Within the framework of the "Weeks of the German language"
Following the great success of last year’s Oberhausen International Short Film Festival Tour in Cyprus, ARTos Foundation in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut are proud to welcome the screening of the programs ‘Award winners 2018’ on the 23rd of October and ‘Best of International Competition’ on the 24th of October at 20:00, at ARTos Foundation.
In the course of six decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has developed into one of the most highly acclaimed cultural events worldwide – a place where renowned figures like Agnès Varda, Martin Scorsese, Alexander Kluge and Werner Herzog first showed their films. Oberhausen is the world’s oldest short film festival and in the meantime also enjoys an excellent standing in the art scene, where short films and videos play an increasingly important role today.
Screening 23 October
In this selection of the prizewinners at the 2018 Festival, shower scenes in Oliver Pietsch‘s exceptional found footage work first transport us into the strange heart of cinema. In Eva Stefani‘s film, an aimless drive through Athens intensifies into a unique and atmospheric vision of the city. Um filme para Ehuana observes the life of a Yanomami community in the Brazilian rainforest. In melancholy images and with a laconic voice-over, Alexandra Gulea portrays a decrepit Romanian industrial area, in which mothers have left their children behind to work in the West. Finally, the epic Magnificent Obsession uses the example of contemporary China to tell about the quest for enlightenment and about the relationship between the individual and the community and how the individual can live in its reality.
Screening 24 October
This programme, which includes some of the most interesting works from the 2018 International Competition, focuses on remembrance and personal or political farewells. While Murata Tomoyasu‘s puppet animation about the 2011 tsunami brings together present and past in a constant series of new combinations, the photo film Season of Goodbyes features a letter to a beloved person that explores connectedness and separation that accompany by life and loss. Naomi van Niekerk, on the other hand, remembers her mother between red wine and Puccini. Kiri Dalena revives the story of a Philippine rebel who drowned years ago by entering the water herself as an actively committed citizen. In Anssi Kasitonni‘s fairytale-like, picaresque work, nonsense comes into its own. At the end, the Brazilian Lobo Mauro combines the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, labour reforms and the legendary 1:7 defeat at the 2014 football World Cup to create a bitter and angry assessment of the current state of the nation.
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