Kids
Switzerland, animation, 2019, 9'
Director: Michael Frei
Screenplay: Michael Frei, Mario von Rickenbach
Animation: Michael Frei, Martine Ulmer, Anaïs Voirol
Sound: Masumi Takino
Music: Olav Lervik, Riga Cathedral Boys Choir
Production: Playables
An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal?
Blessed Land
Vietnam, fiction, 2019, 18'
Director: Phạm Ngọc Lân
Screenplay: Phạm Ngọc Lân
Cinematography: Trang Công Minh
Editing: Phạm Thị Hảo
Scenography: Kelly Hoàng
Sound: Arnaud Soulier
Cast: Minh Châu, Hoàng Hà, Thùy Anh
Production: Ngô Đài Trang, Nghiêm Quỳnh Trang
A middle-aged woman and her son visit her late husband’s grave situated in a former fishing village she hasn’t been to in decades. In the cemetery on the sandy dunes, they wander around for a long time without finding the headstone.
Roadside Attraction
USA, documentary, 2017, 10'
Director: Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas
Cinematography: Patrick Bresnan
Editing: Ivete Lucas
Sound: Eric Friend
Production: Maida Lynn, Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas
After a very famous airplane arrives at Palm Beach International Airport, an otherwise ordinary stretch of Florida highway attracts an avid cluster of excited onlookers and selfie-takers. In the ensuing spectacle, these curious Americans reveal the qualities they may share with the plane’s huuuge-ly notable passenger.
Our Song to War
Belgium, Colombia, documentary, 2018, 14'
Director: Juanita Onzaga
Screenplay: Juanita Onzaga
Cinematography: Juanita Onzaga
Editing: Juanita Onzaga
Sound: Jeremy Bocquet
Voice: Leopolda Rojas, Eliseo Pino Chaverra
Production: RANA Films & De Chinezen (Juanita Onzaga, Jan Stevens, Sofie Despeer)
Crocodile-men, a mystic river, some kids that like fishing, and a war that ends share the same Colombian land – Bojaya. In this place, villagers have strange beliefs and celebrate the “Novenario” death ritual. This might be the beginning of a very long story, where spirits and humans meet each other to learn what is there to life after the end of war.
Sun Dog
Belgium, Russia, igrani fiction, 2020, 20’
Director: Dorian Jespers
Screenplay: Dorian Jespers
Cinematography: Arnaud Alberola, Dorian Jespers
Editing: Omar Guzman
Scenography: Zara van den Bergh
Sound: Thomas Becka
Music: Felix Casaer
Cast: Alexander Pronkin, Tatiana Smirnova, Andrey Sychyov
Production: KASK, Scum Pictures, ATAKA51 (Gust van den Berghe)
Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.