Short Film Day at Panora with contributions from the Academy of Fine Arts

Students from Malmö Art Academy are participating in the Panorama Art Film Festival in Malmö.

On the shortest day of the year, we will be showing ten short films made by students at Malmö Art Academy. The event is part of Short Film Day at Panorama and is organised by: Folkets Bio Malmö, Malmö Art Academy, ABF Malmö. Short Film Day is supported by the Swedish Film Institute and Folkets Bio.

Below are descriptions of the short films that will be shown during the event:

SPRING IS FOR SOWING (2025)

Regi: Vigga Heisselberg Wæhrens
Length: 08:36 min 

Årstiderna är förknippade med naturens cykler, men kategoriseras främst utifrån jordbruket. Filmen visar repetitiva, cirkulära rörelsemönster som pendlar mellan lantbruksarbete och ritualer – och det som finns däremellan.  

ECHO / JEKA (2025)

Regi: Jelena Pajić
Length: 11:45 min
Language: Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles: English 

Set on the Adriatic coast of Croatia, the film follows my father as he builds a house in the city where our family sought refuge during the Yugoslav wars. This short version provides an intimate glimpse into a larger documentary project that explores memory, resilience, family relations, and the politics and poetics of life in the Balkans.    

GODSIBB, GOSSIB, GOSSIP (2025)

Regi: Othilia Hoby Leth
Length: 17.05 min 
Language: Danish
Subtitles: English 

Through a series of conversations between women who have recently become mothers, Godsibb, gossib, gossip examines the etymological and cultural transformation gossip—from the Old English godsibb, referring to god parents, and later, the women who take care of other women after childbirths. These dialogues— partly documentary, partly re-enacted—move between personal narrative and collective reflection, as the nature of gossip and the politics of speaking together is examined.  

IN THE LANDSCAPE (2023)

Regi: Andrea Sitara Gran 
Length: 06:45 min
Language: Without dialogue
Subtitles: English 

In the landscape investigates the metal detector as a poetic tool. It relates to the private and the public through bureaucratic rule-breaking. The metal detector mediates a dialogue between the artist and the unknown substance of the soil (girl). Music by Daniele Di Girolamo.   

IN THE PALM'S EMBRACE, THEN WITHERED AWAY (2024) 

Regi: Lasse Schmidt Hansen
Length: 03:16 min
Language: English
Subtitles: English 

The film unfolds in a realm beyond the constraints of time and space, yet it is deeply rooted in the shared reality of our contemporary world. The narrative defies linear progression, weaving through moments and perspective.  

DOCKING (CARLSGATAN 22, 211 20 MALMÖ) (2024)

Regi: Elliot Hjälmrud
Length: 04:05 min
Language: Without dialouge 

Once a bustling port in Malmö's industrial heyday, the site now gives way to rising office buildings. We follow a worker’s cart moving through a structure caught between construction and completion, deserted and partially inhabited. The cart guides us through the newly mapped-out floorplans, mirroring the port area’s flux state, simultaneously being built up and dismantled.  

"COGNITIVE ACROBATICS: IMPULSE MANAGEMENT" THE UNSUFFERING (PERFORMANCE) ARTISTS (2025)

Regi: Cecilie Kappel
Length: 08:51 min
Language: English
Subtitles: English 

"Cognitive Acrobatics" are the mental exercises we do to change unwanted behaviours or consequences. We have named these mental exercises acrobatics because it is a method founded upon the extravagant movement of the mind needed to change your predisposed behaviours or patterns. “- The experts of Cognitive Acrobatics.   

WO EE O (2025)

Regi: Markus Lipsø 
Length: 06:50 min 
Subtitles: English 

A comic opera for voice, thought, speech and sound. Wo Ee O is an “imageless” film about the correlations between meaning and nonsense. The narrator is somehow lost in the dark, haunted by entangled memories, associations, wishes, desires and is having a hard time finding the connection between mind and language.   

SHE WROTE STORIES ABOUT THEM 

Regi: Othilia Hoby Leth 
Length: 3:31 min
Language: Without dialogue 
Subtitles: English 

The film explores the grandmother as story—teller and carrier— of—memory, the act of remembering and the loss of a language and a voice. How is memory passed on and reshaped? Through recurring images of eyes and a voiceless narration, the film traces the shifting line between memory, history, and disappearance.  

WHEN GENERATIONS PASS (2025)

Regi/Music: Vio Rossi
Length: 05:51 min 
Language: English 
Subtitles: English 

Recently, I video-recorded all the statues that I could find, whilst walking around different cities. I tried to investigate them outside of their context of existence, and tried to see them as beings of material, rather than their purpose of being a monument or statue. The song and lyrics are made from an imagination of the statues singing.