INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3
72 min
Online: SUN 10.3., 19:00 / online available for 48 hours
Cinema: FRI 8.3., 19:00 / METRO Kino, Historischer Saal + Q&A with Lea Vidakovic, Natalia Durszewicz, Yanqi Liang
SAT 9.3., 18:00 / METRO Kino, Pleskow Saal
Cinema meets crafts(wo)manship. Tactile and textured, film practice breathes life into images through engraving, ink on glass, puppets, stitching, sketching, stop motion and celluloid experiments. Anchored in space and place, the films explore family ties where roots run deep. What emerges is a dialectic between independence and interdependence, agency and legacy. The dissolution and reconstitution of the family unit pulsates through memory and materiality.
OBITELJSKI PORTRET | THE FAMILY PORTRAIT
Lea Vidaković, 2023, FR, HR, and RS, 15 minutes
A quiet Sunday afternoon in an aristocratic family home, just before the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire, is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of relatives. A poetic, dark, and somewhat humorous social observation where familial relationships are broken down and dissected into pieces.
A BEAR NAMED JESUS
Terril Calder, 2023, CA, 5 minutes
Métis filmmaker Terril Calder outlines the predatory relationships missionaries can have with Indigenous people and faith itself. Archer Pechawis meets a bear named Jesus, it had come for his mom. Now she’s no longer recognizable – while Jesus hangs out in the shed.
TRASIEGO | SHIFTING
Amanda Woolrich Zárate, 2023, CA and MX, 7 minutes
A conversation between grandmother and granddaughter through their notebooks. Using the landscape as the main character, they exchange experiences and reminisce about life’s journey. A dialogue about death, writings and drawings as archive, migration, and the loss of memory.
ALBUMS DE FAMILLES | FAMILIES’ ALBUMS
Moïa Jobin-Paré, 2023, CA, 8 minutes
Superimposing images from disparate family albums, the director creates new connections between signifier and signified. Figures within the film align with the audience's gaze, as we look into the celluloid void. A new landscape emerges from entangled roots.
CZEKAJ NA MNIE WE ŚNIE | WAIT FOR ME IN A DREAM
Natalia Durszewicz, 2023, PL, 15 minutes
Isolated from the world and condemned to loneliness, Bronka and Zygfryd experience a slow defragmentation of their reality and, with it, moments of regret, pain and even repulsion. Still, they try to salvage the love that once connected them.
佛手 | BERGAMOT
Yanqi Liang, 2023, CN, 7 minutes
Buddha's Hand is an unusually shaped citrus fruit with finger-like extremities that flex and bend as it grows. The film explores a mother-daughter relationship as it shifts and expands. Fruit and family resemble, refract, and react to, each other.
NUN OR NEVER!
Heta Jäälinoja, 2023, FI, 11 minutes
Not available in Spain, France and Andorra.
A group of nuns lives in a monastery in happy harmony. While working in the garden, one of them digs up a man. The resulting dreams cause her to lose her mind and fall out of step with the rhythm of the convent.
LA MORT DU PETIT CHEVAL | TO BEAT A DEAD HORSE
Gabrielle Selnet, 2023, FR, 4 minutes
Only available in cinema. Thrown out of her mother's apartment without even a pair of shoes, Gab tries to find a flat amidst the chaos of the streets of Paris.