Shorts Live-Action Competition 1
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5th Lux HallApollo Kino Plaza
Screening050519 / Shorts lühifilmi võistlusprogramm 1
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A seemingly lifeless body floats downstream, while a fragmented world occupies itself with other things.
On a quiet night in the biggest city of Southern China, a small-town migrant carwash worker encounters a strange customer who forces him into a decision that might change his life.
A young professor’s idyllic Sunday morning turns into a harrowing experience when he decides to take justice into his own hands.
In the wake of an “unfortunate incident” at the warehouse of an e-commerce giant, young manager Aneta is called to testify before an Internal Affairs committee. What starts as a formal hearing turns into a personal confrontation, causing a brutal clash with reality. Aneta must face more than a re-enactment of traumatic events - she has a moral choice to make, one that may impact her future.
In the first years of post-communist Romania, a father tries to shoot a VHS home video capturing his daughter’s meeting with Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. But what was supposed to be a simple recording spirals out of control when Santa keeps coming back. Again… and again… and…
Three self-obsessed strangers turn an ordinary dinner service into a symphony of misunderstandings worthy of the wildest review section.
A people-pleasing waiter sabotages his own evening trying to impress his boss; a self-conscious friend competes for attention at someone else’s birthday dinner; and two sisters turn a simple meal into a battlefield. Through quiet frustrations and misplaced priorities, the night unravels into an elegant mess of misunderstandings. No wonder this restaurant’s online reviews are so confusing.
The film explores the absurdity of everyday life by following the small setbacks and trivial conflicts of ordinary people from an extremely wide bird’s-eye perspective.