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   Tuesday, 4-12 5:00 pm
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   Saturday, 4-16 1:00 pm

International Documentary Shorts

International Documentary Shorts

Tussilago

DIRECTED BY JONAS ODELL
SWEDEN, 2010, 14 MIN
IN SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
FLORIDA PREMIERE

In 1977, West German terrorist Norbert Kröcher was arrested for conspiring to kidnap the Swedish politician Anna-Great Leijon. Among the people arrested during the following raids was Kröcher’s girlfriend. This is her story, imaginatively rendered using rotoscope and live-actors with motion graphic embellishments. Nominated for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Bye Bye Now!

DIRECTED BY AIDEEN O’SULLIVAN AND ROSS WHITAKER
IRELAND, 2009, 15 MIN
FLORIDA PREMIERE

Well into the 1980s, the humble phone booth was the chosen method of communication in Ireland and is the subject of this poignant documentary about the fate of the Irish “phone box,” which has gone from the center of society to the verge of extinction. An amusing tribute that honors a dying form of technology while celebrating the gift of gab.

Grandpa’s Wet Dream

DIRECTED BY CHIHIRO AMEMIYA
JAPAN, 2010, 16 MIN
EAST COAST PREMIERE/2ND US SCREENING

When a 75 year-old man goes to an X-rated film distributor to purchase a DVD, the company ends up making him a septuagenarian porn sensation.

Bathing Micky

DIRECTED BY FRIDA KEMPFF
SWEDEN, 2010, 14 MIN
IN DANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Every day, every season, 100 year-old Micky takes a brief daily swim as a member of her beloved local bathing club. Director Frida Klempff creates a portrait based on time and on the often sage and sound philosophies of a person seasoned in old age. As Micky says, a hundred years must be lived to be understood.

Face

DIRECTED BY ADELE WILKES
AUSTRALIA, 2010, 26 MIN
US PREMIERE

Beautiful Agony (www.beautifulagony.com) is a website dedicated to people’s facial expressions during orgasm. Regular people, not porn stars, talk about submitting their own photos and videos to share their sexuality with the world and show it as a beautiful, delicate, and connecting thing.