Here is a 77-min collection of four long-form narrative shorts from around the world.
ADVANCED DELVONICS - In this stop-motion sci-fi tale, a character wakes up with no memory after surviving a storm. Given the name “T”, they find themselves helping a team that travels across the many universes. “T” eventually learns that this team – Advanced Delvonics – fixes the degrading universes by merging parts of adjacent universes to keep them whole. Advanced Delvonics seems to have good intentions, but “T” isn’t quite so sure.
SHAMAN - Welcome to Neo-Budapest, capitol of Hungary sometime in the near future! In this city of total collapse lives Lens, a young but dying seer. For good money -- using a hallucinogenic drug called "Shaman" -- he burns his visions of "the other side" onto photographic paper. When a private detective knocks on his door with a potential cure for Lens' illness, he shoots up some "Shaman" to find an important woman who's gone missing. Following the pictures on the photos, they embark on a journey into the apocalyptic ruins of Old-Budapest. But soon, Lens must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to in order to save his own life. In Hungarian with English subtitles
THE HOUSESITTERS - Erin and Matt are best friends, underemployed entertainers, and terrible housesitters. And when they find themselves staying at the site of an infamous murder, they begin to wonder if someone is trying to recreate the crime. Think “Will & Grace” meets “The Strangers.”
THE OPERATOR - The Operator follows Michael, a client contact associate as he starts another dull day of business as usual. Connecting long distance intergalactic calls from a remote satellite (not as exciting as it sounds); a bleary eyed and coffee fueled Michael receives a distress call. No one ever receives a distress call. They barely touch on distress calls during the induction day.
BEST ACTOR – Feature or Short
Tamas Mohai (“Lens”)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS - Short
Shaman
SHAMAN
Welcome to Neo-Budapest, capitol of Hungary sometime in the near future! In this city of total collapse lives Lens, a young but dying seer. For good money -- using a hallucinogenic drug called "Shaman" -- he burns his visions of "the other side" onto photographic paper. When a private detective knocks on his door with a potential cure for Lens' illness, he shoots up some "Shaman" to find an important woman who's gone missing. Following the pictures on the photos, they embark on a journey into the apocalyptic ruins of Old-Budapest. But soon, Lens must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to in order to save his own life.
In Hungarian with English subtitles
Director Biography - Robert Odegnal
Róbert is orginally a graphic designer, gradually growing himself out into film directing and screenwriting. Besides working in the film industry he teaches graphic design and animation in an art school. Róbert graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Art in 2003 specialized in graphic design. His diploma work was the sci-fi graphic novel The Developer, which won the most prestigious comic book award in Hungary, and later the Best Artist awards at the Eurocon sci-fi festival in Kiev. After finishing university he attended a screenwriting school at the Central European University, then continued his cinematography studies in the Analog Artist Film School learning film directing. His recent short film Single Player (2017) is about one of the greatest psychological problems of young adults: game addiction. Single Player is currently on its festival tour. As a screenwriter, Róbert is currently developing a science fiction series for HBO Europe in co-production with Áron Horváth.
- Year2022
- Runtime19 minutes
- LanguageHungarian
- CountryHungary
- PremiereWorld Premiere
- DirectorRobert Odegnal
- ScreenwriterRobert Odegnal
- ProducerVekes Csaba & Panna Boros
- CastTamas Mohai, Franciska Farkas, Laszlo Attila Horvath, Mercedesz Ersek-Obadovics, Kiss Gravi Andras, Balazs Gotthardi, Gergely Paradi, Jumpcut Studio, Milan Kovacs
Here is a 77-min collection of four long-form narrative shorts from around the world.
ADVANCED DELVONICS - In this stop-motion sci-fi tale, a character wakes up with no memory after surviving a storm. Given the name “T”, they find themselves helping a team that travels across the many universes. “T” eventually learns that this team – Advanced Delvonics – fixes the degrading universes by merging parts of adjacent universes to keep them whole. Advanced Delvonics seems to have good intentions, but “T” isn’t quite so sure.
SHAMAN - Welcome to Neo-Budapest, capitol of Hungary sometime in the near future! In this city of total collapse lives Lens, a young but dying seer. For good money -- using a hallucinogenic drug called "Shaman" -- he burns his visions of "the other side" onto photographic paper. When a private detective knocks on his door with a potential cure for Lens' illness, he shoots up some "Shaman" to find an important woman who's gone missing. Following the pictures on the photos, they embark on a journey into the apocalyptic ruins of Old-Budapest. But soon, Lens must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to in order to save his own life. In Hungarian with English subtitles
THE HOUSESITTERS - Erin and Matt are best friends, underemployed entertainers, and terrible housesitters. And when they find themselves staying at the site of an infamous murder, they begin to wonder if someone is trying to recreate the crime. Think “Will & Grace” meets “The Strangers.”
THE OPERATOR - The Operator follows Michael, a client contact associate as he starts another dull day of business as usual. Connecting long distance intergalactic calls from a remote satellite (not as exciting as it sounds); a bleary eyed and coffee fueled Michael receives a distress call. No one ever receives a distress call. They barely touch on distress calls during the induction day.
BEST ACTOR – Feature or Short
Tamas Mohai (“Lens”)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS - Short
Shaman
SHAMAN
Welcome to Neo-Budapest, capitol of Hungary sometime in the near future! In this city of total collapse lives Lens, a young but dying seer. For good money -- using a hallucinogenic drug called "Shaman" -- he burns his visions of "the other side" onto photographic paper. When a private detective knocks on his door with a potential cure for Lens' illness, he shoots up some "Shaman" to find an important woman who's gone missing. Following the pictures on the photos, they embark on a journey into the apocalyptic ruins of Old-Budapest. But soon, Lens must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to in order to save his own life.
In Hungarian with English subtitles
Director Biography - Robert Odegnal
Róbert is orginally a graphic designer, gradually growing himself out into film directing and screenwriting. Besides working in the film industry he teaches graphic design and animation in an art school. Róbert graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Art in 2003 specialized in graphic design. His diploma work was the sci-fi graphic novel The Developer, which won the most prestigious comic book award in Hungary, and later the Best Artist awards at the Eurocon sci-fi festival in Kiev. After finishing university he attended a screenwriting school at the Central European University, then continued his cinematography studies in the Analog Artist Film School learning film directing. His recent short film Single Player (2017) is about one of the greatest psychological problems of young adults: game addiction. Single Player is currently on its festival tour. As a screenwriter, Róbert is currently developing a science fiction series for HBO Europe in co-production with Áron Horváth.
- Year2022
- Runtime19 minutes
- LanguageHungarian
- CountryHungary
- PremiereWorld Premiere
- DirectorRobert Odegnal
- ScreenwriterRobert Odegnal
- ProducerVekes Csaba & Panna Boros
- CastTamas Mohai, Franciska Farkas, Laszlo Attila Horvath, Mercedesz Ersek-Obadovics, Kiss Gravi Andras, Balazs Gotthardi, Gergely Paradi, Jumpcut Studio, Milan Kovacs