Short Films - Your Voice
Runtime: 62 min. | Recommended Ages: 12-14
The films are screened under Greek subtitles
Shorts in this lineup:
WOMEN OF VIRTUE
Fiction by Stéphanie Halfon I 30min I France
Etel, a 9-year-old girl who lives in the Hassidic community in Paris, gets her period for the first time. Myriam, her mother, finally looks at her as if she were a woman. Etel is blessed, until she finds out that in her religion, women are considered impure when they have their period.
THE ARTICHOKE SEASON
Fiction by Orna Rottenberg I 9min I Israel
Childhood fantastic memories of 10-year-old Rosalie in a Jerusalem slum, after her father leaves home.
SIERRA
Animation by Sander Joon I 15min I Estonia
Parents often push their children to follow their steps. In this case, the father's obsession with the rally turns the kid into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra takes us into the surreal car racing world.
is in the Academy Awards® Shortlist
ICE MERCHANTS
Animation by João Gonzalez I 14min I Portugal
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.