Summer Concert Gathering + Shorts

If the weather is bad, the screening will take place indoors

20:00 - Summer gathering with PALO SANTO session and food

21:30 - Shorts screening program

Launched in September 2023, -TOPIAS is an ongoing series curated by the SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA team. Each edition, another member of the team presents a film of their choosing, often combining it with conversation, performance and food.

Projectionists and writers, translators and cleaners, bar staff and social media managers, each team member brings their own unique perspective on cinema and a shared desire to help create a platform where stories that speak to and expand on their own lived experiences can be seen, heard and shared.

Grotesque figures and young flowers that bloom out of fear and love, trance-like meditations through flickering memory landscapes where the usual boundaries of space and time collapse, fever-dreams where mythical creatures and loved ones from past-lives converge: through these seven different filmic perspectives, the -TOPIAS SUMMER SHORTS screening program invites you on a kaleidoscopic cinematic journey.

Now, for the first time, the team join forces to present a collectively curated program of short films. From musings on tradition and family connections to stories of surreal summer nights and dystopian futures, expect a program that reflects a diversity of interests, ideas and sensations.

Taking place in the SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA garden, come early to enjoy music and food before the open air screening begins! (BH)

PALO SANTO captures the vibrant and musical essence of Colombia's Atlantic coast, reflecting the lively spirit of regions with similar climates. The band blends traditional instruments such as the alegre, tambora, maracas, gaita, and vocals with the rich tones of the electric bass and piano. PALO SANTO delivers a taste of Barranquilla's Carnival, the energy of a Vallenato party, and the intense heat that defines the region from which this music originates.

Selected by: Beth 
La Nueche
Diego Flórez, Spain, 2023, 8 min. Asturian with English subtitles

Selected by: Malve
HOMESICK
Bjørn Melhus, D, 14 Min. English

Isolated from the outside world, grotesque figures negotiate the pandemic state of emergency using language quotes from end-time movies. The video evokes fear, loneliness, illness, as well as threat and defence scenarios.

Selected by: Galo
I am a Flower
Ariel Victor, Germany 2024, 13 Min. English 
Just before emerging as a flower Sam spends a spa day with his mom.

Selected by: Duygu
Deep Sleep
Basma Alsharif, Greece, Malta, Palestinian Territories 2014, 13Min, Arabic

Deep Sleep by Basma Alsharif guides us through a trance-like passage of flickering Super 8 images and binaural sounds from the ruins of Malta, Athens, and Gaza, inviting others to dissolve the physical self and enter a collective cinematic space beyond borders, where memory and displacement blur and unfold.

Selected by: Florian
Postcards
Henri Plaat, Netherlands, 1973, 9 Min. No Dialog

Dutch avant-garde artist Henri Plaat is bringing to life postal reminiscences of strange places, foreign people and maybe even a tragic love story.

Selected by: Johee
I Am a Horse (나는 말이다)
Chaerin Im, KR, DK, 2022, Animation, 7 min, No Dialog

Where are the girls? Unable to find girls in the diverse artwork of the Korean artist Lee Jung-seob, I Am A Horse unravels an imaginative tale of women born with half of their bodies being a horse and a tiger. These roaming women are too fierce and free to match their given role as a daughter, wife, and mother in the patriarchal society. The tale is inspired by the Korean birth dreams (Tae-mong), of her mom when she was pregnant with her twin sister and herself.

Selected by: Rodrigo
Lo que perdí en el fuego
Sofía Ferraro, Argentina 2019, 10’, Serbian with Spanish subtitles.

From some remote village in the vast Pampas plains, comes this conversation from a Serbian woman who has experienced forced exile. What does identity mean to displaced people?

Selected by: Anand
Tear Garten
Sojin Kim, Germany 2021, 5’, No Dialog, KO/EN SUB
Type: Karaoke video/ digital poem (iPhone & stock videos) 5min 

The artist's failed love story from the past, in which she looks back while she takes a stroll at Berlin's Tiergarten, uses popular Korean music from the 2000s: Park Hyo-shin's Snow Flower, the main theme song for a Korean love drama called I'm Sorry, I love you (2004).