Giant
Giant was filmed at the famous, Romanian, Communist-era gymnastics schools of Onesti and Deva where people still train fanatically. Top young gymnasts talk about their love of the sport, their fears and dreams. The combination with archival material from the 1970s onwards lets Tykkä reveal links between the photogenic sport and the severe, modernist architecture of the sports centres.
Also in this combined programme
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Notre tempo
Rhythmic portrait of three Roma teens who love school, playing, singing and dancing and take life at face value, despite the threat of eviction. -
Hacked Circuit
Gene Hackman meets foley artist Gregg Barbarnell in Deborah Stratman’s radical complication of the seen, the known, the heard and the undetectable. -
The Chimera of M.
Idiosyncratic, stereoscopic 3D animation. Film as a moving sculpture, a web of spatial deceit, with snippets of arguments, desires and lust. -
Walk with Me
The dream, but also the nightmare of a young African dancer. Unchildish puppetry film. Fantasy and reality clash.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Finland, Romania
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
