Sydney Indie Film Festival 2018 – 29th October 5:30PM – Short Films #7 – Mixed Bag #2!
Sydney Indie Film Festival 2018 – 29th October 5:30PM – Short Films #7 – Mixed Bag #2!
“A Thousand Kisses” “Buy The Dip” “Dead End” “Dinner With Friends” “Death of an Umbrella Salesman” “Lucy” “Once upon a dream” “This is not about us” “Welcome to Paradise”
+ Q&A with the Filmmakers:
Director: Steve Herold, Death of an Umbrella Salesman, United States
Director: Marek Kacer, This is not about us, Slovakia
Director: Stefan Goslinga, Welcome to Paradise, Australia
TICKETS:
Mon. 29 October 2018, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
SUGGESTED ARRIVAL TIME: 5:15PM
For the Red Carpet Meetings & Greetings Shananigans 
A Thousand Kisses
Director: Richard Goldgewicht, United States
Cast: Elke Sommer, Christian Oliver S
Synopsis: Separated by the fear of prosecution in the Nazi Germany of 1933, a young Jewish couple in Berlin make loose plans to reunite on the safe tropical shores of Brazil.
Inspired by the actual correspondence recovered by the couple’s grandsons 80 years later in São Paulo, A Thousand Kisses presents a peculiar love story tainted by the harsh historical context of its time, with a light appeal of irony and real-life poetry.
Buy The Dip
Director: Sam Lucas Smith, Ireland
Cast: John Colleary, Shane Robinson, Sam Lucas Smith, Sean Flood, Florence Ordesh
Synopsis: Two friends are introduced to the mad world of cryptocurrency when a homeless man offers them some unsolicited investment advice.
@sam0smith
Dead End
Director: Carter Ferguson, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, United States
Cast: Bryan Larkin, Julian Gaertner
Synopsis: A contract killer is sent from London to Hong Kong on an assignment with an up-and-coming young gun for hire, but the Contractor’s past life starts to derail their assignment and both men have to gamble on their survival. Australian premiere
@deadendshortfilm
Dinner With Friends
Director: Kate Ryerson, Australia
Cast: Amanda Jermyn, Elly Hiraani Clapin, Robyn Makhoul, Ryan Bown, Michael Kotsohilis, Alexander Williams
Synopsis: When their husbands step away at a dinner party, two women are reluctantly left to endure awkward small talk with their self-absorbed, high-maintenance host. What starts as civil conversation quickly de- scends into social chaos, and before the night is through tears will be shed, loyalties will be tested… and many, many drinks will be needed.
World Premiere
@dorothycreatives
Death of an Umbrella Salesman
Director: Steve Herold, United States
Cast: Kevin Kolack, Sabrina Gennarino
Synopsis: Stanley Grimp, a door-to-door umbrella salesman, attempts to make a sale, avoid his alimony-hungry Ex, and reconcile how his life turned out this way.
@umbrellashortfilm
Lucy
Director: Roberto Gutierrez, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Cast: Luigi Sciamana, Eloisa Maturén, Elvis Chaveinte
Synopsis: A solitary Foley Artist secretly films his neighbor and reconstructs the sounds of her life, while creating an imaginary relationship that leads him to discover closely the true sound of his obsession: Lucy.
Australian Premiere
@roberto_gut
Once upon a dream
Director: Anthony Nion, Belgium, France
Cast: Thomas Jeand’heur, Sarah Brunel
Synopsis: When Valentin meets Ludivine, he is convinced she’s the girl he has been dreaming of for the past weeks… Litteraly, the girl of his dreams ! Only, Ludivine has a feeling this boy meet girl scenario will take a nightmarish turn.
Australia premiere
This is not about us
Marek Kacer, Slovakia
Cast: Rebeka Polak, Milo Kral, Jan Jackuliak, Tomas Stopa
Synopsis: Year 1933. In multinationalistic and first republic Bratislava the influence of the Slovak nationalists is getting stronger. They are taking advantage of tense situation in the Slovak National Theatre so that they can strengthen their political power and spread propaganda. Manipulated and avid students are demonstrating , arousing unrest toward the Czechs and the Hungarians. However, they are not the only who has yielded to ideology of extreme nationalism.
Sydney Premiere
Welcome to Paradise
Director: Stefan Goslinga, Australia
Cast: Carly Mozsny, Jared Scott-Mills, James Hughes, Fadi Alameddin
Synopsis: A man returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral and one night meets a mysterious woman in a bar who gives him both closure and the worst night of his entire life.
World Premiere
Program subject to change without notice.
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