Last night was the final screening of the Oscar-nominated Short Films at Babylon Mitte presented by shorts.tv and our friends from Mobile Kino. Because of the 3rd anniversary party of Mit Vergnügen I had to choose between the animations and the live action shorts. I decided for the later and did not regret it. The five live action films were all amazing and I have to admit that I sobbed through half of the program as a lot of them were utterly heartbreaking. My favorite ones were the Oscar winner Curfew and Henry. Curfew is about a guy who sort of messed up his life and wants to commit suicide but gets interrupted by a call from his estranged sister enquiring him as a last minute baby sitter for her daughter. The film is heartbreaking and encouraging at the same time and has an amazing musical scene in it. Henry is a film about an old man, a pianist, looking for his wife who is supposedly in danger. But more and more he realizes that reality and his perception of the world around him don’t match.
As soon as those two gems get released online I will feature them in our Short Sunday section for you to see them. For now I have one of the animated short films for you that I missed in the screening: Adam and Dog. It’s an endearing story of a dog and his ancounter with Adam in paradise. Enjoy the lovely film directed by Minkyu Lee after the jump.
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by Frank | Movies, Videos
The Simpsons – The Longest Daycare
Last week we already announced the screenings of the Oscar-nominated live action short films here in Berlin in several locations. This week it’s time for the animated short films. Tonight they will be screened along with a few of last year’s nomination at the Naherholung Sternchen, presented once again by Mobile Kino. On Sunday March 31 you will get the chance to see both the live action and the animation short films on the big screen at Babylon Mitte. Enjoy the animation trailers after the jump!
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by Frank | Events, Movies
Curfew
While we normally show you short films on Sundays we are making an exception today for a special screening event series starting on Tuesday hosted by our friends from Mobile Kino and shorts.tv. Spread over several venues in different districts of Berlin they will be screening the Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2013. As a special treat they will have the winners from last year virtually present the new films. In the first part of the screening series that happens this coming week you will get to see the 5 nomated live action films including Asad, Buzkashi Boys, Henry, Death of a Shadow and Oscar winner Curfew. The program starts on Tuesday in Mitte at Naherholung Sternchen, continues on Wednesday at Mindpirates in Kreuzberg and on Friday at Villa Neukölln before the final screening on March 31 at Babylon Mitte. We’ll give you an update about the second part – the animated films – next Sunday right here. Check out the trailers for the first batch of short films after the jump.
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by Frank | Movies
What a joy: Wim Wender’s PINA is nominated for an Oscar award in the documentary category. Although the Oscars aren’t necessarily a symbol of artistic quality to me, I can’t deny a certain interest in those films that made it onto the short list of nominations. And PINA would actually deserve the award. On the occassion of this nomination, I’ll write about PINA and other wonderful documentaries focussing on dance this week.
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by Lia | Art, Entertainment, Movies
