Night Shift
Night Shift · dir. Zia Mandviwalla
New Zealand 2012, 18’
Screenings
10/21, 18:00 · Kino Centrum
Salote, an airport cleaner starts another long night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job and gleans her survival from what others leave behind. No one would usually spare her a second glance. As director put it: “Night Shift is a film about people who exist on the periphery”.
| Director: | Zia Mandviwalla |
| Screenplay: | Zia Mandviwalla |
| Music: | Warren Maxwell |
| Cinematography: | Ari Wegner |
| Editing: | David Coulson |
| Cast: | Anapela Polataivao, Leon Dobrinski |
| Awards: | Oficjalna Selekcja: Konkurs filmów krótkometrażowych / Official Selection: Short Film Competition – 65. MFF w Cannes / 65th Festival de Cannes (2012) |
Zia Mandviwalla immigrated to New Zealand in 1996. She work thus far has travelled to film festivals worldwide including London, Pusan and Melbourne. Since 2010, Zia has been a writer/director represented by Curious Film. Night Shift is her fourth short film after: Eating Sausage, Clean Linen, Amadi.
2012 Programme
- Downloadable programme
- Films from A to Z
- Opening gala
- ON AIR
- SHORTCUT
- FROM POLAND
- Smita Patil’s retrospective
- Phenomena: Blaxploitation
- New Austrian Cinema
- New Philippine cinema
- New Hungarian Cinema
- Forum 2011/2012
- Special screening
- Top 9
- Cultural Exchange
- Localizations
- Festival meetings
- Accompanying events
- Tofishorts in Lizard King