Cinema St. Louis Film Series at .ZACK Continues with Screening of “Best SLIFF Shorts” on Feb. 13, 2017

Cinema St. Louis Film Series at .ZACK Continues with Screening of “Best SLIFF Shorts” on Feb. 13, 2017

Cinema St. Louis, the presenter of the St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), continues its new screening series,“Films @ SLIFF.ZACK,” with “Best SLIFF Shorts” on Feb. 13. The screening series takes place on select Mondays throughout the year at Grand Center’s .ZACK Theatre. The other 2017 dates are April 3, June 27, July 31, and Sept. 25. To help introduce “Films @ SLIFF.ZACK” to the public, the February screening is offered free. Tickets for subsequent films will be $13 general admission, $10 for Cinema St. Louis members and students.

Dianne Bellino’s The Itching

“Best SLIFF Shorts” screens at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at .ZACK, 3224 Locust St. Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The diverse eight-film program — which runs 126 min. — features the winners (and one honorable mention) of SLIFF’s juried shorts competition. The winners were selected from the 235 shorts that screened at the 2016 SLIFF. The fest’s narrative and documentary shorts programming is officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

A Facebook invite for this event can be found HERE

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Tamar Kay Yousef’s The Mute’s House

The program:

Best Local Short: “Talk Radio” (Jay Kanzler, U.S., 2016, 15 min.) Lou has spent so many years listening to talk radio that he’s now wondering whether there is actually any reason to live.
Best Short Short: “Women’s Christmas Night” (Oonagh Kearney, Ireland, 2016, 6 min., Irish) A radical and highly visual response to Séan Ó’Riordáin’s Irish-language poem.
Best International Short: “Home” (Daniel Mulloy, Kosovo/U.K., 2016, 20 min.) Two thrill-seeking criminals record themselves robbing homes.
Best Animated Short: “The Itching” (Dianne Bellino, U.S., 2016, 15 min.) A shy wolf tries to connect with a group of hip, party-loving bunnies but finds her body in revolt.
Best Live-Action Short: “Litterbugs” (Peter Stanley-Ward, U.K., 2016, 15 min.) A young inventor and a pint-sized superhero defeat the town bullies and find an unexpected friendship.
Best Documentary Short: “The Mute’s House” (Tamar Kay Yousef, Israel/Palestinian Territories, 2015, 32 min., Arabic, English & Hebrew) An 8-year-old Palestinian boy who lives with his deaf mother, navigates between the Jewish and Muslim areas of a city torn apart by hatred and violence.
Best Documentary Short Honorable Mention: “The Diver” (Esteban Arrangoiz, Mexico, 2016, 16 min., Spanish) A worker in Mexico City descends into sewage to unclog pipes.
Best of Fest: “Speechless” (Robin Polak, Germany, 2016, 7 min., German) A little boy lost in a department store bonds with a young mother who finds a way to communicate with him without words.

Jay Kanzler, director of Best Local Short “Talk Radio,” will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
For more information on the screening, visit cinemastlouis.org or call 314-289-4150.