The second section of Up & Coming also presents impressive, daring and sometimes experimental works by young filmmakers: films that take a sensitive and compassionate look at turning points and challenging situations in life. A young woman faces a personal trauma while exploring a volcano; a moment of unspeakable horror is conveyed through images that are both expressionist and empathic; and a little boy is searching for his mother.
Twinkle Twinkle
Xiaolin Zhou
JP
2018,
4’40 (Tama Art University)
A beautiful and sad love story inspired by three poems of Ren Hang. Under the starry sky, the protagonist "Mr. Cloud" escapes from reality and falls into the space of memories and delusions, where a new encounter with his lover begins.
Augenblicke | A Blink Of An Eye
Kiana Naghshineh
DE
2018,
3’55 (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
Three perceptions of only one truth – hers, his and ours.
Oáza | Oasis
Daria Kashcheeva
CZ
2017,
2’26 (FAMU – Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
Loud music, hectic crowds, wailing babies, car horns, construction work, sirens. Sometimes we want to run away. But where to?
Hounds
Amit Cohen & Ido Shapira
IL
2018,
5’47 (Bezalel Academy of Art and Design)
The life of a dog, trained to act as a human, changes when a pack of wild dogs gathers around his house.
All her life Inès has lived in the shadow of her sister, a brilliant volcanologist. As a challenge, she decides to join a scientific expedition that plans to climb a volcano.
Live or Let Live
Yoko Asano
JP
2018,
8’48 (Tokyo University of the Arts)
There's a pet caterpillar named Larva in my class. I don't like bugs but Larva is sweet and we become friends. But one day, I am faced with a horrible choice.
Még nem | Not Yet
Tímea Varga
HU
2018,
10’13 (MOME Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design)
A child waits for his mother in vain, so he starts looking for her. Across various locations we see two fates, two lives, which may never cross paths.
Yi Ru Wang Chang | As Usual
Kuan Wen Liu
TW
2018,
6’48 (Tainan National University of the Arts)
The temple and the market coexist in a particular place of harmony between sacred religion and daily life; the story tells how people and cats live there together.
SIGNAL
Qing-Wen Yao
TW
2018,
7’32 (Kun Shan University)
Hai has been living in a semi-closed environment since his childhood. The only way to see the outside world is a hole high above him. When he follows the guard’s instruction to clean feathers and fix the broken wall, he always wonders if there is a wider horizon outside his world.
Ükskord igavuse väljadel | Once in the Fields of Boredom
Teele Strauss
EE
2017,
5’20 (Estonian Academy of Arts)
A story about a couple whose life together has come to an end – they struggle with boredom.
1805.13 MHz
Blandine Mocaer
FR
2018,
4’59 (ESRA Côte d'Azur)
Louise, a teenager, meets Lily through her radio. Her voice and music charm her.
Synchronicity
Michelle Brand
UK
2018,
3’47 (Royal College of Art)
People come, people go – yet everyone is moving in the same direction. We all share something that we are unaware of, creating one big picture we are unable to see.
Tricky Women - International Animation Filmfestival Vienna
