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Best Of International 2 – 2015

The second of five programmes featuring the best of International short films in competition.

Screening: Mon 12 Jan, 6.30pm | Duration: 112 min | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult

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  • We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

    Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to
    make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Konstantin Bronzit
    • Writer: Konstantin Bronzit
    • Producer: Alexander Boyarsky
    • Running Time: 15 min
    • Year: 2014
    • Country: Russia

  • Listen

    Copenhagen. A police station. A foreign woman, wearing a burqa, is there with her young son to file a complaint. Yet, it seems the translator is not willing to report what she is telling.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan
    • Writer: Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan
    • Producer: Helene Granqvist, Valeria Richter
    • Running Time: 13 min
    • Year: 2014
    • Country: Denmark-Finland

  • The Chicken

    Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed
    the family, she decides to save it.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Una Gunjak
    • Writer: Una Gunjak
    • Producer: Jelena Goldbach
    • Running Time: 15 min
    • Year: 2014
    • Country: Germany

  • Chum (Hjunabandssela)

    Two lifelong friends find their small-town routine thrown into peril when a buxom woman their own age shows up in their hot tub.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Jörundur Ragnarsson
    • Writer: Jörundur Ragnarsson, Elizabeth Rose
    • Producer: Elizabeth Rose, Kjartan Þór Þórðarson, Ragnar Agnarsson
    • Running Time: 15 min
    • Year: 2014
    • Country: Iceland

  • Symphony 42

    The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our
    surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions between humans
    and nature.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Réka Bucsi
    • Writer: Réka Bucsi
    • Producer: József Fülöp
    • Running Time: 14 min
    • Year: 2014
    • Country: Hungary

  • The Karman Line

    When a mother is hit by a rare condition that sees her lift off the ground at a slow but ever increasing rate, her husband and daughter are forced to come to terms with losing her.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Oscar Sharp
    • Writer: Dawn King, Oscar Sharp (story)
    • Producer: Tiernan Hanby, Campbell Beaton, Max McGill
    • Running Time: 24 min
    • Year: 2014
    • Country: UK

  • Ice Cream

    Rojhat (11) lives in a small, remote village. On a hot summer day, an ice cream
    peddler comes to the village with his motorbike and he is immediately surrounded by
    the children of the village. Soon, all the children start bringing what they can find
    from their homes and in return they get some ice cream.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Serhat Karaaslan
    • Writer: Serhat Karaaslan
    • Producer: Serhat Karaaslan, Serkan Çakarer
    • Running Time: 16 min
    • Year: 2014
    • Country: Turkey
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