SEEfest2023

Shorts at the Wende Museum: Through the Looking Glass

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15 films in package
Teatralna Station
Tymofii is a little pickpocket. He lives his normal life until he suddenly falls in love with the lady station officer at the Teatralna Station.
The Box
A young Slovenian family moves to a small factory town in the 1960s and shapes the brothers’ ideology of the time.
My Neighbour Wolf
Based on a true story, the last few inhabitants of a deserted village in Croatia live in extreme poverty and are left to fend for themselves against frequent attacks from wild beasts.
Horticulture
A Croatian couple has a holiday at their seaside apartment, only to find their local caretaker has befallen on tragedy.
Balls
The armies of six former Yugoslav republics have been getting together every year for over a decade for a football tournament in the name of peace, in almost complete media silence.
Moving Target
An ethnically mixed pregnant woman must embark on a 60-kilometer journey to a hospital to give birth through a war-stricken Croatian town, while defying her labor, grenades, and nationalist prejudices.
The Eagle's Nest
Two teenage VHS cinephiles fall in love under the weight of gloomier circumstances in turbulent Yugoslavia.
Stairwell (Am Gang)
Moments of everyday life as seen, heard and felt by the Austrian tenants of a stairwell.
The Score
A music composer returns to her childhood home in Sarajevo to finish composing a musical piece that would have defined her career had it not been for the Bosnian war.
Granny Sexual Life
Four old Slovenian women reflect on their memories of old times and how the relationships between men and women have changed dramatically since the first half of the 20th Century.
Ziva
Inspired by the Slovene national epic The Baptism of Savica, Ziva is the pagan goddess of love and prosperity.
Retreat
A Message From Future Bosnia
A community under siege came together in the city’s last synagogue so they could give to their neighbor's food, medicine, and hope.
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A tiny parcel shop in Berlin, which sends packages to faraway loved ones, offers the city’s Georgian community a slice of home.
Money & Happiness

SEEfest proudly presents a wonderful selection of short films in partnership with the Wende Museum.

The Box

My Neighbor Wolf

Horticulture

A Moving Target

Balls


The Eagle's Nest

Am Gang/Stairwell

The Score

Granny's Sexual Life

Živa


Retreat

A Message from Future Bosnia

Teatralna Station

1 Kilo - 3 EUR

Money & Happiness

Živa (The Death of the Goddess Živa) is inspired by the Slovene national epic The Baptism of Savica (1836) by France Prešeren. Živa was a pagan goddess of love and prosperity. The meaning of her name is Life, Alive, Living. The poem about the violent Christianization of the Slovenes depicts Živa as being replaced by Virgin Mary.


Nataša Prosenc Stearns

Slovenian born visual artist and filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns earned her BA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She moved to Los Angeles on a Fulbright Grant for her MFA at California Institute of the Arts. Her body of work ranges from single and multi-channel videos, video installations, short and feature films, video objects and print media. She is known for creative use of non-gallery spaces and large multi-channel installations. Her films Souvenir, (released by Cinema Epoch), The Trial of Socrates, (collaboration of 23 filmmakers), Hotel Diary and others explore innovative strategies in storytelling and visual expression.


Nataša's films have been shown in festivals such as SXSW, Brooklyn Film Festival, LA Short Film Festival, Chicago Independent Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives Berkeley, RedCat at Disney Music Hall in Los Angeles, Ibiza Cinefest, Films de femmes Paris, AVIFF Cannes and others; her artwork has been featured at the Venice Biennale, in Douloun Museum of Art in Shanghai, ARCO Fair in Madrid, Lancaster Museum of Art and Tel Aviv Museum of Art among others. She is a recipient of the Durffee and Soros Grants.


 Nataša lives in Los Angeles and in Ljubljana Slovenia.



  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    10 min
  • Language
    No dialogue
  • Country
    Slovenia
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  • Director
    Nataša Prosenc Stearns
  • Cast
    Natasha Maidoff, Danielle Viale, Isaac Silva, Jasmine Akakpo, Ellis Moye, Andrew English, Jack, Frankie Arounwong
  • Cinematographer
    Lisa Stoll, Nataša Prosenc Stearns
  • Editor
    Nataša Prosenc Stearns
  • Music
    Milko Lazar
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