SUMMER TIMES

Belgium 2007, 22 min.
Director Marc Roels, Wim Reygaert

Lubbert is a young man who lives with his domineering mother in a small house in the country. Out walking one morning he encounters among others a strange group of would-be neighbours. Reality and imagination converge – with a nod to the old masters of the Flemish school of painting. Lubbert does not return alone.

UK 2009, 29 min.
Director Paul Wright

Forced to look after his disabled mother Aaron has grown up cut off from the outside world. Together yet apart they live a fragile life of isolation, haunted by memories that threaten to engulf them.

South Korea 2011, 33 min.
Directors PARKing CHANce ( PARK Chan-wook, Park Chan-kyong)

Deep in the woods, cutting through the fog, a man walks in carrying a fishing bag. He arrives at the edge of a river. The man leisurely goes about setting up his fishing rods and starts fishing. Hours later, night has fallen on the quiet riverside. The man hasn’t caught much fish and just sits, waiting. Just then, something big is caught on the fishing rod. It’s not something he can put on his dinner plate, but a mysterious young woman in white funeral dress crying in a little girl’s voice, call him “daddy” …

Festivals and Awards:
Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear