Film festival
Mini Film Festival
Mini Film Festival is the longest running short film festival in Malaysia annually held by the Cinematography Programme, Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts, University Malaysia Sarawak.
The festival is taking place for the 17th time with the theme IN TIME OF CRISIS.
Message from the festival Announcement
As a means of creative expression that draws heavily from reality, portraying scenarios that reflect the everyday struggles and aspirations of the lives of viewers, film plays an important role as a medium of entertainment, information and education and as a catalyst for social change. This is even truer with the impacts brought by the enduring pandemic changing the political-socio-economic dynamics worldwide. The role of filmmakers in interpreting, documenting and discerning the dynamics and changes happening in time of crisis is undoubtedly needed. Thus, with the theme of this year's 17th Mini Film Festival IN TIME OF CRISIS, let's explore the infinite possibilities of inspirations that films could bring to us.
Mini Film Fest jury
Maike Mia Höhne is a German film director, film curator and professor of film at UE Europe. She is a mother of two children and lives and works in Hamburg.
From 1994 to 1999 she studied visual communication, specialising in film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and in Havana, Cuba.
Since 2001 she has worked as a freelance author, lecturer, curator, producer, photographer and director. For ARTE she produces the magazine KURZSCHLUSS with Lilli Thalgott. Her films are distributed by Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst and Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg. From 2007 to 2019 she was the curator and head of the short film section Berlinale Shorts at the Berlinale. She has worked as a programmer, moderator and juror for international festivals, film funding bodies and institutes for more than 20 years. In 2019 she took over the artistic direction at the Short Film Festival Hamburg. She is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg.
KURZ.FILM.TOUR selection
Available in malaysia on 22 july 2021 from 6pm to midnight
Meeting by Jannis Alexander Kiefer
Germany 2020 • fiction film • German • 9 min.
German Short Film Award in Gold in the fiction category up to 10 minuntes.
3 minutes before the online meeting: The opening gag is well thought out, the bottle in the pants is firmly in place and the internet connection is premium - what could possibly go wrong?
Pannónia Dicsérete/ Land of Glory by Borbála Nagy
Germany 2020 • fiction film • Hungarian w. German ST • 27 min.
German Short Film Award in Gold in the fiction category of more than 10 to 30 minutes.
Amidst the confusion triggered by the Prime Minister's visit to an average school in Hungary, the student Márti is confronted with a moral dilemma.
In den Binsen by Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim
Germany 2020 • fiction film • German • 6 min.
Nomination in the fiction category of up to 10 minuntes.
Early morning in the Bavarian forest. The teenage Christoph, hungover, tries to come out to his mother when the whole situation "falls apart".
Favoriten by Martin Monk
Austria, Germany 2019 • fiction film • German • 18 min.
Nomination in the fiction category of 10 up to 30 minutes.
After an argument with her mother, Sofia wants to car-hop to Italy to find her biological father
Just a Guy by Shoko Hara
Germany 2020 • anim. documentary • English w. German ST • 15 min.
Nomination in the documentary category of up to 30 minutes
Three women recall their relationship with convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez.
Details
Online
Price: Free admission.