Festival O3 April 18, 2013

Istanbul Modern Cinema has prepared a short film marathon entitled Festival O³,merging three major short film festivals on a single day. With a “best of” selection from the Ottawa Animation Festival, which brought together the most talked about award-winning animations of 2012, and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the oldest short film festival in the world, the best shorts of 2012 will be screened in two colorful programs with scopes ranging from Israel to Finland, from documentary to animation, and from narrative to experimental film. The third program, Oscar Shorts, is a selection bringing together short films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards.

Oberhausen On Tour: International Competition

Thursday, 18 April, 13.00

Snow Tapes | Mich’ael Zupraner | Israel, Palestine | 2011 | 14’

Ersatz | Elodie Pong | Switzerland, France | 2011 | 4’

Malody | Phillip Barker | Canada | 2012 | 12’

The Elk Whisperer | Hirvikuiskaaja | Ilkka Rautio | Finland | 2011

I‘m Not Dead, Only Asleep | No Estoy Muerto, Solo Estoy Dormido Juan S. Lopez Maas | Netherlands | 2011 | 25’

Café Regular, Cairo | Ritesh Batra | Egypt, India | 2011 | 11’

Oberhausen On Tour: German Competition

Thursday, 18 April, 14.30

A Fistful of Rupies | Hannes Gieseler | Germany | 2011 | 10’

Item Number | Oliver Husain | Germany, Canada | 2012 | 16’

Plan B | Jasmine Ellis | Germany | 2011 | 4’

Achill | Gudrun Krebitz | Germany | 2012 | 9’

Doska Frank | Hanna Bergfors|Germany | 2011 | 20’

Poesie Des Zufalls | Poetry of Chance | Daniel Lang | Germany | 2012 | 14’

Best of Ottawa 2012

Thursday, 18 April, 16.00

Ballpit | Kyle Mowat |Canada | 2012 | 1”45’

A Morning Stroll | Grant Orchard | UK | 2011 | 6”47’

The Great Rabbit | Atsushi Wada | France | 2012 | 7’

Sunny Afternoon | Thomas Renoldner | Austria | 2012 | 6”50’ 


Nightingales in December |Rossignols en Décembre | Theodore Ushev | Canada | 2011 | 3’

Thunder River | Rivière au Tonnerre | Pierre Hébert | Canada | 2011 | 7”56’ 


I Am Tom Moody | Ainslie Henderson | UK | 2012 | 7’

Gum | Noam Sussman | Canada | 2012 | 1’

Primus 'Lee Van Cleef' | Chris Smith |USA | 2012 | 3”24’

Junkyard | Hisko Hulsing | Netherlands, Belgium | 2012 | 18’

Una Furtiva Lagrima | A Furtive Tear | Carlo Vogele | Luxembourg, USA | 2011 | 3”08’

Oscar Shorts: Animation

Thursday, 18 April, 17.15

Fresh Guacamole | PES | USA | 2012 | 2’

Adam and Dog | Minkyu Lee | USA | 2011 | 15’

Head over Hills | Timothy Reckart | UK | 2012 | 10’

Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare” | David Silverman | USA | 2012 | 5’

Paperman | John Kahrs | USA | 2012 | 7’

Abiogenesis | Richard Mans | New Zealand | 2012 | 5’

Dirpped | Léo Verrier | France | 2012 | 9’

The Gruffalo’s Child | Uwe Heidschötter, Johannes Weiland | UK, Germany | 2012 | 27’

Oscar Shorts: Live Action

Thursday, 18 April, 19.00

Asad | Bryan Buckley | South Africa, USA | 2012 | 18’

Buzkashi Boys | Sam French | Afghanistan, USA | 2012 | 28’

Curfew | Shawn Christensen | USA | 2012 | 19’

Death of a Shadow | Tom Van Avermaet | Belçika, Fransa | Belgium, France | 2012 | 20’

Henry | Yan England | UK | 2012 | 21’