{"id":25958,"date":"2020-09-22T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/riff-international-shorts-ii\/"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:58:31","slug":"riff-international-shorts-ii","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/riff-international-shorts-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Riff – INTERNATIONAL SHORTS II"},"content":{"rendered":"

DRIFTING<\/strong><\/a>
\n\u6f02\u6d41<\/strong>
\nChina and United States \/ 2019 \/ 16 min \/ Short Fiction
\nDirectors<\/strong>: HanXuing Bo
\nNordic Premiere<\/p>\n

Yan is an illegal second child born during the One-Child policy. To avoid government punishment, Yan\u2019s parents hid their oldest daughter in the countryside and raised Yan as a girl. Now a young adult, Yan struggles with his gender identity and being treated as an outcast in a conservative society. His sole escape is speeding around in his father\u2019s old taxi through abandoned parking lots.<\/p>\n

THE GOLDEN LEGEND<\/strong><\/a>
\nLEYENDA DORADA<\/strong>
\nSpain \/ 2019 \/ Short Fiction \/ 11 min \/ Drama, Fantasy
\nDirectors<\/strong>: Chema Garc\u00eda Ibarra and Ion De Sosa
\nWriter<\/strong>: Chema Garcia Ibarra
\nProducer<\/strong>: Leire Apellaniz<\/p>\n

People of all ages enjoy themselves at the pool in Mont\u00e1nchez in Spain. It\u2019s an almost utopian depiction of community, under the gaze of Our Lady of Consolation. While conflicts and aggression have a siesta, the villagers take a well deserved break.<\/p>\n

MOM\u2019S MOVIE<\/strong><\/a>
\nGreece and Spain \/ 13 min \/ 2019 \/ Short Fiction
\nDirectors<\/strong>: Stella Kyriakopoulos
\nProducer<\/strong>: Fani Skartouli
\nNordic Premiere<\/p>\n

Survival, motherhood, and movies all collide in a backyard pool. While proudly filming her 2-year-old daughter\u2019s survival swimming graduation exam in her backyard pool, Maria runs into technical difficulties. A disturbing insight into the extremities a mother goes to prevent any parent\u2019s worst nightmare. The human desire to record and capture reality distracts from the reality of the situation with potentially catastrophic implications.<\/p>\n

FORGET ALBERTO FOR NOW<\/strong><\/a>
\nGermany \/ 18 min \/ Short Documentary \/ 2020
\nDirectors<\/strong>: Beina Xu
\nNordic Premiere<\/p>\n

A refugee known only as Alberto flies from Athens to Brussels on a fake passport. Three years later, a small crew from Berlin tries to make a film about his journey. Things fall apart. They film pigeons instead. The artifice of the documentary becomes the subject itself: where do we stand between image and meaning?<\/p>\n

THE LAMB OF GOD<\/strong><\/a>
\nO CORDEIRO DE DEUS<\/strong>
\nPortugal, France \/ 15 min \/ Short Fiction \/ 2020
\nDirector<\/strong>: David Pinheiro Vicente
\nWriter<\/strong>: David Pinheiro Vicente
\nProducers<\/strong>: Gabriel Abrantes, Je\u0301ro\u0302me Blesson
\nNordic Premiere<\/p>\n

The summer festivities of a Portuguese village are suffused with sensuality and violence in this enigmatic portrait of a tightly knit family.<\/p>\n

CLOUD FOREST<\/strong><\/a>
\nNetherlands \/ 18 min \/ 2019 \/ Short Documentary
\nDirector:<\/strong>\u00a0Eliane Esther Bots
\nProducer<\/strong>: Manon Bovenkerk<\/p>\n

A fairytale-like film in which five girls take us on a journey through their parents\u2019 experiences of the war in the former Yugoslavia, a war which the girls haven\u2019t physically experienced themselves. The narratives are a combination of facts and imaginings, memories and impressions, transferred from the parents to their daughters. It is in the shadows where these narratives can unfold. While the girls listen to themselves, the viewer becomes part of their intimate family circle.<\/p>\n

BETWEEN YOU AND MILAGROS<\/strong>
\nENTRE T\u00da Y MILAGROS<\/strong>
\nColumbia \/ 2020 \/ 20 min \/ Short Drama
\nDirector<\/strong>: Mariana Saffon
\nWriters<\/strong>: Mariana Saffon, Nathalie \u00c1lvarez Mes\u00e9n<\/p>\n

At fifteen, Milagros\u2019 world still revolves around her mother\u2019s affection. This summer an unexpected encounter with death will make her question their relationship and her own existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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