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Tellurian Drama

Tellurian Drama
Riar Rizaldi
International Competition Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
Indonesia
2020
26 minutes
Indonesian
Subtitles: 
English

In 1923, the Dutch erected a radio station on Puntang Mountain on Java deploying indigenous forced labourers. 2,000 metres of wire between two mountain ridges were meant to transmit news from what was then the Dutch East Indies across the 12,000 kilometres to Europe. A speculative and poetic examination of the remains of Radio Malabar – in the earth, in the mountain, in dreams of geoengineering, in local history.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Riar Rizaldi
Cinematographer
Adythia Utama, Natasha Tontey
Editor
Riar Rizaldi
Producer
Riar Rizaldi
Score
Nursalim Yadi Anugerah
Winner of: Honourable Mention (International Competition Short Film)
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Tiger and Ox

Tiger and Ox
Seunghee Kim
International Competition Short Film 2020
Animated Film
South Korea
2019
8 minutes
Korean
Subtitles: 
English

This hand-drawn animated documentary provides subtle insights into the patriarchal structures of South Korean society and discusses the roles assigned to women there. Challenged as a restaurant owner and single parent, the director’s mother was helped by the characteristics of her animal zodiac sign: fierce as a tiger, she earned respect. But to her daughter she insisted that she tell nobody about her father’s absence. That is only whispered about.

Annina Wettstein

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Director
Seunghee Kim
Script
Seunghee Kim
Editor
Seunghee Kim
Producer
Seunghee Kim
Sound
Seunghee Kim
Animation
Seunghee Kim
Narrator
Yeonsuk Kim, Seunghee Kim
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To Feather, to Wither

To Feather, to Wither
Hanna Hovitie
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium,
Finland,
Hungary,
Portugal
2020
20 minutes
English captions
Subtitles: 
None

A young taxidermist is fascinated by crows, paying considerate attention to their dead bodies. Her work on the birds is simultaneously a careful study of anatomical connections and a kind of service toward the resurrection of this mythical creature from the realm between life and death. Through detailed, pulsating black-and-white images and a sparingly intense soundtrack, a charged atmosphere unfolds between craftsmanship, imagination and poetry.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Hanna Hovitie
Script
Hanna Hovitie
Cinematographer
Daniel Donato
Editor
Hanna Hovitie
Producer
Hanna Hovitie, Daniel Donato
Co-Producer
Patricia D'Intino
Sound
Bence Kovács-Vajda
Score
Bence Kovács-Vajda
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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)