Before Żubroffka: Sundance Shorts

This year’s ŻUBROFFKA International Short Film Festival will take place in Białystok and Podlachia from 5th to 9th December. A few weeks before the Festival, we have the pleasure of inviting you to a unique short film feast! It will be a screening of the best short films from the iconic SUNDANCE festival!

ŻUBROFFKA Festival’s Before Party

SUNDANCE SHORTS 2018
November 15th, 6:30
Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street

free entry

Fuelled by artistic expression and limited only by their runtime, short films transcend traditional storytelling. They are a significant and popular way artists can connect with audiences. From documentary to animation, narrative to experimental, the abbreviated form is no longer just for the novice. Shorts have and will continue to be an important part of cinema, storytelling, and culture. The Sundance Film Festival has always been proud to treat short films with the highest regard and to give a home to new (and old) projects for audiences to discover and celebrate.

Maude
USA, 10′
Script and direction: Anna Margaret Hollyman
Teeny thought it was just another routine babysitting job—until she’s shocked to meet the client. As the day goes on, Teeny decides to become the woman she had no idea she always wanted to be … until she gets caught.

Baby Brother
USA, 14′
Script and direction: Kamau Bilal
The director’s baby brother moves back in with his parents.

The Burden
Sweden, 14′
Script and direction: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
A dark musical enacted in a modern shopping center, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

Hair Wolf
USA, 12′
Script and direction: Mariama Diallo
In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

JEOM
USA, South Korea, 4′
Script and direction: Kangmin Kim
A father and a son both have the same big birthmark on their butt. Believing that the two birthmarks are connected, the son scrubs his father’s birthmark to remove it—but he just can’t get rid of it.

Fauve
Canada, 16′
Script and direction: Jérémy Comte
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.

Matria
Spain, 21′
Script and direction: Álvaro Gago.
Faced with a challenging daily routine, Ramona tries to take refuge in her relationships with her daughter and granddaughter.

Total duration: 91 minutes

Organizer:
Białystok Cultural Centre – “GAG” FDC
Ad Arte Foundation / adarte.pl