european short movies - fictions 4

A Kurdish family is waiting for help from American troops during the Iraq War in the basement of their collapsed house. Bombs are falling down around them. But somehow they stay in touch with their own, seemingly insignificant world, with all its small challenges.

Village Hmong de Cacao, French Guiana. When his grandmother gets sick, ten-year-old Ying, is in charge of getting medicines from the city. Along the way, an extraordinary event will happen.

Bénédicte (Béné) is a control freak and a huge fan of Tetris. She spends her time tidying up, arranging things and ideas so they fit neatly. With boys, she also has very strict rules. Her best friend Sybille has a more laidback outlook on life. She is more flexible, when it comes to relationships. One day, Béné gets angry at Sybille…

We all want to leave behind a little something for future generations to remember us by, a legacy. In his lifetime, renowed inventor Thomas Midgley cannot have foreseen the future ramifications of his work. This film tells the story of five characters whose well-intentioned actions all incur disastrous consequences.

Julie has made a choice. She has left her boyfriend to the thought of another man and that life will always be better where you are not. After making her decision Julie is haunted by memories and fantasy and is thereby confronted with her choice. In the end she has the possibility of altering her decision.

Walt Disney awakens in the future to discover he has been cryonically frozen for a few hundred years. On realising this, he suffers 'futureshock' - a psychological condition of shattering stress and disorientation. Too much change in too short a period of time.

A 40-something year old actress is in doubt about being able to take on the role of a young beauty-queen. Her personality splits into two, a young and old ego.