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European Film Awards 3

Discover 3 programs composed of awarded shorts coming out of the selections of famous film festivals such as Berlin, Venice or Rotterdam.

Symbolic Threats

M. Leinkauf, L. Henke, M. Wermke

Pays Germany
Genre Documentary
2015 @en - 15' - Color
Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or perhaps art? These were the theories that New York puzzled over last summer. How can one incident be interpreted in so many ways? By means of press reports, SYMBOLIC THREATS allows the public at large to express their extreme disparity of interpretation. Inspired by the heated debate over the two „White American Flags“ that suddenly appeared on the towers of New York City’s iconic Brooklyn Bridge, the film asks what kind of societal scope art has in the present day. What happens when threatened freedom reinstates art with the element of danger? Who or what makes it into a threat? Are we safe in the city? What is next?

Field Study

Eva Weber

Pays United Kingdom
Genre Fiction
2015 @en - 20' - Color
Martin, a shy Englishman, is in Poland doing a field study on river pollution when he sees a woman and her son bathe in the river. Later, he warns them not to bathe due to the presence of nearby factories.

Piknik

Jure Pavlovic

Pays Croatia
Genre Fiction
2015 @en - 13' - Color
Sarajevo, rush hour. Emir, 15 years old, accompanied by a social worker, is on his way to meet his father Safet for a weekend picnic at Igman, a semi-open penitentiary. Due to the heavy traffic they are late ...

Smile And The World Will Smile Back

Y. Gross, E. Tarabieh, et la famille al-Haddad

Pays Israel, Palestine
Genre Documentary
2015 @en - 20' - Color
One cold December night, Israeli soldiers come up to the al-Haddad family home in a Palestinian neighbourhood of Hebron and knock on the door. They’ve come to search the house. Diaa, the teenage son, reaches for the family’s video camera. As the search unfolds, a strange power struggle evolves, pitting gun against camera. The night grows colder, and the soldiers take Diaa outside and order him to face the wall. They won’t leave until he stops smiling.

Washingtonia

Konstantina Kotzamani

Pays Greece
Genre Fiction
2015 @en - 24' - Color
Washingtonia starts when the giraffe’s heart can no longer be heard. Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat.