Shorts Attack in November 2024

9 films in 90 minutes – with German subtitles

They ride bikes, dance, try their hand at building houses, exist in video games and sometimes save the world. Dictators provoke each other, cleaners are active in the city and in the mountains and there is an incident on the border. – The heroes of everyday life are among us!

The program:

HOOBA
Sem Assink
Netherlands2022
2:30 min
Animation
House building
3000 B.C. A small group of inhabitants of the “Low Lands” struggle against the elements and their inability to organize themselves to build a house.

PLEASE MAKE IT WORK    
Daniel Soares
Portugal / Switzerland 2022
14 min
Live Action
Cleaning 
The idyllic Swiss setting contrasts sharply with the stressful routine of a Portuguese cleaning woman. She comes by car.

BASURA [Waste]    
Roberth Fuentes
Philippines 2018
5:30 min
Live Action
Dance the dirt
At a landfill, uninhibited dance moves blur the boundaries between a body and its trash-heaped surroundings.

LETZTE GENERALE  – Der Bunkerfilm
Jochen Kuhn
Germany 2023
6 min
Animation
Diktators
At the end of the war, two generals made one last phone call to bid farewell to each other. and themselves“.

GRANICA
Joshua Neubert
Germany 2023
20 min
Live Action
On the border
Autumn 2021. Oliwia lives in the woods of the highly militarized exclusion zone between Poland and Belarus.

STYROFOAM
Noah Sheldon
China 2018
4 min
Dokumentaryfilm
Bike-Akrobatik
50 to 60 polystyrene boxes fit on her bike without tipping – a shaky affair. A look at the life of an itinerant labourer in Shanghai.

EVERYTHING´S GONNA BE ALRIGHT
Federico Turani
Polen
6 min
Animation
Komet coming
Frank Dommy is a superman. Smart, rich, spoiled by success. Yep, Frank leads the perfect life. Or not, after all? The answer awaits in Bubble Tea Land.

HARDLY WORKING
Total Refusal
Austria 2022
20 min
Dokumentaryfilm
Videogame
Putting the spotlight on the very characters that usually remain in the background in video games: NPCs.

WOMEN ACTING LIKE MÜLLMÄNNER
Marion Pfaus
Germany 2017
2:30 min
Live Action
Persiflage
Haven’t we always asked ourselves what would it be like if women were garbage collectors? They are engaged a lot!

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 263 of Shorts Attack!