INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2
72 min
Online: SAT 9.3., 19:00 / online available for 48 hours
Cinema: THU 7.3., 21:00 / METRO Kino, Historischer Saal + Q&A with Anna Dudko
FRI 8.3., 20:00 / METRO Kino, Pleskow Saal
A series of short films about the rites of passage: from infancy to adolescence, intimacy to alienation, war to peace. These journeys may be painful, but the makings of a legend are often hidden in trials. Arising from fables and myth, the films orbit around the relationships we have with ourselves and each other. The ebbs and flows of the subconscious bleed onto the screen through pixelation, pinscreen, pencils, charcoal and stop motion.
LA SAISON POURPRE | THE PURPLE SEASON
Clémence Bouchereau, 2023, FR, 9 minutes
Only available in cinema.
On the edge of a mangrove forest, a group of girls lives to the rhythm of the climate and the wild geese around them. As they grow up, tensions arise and rivalries develop.
UN TROU DANS LA POITRINE | A CRAB IN THE POOL
Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel, 2023, CA, 11 minutes
Zoe is on the cusp of puberty. Her anxiety about her body and her little brother's escape into fantasy conceal a wound that they both share. Their confrontation with the crab reveals the healing that needs to be done together, to face their grief instead of drowning in it.
KONIUNKCJA | MISALIGNED
Marta Magnuska, 2022, LV and PL, 7 minutes
A woman and a man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, flies are circling a lamp. As the rhythm of their universes accelerates, we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and the observed elements.
OBOK | OUTSIDE*
Izabela Plucińska, 2023, DE and PL, 5 minutes
The film tells the story of domestic violence happening behind closed doors every day. Our heroine deals with violence in a different way. The inspiration for the film was an article in a German newspaper entitled “The numbers are scary”.
*contains depiction of gender-based violence and images some viewers may find disturbing
MOKOSH
Anna Dudko, 2023, AT and UA, 5 minutes
The Sun is breaking into pieces, hard times are coming. In the devastating chaos, Mother Earth gives birth to a new cycle of life. Mokosh was created during a one year artist-in-residence program as a reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
존재의 집 | HOUSE OF EXISTENCE
Joung Yumi, 2022, KR, 9 minutes
There is a house. It starts to fall apart. The roof and walls collapse, bricks come loose and doors fall off, slowly revealing belongings inside the house. Objects and structures break away and disappear into nothingness. What will remain?
ELECTRA
Daria Kashcheeva, 2023, CZ, FR, and SK, 27 minutes
Not available in Spain and Andorra.
Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with dreams and hidden fantasies. In a world of Mattel, myth and misogyny, figuring out who we are and how we came to be this way can be an odyssey of epic proportions.