“Veil” is an animated sensual and sensorial experience on desire and our perspective over bodies. )
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
The story of a group of individuals coming from different realities, who reveal their personal aspirations and pathways through a common instrument ‚ the Ads newspaper. To register the encounters made possible by the ads in order to reveal the interest, they raise and the needs they create.
“White Chimney” looks for the remains of a past life (during World War II) in a famous hotel and forest in Finland.)
“Yes We Love” builds a comical portrait on love and hate of four generations in Norway. )
“Yen Yen” plays on the experience that water and land have in human perspective.)
A small town, a growing knot and a girl searching for her identity.
52 percent is the ideal proportion of one’s leg length to height and one of the most important admission criteria set by the State Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg. Alla has two months to reach this dream proportions. Will she be admitted to the school? The film was made under Russia and Poland. New Gaze project, 2nd edition. The project was made by Eureka Media and Adam Mickiewicz Institute with financial support of Polish Film Institute.
Der Unfertige is a portrait of Klaus Johannes Wolf, who decided to live as a slave. Chained on his bed, he’s telling about his decision to be a slave, his parents and what it means to be naked.
La Isla joins Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor and the Polish Katarzyna Klimkiewicz as the result of an initiative, which pairs up upcoming filmmakers from Latin America and Europe; together they create a magical environment from the return of a family to their summer house in the remote region of Chile, where they rediscover the place while waiting for a last family member.
In La Fugue, Lakdar, a social worker in a home for juvenile offenders in Marseille, goes to court along with one of the teenagers he’s in charge of, Sabrina. She is to be judged for an offence she committed a while before. Lakdar feels confident: he is convinced that their efforts will be rewarded.
A Caça Revoluções is a film that explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.
Jorge is a tranquil, middle-class family man whose neighborhood has become overrun by a fringe class of street thugs. His comparatively fortunate existence makes him the target of their intimidation one night, and a hulking outlaw robs him of his insulin needle. Jorge’s teenage son boldly tries to stand up for his father, which only serves to unleash the bully’s terrorizing reign of threats upon the family. Rife with unnerving tension, To Kill a Man is ultimately a surprising exploration of the heavy burden of what it takes to do what the title suggests.
Virtuoso Virtual follows a secret choreography of ink drawings which seem to come out of nowhere but take on characteristics and moods of the music and narrate a story that appears to be laid out in the music.
A ‘science fiction documentary’ constructed from hundreds of reels of amateur super 8 film, which builds imaginary worlds to overcome the isolation of a small town where two friends grow up, and later the loss of one of the friends. In another world, things happen according to one’s dreams.
After escaping from her father’s place, Céline, a young girl, meets Peter, a British truck driver. Together they start a luminous trip in his red truck. Céline has a dark secret. So does he.
As Rosas Brancas is an emotional tale about memory, mourning, faith, loss, and the shifting of family roles in the wake of a death; how to proceed with the mother inside one’s heart?
Our Curse is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with a very rare and incurable disease of their newborn child ‚ the Ondine’s Curse; the film shows the process of taming the fear by the parents and gradually adopting to the new situation.
A contemporary fable of realistic tones. The film goes through the deep and parallel universes of two women: Shelly, a young dancer who dreams of becoming a Brega singer and Jaqueline, the veteran singer of the band where Shelly dances, her inspiration and possible mirror of her destiny. Both of them are in search of their dreams in a city, Recife, which is boiling development dreaming of its future by destroying its past.