A fascinating glimpse into the daily life of the stallholders in the Chinese city of Yiwu, which has the largest market in the world, well known as Commodity City. The way the economic and personal sides, the people and the goods, occasionally find themselves at odds with each other.
Screens before El futuro perfecto.
Also in this combined programme
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El becerro pintado
Exodus 32 and a contemporary retelling of the story of the golden calf. Somewhere on a remote island a clever deception takes place. -
Three Wavelengths
Experimental documentary about a gigantic communications tower just outside a small, rural Finnish village. The wind regularly makes the tower resonat -
Couplets for an Everlasting Eve
Collective animation provides strong condemnation of sexual violence. The form was inspired by the Basque tradition of celebrating St. Agatha by going door to door,… -
Greetings from Aleppo
Greetings from Aleppo consists of the everyday stories of the inhabitants of a city under constant threat. So they are heard and never forgotten. -
Ain’t Got No Fear
Together with a group of lads from no man’s land, Mikhail Karikis created a video in which they passionately sing about their lot. -
Welcome Home Allen
A group of soldiers returns from battle, to a place where they don’t belong any more. Two worlds collide in a humorous and compassionate way. -
Rhinoceros
“Say something new!” Moving in together confronts a couple with inevitable adjustments to their personal autonomy. -
Extrapolate
In this hand-drawn animation, a line is being extrapolated through a grid. After exceeding the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to its -
Fish Story
Fact-checking has never seemed so enjoyable as in this short documentary tale by Charlie Lyne about family myths, fish and ingenious marketing.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
