34th International Short Film Festival Berlin 2018
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IC 03 Family Ties

Families are the basic social unit of organization in a society. Yet what are the bonds that connect the members of a family? For some, families are the only way to keep grounded in a world shaped by flexibility and mobility, and, if necessary, it is sustained by using violence. Yet for others it is a confining microcosm from which there is no escape. The only way to find the sought-after sense of security is to flee into a parallel world filled with frogs.

22.11.18, 13:30h, Babylon 1

23.11.18, 21:30h, Babylon 1

25.11.18, 18:00h, Rollberg Kino

Family Ties
6 films
En værdig mand

En værdig mand

A Worthy Man

Kristian Håskjold // Denmark // 2018 // 19:00 min

Live Action

Every evening baker Erik calls the radio show “Joker of the Week” to tell his lame jokes. All contact to his family has long since disappeared, just like his sense of reality.

Charles

Charles

Dominic-Etienne SIMARD // France, Canada // 2017 // 11:00 min

Animation

Charles is a child with adult size problems. He is the target of bullying at school, and at home he has to take care of his mother. So he flees into a world full of frogs to save himself.

GRIDLOCK

GRIDLOCK

IAN HUNT DUFFY // Ireland // 2016 // 19:45 min

Live Action

During a traffic jam on a country road, a little girl disappears from one of the gridlocked cars. The desperate father forms a search party and soon everyone becomes a suspect.

Sister

Sister

Siqi Song // China // 2018 // 08:00 min

Animation

A man thinks back to his childhood in China in the 1990s and his annoying little sister. How would his life have been like if things had been different and different decisions had been made?

Mama Bobo

Mama Bobo

Robin Andelfinger / Ibrahima Seydi // Belgium, France, Senegal // 2017 // 16:30 min

Live Action

Mama Bobo is a widow in her eighties. Day after day she goes to the same bus stop in Dakar. Sitting on the bench she remembers her past life and her husband who died long ago until her routine gets interrupted.

Hur det känns att vara bakis

Hur det känns att vara bakis

How It Feels to Be Hungover

Viktor Hertz // Sweden // 2018 // 10:00 min

Live Action

A man wakes up at a clinic specialized in malignant hangovers. The doctor prescribes 600 ml of ice cream and two action comedies, but also shares some news, which doesn't make him feel any better...