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East of Eden: Dreams of the Future Vzhodno od raja: Sanje o prihodnosti

69 min

Short Films Programme.

Atomic
HNV Collective, Finland/Latvia, experimental, 2020, 12'

A poetic journey that tells the story of a particular jewel. The ornamental stone is radioactive Trinitite, born as a side product of the nuclear test in New Mexico. This small object merges total violence, beauty, precious and sublime particular materials, and human incompleteness.

Sanjska dostava 
梦中的投递 (Dream Delivery), Yuan Zheng, China, experimental, 2018, 9'

An exhausted deliveryman is lying on a park bench, deep asleep. In a dream, he finds himself in a Shanghai park with his fellows: they all have turned into statues in contrast to their everyday exhaustion in the pursuit of speed and efficiency of China.

Kar pride, je zgolj obljuba
That Which Is to Come Is Just a Promise, Flatoform, Italy/Netherlands/New Zealand, documentary, 2019, 23'

The island of Funafuti, in the archipelago of Tuvalu, has become the stage of a unique phenomenon. Due to the unnatural warming of the sea, saltwater seeps into the subsoil, bubbling up through the porous terrain provoking floods, which put the future of life on this island at risk.

Adijo, mali blok!
Pá kis panelom! (Bye Little Block!), Éva Darabos, Hungary, animation, 2020, 9'

A surreal farewell panorama of a blockhouse area.

Ieva
Vytautas Plukas, Domas Petronis, Lithuania, documentary, 2021, 14’

Inside a lab, a robot is created. Like a newborn, it analyses its surroundings with the primitive senses and limited knowledge it has.

Maska
Mask, Hanka Brulińska, Poland, fiction, 2021, 14'

A visually chaotic, operatic journey through the mind of an AI as it learns how to be human, and reflects back questionable aspects of the human experience.

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