Film
EFA Nominee Venice HYPERCRISIS (Austria) Dir/scr Josef Dabernig Viennese visual artist and short film director Josef Dabernig says he was inspired to make his conceptual short about creative crises and writ- er’s block by his discovery of a former institution for Soviet cinematographers in the South Cauca- sus. It had been refi tted as a literary refuge for writers. Hypercrisis follows a once-promising Russian poet as he attempts to overcome his writer’s block with little help from the staff. Hypercrisis screened in the Orizzonti section at this year’s Venice Film Festival. 17 mins
EFA Nominee Cork INCIDENT BY A BANK (Händelse Vid Bank) (Sweden) Dir/scr Ruben Östlund Incident By A Bank won the Golden Bear for best short fi lm at the 2010 Berlinale. It is a humorous, real-time account of what happened when a real- life bank robbery in Stockholm went wrong. Ruben Östlund, whose feature credits include Involuntary and Play, which both also deal with recreations of actual incidents, shot the fi lm in a single take with 96 people re-enacting the dra- matic moments of that day. It was produced by Erik Hemmendorff — who witnessed the origi- nal event with Östlund — and Marie Kjellson. 12 mins
EFA Nominee Angers JESSI (Germany) Dir/scr Mariejosephin Schneider Jessi is an 11-year-old girl living with a foster fam- ily while her mother is in prison. Her longing to discover her own identity takes Jessi to her home village. Director Mariejosephin Schneider is studying at the German Film & Television Acad- emy (dffb) in Berlin and has served as assistant director for Maria Speth, Oskar Röhler and Marc Meyer, among others. Jessi was produced by Hartmut Bitomsky — a former film critic and editor of German film magazine Filmkritik— Bodo Knapheide and Maximilian Müllner, the managing director of the German Film and Television Academy. 31 mins
EFA Nominee Valladolid LITTLE CHILDREN, BIG WORDS (Små Barn, Stora Ord) (Sweden) Dir/scr Lisa James Larsson The third short fi lm from the Swedish director Lisa James Larsson tackles the subject of victims and language told through the eyes of young children. It centres on an uncomfortable class- room discussion about the meaning of a word one young boy unwittingly uses. The teacher’s explanation reveals her own story. Little Children, Big Words won the best short fi lm award at the Valladolid Film Festival in 2010. It was produced by Andreas Emanuelsson at Bob Film Sweden. 12 mins
EFA Nominee Sarajevo OUT (Tse) (Israel) Dir/scr Roee Rosen Director Roee Rosen is an Israeli-American artist, writer and fi lm-maker. He teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem and much of his work has focused on his female alter-ego: a Jew- ish-Belgian Surrealist painter and pornographer named Justine Frank. Out explores issues of pos- session in an erotic bondage and fantasy role-play session which becomes a political exorcism when one participant responds with a torrent of quotes from Israel’s minister of foreign affairs. The fi lm was produced by Rosen and Sharon Benraf. 35 mins
EFA Nominee Krakow PAPARAZZI (Poland) Dir/scr Piotr Bernas The director is one of Poland’s most renowned photographers. Paparazzi is his fi rst short fi lm and looks at some of the biggest media events in Poland in 2010 through the lens of a controver- sial paparazzo. They include the search for Roman Polanski and the devastating Smolensk plane crash. The documentary explores the choices the photographer has to make and the emotional toll it exacts from him. Paparazzi was produced by Adam Ślesicki of Wajda Studio. 33 mins
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