Film Archive

Jahr

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Deep in Time’s Crevasse

Au fond de la crevasse des temps
Romulus Balazs
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
France
2020
29 minutes
French,
Romanian
Subtitles: 
English

How can we visualise the past without perceiving it too much as a historical fact? This film uses a clever combination of archival material and oral history to bring memories of a transgenerative trauma and the associated pain to the surface. What seems to be the past becomes visible in countless points of contact with the present. It’s a simple, touching treatment of the incomprehensible consequences of a historical crime.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Romulus Balazs
Producer
Romulus Balazs
Filmstill Dog-Apartment

Dog-Apartment

Koerkorter
Priit Tender
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Estonia
2022
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
English

Driven by the barking of the voracious rented apartment, an aged ballet dancer makes his way through a permanently rain-drenched wasteland to his monotonous job. The protagonist makes graceful movements to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and seems briefly fulfilled. But the audience? Pearls before cows! Priit Tender’s caustic, surreal stop motion animation is a free association inspired by a poem by Andres Ehin about a grueling, gluttonous daily routine that’s gone to the dogs.

Samuel Döring

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Director
Priit Tender
Script
Priit Tender
Cinematographer
Ragnar Neljandi
Editor
Priit Tender
Producer
Kerdi Oengo
Sound
Gabriel Solis
Score
Neoton Familia, Ion Suruceanu
Animation
Marili Sokk, Egert Kesa
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award