Film Archive

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Ain’t No Time for Women

Y’a pas d’heure pour les femmes
Sarra El Abed
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Canada
2020
19 minutes
Arabic,
French
Subtitles: 
English

The hairdressing salon “Saïda” is a space where people speak openly, laugh and argue. The subject rarely is hair. In the run-up to the presidential elections in Tunisia the shop turns into a political arena where the women – young or old, conservative or with a modern outlook – indulge in discussions about the pros and cons of the candidates. Their clever and witty statements reflect a young democracy with all its rifts and fault lines.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Sarra El Abed
Cinematographer
Catherine Lefebvre
Editor
Jordan Choinière
Producer
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Sound
Ilyaa Ghafouri
Score
Ilyaa Ghafouri
World Sales
Pierre Brouillette-Hamelin
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Alice’s Four Stories

Les quatre récits d’Alice
Myriam Jacob-Allard
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Canada
2019
5 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

Testimony versus “prosthetic memory”: The director dubs the sound recordings of her grandmother, collected over a period of ten years, in which the old lady recaps her encounter with a tornado as a child, in front of a green screen. While the details of her memories change through repeated narration over time, the found footage from feature and disaster films, weather reports and landscape images suggests a mediatised participation in the events.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Script
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Cinematographer
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Editor
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Producer
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Sound
Bruno Bélanger, Claire Jacob, Myriam Jacob-Allard
Narrator
Alice Gervais
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Impossible Figures and Other Stories I

Figury niemożliwe i inne historie I
Marta Pajek
International Competition Short Film 2021
Animated Film
Canada,
Poland
2021
16 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

Marta Pajek (digitally) created a complex, atmospheric universe – with minimalist means and yet rich in detail. References to contemporary history meet visions of an intuited, dystopian future. We are made aware of (our own) transience in subtle, but almost brutal ways. Ageing bodies, ageing ideas. In the end, the grande dame of Polish cinema, actor Anna Polony, sings: “… when will we ever learn?”

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Marta Pajek
Script
Marta Pajek
Editor
Marta Pajek
Producer
Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek
Co-Producer
Maral Mohammadian
Sound
Michał Jankowski, Piotr Knop
Score
Aleksandra Gryka
Animation
Marta Pajek, Alex Boya
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Animated Film (International Competition Short Film)
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Sub Terra

Sub Terra
Jeffrey Zablotny
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Canada
2022
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A young woman attaches acoustic sensors to a tree, hammering nail after nail into the bark. Something stirs in the bowels of the earth, apparently attracted by the sound. This being, whatever it is, starts to search for its origin, gliding through tunnel systems, bizarre subterranean formations. Sometimes you see our world from below, people walking their daily paths. The soil lives! There is still a lot to discover.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Jeffrey Zablotny
Cinematographer
Morgana McKenzie
Editor
Jeffrey Zablotny
Producer
Jeffrey Zablotny
Sound
Jana Irmert
Sound Design
Jana Irmert
Score
Viktor Orri Árnason
Animation
Jeffrey Zablotny
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award