Original Film Title: Wet Dogs
Director’s Name: Yves Matthey
Writer’s Name: Yves Matthey
Producer’s Name: Tiziana Caminada
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Country of Filming: France, Switzerland
Language: French
Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes
Film Description:
Alix & Tina. Two best friends. Tina gets bad news: she has a cancer. She calls Alix and then escapes from the hospital. Together they decide to go and live their dreams.
Original Film Title: It’s Not Safe Outside
Director of Photography: Rami Bartholdy
Director’s Name: Stephan Bookas
Writer’s Name: Woody Gregson
Producer’s Name: Anya Ryzhenkova, Stephan Bookas
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 14 minutes 58 seconds
Film Description:
As the air has become unbreathable, humanity has learned to adapt and reorganise itself, living in isolation. Carla rarely leaves her apartment just like anyone else. The unbroken cycle of sleep, eat, work is taking its toll. Then one day a young couple moves into the apartment in the building opposite. Carla’s life is about to change.
Original Film Title: Conversations
Director’s Name: Eduardo M. Clorio
Writer’s Name: Eduardo Lucatero, Norma Mora, Idalia Damián Azcoitia, Karla Coronado, Pedro E. Guzmán M., Paco Arriagada Cuadriello, Eduardo Martínez Clorio
Producer’s Name: Luli Monsalvo Espinosa
Country of Origin: Mexico
Country of Filming: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes 25 seconds
Film Description:
Conversations consists of 10 tales that reveal the story of a family through the relationships of two brothers.
Original Film Title: Margaritki
Director’s Name: Анастасия Васильевна Вядро
Writer’s Name: Анастасия Васильевна Вядро
Producer’s Name: Анастасия Васильевна Вядро
Country of Origin: Russian Federation
Country of Filming: Russian Federation
Runtime: 9 minutes 47 seconds
Film Description:
A surreal world of women existing in a confined space, in a closed community, in the absolute “here”. All events and actions are looped, tomorrow there will be a New day, a new dedicated, a new rebel, a new outcast. Self-preservation. Desire for approval. Leadership versus friendship. Follow the crowd and their wild will or be out of the circle. System or death.
Original Film Title: Disfruté
Director’s Name: Igor Selingarde
Writer’s Name: Igor Selingarde
Producer’s Name: Murilo Paiva
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 5 minutes 48 seconds
Film Description:
Would absolute love be what everyone seeks all the time?
On this episode of Sophie’s life we see how her mind behaves in anonymous relationships, caught up in this psychic spiral of “who am I”. This vicious cycle of seduction and domination, asphyxiated by feelings of passion and doubt, threatens her mental health through the unceasing search for “Disfruté”.
Original Film Title: Night, Mother
Director’s Name: John Patrick Lowrie
Writer’s Name: Ellen McLain
Producer’s Name: Sarah Parsons, Sheila Houlahan
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 4 minutes
Film Description:
Set amidst the COVID-19 pandemic during a Zoom conversation between a mother and daughter, Jessie (Sheila Houlahan) tells her mother Thelma (Ellen McLain) that she will commit suicide within the hour. Exploring the concentric circles of isolation, grief, and suicide, this hybrid film based on Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play portrays a poignant and haunting picture of the current state of mental health care in America.
Original Film Title: ADIEU LACAN
Director’s Name: RICHARD C LEDES
Writer’s Name: BETTY MILAN, RICHARD C LEDES
Producer’s Name: RICHARD C LEDES
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes 41 seconds
Film Description:
“With realistic acumen and artistic expertise, Adieu Lacan portrays the struggles of a young woman, Seriema, who is trying to understand why her path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse. Following two miscarriages and the possible loss of her marriage, Seriema travels to Paris in 1972 to undergo psychoanalytic treatment with the maverick French analyst, Jacques Lacan. Her analysis is an attempt to help her to disentangle the enigma of her question: why has motherhood become a seeming impossibility? Inspired by the story of Betty Milan, a Brazilian psychoanalyst and writer, it follows closely her own actual psychoanalysis with Lacan. Based on two books, Goodbye Doctor and Lacan’s Parrot, in which Milan recounts her analytic work, Adieu Lacan offers an insightful and accurate account of an actual psychoanalytic cure.”
Original Film Title: Kolonial
Director’s Name: Stefanie Batten Bland, Jean-Claude Dhien
Producer’s Name: Baryshnikov Arts Center
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Runtime: 20 minutes
Film Description:
Kolonial is the final product of several years of research by Batten Bland and installation artist Conrad Quesen. Inspired by the colonial exposition parks of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean during the 1810s–1940s, this dance cinema work examines how we create definitions to justify systems of exploitation and oppression. Kolonial interrogates suppressed identity through physical posturing and gesture in transparent COVID spaces of today.
Original Film Title: On / Off
Director’s Name: Nicolas P. Villarreal
Writer’s Name: Nicolas P. Villarreal
Producer’s Name: Alessandro Squitti, Nicolas P. Villarreal
Country of Origin: Argentina
Country of Filming: Argentina
Runtime: 7 minutes
Film Description:
Endless distractions threaten to destroy creativity.
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