TUE 3 SEPT
The Muse ART GALLERY
269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR




Italian, German, Austrian &
Films from Switzerland


6 pm


DIO CHE MANTEGNA
by Flavio Sciolè. 5 mins U. Italy
Che Guevara meets Mantegna's Jesus

SITUAZIONE SITUAZIONISTA
by Flavio Sciolè 7 mins 12A. Italy
a tribute to situazionism

Sky(pe)
Riccardo Menicatti & Bruno Ugioli Comedy 7 mins. Italy. U.
From heaven, a father manages to video-call his son.

The double life of Kore Maria
Antonietta Mariani Documentary. 20 mins Italy 12.
Gaia, Nina, Teresa and Virginia are artists of the cultural scene of Rome. Signs, objects and relationships animate the creative process and the works. The interweaving of emotions and experiences of the protagonists returns a story poised between realism and magical thinking.

Skintone
Alberto Marchiori. Drama Italy. 10 mins. U.
Orlanda wants to give her niece a pair of ballet slippers for her dance recital. But finding them in the right colour is no easy task.

How the wooden structures survived in my mind
Thadeusz Tischbein. Art/Experimental. 9 mins. Germany. U
How do memories actually come about? Isn't it a process that involves both – forgetting and reinventing? This construction process of memories is symbolized in the film using architectural fragments, structures reminiscent of film sets as well as abandoned places.

THE ACTOR THE LIAR THE MURDERER
by Lessing Swanepoel, 20 min, Germany 2024 12
In the last days of their tumultuous relationship Julian and Lura are confronted with a life changing event and now must bear the consequences.

Bye Bye, Bowser
by Jasmin Baumgartner. Austria
20 min  (fiction). 15.
Luna rebels against the indifference of her artsy friends by writing a punk song about Laugo, the construction worker from across the street. The song goes viral and she decides to get to know him. When he stumbles into her reckless world with flowers in his hands Luna and her friends are amazed by his natural naive honesty. Will the clashing worlds of affluent neglect and working life lead to the collapse of their romance?

Piece
by Piece by Reza Rasouli 9 min (fiction). 12. Austria
Two teenage friends are roaming the neighborhood together and are having a conversation. The boy asks his friend about her headscarf, as a joke he rips it off her head and drives away. Afraid of the consequences of being seen, the girl runs after him. The unusual chase leads the two of them to new insights and a bit more openness.

FREY
CHRISTOF HOFER 20 mins 15
WESTERN, THRILLER Switzerland
WHERE IS JOHANNA FREY? SEPARATED FROM HER FAMILY AND SOLD INTO INDENTURED LABOR, YOUNG LUISA EMBARKS ON A SEARCH FOR HER SISTER, ON A JOURNEY BETWEEN REVENGE AND REDEMPTION.

STAY
LUCA CANALI. 10 mins. Horror. Italy. 15.
Just graduated, she works as an usher in her mother's theatre; the razor blade is her only companion as she faces her dreaded control round; she discovers that she is not as alone as she thought.

THE STOLEN EMBRACE
SIMONE GAZZOLA. Drama. 10 mins Italy. 12A.
Febe, a new-mom artist, is stuck at home, disconnected from reality. Not even the phone call of her husband and the crying coming from the cradle seem to wake her up.

CASTLING
FEDERICO YANG. 10 mins Drama. Italy. 15.
A young man, disappointed in human relations, moves into a tower in the middle of nowhere. However the pleasant solitude gives in to dreams of intimacy, but perhaps for the last time.

Merry Christmas, Mr Gorbachev
Domenico De Orsi Drama Italy 20 mins. 12A.
On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union and declared the office abolished. The news arrives in the Neapolitan apartment where a Moldovan exile and the orphaned son of a pair of PCI leaders live. A dialectical duel ensues, which is resolved by the equivocal appearance of Jennifer, a transsexual who seeks refuge to escape an attack.

Stargazing. A dialogue on creation between serial silence-killers
Niccolò Buttigliero. 7 mins Experimental-Sci-Fi. Italy. 12.
Lying in total darkness, two young immortals discuss whether it is time to create the World once again. A cosmogonic screwball comedy.

COMPLETENESS DENIED
ANTONIO MONTEFALCONE DRAMA / EXPERIMENTAL / SPIRITUAL Italy. 15mins 12
A representation in evocative, allusive and poetic images, music and words of a
state of mind of two parents devastated by the premature death of their daughter;
but also of the human and existential incompleteness to which the tragedy is like a Mirror.

THE STRONG MAN OF BURENG
MAURO BUCCI 75 mins. ITALY 12.
ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MIGRATIONS
Former soldier Essa has fled Gambia for Finland, where he has successfully set up a business that provides for his family and hometown: Bureng. But the coronavirus outbreak jeopardises Essa’s future.




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