SCIFF - Scandinavian International Film Festival

Kulttuurikeskus Caisan indie-elokuvafestivaali keskittyy polttavia globaaleja kysymyksiä käsitteleviin elokuviin, joita Suomessa muutoin harvoin esitetään 5.-6.10.2018.

Festivaalin teemoja ovat monimuotoisuus, yhdenvertaisuus ja tasa-arvo, rasismi, köyhyys, pakolaisuus ja ihmisoikeudet.

Vapaa pääsy
K16

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Day 1 / Friday 5.10.2018

11.00–12.00

The Kidnapping
Swe 2018 | Anders Ekman
Two men kidnap a man to get him to tell company secrets. But what is true and who can you trust nowadays?
Fiction | 11 min
Language: Swedish | Subtitles: English

Boom goes Julian
Aus 2018 | Stevie Big Gee
Julian Assange, heaven sent to expose the horrible truths hiding behind the zeros and ones around the world.
Animation | 4 min
Language: English | Subtitles: -

Rich Is the Life
UK 2018 | Tim Baxter & Jack Leigh
When Marko Lauronen was diagnosed with manic depression he realised he could no longer function in mainstream society and decided to rekindle his boyhood obsession for gold prospecting.
Documentary | 10 min
Language: English | Subtitles: English

Nå (Now)
Nor 2018 | Gianmarco Donaggio
Little is known and little is told of the final step of a man’s life. As it is the shortest and the most mysterious one.
Experimental | 13 min
Language: Norwegian | Subtitles: English

9 to 5
Gre 2018 | Filippos Tsapekis
A world where being tired is prohibited.
Fiction | 12 min
Language: Greek | Subtitles: English

The Desolate One
UK 2017 | Daniel Boocock
A mythic and elusive figure is hunted by an enemy deep into the wilderness.
Fiction | 7 min
Language: English | Subtitles: English


12.30–13.55

The Hunt
UK 2018 | Niall T Caimbeul
For centuries, men from Ness in the Isle of Lewis have sailed each summer to the tiny island of Sùlaisgeir, 40 miles to the north, to collect their harvest of seabirds.
Documentary | 59 min
Language: English | Subtitles: -

We Are (Water)
Ita 2018 | Giovanna Senatore
The life of every living being is linked to water. The sea preserves memories that men try to forget. The Lady of the Sea, a Mermaid, recites her sad poetry.

Blessed Days
Fra 2017 | Valentina Casadei
Adèle, an 85 year old lady, is mourning the loss of her husband after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together.
Fiction | 13 min
Language: French | Subtitles: English

Sweet Things
Nor 2017 | Henry K. Norvalls
A photographer meets a potential employer for an interview, but quickly understands that they have different expectations for the meeting.
Fiction | 8 min
Language: Norwegian | Subtitles: English


14.15–15.15

Bam Bam
Aus 2018 | Jemma van Loenen
Muslim boxer, Bianca ‘Bam Bam’ Elmir, aims to be the first Australian to win a World Amateur Boxing Championship.
Documentary | 62 min
Language: English | Subtitles: -

The Desolate One, 2017
Animation | 2 min
A mythic and elusive figure is hunted by an enemy deep into the wilderness.
Language: English, Italian | Subtitles: English


15.30–16.15

Vibrations
Kuwait & Jamaica 2018 | Zahed Sultan
The film traces the steps of a Kuwaiti multimedia artist and social entrepreneur, Zahed Sultan, whose grassroots approach to work in social causes and music are the inspirati-on for a recording project that takes him to uncharted territory – Jamaica.
Documentary | 45 min
Language: English | Subtitles: -


16.30–17.00

Mother Tongue
Can 2016 | Md Nadim Iqbal
A story about a man who risked his life to save his culture, his heritage, his language. Fiction | 12 min
Language: English | Subtitles: English

Meeting MacGuffin
USA 2017 | Catya Plate
In a post-apocalyptic future, a group of scientists and an animated sign complete the construction of a new human race and meet a groundhog climatologist who prepa-res them for their mission to restore balance to the decimated Earth.
Fiction | 10 min
Language: English | Subtitles: -


17.45–19.20

Under the Sun
Fin 2017 | Emma Kinni
What does it mean to be a woman in India? This is what the poetic, experimental documentary film asks through Emma, 26 year-old independent filmmaker from Finland.
Fiction | 60 min
Language: English | Subtitles: English

It's Not Silence
Fin 2018 | Joonas Salo
Far north, in the isles of Svalbard, is a small town called Pyramiden that was once the finest model of communism.
Documentary | 25 min
Language: English | Subtitles: English

A Ferry Tale
Tur 2018 | Mehmet T??l?
This short film is about a father and his two autistic children. They get on ferry in a wintry day.
Fiction | 10 min
Language: Turkish | Subtitles: English


19.30–20.05

A Walk in the Park
Bel 2018 | Dieter-Michael Grohmann
Morning sport in the park ends very diffe-rently than planned.
Fiction | 6 min
Language: English | Subtitles: English

Skin
Aus & NZ 2017 | Emma Blakey
Skin is a fantasy drama based on Celtic folklore of selkies, seals that can shed their fur and walk ashore as humans.
Fiction | 17 min
Language: English | Subtitles: English

Rotation
Spa 2017 | Alberto Martín-Aragón
Two people wander through a desert town. Sometimes they talk each other as strangers and sometimes as old friends. Who are they?
Experimental | 8 min
Language: Spanish | Subtitles: English


20.15–21.45

Kyrsyä – Tuftland
Fin 2017 | Roope Olenius
A headstrong textile student tries to overcome her problems by accepting a summer job offer from an isolated and offbeat village of Kyrsyä.
Fiction | 89 min
Language: Finnish | Subtitles: Finnish

22.00–22.50

Villa Warna Warni
Ger 2017 | Dennis Köppl
How a surf trip in Indonesia turned into a social project that provides a home and access to education for the kids of Nias
Documentary | 46 min
Language: German | Subtitles: English

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Day 2 / Saturday 6.10.2018

11.00–12.25

Merry-Go-Round
Ukr 2018 | Ihor Podolchak
Somnambulistic circus Ribera&Velazquez welcomes everyone to the show “Merry-Go-Round”, where shadows, that escaped the platonic cave, turn the carousel in the foggy catacombs.
Experimental | 5 min
Language: - | Subtitles: -

Restoration: A Refugees’ Story
Can 2017 | Patrick Mugosa
Restoration: A Refugees’ Story is a docu-mentary exploring the transformed lives of African immigrants who found refuge in Canada through this country’s resettlement program.
Documentary | 30 min
Language: English | Subtitles: English

EGO SUM! (I AM!)
Brazil 2015 | Waner Biazus
It's a rainy night. A priest and an amateur filmmaker are shooting a documentary in a church. Unintentionally, they both are involved in a millennial conflict.
Fiction | 25 min
Language: Portuguese | Subtitles: English

Paleonaut
Jap 2017 | Eric McEver
A scientist studying the first human time traveler falls in love with her subject. If her research succeeds they will become separated by eons of history. Fiction | 16 min
Language: English | Subtitles: -

The Drifter Who Loved Books
Kulkuri, joka rakasti kirjoja
Fin 2017 | Hanneriina Moisseinen
The film tells a story Matti Pohto (1817–1857) who spent all his adult life travelling around Finland pulling a sleigh loaded with books - poor, homeless and unknown. Now some of these books are among the greatest treasures in the Finnish National Library.
Animation | 4 min
Language: Finnish | Subtitles: English


13.00–14.15

SHE
AE 2017 | Philip Rachid
SHE paints intimate portraits of seven women based in the UAE, each defining through their life experiences and accomplishments what it takes to be a woman trying to realize her goals, hopes and dreams.
Documentary | 10 min
Language: Arabic | Subtitles: English

Wild Beasts
Nor 2017 | Sverre Kvamme
In the middle of the winter in Northern-Norway and surrounded by a wild group of kids, a young boy’s impulses are affected by his attraction to his best friend.
Fiction | 10 min
Language: Norwegian | Subtitles: English

Bjarne Hates the Camera
Nor 2018 | Weronika Nitsch
BA story of a foreign filmmaker who invades the life of her neighbor Bjarne. Who is he? A relationship rarely caught on film is born - full of absurdities, warmth and humor.
Documentary | 40 min
Language: Norwegian | Subtitles: English

A Dark and Stormy Night
Synkkä ja myrskyinen yö
Fin 2018 | Aleksi Mörttinen
A married couple's passionate Saturday evening is interrupted by what appears to be a blackout. In reality, a dark force has crept into their lives to destroy their happiness.
Fiction | 14 min
Language: Finnish | Subtitles: Finnish


15.00–17.05

Madagasikara
USA 2018 | Cam Cowan
Three resilient women fight for better futures for their children in one of the most misunderstood countries in the world – Madagascar.
Documentary | 85 min
Language: Malagasy | Subtitles: English

Puppet Master
Fin 2018 | Hanna Bergholm
The Puppet Master is a fantasy drama with horror elements. It combines actors and puppets in a poetic story about longing for love, living in an objectifying relationship and clinging to another person.
Fiction | 15 min
Language: Finnish | Subtitles: -

The Tree of Poison
Rus 2017 | Anastasia Nezhivaia
On the battlefield in the middle of the desert a poisonous tree grows up from the blood of the dead warriors.
Animation | 4 min
Language: English | Subtitles: English

Spectrum
Mol 2018 | Igor Sadovski
A tragic accident, the husband died, the wife, Eva, seriously injured, remains alive. Mirrors become Eve's nightmare - something unreal haunts the house.
Fiction | 20 min
Language: Romanian | Subtitles: English


17.30–19.10

The Forest
Rus 2017 | Roman Zhigalov
Danila is sixteen. Katya is twice his age. He spends hours watching her out of the corner of his eye from an old shed on the edge of the forest.
Fiction | 96 min
Language: Russian | Subtitles: English


19.15–20.30
Blood and the Moon
Ita 2017 | Tommaso Cotronei
Child marriage around the region of Al-Qaeda. What can happen in the mind of a child bride who is hampered the possibility of a healthy mental and physical development?
Documentary / Experimental | 76 min
Language: Arabic | Subtitles: English


21.00–21.55
Domisiladore
Fra 2018 | Diane Dugast
A refugee arrives in France not knowing the
language. He encounters a variety of strangers and gets into trouble while looking for a certain address.
Fiction | 55 min
Language: French, Arabic | Subtitles: English

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