A crush on German Short Films

The Goethe-Institut Cyprus in collaboration with the ARTos Foundation are organizing the screening “A crush on German Short Films”, the German participating films at the 7th International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand 2012. The screening will take place on Thursday, 31st of May, at 21:00 at the ARTos Foundation. Film lovers will be pleased to watch from short documentaries, to experimental animations and fictional shorts.

Information on the films that will be screened follows:

PAULINA
Lynn Kossler | Germany 2011 | fiction | 24’
German dialogue, English subtitles
Anna feels like an alien. She blushes all the time and is basically forced to avoid situations in which she changes colour. However, when she meets Paulina one night, she cannot rely on her avoidance strategies.

DIE FLIEGEN (THE BIRDS II)
THE FLIES (The Birds II)
Susann Maria Hempel | Germany 2010
experimental | 7’ | no dialogue
Filmed at the Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology in Jena, THE FLIES offers an experimental sequel to Hitchcock’s The Birds.

FLIEHKRAFT
CENTRIFUGAL FORCE
Marie Elisa Scheidt, Alexandra Wesolowski
Germany 2011 | documentary | 17’
German dialogue, English subtitles
Matthias spent five months in solitary confinement, sentenced by the GDR authorities. Deprived of sleep and social contact he lived on his mere daydreams.

DAS HAUS
THE HOUSE
David Buob | Germany 2011 | animation | 7’
no dialogue
This little girl’s dream is to care for her grandmother, but her aunt and mother do not let her do so. There is only one way out.

ARMADINGEN
Philipp Kδίbohrer | Germany 2011 | fiction
23’ | German dialogue, English subtitles
Walter lives with Helga on an isolated farm. When he hears news of an asteroid threatening to collide into the earth, he decides to make this the best last day possible for his wife.

HOW TO RAISE THE MOON
Anja Struck | Germany, Denmark 2011
animation, experimental | 9’ | no dialogue
In a place of condensed time, stagnant things become alive and Sleep (Fox) and Death (Bunny) are fighting over a sleeping woman’s life.

SINFONIE DER DUMPFBACKEN
SYMPHONY OF FOOLS
Volker Heymann | Germany 2011 | fiction | 5’
German dialogue, English subtitles
During a meeting, six salesmen have to face the problem that they are not selling enough of their nodding dog toys. Stupid nodding is the only answer.

THE CENTRIFUGE BRAIN PROJECT
Till Nowak | Germany 2011 | fiction | 7’
German dialogue, English subtitles
The Centrifuge Brain Project is a scientific experiment started in the 1970s. Dr Laslowicz explains the project that involves amusement park rides supposed to enhance human brain capacity.