international shorts #1

Royston Tan

Singapore | 2003 | 12mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

The historical heritage of
Singapore seen through the eyes of 78-year-old Chia, as he ventures on a boat journey along the Singapore River, during which he recalls his first encounter with the city in the 1940s.

Pjotr Sapegin

Norway, Canada | 2003 | 13mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

A little girl refuses to get dressed before going out to play. In order to persuade her, her grandfather tells her a strange story about his
hardships during the war.

Dániel Béres

Hungary | 2003 | 7mins |
35mm | Colour

A football player goes to hospital to get a drug test done. He gets a phone call. He hangs up and steps into one of the cabins of the paternoster. There’s a camera already set up in the cabin….

Teddy Newton, Bert Klein

USA, Ireland | 2003 | 6mins | 35mm | Colour

While his mother goes out to bible study young Linberg is watched over by his step-father who decides to take him out for a night on the town that he’ll never forget. Just don’t tell Mom.

Paddy Jolley, Rebecca Trost,
Inger Lise Hansen

Ireland | 2004 | 10mins | Beta | Black & White

Over several months the artists
filmed the interior spaces of a
four-storey block in Ballymun. The collaboration grew out of a shared interest in disused urban space. This became a basis for experiment with the physicality of the block's derelict floors.

Jan Andersson

Finland | 2003 | 17mins | 35mm | Colour

Paavo is forced to sell handkerchiefs on the street to get money for his bitter and tired father. At home Paavo escapes his harsh reality by drawing pictures of happier times and thoughts.

Welby Ings

New Zealand | 2004 | 15mins | 35mm | Colour

An unusual story of a young male prostitute in a small New Zealand town who discovers the truth behind a fatal hit and run accident.

Oliver Masset-Depasse

Belgium | 2004 | 29mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

Léone, a forlorn disabled young
woman, survives in the shadow of her small working-class house that she uses as a lookout post onto the outside world, especially to spy on every move of her neighbour Andreas.