Shorts

Shorts

SINCERITY (SINCERIDAD), 2013
Spain| Dv, Color, 3' | Spanish
Filmmaker: Andrea Casaseca

Cast:Kiti Manver, Javier Laorden, Gerald B. Fillmore

David has to confess everything to his family after dinner. What he doesn’t know is the way this will affect them.

THE FIRST SWALLOW (LA PRIMERA GOLONDRINA), 2013
Spain| Blu-Ray, Color, 24' | Spanish
Filmmaker: Lorena Lluch

Cast:Jordi Ballester, María Almudéver

How long can you keep a secret? This question has been a nightmare for Alfredo for long years. Because, Alfredo was together with another woman in their bedroom soon after he got married to Marta and when Marta came home, he hid the woman in the wardrobe and the wardrobe swallowed the woman. As Alfredo seeks the answer of this question for many years, he is also afraid of the possibility that the woman he has hidden in the wardrobe might come out.

JULIANA, 2013
Spain| Blu-Ray, Color, 18' | Spanish
Filmmaker: Jana Herreros Narváez

Cast: Selica Torcal, Carmen Ruiz, Rosario Pardo, Goizalde Nuñez, Teresa Lozano

Juliana is in her eighties. Her daughters have decided that she has to live in a nursing home from then on. Her granddaughter Sara can do anything to make Juliana happy, even the most unexpected things...

THE SHELL(LA COQUILLE), 2011
Belgium| Blu-Ray, Black & White, Color, 12' | French

Sam finds a shell on his back one morning. The shell grows every single day. Would Sam be able to live with this strange and heavy burden?

THE STOWAWAY ( BLINDER PASSAGIER ), 2013
Switzerland| Blu-Ray, Color, 19' | German
Filmmaker: Maria Brendle

Cast: Silke Geertz, Mandana Schulz-Rinne, Aaron Hitz, Daniel Frei, Maximilian Kraus

When 8 years old Emma runs away from the orphanage, she thinks she found a perfect place to hide: the house where Evelyn, who is blind, lives. Emma is invisible but Evelyn isn’t unaware of the strange voices in her apartment. They play a long game of hide-and-seek with her young friend and in time, she sees the world through her eyes...

HAIR ( POILS), 2013
Belgium| Blu-Ray, Color, 8' | No Diaogue
Filmmaker: Delphine Hermans

Cast: Laurent Caron, Donatienne De Coster, Dimitri Kimplaire, Simon Medard

Hair lovers, seducements, disappointments and fantasies...

PERSONAL IMAGES: PERSONAL SEMIOTICS OF WAR(KİŞİSEL İMGELER: SAVAŞIN KİŞİSEL GÖSTERGELERİ), 2013
Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Blu-Ray, Color, 10' | Bosnian
Filmmaker: Maša Hilčišin Dervišević

Personal Images: Personal Semiotics of War is an experimental film in which the director reflects her experiences about the war by documents and memories she collected in 1992-1995. The starting of war, her father being interrogated, starvation days of hiding in basements, far away from the world, love stories, separations... Staying in Bosnia or leaving...

SCISSORS ( FORBICI), 2012
Italy | Blu-Ray, Color, Black & White, 4' | Italian
Filmmaker: Maria Di Razza

The reenactment of the murder of a women in 2nd July 2012.

MUINA ( MUINA), 2013
Spain| Blu-Ray, Color, 7' | No Dialogue

Filmmaker:Jo Graell

Cast: Sofie Pinzou, Dave Dee

Munia is a film about fear that captures us, anger fed by this fear and the courage to live with this anger...

CACHE (VEŞARTİ ), 2013
Turkey| Blu-Ray, Color, 12' | Kurdish

Filmmaker: Zula Hikayeler Ekibi

Cast:Beyza Karadaş, Dilan Özdoğan, Servet Hevedanlı

Eight years old Berçem, her teenage sister Dilan and their father try to solve the problems to normalize their life, in a home where the routine is disturbed...

AHORA NO( AHORA NO), 2013
Spain, United Kingdom| Blu-Ray, Color, 17' | Spanish

Filmmaker: Elia Ballesteros, Kate Campbell

Cast: Gloria Muñoz, Ana Gete, Jorge Doménech, María José Moreno, Paula Gavilán, Gloria Bartolomé

Spain 1977. Franco is dead but the ghost of fascism is around. Colonel Asensio is celebrating his birthday with friends and family. Everything goes well until an unexpected woman changes the celebrations and all their lives...

VIOLETTE LEDUC: IN PURSUIT OF LOVE ( VIOLETTE LEDUC: LA CHASSE A L'AMOUR), 2013
France| Blu-Ray, Color, 56' | French

Filmmaker: Esther Hoffenberg

This autobiography inspired by the poetic style of writer Violette Leduc is a sincere greeting to this timeless female writer who has fought against fifties’ taboos like lesbianism, abortion, bastardy, inviting to freedom and dreams with her work.

FRAMED (IM RAHMEN), 2013
Germany| DigiBeta, Color, 4' | No Dialogue

Filmmaker: Evgenia Gostrer

An animation on how much we love ourselves, how we want to look, our limits and how far we can go…

LITTLE VULVAH AND HER CLITORAL AWARENESS(KÜÇÜK VULVA VE KLİTORAL FARKINDALIĞI), 2013
Denmark | Blu-Ray, Renkli, 5' | No Dialogue

Filmmaker: Sara Koppel

A little girl is woken up by the bird of pleasure helping her put on her dress. After a travel during which she feels nature and seasons, she turns into a young woman and finds herself in a pleasure room she hasn’t been in before.

AUNTY(TEYZE), 2013
Turkey | Blu-Ray, Color, 05'44'' | Turkish

Filmmaker: Fulya Tokaoğlu

A woman in a bathing suit, going to the pool, has to prove herself that she can use the jumping board.

PAIN (SOUFFRE ), 2012
FranCE| Blu-Ray, Color, 25' | French

Filmmaker: Pamela Varela

Cast: Marion Mitterhammer, Astrid Adverbe, Alain Martin

Marta is a worker in a factory about to be closed. She is in a long-time struggle with others. As their hopes blossom, Marta goes to the factory for one last struggle, under the burning sun.

I, YOU, HER(BEN, SEN, O), 2013
Turkey| Blu-Ray, Color, 17' | Turkish

Filmmaker: Zeynep Oral

I, You, Her... Two transsexual women who felt they were born in wrong bodies tell about the injustices they face when they try to survive without giving up their identities.

SECRET SUBJECT(GİZLİ ÖZNE), 2013
Turkey| Blu-Ray, Color, 39' | Turkish

Filmmaker: Çağnur Öztürk

Secret Subject is a documentary on Ayta Sözeri who is appreciated as the first trans woman acting for a long time in a TV serial but has to cope with the daily discrimination she faces because of her sexual identity and wants to exist as herself in all parts of life.

TWO SOULS (DOS ALMAS), 2013
ABD| Blu-Ray, Color, 15' | Spanish

Filmmaker:Danielle Villegas

Cast: Jennifer Lisa Vest, Madelyn Rosenberg

It is 1850 and patriarchy is prevalent all over. A native woman dresses as a man to protect herself. As she searches for food to survive, she meets a woman who helps her and this meeting turns into a worldly, sensual clash in a mystical atmosphere.

Past Programs
12th International Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels
March 15–23, 2014