The programme was curated by Jakub Spevák, programme director of Fest Anča International.
Aeons Ark
Sophie Vickers (Royal College of Art)
UK, 2022, 6'29"
Aeons Ark is a futuristic flood epic which depicts the destruction of a future world by a momentous flood. The film is a reappreciation of both the biblical Noah’s Ark story and the Mesopotamian flood myth. In this version the God is an artificial intelligence which has become a deity to a group of humans.
Sh_t Happens
Michaela Mihályi, David Štumpf (BFILM.cz/BFILM/Bagan Films/FAMU)
Czechia, Slovakia, France, 2019, 13'02"
An apartment building full of self-centred inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions.
Pipes
Kilian Feusi, Jessica Meier, Sujanth Ravichandran (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
Switzerland, 2022, 4'03"
Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and, to his surprise, ends up in a gay fetish club.
Hotel Kalura
Sophie Koko Gate (independent)
UK, 2021, 5'04"
A woman walks into a hotel bar on the romantic island of Sicily, waiting to be lit.
The Sunset Special
Nicolas Gebbe (independent)
Germany, 2021, 17'35"
A secluded beach location, the perfect partner, the most exclusive Hotel: It is the life of your dreams. Join an eerie trip into the luxurious world of unfulfilled dreams, nostalgia, desire and catch a unique glimpse through the polished façades of the reality distorting imagery of social media.
Funeral
Thịnh Nguyễn (Open Workshop)
Denmark, 2020, 7'
From out of the universe, a little boy is born with a quest for a voyage to planet Earth. During his journey, he comes to an absurd small town where a mysterious funeral is happening. With curiosity, the boy attends the funeral to see who is the dead one.
체험! 삶의 현장 / Experience! Life Scene
Noh Yukyung (independent)
South Korea, 2022, 5'28"
Ants that work hard may not be able to rest properly. An ant, tired of life, wonders why he should live, and a blue bird comforts him, but then soon dies. Shocked by the death of the blue bird, the ant suffers between life and death. Then, seeing flowers that bloomed from the bird's grave, he decides to try to live happily.
Min Börda / The Burden
Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Malade AB)
Sweden, 2017, 14'
A dark musical enacted in a modern marketplace, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.