International Competition 3
Content warnings for this screening
Theme warning: death
Event Timeslots:
Jo-Jo Theatre,
Thursday 24.08.2023
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8€ Buy tickets
Aurinkobaletti,
Saturday 26.08.2023
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8€ Buy tickets
Films in this screening:
Christoph Büttner:
In his Mercy
(In seiner Gnade)
Germany, 2022. 12 minutes.
One evening a prison director announces to a convict being executed next day. As by a miracle later at night the cell door opens. Being exhausted by endless interrogations the convict drags on through dark prison corridors. On his odyssey to gain freedom he is tossed back and forth by various mental states: his fear of being discovered, his hope for salvation and moments of sheer madness.
Isabel Santos:
SWIM!
United States, 2022. 5 minutes.
In a typical day at swim practice our protagonist is bombarded by the whistling of her eccentric coach, the burden of God’s watchful eye, the majesty of the older swimmers, and naughty recordings on her teammate’s cellphone. Not to mention the horror of getting her period. Crushes, tampons, and granola bars are the only things getting her through. All the while, our protagonist comes to understand herself and her body.
Armelle Mercat-Junot:
Wild Housemates
(Colocation sauvage)
France, 2023. 15 minutes.
A joyful goat decides to build a cabin in the jungle. But the construction process results in sharing it with dangerous roommates. Luckily she succeeds in building a friendship. However, it comes at a heavy price.
Adela Križovenská:
Doubt
Czech Republic, 2023. 6 minutes.
Doubt is a short animated essay, which through voices of four different authors from various fields of art, the film describes all stages of creative process. The combination of every animation technique imaginable, from 3D to animation on a carpet tufting, can only be matched with an equally important rich soundscape and original music.
Camila Dron:
Next time I'll join you
(La próxima te acompaño)
Argentina, 2023. 1 minutes.
Next time I’ll join you is the result of the combination of various animation techniques and supports, both physical and digital. The process begins by converting computerized images of a person’s interior into blueprints. This work seeks to play and expand the notion of the representations that technology offers us about the interior of our own body.
Aline Quertain:
Wild Tale
(Conte sauvage)
Belgium, 2023. 16 minutes.
In the middle of a boreal forest, a lonely feline meets a small bird. These two beings that nature opposes surprise and attract each other. A relationship of friendship tinged with suspicion arises between them.
Songkai Zhou:
Unnamed Road
United Kingdom, 2022. 8 minutes.
The film Unnamed Road takes the road and fate as its theme, and divides the chapters with earth, water, fire and wind. The road is the road under each person’s feet. The road is always in the process of becoming, changing and unfolding. The road has not yet reached the end, so it is called unnamed. In the film, the four elements of earth, water, fire and wind express the various encounters of individual life in the world. At the same time, these four things are also in the context of the contemporary digital age, forcing human beings to search for the connection between themselves and nature.
João Gonzalez:
Ice Merchants
Portugal, 2022. 14 minutes.
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Content warnings for this screening
Theme warning: death
Event Timeslots:
Jo-Jo Theatre,
Thursday 24.08.2023
-
8€ Buy tickets
Aurinkobaletti,
Saturday 26.08.2023
-
8€ Buy tickets