A hot summer. A private district with an enormous park. An abandoned plot of land in the suburbs and an uncontrollable wave of smoke spark uncertainty and chaos.
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
Até o céu leva mais ou menos 15 minutos joins in a car two mothers and three kids; it is a 15 minute drive from a children’s party to home that begins with seemingly uncontrollable chaos and ends with total tranquillity.
A long distance call from a long lost lover makes her reminisce about their common past.
She remembers the spring when they met in Paris, the riots, the vespa and the cat named Baby.
A film about love, time and things that got lost along the way.
Escort reveals the story of young, inexperienced members of the Dutch Border Patrol; they undergo an intensive training on escorting refused asylum seekers to their ‚Äòcountry of origin’.
Forer is a fiction based loosely on an unusual event which occurred in a small Swedish town; but memory does not have a linear sequence and each moment has its own weight in its reconstruction.
In Heights times and spaces dialogue with each other captured with an iPhone, from a single window, over the course of a year.
Built from 16mm found footage, Implausible Things’ seven sequences create a patchwork of reflective tonality, in which each viewer is subtly invited to leave their conceptions of reason and causality behind.
The singer Sky Ferreira is the protagonist of IRL, in which an alienated young woman reconstructs the steps from the previous night that may unravel the mysterious images of a suicide.
Le petit prince au pays qui défile is an intimate portrait of the famous figure skater Stéphane Lambiel, two times world champion and silver medallist at the Turin Winter Olympics, showing the young man distanced from the star he still is.
While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio (Corsica) hang out. One evening, one of them leads the others to an unoccupied luxury villa. They spend the night there. Before they leave, they steal some objects of no value and two prize rifles. When the house owner arrives from Paris, she complains about the theft to a small local boss she knows.
Mateo, 17, strives to gather enough money to pay for the coyote who will smuggle him across the U.S.-Mexico border after the yearly fiesta in his small Zapotec village in Oaxaca, Southern Mexico. His dream is to work hard in Los Angeles and support his mom and kid brother back home. But the way to get there is far more difficult than he envisioned.
A dispossessed drug dealer and his derelict companions are part of a cool generation that confronts displacement, sickness, and cultural decay in the back alleys of a city in Colombia. They are acquainted with many people on the streets, but are selective with their friendships. With all their connections dead, they struggle to survive on their own terms.
In Molii Steve has to replace his father, night guard of the municipal swimming pool; everything goes according to plan, until the young man hears unusual noises.
In Prehistoric Cabaret a woman performs on stage a colonoscopy with a bizarre organic camera, which makes us travel along her body in search of the original being.
Montenegro is an animation that explores with humour the drama of baldness, a passion for wolves and the admiration for Zidane, among other equally intimate matters.
Reign of Silence is an experimental fiction with a single scene depicting man’s action over nature and the return to the stillness of the landscape.
The story of Ricky, a 13-year-old boy with autism, and his mother, Mariana, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, who works long days cleaning houses while Ricky, deeply imaginative but painfully isolated, struggles to cope. One day nobody picks Ricky up from school and he begins an odyssey of self discovery,
where his confrontation with the bizarre, indifferent world of the subway pushes him
to interact with the world.
Working with footage that the filmmaker captured in Japan 2011 right after the country was hit by an earthquake and tsunami, Substanz overlaps images and sound recreating a sensation of being lost in a foreign country under state of emergency.