A huge congratulations to Pernille Kjær and Mathias Rodrigues Bjerre whose shorts Forår and Let Them Eat Cake has been selected for the Oscar qualifying festival in Odense.
Forår (2023), Pernille Kjær
Forår
Inside an old farmhouse, something is a foot. An old ritual. A half-eaten meal, a fly flits by, a speck of dust floats silently in the sunlight gushing through small grimy windowpanes. In the next room a woman noisily prepares a small offering. Biscuits and apple slices on a plate. It is custom to appease the house sprit with offerings such as these. For good fortune.
Forår is a short film rooted in Danish folklore.The incredible drawings are base on the nature and an old house in Thyholm, where the director lived. Pernille has cought the magic of this place.
Director: Pernille Kjær
Producer: Martina Scarpelli
Music and sounddesign: Sofie Johanne Birch and Thomas Ahlmark
Mix: Thomas Richard Guldsten Christensen
Forår is distributed by Bonobo Studio and Late Love Production
Let Them Eat Cake (2023), Mathias Rodrigues Bjerre
Let Them Eat Cake
A "Jeff Bezos" is an ambitious capitalist and businessman. This Jeff Bezos manages a local bakery and does everything in his power to satisfy his customers who are both impatient and picky. In the back of the store Jeff is secretly keeping thousands of small gingerbread men captured, forcing them to bake breads and sweets for the customers. But one day, when a cake man falls over and is baked in to the dough, the customers discover that they LOVE the new flavour! Striving to be the best, Jeff starts killing his gingerbread workforce, until there are none left. Only himself. And now there is no way back.
Director and writer: Mathias Rodrigues Bjerre
Producer: Katrine Dolmer
Composer: Tobias Dahl Nielsen
Sounddesign: Mads Hølmer
Cinematographer (live action): Rasmus Rørbæk
Cast: Louis Bodnia, Sandra Elsfort, Rasmus Borg Olesen
Let Them Eat Cake is produced by Angel Films.