Framed: Top Notch Shorts

These wonderful award-winning films have been screened at Cannes, Sundance, Annecy and are nominated for an Oscar. They are definitely worth a look! 

The following films are part of this shortsprogramme.

It's Nice in Here 
Robert-Jonathan Koeyers

It's Nice in Here is a fragmentary portrait of Crimson, a young black boy in the United States who is killed by a police bullet. The story is told through three perspectives; that of his best friend, a random bystander and a police officer.

16 min

Ice Merchants 
João Gonzalez 

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.

16 min
 

Granny's Sexual Life 
Urška Djukić & Émilie Pigeard 

14 min
 

The Flying Sailor  
Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis 

8 min
 

Letter to a Pig 
Tal Kantor

A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.

17 min