São Só Diabretes / Just little imps
group work (Galeria de Arte Contemporânea Solar/Curtas Metragens)
Portugal, 2023, 3'05"
A little girl struggles to fall asleep, but every time she closes her eyes, small impish creatures appear from the darkness. The film was made by students of Escola Básica Maria Pais Ribeiro - A Ribeirinha with orientation from Leonor Pacheco and Dimitrije Mihajlović.
Les gens dans l’armoire / Society of Clothes
Dahee Jeong (Miyu Productions/Between the Picturs/NFB)
France, South Korea, Canada, 2024, 15'10"
One morning, a shirt and a pair of pants come out of a closet. They come together to form a person, who eats breakfast, chooses a hat and puts it on. In this universe, people are composed of nothing but clothes.
Entropic Memory
Nicolas Brault (independent)
Canada, 2024, 6'28"
This photographic exploration of family photo albums ravaged by water evokes hazy and indistinct memories, poignant witnesses of a fragile past.
La Saison pourpre / The Purple Season
Clémence Bouchereau (Bandini Films/Arte France)
France, 2023, 9'18"
On the edge of a mangrove, a group of girls lives to the rhythm of the climate and the wild geese around them. They see each other live and grow up at different ages. As time passes, tensions arise and rivalries develop.
Dar saaye sarv / In the Shadow of the Cypress
Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani (Barfak Studio)
Iran, 2023, 19'30"
A captain suffering from PTSD, lives with his daughter & struggle with a harsh life. He wants to be a caring father... One day something unexpected happens. It can be either a new trouble or a blessing in disguise.
Dull Spots of Greenish Colours
Sasha Svirsky (Wait a second!)
Germany, 2024, 10'35"
War for our attention has suddenly become an actual war. Information technologies appear not just as mere means for somebody’s ends but as something having their agency, as one of the acting forces rendering possible a horrific event, which is very hard to accept and almost impossible to comprehend. We have no control over it and are doomed to scroll through the newsfeed.
Flatastic
Alice Saey (Miyu Productions/Keplerfilm/Spotted Bird)
France, Netherlands, 2024, 17'30"
Pushed to their limit, the Manta Rays rise up against Man to take control of the Earth: it is the dawning of a new Flat era.