Film Archive

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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
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Sogni al campo

Sogni al campo
Magda Guidi, Mara Cerri
International Competition Short Film 2020
Animated Film
France,
Italy
2020
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

In search of the cat Leo a boy roams through sunny fields. Drifting without a care and digging up treasures in the mysterious darkness of the barn are the last throes of childhood before it ends. The crayon colours of this summer are overlaid with the whispering and rustling of shelter – and a premonition. Mara Cerri and Magda Guidi sharpen our senses for the impressions of a confusing age.

André Eckardt

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Director
Magda Guidi, Mara Cerri
Script
Mara Cerri, Magda Guidi
Producer
Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron
Co-Producer
Davide Ferazza, Alessandro Giorgio
Sound
Valentina Vallorani, Roberto Casula, Michela De Carlo, Fabio Chiossi, Stefano Sasso
Score
Massimo Volume, Stefano Sasso
Animation
Mara Cerri, Magda Guidi
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
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The End of Kings

La fin des rois
Rémi Brachet
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
France
2020
39 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

The riots that were to spread across the whole of France in 2005 began in Clichy-sous-Bois outside the gates of Paris: young men on the barricades, burning suburbs. The division of society became painfully tangible. What has happened since then? This complex, finely woven documentary look at the Banlieue shows how consciously young people today deal with discrimination. The age of machismo seems over – at the school theatre workshop or while playing soccer. Women rule the world …

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Rémi Brachet
Cinematographer
Zoe Bota, Anna Sauvage, Evgenia Alexandrova, Eva Sehet
Editor
Héloïse Pelloquet
Producer
Joséphine Mourlaque, Antoine Salomé
Co-Producer
Ateliers Médicis
Sound
Nina Maïni, Tristan Lhomme, Clément Claude, Flavia Cordey, Gaël Éléon, Hadrien Bayard
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Trouble Sleep

Trouble Sleep
Alain Kassanda
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
France,
Nigeria
2020
40 minutes
English,
Yoruba
Subtitles: 
English

While the transaction tax collectors seem to be dancing to jazz music, a pointedly staged text passage by Patrick Chamoiseau lets not only our visual and auditory but also our olfactory senses unfold: The third-largest Nigerian city can be experienced by smell. In this rhythmic portrait of life in Ibadan the urban cinematic poetry is by no means at odds with the profundity with which it captures themes like lack of perspective, globalisation and corruption.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Alain Kassanda
Script
Alain Kassanda
Cinematographer
Alain Kassanda
Editor
Alain Kassanda
Producer
Alain Kassanda
Sound
Alain Kassanda
Score
Florent Dupuit, Jr EakEe
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Documentary (International Competition Short Film)