Stockholm Film Festival

Bygone Behemoth

by Harry Chaskin

Godzilla swirled his tail around Hollywood in Roland Emmerich’s blockbuster, while the less known movie monsters were reduced to scratched posters and midnight screenings. One of them is Behemoth,…
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iFestival screening

Bygone Behemoth (6 min)
Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness (10 min)
Junko's Shamisen (10 min)
The Man With 150 000 USD Prize On His Head (30 min)
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Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness

by Bryn Chainey

Jonah is floating around in outer space in a homemade spaceship. A tin can telephone connected to an answering machine is his only connection to human life. He tapes and repeatedly listens to…
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Junko's Shamisen

by Sol Friedman

Kabuki meets manga in this classic samurai saga about a young girl in her quest for vengeance. Written, produced and directed by artist Solomon Friedman, a variety of techniques have been used in the…
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The Man With 150 000 USD Prize On His Head

by Una Celma

Sculptor, art professor and State Secretary of his own tiny country Ladonia, Lars Vilks provoked Muslims all over the world when the Swedish newspaper "Nerikes Allehanda" published his drawing…
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Oppressed Majority

by Eléonore Pourriat

Eléonore Pourriat's short is set in a world with a reverse gender power structure. Female joggers strut around topless, and men who wear short pants can expect to be harassed. On what seems to be…
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Oranus

by Mari-Liss Bassovskaja, Jelena Girlin

The first scene in Girlin’s and Bassovskaja’s short compares the capitalist system to the human digestive system: if you keep feeding people with false promises and commercials, shit is bound to…
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Sister

by Michael Rittmannsberger, Sonja Aufderklamm

A couple takes their two daughters to the seaside. It is an ordinary day until one of the girls disappears and drowns. The parents cannot bear the loss and their other daughter goes searching for her…
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Twist of Fate

by Karen Aqua

We have reached a chapter in the history of mankind in which we are able to push our physical boundaries. We take pills in order to live longer, we can prevent all kinds of diseases with chemicals,…
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Vicky & Sam

by Nuno Rocha

Three scriptwriters are hanging out in a diner, brainstorming ideas for a romantic story. Meanwhile we see their meta-creation, ”Vicky and Sam”, play out in a video store, on the city streets,…
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