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By Nigar Orujova, AzerNews Staff Writer

The Winter and Spring Future Shorts film festivals held in Baku were of great public interest

Future Shorts, the biggest pop-up film festival, is presenting summer programme in Baku on Aug. 24.

The festival is supported by ``YARAT! Contemporary Art Space``, the non-commercial organization (founded by Aida Mahmudova in 2011) dedicated to the promotion and popularization of Contemporary art in Azerbaijan.

Create!

Baku`s YARAT! (Create!) organization aims to create a platform for established as well as emerging artists. The key objectives of future-directed ``YARAT!`` is in forming dialogue, exchanging experience and bridging the gap between different cultures and art institutions.

YARAT! aims to provide educational initiatives consisting of lectures, seminars and master classes on a variety of related topics on contemporary art. Besides exhibitions and master classes, Yarat! brings the world biggest pop-up film festival Future Shorts to Baku.

Film festival around the world

The third Baku part of Future Shorts festival will kickoff in the Green Theatre on Aug. 24, at 22:00 local time]. The tickets for the festival have already put on the sale in the central cash desks of the capital.

The event will bring together the official representatives of both Yarat! and Future Shorts and Azerbaijani art people.

The public interest to the previous Winter and Spring Future Shorts film festivals held in Baku in January and March showed great love to the festival.

The Future Shorts Festival, the biggest pop up film festival of its kind, displays the most exciting short films from around the world and allows everyone to be the part of it.

The festival breaks boundaries, borders and conventions to connect a global audience to the world`s best short films. Anyone anywhere can set up a screening and be part of a massive screening network and a powerful global community.

Future Shorts have redefined the way people experience film. The festival is a true celebration of cinema as a communicator and community.

Every three months, Future Shorts HQ in London puts together a feature-length programme of some of the best classic, cult and award-winning short films from around the world. The festival programme is then made available to a global network of film enthusiasts, promoters, entrepreneurs and adventurers who book, organize and host local screening events.

Screening partners pay a fixed fee for the festival programme, which varies according to the intended size of their audience, and then promote the screening, charge for tickets and keep any profits.

Future Shorts Festival is powered by this global community of screening partners.

Since November 2011, festival screenings have taken place in over 144 cities and 55 countries with an audience of more than 25,000 people.

From London to Tokyo, Cairo to Kabul, screenings have taken place across a massive network of music halls, cinemas, theatres, galleries, clubs, bars and warehouses.

The Baku part of the Winter Festival took place on Uns Creative Stage, while the Spring one was held in Nizami cinema.

Summer Programme

The summer season of the festival has already ended and the organizers announced the summer program. The Future Shorts Festival Summer Programme screens worldwide from June 1, 2012 to August 31, 2012.

Future Shorts celebrates the best and most innovative short films, connecting global stories with global audience.

The current Future Shorts Summer programme includes seven impressing short films from the UK, South Korea, the US, Romania and Brazil touching different spheres of life.

The most prominent films of the season are ``A Morning Stroll`` (2012) film by Grant Orchard, ``Guest`` (2011) film by Ga Eun-Yoon and ``Notes on Biology`` (2011) film by Will Madden.

A Morning Stroll is a seven minutes lasting story of an encounter between a New Yorker and a chicken. Told over three acts spanning over 100 years, this incredibly successful animated short has already won a BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Art) and a Jury Award at Sundance and was nominated for a Short Animated Film Oscar.

Guest film narrates of a teenager, who is angry at her father`s affair, barges into his mistress` house to find her two little kids. Winner of the 2012 International Grand Prix at Clermont -Ferrand, Guest is a beautifully acted coming-of-age portrayal of emotions from Korean National University of Arts` film program.

Notes on Biology is a stop motion animation, wined Best Short at SXSW (The South by Southwest). This very clever short film follows a student`s imagination during a Biology class.