People are singing behind prison walls. Outside, a small crowd has gathered, because the often wistful songs are coming from loud speakers. The audience can’t see the singers, but we can watch the faces of the listeners. Their expressions mirror the emotions on both sides of the wall. The visual and the acoustic levels create an extraordinary bond. A moving concert – with applause.
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- Our days, absolutely, have to be enlightened / Nasze czasy, bez wątpienia, muszą być oświecone, 22'
FRA 2011, 22’
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- "-WINSTON" D, CI, ED: Aram Sarkisian, USA 2017, 6’24”
A tale about a man caught in the snares of obsession and paranoia. An animation somewhere between horror and psychological thriller. Something for fans of Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and Polański’s “Repulsion.”
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- "1# the 1930s"
Who doesn’t dream of becoming invisible? Unfortunately, some wishes do come true. And madness follows.
read more- "2 Ragazze" D: Marco Speroni, CI: Riccardo Russo, ED: Federico Schiavi, IT 2016, 52'
Lota and Tigist are two girls living in two very different countries, Bangladesh and Ethiopia. They were both born in rural areas, they both faced poverty or abuses. The only option was to run away. Next destinations were the mega-cities of Dhaka and Addis Ababa. They embark on incredibly harsh journeys through which they meet their destinies. They both fight for a life that, maybe tomorrow, will be better.
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- "2# the 1930s"
Even though this work premièred 85 years ago, it is still banned in Sweden and Ireland. The film is considered obscene, brutal, and repulsive, focusing solely on the bizarre. Is that accurate? See for yourself.
read more- "21 x Nowy Jork" D, CI: Piotr Stasik, ED: Tomasz Wolski, Piotr Stasik, PL 2016, 70'
A documentary essay about the human condition in 21st-century western society told through the personal stories of 21 people met in the New York City subway. It is a multilayered symphony about emotional longings, the need for communication, and the search for a sense of existence. This trance-like cinematic collage is made of fragmented conversations, scraps of memories and observations which build up a portrait of a world that lost its way.
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- "3# the 1950s"
During a teleportation attempt, a mix-up of human and insect molecules occurs. The failed experiment creates a monstrosity. The protagonists face a dilemma – kill or let live?
read more- "4# the 1960s"
Radioactive cosmic showers make the dead rise from their graves. This film started the zombie trend, a staple of horror to this very day.
read more- "5# the 1970s"
A film that has a poetic title relating to geography and logging. It has one very important message: watch out for hitch-hikers!
read more- "6# the 1970s"
The film is a call from every kid oppressed by their peers, terrorised by fanatical parents, and suffering from extreme loneliness. After all, does revenge not taste of pig blood?
read more- "7# the 1980s"
A film that paralyses with fear all those who refuse to eat granny’s gelatin treats. The jelly that not only lives, but also grows.
read more- "8# the 2000s"
The author of such masterpieces as “Machete,” “From Dusk till Dawn” and “Sin City” pays tribute to American C movies. This film has everything – machine gun prosthetics, a Quentin Tarantino zombie, and Fergie.
read more- "9546 km." D: Sergio García Locatelli, PE 2013, 3'35''
I keep searching within myself whether Madrid is my city. I came here more than 7 years ago from a place 9546km away. During the day I feel foreign even if nobody can tell unless I speak..
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- "A Painful Choice" - Yabloko Moloko feat. Jon Other, D, ED: Andrés Borghi, CI: Matías Rispau, AR 2016, 4'2"
Love can be a wonderful feeling. It can enlighten your life. But it also can be toxic, destructive and painful. Music video for the band Yabloko Moloko with Jon Other.
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- "AGGREGATUM", Kuba Ptaszyński, PL 2017, 29'
A group of survivors from a mysterious catastrophe head towards a larger city in search of other people.
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- "Ain't Nothing Wrong With Being Beautiful" D: Naama Attias, ISR 2017, 1’24”
The video is a diptych which concentrates on the pageant moms’ involvement during the shows. The right hand side features videos from the pageants in Texas in which girls dance in front of the jury to instructions given by mothers and coaches behind the jury's backs. The left side is a staged video of an adult dancer which acts as a contrast to the video on the right. In it, the dancer sheds off objects that the girls wear.
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- "Air private", D, ED: Aude Cardinaud, CI: Nicholas Kent, FR 2017, 3'40"
A young woman discovers a seemingly abandoned space. Suddenly she is overcome by uncontrollable spasms. Her movements evolve into a choreography as the dance overtakes her...
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- "Arachne" D: Dave Lojek, Dieter Leitner, CI: Dieter Leitner, ED: Dave Lojek, AT, DE 2017, 4'52"
The story of a man who was trapped by two fit, spider-like women. Will he manage to escape? Noteworthy are the unusual and surprising special effects.
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- "Axiom of Escobar" – 2 SORT, D: Nikolai Belov, RU 2017, 4'9”
A music video “Axion of Escobar” created for the music group 2 SORT.
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- "Bajka o powstaniu czarnej dziury" D, CI, ED: Karolina Gołębiowska, PL 2017, 4'23''
The tale of the creation of a black hole is a story about the dog Rulon, who, after consuming some mysterious food, starts to fly. He decides to fulfil his dreams and fly off into space, where he encounters a sea of sweets. Rulon cannot control his appetite, which causes him a lot of trouble. The film was made in Izabela Plucińska’s Animation Studio.
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- "Bajka o powstaniu czarnej dziury", reż. Karolina Gołębiowska, PL 2017, 4'
A story about the dog Rulon, who, after consuming some mysterious food, starts to fly. He decides to fulfil his dreams and fly off into space, where he encounters a sea of sweets. Rulon cannot control his appetite. At some point, however, he starts to get lonely, so he decides to return home. This turns out to be impossible because he has become a dachshund longer than the Earth. He thus drifts throughout the cosmos, devouring everything that he encounters in his path.
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- "Baśń o białej myszce"
- "Beksińscy. Album wideofoniczny" D: Marcin Borchardt, ED: Dominik Jagodziński, PL 2017, 80'
The story of prominent Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński and the complicated relationship with his son Tomek – a very popular music journalist and multiple suicide attempt survivor struggling with depression. A stirring documentary family drama that is meticulously recreated thanks to the Beksińskis’ private audio, video, and photo records, which have never been published in similar form before.
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- "Bez Strachu", reż. Michał Marks, PL 2017, 13'
The film tells the story of Tymek Stebnicki, a 23-year-old American living in Poland. The protagonist has been suffering from Lyme disease for five years now. The illness has taken everything he cared for from him, leaving only faith. In his everyday life he encounters hardships which he faces without fear. Despite serious seizures, he still climbs trees just to feel that he is close to God.
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- "City of Ghosts" D, CI, ED: Matthew Heineman, USA 2017, 92'
The story of journalists and activists who belong to the RSS group (Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently). Ever since the Syrian city of Raqqa was taken over by ISIS in 2014, local reporters have been risking their lives to inform people around the world of the crimes committed by fighters of the Islamic State. The film has had its world première at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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- "Cruel Perdón" D, ED: Fabio Colonna, CI: Diego Vergas, MX 2016, 13'30"
Diego lives with his mother and aunt in a Gothic manor-house in Mexico. One day he finds his mother dead in a bath tub – it was apparently suicide. When the boy is being taken care of by his aunt, he suddenly becomes sick. The protagonist sees the ghost of his deceased mother, who aims to warn him. An interesting horror film that often verges on B-cinema.
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- "Dann muss es ja ein was weiß ich was Gutes geben" D, CI, ED: Florian Andreas Dedek, DE 2016, 31'14”
“Then indeed there’s got to be, what do I know, something good” is a quote from the conversation Fassbinder has with his mother at the beginning of “Germany in Autumn,” which treats about the Red Army Faction (RAF). Dedek's unusual film has many layers. It tells a story of the author's parents, sentenced for a terrorist attack that they may not have committed. The personal story is also part of West Germany’s political, mental, and cultural narrative. Although personal experience may have been its starting point, the film hence exceeds the autobiographical by screening the RAF as an obstinate memory that is ripe with artistic references and mnemonic displacements.
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- "Dla Emilki"
- "Don Q" D: Max Viktor Herbert, DE 2016, 1’
A short film of two guys on slot machines in a Don Quixote Store in Tokyo, Japan. The film is part of my ongoing series: 60secondsIn.
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- "D|DK" D, CI, ED: Karsten Wiesel, DE 2017, 12'
The film consists of 9,000 pictures, which animate a 67-kilometre run along the German-Danish border. After long, bloody conflicts, the territory is now peaceful place. The border was established during a referendum in 1920. Seeking the best form of border through the use of a democratic process is unique on a global scale.
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- "El Espejo Humano" D, CI, ED: Marc Nadal, ES 2014, 16'
A film based on fact. A 17-year-old girl suffers from a serious social phobia and is basically cut off from the outside world. She never leaves her home, but every day she has to watch the atrocities shown in the news on TV. This way the protagonist learns the truth about the dangerous nature of society. The picture has had screenings at many international festivals.
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- "Emergency Turned Upside-Down" D, ED: Oliver Ressler, AN: Studio Orlinder Krinkel, AT 2016, 16’13”
“Emergency Turned Upside-Down” was shaped by the “summer of migration” of 2015, when the Schengen system was suspended for several weeks and wealthy European states temporarily opened their borders to refugees. The film is a bold animation where the viewer's focus is rewarded with a spectacle of graphic possibilities, a chain of surprising connotations, and a universal message. Reflections upon a potentially imagined borderless world raises an incredibly important question about the possibility of pulling away from the reality we know, where the rhythm is established by boundaries.
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- "Erotica" – Cape Cod, feat. Constantine, D: Pavel Kildau, CI: Eugene Kirey, UA 2015, 3'51"
This is about what Her mind keeps inside. Undisclosed desires and secret passion, a thin line between reality and a world of dreams. Music video for famous Ukrainian band Cape Cod featuring Constantine.
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- "Error" D, ED: Aleksandra Brovchenko, CI: Pavlo Lypa, Dmytro Tartyshnikov, UA 2017, 8'
The film depicts the story of a certain murderer chased by a shadow. What is it? Death, perhaps, aiming to snatch him for his mortal sin. Who is the killer who made the unforgivable mistake of their life?
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- "Faber Navalis" D, CI, ED: Maurizio Borriello, IT 2016, 33'20"
“Faber Navalis” is Latin for “boatbuilder.” The film might seem to be about the restoration of a wooden ship, but the actual subject is the ecstatic state of mind of the shipwright. An Italian researcher in maritime ethnography decides to learn the art of traditional boatbuilding in order to understand the intangible knowledge hidden behind the construction of a wooden ship. This film is an extraordinary combination of aesthetics and ethnography.
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- "Fires" - Life is Better Blonde, D, ED: Natalie Erika James, Benjamin Morgan, CI: Charlie Sarroff, AU 2017, 3’29”
Consumed by a virtual reality set in a reimagined 1950s era, a player’s longing for motherhood transcends the rules of the game. Music video for the artist Life Is Better Blonde.
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- "FIRST WE FEEL THAN WE FALL" Jakub Wróblewski
FIRST WE FEEL THAN WE FALL by Jakub Wróblewski and Katarzyna Bazarnik is an audiovisual reading of the last work by Irish author James Joyce – “Finnegans Wake,” which is usually called a novel but is really an oneiric narrative where a multilayered plot develops in a non-linear way, reminding us of a labyrinth or hypertext.
Awards and festiwals:
Najważniejsze wydarzenie roku w kategorii Media - Dwutygodnik.com / 2016
Practise As Research / Research As Practise, PWSFTviT / Łódz / 2017
The International Literary Festival Ha!wangarda / Kraków / 2016
Digital Humanities / 2016 / Kraków (wygrany Poster Slam)
Anniversary Joyce - XXV International James Joyce Symposium / Londyn / 2016
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- "Fragmenty", Wiktoria Walendzik, Maria Barcikowska, Karol Prysak, PL 2017, 4'
A teenage girl is fascinated with one of her peers. An oneiric collage emerges, touching upon the subject of puberty’s first carnal experiences.
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- "Full" D: Lexie Bean, Zach Jamieson, CI: Zach Jamieson, Lexie Bean, Adriel Irizarry, Lisa Neumann, Tomasz Deeg, ED: Zach Jamieson, USA/HU 2017, 12'8”
An incredibly innovative, engrossing film collage documenting dissociation, sexual assault, and other difficult-to-describe experiences of the protagonist. Directed by Lexie Bean and Zach Jamieson, the film will evoke true uneasiness in any viewer. The authors have found a non-trivial way to document traumatic events that leave a mark on a person's entire life.
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- "galaxies" D: Pedro Gomes, BRA 2017, 4’27”
A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars.
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- "Ganga" - Ricky Kej Featuring Shankar Mahadevan, D: Sairam Sagiraju, IN 2016, 4'49"
A dedication to the river Ganga showcasing its birth and following its journey. Devotion to the holy river Ganga is devotion to the life-giving element of water. The human vessel is a unified embodiment of the elements and to worship the healing element is to worship that in oneself and to heal oneself. The Ganga nourishes the lives of 1/10th of the worlds population.
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- "Gdzie jest mój but"
- "Good Morning, Good Evening and Goodnight" D, ED, CI: Constantinos Christou, CY 2017, 11'
Constantinos Christou created the film while studying in the UK via the Erasmus Exchange program. The piece is closely connected with the incredibly important philosophical idea of time. The young author wanted to show how time passes when you are having the time of your life. The film's important virtues are beautiful cinematography and wonderful, hypnotising music, which make it a real feast both image- and sound-wise.
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- "Gusła ou le Malins" D: Adrienne Nowak, I: Eric Mauger, AN: Adrienne Nowak, Sandra Rivaud, Emilie Pigeard, Florent Morin, ED: Nazim Meslem, FR 2016, 9’
Adrienne goes back to Poland, where she was born, to see her grandmother and ask her family about the still relatively recent times of communism. In her aunt and uncle’s cosy kitchen she will learn that the spirits of communism are not the only ones to haunt Polish immigrants, and that there are many unexpected and old means of facing them. This extraordinary animation merges the real and surreal worlds in a humoristic way. As it turns out, withcraft and fortune-telling are still deeply entrenched in today's Poland.
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- "Heart of Nature" D: Giorgi Tkemaladze, GEO 2015, 4'20”
The world where children are in the heart of nature.. They play in the heart of nature in harmony with nature. The aim of the movie is to eliminate children's computer games. And bring in the heart of nature.
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- "HELLESS – Wysysacze", Marek „Banditto” Krupa, PL 2017, 5'
An original production by the horde HELLESS from Police, Poland. The clip was made for the titular song from their début EP. The pictures were shot at the Municipal Culture Centre (MOK) in Police and within the murky interiors of the Siemczyno palace, where the clip had its preview showing in November 2016. The clip is a free series of video sequences. It’s a raw composition of spontaneously recorded shots, depicting the aggressive and impetuous atmosphere of the piece.
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- HORSEMAN, 3'32”
An experimental video based on mirages, made to accompany music created by the author.
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- "I Am Not Your Negro" D: Raoul Peck, CI: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Turner Ross, ED: Alexandra Strauss, USA/FR/BE/CH 2016, 93'
Peck uses previously unreleased excerpts from James Baldwin’s unfinished book and juxtaposes them with rich archive material, connecting the past of anti-racist civil movements with today’s work of #BlackLivesMatter activists. It is a story of racial segregation, persecution, and the fight for the rights of Afro-Americans in the USA. The film has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
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- "Ida" D: Paweł Pawlikowski, CI: Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski, ED: Jarosław Kamiński, PL/DK 2013, 79'
Poland, 1960s. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. Before taking her vows, she is ordered by her prioress to pay a visit to Wanda, her aunt and only living relative. Both women set out on a journey which is to help them not only find out more about their family’s tragic history, but also learn the truth about themselves.
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- "iMedium" D, ED: Alfonso García López, CI: Jesús Vélez, ES 2016, 6'30”
The protagonist has lost all faith in finding his missing daughter. He may, however, find rescue in the mysterious application called iMedium, thanks to which any user can connect with the dead.
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- "In the Backward of Time" D, CI, ED: Danilo Torre, IT 2017, 10'37”
A film inspired by a classic film genre, a city symphony. The title refers to a verse from William Shakespeare's “The Tempest,” which tells the story of wizard Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan. The manipulations of Prospero are reflected in this video with the use of cinematographic tricks. Time shifts, digressions (flashbacks), and visual abstractions describe the development of the city of Milan, shown allegorically in the form of skyscraper constructions. The film seems to seek an answer to a specific question: can we crystalise time with the use of expired film stock?
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- "In the Darkness of Night" D: Abolfazl Tajik, CI: Mohamman Namdar, ED: Abbas Yousef shahi, IR 2016, 10'48"
In the dark, a man dwells in a park and suddenly experiences events that are shocking and unbelievable. Iranian cinema has been known in Poland for some time, but an Iranian horror film is truly rare, which makes Abolfazl Tajik’s production really worth watching.
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- "Instrucciones para dejar ir" - De Osos, D: M. Dianela Torres, MX 2016, 3'13"
To let go, first you have to find in your memories the sounds and colours that remind you of painful moments, those are the antidote so you can move on. This video includes memories from different videos recorded in the past with a DSLR, including fragments of the day the author's grandmother died, shot with an iPhone; mixed with a sequence of the film "Tajimara, disappearing in the dust." Music by De Osos.
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- "Ja i mój pies" D, CI, ED: Eliza Zakrzewicka, PL 2017
“Ja i mój pies” is a film whose starting point is the relationship between me and my dog, and the boundaries that a human establishes with this species. The character creation, far from realistic, enables free variation on the topic. A film from the Studio of Experimental Film I.
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- "JAZZOO" Michael Geidel
A flying hippo on a quest to find the nearest pond, a fish fleeing from a shark, a little koala who wants to hop like the kangaroos, and a raucous mob of elephants throwing a party – which drives the monkeys up the wall. This is the Jazzoo project – a story about the colourful world of the animal kingdom, comprising of a short film, book, interactive concerts, browser games and apps. It also includes an animated TV series enlivened by the groovy jazz sounds of the award-winning Swedish quintet Oddjob. Project selected for Berlinale Generation 2017.
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- "Jestem" D, CI: Grzegorz Paprzycki, ED: Grzegorz Paprzycki, Dorota Roś, PL 2017, 23’
A couple goes on a journey across the French Alps. Apart from beautiful landscapes, they share views on topics related to faith and the creation of the world. This extraordinary documentary short shows us an intimate picture of an exceptional couple who love each other very much, but who also have very interesting comments on current socio-political and religious-metaphysical topics (the issue of Islam, the historical events connected with the Third Reich). Grzegorz Paprzycki, responsible for directing, editing, sound, and cinematography, has created an unusual mixture of a documentary and a road movie.
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- "Józio, chodź do domu" D: Marcin Chłopaś, CI: Maja Nowak, Miłosz Mickiewicz, ED: Michał Chojnacki, Marcin Chłopaś, PL 2016, 30’
Societies are good at punishing “others” – claimed to be different because of some, usually absurd, reasons. A Jew in Poland can feel and in fact be an alien. The same Jew in Israel can become an alien, when noticed not to have been circumcised. “Jozio, come home” is the story of a child of Holocaust survivors who is abandoned many times – by both Poles and Jews. He travels home – to the Polish town of Wałbrzych – for the first time in 54 years, only to discover that he has no home, he belongs nowhere. The soundtrack for the movie was composed by Mikołaj Trzaska.
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- "Kruk i lis"
- "La Comunión de la Nena" D, CI: Juan Vincente Castillejo Navarro, ED: Juan Vincente Castillejo Navarro, Hugo Elegido Nebot, ES 2017, 10’
In the life of every Catholic child, First Communion is a unique and festive ceremony, and an occasion to meet the whole family. The film, documenting the day of a little girl's First Communion, exercises original poetics that merge home video with beautiful shots of a very stylish home interior. “La comunión de la Nena” is an unusual look at family and childhood which seems like a great, elusive mystery when viewed from the perspective of bygone years.
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- "La Concorrente" D, CI: Alberto Diana, ED: Alberto Diana, Garbiñe Armentia, IT/ES 2016, 40'
Francesca, a freelance gym teacher, lives alone with her three children in Sardinia. The economical crisis goes on, and her efforts now do not seem to be enough to maintain the life status that she desires for her and her children. That is why she decides to take a chance and enter a TV quiz show. “The Contestant” is a drama documentary about an incredibly strong and dynamic woman who bravely faces life obstacles and tries to be the best mother she can be.
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- "La Soupe au caillou" D: Clementine Robach, BE 2015, 7'
For tonight’s supper we will be having the perfect delicacy – stone soup. What we need: a pot, stones, and a whole lot of water. How can that fill a belly? Well, it can’t. Perhaps everyone should bring whatever they can find at the bottom of their pantries? It’s time for a grand feast together.
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- "Lend me another name" – Klyne, D: Alan Masferrer, ED: Lluis Murua, GB 2016, 3'1"
A surreal and suggestive trip that shows the metamorphosis of a woman abducted by an octopus. Music video for the band Klyne.
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- "Love Struggle" - Grand Mexican Warlock, D: Bálint Szimler, HU 2016, 7’24”
An average afternoon at the train station turns into an orchestra in the music video for the band Grand Mexican Warlock, made with one take with live music. Originally filmed as part of the music feature “Balaton Method,” a documentary which included 19 original music videos.
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- "Lupus" D: Carlos Gómez Salamanca, AN: Carlos Gómez Salamanca, Gilles Coirier, Fabienne Collet, ED: Carlos Gómez Salamanca, Juan Pablo Gómez Salamanca, FR/CO 2016, 9’
In December 2011, a security guard was killed by a pack of stray dogs prowling in a poor neighbourhood, in the Bogota suburbs. This tragic news inspired the Columbian director to make a one-of-a-kind animated film, taking on weighty issues of body, wildness, and territory. The film reminds one of a dark, disturbing thriller. The howl of hungry dogs, heard in the background, becomes a terrifying leitmotif of the whole picture.
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- "Luz & Fer" D: Alejandra Cardona, CI: Guillermo Fernández, ED: Julian Pedraza, CH 2016, 7'20"
This incredibly surreal horror film has an interesting way of using the motif of two sisters connected by a special bond. It is also a story about demons lurking in the subconscious. The film is characterised by formal innovation, as it breaks traditional narrative and crosses the borders of audiovisual language.
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- "Madness" – SOXSO, D, AN, ED: Adrian Szczepaniak, PL 2017, 6'24"
The film tells a story of several people. Each one of them is different, but they have one thing in common: they're all too attached to their cell phones. What could happen if they all lose themselves in their technological fetish completely? This is what “Madness” is about. A film in an experimental form of a music video, where live action merges with 2D animation. A music video to the song “Madness” by the SOXSO duo.
SOXSO BAND
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- "Meester Kikker" D: Anna van der Heide, NL 2016, 90'
The biology teacher in a certain small Dutch primary school is an affable character, but also an unusual one. Things aren’t always easy for him. A cheerful and fairytale-like story about friendship and accepting differences.
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- "Melleņu gari" D: Astra Zoldnere, CI: Kaspars Brakis, ED: Astrida Konstante, LV 2016, 12’40”
A poetic documentary about a Roma family that spends its summers in the Latvian woods, picking berries to make a living. While harvesting the fruit of the forest, they reflect on their identity as a group by sharing incredible ghost stories. Surrounded by existential questions on how to balance the future and the past, traditions and modern life, this metaphysical documentary points out their struggle for identity as a journey between night and day, and vice versa.
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- "Microscopia" D: Nikolaus Jantsch, AT 2016, 4’32”
The content of this work is about code, the code that surrounds us, that builds the chains of life, the code that is the source of all living and non living structures. Is there a relation between the macro and the micro world? Has a bug a similar surface as the moon? This film is a cooperation with the dutch composer Stephan Dunkelman and the austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Jantsch.
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- "Min Min" D: Kaspar Astrup Schröder, DK 2012, 26'
How wonderful it is to be an only child – you have all the toys for yourself. And your own room. And the parents are yours alone. But Storm will soon have a sibling. Does that mean he’ll have to share all of that? Unacceptable! It might take some time until he gets used to being a big brother...
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- "Moja reakcja na nową przygodę (reaction video) NOT CLICKBAIT", D: Marek Mardosewicz, PL 2017, 5'
The film is a reaction video of a performer invited to a project, reacting to previously recorded feature shots. The performer was only given the name of the character which she was to become, and the costume. The entire production, made in the convention of a one-person theatre, is a record of her reaction to a film whose sole purpose was to elicit the performer’s reaction. When the show is over, the spectator and the co-creator of the performance have the opportunity to take part in other one-spectator theatre projects by FatnazjeDam.
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- "Molly Monster" D: Matthias Bruhn, Michael Ekbladh, Ted Sieger, DE 2016, 70'
Little Molly lives with her parents in colourful Monsterland. She spends time playing with her friend Edison. But as it usually happens in life, here come some changes: Molly is not going to be the youngest in her family any longer – she is going to be an older sister! And not just any older sister; she is going to be the best sister in the entire world.
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- "Mossé" D: Divya Hansda, IN 2016, 2’37”
A small boy lived in the jungle where living creatures and plants sustained each other without disturbing the environment. The film speaks about the issues of displacement of the wild animals. It was very interesting to hear jungle stories from this little protagonist who lived near Rajmahal hills. He lost his parents when a confused elephant strayed from it's herd ramping through the mud walls of his village. After losing his parents he wandered around feeding on crabs and rice flakes. He eventually came to the plains to sell forest products.
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- "Myszki"
- "Neige et les arbres magiques" D: Antoine Lanciaux, Sophie Roze, FR 2015, 26'
Snow has covered the whole town. Nobody knows where the Inuit family suddenly came from. While everybody’s shovelling snow, they’ve already built an igloo and are now quietly fishing through a hole in the ice. And even though no-one speaks a word of their language, and none of them knows any French, they will help one another, just like Simeon and Kuduluk – two new best friends.
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- "Never left", D: Maïté Jeannolin, Charlotte Marchal, CI: Charlotte Marchal, BE 2016, 4'48"
"Looking into the distance, they get ready. Spin, spin and spin again to power the collective machine." A collaboration of Maïté Jeannolin and Charlotte Marchal on the research of a syncretic language in between choreography and cinematography. Music by Vecchione.
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- "Niemiecki Cmentarz Wojenny", Mieczysław Marków, PL 2017, 4'
The musings of a mature man born immediately after the war. His childhood, upbringing, and the political indoctrination have had a great impact on a negative perception of the war period and the Germans. Political changes and the possibility of getting to know the “enemy” made it necessary to re-evaluate viewpoints. The creation of a German war cemetery on Polish soil is a symbolic gesture of the normalisation of relations between Germans and Poles.
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- "Nový druh" D: Kateřina Karhánková, CZ 2015, 6'
What a strange bone! It has lots of spikes and looks sort of like a comb. Maybe it used to be the remains of a multi-beaked bird? Three discoverers hypothesise about the appearance of the prehistoric creature whose bones they have found. Will they be able to establish the bone’s owner with the help of a scientist?
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- "Nr//106" D, CI, ED: Adam Barwiński, PL 2017, 4'10''
The film is a story of a rediscovered project that did has not been acknowledged by the previous system. Today, designer Edmund Homa is blind – for the first time in 60 years he faces his greatest work. A film from the Studio of Experimental Film II.
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- "Nut Ferment od kuchni", Michał Parchimowicz, PL 2016, 7'
How does one transform the competition for the title of European Capital of Culture into a creative coalition of cities? In the time of talent shows, where amateur artists appear for free, is it possible to create a new musical formula that will allow to appreciate recognised artists? The film was made during the 13th edition of "Nut Ferment" – a musical spectacle in the form of a television talk show broadcast online. The programme has become a space for cooperation among musicians from 7 Polish cities, setting a new direction of thinking for the promotion of artists in Poland.
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- "Once Upon A Line", D: Alicja Jasina, PL 2016, 7'
Story of a man who leads a monotonous life until he meets a red-haired woman. Then, his world turns upside-down – literally and figuratively. The animation won gold at the so-called students’ Oscars and made the short list of ten films competing for an Oscar in the short film category.
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- "Out" – IISO (GastaLoops), D, AN: Nicola Gastaldi, GB 2016, 4'15"
Gastaloops started as a personal project, a marathon that consisted in creating 100 animations in 100 days, with three main colors (white, red and black). A blend of surreal and inventive GIFs that perfectly convey the atypical universe of the Londoner.
At the end of the journey, I choose to use the track Out by the band IISO. It worked seamlessly and perfectly with the juxtaposition of the gifs, with no additional edit.It’s easy when you stand in the middle of war
go home
so dizzy ‘cause you want me to stay so long on our words
you better stay out
you better stay you
feel the way you lose
it’s evil when i feel i’m the leader of my own feelings
i’m evil cause you want me to stay so long on these words.
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- "Pan Charon", D: Mateusz Żegliński, PL 2017, 12'
A creational documentary. This is a film portrait of Grzegorz, a gravedigger living in Wałbrzych, recording one day of his work. The film was created as a student’s short film study at the Department of Painting and New Media at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. It was awarded, among others, 2nd prize at the 11th IN OUT Festival 2017, 2nd prize at the 6th Anti-depressive Film Festival “Relanium” 2017 in Łódź, as well as a prize in the “Best Film” category at the 3rd Documentary Film Festival 2016 in Częstochowa.
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- "Papiers d'Arménie" D: Ornella Macchia, BE 2015, 6'33”
At a marketplace in Yerevan, an immensely charming merchant takes us on a remarkable journey and shares not only his fruit and vegetables, but most of all – his story. Accompanied by birds we discover this man’s extraordinary life filled with almost all the colours of Armenia. The French director, in a fascinating and nearly fable-like way, has blended documentary film and animation, and the result also features elements specific to travel films.
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- "Parallel Carriage" D: Eleanor Suess, GB 2017, 2’
The film considers the uncanny nature of the experience of passing another train at night, where the windows into the space of that other carriage are pools of light in a black void, offering portals into another world. Individual windows slowed down to 10% of real time draw out the movement of the inhabitants of that parallel carriage. The soundtrack to that “other” space, is produced from the space of the carriage from which the camera, filmmaker, and viewer are located – slowed down to match the images, it becomes an abstract roar, echoing the black void which the windows flow through.
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- "Parodia reklamy leku", D: Maciej Bednarski, PL 2017, 1'
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- "Passenger" D: Jamie Naqvi, USA 2016, 5’
"Passenger" is a single-channel video that can be screened as a short film orlooping video installation. The piece is made up of video footage shot over a periodof years (most of it shot on an iPhone with the Filmic Pro app), combined withheavily manipulated Web footage, excerpts from home movies, and various othersources. The film is a visual representation of the filmmaker’s own thoughts andmemories, but is ambiguous enough to allow for the construction of whatevernarrative or interpretation is unique to each viewer.
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- "Patient Zero" D: Lars Damoiseaux, CI: Robrecht Heyvaert, ED: Karsten Devilder, Bilall Fallah, Lars Damoiseaux, BE 2016, 3'
An experimental plastic surgery ends up a fiasco and has horrible results. The patient becomes a rabid bloodthirsty beast. Connoisseurs of horror cinema will surely notice references to zombie flicks and Larry Cohen’s iconic “It’s Alive.”
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- "PERCOLOMETRIA", D: Matteo Di Gioia, Luis Felipe Bueno, CI: Pietro Agostini, IT 2017, 1'
While waiting at the traffic light, a sharp dressed man looses his head in geometry. Percolometria is a fashion film for the Italian brand Corneliani. Art director Pablo Arroyo asked us to surprise the brand’s clienteel, used to frame luxury between marble columns and solid-wood tables, with something itchy. Having a few beautiful outfits to film and being given total freedom, we designed a coreography with a dancer and substituted his head and hands with Bauhaus-punk inspired geometry.
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- "Pięknie nam się układa" D, CI: Maciej Jankowski, ED: Agata Cierniak, PL 2016, 27’30”
Kasia, a 19-year-old Ukrainian girl, lives with her two-year-older boyfriend Emil, a truck driver from Poland. One day he decides to quit his job and, together with Kasia, start earning money by selling their intimate life on the Internet. They both make money on a website which offers the viewers live sex. Emil is having doubts when it comes to telling his father about this controversial line of work. Maciej Jankowski created a very bold documentary about young people who are looking for their place in life.
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- "Plac Zabaw" D, ED: Bartosz M. Kowalski, CI: Mateusz Skalski, PL 2016, 82'
A small Polish town. A day in the life of teenagers who are just about to graduate from elementary school. An initially harmless meeting of the three protagonists leads to an unexpected and terrifying finale. The roles of the first-time actors stay in your mind long after the screening. The script, awarded in the SCRIPT PRO competition, has been inspired by a true story. The film has had its première at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
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Authors:
- "Plamkonur"
- "Plasma" D: Vittoria Citerni di Siena, CI: Davide Curatolo, ED: Christopher Armando Verrocchio, IT 2017, 6'
A silent horror film about a man who works hard for the one he loves. The film’s ending may surprise the viewer.
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- "Polychrome / Hoze Naghashi", D: Nagareh Halimi, AN: Negareh Halimi, Amin Malekian, IR 2016, 2'14"
A short musical experimentation in stop motion made by Iranian artist to the music of Grégoire Lourme.
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- "Grim Training" D, AN: Ala nunu Leszyńska, PL 2016, 5’6”
Music video about a lost boy and a circus. Playing hide-and-seek in the forest a young boy with a bear mask follows a mole and other animals into a circus. But the world inside is turned upside-down. The lion makes a human jump and a rabbit becomes a magician. The humans are the suffering attractions of this circus. What will happen if the visitors discover that the boy is a human as well?
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Authors:
- "Pośród fal. izp.Magdalena Sieradzka"
- "Prezent" D, ED: Sylwia Rosak, CI: Wojtek Ratajczak, Sylwia Rosak, PL 2017, 15’23”
An intimate story about a father-daughter relationship, told in nine chapters. Polish director Sylwia Rosak skilfully captures the way human life gets divided into fragments. Each one is a metaphorical memory from early childhood, throughout puberty, and adult life. The father is an important character in the film, as the one whose memory is very vivid in the protagonist's mind, and who influences her life to this day.
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- "Protokolle" D, CI, ED: Jan Soldat, DE 2017, 19’
We all have dreams. What happens, however, when those longings radically intrude the taboo that society and culture impose upon us? A hair-raising psychological documentary by Jan Soldat portrays three men whose concealed fantasies will evoke disgust and shock in some viewers. The protagonists wish to be slaughtered, dismembered, and eaten. A more insightful audience member may find references to famous cannibalistic films (“Cannibal Holocaust,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Grimm Love”).
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- "Róża" D: Wojciech Smarzowski, CI: Piotr Sobociński jr., ED: Paweł Laskowski, PL 2011, 94'
Summer of 1945. Tadeusz, a former Home Army soldier who lost absolutely everything to the war, travels across Masuria. He reaches the widow of a German soldier whose death he had witnessed. Surrounded by war-torn scenery, where hope became an instrument of propaganda, between two people from distant worlds there arises love... an impossible one?
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Authors:
- "RYTM"
- "Sala samobójców" D: Jan Komasa, CI: Radosław Ładczuk, ED: Bartosz Pietras, PL 2011, 112'
Production: PL 2011
Dominik, a sensitive teenager born in a wealthy but dysfunctional family, is humiliated and rejected by his schoolmates when he accidentally reveals his homosexual tendencies. The boy is devastated by the fact and finds understanding with Sylwia, a girl fascinated with death and self-destruction, who he meets on the Internet. He becomes more and more engrossed in the virtual world, loses sense of reality and escapes normal life.
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- "Salar" D: Pablo Radice, AR 2017, 2’
Through a poetic look, salar explores the human being in relation to a forgotten space and the imprint of its existence.
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- "Sara the Dancer" D: Tim Ellrich, CI: Images out of Google Street View, ED: Maximilian Merth, Andreas Ribarits, DE/AT 2017, 12’30”
Sara is not a woman, she is a device: a Google Street View camera, who photographs streets from the top of a car. But when she listens to the music of driver Larry for the first time, something starts to shake in her. Deeply unsettled by this behaviour, she searches for help with the common Google Search. Google, which just wants the best for its users, only strengthens her desire. Quickly, this leads to an existential conflict with the actual camera use.
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- "Sea Wash" D: Dina Naser, Moeen Atef, JO 2016, 1'25”
Sea Wash tells the story of refugees who lost their lives in the sea, using symbolic elements of their personal belongings being washed onto the shore.
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- "Shame and Glasses" D: Alessandro Riconda, IT 2013, 8'
A class test. Mirko can’t solve any of the problems because he’s far-sighted. He needs to put on his glasses, but what will the girl at the adjacent desk, the one he likes so much, think of him then? In the simplest of ways, this short feature with no dialogue tells the story of fear of rejection and the need for acceptance.
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- "Simba in New York" D, CI: Tobias Sauer, ED: Daniel Maaß, DE 2016, 31'
Walt Disney died 50 years ago. But to this day, millions of children grow up with the films he produced. The legendary director is still seen as the embodiment of the American Dream. A student writing his bachelor thesis remembers his childhood fascination with the USA. He lost his mother at an early age and always identified with Disney's orphan characters. But by now, a different kind of film has caught his attention: amateur films, “home movies.” He seeks the “real” America in these images. The film is an amazing essayistic “stream of consciousness.”
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- "Sit Down, Rise Up", D: Paul Daniel Torres, CI: Robin Johnston, CA 2017, 4’33”
Sit-Down, Rise Up. Is a musically charged film about unity through individuality and how important it is in the fight against the abuse of power. Inspired by the anthem scene in Casablanca, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton and "The Get Down." The film is about a classroom in a dystopian world void of individuality ruled by an abusive teacher, who forces his students to drum the beat of a metronome on their desks. After one student is abused for being off beat, one student drums a different best in defiance rallying her fellow students to finally stand up for themselves.
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- "Some Thing" D: Elena Walf, DE 2015, 6'
Everyone carries something within. For instance, some huge mountains, apart from just being huge, are also filled with boiling lava, gold, or other wondrous things. They are stunning, enormous, and menacing. And impolite – they keep teasing the hill sitting just beside them. Will the inconspicuous little knoll flourish?
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- "Song of Syria" D: Mathilde Lefort, FR 2016, 4'24”
Installation video in two parts , Song of Syria offers an aesthetic and political reflection on the armed conflict taking place in Syria since 2013. Made from recordings Air strikes posted on Youtube , this installation attempts to offer a reflection on the media censorship carried out by the regime of Bashar Al Assad and illegibility of the conflict. The war and its dead are invisible here to see given hollow while being embodied in the camera movements and the hovering threat of a helicopter flight.
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- "split time" D: Annika Glass, Miguel Wysocki, DE 2016, 1’50”
Sprinting in a top university's gym. Looking great. Being fit, beautiful, smart, feminine and strong at the same time, at any time. Maintaining the images as uploaded on social media. In fact impossible but day-to-day reality. From September 2014 to August 2015 Annika Glass was studying Chinese at National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taipei. NTU is widely considered to be one of the best universities in Taiwan. The videos were shot in the NTU gym, which is used not only for exercising, but also for shooting selfies or performing any other kind of self-portrayal and self-staging activities.
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- "Stemmen van Vincent" D: Maarten Kal, CI: Nina Badoux, ED: Alexander Goekjian, NL 2017, 25'30"
Vincent hears voices and the strangest things, but doesn’t know their origins. Lead by two psychiatrists, he sets out on a journey within. This intriguing film, a documentary and psychological horror in one, tries to answer the question whether hallucinations result from mental illness or perhaps the voices come from a completely different world?
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- "Strach" - Martina Trchoá & Trio, D, AN: Michal Maruška, CZ 2017, 3'44"
Fear is the killer. Fear of love. Of losing power. Of unknown. Fear. Music video of czech band Martina Trchova & Trio presents story of fear.
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- "stranding" D, CI, ED: Nina Schipoff , CH 2016, 4’36”
Greece, the Ionion Sea; abandoned to the mood of the sea, you are drifting towards the shore of the uninhabited island of Zeus. Nina Schipoff's film features beautiful, realistic shots of see depths that make the viewer feel as if they're in the ocean themselves. Without the use of words, “stranding” makes one deeply reflect upon the two worlds – one of water and one of land. How can we establish a border between them?
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- "Swing Low" – MA, D: Dagmara Pochyła, CI: Piotr Bartos, ED: Dagmara Pochyła, Mateusz Samolong, Piotr Bartos, PL2017, 4’43”
A piece about making a key decision, exploring the unknown, gaining better awareness of oneself. Such action always carries risk, because you may not like what you find during the trip, it may not be what you expected of yourself. Such a decision can be made when truth is believed to be the ultimate good. Music video for the band MA.
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Authors:
- "Szary człowiek"
- "The Arch", D: Iryna Nikolaienko, Anton Shatohin, CI: Mikhail Kuzhba, Aleksandr Doroshenko, ED: Valeriy Kozlitinov, UA 2017, 8'12”
This is a movie clip of unique format: a creative group was inspired by the New Safe Confinement - shelter for the IV block of Chernobyl NPP, which has unique nonstandard acoustics inside of it. The author of idea and project's producer Iryna Nikolaienko together with the famous Ukrainian musician Mykyta Rubchenko created a musical composition using the sounds of several unique objects of the Exclusion zone.
The mini-movie and musical single based on the story of the Chernobyl disaster to the present day is about a boy born in the town of Pripyat' who abandoned that place after the accident and returned to the Exclusion zone in order to take part in the construction of the "Shelter-2" confinement many years later.
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- "The Commute" D: Sagar Shiriskar, IN 2013, 2’14”
A group of office-goers board the 8.33 p.m. Borivali local train from Churchgate every day. For them the commute is a musical journey that symbolizes camaraderie and a revival of spirits at the end of a hard day. At every station, more and more people join this group of everyday revelers; the music reaching a crescendo that drowns the discordant, aggressive voices of commuters aboard the local, instead infusing in them a spirit of celebration.
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- "The Cops Don't Know" - Lenny Henry, D, ED: Sam Chegini, IR 2016, 6’28”
After decades racism is still an issue and Police brutality is among the top trending news in the world today. Every single day African-Americans may lose their lives in the hands of the Police for no reason... Sir Lenny Henry takes you to a sad, but true world of injustice that we are facing today. Keep your eyes open, listen to the story and judge for yourself, what’s going on...
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- "The Deal" D: Ewa Smyk, UK/PL 2015, 4'28”
“The Deal” is a short animated story about arranging marriages in the 1950s and 60s set in the eastern Polish borderland. The script is based on a part of Mikołaj Smyk’s diary - the author’s grandfather. The objects used in the animation, such as an authentic headscarf, Polish and Russian books, the copy of Mikołaj Smyk’s diary and photographs help situate the story in its original environment and express the atmosphere of the times. The film is a very personal contemplation on the intricacies of memory and the items that evoke memories.
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- "The Grey Room", D: Kasper Trelkowski, PL 2016, 7'
The film based on Stefan Grabiński's short story "Szary Pokój [en. The Grey Room]" A young irl oves to a new place. However, somebody find her even there.
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- "The Postmodern Pioneer Plaque" D: Boris Kozlov, ES 2016, 7'51"
In 1973 Carl Sagan, renowned American astronomer and promoter of science, created a special plaque for NASA which was to help in space exploration during the Pioneer 10 mission. It was the first message of humankind addressed to extraterrestrial civilisations. Today, four decades later, the world is composing a new collective message. Boris Kozlov’s film is a rare combination of documentary, animation, and experimental film, which may intrigue not only the lovers of astrophysics. The picture has been presented at many international festivals (USA, London, Spain, Germany, Italy, Mexico).
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- "The Second Reality I" D: Iwona Rozbiewska, PL 2015, 1'31”
From The Altered Reality’s Series. A work of Time and Space. Multiplication of the person due to its isolation. Existence in parallel realities. Appearing and Disappearing. Beginning and Ending. Ending and Beginning. Recurrence and Cyclicity.
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- "Thea" D: Halvor Nitteberg, CI: Øystein Mamen, ED: Anette Stålem Flittig, Elisabeth Aspelin, NO 2016, 13’31”
Thea is 12 years old. She likes to play football and to be with her friends. But why does she want to grow up to be an air ambulance pilot? Thea has a serious and dramatic type of epilepsy, but in this film she shares her thoughts about the things that she enjoys in her life. We follow Thea and her parents through a long hospital stay one winter, followed by her homecoming. At the hospital there is a school. During woodwork class she makes a gift for someone very special to her.
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- "Thrill Over Fear" - A Flow Mobz, D, AN: John Katehis, ED: Angel Saft GR 2017, 3'31"
There are a lot of perspectives and interpretations to this story, it really depends on how one views it and their intentions or inner self-consciousness plays an important role, that is the story's singularity and what makes it unique. It exercises one's mind, and that is an essential aspect to me and my art, to make people think and question. To me personally, it’s about thrilling over your fears, of a dark journey into the unknown, and shedding light to darkness to reveal truth or revealing one's true colors.
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- "Through" / "Poprzez" D, CI: Mariusz Wirski, ED: Mariusz Wirski, Piotr Zarzycki, PL 2017, 2’
Directed by: Mariusz Wirski
Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound by: Mariusz Wirski
Film Editing by: Mariusz Wirski, Piotr Zarzycki
Produced by: Wanda Dittrich, Mariusz Wirski, Piotr Zarzycki
MWM Art Film Production
A first-person narrator uses filmmaking tools in an unusual way. The creator unveils his sensitivity to sunlight, movement and space by emphasizing the elusiveness of these elements that build the microcosm of sensations.
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- "Tiger" – Joon Moon, D: Jethro Massey, CI: Isarr Eiriksson, ED: Julien Chardon, FR 2016, 4'
Inspired by classic 1950s monster movies. An old lady runs from a shark, through the forest, through the streets of Paris... Music video for the French/American band Joon Moon.
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- "Treetops" D: Dustin Morrow, USA 2015, 3’09”
“Treetops” is an experimental film about the space between the natural world and the technology we use to capture it and reproduce it. It addresses the frustrations and limitations of trying to reproduce the world around us using cameras, sound recorders, and computers. No matter how hard we work at it, the tools we use have limitations that necessitate that we only create processed representations of that which we shoot/record.
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- Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra, NL/GH, 2016, 37'7''
An ethnographic film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. The comeback of African print seems to be emerging in the fashion system of Accra. By following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife Cynthia, this mosaic film shows the great diversity of tailor-made fashion and hybrid styles; the ways in which African wear is used and the expression of culture through wardrobe. The process of sowing a dress shows the marriage of both fabric & design, tradition & creativity and husband & wife.
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- "Up In The Air" – Lil Ronny Motha F, D: Roger Alexander, USA 2016, 4'33"
Music video for the song “Up In The Air” that showcases the original and dynamic flow of Dallas, Texas Rapper Lil Ronny Motha F.
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- "Ur Artean" D: Iñigo Jiménez, Jesus Maria Palacios, CI: Jesus Maria Palacios, David Aguilar, ED: Ibai Elorza, Zazpi T’Erdi, Jesus Maria Palacios, ES 2016, 27’
A portrait of the last inhabitants of the Santa Clara island in San Sebastian. In September 2014, the Santa Clara lighthouse celebrated its 150th anniversary, yet for the last 45 of these years it has been uninhabited. Who were the last people to live there? For twenty years, the lighthouse-keeper José Manuel Andoin and his mother, María Torralbo, dwelled in isolation and harsh conditions on this island just 500 meters off the city of San Sebastian. “Ur Artean” is the story of the enigmatic relationship between a strong-willed mother and her mild-mannered son, who had been an Olympic champion
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- "Wako.O piratach w galaktyce"
- "White Mountain" D, ED: Emma Charles, CI: Emile Kelly, GB 2016, 20'
The film is set in the Pionen data centre, a former Cold War era civil defence bunker buried 30 metres underground in Stockholm, currently housing servers for clients that once included Wikileaks and The PirateBay. Part Bond villain lair, part retro-futuristic spaceship, the 16mm film plays on this science fiction aesthetic. As the camera idles on the florescent-lit server stacks, issues of privacy, surveillance, and digital sovereignty inevitably emanate.
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Authors:
- "Wielka Niedźwiedzica"
- "Wiosna"
- "Witch Hour" D, ED: Maria Galindo, CI: Maria Galindo, Vanessa Hoar, USA 2017, 18'30"
The story of a peculiar American family and a certain witch. An intriguing combination of black comedy and horror in black-and-white.
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- "Women Only" D: Tabassom Habibzadeh, Erfan Almasi, IR 2016, 1’
An ordinary day of Iranian women in their separated subway car.
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- "Yama" D: Alfonso Giordano, CI: Salvatore Ingentio, Alfonso Giordano, ED: Luigi Di Martino, Alfonso Giordano, IT 2017, 9'
A terrifying Italian horror film about a girl who is gradually being surrounded by death. It all goes back to her dark past. One should take note of the nightly camera work and claustrophobic interiors.
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- "YSME" D: Florian Doidy, FR 2014, 25’
“Ysme” is a variable level navigation between the real and the virtual, between the Camargue and Corsica, between an aircraft and its digital double, between symphonic music and sound design, between delicacy and chaos, between a tourism trip and a dreamlike artifice. This multi-media composition transforms the observer into a dreamer, the dreamer into an aviator, the one who flies into electric current, never quitting the most beautiful landscapes of the Mediterranean.
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- "Z pogranicza cudu" D: Tomasz Jurkiewicz, CI: Tomasz Woźniczka, ED: Daniel Gąsiorowski, PL 2016, 50'
A unique Polish documentary about Polish ghost busters, who tirelessly investigate paranormal phenomena. The film combines comedy with true horror. In the words of William Shakespeare: “There are more things in heaven and earth (…) than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
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Authors:
- "Zagubione Zabawki"
- "Zamejen" D: Leo Černic, CI: Rok Kajzer Nagode, ED: Jakob Hreščak, AN: Leo Černic, Martin Emeršič, SI 2016, 20'21"
„I am bordered, you are bordered, we are all bordered. It sounds like a children's song. But it is not. Ciao, I am Leo, nice to meet you!” This incredibly interesting and creative Slovenian documentary directed by Leo Černic talks about the crossing of boundaries and barriers which limit and enslave us.
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- "Życie cmentarza", Dagmara Pochyła, PL 2017, 1’
The film depicts one of the greates graveyards in Europe located in Szczecin, which is also a city park. This place of silence, serenity and impressive greenness and richness in fauna is full of life which is apparently againts the dominant function of the place of rest of those who passed away. Reflexion in a form of voice accompanied by images of graveyard comes from Nassim Harameina's lecture, a physicist and theoretician.
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- "-WINSTON" D, CI, ED: Aram Sarkisian, USA 2017, 6’24”
