FREESTYLE: FUTURESHORTS SHORT FILMS FESTIVAL / WINTER SEASON
17 Feb - 19 Feb 16
YARAT Contemporary Art Space presents the next show of Futureshorts films festival. On the 17, 18 and 19 February 2016 in Baku there will be a screening of this year’s spring selection of the world’s largest short film festival.
The screening will be organized as a part of YARAT FreeStyle Program, an open platform for everyone who looks to engage creatively with a broad and diverse audience.
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.
Special guest: Short film “Lost dreams” by Chingiz Mustafayev
The Winter Season of Future Shorts includes seven films:
1. EXCURSION
Dir. Adrian Sitaru, Romania 2014, 20 mins, Comedy
Following TV News announcing the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works as a guard, starts filming his everyday life and then disappears. When he is found, the boy’s footage is misinterpreted by the media.
2. GRACE UNDER WATER
Dir. Anthony Lawrence, Australia 2014, 9 mins, Animation
Lou is losing the cold war with her stubborn and enigmatic stepdaughter Grace when an unexpected challenge arises from the depths of a warm, dreamy afternoon at the local pool. Shadows from the past bear down on the present as Lou is forced to face the truth about herself and the frustrating child she is trying to love. Grace Under Water is an eloquent exploration of the balance of fear and delight, estrangement and closeness that only a family can understand.
3. NORTHERN GREAT MOUNTAIN
Dir. Amanda Kernell, Sweden 2014, 15 mins, Drama
Elle, 78, does not like Sami people - though her first language was Sami and she grew up in the mountains in Lapland. Now she claims that she is completely Swedish and from the south. Under pressure from her son, she reluctantly returns north for her sister’s funeral. As they are about to leave, she understands that her son has planned for them to stay with their relatives overnight. Refusing to do so, Elle checks in at the local Grand Hotel with all the tourists...
4. LIGHTS by Hurts
Dir. Dawn Shadforth, UK 2015, 7 mins, Music Video
A nightclub odyssey where chemistry explodes utterly believably between two strangers - the man, played by Theo Hutchcraft (definitely out of his usual ice-cool persona mode), and the feisty girl. And that’s just for starters.
5. CITIZEN DAY
Dir. Basile Doganis, France 2014, 20 mins, Dramatic Comedy
A crew of teenagers from a Parisian suburb have to attend their Citizen Day at the military base in Versailles, but one of them, Chris, is turned away for arriving too late. Chris wants to go straight back home, but Momo, the hood’s ‘loser’, convinces him to spend the day with him at the Château de Versailles.
6. ALL YOUR FAVORITE SHOWS
Dir. Danny Madden, USA 2014, 5mins, Mixed Media
Anything you wanna watch in the palm of your hands. Crazy convenient. Crazy...
7. RATE ME
Dir. Fyzal Boulifa, UK 2015, 17 mins, Comedy
What begins as a summary of online reviews of a teenage escort becomes a provocative and formally audacious commentary on the fluidity of identities and perceptions of young women in the Internet age. Indeed, the only thing that’s certain is that all these people who claim to know ‘Coco’ may not know anything at all.
Please collect your FREE ticket in advance at YARAT Centre.
Films will be shown in original with Russian subtitles
18 +
Date: February 17 > 19, 2016
Time: 20.00
Venue: YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Multifunctional Room
Contact phone: +99412 505 1414
Admission: FREE by invitations
