The World We Live In

As the European Short Film Network (ESFN), Uppsala Short Film Festival runs the THIS IS SHORT streaming platform together with five other European short film festivals. For a change, the network is now showing a programme in the cinema with favourite films from the member festivals on the theme of The World We Live In.

Screened:
TUE 22/10, 21:00 FYRIS
SUN 27/10, 11:00 FYRIS

BETWEEN US

GoShort Festival (NL) 

A discomforting situation unfolds one late night in the streets of Brussels, when Ousmane and his sister Tiguidanké decide to ask a young couple passing by for help.

Netherlands, Belgium 2021 / 14:30 / Director: Simon van der Zande

WE ARE FINE

Vienna Shorts (AT) 

Mountains, lakes, a healthy world: a series of diapositives give us the biography of a nameless couple. The film feeds a private story back into its historical source and pits a bucolic wistfulness against the fragility of any portrayal of home.

Austria, Germany 2013 / 6:30 / Director: Michaela Taschek, Sandra Wollner, Britta Schoening

THE LODGE

Uppsala Kortfilmfestival (SE)

Henrik gathers some of his friends at a cottage by a lake, deep in the forest. How will these city people cope with nature? And how will they react to each other, far out in the wilderness?

Sweden 2005 / 12:30 / Director: Mårten Nilsson, Gunilla Heilborn

THE REVOLUTION HUNTER

IndieLisboa (PT) 

A Caça Revoluções explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.

Portugal, United Kingdom 2014 / 11:00 / Director: Margarida Rêgo

BEYOND BEACH

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE) 

A pre-apocalyptic pastel daydream. We aren’t relaxed, we aren’t carefree, we’re pathologically unable to care.

Germany 2018 / 14:00 / Director: Clara Winter, Miguel Ferráez

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