Focus: the Future Is NOW
Overview of films
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Hra
Iryna Hurvych | 9' | Ukrainian SSR | No premiere
Hra uses scraps of cloth and yarn to craft a metaphorical tale about resilience. -
I Like Life a Lot
Katalin Macskássy | 9' | Hungary | No premiere
Roma children narrate, draw and animate the ups and downs of their lives. -
Interview
Caroline Leaf, Veronika Soul | 14' | Canada | No premiere
A justly venerated masterpiece. A double portrait of two friends and filmmakers combining documentary and various kinds of animation techniques. -
Jugend und Sexualität
Tula Roy, Madeleine Hirsiger, Marianne Jäggi, Ellen Meyrat, Lili Sommer | 56' | Switzerland | No premiere
Documentary about a pioneering project in sexual education for schoolchildren. -
Lake Monsters
Mizushima Hiné | 3' | Canada | No premiere
Alt-rock folk art: an embroidered music video for They Might Be Giant’s ‘Lake Monsters.’ -
Let’s Make a Film
Yvonne Anderson | 13' | USA | No premiere
Students of the Yellow Ball Workshop cleverly craft charming and witty animated stories. -
The Light Fantastic Picture Show
Lillian Somersaulter Moats, JP Somersaulter | 7' | USA | No premiere
A jazzy experimental film that highlights how art is made with various animated methods. -
Lotus
Signe Birkova | 117' | Latvia | Dutch Premiere
A fantasy about Latvia’s first female director. Filmmaking as visual witchcraft – 24 spells per second. -
La Mort n’a pas voulu de moi – Portrait de Lotte Eisner
Carole Roussopoulos, Carine Varène, Michel Célémenski | 24' | France | No premiere
A commemorative portrait of film critic, historian and long-time Cinémathèque française curator Lotte Eisner. -
Nine Lives
Karen Aqua | 7' | USA | No premiere
A journey of metamorphosis through images of women as witches, goddesses, artists and more. -
Ombres de soie
Mary Stephen | 62' | France | No premiere
A sensual essay on hybridity in defiance of purist ideas about ethnicity and gender. -
The Passionate Stranger
Muriel Box | 97' | United Kingdom | No premiere
A female pulp writer’s creative struggle as a meditation on the different virtues found in fantasy and real life.