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Flying Low

Volando bajo
Diego Piñeros García, Elkin Calderón Guevara
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Colombia
2020
24 minutes
English captions
Subtitles: 
None

In the global North, the DC-3 is regarded as a vintage plane and tourist attraction. In Colombia, however, it is still used as an airliner and serves as the only link to the outside world for remote villages in the Amazon region. The history of the former “Raisin Bomber” reflects economic and hegemonic conditions. Now the DC-3 raises its voice in an entranced cinematic journey through time and space to talk of dangers, sensual experiences – and a mystic passenger.

Annina Wettstein

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Director
Diego Piñeros García, Elkin Calderón Guevara
Cinematographer
Calderón & Piñeros
Editor
Calderón & Piñeros
Producer
Calderón & Piñeros
Sound
Eduardo Cote
Score
Juan Carlos Arrechea
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Fulesee

Fulesee
Christina Benz
International Competition Short Film 2020
Animated Film
Switzerland
2019
4 minutes
Swiss German
Subtitles: 
English

With darkness comes fear, and with fear the light disappears. During a dive together, sunken memories rise in “him”. And just like the process of sedimentation, when the lake “rots”, the open water becomes a swamp. Growing anxiety accelerates the breath to the rhythm of the increasingly intense lyrical language. Meanwhile the power of the vortices and expressive Swiss-German tone serve to tint and shape this captivatingly graphical sand animation.

André Eckardt

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Director
Christina Benz
Script
Patric Marino
Cinematographer
Christina Benz
Editor
Christina Benz, Christine Rüfenacht
Producer
Marco Leisi
Co-Producer
Gabriela Bloch Steinmann
Sound
Christof Steinmann
Score
Oli Kuster
Animation
Christina Benz
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Green Turns Brown

Green Turns Brown
Joie Estrella Horwitz
International Competition Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
USA
2021
6 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
Spanish, English

A visual artist all her life, Luchita Hurtado only reluctantly experienced her breakthrough at the age of 97. “Green Turns Brown” is a minimalist eulogy to the publicity-shy painter. Shot on Super 8 film stock during the last months of her life, this film, which revels in autumn colours, paints the portrait of a woman in tune with nature who sees death not as the end but as the crossing of a border. “Life goes on.”

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Joie Estrella Horwitz
Cinematographer
Joie Estrella Horwitz
Editor
Joie Estrella Horwitz
Producer
Joie Estrella Horwitz
Sound
Sarah Ibrahim
Score
Sarah Ibrahim
Performer
Luchita Hurtado
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Heart

Yollotl
Fernando Colin Roque
International Competition Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
France
2020
17 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English

A voice speaking the Aztec language Nahuatl and a ritual song accompany the children’s games in the Mayan rain forest. They put their ears to the trees which seem to speak to each other and to the universe. They listen to an ancient love story that continues today. A myth of Mesoamerican culture is invoked. Animated sequences and extreme backlighting visualize the tree’s inner life. What images may emerge in the children’s mind’s eyes?

Anke Leweke

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Director
Fernando Colin Roque
Script
Chloé Belloc
Cinematographer
Fernando Colin Roque
Editor
Fernando Colin Roque, Chloé Belloc, Mathilde Lavenne
Producer
Eric Prigent
Co-Producer
Eduardo Martinez
Sound
Nicolas Verhaeghe, Yannick Delmaire
Score
Fernando Colin Roque
Animation
Fernando Colin Roque
World Sales
Natalia Trebik
Narrator
Fernando Colin Roque
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I’m Here

Jestem tutaj
Julia Orlik
International Competition Short Film 2020
Animated Film
Poland
2020
15 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

She is the centre of attention, but exhausted by life. An old woman in her final days, bedridden and too weak to speak to her husband and daughter. Her selfhood fades away while in the care of her relatives, who have problems of their own. But Julia Orlik brings the woman back into the foreground with her minimalist concept and touching puppet design.

André Eckardt

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Director
Julia Orlik
Script
Julia Orlik
Cinematographer
Julia Orlik
Editor
Aleksandra Rosset
Producer
Agata Golanska
Sound
Bogdan Klat
Animation
Julia Orlik
World Sales
Marta Swietek
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Animated Film (International Competition Short Film)
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Ice Merchants

Ice Merchants
João Gonzalez
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Portugal,
France,
UK
2022
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

There is a house hanging from heavy ropes, firmly anchored to the rocks. Up there in the cliffs, far above the town below, a father lives with his son in the cold. In his 2D frame-by-frame animation, director João Gonzalez uses few colours, which makes the harsh shadows and extreme camera angles of his drawings all the more atmospheric. He has realised a metaphorical tale that can do without dialogue, relying on sound and images alone.

Marie Kloos

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Director
João Gonzalez
Script
João Gonzalez
Cinematographer
João Gonzalez
Editor
João Gonzalez
Producer
Bruno Caetano
Co-Producer
Michaël Proença
Sound
Ed Trousseau, Ricardo Real
Score
João Gonzalez
Animation
João Gonzalez, Ala Nunu
World Sales
Joaquim Pinheiro
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
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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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In Ictu Oculi

Begiak hesteko artean
Jorge Moneo Quintana
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Spain
2020
15 minutes
Spanish,
Basque
Subtitles: 
English

In the blink of an eye – as the film is titled – 66 years pass by, seven centuries of stone crumble and a savings bank replaces a church. In six and two half chapters, Jorge Moneo Quintana succeeds in a feat of archival work, montage and sound design. The organic merging of images that show the site’s transformation submerge the audience into a pleasantly sober reflection on the beauty and sadness of decay.

Kim Busch

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Director
Jorge Moneo Quintana
Script
Jorge Moneo Quintana
Cinematographer
Jorge Moneo Quintana
Editor
Jorge Moneo Quintana
Producer
Jorge Moneo Quintana
Sound
Jorge Moneo Quintana, Benito Macías Cantón
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Iota Period Omega

Giota Teleia Omega
Alexis Alexiou
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Greece
2022
13 minutes
Greek
Subtitles: 
English

Planes of all sizes, fun fairs, neon advertising, protesting people, men, women and children having fun, desert-like landscapes, urban views – the shimmering 8mm images develop a peculiar pull. They come from our present day but seem strangely distant, past. It’s the visual diary of I.O, a girl who lives in a future surveillance state and remembers the world before climate change.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Alexis Alexiou
Script
Aspasia Lykourgioti, Alexis Alexiou
Cinematographer
Alexis Alexiou
Editor
Lambis Haralambidis
Producer
Afroditi Nikolaidou
Sound
Manolis Manousakis
Score
Yannis Veslemes
Narrator
Sofia Kokkali
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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
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Light Years

Lata świetlne
Monika Proba
International Competition Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
Poland
2021
28 minutes
Russian,
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

Witali and Łukasz have graduated from the Orthodox seminary. To take up priesthood, they must either start a family or become monks. But the two friends prefer to live for the moment, to muse, philosophize and sing. The camera looks on, full of empathy, giving the two men space and time to face their situation. A documentary observation turns into a thriller: Can their tender friendship withstand religious obligations and family expectations?

Anke Leweke

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Director
Monika Proba
Script
Monika Proba
Cinematographer
Zvika Gregory Portnoy
Editor
Adriana Fernández Castellanos, Monika Proba
Producer
Ewa Jastrzebska, Jerzy Kapuscinski, Magdalena Borowiec, Tatiana Matysiak, Daria Zienowicz
Sound
Lucyna Wielopolska-Lorenc
World Sales
Katarzyna Wilk
International Competition Short Film 2020
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London Knowledge
Max Colson
Day and night, London taxi drivers are required to memorise 320 routes – a joke for the robot cars of the future. But there’s a lot more to the job than just getting people from A to B.

UK

UK
2020
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London Knowledge

London Knowledge
Max Colson
International Competition Short Film 2020
Animated Film
UK
2020
11 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

Since 1865, no cab driver in London has been able to omit “The Knowledge”. It requires the memorisation of 320 routes, an achievement that takes years, but has been made into a joke by the robot cars of the future. A flesh-and-blood cabby “interacts with people from all walks of life”, according to a brochure by Transport for London, and that’s “a lot more than just taking people from A to B”. Visually fascinating, Colson traces his interviewees’ mind maps of the city using the mapping technology of robot cars.

André Eckardt

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Director
Max Colson
Script
Max Colson, Bill McGrath, Nicky Walker
Cinematographer
Max Colson
Editor
Max Colson
Producer
Max Colson
Sound
Tim Kahn
Animation
Max Colson
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Makarìa

Makarìa
Giulia Attanasio
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Italy,
Spain
2020
35 minutes
Italian
Subtitles: 
English

Enza, in her early twenties, is a singer and seeker studying the rhythms of life in Salento. She breathes music, collects old folksongs and thus connects the people, the present and the past. Rooted in Tarantism and in the tradition of the healers she uses singing as a means to fight alienation. Her portrait is a cinematic legacy vibrating with intensity. It reveals the thin line walked by those who refuse to be satisfied with relative freedom.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Giulia Attanasio
Cinematographer
Stefania Bona
Editor
Dario Ferraro, Giulia Attanasio
Producer
Dario Ferraro
Co-Producer
Gianni Rizzuto
Sound
Fabio Punzi, Davide Balistreri
Score
Jitter, Daina Dieva
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Men of Salt

Hombres de sal
Luis Armando Sosa Gil
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Mexico,
USA
2022
14 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English

Cristobal, a young fisherman at work outside the Mexican port of Lázaro Cárdenas, shares his insights: Fishing is harder than working out. Also, he and the sea are connected by a progressing disease. At night he perceives what can only be grasped from the boat: the chemicals flowing into the water, the smell, the red lights of the steel mill. “Men of Salt” tells of a dilemma: What if you identify with an ecosystem that’s ceaselessly being abused?

Carolin Weidner

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Director
Luis Armando Sosa Gil
Script
Luis Armando Sosa Gil
Cinematographer
Luis Armando Sosa Gil
Editor
Luis Armando Sosa Gil
Producer
Luis Armando Sosa Gil, Beuukubi Arenas
Sound
Luis Armando Sosa Gil, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Oscar Victoria, Odin Acosta
Sound Design
Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Oscar Victoria, Odin Acosta
Score
Jorge Alba
Narrator
Cristobal Ortega
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Misaligned

Koniunkcja
Marta Magnuska
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Latvia,
Poland
2022
7 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A fly rotates around a lightbulb, a spoon turns in a cup. Everything moves in circles here, including the life of the couple. He looks at his mobile phone, she does the sun salutation. Even her somersaults don’t make him look up. The minimalist black and white animation begins to vibrate. The monotony gets out of rhythm. She imagines him as a fly and chases him. Scenes of a marriage, reflected in the yellow eyes of a gecko.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Marta Magnuska
Script
Marta Magnuska
Editor
Ewa Golis, Marta Magnuska
Producer
Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek
Co-Producer
Sabine Andersone
Sound
Michał Fojcik
Animation
Marta Magnuska, Kristīne Zvirbule, Mārtiņš Dūmiņš
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Animated Film (International Competition Short Film)