International Competition 2
Content warnings for this screening
Theme warning: LGBTQ+ persecution
Scene warning: bodily fluids and decomposition, animal cruelty
Event Timeslots:
Jo-Jo Theatre,
Thursday 24.08.2023
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8€ Buy tickets
Aurinkobaletti,
Friday 25.08.2023
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8€ Buy tickets
Films in this screening:
Levi STOOPS:
Drijf
Belgium, 2023. 15 minutes.
Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea. In the vast openness of the ocean they are cooped up together on a small tree bark. As they fail to understand each other’s desires and boundaries, the fight for their survival and the survival of their relationship becomes a bloody mess. Will our castaways be able to grow while trying to make it back to shore, or will they lose a piece of themselves along the way?
Wang & Söderström:
Rehousing Technosphere
Denmark, 2022. 6 minutes.
This animated film takes place on Earth in a distant future. It offers glimpses into how life forms adapt to a new planetary ecology. Playing with the tone of a nature documentary, this film takes us into a soft desert-like world. Species exploit a degrading layer of the planet’s crust by digging, foraging, and designing new homes. What is toxic for one species is a perfect habitat for another. Among the remnants of the Anthropocene, life moves.
Vivien Hárshegyi:
Above the clouds
(Felhők felett)
Hungary, 2022. 13 minutes.
A young girl suddenly finds herself in love again. When she comes to realize this, she has to run away. A vortex takes her down to her past, where she has the opportunity to free her heart if she reinterpret the hell of her first love experience.
WANG Junjie:
The Nighthawk Is Not a Hawk
China, 2023. 8 minutes.
The Nighthawk is an ugly bird. So ugly that everyone thinks he stole the name and the Hawk demands that he relinquish it. The Nighthawk cannot accept this, but he also realizes that he’s not much different from the Hawk.
Anna Kanaicheva:
Anticipation of inevitable
Russian Federation, 2022. 3 minutes.
Five abstract short stories in the technique of oil painting, which are based on a personal interpretation of various psychological states: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
Vlad Ilicevici, Radu C Pop:
Suruaika
Romania, 2022. 9 minutes.
Kipu is a luxury chauffeur in a dark city, where the streets are full of cars and black cats. After he accidentally runs over the entire family of a little cat called Suruaika, Kipu adopts her and does all he can to keep her safe. As Kipu’s love for Suruaika grows, so does her body, and the streets become more and more crowded with black cats, new victims for countless little tragedies.
Atsushi Wada:
Ikimono-san: Turtle
Japan, 2023. 2 minutes.
With the help of his dog, a boy tries to become a turtle.
Mona keil:
Juice
Germany, 2022. 5 minutes.
Meaty creatures must learn to share their juicy world with the pesky little bugs, before they run dry.
Tom Prezman and Tzor Edery:
Maurice’s Bar
France, 2023. 15 minutes.
In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.
Content warnings for this screening
Theme warning: LGBTQ+ persecution
Scene warning: bodily fluids and decomposition, animal cruelty
Event Timeslots:
Jo-Jo Theatre,
Thursday 24.08.2023
-
8€ Buy tickets
Aurinkobaletti,
Friday 25.08.2023
-
8€ Buy tickets