Short films 3 Kplus

Hjältar (Heroes)

D: Carolina Hellsgård

Sweden 2012, 15 min, Swedish, age recommendation: 12 years and up

Linnea is full of longing. She spends a lot of her time at the riding stables on the outskirts of the city, where she lovingly strokes and tends to her horse. She knows far less about boys and clumsily rebuffs Erik’s tender advances. Her girlfriend, Jenny, is more advanced, even if she does go off with the wrong person. One dance is enough to seal the two girls’ friendship. A new phase in their lives has begun.

Layla Bahir (Bright Night)

R: Li at Glik

Israel 2011, 21 min, Hebrew, age recommendation: 12 years and up

A little girl suffers dreadfully after her father dies. Time and again she picks up the things that belonged to him: his white shirt, his pipe, or his stethoscope. Her mother is too depressed to get out of bed and arrives late to pick her up from school. Her daughter responds with nasty, aggressive outbursts and does everything she can to destroy her mother’s friendship with another man. Sometimes it takes a fit of rage to find love again.

B I N O

R: Billie Pleffer

Australia 2011, 10 min, Without dialogue, age recommendation: 12 years and up

’Back in three weeks’ is the note his parents leave stuck to the fridge. Bino has got plenty of time on his hands. Sometimes he pushes his stolen shopping trolley to the country road, climbs into it and closes his eyes. Let’s see if a truck hits him this time. When an angry trucker kicks him into the ditch for his nonsense, it’s alright with him. There’s a boy in the neighbourhood who is even lonelier than his is. Could this be the beginning of a friendship?

Being Bradford Dillman

R: Emma Burch

United Kingdom 2011, 11 min, English, age recommendation: 12 years and up

Pale-skinned Molly Flowers leads a miserable existence. Her mother drinks all day long and the boys give her a hard time whenever she’s out-of-doors. When Molly is struck by an arrow her mother has no desire to listen to her whingeing. She’d better not moan about boys because Molly herself was born a boy. Molly’s Mum has no idea what a cataclysmic admission this is.

L

R: Thais Fujinaga

Brazil 2011, 21 min, Portuguese, age recommendation: 12 years and up

Tete hates her long feet. She’d like to chop off her toes, if only she could. Nonetheless, a boy begins to show some interest in her and Tete immediately presumes that he, too, must have problems with the way he looks. The two decide to take drastic measures to rid themselves of their imagined flaws. In impressive images, this film portrays the inner struggle of an introverted girl on the brink of puberty.

Snow in Paradise

R: Justine Simei-Barton, Nikki Si'ulepa

New Zealand 2011, 9 min, Cook Islands Maori, French, age recommendation: 12 years and up

It’s warm and the sun is shining. Effortlessly nature succeeds in providing us with the things we need: crystal clear seawater for the fish, coconut for the land. The islanders live a happy and healthy life – until, far away, a massive ball of fire rises on the horizon and powdery snow rains down bringing destruction. Undeterred by international criticism, France continued to test atom bombs in the South Pacific until 1995. The people and the environment continue to suffer here as a result of these tests.