Images Through Time - short films

Images Through Time - short films

Thu 11 9 | 18:15 Kino REX

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Five Season Of My Childhood
Il Grido Del Populismo
Like a Sick Yellow
Heroine - Necessary Objects

Five Season Of My Childhood

A journey through childhood memories brings nostalgia full of pain and love. Nothing is as it was in childhood; only memories roam freely and illuminate in retrospect. The environment and everything of that time has been violently ruined and altered by someone. Seasons have settled in the ruins of troubled memories.

Besim Ugzmajli - Born in 1986 in Ferizaj, Republic of Kosovo, Studied in University of Prishtina, Faculty of Arts – Film and TV Directing. He has worked as writer and director in the biggest film company in Kosova, and in these last years in his own company Figurina Film’s, where he made his most awarded short films such as: Forgive me, The Path, Beyond the Gates.

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Director

Besim Ugzmajli

Duration

15 min

Language

OV Albanian | German, English

Genre

Documentary, Animation, Short

Country

Kosovo

Year

2025

Distributor

Mailuki films

Il Grido Del Populismo

Intellectuals promise political change in Italy, offering clear visions and new hope. But their realization comes to an abrupt end, like a filmstrip that breaks. A reactionary government is born, based on hegemonic narratives. What once flourished is now instrumentalised and distorted by the cry of populists.

Born in 1985 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He studied sociology and philosophy at the Universities of Lucerne and Berne, receiving his Master in Sociology in 2019 that addressed conservative narratives in the American Tea Party. As a musician he also toured the world with various musical groups and was selected for an artist residency in Chicago. He obtained a Master of Arts in Film from the HSLU (Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art), where he also worked as a research assistant in three SNF-funded projects. He is currently working on a PhD on the reuse of old cameras and cinema equipment through modern technology and digital media. He is a member of DFG-funded Camera Studies Network.

Director

Julius Lange

Duration

15 min

Language

OV Italian | English, German

Genre

Documentary, Experimental

Country

Switzerland

Year

2024

Distributor

HSLU Studienbereich MA Film

Like a Sick Yellow

An immersion into Nora’s memory, where realities merge, the bad and beautiful intertwined until it’s all mingled and something else is formed. A tragedy foretold.

Norika Sefa holds a master degree from FAMU in Prague. She is best known for her 2021 debut film “LOOKING FOR VENERA” which established her as an emerging talent with a distinguished voice. The film won and was nominated for many prestigious awards, it also represented Kosovo for the Oscars.

Norika is a writer/director with a unique cinematic approach, who has also produced and edited her own work. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

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Director

Norika Sefa

Duration

23 min

Language

OV Albanian | German, English

Genre

Experimental documentary

Country

Kosovo

Year

2024

Distributor

Square Eyes Film

Heroine - Necessary Objects

A portrait with the aid of objects. The filmmaker sets out to find traces of her deceased sister. Fragmented memories mingle with material things. A journey into a world where the absent can be present too.

Liza T. Raheem was born and raised in Zurich in 1998. She studied video at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and has just completed her graduation film HEROINE - necessary objects.

Director

Liza T. Raheem

Duration

13 min

Language

OV Swiss-German | English

Genre

Documentary

Country

Switzerland

Year

2024

Distributor

HSLU Studienbereich Video