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Future Shorts Distribution is one of the world’s leading short film labels, representing an extensive and eclectic catalogue of original, award winning films from across the globe. A one-stop shop for broadcasters seeking the latest groundbreaking talent and content on the market...
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HIGHLIGHTS
INCIDENT BY A BANK
Dir: Ruben ÖstlundNew Europe Film Sales
Sweden 2009
A detailed and humorous account of a failed bank robbery: A single take where roughly 100 people meticulously recreate an actual event that took place in Stockholm in June 2006. Directed by Ruben Östlund, these events were witnessed first hand along with his producer Erik Hemmendorff while on the way to the Swedish Film Insititute. The film questions the reality of how, really, robberies happen, and what they might or, should, look like. “Making ‘Incident by a Bank’ is a way to correct the false images of robberies we see almost daily in action movies made in Hollywood,” says Östlund.
Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale.
Duration: 11.54
THE EXTERNAL WORLD
Dir: David O'ReillyGermany 2010
A boy learns to play the piano in this rather dark but occasionally humorous mediation on the anxieties and fears of a modern civilized society. Created as a lo-fi animation, “The External World” is a surreal seventeen-minute collection of vignettes which borrows themes from pop culture, cinema and videogames – classic and contemporary. Some have heralded this short as “a unique reconstruction of the universe” while O’Reilly recently noted in an interview, “I like creating experimental films that have an emotional function.”
Winner of Best Animation – Tampere Film Festival
Duration: 16.56