International Films Session A

A selection of short films from around the world in a variety of genres and themes. Films included in this session include:

Cloud Study (Germany) Dir. Esa-Lu Lorenz Olive, a young aspiring designer, receives a letter from an old relative that makes her pause. Confronted with the meaning of a lifetime she suddenly comes closer to herself again and manages to take a step back from her own reality.

Whistle (Greece) Dir. Thanasis Protatos A woman finds herself trapped at a friends reunion. To avoid boredom, she escapes the gathering.

In Bethlehem Beyond (Greece) Dir. Kallirroi Kostikoglou A documentary about how the dead and the living coexist and how death breathes in us through the work or two women who dig graves.

Mother (Poland) Dir. Sebastian Kwidziński Paulina (35 years old) is out on parole after serving a prison sentence for the murder of her husband Andrzej. She returns to her hometown to meet her 11-year-old son Nikodem.

Trespass (United Kingdom) Dir. Desmond Lynch A young boy witnesses the murder of his father on his doorstep in Belfast, 1976. As an older man he works his way into the home of the man who shot his father dead.