Symphony nº 42 presents in 47 scenes surreal situations based on the interaction of men with nature.
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
The sole is asymmetric and has both eyes on the right side of its body. This original documentary makes up its own poetic language and invites us to discover the universe of the sole in every aspect, shape, size and colour. There is no limit to the imagination and the variations are infinite. (Miguel Cabral)
Set during the 1970s in the West of Ireland, “Aunt” explores the effects of an unplanned pregnancy on a young girl and her family on the day that her baby is being Christened.
It’s a lazy summer for Giacomo and Stefania. They wander through the woods of northeastern Italy to find just the perfect river to chill. They are teens with no worries, they are just living. Simplicity and sensuality take over in this docu-drama full of summer sounds and layed back images reminding us what it means being alive. Their relationship never gets defined, it’s extremely loving and sensual and when the night falls the local luna park welcomes them with the merry-go rounds, teddy bears and music where they close their eyes and just dance with all the clumsiness of their youth. A film that smells like watermelon suncream, tastes like salt, feels like sand and sounds like crickets arousing all our senses. (Nina Veligradi)
A roman-photo of details, with words and images. Supersonic aircraft-profound sadness-monkey-spider-elephant. A child dives into the lexicon of a vast library and tries to build the future starting from endangered animal species. With Marker in mind, the no formulation of a theory comes from the very impossibility of the world. (Miguel Valverde)
He lives in a little town in southern France and will spend this summer chatting with his friends, assisting the 14th July fireworks, going by the lake. A close-portrait made of carefully chosen magical moments. An ordinary summer in the life of a not so ordinary (and yet typical) boy. (Karim Shimsal)
“Back to Mandima to find my village and my three best friends in the heart of the Zaire, now R.D.Congo (…) Meanwhile there’s been a war, a varnish of time, 15 years. Nothing changed? Everything has. What is frendship, beyond the skin colour, when one can take the plane and the other can’t? When one uses the informal “you” and the other the formal “You”?” (Rob-Jan Lacombe)
A young mother tries to manage adolescence and her baby, the living memory of a first love with a not-so-happy ending. The child accompanies her everywhere: from coffee with friends to getting her nails done, confiding her life in front of the camera. With a documentary tone, this fiction transports us to her childish and hopeful universe. (Ágata Pinho)
In a snowed-in log cabin, a widow lives with her four grown-up daughters, all with their own desires for love and intimacy. The strong Catholic faith and their mourning that has tormented them for years have condemned them to a life of chastity. Mysterious deer-men change their existence.
Jalainur (a Mongolian word meaning “ocean-like lake”), located in the northernmost part of China, near the border of China and Russia, is an open-pit colliery with over-100-years of history, where you can still see the unusual sight of steam trains in service. Now the “huge pit” is almost empty, the steam trains will be retired, and a large number of colliery workers are facing the crisis of being laid off. The two protagonists of this film are Old Zhu, a steam train driver, and his apprentice, Li Zhizhong, a train signalman, they have worked very closely together. The entire film is shot on actual location in Jalainur.
Leila was involved in a mysterious car accident that her mind has blocked from her memory. Now it’s summer, and Leila escapes on a Roman holiday to tend to her wounds in the arms of her sister, Anna. But the two sisters can’t connect and if Leila’s going to recover, she’ll have to take the first steps alone.
A.T. Shank & Son have a bad day at the parlour when a boulder flattens their hearse. Emotional and literal pitfalls lie in wait for them as they make their way cross country with just a coffin for company. This short animated caper puts the fun back into funeral as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale.
A quiet journey to a forsaken land, where hunger turns the human heart into a desert landscape, and someone’s misfortune may become someone else’s salvation.
Saara, 39, and her daughter Inna, 14, are getting ready for a Friday night at a housing estate in Eastern Helsinki. The mother and daughter are both forced to face a reality that inevitably contradicts their expectations.
Teenagers and children adrift in the territory delimited by a closed neighborhood, a model scale citadel: houses with gardens, a school, a party hall, a pool. A round trip from leisure to tedium, with no fathers or mothers close, the orphaned-for-a-week kids circulate to create their own chaos regime in the commodity of an accepted prison: no one even tries to run away from there. In that everyday state of conformity a stranger joins them, the one from the outside who irrupts, but not even at that point does the traditional conflict come up, rather everything dissolves in an intermittent game of tenderness and cruelty.
Kind and lazy Jenya comes to Moscow from a small village in Belarus to find work. An incident unexpectedly separates him from his companions leaving him alone without money and documents. He has no friends or relatives in this big and hostile city and is about to end up homeless. But suddenly a miracle happens: a strange old man takes the homeless Jenya to his flat and lets him stay with him. Soon Jenya is invited to join a peculiar fight in which the old man is engaged: a fight against the evil that spoils life in Moscow. The old man’s daughter reveals him the horrible truth about her father.
Two teenage sisters from the Mennonite religious become stranded in an unfamiliar place seeking food and a place to stay overnight. As they discover the new world through a modern landscape with colorful characters, the secret behind their journey is revealed.
Living in East LA and working at a Japanese jazz bar, a young cook (Shin) faces deportation to Japan when his visa is denied. Shin experiences a side of LA invisible to his social circle of Japanese immigrants. A portrait of life between time zones and cultures in a city indicative of a world growing smaller.