EXPLORING REALITIES
70 min
Online: THU 7.3., 19:00 / online available for 48 hours
Cinema: SAT 9.3., 19:00 + Q&A / Stand 129
SUN 10.3., 18:00 / METRO Kino, Historischer Saal + Q&A with Shira Avni, Elen Sylla Grollimund
To bear witness is to render the invisible into images, to bring to light those stories that have been lost, overseen or hidden away. The films in this program employ the tools of animation to testify and account for some of the cracks and empty spaces in history, remember stories (made to be) forgotten and challenge dominant narratives. Above all, they mirror back to us, the audience, and ask us to see, to question, witness and remember.
LE MAL DES ARDENTS | ARDENT OTHER
Alice Brygo, 2022, FR, 16 minutes
A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.
GRAPE SODA IN THE PARKING LOT
Megan Kyak-Monteith, Taqralik Partridge, 2023, CA, 7 minutes
What if every language that had been lost to English, every word, every syllable, grew up out of the ground in flowers? Taqralik Partridge’s grandmother’s Scottish Gaelic and her father’s Inuktitut unfold in memories of her family, of pain, and of love.
DOS MENOS | TWO LESS
Taroa Zúñiga Silva, Carlos Zerpa, 2024, CL and VE, 7 minutes
Two young migrant women die under obscure circumstances involving repressive bodies of the Chilean state. Talking from beyond, Joanne and Beatriz tell us about their decision to migrate, their hopes, their dreams of motherhood, and the repression they had to face.
ARMAT
Élodie Dermange, 2022, CH, 12 minutes
Elodie tries to find out more about her family’s Armenian origins. She interviews her father, her uncle and her great-aunt and discovers a harsh history where violence and the inability to express love are passed down from generation to generation.
DEUX UN DEUX | TWO ONE TWO
Shira Avni, 2023, CA, 4 minutes
Shimmering clay-on-glass animation is combined with personal archives in this deeply intimate, experimental animated documentary love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, and two-headed monsters everywhere.
VILLA MADJO
Elen Sylla Grollimund, 2023, BE, 13 minutes
Starting with the observation that her father, who is white, was born in Africa and her mother, who is black, was born in Europe, the director sets out to reveal the complex history of her family, from colonialism to the experience of an interracial couple in Europe in the 1950s and 60s.
MAGDA
Adela Kaczmarek, 2022, PL, 9 minutes
Podhale, Poland. Winter of 1939. Magda, an excellent skier, joins the Polish Resistance and helps by bringing documents and fugitives across the mountains into Slovakia. When she learns that a group of pilots urgently need to cross the border because the Gestapo is on their heels, she comes up with a risky plan.