"it's such a beautiful day"
Don Hertzfeldt (Bitter Films)
ZDA/USA, 2011, 35mm, 23'
Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems in this third and final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt’s “Everything will be OK” trilogy.
Fresh Guacamole
PES (EatPES)
ZDA/USA, 2012, HD, 1'40''
In this follow-up to his stop-motion hit Western Spaghetti, director PES transforms familiar objects into Fresh Guacamole.
Viewpoint
Hwangbo Sae-byul (Hwangbo Sae-byul)
Južna Koreja/South Korea, 2011, HD, 7'
The dreams of the sensitive film character are brutally crushed by her mother. This and every next stab in her heart triggers a defensive reaction and, as a result, a protective cocoon, made of fast growing hair, is formed on her head.
Beluga
Shin Hashimoto (Shin Hashimoto)
Japonska/Japan, 2011, HDcam, 5'30''
A magnificently macabre, deliciously dark vision of the inner demons that race around the mind of a little match-seller condemned to the cold and dark.
Tunnel
Maryam Kashkoolinia (Honarhaye Tajasomi)
Iran, 2012, HD, 7'
A man travels through the unknown after a sheep.
Grmeča reka / Rivière au Tonnerre / Thunder River
Pierre Hébert (Vidéographe)
Kanada/Canada, 2011, HD, 7'56''
An intense exercise of looking at a rockface shot near the waterfalls of Rivière au tonnerre, on the North Shore of the St-Lawrence river. A meditation about opacity, about the fissures that can open up anything, any situation on the infinity of meaning.
Bao
Sandra Desmazières (Les Films de l'Arlequin)
Francija/France, 2012, 35mm, 11'05''
Bao and his sister are taking the train like everyday. It's always a fabulous adventure for them. But this time, everything will be different.
Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto
Johan Oettinger (Basmati Film/Wiredfly)
Danska/Denmark, 2012, HD, 7'48''
The Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Samek, an eight year old boy who is naughty and full of life, peeks through a hole in the ghetto wall and sees a carrot lying on the sidewalk just on the other side. He tries to pull the carrot through the hole with a piece of wire, unaware that two SS men are posted nearby and are following his every move.
Yi chang ge ming zhong hai wei lai de ji ding yi de xing wei / Some actions which haven't been defined yet in the revolution
Xun Sun (Pi Animation Studio)
Kitajska/China, 2012, digiBeta, 12'22''A strange day. A strange place. Fundamental ideological tenets meet surreal politics. A place, set apart and yet familiar to everyone, is revealed to the viewer. A space in which time and surface become one; where crows and cats alternate and give way to a view of classrooms and burning clouds, the image of a teacher and an ordeal in a hospital…