Short Films 1

In this combined programme

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  Made in Taiwan

  • Short: As Long As It Takes

  An exciting fight between an American soldier and an eastern warrior with an uncertain outcome.
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  Beijing Holiday

  • Short: As Long As It Takes

  A satirical variation on the Hollywood classic Roman Holiday in which the political history of China and Taiwan is told as a bizarre fairy tale.…
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  Where Is Estel?

  • Short: As Long As It Takes

  Yesterday Estel joined the JROTC youth military programme… today she is just hanging out with her friends.
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  Odin’s Shield Maiden

  • Short: As Long As It Takes

  A beautiful elegy to a drowned fisherman by Maddin in the film language so characteristic of him.
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  Maria

  • Short: As Long As It Takes

  Melancholy documentary from White Russia about a tractor heroine famous in the Soviet era, now alone in her cottage in the country.
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  Las Vegas, New York, Blackpool

  • Short: As Long As It Takes

  No, not the real Robert De Niro, but the various people who have specialised as lookalike. The real De Niro is not amused.
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  The House

  • Short: As Long As It Takes

  An unusual fiction about the stunningly fast economic and social changes in Azerbaijan. A man refuses to leave his old cottage, that is on a…