Opening Screening
Thursday, 9 June, 19:00 - 20:30 / Kijkhuis 1
The opening screening of the Leiden Shorts film festival (open to the public) will be held in Kijkhuis, room 1.
Duration
90 min.
Lies, an eldery widow from the Dutch East Indies, has been living in the Netherlands ever since Indonesia became independent. She talks to her son on the phone on a daily basis, but doesn't want to burden him with the traumas of post-colonial turmoil that still haunt her every night.
She finds letters full of love her dad wrote her 15 years ago. Now she fights to get that love back.
Interested in its parallels with the fate of the Jaffa oranges, the filmmaker tells her father about her intention to film the last orange grove in Los Angeles. Their disagreement transforms the grove into a space for contemplation on the politics of storytelling in the multigenerational experience of Palestine in exile.
An immersive insight into the last hours of 13-year-old Sasha’s life in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care. He is one of the luckiest – an American family finally adopted him.
A young Black woman goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on her experience of raising a child in a country that feels nothing like home.
18-year-old school girl Shengnan enters a night of adventure in adults' world.