Shorts Marathon
Shorts Marathon
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Elle pis son char
Years later, a woman decides to confront the man who abused her as a child with what he has done to her. Ultimately, her son finishes the job.
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Novaciéries
A mysterious merging of cinema, performance and home video. A dancer practices his jumpstyle choreography in an empty steelworks.
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Alter Senator
Experience an ambitious alcoholic’s life first-hand. Before you know it, he has groped the wrong barmaid.
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Father
A visit from his long-absent father leaves Lado with many unanswered questions. An unexpected adventure helps him understand his dad a tiny bit more.
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Ego
After a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole.
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You Could Sunbathe in This Storm
Fabulous animation brings crystals and abstract shapes to life whilst casually posing existential questions. One of the most colourful films at the fe
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Fat Boy Never Slim
Two fat Thai schoolboys take a physical test to get into the territorial defence course. This proves to be quite difficult.
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Franzosensand
This film enters a hamlet on the German Wadden Sea like a PhD research project, revealing the painful past of this landscape that looks so tidy.
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With All Our Cameras
Sandor is an avid collector of old-fashioned cameras. The filmmaker shoots a warm portrait of this ordinary man using the latter’s camera collection.
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Poem
Images cycle and combine into dream-like passages that reveal the infinite potentials of sight within the finitude of everyday objects. Based on a poe
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Kwassa Kwassa
The island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean, is the new outermost EU border. On its poor island neighbour, craftsmen are building a kwassa kwassa – ‘an
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Ogasavara
Murad and Masha are getting married. But their romantic date dynamite fishing takes a surprising turn. A whimsical tale of love, death and stop-motion
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Belladonna
A waiting room at the eye doctor’s offers a stage to an unexpected encounter of three completely different women. Proof that empathy is blind to diffe
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A Man Returned
In a Palestinian refugee camp, Reda’s parents have found a bride who is to calm his life. A bittersweet love story.
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O som da casa
A few fleeting moments between a Brazilian student getting ready to leave for Europe and her mother observing her silently. A loving farewell.
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Subtítulos: saber sin estudiar
Funny and intimate film in which a sequence of handmade subtitles translates, confirms, or denies what the only character of the film says while he’s
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Analysis of Emotions and Vexations
The moods of the Polish poet, musician and artist captured in a sober, yet impressive pencil-drawn animation.
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Nothing Stranger
Ling’s childhood friend Mei has died. Together with Mei’s sister, Ling visits the place Mei died – that lies in an imposing landscape – for the first
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Picasso
Imaginary dialogue between the artist and Picasso. “I do not seek, I find,” Picasso says. And he means it. The rest of us are still looking.
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Here There
Elegant minimal animation feels like a summer breeze from Croatia. A simple seaside sketch book evolves into abstractions full of shifting planes and
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9 Days – From My Window in Aleppo
Syrian photographer Issa Touma recorded the first days of the revolt in Aleppo from his window. An exceptional angle on a war.
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Le Park
Portrait of youths in an abandoned amusement park in Casablanca, in meaningful tableaus inspired by social media. “I am here, I exist.”
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B-ROLL with Andre
A documentary-style detective with anonymous testimony about Andre, who proves more than just a brilliant crook. Clichés scrutinised with humour.
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Univitellin
A modern Romeo and Juliet meet on a city bus. Of course they fall head over heels in love. A classic story in a far-from-classic reworking.
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Flots gris
Livia wanders the industrial east of Montreal trying to get her life back on track after a complex break-up. With a supporting role for a peacock.
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A Sunny Day
A woman from Hong Kong planning to join the umbrella protests goes to visit her father, who is moving to an old folks’ home.
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Edmond
A touching animation and black comedy about a man with cannibalistic tendencies. In his mind’s eye he seeks the source of his misery.