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Flóra Anna Buda, Francija/Madžarska, 2023, 10’
Alice still lives at her parents' place with no private life or a relationship. It takes a bicycle accident and a short coma to make her realize that it's time to move out.
Aqueronte
Manuel Muñoz Rivas, Španija, 2022, 27’
A group of passengers crossing a river on a small ferry. Fog, laughter, whispers and faces inhabit a floating, suspended space. Time passes, the shore is now closer, and people prepare for another part of their journey.
Doživeto sanjarjenje o naših španskih počitnicah / Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays / La herida luminosa
Christian Avilés, Španija, 2022, 24’
Driven by their desire for light and warmth, sun-starved British teenagers take a trip to the Balearic Islands. They must absorb the sun and store it in their bodies to take it back to their cloud-covered kingdom.
Rože z drugega vrta / Flowers From Another Garden / Flores Del Otro Patio
Jorge Cadena, Švica/Kolumbija, 2023, 16’
In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country's largest coal mine.
Hardly Working – Zmagovalni film 2023
Total Refusal (Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner in Michael Stumpf), Avstrija 2022, 21’
Non-playable characters in video games are digital Sisyphus machines that have no perspective of breaking out of their activity loops. In the moments when the algorithm shows inconsistencies, the NPCs break out of the logic of total normality, and appear touchingly human.