We are happy to partner once again with the
Bengaluru International Short Film Festival (BISFF) in its 10th edition! Over 400 films in multiple languages from across the globe will be screened, with 3 competition sections, several film packages, seminars, talks and master classes. This year the festival goes online from
August 13 to 16, 2020.
The special German contribution to the Festival includes
Short Export - Made in Germany and a selection of films from The Cinema Tour of the
German Short Film Award nominees and winners.
Celebrating its 15th edition,
Short Export - Made in Germany, the successful German-French cooperative project between the Goethe-Institut Lyon, the International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, the AG Kurzfilm – German Short Film Association, German Films, and the KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg, presents a curated programme selected from the several hundred short films submitted to the International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand. Each year, this programme presents an exceptional and multi-facetted selection from recent German short film productions. This year's 85-minute SHORT EXPORT - Made in Germany programme presents six current films, selected from almost 600 German submissions in Clermont-Ferrand, which illustrate the artistic, stylistic and thematic diversity of German short film making. In a humorous and unconventional manner, the films deal with home, self-optimisation, strong women and weak men.
The
German Short Film Award is the most important award, endowed with the highest amount of money given to short films in Germany. It has been awarded since 1956 to outstanding short film productions. Since 1998 the nominees and award winners tour German cinemas every year.
Short Export 2020 – Edition 15
Screening: August 14, 2020, 6.00 PM IST
© Short Export 2020
ASCONA by Julius Dommer
Germany | 2019 | Documentary | 15'
A place that appears to have fallen out of time, that has remained unchanged since the 1950s. A miniature golf course becomes an analogy for society.
© Velikovskaya
UZI (Ties) by Dina Velikovskaya
Germany & Russia | 2019 | Animation | 7'
A young woman leaves home and sets off to see the world. But the parent-daughter relationship is so strong that, in the end, these ties become destructive.
© Benjamin Herkert
THE PROBAND by Hannes Schilling
Germany | 2019 | Fiction | 30'
The unemployed Dominique becomes a test subject in a clinic to finance the shared dream of a house in the countryside with his girlfriend Janine. A struggle for money and pride ensues as Dominique's body slowly reaches its limits.
© Short Export 2020
FACELIFT by Jan Riesenbeck, Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Germany | 2019 | Experimental Fiction | 7 min'
The greatest influencer ever? Your own subconscious mind!
A man introduces us to his surreal philosophy while his head develops a life of its own.
© Felix Herrmann
DIE TINTE TROCKNET NICHT (The Ink Doesn't Dry) by Felix Herrmann
Germany | 2019 | Experimental Fiction | 15'
Two friends, young German Muslim girls, share a flat. They go swimming together, observe the culture around them, the church, dating, relationships and each other. The film follows their paths as one of them gets to know someone, while the other goes on a journey of self-discovery.
© Hot Dog / Short Export 2020
HOT DOG by Marleen Valien, Alma Buddecke
Germany | 2019 | Fiction | 8'
Hannah is in a love-hate relationship with her vagina. She tells the story of how her sexuality has changed over time. Like that moment when she discovered the vibration function on her PlayStation controller.
German Short Film Award 2019
Screening: August 15, 2020, 6.00 PM IST
© Clara Winter & Miguel Ferráez
WE STILL SPEAK GERMAN TODAY by Clara Winter & Miguel Ferráez
Germany | 2019 | Experimental Film | German | 16'
German Short Film Award in Gold in the category for experimental films up to 30 minutes
A young man (co-director Miguel Ferráez) recites sentences from the integration course "Living in Germany" while standing in front of changing backgrounds of German representation abroad.
© Tuna Kaptan
ARE YOU LISTENING, MOTHER? by Tuna Kaptan
Germany | 2019 | Fiction | Kurdish, Turkish | 20'
Nomination in the category for fiction films up to 30 minutes
A Kurdish woman is sentenced to six years house arrest in a Turkish village. However, her elder son cannot stop her from constantly crossing the invisible boundary of the shackles.
© Victor Orozco Ramirez
32-RBIT by Victor Orozco Ramirez
Germany | 2018 | animation | Spanish | 8'
Nomination in the category for animated films up to 30 minutes
Victor Orozco Ramirez animates disturbing and insane scenes from the Internet with ghostly, surreal images. A voice-over tells of the promises of the virtual parallel world and the sobering realisation that not everything can be undone with CTRL+Z.
© Jürgen Heimüller
THE LAST FIVE MINUTES OF THE WORLD by Jürgen Heimüller
Germany | 2019 | Fiction | German | 8'
German Short Film Award in Gold for fiction films up to 10 minutes
The end of the world is imminent and instead of going to the supposedly safe bunker, a small, illustrious company arrives on a bench in front of a house to clear the air.
© Olga Delane
DOROTCHKA by Olga Delane
Germany | 2019 | documentary | Russian | 20'
Nomination in the category for documentary films up to 30 minutes
In a remote Siberian village where marriage is traditionally considered the highest happiness for women, lives 80-year-old Dorotchka. She is an archetypal babushka, always left alone. Sitting at the kitchen table, she reflects sharply and self-critically on love, remorse and loneliness.
*Please check the
festival website for the full schedule and screening times.
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