EUROPE IN SHORTS
18.03.2012
Great grandmothers tell a lot of strange and exciting tales, if you are so lucky as to still get to know them. Tales of adventure, of hardship and – well, let's face it, these tales never seem to revolve around alien lovers and firefights with giant robots on secret military bases. So
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18.03.2012
One could talk about sociology or philosophy when reviewing Elena Pomares' multi award winning short THE HENHOUSE. One could talk about nature vs. nurture, about destiny and self-alienation, about Rousseau and Marx, about primordial urges and the corruptions of civilization, about the wild
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17.03.2012
The situation – as seems only fitting for a story situated in the Middle East conflict – is rather complicated. There's an Israeli settlement in the Palestinian municipality of Hebron, meaning that much like in Northern Ireland the conflicting parties have to live next door to each
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17.03.2012
Ninety seconds for more awareness about poverty: Writer and director Isabel Prahl is telling an anecdote about social difference that is as precisely observed as it is original. She might just lay to rest the old prejudice that social, economic or political issues need long and complicated
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24.12.2011
It all starts out funny enough: A little girl called Cherry paints faces on her fingers and acts out her birthday, which by the way is today, and how she expects it to go down with the members of her family, mom, dad, the baby and her bigger sister. The real experience following her fantasy is then
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24.12.2011
15 minutes of painstaking details, of calm patience, of everyday life in all its pointlessness. DECEMBER 25th, written and directed by Noa Erenberg, is a study of loneliness and being lost in a dark urban cityscape and in hollow, impersonal flats. Filmed matter-of-factly in muted, desaturated
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09.12.2011
When we remember events from our past, we reconstruct, reshape and reorganize them in order to give them meaning. Also, we forget about 90% of it all. Then when we tell the story of our life, we leave out even more, all the boring bits, and we construct an interesting narrative in the hope of
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30.11.2011
Screenwriting legend Shane Black was the first one to introduce human tragedy into action films, when he had Mel Gibson in LETHAL WEAPON tell the story of how one time in Laos he killed a man with an extremely difficult long-range rifle shot. “Maybe eight or even ten guys in the world could
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29.11.2011
We're staying very close to this old man, as he stumbles through the skyscraper environment of the big city. We instantly get the feeling that he might be lost, which we will find out to be true in more than one aspect. Furthermore: It is exactly what we are supposed to feel at this moment, and
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28.11.2011
A young man is being carted through an old hospital floor. His eyes flicker weirdly, and there are shaved spots on his head. The soundtrack brims with classic 50s style Hammer horror music – a rustling recording of electronically distorted strings and what sounds like a ghost singing an aria
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