Short Films 1

Combined programme | IFFR 2008

In this combined programme

Made in Taiwan
Short: As Long As It Takes
An exciting fight between an American soldier and an eastern warrior with an uncertain outcome.
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.…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…