The melodramatic story of “Four” takes place in a nostalgic spring day of 1937. A seaside concert of a popular singer changes into a fatal tragedy that hits lives of the four women and shows there is a lot more than just a coincidence connecting these four characters.
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
The red market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary universe but also beautiful and intriguing. Rodrigue’s camera emerges like a driving force giving us the exact b
The last moment’s poetry lays on the fact that we never know when it’s happening. We don’t even know if it’s a last farewell. And least of all when we’re ten years old. And we also don’t think about it when we’re starting a new life in another continent.
Five characters and the capital sin of greed. A vicious cycle. A short animation film noir on greed. Its texture gives the story a different dimension. Five times greed. When you are told that money gives happiness it’s time for you to be suspicious. (C.
All her life Gerti Gerbert was photographed by her husband. After his death, she’s offering herself to a new camera. She’s supposed to give her body again, but this time without intimacy. Gathering texts, photos and interviews, Widmann and Krause compose
Erwin, a weasel, lives in a trafficlight. His job is to check and look after the right light, every single day.
We went on discovering the story of princess Wakasa who fall in love with Fernão Mendes Pinto and was exchanged for a gun’s secret. Each image brings us a greater surprise than the one before, creating a kind of time’s travel, with Japanese warriors and a
A very special film on the strange seasonal arrival of Thai to the forests of the north of Finland. The fabulous photography catches the transformation of the environment operated by the unexpected presences and the local population’s reflection, incapabl
Raúl is a loving son who takes care of his mother, an example of what the Cuban revolution has achieved. But Raúl is also perhaps less than a perfect human. He’s attracted by young girls. This documentary was made using his interviews and recreates the in
It’s not a film about Genesis P-Orridge, it’s not about the legendary avant-garde bands and it’s not about the history of industrial post-punk era and the underground music scene. It’s a film about love that never grows old. It’s a film about how Genesis
A woman with financial troubles is looking for help. She has a passivity which is easy to take for hope. But each time she experiences luck or the other people good will, our relief only lasts for some seconds. The next shot she’s once again abandoned. (A
On The Water reflects upon the cycle of life. With its movements and whims, the sea is like a metaphor for each human being’s route in a poetic and moving way. Awarded as the best Dutch animation film, made by a student in 2010. (P.C.)
Puppetboy is sweating floods of clay, preparing for a lady’s visit. It gets even more nervous when she arrives.
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There are strange, rare and beautiful moments when we observe the death of a flamingo. The film’s editing is free from the regular cycle of life, and Richard Wiebe gives us the chance of celebrating both life and death at the same time. The film left us w
Laranjeira makes a film about the small and the great emotions. The everyday conversations give place to emotive recalls. The answer stays open and it’s about love, how one invents it, how is it distributed or how is it felt. The young director (special m
A boy discovers his body by the sea. He discovers his own sexuality. He discovers that she’s someone special. He enters in a journey in a new world, in and out of water. A drawing animation full of rhythm and with some sense of humor. (C.R.)
1989 it’s the year of an automobile journey with a tragic end, which is also an autobiographical journey into a ghost of the past. The suspension of time during the fatal moment is magnificent. A memory film composed of little impressions and stimulus. A