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Competition 3

Thu, 14. 3., 21:30Fri, 15. 3., 19:00

70‘

Five minutes can be a very long time. Especially when the sea beckons but your mother insists that a rest on the blanket is called for. What can you do? And by the way, what are all the other people around you doing? Observation, reflection, memory: these are the key themes of the third section of the competition. Looking back on his childhood, a young man in China imagines what it would have been like to have a little sister. A young woman between two men dreams of a subtly sensual encounter, and a juggler finds himself connected with those around him through an invisible thread.

Inanimate

Lucia Bulgheroni
UK
2018,
8‘36

Katrine leads a normal life, with a normal job and a normal relationship. But one day she wakes up to find the world around her has changed. Or rather, it’s the same but she is seeing it with different eyes, noticing things she’s never seen before. Her reality starts to crumble. 

Five minutes to sea

Natalia Mirzoyan
RU
2018,
7‘07

A small but memorable childhood moment is juxtaposed with the theme of old age and the different perception of time at the end and the beginning of life.

The Juggler

Jakaitė Skirmanta
LT
2018,
11‘05

We live in the same house, but in different apartments, jobs, situations, beliefs, visions. Each in our own compartment, we fool ourselves that the world is one and that it exists. Sometimes it seems that an incomprehensible thread becomes visible and I am on the verge of understanding…

Sister

Siqi Song
CN/US
2018,
8‘

A man remembers his childhood, growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. What would his life be like if things had gone differently?

Etreintes | Embraced

Justine Vuylsteker
FR
2018,
5‘27

Standing still in front of the open window, a woman stares at the dark clouds that obscure the sky. Immobile, she fights against memories of the past. 
Made on one of the two pinscreens built by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker, which was recently restored.

Fishboy

Anita Bruvere
UK
2018,
8‘42

Fishboy is consumed by guilt. Can his girlfriend help him let go of the past?

NUIT CHERIE | Sweet Night

Lia Bertels
BE
2018,
13‘46

Winter in the Himalayas. A bear cannot fall asleep because he thinks too much and is feeling down. A white monkey suggests to go to his aunt’s place and eat some honey. In the beautiful winter night, the bear realizes he has done well not to fall asleep.

PASSAGE

Anja Sidler
CH
2019,
6‘42

Two very different people set off on an adventure and leave their familiar environment behind. Unexpectedly their paths cross. A film about yearning for change and the value of coincidence in a society shaped by individual development and the pressure to achieve.

Tricky Women - International Animation Filmfestival Vienna