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Best of European Film Awards
from Kortfilmfestival Leuven 2022 - Catalogue
by Cinema ZED • DOCVILLE • Kortfilmfestival Leuven • DALTON • Zomerfilms
The European Film Awards (EFA) - The European Oscars if you will - are gaining more and more prestige over the last few decades. Some leading film festivals, including Kortfilmfestival Leuven, decide which short films are eligible for an EFA. From that longlist, the organisation then chooses five nominees. Who eventually wins, will become clear on December 10th. A part of the candidates will be shown in two programmes: block 1 encompasses the five short films, who will have gained a final nomination, block 2 the personal favourites from the longlist selected for you by Kortfilmfestival Leuven.
Will My Parents Come to See Me
Mo Harawe • Austria, Germany, Somalia • 2022 • 28 min. What would he like for his last meal? “Meat and a Coke”, the young inmate replies. Familiar with all the procedures, the prison guard accompanies him through his final day, towards the inevitable. “Will my parents come to see me?” he asks quietly.
Contact: office@sixpackfilm.com
Love, Dad
Diana Cam Van Nguyen • Czech Republic, Slovakia • 2021 • 13 min. A daughter finds the letters her father once wrote her from prison. Now, fifteen years later, they are estranged from each other.
Contact: laure.goasguen@miyu.fr
Techno, Mama
Saulius Baradinskas • Lithuania • 2021 • 18 min. Nikita is crazy about techno music and dreams of going to a famous club in Berlin. His mother, however, is unaware of his big dream. Their mutual expectations will inevitably clash.
Production: Viktorija Seniut • DOP: Vytautas Katkus • Editing: Karolis Labutis • Music: Rob Meyer • Cast: Motiejus Aškelovičius, Neringa Varnelytė • Contact: flavio.armone@lightsonfilm.org
Babičino seksualno življenje
(Granny's Sexual Life)
Émilie Pigeard, Urška Djukić • Slovenia, France • 2021 • 13 min. Four old women reflect on memories of their youth and on how different the relationships between men and women were back then. Their voices merge into one single voice, that of grandmother Vera, who tells her story in proper detail.
Production: Boštjan Virc, Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago, Olivier Cantherin • Script: Maria Bohr, Urška Djukić • Music: Tomaž Grom • Contact: lc@varicoloured.eu
Ice Merchants
João Gonzalez • Portugal • 2022 • 14 min. A father and son live in a house against a steep, icy mountainside. Every day they descend to the village on the ground to sell the ice they've produced overnight. They are satisfied with their daily routine, until it is unexpectedly interrupted.
Production: Bruno Caetano, Michaël Proença • Script: João Gonzalez • Editing: João Gonzalez • Music: João Gonzalez • Contact: emanuel@curtas.pt
Best of European Film Awards Programme 2
Uogos
(Cherries)
Vytautas Katkus • Lithuania • 2022 • 15 min. A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry-picking in the garden. Though the father is in no hurry to finish the task. He mostly wants to catch up with his son.
Production: Marija Razgutė • DOP: Simonas Glinskis • Script: Vytautas Katkus • Editing: Laurynas Bareisa • Cast: Viktoras Vytautas, Vytautas Katkus • Contact: flavio.armone@lightsonfilm.org
Buurman Abdi
(Neighbour Abdi)
Douwe Dijkstra • The Netherlands • 2022 • 29 min. How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and social worker. With the help of his neighbour, filmmaker Douwe, he re-enacts his life through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio.
DOP: Douwe Dijkstra • Contact: info@squareeyesfilm.com
Affairs of the Art
Joanna Quin • United Kingdom, Canada • 2021 • 16 min. Factory worker Beryl is obsessed with drawing, a fixation that dominates the entire household. Except for her husband, the whole family is addicted to something: her son is a technical geek and her sister a fanatically narcissistic taxidermist. Obsession runs in the family’s DNA.
Script: Les Mills • Editing: Mia rose Goddard • Contact: e.seguin@nfb.ca
Memoir of a Veering Storm
Sofia Georgovassili • Greece • 2022 • 14 min. Α mother drives a girl to school in the morning and picks up a woman at the end of the school day. Fifteen-year-old Anna sneaks out of school and with the help of her boyfriend visits a hospital. There, she has to face an event that will jolt her into adulthood.
Production: Sofia Georgovassili, Stelios Cotionis • DOP: Tudor Panduru • Editing: Giorgos Zafeiris • Music: Jay Glass Dubs • Cast: Daphne Peel, Konstantinos Sideris, Maria Kallimani • Contact: flavio.armone@lightsonfilm.org
Папині кросівки (Dad's Sneakers)
Olha Zhurba • Ukraine • 2021 • 19 min. 13-year-old Sasha's life is going to change completely. He is about to be adopted by an American family. Today he will move to another country forever, but something is holding him back.
Production: Maxym Asadchiy, Sashko Chubko • Cast: Bohdan ZENCHENKO, Corie ANN JASON, Dmytro BUCHEK, Ihor OLIYNYK, Olga LYUBAROVA • Contact: zhurbafilms@gamil.com
