Film Archive

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Kelasi

Kelasi
Fransix Tenda Lomba
International Competition Short Film 2021
Animated Film
Belgium
2021
10 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
French, English

The first animated film by visual artist Fransix Tenda Lomba is a kind of parcours through Congo’s historical education systems – and an analysis of the ideological function of the institution of the school. Using impressive collages and an always ironic commentary, the film – tellingly produced in Belgium – confronts its Western audience with their own ignorance about the region, challenging both their aesthetic and political thinking.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Fransix Tenda Lomba
Script
Fransix Tenda Lomba
Editor
Caroline Nugues-Bourchat
Producer
Ellen Meiresonne
Sound
Cyril Mossé
Animation
Caroline Nugues-Bourchat, Fransix Tenda Lomba
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kitchen.blend

cuisine.blend
Nataliya Ilchuk
International Competition Short Film 2021
Animated Film
France,
Ukraine
2021
15 minutes
French,
Ukrainian
Subtitles: 
English, German Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing

Click, click, she virtually recreates a cluttered, narrow kitchen on her computer. Lady Di smiles with creased photo edges from the refrigerator, a half-opened chocolate bar lies on the table. The technical-looking, detailed digital reconstruction runs like a fingertip along remembered images, tracing their nicks. The images feed off a blurred video in which the grandparents and their kitchen-cum-living-room live on – a nostalgic place in the distant Ukraine of childhood.

André Eckardt

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Director
Nataliya Ilchuk
Producer
Nataliya Ilchuk, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains
Sound
Yannick Delmaire
Animation
Paul Guilbert
International Competition 2021
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KRAI
Aleksey Lapin
A casting for a historical film is supposed to take place in a Russian village. It is the occasion for an affectionate, semi-fictional local portrait with a sense for the absurd.
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KRAI

KRAI
Aleksey Lapin
International Competition 2021
Documentary Film
Austria
2021
123 minutes
English,
German,
Italian,
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

Russian-born director Aleksey Lapin travels back to his relatives’ home village near the Ukrainian border, where he himself used to spend every summer. The film crew introduce themselves at a specially organized musical event, claiming that they have come to cast a historical film that is to be set in the village. What follows is a charming, semi-fictional documentary by and with the village community.

The proposed film project is just a pretext, that’s obvious from the start. Nonetheless, the villagers are happy to take part. Inventively and with subtle irony, Lapin plays with the boundaries between documentary and fiction. Thus observed scenes unobtrusively merge into staged ones. He records marvellously absurdities, for example a tree being felled and laboriously put up somewhere else for the “shoot”, or broken-down cars fuelling the rumours of electromagnetism in the area. The cinematography in black and white is notable, full of references to classic Russian films, timeless and timely at the same time. Lapin’s feature-length debut is not only an affectionate local portrait with a sense for the absurd, but also a film about film: In a long dialogue by the river, two protagonists talk about cinema as an art form and how it is changing.
Annina Wettstein

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Director
Aleksey Lapin
Script
Aleksey Lapin
Cinematographer
Adrian Campean
Editor
Sebastian Schreiner
Producer
Florian Brüning, Thomas Herberth
Sound
Jaroslaw Redkin, Yuriy Todorov, Lenja Gathmann
World Sales
Gerald Weber
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Kykeon

Kykeon
Mária Júdová
Extended Reality 2021
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Slovakia,
UK,
Germany
2020
23 minutes
without dialogue

Inspired by ritual practices from different cultures, the VR experience addresses the loss of a sense of community and empathy, combining modern dance and VR technology to re-examine old rites and reveal their meaningful potential for future societies. The title of the work refers to what legend has it is an “enlightening” potion from ancient Greece.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Mara Nedelcu
Co-Producer
Motion Bank (Hochschule Mainz), Sensorium Festival
Creative Technologist
Marko Júda
VFX Artist
Florian Friedrich (Narranoid)
Sound
Alexandra Timpau
Choreographer
Taneli Törmä
Performer
Milena Wiese, Finn Lakeberg, Bojana Mitrović, Amber Pansters, Zachary Chant
Director
Mária Júdová