Some of these totally deserved their prizes

Berlin Shortfilm Festival: SP 10 “Prix UIP 1”

This definitely was the biggest surprise of all of them, because we only watched this because its time schedule was so favorable: Since we bought a day ticket and this sounded somewhat interesting, we wanted to take a look. It ended up being one of the best (if not the best) program of all of them.
Perhaps this is due to the fact that these movies have all won this United International Pictures (UIP) Prize?

Procrastination (UK 2007, 4:15)
I could never stop watching this, really, and oh I was so glad to find this on Youtube. It’s just so… smart?
Also, procrastination is blogging every single movie you have watched. Procrastination is making rankings. And of course, I will be making an extensive ranking of the incredible number of short films I have seen.

Love Me More (UK 2007, 15:00)
The main character reminds me a lot of the guys from “Control”, is it the hairstyle, the british eyes, the way to talk? At any rate, it was very cute somehow and probably one of the rather tasteful sex scenes I have seen.
Obviously the film also made me want to listen to the Buzzcocks. But oh my, the song is from 1978? XD

Joy (UK 2008, 10:00)
My my, so many british films, but this one was the weakest by far. Sure, the talk makes sense in a way, but for me this short film was unbearable to watch – there was this headache-inducing background sound there all the time.

Uguns (Lithuania 2007, 12:00)
Another completely pointless film in my opinion. Hmm…

De Onbaatzuchtigen (Belgium 2008, 14:00)
This actually was really good! The cruelty of a world in which you can sell and buy family members is shown in such a… non-chalant, stylish way. I approve.

Tolerantia (Bosnia and Herzegovina 2008, 7:00)
The animation wasn’t bad but the character design not my type. Ultimately I didn’t really dislike this and the intolerance message wasn’t exactly pointless either, but perhaps it was the other way around: it feels too obvious for me?

Frankie (Ireland 2007, 12:00)
Oh Frankie! I love the way he speaks (“me and me sister” XD), luckily there were subtitles. Anyways, this is quite a brilliant, funny and lovely story – however, I’m not sure how to interpret the end. Did he leave his “child” for his friends or not? Hm.

With 3 rather pointless films and 4 extremely strong ones, I would say that it was absolutely worth it to see this compilation. Funnily, until today, it was the compilation with the largest discrepancy in enjoyment for me.