Special Interest

The program series special interest show topic-specific films that are assigned to a particular film genre at each time.

  • Best-of Talent Screen
  • Dok Block 1 & 2
  • Dolce Vita
  • shnit experimentiert 1 & 2
  • Song & Dance Clips
  • Queershnit
  • Zauberlaterne

Best-of TALENT SCREEN

Talent Screen searches for future director stars. The best works of the MOVIE MARATHON, the legendary 48h film competition from Zurich on the big shnit screen.

Saturday, 10 October, 17:00 – 18:30, Kino Rex
The films: surprise

Dok Block 1

The unique documentations scintillate with an undreamed depth and precision. The short documentations scent phenomena of our society like no other genre.

Friday, 9 October, 23:00 – 00:30, Kino Rex

De wereld als verzameling | Davidse Koert | 13min | doc (NED 2007)
NKP | Grasso Stéphane, Shu Michael | 1min | doc (CAN 2009)
Warten | Giorgio Andreoli | 12min | doc (SUI 2009)
Christmas with Dad | McCormack Conor | 12min | doc (GBR 2008)
Living-Room Dancers | Genoux Bastien | 20min | doc/exp (SUI 2009)
Strip.Tease | Attila V.Nagy | 7min | doc (HUN 2006)
Ma Bar | McDowall Adrian, Pretsell Finlay | 12min | doc (GBR 2008)

Dok Block 2

Saturday, 10 October, 21:00 – 22:30, Kino Rex

Mama, L’Chaim! | Elkan Spiller | 5min | doc (USA/BEL/GER 2008)
Steel Homes | Eva Weber | 10min | doc (GBR 2008)
Not dead yet | Rode Harding | 15min (AUS 2009)
Féminin, Masculin | Sadaf Foroughi | 9min | doc (RSA/IRI 2007)
Socket | Patricio Garcia | 10min | doc/fic (ARG 2007)
Urubus Têm Asas | Marcos Negrão, André Rangel | 15min | doc (BRA 2008)
Calling Home | Eduarda Andrade Maria, Starobinas Marcelo | 12min | doc (GBR 2008)

Dolce Vita

For six years cinedolcevita inspires seniors with an afternoon cinema program. For the first time, cinedolcevita shows a selection of Swiss short films at the festival’s setting.

Saturday, 10 October, 13:00 – 14:30, Aula PROGR

Wieder ein Tag | Kerstin Polte | 13min | fic (SUI 2007)
La cle des champs | Floriane Closuit | 14min | fic (SUI 2007)
La Valise | Kaveh Bakhtiari | 12min | fic (SUI 2007)
Null Grad | Claudia Lorenz | 3min | doc (SUI 2006)
Yaptik-Hasse | Edgar Bartenev | 20min | doc (RUS 2006)
El día del euro | Cecilia Barriga & Claudia Lorenz | 6min | doc (SUI 2008)

shnit experimentiert 1

An expedition in the realm of experimental short films – between visual oasis’s and small stories.

Saturday, 10 October, 22:00 – 23:30, Kornhausforum

Birdcalls | Malcom Sutherland | 5min | exp (CAN 2007)
E3 | Robert Seidel | 3min | exp (GER/GBR 2007)
Villa Mafia | Rimantas Lusvisius | 2min | exp (LTU 2006)
Weiss | Florian Grolig | 5min | exp (GER 2007)
We have decided not to die | Daniel Askill | o.11min | exp (AU 2004)
Text Field | Chirstinn Whyte, Jake Messenger | 1min | exp (GBR 2004)
Sally | Roel Wouters | 2min | exp (NED 2005)
TALIN | Rolf Hellat | 3min | exp (SUI 2007)
Air / Electric Performers | Jerôme Blanquet | 6min | exp (FRA 2004)
Painting Paradise | Barbara Hlali | 6min | exp (GER 2008)
Apoptosis | Takafuni Tsuchiva | 6min | exp (JPN 2008)

shnit experimentiert 2

Sunday, 11 October, 16:00 – 17:30, Kornhausforum

.nijnok | o.A. | 12min | exp (NED o.A.)
Parks on fire | Scott Pagano | 7min | exp (USA 2008)
Simone | Pleix | 3min | exp (FRA 2002)
Clean up | Sebastan Mez, Christian Trieloff, Christoph Arni | 10min | exp (GER 2008)
Underground | Audrey Lam | 4min | exp (AUS 2007)
The lonely Villa | Jesper Just | o.A. | exp (USA 2004)
A4 – Nima Yousefi | Nima Yousefi | 3min | exp (SWE 2007)
Watermelon Love | Woof Wan-Bau | 3min | exp (GBR 205)
The Power Chord | Blake Carrington | 1min | exp (USA 2006)
Alone | Gerard Freixes | 3min | exp (ESP 2008)

Song & Dance Clips

The music film series «Song & Dance Men» present the legendary «Take-Away-Shows» of the French Blogotheque.
www.blogotheque.net
www.myspace.com/songdancemen

Thursday, 8 October, 22:00 – 23:30, Kornhausforum
Friday, 9 October, 01:00 – 02:30, Aula PROGR
The films: surprise

Queershnit

This year shnit’s symbiosis and the lesbian-gay festival queersicht present a short film program with blinking and depth.

Friday, 9 October, 20:00 – 21:30, Kornhausforum
Saturday, 10 October, 01:00 – 02:30, Kino Rex

Go-Baek-Han-Jan | Sung-hyun Yoon | 5min | fic (KOR 2009)
Na koncu ulicy | Jenifer Malmqvist | 14min | fic (POL 2007)
James | Connor Clements | 17min | fic (GBR 2008)
Isolesces | Anton Steel | 10min | fic (NZL 2008)
Falling for Caroline | Christine Chew | 20min | fic (CAN 2008)
Soccarat | David Moreno | 10min | fic (ESP 2009)

Zauberlaterne

The kids film club Zauberlaterne presents in collaboration with Fantoche (Int. festival for animated film, Baden) an animated short film program inclusive sketch for young and old.

Saturday, 10 October, 15:00 – 16:30, Aula PROGR

Office Noise | Torben Søttrup | 4min | ani (DEN 2008)
The Happy Duckling | Gili Dolev | 9min | ani (GBR 2008)
What’s Next? | Claudia Röthlin, Adrian Flückiger | 4min | ani (SUI 2007)
Guidam dégomme | Rémy Schaepman | 7min | ani (FRA 2007)
La Valise | Isabelle Favez | 7min | ani (SUI 2009)
Red Rabbit | Egmont Mayer | 8min | ani (GER 2007)
Me and my Monster | Claudia Röthlin | 3min | ani (SUI 2008)
Girl and Robot | Mads Dam Jakobsen | 5min | ani (DEN 2008)
Le Petit Dragon | Bruno Collet | 8min | ani (FRA/SUI 2009)
The Incredible Story Of My Great Grandmother Olive | Alberto Rodriguez | 12min | ani (GBR 2009)