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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3

73 min
CINEMA: FRI 7.3., 21:00 / METRO Kino
                 SAT 8.3., 15:00 / METRO Kino
ONLINE: FRI 7.3., 19:00 / online available for 48 hours

Systems of Control

The films in this program examine systems of power and institutional violence. Surveying different mechanisms of control, they take a look at how recurring patterns and cyclical movements within these systemic structures impact and constrain individual lives. In dealing with limits and impossibilities, these films choose artistic forms of storytelling that themselves transcend boundaries in order to make the incomprehensible tangible.


THE PAINTING | LE TABLEAU

Michèle Lemieux, 2024, CA, 12 minutes

Animated with incredible mastery on the pinscreen, THE PAINTING revisits the tragic fate of Queen Mariana of Austria and her 1652 portrait by Velázquez. Playing with shadow and light, the image continuously dissolves, just to reappear, slowly uncovering the brutality of institutionalised patriarchy.

SOCIETY OF CLOTHES | LES GENS DANS L'ARMOIRE

Dahee Jeong, 2024, CA, FR, and KR, 15 minutes

When morning arrives in SOCIETY OF CLOTHES, a shirt and a pair of pants step outside the closet, transforming into a human figure. In this world, everyone exists only as clothes. They wander into the streets, bodiless and faceless, performing absurd daily tasks.




PERCEBES

Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, 2024, FR and PT, 11 minutes

Set in the Algarve, PERCEBES follows the life cycle of the resilient goose barnacle, from its formation to its place on the dinner plate. Weaving together the voices of locals, offering insights into their daily lives and working realities, a story about the region's customs, its complex relationship to tourism and the pressures of modernity unfolds.

BUTTERFLY | PAPILLION

Florence Miailhe, 2024, FR, 15 minutes

In the sea, a man swims. As he does, memories come to the surface. From his early childhood to his life as a man, all his memories are linked to water - from the waters of childhood pools to those of swimming pools. Some are happy, some glorious, some traumatic. This story will be that of his last swim.



MATER BENEFACTA *

Marc Riba, Anna Solanas, 2024, ES, 12 minutes

In a convent in Spain during the dictatorship, nuns provide shelter to young girls in need. Yet what at first seems like a place of refuge, turns into a dark scene of conspiracy between the Catholic Church and Franco’s regime.



*contains depictin of dead bodies

CIRCLE

Yumi Joung, 2024, KR, 7 minutes

The girl draws a circle on the ground. Passersby step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people, struggling to stay within. Once the girl returns and erases the circle, people start heading their way.