INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4
65 min
CINEMA: FRI 7.3., 19:00 / METRO Kino
SAT 8.3., 20:00 / METRO Kino
ONLINE: SUN 9.3., 19:00 / online available for 48 hours
Unsteady Grounds
The familiar continuously changes its character – transforming, distorting and shapeshifting. These films guide us through worlds where the seemingly known is questioned, fractured, or already dismantled, taking us into futures that are approaching the end of the world or where the supposed end has already happened. An oscillation between wasteland and wonderland, possibility and impossibility, utopia and dystopia.
GINA KAMENTSKY’S PINOCCHIO IN 70MM
Gina Kamentsky, 2024, US, 3 minutes
Familiar figures emerge in a frantic rhythm - a whale, a donkey, and a figure with an ever-growing nose. Deep within, Pinocchio felt a yearning. One day, he would become a real girl and live a life beyond the confines of make-believe.
ASHEN SUN | SOLEIL GRIS
Camille Monnier, 2024, FR, 13 minutes Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she’s forced to guard a deserted motel with her cousin Jess. While the teenagers hang out at the empty pool, the monotone voice on the radio predicts the imminent end of the world.
INKWO FOR WHEN THE STARVING RETURN
Amanda Strong, 2024, CA, 18 minutes
Two lifetimes from now, the world teeters on the edge. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, must harness the power of their Inkwo (medicine) to battle ferocious monsters. A story about the demand for healing and a powerful call to resist the haunting ghosts of exploitation.
ON WEARY WINGS GO BY | LINNUD LÄINUD
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, 2024, EE and LT, 10 minutes
The sun moves low and the days get shorter. Bodies covered in snow; porcelain skin touched by crisp air. The birds are flying south, as animals and insects hide from the freezing wind. Only a small girl wanders the abandoned land. A wintry poem about the simultaneity of void and plenty.
DOLORES
Cecilia Andalón Delgadillo, 2024, MX, 9 minutes
A tale of girls, skulls, and cornfields: While Doris and her friends are playing in a forbidden part of the fields, threatening clouds are gathering. Left alone, Dolores accidentally falls into a grave, where she encounters figures from childhood nightmares—and a protective armadillo.
THE GARDEN OF ELECTRIC DELIGHTS *
Billy Roisz, 2024, AT, 12 minutes The title The Garden of Electric Delights references Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Unlike a sterile, manicured garden, this "electric pleasure garden" teems with buzzing, rustling, and vibrant colors—a cybernetic forest alive with magnetic, tripping energy.
*contains flashing images / may affect viewers with photosensitive epilepsy