Sydney Indie Film Festival 2019 – World Stories Short Films Part 1! – MONDAY, 28TH OCTOBER, 5:30PM
Sydney Indie Film Festival 2019 – World Stories Short Films Part 1! – MONDAY, 28TH OCTOBER, 5:30PM
The best selections of short films from Australia & World! Watch the films & Participate in the Q&As with the Filmmakers!
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A Box With No Name, Matt Culhane, United States
Language: English
Cast: Mark Laird, Sarah Wylie
Synopsis: In order to move past a lost love, a cowboy must come to terms with reality.
Alone, Simon Barracchini, United States
Language: English
Cast: Pietro Bongiovanni
Synopsis: A single day has its many challenges from getting out of bed to making breakfast, but what happens when your own mind lays down its own set of challenges for you to face?
Dictators Don’t Die, Serkan Öztürk, Germany
Language: German
Cast: Dirk Baumgarten , Tanja de Wendt, Nathalie Dudzik, Sibel Öztürk, Mark Özen
Synopsis: A boy who ran away from Nazi camp begins to live in a forest. He never leaves the forest since then because he fears being abducted by Hitler. After many years, he is found by a nature photographer wandering around his home. She takes him to a senior center. However, he cannot make it in there, he goes back to the forest. Since, he saw the news about refugees and the people died for their freedom, his old fears hunts him again and he believes Hitler has never died and still lives among us.
Faithless, Steve McCarten, United Kingdom, https://vimeo.com/341079158
Language: English
Cast: Sean Gilder, Jake Davies, Jack Gordon
Synopsis: An ex-RUC Detective serves the remainder of his career in a quiet seaside town, hoping to heal the wounds from a violent past, until the murder of his only daughter sends him on a headlong hunt for her killer.
Light & Dark, Aswin Alex, Australia, https://youtu.be/0gmZjLshuKE
Language: English
Cast: Harrison Freeland, Lillian Smith
Synopsis: Zach, a happy-go-lucky photographer and Kaira, an introverted dancer happen to cross the same path in an instance which eventually alters the path of their lives.
The Dinner Party, Rowan Devereux, Australia,
Language: English
Cast: Julien Perrottet, Amanda Maple-Brown
Synopsis: A young couple setup for their first dinner party until tensions mount as their guests keep calling to cancel.
The Funeral Dancer, Natalie MacMahon, Germany, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zfsit36zQE
Language: German, English
Cast: Mara Scherzinger, Annette Pausch, Henry Morales, Saskia Mommertz, Natalie MacMahon, Michael Ihnow, Frences Kulus, Theresa Scherhag, Inken Grosse, Jennifer Kristin Lindner, Maria Böing, Gernot Edelmann
Synopsis: “The Funeral Dancer” tells the story of “Jazz”, who works as a funeral entertainer which has become one of the best paid jobs in a world, where funerals are a status symbol and at the same time an obligation to entertain relatives, friends and work colleagues alike. Expectations are high, morals are low. While Jazz tries to entertain the mourners, she is forced to face severe problems of her own.
“The Funeral Dancer is an acerbic statement about our soulless smartphone culture. Multiple award winning director Natalie MacMahon knows what science fiction does best: it projects society forwards in time, so we can look back to view ourselves more clearly.” (by “Short Film Reviews”)
“The Funeral Dancer” is a thought-provoking film about mediatized cultures in which everything is a social media event that needs to be shared virtually to gain social capital. By depicting a high-concept futuristic scenario with colorful tones and manipulated reality, the director comments the undercurrents of all-encompassing contemporary social media consumption with wit and style. (by Largo Film Awards)
The Sea, Cameron Richards, United Kingdom
Language: English
Cast: Anna Friel, Russell Tovey, David Elliot
Synopsis: Jenny sits by the sea watching for birds.
Program subject to change without notice.
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