SorsiCorti XIII – International Short Film Festival
Origins
Origins. After these thirteen years in which SorsiCorti has seen the way of making, seeing and interpreting Cinema evolve, we go back to the Origins. This complex term, that brings always new stories (the Myths of the Origin), takes us back to the primary interest of the Festival: short films. About ten years ago, when the Festival was just beginning, several distinguished film critics and experts, told me about the death of the short film. A type of cinema with no future (it reminds me of something …), a genre without a market and, dulcis in fundo, a format without reliable distributions. They invited us to focus on video clip, web series, or look for mixed forms between cinema, virtual reality, augmented reality … And we did it with great interest and curiosity from the audience and videomakers. But in the meantime, small masterpieces of short cinema flourished, unscrupulous directors were born devoted to the God of moving images, producers and distributors were born all over the world proud of the short film that proposed to us at SorsiCorti, entire lists of new and high quality productions. Initially from Russia, Spain, France, then Asia, Africa, South America. People who invested in a cinema “without market”. Extraordinary works and a reassuring freedom of expression made us fall in love a second time. After several “escapades” with new productions, our old friend, His Majesty “The Short Movie”, showed us that it was not dead. While we were looking for new languages, innovative multimedia forms of use, fashionable online platforms and captivating stories of docu-sci-fi-fiction-biotic-distopic-serial-interactive, we rediscovered the beauty of a simple story, of a well cared photograph, with careful and well-motivated images, the beauty of the commitment to put on a well-structured film set, with an authorial ambition, honest, humble, made of field work. On that field, never been as flourishing and fruitful as today, represented by the short film. So we are waiting for you on 10-11-12 May from 18.00 to 23.00 at Palazzo Steri for the XIII edition of SorsiCorti. Origins.
Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri
Piazza Marina, 61
Palermo
10.05.2019 h 18
KIMUAK: selection of Basque short films out of competition
The KIMUAK program, supported by the Basque Government’s Department of Culture through Etxepare Basque Institute, and the Basque Film Archive, was created in 1998 with the aim of promoting and distributing Basque short films internationally.
Every year Kimuak selects the best short films shot in Basque and having the collaboration of Basque technicians and actors. The selected shorts are gathered in a catalogue published on the label Kimuak, in order to promote and distribute them.
The catalogue is sent to the major festivals and audiovisual events, so the new selection is accessible to an international audience. SorsiCorti has had the good fortune to meet Kimuak since the first editions and SorsiCorti 13 offers out of competition a selection from the 2017 and 2018 catalogue.
Ab Alio by Iñigo Royo Etxezarreta, Iñigo Fernandez Ostolaza
Spain | 2017 | 9’06”
Aprieta Pero Raramente Ahoga by David Pérez Sañudo
Spain | 2017 | 15′
Areka by Andoni Egaña
Spain | 2017 | 7’19”
Espedizio Handia by Iban del Campo
Spain | 2018 | 10’30”
Kafenio Kastello by Miguel Angel Jiménez
Spain | 2018 | 19’01”
La Fiebre Del Oro by Raul De La Fuente
Spain | 2017 | 24’43”
No Me Despertéis by Sara Fantova
Spain | 2018 | 21’04”
Zain by Pello Gutiérrez
Spain | 2018 | 12’35”
10.05.2019 h 21:
Short films in competion
Birthday by Alberto Viavattene
Italy | 2017 | Fiction | 15’23”
Panic Attack! by Eileen O’Meara
USA | 2017 | Animation | 3’05”
Todos mis padres by Bernabè Rico
Spain | 2018 | Fiction | 15′
Floreana by Louis Morton
Denmark | 2018 | Animation | 4’05”
Y…¿Por Qué No? by Alberto Azcona
Spain | 2017 | Documentary | 11’50”
2nd Class by Jimmy Olsson
Sweden | 2018 | Fiction | 13’52”
Eat Art by Anna Tsukanova-Kott
Russia | 2018 | Video Art | 4’22”
The Land of the 3-Drink Minimum by Jeremy Speed Schwartz
USA | 2018 | Animation | 4’22”
La premiata compagnia Mastrosimone by Giovanni Battista Origo
Italy | 2017 | Fiction | 19’59”
Landscapes: Land Escapes by Milos Ajdinovic
Serbia/USA | 2018 | Video Art | 11’40”
What do they want? by Laurent Annoni, Charlotte Annoni
Switzerland | 2018 | Fiction | 4’39”
11.05.2019 h 18:
Short films in competion
Weltschmerz by Jesper Dalgaard
Denmark | 2018 | Documentary | 29’03”
Les trompes de ma mere by Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix
France | 2017 | Fiction | 12’10”
ST(R)AY by Chiang Yao
Taiwan | 2017 | Animation | 8’34”
Like a good kid by Arian Vazirdaftari
Iran | 2018 | Fiction | 20′
Iku Manieva by Isaac Ruiz Gastélum
Mexico | 2017 | Documentary | 7’30”
Cold Storage by Thomas Freundlich
Finland | 2016 | Fiction | 8’45”
Two Balloons by Mark C. Smith
USA | 2017 | Animation | 9’08”
Maria Sur Le Fil by Christophe Granger
France | 2018 | Fiction | 15’45”
11.05.2019 h 21:
Short films in competion
Hombre by Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz
Chile | 2017 | Fiction | 21’11”
Champion by Måns Berthas
Sweden | 2015 | Fiction | 19’24”
Rocco by Gerard Nogueira
Spain | 2017 | Fiction | 9’03”
Facelift by Jan Riesenbeck, Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Germany | 2018 | Video Art | 6’46”
Flutuar by Artur Serra Araújo
Portugal | 2018 | Fiction | 13’06”
Acquario by Lorenzo Puntoni
Italy | 2018 | Fiction | 15′
Moon-Magic by Carol M. Burger
UK | 2017 | Animation | 8’46″
Paradiso by Niccolò Gentili, Ignacio Paurici
Italy | 2018 | Fiction | 12’52”
12.05.2019 h 18:
Short films in competion
Birthday night by Omid Shams
Iran | 2017 | Fiction | 23’11”
Naufragés by David Arslanian
France | 2018 | Fiction | 16’18”
Translation of Ebb by Javad Abdolahzade
Iran | 2018 | Fiction | 13’41”
Egg by Martina Scarpelli
France | 2018 | Animation | 12’07”
Dante vs. Mohammed Ali by Marc Wagenaar
Netherlands | 2018 | Fiction | 28’11”
Kevlar by Tuna Özer
Sweden | 2018 | Fiction | 11’19”
Framed by Marco Jemolo
Italy | 2017 | Fiction | 7’21”
12.05.2019 h 21:
Short films in competion
Ccà semu by Luca Vullo
Italy | 2018 | Documentary | 30′
Near Change by André Sogliuzzo
USA | 2017 | Fiction | 9’35”
In Full Bloom by Maegan Houang
USA | 2017 | Fiction | 10’39”
Liebe und Revolution by Gabriel Tempea
Austria | 2017 | Documentary | 3’44”
Yousef by Mohamed Hossameldin
Italy | 2018 | Fiction | 14’16”
Per tutta la vita by Roberto Catani
Italy/France | 2018 | Animation | 5’19”
Red Light Green Light by Maegan Houang & Grace Kredell
USA | 2018 | Fiction | 7’25”
Machine by Ekaterina Volovich
Russia | 2018 | Video Art
Fino alla fine by Giovanni Dota
Italy | 2018 | Fiction | 15’22”
Take my breath away by Gloria Endres de Oliveira
Germany | 2018 | Fiction | 7’56”
Piccolo Teatro Patafisico
Piccolo Teatro Patafisico alle Comunità Urbane Solidali – Complesso Pisani (ex Manicomio), ingresso ASP, Via Gaetano La Loggia, 5 Palermo
17.05.2019 h 20.30:
Announcement of winners and closing party