WORLD SHORTS: BE THE COWBOY?
Thurs 9 July | 21:45 | Pálás Screen 3 | 76′
Cowboys, dreamers, outlaws, and wanderers populate this collection of international shorts. Exploring love, revenge, family, identity and transformation.
Films in our programme can include mature themes/adult content. Viewer discretion is advised.
Stamp On My Threshold Like a Cowboy
When a romantic encounter leaves a filmmaker with questions, she hands over the camera to her former lover and makes herself the subject. A film about the search for love and the ways we are made, and unmade, by others.
Director: Cicely Hadman
Producer: Stella Ramsden
Method Cowboy
When a struggling actor feigns being gay to land the role of a lifetime in an Oscar-bait Cowboy Western, he decides to transform himself for the role, blurring the lines between reality and performance.
Director/Writer: Carlos Valdivia
Producers: Julia Kennelly, Lucy Rennick, Karine Benzaria
Greenhorn
A young masculine-presenting woman must return home to help her estranged father, an ex-rancher, recover from a car accident – only to discover that reconciliation isn’t so easy when identity is at stake.
Director/Writer: Sabrina Way
Producers: Sabrina Way, Wayne Burns
Nocaretown
A ragged cowboy, a cult leader, a masked thief, a sweet grandmother and others are bound together by a wooden box that may – or may not – hold anything at all.
Director: Jose Alberto Casas Usandizaga
Producers: Luke Flanagan, Luke Wolsko, Luke Curnin, Leonardo Del Toro
Writers: Jose Alberto Casas Usandizaga, Luke Curnin
The Turn
In the unforgiving world of the American Southwest, two fiercely bonded sisters hunt justice outside the law, until a brutal act of vengeance forces them to confront the cost of survival, trust, and blood-soaked retribution.
Director/Writer: Ursula Rudorfer
Producers: Ursula Rudorfer, Patrick Duncan
Dobrina
Lotte Reiniger meets Sergio Leone in this animated short, where desire burns as bright as the desert sun.
Director/Producer/Writer: Hannes Rall
Animators: Hannes Rall, Ralf Bohde