European Film Awards 3

3 programma’s zijn gewijd aan films die prijzen weggekaapt hebben in grote festivals zoals di van Berlijn, Venetië of Rotterdam.

Berik
Daniel Joseph Borgman
Denmark
2010 – 16’00″ – Color

Berik, a short drama about friendship and understanding, takes place in Semey, Kazakhstan. Berik, 33, blind and deformed due to radiation poisoning, spends his days at home alone, while his brother is at work. That is until Adil, 11, the smallest and least popular of the kids in the apartment block, turns up on Berik’s doorstep looking for the local bully’s football, which he has lost.

Paparazzi
Piotr Bernaś
Poland
2011 – 33’00″ – Color

PAPARAZZI is about a world in which values are confused and rules are flexible – it shows that there is always a second chance, to make up one’s mind about what kind of person to be tomorrow.

ÅTERFÖDELSEN (The Unliving)
Hugo Lilja
Sweden
2011 – 28’00″ – Color

Thirty years after a zombie outbreak, people have started taming the zombies and using them as a cheap workforce. A young couple, Katrine and Mark, struggle with the tedious everyday life of dirty zombie catching, bloody lobotomy experiments and a relationship on the verge of falling apart.

SMÅ BARN, STORA ORD (Little children big words)
Lisa James Larsson
Sweden
2009 – 12’00″ – Color

When it’s Alex’s turn to tell his seven year old class mates what he wants to be when he grows up an uncomfortable discussion begins about the meaning of an unknown but loaded word. The teacher’s explanation reveals her own story – a story of victim and offender.