Grow Up!
International Competition 3
All films that have dialogue in a language other than English, are subtitled in English.
Content warning: Flashing Lights, Nudity
Kaikki elokuvat, joissa puhutaan muuta kuin englantia, on tekstitetty englanniksi.
Sisältövaroitus: Vilkkuvia valoja, Alastomuutta
Event Timeslots:
Manilla theatre,
Thursday 21.08.2025
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8€ Buy tickets
Manilla theatre,
Friday 22.08.2025
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8€ Buy tickets
Films in this screening:
Thomas Renoldner:
STAMPFER DREAMS
Austria, 2024. 11 minutes.
STAMPFER DREAMS is a homage to the scientist Simon von Stampfer, who presented his invention of the Stroboscopic Discs in Vienna in 1833. All characters and animated sequences in STAMPFER DREAMS are taken from / based on these “optical magic discs”. The film starts in the alpine region of Simon’s childhood and vaguely follows his biography. Three ‘dreams’ depict his imagination of the further evolution mankind might make, with a watermill as the starting point for an industrial revolution that will ultimately lead to our present.
Luma Flôres:
How A River Is Born
(Como Nasce Um Rio)
Brazil, 2025. 9 minutes.
Ayla wakes up in a mountainous landscape, surrounded only by vegetation and a river. Driven by curiosity and a desire to get to know the place, she goes on a journey of discovery and diving. As she discovers where she is, she also discovers herself.
Aline Höchli:
Caries
(Karies)
Switzerland, 2025. 10 minutes.
Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.
Bingqing SHU, Maud LE BRAS, Jiaxin HUANG, Simin HE, Lina HAN, Loïck DU PLESSIS D’ARGENTRÉ, Sofiia CHUIKOVSKA:
The Shyness of Trees
, 2024. 9 minutes.
Hélène, 40 years old, comes to visit her aging mother in the French countryside. But her mother isn’t being her usual self. She seems to have formed a strange bond with the plants, insects, and the old oak tree at the end of her garden…
Emmaclaire sardoni:
Where the Car Flew
Belgium, Italy, 2024. 8 minutes.
On a summer’s afternoon, a kid is involved in a car accident and lands at a lunch party, he tries to remember what happened.
Felice Ronzon:
Esca
France, 2024. 7 minutes.
On a rainy day, two schoolgirls from opposite boarding schools meet. Under the immobile gaze of two giant statues, they begin to lose track of time, as the rain seems never to stop…
Niko Radas:
Psychonauts
(Psihonauti)
Croatia, 2025. 8 minutes.
Leaving their human hosts, mental disorders take on anthropomorphic forms and find new refuges.
Esteban Azuela:
Aferrado
Mexico, 2024. 18 minutes.
In the violent streets of Mexico City, Joel leads a double life fixing car engines by day and getting his hands dirty by night. Now, he must repair the toughest machine of all: his own shattered existence.