SEA-Nordic FIlm Festival: Just a Home (Short Film Program)

Start: Sunday, September 15, 2024 10:00AM
End: Sunday, September 15, 2024 11:15AM

Film Descriptions: Just a Stone | dir. Eli Mai Huang Nesse | Norway | 2023 | 13 min How does one cope with the possibility that everything can suddenly collapse? In the film Just a Stone, we hear accounts of accidents and trivial near-accidents from people who grew up in areas prone to rockslides, and about their unique relationship with stone. The Power Grid | dir. Clara Bodén | Sweden | 2023 | 4 min There is a boy standing by a power plant in inland Norrland, near rapids that no longer exists because someone owns the water rights. The Grid is a personal film about growing up surrounded by rich natural resources, about power production, and the feeling that has developed from re-examining and questioning what surrounds us. A Home on Every Floor | dir. Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid | Norway | 2023 | 11 min A film inspired by a poem by artist and social commentator Hanna Asefaw. A visual coming-of-age story from a council flat in Grünerløkka, Oslo in the late '90s that depicts memories, nostalgia, and reflections on a childhood, with Hanna's voice as the cornerstone. A unique insight into human tragedy and warmth – across cultures and class. Spilled | dir. Dalia Al Kury | Norway/Jordan | 2022 | 4 min I can't seem to succeed teaching my kids Arabic, but I think I have succeeded them in teaching them some good old dark Arab humor. This film was inspired by my kids curiosity about my job as a filmmaker. It's based on an ongoing ´joke´ and a fantasy of mine as a frustrated Arab mom living in Norway. The film mixes home videos and some fictional footage and is shot with an iPhone on a lucky day trip while visiting our second home in Jordan. Oslo Syndrome | dir. Ayman Alazraq | Norway/Palestine | 2013 | 6 min The year 2013 brought the Oslo Agreement to the spotlight all over again. It brought me back to 20 years, to when I had a dream now lost. This dream haunts me again. I feel as if I’m sitting in a train station watching trains and people come and go. They all have a destination to reach as I wait for a train that might never arrive. Produced as part of the series Suspended Time, short films and video clips on the Oslo Agreement from the Palestinian perspective. LOOK! | dir. Magnus Lysbakken | 2023 | Norway | 27 min LOOK! is a testament to the magic of childhood and the art of storytelling. We follow a group of eight-year-olds through the winter. The moods and rhythms of their lives. A film about snow outside the window, tractors in convoys, children learning and breathing.