Fri, 16 Dec 2011 – Best of Shnit! 2011 & Sinema Showoff! 2011 Curators’ Pick

Check out the Shnit International Shortfilmfestival 2011 winners and Sinema Showoff! Curator’s Pick!

Join us for the last short films showcase for the year! 2 programmes in one night!

We are including dinner specially for this session.

We hope you can support by buying a dinner coupon!

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PROGRAMME

Fri, 16 Dec 2011

Sinema Old School

6.30pm to 8.00pm – Buffet dinner available

7.15pm –  Shnit International Shortfilmfestival winners screening

(Ticket priced at $10.00 with dinner)

8.20pm – 8.30pm – Short break

8.30pm – Sinema Showoff! Curator’s Pick screening

(Free Entry. Buffet dinner priced at $5.00 separately)

9.30pm – Q&A

10.00pm – END

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**Best of Shnit 2011 Winners (M18), approx. 70 mins

Fri, 16 Dec 2011

Sinema Old School

7.15pm**

“shnit” means funky, freaky, and full of style, something shnitty is unique and extraordinary in any positive way!

Shnit International Shortfilmfestival 2011 was first screened at Cathay Cineleisure from 7 – 9 October 2011.

This screening is the award winning films voted by the audience worldwide.

15 Summers Later (winner SMART JOE) 5 mins, Spain Laila and Aksel, a couple in their late twenties, relax at a beach in the Trondheim’s fjord during a sunny day. Then Halvard, one of Laila’s old classmates, shows up unexpectedly. They haven’t seen each other since their schooldays but Halvard has some vivid memories to share with Laila.

DER BESUCH (The Visit)  (winner MAGIC JACK) 8.5 mins, Animation, Germany A tragicomical story about an old woman who, to the consternation of her son, is preparing dinner in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends.

Fantasy, dream or reality? Does it make any difference? Trailer:  http://vimeo.com/23826701

The Hidden Smile ( El somriure amagat)  (winner LONG JOHN) 13 mins, Spain In the style of a realist fable, a reflection on the values that come about in a society made up of children.

The path of initiation taken by a 10-year-old boy who arrives to the Ethiopian capital after running away from home, and his encounter with a group of street children. Trailer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoGy2uCTWBU

Guet Apens (winner AUDIENCE AWARD) 8.45 mins, France Jacques is an old man living a peaceful retired life. As he’s coming back from his daily walk through his neighborhood, he’s attacked by two men who force themselves into his apartment. They want money and they will do anything to find it. But Jacques hasn’t lost the battle yet…

Suiker (nomination AUDIENCE AWARD) 9 mins, Netherlands Bert’s scantily dressed neighbour, Klaasje, comes by to borrow a cup of sugar. Then things get steadily and comically worse.

Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3237846297/ 

Armadingen (nomination AUDIENCE AWARD) 23 mins, Germany Walter lives together with his wife Helga on his farm in the North of Germany; they don’t have a lot to say to each other anymore. When Walter is cutting the hay, he hears in the radio that a gigantic asteroid is racing towards the earth and that there’s no hope for saving the world anymore. As he doesn’t know how to tell his wife, he just hides those news from her.

Trailer:  http://www.armadingen.de/

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Sinema Showoff 2011 – Curator’s Pick

Fri, 16 Dec 2011

Sinema Old School

8.30pm

Film list to be out soon! PHP 5.x