The KISFF programmers Sasha Prokopenko and Olya Gusiatynska have prepared an express tour of the festival's non-competition program for you and have selected several powerful short films so that you don't have to choose. These recommendations best illustrate our tastes and preferences and will help you understand what KISFF is all about.
Screening duration: 80 min
The films are screened in OV with Ukrainian and English subtitles
16 November, 19:15 Zhovten Cinema, Classic hall
Konstantinovskaya St, 26
17 November, 20:30 KINO42, Konstantinovskaya St, 11B
21 November, 20:35 Zhovten Cinema, Classic hall
Konstantinovskaya St, 26
FUCK ME, RICHARD
Lucy McKendrick, Charlie Polinger
USA, Australia / 2023, 14 min
A romance-obsessed loner finds herself swept up in a passionate long-distance love affair. Richard is perfect in every way, except that he may be a scammer.
DOG APARTMENT
Priit Tender
Estonia / 2023, 14 min
Ills of fortune have deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
THIS IS TMI
Subarna Dash, Vidushi Gupta
India / 2023, 6 min
The continually surprising and endlessly playful visuals in Subarna Dash and Vidushi Gupta’s animation are the perfect accompaniment to the lively and taboo-busting discussion of a group of young women.
MY OWN PERSONAL LEBANON
Theo Panagopoulos
Greece / 2020, 16 min
A short documentary film on the attempts of a young Greek filmmaker to connect with his distant Lebanese half by discovering his mother's secret stories of the war. The film explores the emotional tension between national and personal identity through a conversation in a car, two installations in Athens, a book about Beirut and three spoken languages.
THE BREAKTHROUGH
Daniel Sinclair
USA / 2022, 14 min
Jane and Teddy are on the brink of divorce. But when their marital problems come to a sticking point, they have an unexpected breakthrough.
MARTIN CRIES
Jonathan Vinel
France / 2017, 16 min
Martin cries. He is alone. He woke up in the morning and all his friends were gone. Disappeared. Just not there. He sets off to look for them.