured by Dept; a humongous creepy monster. EU, the rusty super hero, cannot help poor – in full sense-, little Greece out own its own. Just as while all hope is lost, IMF is brought into play to help EU save the day. And they all (?) lived (?) happily (?) ever after…

BLOCK NR. 6_peter akar_23min_ROMANIA_2010_documentary In one of Northern-Romania’s evergreen forests, a five story high building stands by itself. It used to be a town, but as the mines were closed, people moved away, the buildings were demolished. Only this one stayed still with still 16 families living in there. The film observes their everyday life in this isolated place.

18_00 > 20_00

I SPEAK TRUE THINGS_marko tadic_6min_CROATIA_2010_animation Stories about the island circulated around Europe for centuries, telling that it was the promissed land of the saints, an eartly paradise where fairies and magicians lived. This is a

story of a life long search for the island.

THE COMPASSIONATE SAMARITAN_bobanpoposki_17min_MACEDONIA_2010_documentary Tragic story about a child’s life. Moments of fights with the destiny, days filled with pain and hope. Parents of a 9 year old boy suffering a rear disease reveal the story of their fight, how everything began and what they’ve been through. “Jovan won’t die. Jovan will be the most beautiful child, just as he was before”. His mother ends the documentary shading tears.

SUPERCOOL_goran radovanovic_5min_SERBIA_2010_animation While the house lady is away, the laundry machine tears the socks to shreds and the SuperCool brand glove comes to clear her mess and grows the socks back.

VIVE LA CRISE!_alexei gubenco_3min_ROMANIA_2009_animation Deforestation, property development, pollution, money, and a lot of food – all this is going to change… The economic crisis is coming!

THAT’S OUR CHILD_elma islamovic_15min_Bosnia&Herzegovina_2010_documentary Sasa, Jasenko and Alma are gay people living in Sarajevo and Tuzla, talking about their ‘coming out’ process, relationships with parents, friends and boyfriends/girlfriends. Sasa’s parents gave up on him when he told them he was gay. Alex is a transsexual, in the process of transition, and still needs to tell his father about process. Subject of gay people (and transsexual also) in Bosnia and Herzegovina is huge tabboo, and this film opens up the necessery dialogue between these people and those who are strogly against something they apparently don’t understand and don’t wish to understand.

RECYCLING_branko istvancic_15min_CROATIA_2010_fiction Early in the morning Roma minority family goes from the European city periphery to the city dump collecting goods. They found almost new garment, suit and tie. They put clothes on their eldest son Safet and together with the neighbours go to the most modern factory for recycling in the city. It is Safets’ first working day.

MR. CEVDETS’ CARNATION_selin togay_15min_TURKEY_2010_fiction Cevdet is the crazy man of the town. He falls in love with a plastic manqueen. But something goes in wrong way. And one day, he sees his lover with another man.

STANKA GOES HOME_maya vitkova_15min_BULGARIA_2010_fiction When Mrs. Stanka Atanasova, an elderly and sick woman, enters her block of flats, she discovers that the elevator is out of order. Stanka must use the stairs to get to the ninth floor, and what for most of us is a simple task, becomes a challenge for her.

SHADOW_bilgi diren gunes_7min_TURKEY_2010_experiment We usually put away our past memories in the dusty corners of our mind and forget about them for a while. When the time comes, these memories come crashing back and they play shadow games on our mind…

CHOCOLATE CAKE_dorotea vucic_15min_CROATIA_2010_fiction After her husband’s death, Višnja is left with no one to cook for. Her children have left and she cannot see any meaning in life anymore. Shortly after she meets a „petty“ thief Stalone and asks him for a favor. But her plan soon goes sour…

20_00 > 22_00

THE VEIL_omer cacan_8min_TURKEY_2009_fiction The Veil is a story of women who became mothers when they were still children themselves. A story of an endless cycle of desperation, that turns into a kind of destiny. It is a story of silent acquiescence. Cemile lives in a sod-roofed house in a distant village. Her story finishes in one long dark night. In one long and dark night, it starts over again.

HOW TO DEAL WITH NONSENSE_veronica solomon_5min_ROMANIA/GERMANY_2010_animation Does the world seem to you coherent and comprehensible? … But why struggle to understand when we can joyfully slide through so many layers of nonsense… The Spherical Mother Superior keeps the broth boiling and the steam rising, and all the rumors will be taken to the Great Hamster in the sky. And then…? Don’t worry, there’s a happy end.

THE SON_dimitris nakos_6min_GREECE_2010_fiction The parents of an eight years old boy, listening embarrassed to his questions, answer with a funny “non-frankness”. When the son became a father himself some years later, although his intention was for the opposite, the story is repeated.

LISTENING TO ISTANBUL_veysel cihan hizar_8min_TURKEY_2010_documentary We listen in silence as Istanbul tells her own tale, through her own sounds.

DERBY_paul negoescu_15min_ROMANIA/GERMANY_2010_fiction One night, Mircea, hears his fifteen year old daughter having sex with her boyfriend in her bedroom.

ANYTHING FOR YOU_toma waszarow_19min_BULGARIA_2009_fiction Ana thinks she knows exactly what she wants with men. And with life in general. Tonight though, her views will face a tough challenge. A meeting awaits her, and it will turn her world upside down.

PARTY_dalibor matanic_15min_CROATIA_2009_fiction «Party» is the story set in a sunny, bright summer day in Vukovar. Enjoying and living day like that it seams almost impossible to believe that the brightness and joy can be easily interrupted. «Party» is a part 2 of six short films dealing with intimacy of six different parts of planet Earth on the same day.

RICOCHET_emir kapetanovic_25min_Bosnia&Herzegovina_2010_documentary Short documentary about rap music scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

KL 22 KONSERT: RAKIJA in BokCaféen.