ARTHOUSE CINEMA with BAR and BISTRO in the heart of NEUKÖLLN
The Shorts In Season Film Festival Summer Edition celebrates bold, brilliant European short films on the big screen. After each block, the host will run discussions with attending filmmakers.
The program highlights come from two Berlin-based filmmakers: Cadenza Zhao’s most personal work, ‘The Lover’, Dominika Gayny’s David Lynch inspired, emotionally charged ‘The Highway’, and Estonian filmmaker Steven Kristjan Tšoba’s surreal directorial debut ‘Mango’.
MANGO DIR Steven Kristjan Tšoba (10.00, Estonia)
Young and handsome playboy Kaarel goes on a first date to Tuule’s apartment. Tuule asks Kaarel to sing like a bird.
THE HIGHWAY DIR Dominika Gayny (5.18, Poland)
A woman speeds down the highway, struggling to slow down – not just in her car, but in love.
THE LOVER DIR Cadenza Zhao (15.00, Germany)
Haunted by grief, Daniel fills the void with casual sex, hoping to escape his loneliness. But when he can no longer ignore the truth, he’s forced to face the emotions he has been running from.
JULIENNE OF LIGHT BULBS DIR Dave Lojek (5.28, Germany)
In a magician's private stand-off, two practitioners must brave tricky challenges to demonstrate a hidden ability.
BELOW THE END DIR Joscha Bürger (6.58, Germany)
Emma dances in bunker-like catacombs at an illegal rave. She stumbles upon an American soldier who warns her of an impending danger.
JOURNEY DIR Lee O'Connor (11:00, Germany)
A three-part experimental short film based on the poems written by Luke O'Connor.
THE NEAPOLITAN PLOT DIR Jan Melkebeek (17:36, Belgium)
A band of petty mobsters with no love for each other is forced to sit through a comically tense emergency meeting
Come network with creative minds and experience a wide range of perspectives on the big screen, while supporting grassroots cinema and the deserving works of local and European filmmakers. Tickets are limited and priced at only €5 each.
The film series Transit – Stories of Travellers and Migrants explores the places where we were born and raised, as well as the places to which we have migrated and where we live today. We are filmmakers born in the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, Palestine, and Israel, who eventually found ourselves in Germany, Israel, or elsewhere: some by choice, others not. Some of our migrations are geographical and external; others are political, emotional, and internal. Some of the countries we come from no longer exist, while others are struggling for their future and self-definition.
Driven by a desire to understand the particular perspective of the migrant, we embark on journeys into our own pasts while taking a critical look at the present. We enter into dialogue with our own generation and with that of our parents, and cast a cautious glance toward the future.
In this film series, we bring our films (and ourselves) together and enter into conversation with one another, even when our narratives contradict each other, even when one person's migration and arrival marks the beginning of another's uprooting and exile.
Between departure and arrival, loss and belonging, this four-part film series invites audiences into a cinematic dialogue, between films, filmmakers, and perspectives. On every last Sunday of the month, in September, October, November and December. Screenings start at 11 am (the cinema opens its doors at 10 am), followed by an informal conversation in the cafe between the filmmakers and the curators of the series. The conversation will be held mostly in English.
Masel Tov Cocktail
Feature film by Arkadj Khaet (30 mins)
Superwoman
Documentary by Yael Kipper and Ronen Zaretsky (60 mins)
