Ivan lives on the edge of a landfill with his dog, Shinobi.
When violence moves closer, staying invisible is no longer an option.
Finding Shinobi — one night only in Berlin.
📍 Moviemento Kino
📅 Feb 4 · 19:00
🎟 Free entry · RSVP required
🔗 Link in bio or events.idlefilms.tv
Massive thanks, Hamburg! Your heartfelt notes, energetic voices, and passion for the film made our experience unforgettable. This is just the beginning! Grateful. Credit : photos 1/2/3 Anke Bewert
Getting ready for tonight's premiere. This is another theme from the Finding Shinobi score. The antagonist theme. In the movie it's played on cello by @rabea.music .
If you wanna hear it come to @zeisekinos tonight. Beginning is 7pm. You won't regret it.
@idlefilms.tv@ilies
#filmscore #premiere #movie #osmose #synth #keyboard #composer
Registrations for the Finding Shinobi premiere are now open.
Meet the souls of Finding Shinobi.
Ivan — the man who doesn’t speak.
Shinobi — the dog who never leaves his side.
The boy — almost a ghost. And the landfill that swallows everything.
Free entry · November 20 · Zeise Kinos.
🎟 Link in bio.
Who’s Ivan?
He never told us where he came from.
Didn’t need to.
He builds, repairs, listens.
That’s how he speaks.
A gunsmith. Maybe an ex-con.
Russian roots, maybe. Doesn’t talk.
Writes everything down. Loves music.
Obsessive with mechanics.
He exists only through what he does.
No backstory.
We met Ivan by accident.
He stayed with us.
Watch Ivan’s Gift trailer (link in bio)
and stay tuned for Finding Shinobi, premiering Nov 20.
Created with @mrdanthomas ,Fernando Silvestrin & @ilies #filmcharacter #acting photo by Anke Bewert
🗓️ 52 weeks, 52 entries — a filmmaker’s journal through time, place, and human connection.
Idle Films Anthology is a long-term cinematic project. One film per week in a fictional year, crafted across Europe and the Mediterranean.
Each vignette stands alone — yet together, they trace a quiet rhythm of how we live, how we drift, and how we try to feel something real.
New selections premiere every year.
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🗓️ 52 entries
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Before Ivan’s Gift, there was The First Bite.
A 5-minute short made during Iliès Terki’s Domestika course on lean filmmaking — and the spark that started something bigger.
🎬 Shot with minimum gear, a small crew, and one powerful performance.
📖 More soon on how this quiet test became the seed of a trilogy
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🎼 Original music by @klingermusic
🎥 Production support by @charles_bier
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