A disillusioned man is tired. Tired being tired. Times come in a man’s life, when one wonders which doors were opened, which remain closed, and those irreversibly locked.
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
Damage done by the Tsunami has gone out of sight but is still spreading beneath the surface. Wonderful Town is set in a small declining village that wasn’t directly affected by Tsunami but located near a southern Thailand resort area that got washed away. One day, a salesman, Ton, checks into the hotel. A little brother of the hotel’s host, Wit, passes the day not doing much. When he finds out that Ton is having an intimate relationship with his sister, his rage explodes and he kills Ton. The film exposes people who were thrown into despair and isolation against their will and how their scars affect others.
As several old Malaysian Chinese men and women perform their daily, practical tasks and three children silently suffer their weekly piano lessons, a metaphor is spun, exposing the vicious cycle of pragmatic living that constantly plagues the Chinese race.
West China. Wu Hongyan works in a Court as a female bailiff, in charge of women awaiting execution. Every weekend, she looks for love in Matchmaking dance parties. Yet her encounters, more sexual than emotional, always turn out badly. Until she meets the mysterious Li Jun whose wife is actually one of her prisoners.
How many times do you have to loose love before you loose yourself? And what does this mean if you are a poet? And in case of a poet within Russian Revolution? A film with Russian archive material of 1920th -1930th and modern animation, in a triangle of art, politics and love.
Newhall, California sits about thirty miles north of Los Angeles. It’s a place where the youth work at Video Depot, go to community college, struggle with jocks and townies, and do their best to understand politics, their careers, and their love life.
Héctor has been working in the same factory for the last twelve years. This is his last day on the job.
Before, meanwhile, after. Present, past, future. Ready, steady… Go!
First there were the fishermen. Then the Portuguese called the place Bom Bahia and also Good Life. Today Bombay is Mumbai, an unintended city which grew by commercial and industrial impulses reflecting a complex mosaic of the human existence. We discover moments of its daily life during 24 hours of pure sensibility: pictures in time together with original music and street sounds.
Counting Water is a fable about what happens when one person is forced to prove their love for another. Based loosely on a song from Philip Glass’ 1976 Opera, Einstein on the Beach, the animation asks the question: Can everything be broken down into pieces? And if so, can they be put back together? How many drops of water does the ocean really hold?
Shot during the April 23rd Children’s Day, which marks the establishment of the new Turkish Parliament, and the official demise of the Ottoman Empire back in 1920, this split screen film documents a pompous patriotic performance devised by elders to be performed by children. Hosted by the mayor and governor of Istanbul.
Bugcrush is the story of Ben, a small-town school loner, whose fascination with Grant, a dangerously seductive new kid, leads him into something much more sinister than he could ever have imagined.
China go downstairs in direction of Martin Moniz district, in Lisbon. When she passes the childreen scream: China, China!. China is flying. To escape far away at down. She just wants to be happy. But China drunks her own poison. She drunks it all. Sometimes air seems loaded with evil, purgatory seems an infant school.
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision — she has made it already. We don’t know whom she represents, what she believes in ‚ we only know she believes it absolutely. The film strips the story down to its existential core. It focuses on microscopic movements, the smallest gestures, an economy of banal details. Inspired in part by a story in a Russian newspaper and playing off a history of Joan of Arc films, the film transpires on the girl’s face. The minimalism of the face is confronted with the visual and aural noise of the city.
Grace, the newborn of an American upper-class family, exchanges her place with Doug, the little baby dog of a white trash American family.
Drama/Mex is a bitter-sweet telling of three intense human relationships stories that are interlaced during one night in contemporary Acapulco. Once upon a time a luxurious port, now in decadence, Acapulco serves as a background for a suicidal old man, for a 15 year old runaway girl and for a young couple who face the hardships of separation after a tragic break up. We see glimpses of a night that will change their lives and our perception, as we see different points of view of the events.
Lucio, a man without a way that comes from Buenos Aires, arrives to the ‘Yellow’, a brothel from a small town in Argentina. There meets Amanda, a prostitute without hope in life. This encounter offers them a possibility to get their lives better.
It’s the last summer in Falkenberg. Five childhood friends who have become young men. David who yearns to be a child again and Holger who never wants to move away. Two best friends that escape to the forest and to the ocean, away from the future. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jorgen finances his catering company, Breakfast in bed by burglarizing houses. And John, always in a bad mood, yet believes that bacon makes him happy. The future looms at the horizon, but all of them won’t be there to see it.