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Slowenian Animation 2022
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Chicory ’n’ Coffee
Dušan Kastelic
The richly detailed animated story of a lifelong deception: Day by day, the wife serves chicory coffee substitute, though her husband demands real coffee.
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Chicory ’n’ Coffee

Čikorija an’ kafe
Dušan Kastelic
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2008
9 minutes
Slovenian
Subtitles: 
English

This musical, richly detailed 3D animation is based on a Slovenian folk tale which tells the story of a peasant couple from wedding to death and is also the story of a lifelong deception: Day by day, the wife serves chicory coffee substitute, though her bully of a husband demands real coffee. Everyone knows about the swindle; he is the only one who remains clueless.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Dušan Kastelic
Script
Dušan Kastelic
Editor
Dušan Kastelic
Producer
Dušan Kastelic
Sound
Mateja Starić
Score
Iztok Mlakar
Animation
Dušan Kastelic, Cory Collins
International Competition 2022
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Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
Mila Turajlić
Yugoslav cinematographer Stevan Labudović travelled to Algeria in 1959. His footage provided valuable assistance to independence from French colonial rule.
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Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
Mila Turajlić
International Competition 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia,
France
2022
94 minutes
Serbian,
French,
Arabic,
English
Subtitles: 
English

What do the Algerian war of liberation and Yugoslavia have in common? Stevan Labudović. In 1959, Tito himself sent his favourite cinematographer to Algeria. The resistance against the French colonial rule needed the eyes of the world, and the experienced partisan Labudović helped open them: His images gave the lie to the propaganda of the occupiers and their Western allies. This is a portrait of the man, the mission and the age – as film, ideological and personal history.

For three years, until the Democratic Republic of Algeria was proclaimed, Labudović put himself and his camera at the service of the people fighting for independence. Mila Turajlić found the newsreel footage shot at the time in the Filmske Novosti archive in Belgrade, got in touch with the aged pensioner and followed his trail. From a wealth of archive material, diary entries by and interviews with Labudović, with contemporary witnesses from Yugoslavia, Algeria and New York, where the young Maghreb state, like many other former colonies, struggled for admission to the United Nations, she distils the promising origins of an alliance that stood at the beginning of the Non-Aligned Movement, which was to oppose the dichotomy of the superpowers. Thus the bow to her compatriot also gains global political topicality.
Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Mila Turajlić
Cinematographer
Mila Turajlić
Editor
Sylvie Gadmer, Anne Renardet, Mila Turajlić
Producer
Carine Chichkowsky, Mila Turajlić
Sound
Aleksandar Protić
Score
Troy Herion
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize, Prize of the Interreligious Jury, FIPRESCI Prize
Dancing in the Dark 2022
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Cineforms
Andrzej Pawłowski
Soft clouds of light rotate, fan out and change colour: Pawłowski’s “Luxograms” exist only in the projection with a sophisticated system of lenses.
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Cineforms

Kineformy
Andrzej Pawłowski
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Performance Recording
Poland
1957
7 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Soft clouds of light rotate, fan out and change colour: With his cosmic “Luxograms”, Pawłowski radically rethinks the Lumières’ serpentine dance and dematerialises the moving body. It exists neither on a real stage nor in the shape of a real dancer but solely in the projection with a sophisticated system of optical lenses.

André Eckardt

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Director
Andrzej Pawłowski
Producer
Andrzej Pawłowski
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
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Cinema Komunisto
Mila Turajlić
Mila Turajlić’s acclaimed film debut mines the rich film history of the Tito era, preserved in archives, to narrate the foundation and self-assertion myths of Yugoslavia.
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Cinema Komunisto

Cinema Komunisto
Mila Turajlić
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia
2010
101 minutes
Serbian
Subtitles: 
English

To the film enthusiast Marshall Tito, who had his own projection room and employed a full-time projectionist, cinema was also a means to consolidate socialist Yugoslavia. Filmmaker Mila Turajlić, on the other hand, raised in a state that was falling apart, draws on the wealth and glamour of Yugoslavian cinematography in her first long film to better understand her own history. In a clever montage of interviews and film clips, she tells stories of nation-building and images of a nation, but also of how the collapse of the film industry after Tito’s death heralded the collapse of her country.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Mila Turajlić
Cinematographer
Goran Kovacevic
Editor
Aleksandra Milovanovic
Producer
Dragan Pesikan
Sound
Aleksandar Protić
Score
Nemanja Morusovic
Extended Reality 2022
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Control Negative
Monika Masłoń
A VR experience as a psychological experiment that confronts us with feelings such as frustration, helplessness, stress, rage and grief, and debunks control as an illusion.
2022
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Control Negative

Control Negative
Monika Masłoń
Extended Reality 2022
XR
Poland
2022
30 minutes
Polish,
English

The Western culture of self-optimisation is based on the idea that one can control all aspects of life. This VR experience subjects us to a psychological experiment, confronting us with feelings such as frustration, helplessness, stress, rage and grief to show: Control is an illusion. Step by step, we are led from physical activation to contemplative perception.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Krzysztof Franek, Krzysztof Pijarski
Executive Producer
Agnieszka Sural, Tomasz Filiks
Creative Producer
Pola Borkiewicz, Jacek Nagłowski
Production Company
The Polish National Film School in Łódź – vnLab
VR Developer
Marcin Puchalski
3D Artist
Adam Kosiewicz, Marcin Puchalski
Sound
Kajetan Zakrzewski
Script
Monika Masłoń, Rafał Kotas
Score
Karolina Rec
Narrator
Julia Kolberger, Włodzimierz Press, Richard Bialy
Director
Monika Masłoń