After environmental collapse confines people indoors, survivors cling on to the past through a digital recreation of the cities of yesterday. Every day, Zack chases the same elusive jogger, a programmed background character modeled after a woman he used to know.
Categorie: Awards 2023
WILD BONES
Fay reconnects with her sister, Alice, as she misremembers the cause of her Father’s disappearance and allows it to consume her. Fay lives a life that is blurred and frayed at the edges; memories are catching up with her as past cruelties, and tragedies collide into sharp focus through a myriad of visions and half-remembered history. Fay’s sister, Alice, reaches out and reveals that they have been left a house by their missing Father, now presumed dead. To retrieve her Father’s house, Fay has to meet with Candace, Alice’s biological Mother and the woman Fay holds responsible for her past trauma. The two sisters attempt to rebuild their relationship, while trying to convince one another of the truth about their family and their history.
WALKING THROUGH THE BARDO
“Weisheng and the girl agreed to meet on the bridge. After waiting for a long time, the girl didn’t arrive. When the water rose, he hugged the bridge pillar and died” – (Warring States · Zhuang Zhou “Zhuangzi · Robber Zhi”) This short film tells that after the man died, his obsession with going to the appointment became a real person in the bardo world. In order to meet the woman he hid deep in his heart, they traveled through the bardo body stagnant in time to fulfill that a promise.
REVELATION OF JOHN
To live one’s last days in peace and fulfillment in the company of a loved one. Light and buzzing of cosmic orbs. Quiet, slowly trickling film rejects the consumer world, medicine, and eternal rushing and pays homage to peaceful old age with a touch of spirituality and intimacy.
DEATH AND MAGIC CASTLES
On a beautiful, sunny day five year old Zizou fell to the ground and died when his heart suddenly stopped. In that moment of losing my son I was thrown into the cold reality of America’s complicated relationship with death. Through animation, “Death and Magic Castles” explores traditions of mourning and loss in different cultures and follows my quest to bring death and life closer together in a culture where mourning is taboo and the goal is to live forever.
CRIPPLED
Four years ago, while practicing wrestling, Ibrahim unintentionally made one of his students paralysed and was sent to prison. Now The student’s father bailed him out and he is out for a while. He went to his student’s house to ask for forgiveness to free himself. They offered him one condition only and that was to kill their crippled son to end the torturing situation. Ibrahim had to choose between saving his life or his student’s life.
KROŠNJA (TREE CROWN)
Without narrative sandstone and wretched landmark, people of Western Serbia seem to have never existed. The only portraits and biographies were given to them only after they had died. Their stone masons were also peasants. At the same time they were naive artists, poets, philosophers, or just craftsmen, but they were not indifferent. The stonecutters between the Ibar and Drina rivers, Rudnik and Zlatar mountains, between Serbian uprisings and world wars, anthropomorphized their stones so that the stones could guard their homeland, bitterly lookingforward to one more spring, getting wrinkles from tetter. To die yet again.
THE EXILE OF THE SEA
El exilio del Mar (the exile of the sea) based on a true story, is the story of Johana a Colombian who must move from her homeland and is forced by violence to have to change her life, habits, leave everything back to look for a future, a hope, in its history we want to reflect the millions who fight every day to get ahead According to United Nations estimates, the number of international migrants worldwide has increased over the last twenty years, reaching 281 million in 2020. This is a story that seeks to create empathy for those who have the courage to change everything to seek a chance to survive.
PARTICULES FINES
While he waits for his driving school instructor, Gaspard encounters Camille. They are eighteen years old. Gaspard is ironic and a braggart. Camille is altruistic and committed to causes. They don’t hit it off. Ten years later, they share the same car. Camille is in the driver’s seat.
HOW I DIE (DIE FAEHRE)
The journey of a remarkable young Berlin woman facing her imminent death. Halina has gracefully accepted that she is dying of cancer. But a burning desire to return to her family studio over two hours away, in Lübbow, and to relive the spring festival, becomes her last wish. Surrounding herself in beauty, she shares her thoughts about her life and dying, spends moments with her family and little daughter, and prepares for the last journey. An intimate story of embracing the unknown.