Solar Cinema, an international mobile outdoor cinema totally powered by solar energy, is this evening screening in Sliema a programme of short films from around the world entitled Enroute, about travelling to unknown places.
The following are short synopses of the films to be screened:
Bon Voyage by Fabio Friedli (Italy). Dozens of migrants climb on to an overcrowded truck. Their goal: to escape to Europe. What will await them? (6.13 mins)
Dem Dem! by P.B. Lopy, M. Recchia and C. Rolin (Senegal). A Senegalese fisherman finds a Belgian passport on a beach in Dakar and decides to use it. He soon crosses paths with N’Zibou, a wise man who measures the clouds and questions the man about his search for identity. (25 mins)
Disappeared by Anton Sokolov (Russia). Two are in a driving car. Stress and mystery is in the air during their trip. We can’t understand their goals and who they are to each other. They reach a final destination. Now they have to find out how they got there. (Two mins)
Journey Birds by Daphna Awadish (Israel). An Israeli animated short exploring the experience of migration and the notions of home and identity. (Nine mins)
The Essential: Signe-Sanne Oorthuijsen by Martin and Inge Riebeek (the Netherlands). Artists Martin and Inge Riebeek travel around the world to record the essence of life in their international video series The Essential. Signe-Sanne from the Dutch province Friesland: “You can have freedom, but it is better to feel free.” (Two mins)
Sand Wanderer by Eric Giessmann (the Netherlands). As the world starts moving around him, the young desert dweller decides to follow the footprints of his fellow tribesmen to the origin of natural forces and time. (Animation, 6.33 mins)
Der Tunnel by Marc Schmidheiny and Christoph Daniel (Germany). On his weekly train ride through Switzerland a student notices that the tunnel they are driving through is unusually long. (10 mins)
Ali’s Boat by Sadik Alfraji (the Netherlands). When Sadik left Baghdad, his nephew Ali handed him an envelope and asked him not to open it until he reached his home in the Netherlands. In it there was a drawing of a boat. (Seven mins)
The 75-minute screening starts at 8.30pm at Mortimer playground, next to Exiles Beach Club, Sliema. Admission is free. There may be changes to the programme.