short films dat 2023

21 december 2023

from 14.00 to 16.00

What does one do on the shortest day of the year? Watch movies at Havremagasinet, of course!

The 21st of December is the shortest day of the year. It’s also the day when we indulge in short films of all kinds! We offer popcorn and saft to all participants and promise a cozy afternoon in the winter darkness with a fantastic selection of short films!

Take a break from the Christmas rush and come to Café Pampas for an amazing selection of short films!

The Short Film Day is organized by Folkets Bio with support from the Swedish Film Institute.

PROGRAM

Short Film C/O Folkets Bio – Autumn 2023: Animations, documentaries, fiction films, and everything in between. Ahead of Short Film Day 2023, we also offer the autumn program from 2023, featuring the best of Swedish short films from the new short film scene. (Duration: 42 min)

GALATEA
Director: Arvida & Hampus Byström 2023 / 8 min
A lifeless female body is found wrapped in plastic in the woods. Who is she, and how did she end up there? Hampus and Arvida Byström’s debut film is an evocative Nordic noir that poses unconventional questions about a woman’s role in a solitary man’s sexual desires.

DORIS & BETTAN MARBELLA MAYHEM
Director: Ellen Ekman 2023 / 8 min
Doris and Bettan, an apparently ordinary elderly couple, enjoy the sun on a beach in Spain. Topless, with cigarettes in their mouths, sipping cocktails. After complaints, the owner of the hotel nearby wants to remove the ladies, but he will soon regret it.

I THINK OF SILENCES WHEN I THINK OF YOU
Director: Jonelle Twum 2023 / 9 min
I think of silences when I think of you is a lyrical portrait of a woman’s engagement in Ghana and impending migration at the end of the 1990s. The film follows a woman navigating the world in relation to silence, with desires and dreams of Europe as a backdrop.

MADDEN
Director: Malin Ingrid Johansson 2023 / 13 min
Madden is a story about relating to one’s flock. About duty versus longing. About high heels in cow dung and frightened animal bodies thundering across a landscape in Västergötland. About a forest of tall tree trunks between our protagonist and the world outside. We live in a time where self-fulfillment, individualism, and freedom clash hard against the tradition of inheritance and the collectivity that life on a farm can entail.

HEART OF AN ASTRONAUT
Director: Jennifer Rainsford 2023 / 14 min
A short documentary that invites you on a journey tracing an astronaut’s heart from Earth to space. Its pace, its dangers, and its strength are narrated by the astronaut’s doctor, flight surgeon Brigitte Godard. It’s a romantic journey of a cardiovascular system into space.

15-minute break

BEST OF REX ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL 2023: A film package curated by REX Animation Film Festival specifically for Short Film Day 2023, featuring the finest gems from their latest program. (Duration: 67 min)

MIRACASAS
Director: Raphaëlle Stolz & Augusto Zanovello 2022 / 14 min
In the 30s, a lost village in South America wishes to perpetuate its strange traditions… The mayor has published an ad in the region: “Seeks corpse to enlarge Miracasas.” Freshly murdered, Ernesto is the lucky one and participates involuntarily in his carnival-like burial. The gathered villagers celebrate the event with passion, eagerly awaiting the life brought by death.

THE GARBAGE MAN
Director: Laura Gonçalves 2022 / 12 min
On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked for thirty years as a garbage man. Memories of each are intertwined to tell the story of a man who lived a hard life through humor and fantasy, like when he returned to Belmonte in a van full of trash, turned into a real treasure.

MAURICE´S BAR
Director: Tzor Edery & Tom Prezman 2023 / 15 min
In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythical bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.

ICE MERCHANTS
Director: João Gonzalez 2023 / 14 min
Every day, a father and his son parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to reach the village on the ground, far away, where they sell the ice they produce daily.

SISTER
Director: Kasia K. Pieróg 2022 / 12 min
The two sisters travel across the Realm of Clouds, searching for the Big Tree. Their journey will be full of setbacks, self-sacrifices, sadness, yet filled with joy. As they get closer to their destination, they also become closer to themselves. The film portrays the multidimensional dynamics and growth of an emotional bond within a sisterhood’s relationship.