Short not short: Kärlek och korruption

Short Not Short: Love and Corruption

Uppsala Short Film Festival screens two of the the best of new medium length films - longer than a short, shorter than a feature. It’s two modern city symphonies travelling between love and corruption with sharp observations and warm humour along the way, full of complexities and contradictions. Two medium length films taking their time, exactly as much as they need.

First Time (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany, 50 minutes)

Two boys meet on a round trip with the Hamburg U3 line. Something is born – not much, yet everything. The train runs through station after station. Lights change on the outside and inside. Everything is still, and in constant movement. Glances and silences, passengers and protagonists in the midst of silence, noise and music. The timeline of love could be a circle.

Temo Re (Anka Gujabidze, Georgia, 50 minutes)

Temo is an unemployed actor who drives around 100km a day on a scooter, performing the duty of a delivery man. The city becomes a gallery of broken dreams in this poignant but humorous black and white photo-roman adventure, in which a daily ride through the opulently dilapidated Georgian capital Tbilisi morphs into a nightmarish vision of poverty, corruption and estrangement.