A brilliant Turkish short film about government efforts to control folk music. Directed by Sinan Çetin.
Showing posts with label short movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short movies. Show all posts
The Last Farm
The Last Farm (Síðasti bærinn) is a 2005 Icelandic short film. It was directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson, and stars Icelandic actor Jón Sigurbjörnsson. Kjartan Sveinsson, the keyboardist for Sigur Rós, composed the music. Excellent!
Official Website
Check the comments to listen to the soundtrack.
Watch:
Official Website
Check the comments to listen to the soundtrack.
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Walled Horizons
Twenty years since the Berlin Wall came down, there are many places in the world where walls and barriers are still standing (excellent report by the BBC).
Today's post is a short film/documentary about the shameful wall built by the Israeli government at the West Bank, which created a huge prison in Gaza. Walled Horizons is narrated by and features Roger Waters, who visits the Wall in the Palestinian territories and comments on his observations as a musician and a songwriter who has written on walls. The film explores how Palestinians in urban and rural areas have been impacted by the Walls construction since the International Court of Justices Advisory Opinion in 2004, which declared the Wall's route in the West Bank illegal. Several senior Israeli security officials are interviewed in the film, two of whom were directly responsible for planning the Wall route and who explain the Israeli position for constructing it. The film was made by the United Nations Jerusalem.
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Today's post is a short film/documentary about the shameful wall built by the Israeli government at the West Bank, which created a huge prison in Gaza. Walled Horizons is narrated by and features Roger Waters, who visits the Wall in the Palestinian territories and comments on his observations as a musician and a songwriter who has written on walls. The film explores how Palestinians in urban and rural areas have been impacted by the Walls construction since the International Court of Justices Advisory Opinion in 2004, which declared the Wall's route in the West Bank illegal. Several senior Israeli security officials are interviewed in the film, two of whom were directly responsible for planning the Wall route and who explain the Israeli position for constructing it. The film was made by the United Nations Jerusalem.
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La Maison en petits cubes
La Maison en petits cubes is a Japanese animated short film created by Kunio Katō, with music by Kondo Kenji. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2009. A brilliant film!
More info:
IMDb
Wikipedia
Anime News Network
More info:
IMDb
Wikipedia
Anime News Network
The Cat Piano
In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren. When a mysterious dark figure emerges, kidnapping the town’s singers for his twisted musical plans, the poet must save his muse and put an end to the nefarious tune that threatens to destroy the city.The Cat Piano is a brilliant animated short film directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson. It features the voice of Nick Cave narrating a poem written by Eddie White. The poem blends Jack Kerouac inspired beat poetry with the romantic and haunting poems of Edgar Allen Poe.
Everyone must watch this one! Absolutely brilliant!
More info:
The Cat Piano official website
The poem
Wikipedia
The People's Republic of Animation (production)
IMDb
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Errant Home
Errant Home is a film about exile and longing for home. It is an impressionist portrait of Iraq through the eyes of four well-known Iraqi artists and intellectuals: an Iraq of culture, art, diversity, tolerance, daily pleasures, perfumes and food. An Iraq lost for the time being, but not forever. Forced into exile, the protagonists - the sculptor Mohamad Ghani Hekmat, the artist Balasem Mohamad, the journalist Maysoon Al-Mousawi and Amal Al-Khodairy patron of the arts - talk, remember and dream of return.
A great short film directed by Nada Doumani.
Watch with greek subtitles at TVXS.gr
A great short film directed by Nada Doumani.
Watch with greek subtitles at TVXS.gr
Ilha das Flores - Isle of Flowers
A classic 1989 short movie/documentary by Jorge Furtado. It tracks the path of a tomato from garden to dump with the help of a monotone voiceover and a collection of bizarre images. While a very humorous film, the message it delivers about how human beings treat each other is anything but such. With sincere irony, Furtado shows freedom is the problem of many people in a world in which only money and property count. One of the most important short movies ever made!More info:
Wikipedia
IMDb
TVXS (greek subtitles)
Τι είναι αυτό; (What is that?)
Father and son are sitting on a bench. Suddenly a sparrow lands across them. A touching short movie directed by Constantin Pilavios
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