Underground

Attention! Are you expecting underground productions? The film equivalent to the Plastic People of the Universe or the Velvet Underground? Be warned, you are mistaken! The subject matter here is actually the metro! Set and filmed in the undergrounds of metropolises around the world!
You may not know this, but in the world of short film there is a mysterious phenomenon happening: underground film from the underground, where the underground is the ordinary subway, metro or tube! This phenomenon has been spreading rampantly across the globe! New York, Paris, Berlin, London, even Prague! And it continues to spread. Here, we offer you at least a fraction. We invite you to ride the underground on the short film line! And if you take the metro home after the last screening, remember all that can happen underground!
Mind the gap!

Strangers (Guy Nattiv - Erez Tadmor / Israel - USA / 2004 / 7min.)
Night. Paris. Two strangers on the underground, a Jew and a Muslim. The only thing that connects them is their mutual fear.

The Sub (Martin Krejčí / Czech Republic / 1999 / 25min.)
A mystifying documentary-feature, an underground road-movie that takes place under the city – in Prague's subway – and in the subconscious of its inhabitants.

Gone Underground (Su Turhan / Germany / 2000 / 9min.)
Somewhere 20 years from now. On the underground. Follow the signs…

The Trip (Gabriela Monroy / Mexico / 2004 / 10min.)
Living with his young, mentally disabled son, a man finds himself on the verge of giving up. One morning they take a trip on the subway and the boy gets lost. The man looks relieved – but only for a moment. Be careful what you wish for, because it may come true.

Underground (Kristin C. Dehnert - Aimee Lagos / USA / 2003 / 11min.)
A heart-racing ride through a woman’s day on the subway, this film ends with a shocking jolt, challenging the audience to face their prejudices and preconceived notions about gender, race and fear.

Passengers (J.T. Walker / USA / 2002 / 8min.)
Below the surface of a grim metropolis, a pigeon's feather unexpectedly lands on the head of an unsuspecting passenger, triggering a momentary connection in a train full of strangers.

Somewhere (Emmanuel Murat / France / 2005 / 13min.)
Simon is 30, and his life runs like a well-oiled machine. Simon likes this routine, but one day on the underground a stranger throws a wrench in the gears. Who is the stranger? What does he want?

Soyons attentifs... (Thierry Sebban / France / 2004 / 7min.)
A man on a train at night. Anything could happen, even the unthinkable.

Good Morning Germany (Aykut Kayacik / Germany / 1998 / 7min.)
In what language does the cock crow? Ask in the melting pot of the Berlin subway.