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Competition 1

Thu, 12. 3., 19:00Sat, 14. 3., 17:00

73'

Mother’s Song

Mother’s Song

Signe Baumane
LV
2019,
2’30

On the night of a full moon, 13-year-old Zelma discovers blood on her bedsheets. Her mother and three Mythological Sirens rush to educate her about what it means to be a woman. An excerpt from the upcoming feature film “My Love Affair With Marriage” (2021).

Joints

חוליות | Joints

Somer Moran, Osi Wald, Ricardo Werdesheim
IL
2018,
10’44

A chain of alternative evolutionary events leads to one imaginary moment on the beach, questioning the relationship between human and object. An arm, a fan, a leg and a paddle serve as building blocks. The sea tests them, assembles and reassembles, searching for possibilities of existence and sending them off to the shore.

Lah gah

Lah gah

Cécile Brun
CH
2019,
6’33

Sunny childhood memories: a girl is singing and cooking with her father. A simple, intimate moment. But they are swept along by the wafting mass of dough into the emotional depths of loss and disappearance. Helpless, the child is trying to grasp what is not tangible.

La Plongeuse

The Diver

Iulia Voitova
FR
2018,
4’09

A professional diver is going through a rigorous training program that is mercilessly interrupted by her coach’s whistles. Completely exhausted, she refuses to dive again and decides to get a massage.

Girl In The Hallway

Girl In The Hallway

Valerie Barnhart
CA
2019,
10’31

Why does ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ give Jamie nightmares? It's been 15 years, and the girl in the hallway haunts him still. This is a testament to locked doors. A lullaby sung by wolves with duct tape and polaroids. Not all girls make it out of the forest. Some stories children shouldn’t hear.

Udahnut zivot

Udahnut zivot

Ivana Bosnjak & Thomas Johnson
HR
2019,
12’15

A young woman has a deep connection with nature and uses her talent for taxidermy to ‘return’ animals to their natural habitat. However, the true search for answers begins when she starts finding a roll of undeveloped film in each of the animals she treats.

The Opposites Game

The Opposites Game

Anna Samo & Lisa LaBracio
US
2019,
4’45

A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: What is the opposite of a gun?

The Elephant’s Song

The Elephant’s Song

Lynn Tomlinson
US
2018,
7’40

The film tells the true and tragic tale of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in America, as recounted in song by her friend, the old farm dog. Their story is told in colorful, handcrafted claymation, where oil-based modeling clay is spread thinly on a glass sheet and moved frame-by-frame. Music written by Sam Saper.

L’Heure de l’Ours

And Then The Bear

Agnès Patron
FR
2019,
13’51

A boy’s close bond with his mother is threatened by the arrival of a mysterious stranger. That night, houses will burn. Children are dancing and the bears are on the loose.

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