Avant-garde
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Laborat
(22 min)
Director: Guillaume Cailleau
Germany, 2014
SCHEDULEInterior, day. Oncological Research Center in Berlin, January 2011. A film team meets with researchers. Using analogue filming methods, the film team records experiments performed on mice. The mice are forced to undergo diverse measures. Whether the film deals with one or several tests, one or several mice is difficult to ascertain – the tests and the naked animals are too similar. Parallel to this, the film team documents their own activities, necessary to make the recordings.
Birds
(15 min)
Director: Ulu Braun
Germany, 2014
SCHEDULEBIRDS looks at the life of birds in urban habitats. They apply their instinctive behaviour to the developed environment. Bags and umbrellas become bushes, buildings become monoliths and people become organisms. The birds are forced to come to terms with a world that they are not responsible for.
Exploration of confinement
(19 min)
Director: Marusya Syroechkovskaya
USA/Russia, 2013
SCHEDULEIs there a life after you got trapped in a rubbish chute? How long would you be able to live with your foot stuck in a bucket? Or with your head stuck in a turtleneck? And what if you enjoy it?..
Wildnis
(22 min)
Director: Helena Wittmann
2013
SCHEDULEPotatoes have to be peeled, withered orchid blossoms must be plucked. Then everything is in order.
Comedy
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In Search of Livingstone
(16 min)
Director: Vera Wonder Solvadottir
Iceland, 2014
SCHEDULEThor and Denni go in search of tobacco around the South coast of Iceland during a prolonged strike of civil servants which has created a shortage of tobacco in the country. The inventive but awkward pals find all means in their desperation to get their hands on a cigarette and constantly believe that the tobacco euphoria is around the next corner.
Ud, spring over, ind
(26 min)
Director: Thomas Daneskov
Denmark, 2013
SCHEDULEWhen Rasmus goes to the family home to visit his dad after many months without contact, he is met with his worst fear. His dad has momentarily lost his mind while camping out alone in the family summerhouse and drinking heavily while trying to complete a sci-fi novel.
Meu amigo Nietzsche
(15 min)
Director: De Fauston da Silva
Brasil, 2012
SCHEDULEThe improbable meeting between Lucas and Nietzsche will be the beginning of a violent revolution in the mind of the boy, within his family and within society. At the end he is no longer a boy, he is dynamite!
Great
(23 min)
Director: Andreas Henn
Germany, 2013
SCHEDULEOn May 10th, 1942, all of Yugoslavia is occupied by Nazi-Germany. Nikola, a young Serbian projectionist, has had more than enough, but instead of emulating his violent Partisan friends Nikola decides to teachthe Germans a lesson all by himself.
Dark
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Sequence
(20 min)
Director: Carles Torrens
USA, 2013
SCHEDULEWhat if you wake up one day and realize the entire world has dreamed about you?
Lapsus
(30 min)
Director: Karim Ouaret
France, 2013
SCHEDULETerry is a psychologically disturbed predator whose sinister playground is a laundromat. Terry thinks he is the hero of a comic book that is reading: «Terry Laurence, Gentleman Gangster ». That is when his memoryplaying tricks on him. Terry is a victim of an unknown phenomena that literature considers as a Lapsus memoriae or a slip of memory.
Supervenus
(3 min)
Director: Frederic Doazan
France, 2013
SCHEDULEAn update of the classic female anatomy. A plastic surgeon create in real time the new Venus.
Hurricane boy F.Y.T.
(14 min)
Director: Ara Ball
Canada, 2013
SCHEDULEThis is the story of Delphis. An 11 year old kid from the roughest part of Montreal who lives life according to his own rules, under the label of the Hurricane. Set in 1991 and shot in Super 16mm. The film crudely deals with various social labels with a dose of black humor.
Futurism
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Death of a Shadow
(20 min)
Director: Tom Van Avermaet
Belgium, 2012
SCHEDULEStuck in a limbo between life and death, Nathan Rijckx, a deceased World War I soldier, has to collect shadows to regain a second chance at life and love. With two shadows left to collect, he discovers something that shakes his world completely.
Dusts
(22 min)
Director: Daniel Metge
France, 2013
SCHEDULEFor some time the village was just sentenced to silence and dust. Not a soul out there, not even a noise. However this evening, something is moving again.
Habana
(22 min)
Director: Edouard Salier
France, 2013
SCHEDULEHavana is occupied by foreign forces and on the edge of civil war. Lazaro, a kid from the slums, walks us through his streets and reveals the chaos that has taken over the capital..
Jiminy
(20 min)
Director: Arthur Molard
France, 2013
SCHEDULEIn the near future, most people get a “cricket” implanted in their brains : an electronic chip which allows them to switch to an “automatic mode” whenever they wish to.
Kids
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Didochok zadumav zhenitisja
(6 min)
Director: Anna Polonichenko
Ukraine, 2013
SCHEDULEOne old man decided to marry. He didn`t want to marry the old woman, but decided to marry the young girl. The young girl rejected his proposal and the old woman feel sorry for him. So they lived happily ever after.
Kiosk
(7 min)
Director: Anete Melece
Switzerland, 2013
SCHEDULEOlga works in a kiosk at a busy intersection, selling newspapers and trying to make the lives of her customers a bit jollier...
My mum is an Airplane
(7 min)
Director: Yulia Aranova
Russia, 2013
SCHEDULEDifferent children have different mothers. Mothers who are musicians, animal doctors, contractors, circus performers, princesses, scientists and ballet dancers. But my mom is like no one else’s. She’s the best airplane in the world!
Rabbit and Deer
(16 min)
Director: Peter Vacz
Hungary, 2013
SCHEDULERabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension. After an unexpected accident Deer finds himself in a new world, unknown to him. Separated by dimensions the two characters have to find the way back to each other.
Mythopolis
(12 min)
Director: Alexandra Hetmerova
Czech Republic, 2014
SCHEDULELegendary characters from the Greek mythology live their lives and solve their problems in today?s world.
5 Metres 80
(6 min)
Director: Nicolas Deveaux
France, 2013
SCHEDULEA herd of giraffes embarks on a sequence of high-flying acrobatic dives!.
Mr Hublot
(11 min)
Director: Laurent Witz
Luxembourg / France, 2013
SCHEDULEMr Hublot lives in an absurd world, where characters come together, patched-up, stitched-up, with mechanical parts, driving enormous vehicles, a world where the giant scale of machines and the determination towards recycling reign supreme. It is a postindustrial environment where nature has totally disappeared and so have most of “human” feelings.
Love
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Spare change
(17 min)
Director: Daniel Isaiah Schacter
Canada, 2013
SCHEDULESophie and Dave, old college friends, run into each other downtown. It’s their first time seeing one another in over a decade. Their chance encounter wouldn’t have lasted long if Dave, now homeless and penniless, hadn’t asked Sophie to let him take a shower at her place. Over a drunken night at Sophie’s apartment, these two old friends get to know each other again. But can Dave be trusted?
Chauffeur
(10 min)
Director: Guido van Driel
Netherlands, 2013
SCHEDULEPrivate chauffeur Robert picks up a boy from school. They spend the day within the safe environment of the car before they share a moment of togetherness...
Dipendenza
(13 min)
Director: Panna Horvath-Molnar, Virag Zomboracz
Hungary, 2013
SCHEDULELife is monotonous at the fish market. Away from the routine and the endless mounds of slimy and smelly fish, Angela and Bubu have created a strictly vegetarian hide-out, where Angela composes, and Bubu attends to her every wish. They live in harmony until one day a handsome stranger, Tulip appears at the fish market. Angela tries to create likenesses of Tulip’s perfect body, first sculpting statuettes, later progressing to ever more monumental sculptures. When unambiguously phallic sculptures appear in their house, Bubu falls into despair.
Stew & Punch
(16 min)
Director: Simon Ellis
United Kingdom, 2013
SCHEDULEA housewarming party with beef stew and much punch spirals out of control when the host couple become involved in a game of arm wrestling.
37°4 S
(12 min)
Director: Adriano Valerio
France, 2013
SCHEDULENick and Anne, two teenagers, have known each other since their birth, and are lovers since childhood. But Anne’s just made up her mind: she’s going to study in England, 6152 miles away from Tristan.
At the door
(5 min)
Director: Miriam Bliese
Germany, 2013
SCHEDULEA man comes to pick up his son at his ex-wife’s house, just like every weekend. As always, he waits at the entrance of her apartment building for his son to come down stairs. But this Saturday, it takes a little longer. Their son wants to finish watching a TV show. And so it happens that the separated couple starts to talk again – via the intercom. Suddenly the former intimacy is back, the conversation almost turns into a flirt... The most painful thing about a separation is the fact that you remain so close to each other.
Nashorn im Galopp
(15 min)
Director: Erik Schmitt
Germany, 2013
SCHEDULEBruno roams the streets of Berlin with his head full of questions, looking for what’s behind the many facades and surfaces. He is seeking the soul of the city, that little something that others might never notice. He unexpectedly meets an ally.