Aquaparque / Water park
Portugal, fiction, 2018, 17’
Director: Ana Moreira
Screenplay: Ana Moreira
Cinematography: João Ribeiro
Editing: Tomás Baltazar
Scenography: Bruno Duarte
Costumes: Yara Jerónimo
Sound: Ricardo Leal
Cast: Margarida Antunes, Rodolfo Marques
Production: C.R.I.M. PRODUCTIONS (Joana Ferreira, Isabel Machado)
In an abandoned waterpark, a girl and a boy are hidden from the outside world. Between the graffited ruins of the old swimming pools and blunt slides, they find a shelter to grieve from their loss of hopes and dreams.
Los que desean / Those Who Desire
Switzerland, Spain documentary, 2018, 24’
Director: Elena López Riera
Screenplay: Elena López Riera
Cinematography: Elena Lopez Riera, Giuseppe Truppi & Philippe Azoury
Editing: Raphaël Lefèvre
Production: Alina Film (Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney, Elena López Riera)
In the south of Spain, a race of colourfully painted pigeons, will reward not the one who flies the fastest, but the one who will have known how to seduce a female pigeon, and to fly the longest time at its sides.
Kontener
Germany, fiction, 2017, 30'
Director: Sebastian Lang
Screenplay: Sebastian Lang, Hanna Rode, Martin Herold
Cinematography: Caspar Hees
Editing: Martin Herold
Scenography: Melina Schuler
Costumes: Hanna Rode
Sound: Julius Rülke
Music: Ivan Andrianov
Cast: Joanna Drozda, Anka Graczyk
Production: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Johannes Schubert)
Maryna and Tava are working shifts on a milk farm. They ignore each other existence. When the farm manager goes on a business trip Tava does not show up at work and seems to have disappeared. The next night a disturbing encounter takes place. Maryna wakes up in her container realizing she is not alone: Tava is lying next to her, fast asleep, firmly clinging to her.
I Signed The Petition
Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, documentary, 2018, 11'
Director: Mahdi Fleifel
Screenplay: Mahdi Fleifel
Cinematography: Mahdi Fleifel
Editing: Michael Aaglund
Sound: Dario Swade
Production: Mahdi Fleifel, Nakba FilmWorks (Patrick Campbell)
Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyses, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel.
L'échappée / The Escape
France, fiction, 2018, 10'
Director: Laëtitia Martinoni
Screenplay: Laëtitia Martinoni
Cinematography: Fabrizio Fontemaggi
Editing: Jean-Baptiste De Lescure
Animation: Stéphan Kot
Scenography: Antoine Maron
Costumes: François Jugé
Sound: Benjamin Jaussaud
Music: Clare Manchon, Olivier Manchon
Cast: Vanessa Guedj, Alexis Michalik, Nadia Roz
Production: Iris Rêve Productions (Marianne Roudier)
Alice sings, wears make-up and cracks herself up. She is happy. Yet she is at the hospital, just out of surgery. She is very ill and totally bald. However, she is love with her surgeon. He is her savior and comes to see her every evening. Each of his visits is a magical moment for Alice who escapes into her own dreamworld and makes her life over into a sweeter, love-fillled one...