Location
YARAT CENTRE
Bayil District (National Flag Square) Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ1003
OPENING HOURS
Tuesday – Sunday:
12 am > 8 pm
CONTACT
+99412 505 1414
29 May - 30 May 15
YARAT Contemporary Art Space Film Club presents the next show of Futureshorts films festival. On the 29th and 30th May in Baku there will be a screening of this year’s spring selection of the world’s largest short film festival.
Future Shorts allows anyone, anywhere to set up a screening and join our international cinematic community. Future Shorts holds the ability to change the ways each of us engage with cinema, generating a global conversation. Since 2011 the festival has spanned over 300 cities in 90 countries, reaching an audience of more than 45,000 people. Internationally acclaimed short films have been screened in countless ways, from London to Tokyo, Cairo to Kabul, in music halls and town halls, theatres and galleries, in clubs, bars and warehouses.
Every three months, London-based Future Shorts HQ curate a feature-length programme of short films from around the world. Screening partners pay a fixed fee for the festival programme, which varies according to venue capacity. Partners are then responsible for bringing their screening to life in whatever direction their imagination leads them.
So far, this festival covers 90 countries, 300 cities, 6 continents and offers 1,400 showings per year throughout the world. During its ten year existence, the festival has gained the attention of movie fans over a huge territory from Finland to Mexico. The festival gives an opportunity for professionals and newcomers all over the world to become a part of an international cinematographic community. The Spring Season of Future Shorts includes seven films.
Spring season films are:
1. MI NINA MI VIDA
Dir: Yan Giroux | Canada 2013 | 19min. | Drama
A man and his giant stuffed bear move through the bustling crowds and noisy rides at an amusement park. In the face of this strange world he can no longer relate to, Jack searches for a reason to smile… The camera follows him as he navigates this unwelcoming space, rendering a striking choreographed cinematic experience.
2. MYNARSKI DEATH PLUMMET
Dir: Matthew Rankin | Canada 2014 | 8min. | Animation / Visual
The story of Winnipeg WWII hero Andrew Mynarski is related stunningly in this explosive, expressionistic and psychedelic envisioning of his final moments, paying homage to our collective past while transforming fact into brilliant celluloid fantasia.
3. EXCHANGE AND MART
Dir: Cara Connolly & Martin Clark | UK 2013 | 15min. | Drama / Romance
A remote Scottish boarding school is home to Reg, a lonely and yearning teenage girl. The handsome chainsaw-wielding tree surgeon, and the sinister and unorthodox self-defence instructor, are the only men in this world. When Reg is required to fight in the woods, she knows what she must do.
4. TWO FILMS ABOUT LONELINESS
Dir: Christopher Eales | UK 2014 | 6min. | Animation / Comedy
Two Films About Loneliness is a split-screen stop-motion animated film. The split screen divides the worlds of Jonathan Smallman who is recording his dating profile, and Philip Button, the Internet chef. But will the irritating sound from the real world stand in the way of their search for companionship and acceptance?
5. PRIDE
Dir: Pavel G. Vesnakov | Bulgaria, Germany 2013 | 30min. | Drama
Manol, a retired grandfather, is a patriarch of firm morals and fixed beliefs which he has always upheld in his household. But on this day he learns that the boy he's raised is gay. The life choices of his loved ones challenge his values in a battle he has lost by default.
6. BRODINSKI FT SD 'CAN'T HELP MYSELF'
Dir: Megaforce | UK 2014 | 4min. | Music Video / Cinematic
Techno-rap group Brondinski present their video, directed by Megaforce, which juxtaposes the reckless abandon of a drug-fueled life with a man's journey back through time in a dystopian cinescape.
7. THE MISSING SCARF
Dir: Eoin Duffy | Ireland 2013 | 6min. | Animation / Comedy
A black comedy exploring some of life's common fears: fear of the unknown, of failure, rejection and finally the fear of death. Narrated by George Takei.
Venue:
YARAT Contemporary Art Centre
Bayil district (near the National Flag square), Baku, Azerbaijan.
Preview day: 29 and 30 May 2015
Time: 20.00
Tickets available at city box offices by 10 AZN.
Tel.: (+99412) 505 14 14