Inntravel Award for Best Short Film
This programme contains 7 films.
From hundreds of entries responding to our Border Crossing theme, we bring you some of the best short films and artists’ videos from across the world as part of the 2nd Inntravel Short Film Award.
La Estancia
A ghostly tale based on a real life massacre in 2012. A group of peasants assist one another to make a clandestine border crossing in to La Estancia where they begin their search to find missing relatives following a mass murder.
Director
Fedorico Adorno
Production Country
ParaguayProduction Year
2014Duration
13 mins
Dialogue Language
SpanishThe Embrace
A North Korean monument is brought to life, playing with the significance of ‘the embrace’ as representation of the reunification in the South Korean national psyche. Two figures embrace in joy, only to have their bliss dissipate and a new, unexpectedly uncomfortable, era to emerge.
Director
Pilar Mata Dupont
Production Country
South KoreaProduction Year
2013Duration
5 mins
Uncertain Ground
Despite having been a settlement for longer than the city across the bay, and having an estimated population of 10,000, the unnamed floating village on Gaya Island is not recognised by the Malaysian government and does not appear on any maps.
Director
Ian Nesbitt
Production Country
United KingdomProduction Year
2014Duration
12 mins
Agur
Set in the Basque Country in 2015, where police arrests are on the decrease and public opinion normalised. One night, a non-nationalist politician receives a death threat; meanwhile a young woman dies as the result of being caught up in a Basque Regional Police attack.
Director
David Pérez Sañudo
Production Country
SpainProduction Year
2013Duration
17 mins
Dialogue Language
SpanishSubtitle Language
EnglishMetamorfoza
In a heady mix of stop-frame animated dolls and butterflies, together with found footage, the main character enters a war zone through the television. Inspired by the Seventh Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, who remained in the Soviet Union under Stalin’s regime after the 1917 revolution.
Director
Martha Colburn
Production Country
The NetherlandsProduction Year
2013Duration
7 mins
Mondial 2010
A documentary about love and place. A Lebanese gay couple decide to take a forbidden road trip to Ramallah. The film is recorded with their camera as they chronicle their journey. Though the couple’s conversations, the audience is invited into the universe of a fading city.
Presented in a joint UK premiere with Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema
Director
Roy Lib
Production Country
LebanonProduction Year
2014Duration
19 mins
Runner
Amal, a 13-year-old refugee from Lebanon, deals drugs in the Hannover subway system. He lives an isolated life in an asylum home outside the city – until one day he meets a young German girl called Clara, who might be his saviour…
Director
Carolina Hellsgard
Production Country
GermanyProduction Year
2013Duration
14 mins