Tom R. disappeared, leaving no trace, somewhere between the cafe where he always went and the street he walked every day. After 23 years, a team tries to make a film about what happened and, ambitiously, find a solution. But the mystery does not seem to want to unravel.
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
A musical that sublimates the moving side of its narrative, although with a slight smile appearing at the corner of its lips: two people, in a couple, who live in different countries decide to end the relationship, but they will have one last day together.
The neon colors are not here to distract, rather they point to the dreamlike quality of this film that tries to address, without being moralizing, issues related to consent. A surprise party turns out to be the trigger to explore the dynamic between victim and abuser.
The camera wanders into a park and surrounding residential area. Changes and new construction works are coming, but for today, two friends take one last intimate walk where they expand time, avoiding parting.
In the midst of unusual visual references to eggs, the focus of this film is Avelardo’s birthday, in this world populated by birds, ducks and other animals, and almost everyone’s invited. Amidst the celebration, there are arrows flying over our protagonists.
Heliconia is textures (those of the film), colors (those of nature), heat (that of summer) and bodies (hanging from trees, eating mangoes). A synesthetic symphony where fourteen-year-old Maria goes in search of paradise on Earth with her brother and his friend Adrian.
Miguel and his uncle, Kechus, are making a vampire movie together. Kechus has big hands and a long, lean face (perfect for a vampire) and, with a cape and fangs, he would be flawless in the main role. But Miguel doesn’t like to think of his uncle as a vampire.
Pure visual ASMR. Excerpts of videos found on the internet – of the “oddly satisfying” variety – are assembled in such a way that it creates a piece of video art in which loops of sounds and images fabricate an elastic, palpable and undulating texture.
Bartholomew Whisper has a hole, quite beautiful by the way, in the head. On a visit to the doctor, he is faced with a series of odd situations. A sarcastic and scathing comment on health systems, what constitutes health and what is a disease.
In the capital of Tunisia, a group of women, gathered at Saïda’s salon, anticipate the presidential election due the next day. The various women represent the country’s turmoil, the political forces in conflict and the debates that concern them.
The film of Pete Levine’s life. Started in 1973 and finished in 2020, this first film from a 70 year-old young director, tells the story of CR Pleasants’ life, and family, an amateur inventor who claimed to be able to dispel the type of fog that, in the 30s and 40s, afflicted plane pilots.
Aline Sitoe Diatta is a female Senegalese icon of resistance to French colonialism. Rokhaya Marieme Balde is the director who returns home, to Dakar, in order to make a film about this historical figure.
Kátia’s world is the stage. It’s where she lights up, where she feels alive, and singing is how she fulfills her purpose in life. A documentary that shows the woman behind the karaoke and the people who fill her life and her audience.
Markers, pens, pencil smudges, scribbles on paper. An animated musical whose purpose is to celebrate the harmony that is created between colors, patterns, textures and sounds, in a symphony of creative and spontaneous energy to the rhythm of the drum cymbals.
Denise Duval was a French soprano known mainly for her interpretations of operas by Francis Poulenc. One of them, La Voix Humaine, is the one we most closely identify with Duval and a work that haunted her for the rest of her life.
Somewhere on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic, the employees of a glass factory work, delicately and precisely, the hot materials in hand. The muscular and tattooed bodies of the men mark the beat of a night shift.
In the midst of nature, between tears and watermelon juice, Barbara will heal old wounds and redefine her sexuality.
Two bored extras from the ‘Tristan and Isolde’ opera roam the underground of the Garnier Palace.