Original Film Title: MACHINES “Pilot”
Director’s Name: Cristian Ciumac
Writer’s Name: Cristian Ciumac
Producer: Leonardo Del Casale
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy, Moldova, Republic of
Language: Italian
Runtime: 5 minutes
Film Description:
Machines,
a series made in mixed animation techniques
which tell the relationship between man, machine and divinity.
Original Film Title: Ein Haufen Glück
Director’s Name: Jule Körperich, Karin Demuth
Writer’s Name: Gregor Hennig
Producer: Jule Körperich
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: No Dialogue
Runtime: 10 minutes 27 seconds
Film Description:
The animated puppet film „the way to a man’s heart” tells the story of a dog who falls in love with a single gentleman. As a sign of his love, he leaves a dog turd in front of the man’s door every morning. The story unfolds about misunderstandings and the failure of gestures where there is no match. The film’s cute aesthetics stands in strong contrast to the drama of the conflict in which both protagonists become entangled.
Original Film Title: Saturation
Director’s Name: Lucija Bužančić
Writer’s Name: Lucija Bužančić
Producer: Andrijana Vidaček
Country of Origin: Croatia
Country of Filming: Croatia
Language: Croatian, English
Runtime: 9 minutes 48 seconds
Film Description:
Something grew out of the cracks and walls and occupied all the empty spaces in a little Mediterranean city. This short film is about the gentrification of a place that has recently become a real archeological site thanks to severe turistification.
Original Film Title: La llibreta del Dr. Gras
Director’s Name: Andreu Prunera Garcia, Júlia Albacar Cordero, David Barreda Rocamora
Writer’s Name: Andreu Prunera Garcia, Júlia Albacar Cordero
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Language: Catalan
Runtime: 1 hour 6 seconds
Film Description:
The doctor’s notebook is a documentary film that claims the memory of the victims in the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, and explains the whole process followed for exhuming a massive grave of Ebro’s battle.
A story that follows the trace by a doctor’s old notebook, where he wrote down the cures he provided to soldiers and fighters during the war. Using this notes, 80 years after, the bodies of 177 people have been exhumed in Móra d’Ebre (Catalonia).
Original Film Title: The Land of Ahimsa
Director’s Name: Aryeman Ramsay
Producer: Dolly Vyas-Ahuja, Mayur Ahuja
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: France, India, United States
Language: Arabic
Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
Film Description:
The Land of Ahimsa is a feature-length documentary that strives to inspire and encourage India to adopt a vegan lifestyle. Indians are waking up to the truth that all animals deserve a chance to live. India is considered the land of Ahimsa, which means non-violence to all living beings in our actions, thoughts, and words. As a country, we citizens have drastically grown apart from the true meaning of this word. The mission of this documentary is to convince India as a whole that it is time to put this word back into action in what we say, think, and do.
The film follows Dolly Vyas-Ahuja on her journey to veganism. Once vegan, she made it her mission to educate and create awareness regarding the cruelty of the animal agriculture and dairy industry, as well as its impact to animal rights, personal health and the environment. Just like her grandfather, a freedom fighter who marched alongside Gandhi to liberate India from British rule, she strives for animal freedom and liberation.
Gandhi once said, “The moral of a nation can be judged by the treatment of its animals.” Like Gandhi and her grandfather, Dolly has a dream that India will rise up to the true meaning of non-violence, Ahimsa, choosing justice over habit and creating a new divine imprint.
Original Film Title: Alcindo
Director’s Name: Miguel Dores
Writer’s Name: Miguel Dores
Producer: Maus da Fita, Movimento SOS SOS Racismo
Country of Origin: Portugal
Country of Filming: Portugal
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 1 hour 3 minutes
Film Description:
On the 10th of June 1995, under the multiple pretext of celebrating the Race Day and the victory of Sporting for the Cup of Portugal, a large group of Portuguese ethno-nationalists went to the streets of Bairro Alto to beat up black people they met along the way. The official result was 11 victims, one of them deadly, whose tragic death on Rua Garret gives name to the court case – the Alcindo Monteiro case. Alcindo is a documentary about a long night – a night with the size of a country.
Original Film Title: صرة الصيف
Director’s Name: Ballal Salem
Writer’s Name: Lamghayfri Nayma
Producer: Said Zribiaa
Country of Origin: Morocco
Country of Filming: Morocco
Language: Arabic
Runtime: 1 hour 3 minutes
Film Description:
“In the desert of Morocco… the characters of this film chose to live in isolation from the city and its society; Harmonious with difficult environmental conditions, they take pleasure in speaking to the Creator far from creation in boundless spaces…”
Original Film Title: Eagle Hand
Director’s Name: Li Chun Lai
Writer’s Name: Li Chun Lai
Producer: Li Chun Lai
Country of Origin: Taiwan
Country of Filming: Taiwan
Language: Chinese – Min Nan
Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes 4 seconds
Film Description:
My hometown, Niutoushan, Chiayi, used to abound with lotus roots in the 1980s, able to bulk export to Japan and Hong Kong. For the villagers, digging for lotus roots equaled digging for gold.
But the prosperous era has lost to history, the population has plunged from more than 100 households to only 27.
The very few who are unwilling to break their connection to land insist on growing lotus roots and self-worth thereof. For the elders, their value is carried in their “eagle hands,” a mark of their lifelong hard work. As for the youth who choose to stay even though most of their peers turn to seek work in the city, they discover their merit along this journey features ups and downs, and the inevitable stagnation of traditional industry, the farmers persevere and continue to dig out their long-lost cultural values with their “eagle hands”.
Original Film Title: Embrace (subtitle version)
Director’s Name: Christine Vandemoortele
Writer’s Name: Christine Vandemoortele
Producer: Christine Vandemoortele
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: Argentina, Chile
Language: English
Runtime: 19 minutes 30 seconds
Film Description:
A thought-provoking reflection of what it means to have goals and direction in life and whether there are such things as bad or good decisions.
Original Film Title: Creatura
Director’s Name: Ford Mckeown Larose, Phethsari Pathammavong
Writer’s Name: Ford Mckeown Larose
Producer: Ford Mckeown Larose, Forward Movements
Country of Origin: Canada
Country of Filming: Canada
Runtime: 12 minutes 55 seconds
Film Description:
If the world were to recreate itself in an empty space, how would new forms of life appropriate this environment? How would they evolve? Through lights and movements, Creatura explores the concept of genesis and evolution in a post-apocalyptic universe.
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