Everything that is alive is hungry; the seed is hungry for light, the bird is hungry for flight, human beings are hungry for each other’s touch. The seed of longing grows into what feeds us.
The Education
Klaartje Schrijvers
BE
2014,
14’56
A film about a family going through an existential crisis. The girl, the sister, the father, the mother - nobody escapes from this spiral of self-destruction.
Soif
Michèle Cournoyer
CA
2014,
08’49
A tragedy in five acts centered on a woman who must confront the fate of her existence.
Teisel pool metsa / On the Other Side of the Woods
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
EE
2014,
10’09
A clay doll awakens her surroundings that become a surreal world in a constant flow of change. Shot with natural light the visible changes of daylight emphasize the passing of time in the film.
Half Wet
Sophie Gate
UK
2014,
07’20
We are all born as wet as a banana. 75% water. By the time we reach adulthood that amount goes down to 54%. Aging is death be evaporation, thinks Gus. On the eve of his 25th birthday he bumps into Tiny Eyes.
Simhall / The Bath House
Niki Lindroth von Bahr
SE
2014,
14’00
A pedantic bathhouse manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions meet in a bath house. And things start to go wrong.
One summer in 1960s Norway, a seven-year-old girl asks her hopelessly out-of-touch parents for a bicycle, but their unconventional ways soon prove to be a source of quiet embarrassment and anxiety for the young girl. Oscar® nomination 2015.