– What if I was a teacher? One who teaches numbers… My students would learn how to count to infinity in an hour… Those who couldn’t would get punished! – That’s it, Maria! My dream is to fly…
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
Three young adolescents meet on a housing estate on the outskirts of La Courneuve, France. On foot and by mini-motorbike, they cross the estate passing their time as best they can.
Camilla Sepulveda has been unemployed for over a year. Now she is trying to get a job as a secretary. Through six chapters and brief interviews we will find out what this long unemployment time has meant to her. Everywhere Camilla goes for a job interview, she will listen to other unemployed women’s points of view and experiences. She knows that after all this time of being unemployed, she will never be the same again.
A man, a woman and a house: one space in two tempos breaking up in the same movement. João is a meteorological observer. Marta folds leaflets and puts them in envelopes. João measures time, Marta spreads it out. A love story like a cloud, that rises, thickens, shreds and falls, in a continuous way that is never the same.
The Tale of How tells the story of the Piranha birds or Dodo’s as they would be known to you. The piranha’s are born from the blossoms of a tree growing on Otto the monsters head (Otto is a giant octopus with a broken heart.) Otto is insane and eats the piranha’s. They’re not happy and decide to escape. A very clever, wise and magical being then appears to them,‚Ķ. Eddy the Engineer!
Nling is an impenetrable walled slum city whose inhabitants are cut off from the world outside. In this redemption story, animated entirely with paper print outs, a Nlingian man and his best friend Donkey tunnel beneath the wall to find food and alcohol. In his struggle to survive, the man finds that he is no more human than his animal friend.
At 40, Miriam radiates serene beauty and tranquility, a confidence and self-assurance as vast as the sea close to her summer home. There are no taboos in the life she shares with her partner André and their 15-year-old son Nils; there is understanding. And if Nils invites his 12-year-old girlfriend Livia to spend the holidays with them, fine. But when the brazenly sensual Livia begins flirting with an older man, Bill, Miriam feels it is her responsibility to stop the questionable relationship. But as she does so, it is she herself who falls for the shy and charmingly insecure Bill. Miriam forges ahead, seducing him, seeing him secretly. But it is Livia that Bill loves, not Miriam…
Four men dance in the set of a beach bar off season. One of them, before, recalled the circumstances of a military defeat. This film puts in parallel an episode of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars and a choreographed digest of the history of the Twist.
A giant tiger mysteriously appears in a big city, revealing the hidden reality in an otherwise ordinary night. A short film inspired by William Blake’s poem of same name.
Aimé has long been planning his trip to Morocco down to the last detail. But his wife Alice has never wanted to go with him. When his grandson finally takes him there and films him, the 91-year-old Aimé rediscovers life and the world.
Farmer Zepp planned a trip to Iceland with his wife. When she dies shortly before, he contacts a dating agency in order to find somebody who wants to take on the trip with him. As the phone doesn’t ring, he goes on the search on his own, where he encounters different women who confront him with his past. He takes on a journey. But it’s not the one he longed for.
It is already well into the night. Exhausted and loaded with luggage, Fabrice and Catherine are coming back from a holiday trip. They are eager to get back in their home, sweet home. Yet, it seems they forgot something… Their keys.
A western, manipulated to the point of being unable to convey a plot. An armed robbery is prevented through the camera, which brings one figure into a grotesque conflict. The armed confrontation gets stuck in a pounding staccato, while the public remains misinformed!
Alda is an original woman, but is also the double of a famous singer.
Four people each get to tell the story of their first time, an animated film based on documentary interviews. These are stories that range form comedy to tragedy, stories that are remembered with nostalgia, embarrassment or even horror. All these stories have one thing in common: it never like the first time.
This is the building where they make the Portuguese’s law everyday. This is the assembly that represents all the Portuguese’s citizens.
An unsettling take on the ‚Äònatural history’ of our contemporary urban environment, recreating three reported incidents where humans and ‚Äòfriendly’ animals interact badly ‚ a postman kills a dog, a dog attacks a child, a horse kills a cyclist.
A show in which Luis Nieto plays with his mouse Carlito leads us to think of the truth of image.