Cloudless sky. Vehicles on the grid. Blas, Ivan and Hector take their places. This is about to start! Ready, steady…
Secção: IndieJúnior
Ginjas experiments with vowels and struggles with the echo effect, that always returns a distorted version of the sound. Metaphors are explored, as well as variants of typographic plays, and the notion of upper and lowercase.
14-year-old Jorgis is a gifted choir boy. But his voice is starting to break. 12 notes down. He must stop singing in the boys’ choir soon or risk damaging his voice permanently. This is a shock as his entire identity will change. The boy singer must now become a man.
A King and a Queen have the hardest time to marry their daughter…
Rodri will be 47 soon and he hasn’t worked in eight years. His older sister tries to help him find a job, but it is not easy to persuade him to accept a job which is not up to his aspirations. A family drama where everyone gets mad because they all love each other. (M. Moz)
The family history of a Gipsy father and a non-Gipsy mother inspires the director to search for what her life would have been if her father, much like his own unconventional mother, wouldn’t have broken the tradition. In this journey of self-discovery she meets Joaquina, a young girl fully immersed in the Gypsy community and who is a counterpoint to the experience of the director. (M. Moz)
Eskimal and Morsa work together to preserve the Great Glaciet, facing imminent disaster brought on by the industrialized world.
El Señor Studio has the honour to present the failures of the natural selection. A set of strange creatures whose instincts instead of focusing on survival seem doomed them to an absurd and comic extinction, in the presence of the astonished gaze of the narrator. The character of the Narrator was a documentary star, but unfortunately for him, the good times are over.
Life hangs by a thread. Sometimes, it is none other than an old floor lamp switch. The question (of life or death) should be: Must the light stay on or off? This exploration between hunter and prey, will be revealed with music.
Non scientific observations of the jumping fellows life.
As two police officers transport a criminal, a senior policeman gets out of a van and a rookie policeman leaves alone with the prisoner. The criminal complains of a stomachache and wants to go to toilet, but the policeman ignores him. This is a funny story about a misunderstanding between an urgent criminal and rookie policeman.
In memoriam di Alfedo Fazia Parallax Sounds explores the intimate connection between music and urban landscape in Chicago, bringing interviews with musicians who contributed to shape the vibrant Chicago underground music scene in the 90s and continue to do creative and relevant work today: Steve Albini, David Grubbs, Damon Locks, Ken Vandermark and Ian Williams. Through discussions ranging from art and politics to the differences between the condition of the artist in America and in Europe, they help us understand how different artists react to the same environment and which common traits might exist to connect such a varied artistic production.
An over-ambitious beaver goes too far when he gets the chance to realise his ultimate dream. Some dreams are just too big.
18th February 2010, Niger, President Mamadou Tanja is ousted by a military coup. The film takes place during the event and the following days. Sticking to the people mining for gold in the open air, to the persons receiving alimentary aid, the film evolves around the idea that nothing actually changed that day. The Harmattan is as strong an ever, covering the land with the desert dust. (Karim Shimsal)
Captain Awesome is about to save the day once again, when an upset stomach threatens to ruin it all. A story of a superhero’s race against time to save his image or humanity before it all goes down the drain!
Beginning in a very funny way, this sarcastic animation turns out to be gradually more and more cruel. It describes the long journey from Sahel to Europe through deserts, overcrowded trucks and small traffickers’ boats. And awaits the winners of this absurd lottery. (Karim Shimsal)
Miriam is in the kitchen, making a milkshake with the food processor. The chicken, too is interested in the appliance, but keeps pressing wrong buttons and finally it crashes on the floor. As Miriam is busy ironing, the chicken starts fixing the food processor herself. It seems to work. Later mother wants to use it, but the appliance has gone berserk. I turns out that the chicken has climbed into it.
Little brother falls ill and gets all of the attention and care of the rest of the family. Miriam feels unhappy. In the end she cannot think of anything else besides painting the spots of the illness on her own face. The chicken is definitely involved, and experiences analogous emotions to Miriam’s.