2 July 2020
Kurz.Film.Tour

A short film programme from Germany at FilmRaumGoethe and on your couch at home.

Short films are exciting, innovative, entertaining and full of surprises. After Short Export, the Goethe-Institut Cyprus presents Kurz.Film.Tour, a different selection of short films that have been nominated or awarded the German Short Film Award. The programme will be presented on 14 and 22 July 2020 both at the Goethe-Institut in Nicosia and online.

Kurz.Film.Tour., a selection of short films that have been nominated or awarded the German Short Film Award, will be presented on 14th and 22nd July 2020 at FilmRaumGoethe - the newly renovated events hall of the Goethe-Institut in Nicosia - in a relaxed atmosphere of café and cinema, in a well-ventilated space in keeping with safety distance. At the same time, you can enjoy the films online on your couch at home. The German Short Film Award is the most important and highly endowed award for short films in Germany. It has been awarded to outstanding short film productions since 1956.

The programme

We Still Speak German Today
Clara Winter & Miguel Ferráez
Germany 2019 | experimental film | German | 16 mins.
German Short Film Award in Gold in the category for experimental films up to 30 minutes
A young man (co-director Miguel Ferráez) recites sentences from the integration course "Living in Germany" while standing in front of changing backgrounds of German representation abroad.

Are You Listening, Mother?
Tuna Kaptan
Germany 2019 | fiction | Kurdish, Turkish | 20 mins.
Nomination in the category for fiction films up to 30 minutes
A Kurdish woman is sentenced to six years house arrest in a Turkish village. However, her elder son cannot stop her from constantly crossing the invisible boundary of the shackles.

32-Rbit
Victor Orozco Ramirez
Germany 2018 | animation | Spanish | 8 mins
Nomination in the category for animated films up to 30 minutes
Victor Orozco Ramirez animates disturbing and insane scenes from the Internet with ghostly, surreal images. A voice-over tells of the promises of the virtual parallel world and the sobering realization that not everything can be undone with CTRL+Z.

The Last Five Minutes of the World
Jürgen Heimüller
Germany 2019 | Fiction | German | 8 mins
German Short Film Award in Gold for fiction films up to 10 minutes
The end of the world is imminent and instead of going to the supposedly safe bunker, a small, illustrious company arrives on a bench in front of a house to clear the air.

Dorotchka
Olga Delane
Germany 2019 | documentary | Russian | 20 mins.
Nomination in the category for documentary films up to 30 minutes
In a remote Siberian village where marriage is traditionally considered the highest happiness for women, lives 80-year-old Dorotchka. She is an archetypal babushka, always left alone. Sitting at the kitchen table, she reflects sharply and self-critically on love, remorse and loneliness.

To reserve your seat in our hall or request the password to tune in from the comfort of your home, please contact:
kultur-nikosia@goethe.de