Ombligo de agua
Young, well-off overachiever Alina seeks solace in the arms of people who’ve had less luck in life.
23'
Nicaragua
IFFR 2019
A layered animation technique slowly reveals three personal stories of grief. The young characters open up with calm, honest observations about the perspective-shifting experience of suddenly losing a parent. Dreamy renditions of people and places accompany the disturbingly young voices in their sad but peaceful goodbye.
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A young woman seeks to escape the suffocating atmosphere at home and wanders the streets of Baku, portrayed as a wonderful blue-grey city.
21'
Azerbaijan
IFFR 2019
Souvenir
Lives affected by the sea, presented through images of collected souvenirs and personal stories about love, loss, distance and loneliness.
20'
Germany
IFFR 2019
- Director
- Diana Cam Van Nguyen
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- Czech Republic
- Production Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 10'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Spolu sami
- Language
- Czech
- Producer
- Karolina Davidova
- Production Company
- FAMU
- Sales
- FAMU
- Screenplay
- Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Lukáš Janičík
- Cinematography
- Kryštof Melka
- Editor
- Lukáš Janičík
- Sound Design
- Viera Marinová
- Music
- Viera Marinová
- Cast
- Petr Cuker, Ondřej Gabaš, Barbora Vildová
Programme
Voices Short
Narrative-driven short stories, presented in compilation programmes, competing for the Voices Short Award. Some of these short films also screen before feature films.
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Maria is pregnant and works in a beauty salon. When she gets fired, she decides to go on birth strike.
23'
Greece
IFFR 2019
Acid Rain
A teenage girl runs away from her depressing small town and forms a progressively weirder friendship with a drug dealer.
26'
Poland
IFFR 2019
All These Creatures
An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.
13'
Australia
IFFR 2019