On the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg, a huge electrical transformer fell off the truck. The hero has to watch over it as long as a crane doesn’t come to pick it up…
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
Montevideo, Uruguay. Jacobo, a 60-year-old man, lives alone since the death of his mother who he had taken care of up until her last day. All he has in his life is a humble sock factory about to go out of business. Marta, 48, Jacobo’s right hand man, has worked for him for twenty years. She’s his most experienced employee, who aside from the other tasks she assumes, looks after Jacobo. Neither of them could live without the other. Nonetheless, their day to day relationship seems cold, until the day Jacobo’s brother arrives.
What happens when we are at 13.103m of altitude and about to fall? Will we have time to think about our lives, what we did and where we went before we hit the ground? A film about a state of mind that affects everyone sooner or later. One thing is certain, when you think about it: the pain of the impact with the ground. (P. C.)
The first time I heard of this phenomenon was in Germany. A young, classically trained violinist confessed to me that he dreamed of going to a mythical village among German youth, located in central Africa, which consisted of musicians and where djambé could be learned. Suddenly it seemed so close to me that it made a click. When I was little, in Africa, parents sent children to Germany to learn music. Now it was all upside down. And thankfully. Because things really are upside down. We Europeans don’t see them clearly. The world really has changed. And this is not new. Africa is not like we painted it. And the ones to blame are the Portuguese from the fifteenth century, who destroyed Africans documents to prove that our culture was superior to theirs. (João Viana)
Men, flamingos and gulls gather peacefully in the Tagus estuary. In the distance, cars follow their route on the Vasco da Gama bridge without realizing the movement. The wind blows harder and the buckets fill up, little by little, with clams. (M. C.)
Cilaos explores the deep and murky ties that bind the dead and the living.
489 Years gives us access to the DMZ, the dangerous zone separating the two Koreas.
A free and wild young woman has to come back from the big city to her village in the mountains. Her parents have arranged her a marriage with the son of a local business man, but she falls in love with the town’s hairdresser.
In Amalimbo, a 5 year-old girl experiences the limbo when she tries to be with her recently dead father.
Jorge Cramez’s second feature, an adaptation of a Corneille comedy, portrays a group of friends deceiving each other on a New Year’s Eve. The next morning, change comes.
And So We Put Goldfish in The Pool is a nihilistic pop fairytale.
A real school shooting in Deklab Elementary.
For young Ama and Aissita the road starts here, in the village of Boli Bana. Through their eyes the story of a nomadic, mystical and everyday world emerges. A Fulani childhood in Burkina Faso.
A 16mm film-poem on the Sonora desert, one of the deadliest places in the world. Separating the USA from Mexico, the desert is described by border guards, humanitarian volunteers and human smugglers. But the landscape speaks by itself.A 16mm film-poem on the Sonora desert, one of the deadliest places in the world. Separating the USA from Mexico, the desert is described by border guards, humanitarian volunteers and human smugglers. But the landscape speaks by itself.
The entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, Flores.
The eye of a drone is like god’s eye: Find Fix Finish.
A conductor struggles with his inner demons, a duel between man and the technology: Fraktur.
The first film talking about global warming was the porno Hot Winter.