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NARRATIVE SELECTION   |  MAY 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

THE STAR <\/strong>(2021)<\/strong>  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ilya Tilkin i<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 08:05<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: One grey morning. A short ride to work. An eruption of emotion. What is it? An assault? Jealousy? Admission of love? All that…?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allone (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Helen Rollins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 14:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In pre-Christian Ireland, a young, recently bereaved woman with no one left in the world, travels the land in search of a remedy that can bring her child back to life, only to find a cure not for the child’s mortality, but for the grief she can no longer bear.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The box (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Daniel Maculan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 09:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: An introverted girl is looking for a way to escape her insecurities. Her incapability of coping with the external world increases her sense of discomfort. To find some serenity she withdraws into herself more and more and she cuts ties with the outer reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflection (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Elbina Oulmacheva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 18:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: People are like mirrors. He finds himself in the Reflection of her eyes, and she gains flight. Nestled in the depth of the heart and blurring reason, love is an emotion that sometimes transcends reality.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provocateur <\/strong>(2020)  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Anna Veselova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 09:47<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: 1905 year. Yekaterinburg students are going to rally against the tsarist manifesto. But they are already waiting       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANOTHER SIDE OF TIME (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: sergey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 29:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: This story unfolds in the near future. The new ruling parties has established a total control over people and democracy. Borders are closed, Internet is cut off. The protagonist is a young artist Sergei. He works in a small company as a designer of virtual worlds. Sergei\u2019s father was a revolutionary person who fought against current regime. This fact complicates Sergei\u2019s hardships. His surname was completely banned on everything! At some point, Sergei receives a letter from his father\u2019s friend who lives abroad. It is a job offer and a proposition to migrate to Italy. Inspired by this perspective Sergei applies to leave the country. However, the government official knows who Sergei and his father are. And Instead of permission to leave, they forced Sergei with a mandatory service in labor forces for five years. Sergei plans to escape the country. He gets a ticket to a cruise ship, jumps off the ship at night and swims to the shore for three days and nights. Sergei succeeds and for ten years he is a free man unfound from the government. In his motherland escaping the country is the most severe crime, which has no incarceration limit. Consequentially, Sergei\u2019s being caught, his body was destroyed, and his consciousness was placed in a virtual solitary confinement, where he is to wait for \u2018deletion\u2019. The government does not want people to follow Sergei\u2019s example. The official from the ministry of Internal affairs is sent to question Sergei about reasons of his escape. Upon completion of the official\u2019s report, Sergei\u2019s consciousness is to be deleted. This plan is sabotaged by the storage worker who falls in love with Sergei. Disobeying the order Instead of deleting she transfers Sergei\u2019s consciousness into a simulation called \u2018ISLAND\u2019, thereby making him free. Ten years long escape plan has succeeded!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

barbershop (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: im yoon-gi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Korea, Republic of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 15:06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: There is an old barber shop. When the bell rings, a girl enters, followed by a gangster, a soldier, a woman, a grandmother, and a strange man. Elderly barber who grooms them. While listening to their stories, they make an important decision in the girl’s story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOVE IN ZE PHONE (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: JOLIVET QUENTIN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In the darkness of a teenage bedroom, Kilian has just received a cell phone for his birthday. Accompanied by two friends, Julie and Hugo, they watch a porn movie for the first time…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

before it melts (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Elson, Chan Tsz Yan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Hong Kong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 15:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: When Lok’s estranged father passed away, he left nothing but an ice cream motorcycle. Lok doesn’t know how to ride one, so he has no way but to walk alongside it. During his trip, not only does Lok get to know more about his father, but it also leads him to reflect on his relationship with his son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EVA (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Gonzalo Llorente<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 12:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Eva lives alone and isolated from the outside world in a religious residence product of a great pandemic that took place years ago. After discovering that she is pregnant, her mental state deteriorates and her despair increases; she senses that something bad will happen to her son after delivery, but she does not know how to avoid it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key to dreams (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Laurent Firode<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 07:10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Juliet wakes up to a corpse, naked and erect when her husband unexpectedly returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WILD CHERRY (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Yoshi Kuremura<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 14:56<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A small port town in the Japanese countryside: Saori, a hairdresser, dreams of big city life in Tokyo. Yokochin, a reluctant rapper, searches for his voice.  Kyoko, a femme fatale DJ, is obsessed with her 60\u2019s radio show.  One fateful night will change their lives.      *Please see the movie until 14:56.    There is the ending cut left after credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good German Work (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Jannis Alexander Kiefer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 14:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The two craftspeople Uli and Didi are working on a swastika in their workshop somewhere between rural idyll and village dreariness, wondering about the strange newcomers in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUNCHLINE (2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Christophe M.Saber<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 08:31<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Two wannabe gangsters can’t decide on the coolest thing to say before shooting Michel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonobo (2018)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Zoel Aeschbacher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 18:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: When the elevator of their public housing breaks down, the fates of Felix, a disabled pensioner, Ana, a single mother struggling with her move and Seydou, a young man passionate about dance, intertwine towards an explosive ending where their limits will be tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DER TUNNEL (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Marc Schmidheiny & Christoph Daniel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 10:20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: On his weekly train ride through Switzerland a student notices that the tunnel they are driving through is unusually long. The persistent darkness makes him increasingly apprehensive. His fellow passengers don\u2019t seem concerned. Even the conductor reassures him that everything is fine. But when he heads to the engineer\u2019s cabin with the chief conductor \u2013 they find it empty. And after their effort to pull the emergency break fails, they watch the rapidly accelerating train head straight into a dark abyss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Rain (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Beston Z\u00eerian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 27:54<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: After the Rain  In the middle of nowhere, seven-year-old Yazidi girl Merjan finds herself stranded alone on an unknown shore. The only person around in this no man\u2019s land is 19-year-old Diyab. They don\u2019t speak the same language and neither of them knows where they are. Holding on the the hope of finding again her father Merjan refuses to leave the shore while Diyab wants to find his way to promised land…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wichita (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Sergine Dumais<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 05:35<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Sara is in bed with her lover when her husband calls. When he asks for something in his sock drawer, she runs home, stalling for time, asking endless questions about Wichita, Kansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ESCAPE (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Alexander Gavrilov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 14:51<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Successful entrepreneur Vadim returns from a business trip to his country house, where his loving wife Ksenia and daughter Ira are waiting for him. Their life looks perfect: they love each other, live in prosperity and complete harmony. But one day their idyll ruines, and the they will never be able to be together again. Unable to accept the inevitable, one of the spouses is lost in their happy memories, preferring them to the harsh reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where the stars don’t go out (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Gerri Pavloff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Latvia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 11:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: An exquisite restaurant’s Chef and his crew are quite nerveous, they are expecting a famous food critic’s visit. The critic arrives and orders a Chateaubriand steak. The Chef cooks and decorates the course personally, meeting the highest standards of the craft. When the scrupulous critic announces his verdict, the Chef’s lucky star is about to go out forever.  Devastated, the Chef returns home, keeping what happened to himself, but his family doesn\u2019t need the words to understand the sadness that\u2019s about him. The Chef is yet to discover a place where the stars do not go out\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rooms (Les Chambres) (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 12:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Valerie finds herself unable to move or speak and her little sister Sophie is becoming increasingly absent-minded. When the landlady’s son, Peter, sneaks into their attic apartment on Valerie’s birthday with a nefarious motive, Sophie is not disturbed — au contraire, he’s the dreamiest (only) eligible bachelor she’s met in the three years since her sister’s accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IT’S MORE RELIABLE THIS WAY (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Sophie Salman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 29:58<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A woman over 50-years old escapes loneliness on a dating site. She goes on a date out of  curiosity. However, this one results in her making a hard life decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get Ready. Off to the Feast (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Lamara Sogomonian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 19:20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Having arrived at a small clinic in Northern Caucasus to mentor the local physicians, Maya, gynecologist from Moscow, encounters atrocious operations of female genital mutilation conducted behind her back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Red Feather (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Axin Zhou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 23:33<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In the early 2000’s, in a city in northwest China, two problem youths stole their father’s Santana and ran out the town to look for a red crow. But accidentally met a couple on the road, the man was just assaulting the woman. Two guys attempt to record the man’s violence with a camera but exposed themselves. They killed the man by mistake while fighting. As they got into a panic, the woman recounted years of domestic violence and suggested faking the murder scene. But right at that point, the abusive man, unexpectedly “resurrected.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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STUDENT SELECTION   |   MAY 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Big Nobody (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Jono Robertson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 13:53<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: 24 hours before a brutal murder, a directionless hipster and her clueless cameraman pregame for the best night of their young lives.  Napoleon Dynamite meets Goodfellas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life as a game (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: SHEN-HAO YANG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 18:58<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Hana (25), a character in a virtual world, is trying to get an abortion. After starting the mission in the clinic, she meets several women who have the same need as her, but also finds out that for getting the only chance of the surgery, everyone becomes callous and self-interested, with no choice.  Eventually, she meets the goal of the mission and gets the abortion successfully. However, after the surgery, she finds out the whole system of the virtual world is still judging her and even trying to punish her. She, who is finally awakened, realizes she has the right and the ability to question the world she exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s So Charming (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Svend Colding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 27:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Silvia, who is pregnant, is at her parents in-law wedding anniversary, and she has been looking forward to it because its the first time she is meeting her boyfriend\u2019s, Christian, side of the family. Though she quickly realises, that Christian has a horrible relationship with his father, Thorsten. Silvia and Christian had planned to announce the pregnancy, but can\u2019t seem to find an appropriate time for it, due to the dysfunctional father-son relationship. Therefore Silvia decides to reconcile the 2 men, though this Is proving easier said than done. \u201cIt is so Lovely\u201d is a comedy-drama, which the main theme is being able to set boundaries, even though there may not be an appropriate time for doing this.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathless (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Marina Zharova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 17:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Jacky lives with her friend Caro in a cosy flat share and to the outside world it seems as if everything is fine. But Jacky’s soul is restless. She recently broke up with her boyfriend Jan and tries to forget him without any success. Jacky goes to a party where Jan is supposed to be. She seeks to talk to him and hopes to get a new chance.\u00a0 This is an evening of much hope and its collapse, an attempt to reorder life and free oneself and an understanding that it will be a longer and no easy journey\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MeghChaya (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Pooja Kadam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 05:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A girl sitting under a tree is delusional about the idea of love.  The shadow yearns for the cloud in-spite of the fear of losing itself. The cloud runs away from it. It is love at a distance which plays with the set constructs  of the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Split Leap (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Vasco Viana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Portugal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 12:42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: 17 year old Mika’s dreams of becoming a ballerina in New York, against her overbearing mother’s wishes, are shattered when she discovers she is pregnant. As the clock counts down towards her scheduled abortion, she is forced to call upon the only person who can bring her insurance card in time: her unsuspecting mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maks (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Martin Draksler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Slovenia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 17:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In the absence of his mother, seven years old Maks decides to find company at the basketball court. Lack of warmth and attention forces him to take matters into his own hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director: Aleksey Postnov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 29:54<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A flight attendant from China, Zhang Yu, arrives in Moscow, a city with a different culture, with a different language. Yu clearly knows that the career of a flight attendant is not for her, she sees the world differently, not like everyone else, but her father \u2014 a pilot, who arranged for her to work in this area \u2014 refuses to understand this. The whole world is filled with noise and misunderstanding. The only person who will understand her is Ian, a photographer who listens to the world through a hearing aid and therefore also has difficulties with communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper Airplane (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: MINGJIE TANG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 19:58<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Paper Airplane is a romantic drama. While falling in love with a reclusive homeless musician, a self-abandoned, drug-addicted Chinese school girl regains her appetite for life and makes peace with herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMANCE (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Nina Moiseeva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: An artist fakes suicide during a performance in order to learn what it\u2019s like to be dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mime’s Hat (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Charles Chabert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 21:49<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: “Marcel presents a clumsy pantomime act in front of an invisible audience. The performance becomes the concrete scene of a dreamlike dive into the heart of his anxieties.”  ——- New poster and trailer will be uploaded soon. The DCP version will get additionnal sound treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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DOCUMENTARY SELECTION   |   MAY 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Bergman’s Hollywood (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Martin Sundahl<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 30:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The Swedish island called “F\u00e5r\u00f6” located in the Baltic Sea has become world-famous through Ingmar Bergman. During the sixties and seventies, Bergman shot four movies and one TV-series on the island. This documentary takes us to visit the barren and beautiful movie locations and recreates some of the scenery constructions. Before the making of “Scenes of a marriage” in 1972, Bergman had bought a small farm on F\u00e5r\u00f6 and converted it into a small film studio with an office. But Bergman had bigger plans for how to become an independent filmmaker. And how do the islanders cherish the memory of the world-famous director today, who chose to settle on their small island in the Baltic Sea?  Link to trailer in Russian language:  https:\/\/vimeo.com\/545511221    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VOIN (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Boucand Gaelle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 30:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Voin grew up in communist Bulgaria. After twenty years in Western Europe, he returns to those places in Sofia where he spent his childhood and adolescent years. His portrait\u2019s composition moves from place to place, and from memories to anecdotes. From the rooster\u2019s decapitation to the sexual initiation rituals in the forbidden home, Voin establishes miniature scenes of an apprentice novel in the style of Bataille, at once crude and sovereign. By telling stories about his disguises, he also makes claims for the exercise of freedom, of the kind of supple movement required through the course of History he inherits. Voin imitates it, letting History reappear in a refreshed tonality, a minor and eccentric vitality, far removed from most commonplaces of storytelling. And, when leaning over the void, up above the nineteenth floor of the Tolsto\u00ef tower, the thirty-year-old man contemplates the low-rent buildings of his childhood\u2019s district of Hope, his vertigo becomes contagious, and the sensation is both thrilling and chilling.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Observer (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Dmitry Semenov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 06:15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: This is a story about an astronomer in the mountains of Kabardino-Balkariya Republic in the South of Russia. Amyr Aliev, an astronomer, argues about the sun,  space, galaxy, and roles of distance and solitude in the life of stars and humans. The film was shot on iPhone 11 Pro in one day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dajla: cinema and oblivion (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Arturo Due\u00f1as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 15:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. The celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Meyer Ward (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Khaldoon Ahmed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 22:23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Psychiatrist and filmmaker Khaldoon Ahmed retrieves the memories of the last doctors, nurses and patients of John Meyer Ward. This poetic film takes us into the emotional architecture of confinement and psychosis. In the midst of a place of turmoil and disturbance, we unexpectedly find camaraderie, and kindness. The building was part of Springfield Asylum, built 1841, demolished 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avenues (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: G\u00fcnther Friesinger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 28:24<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: What happens when two musicians meet for the first time? They let their rhythms speak to each other and connect on a level where words fail. Bernhard Schimpelsberger met the masters of Rumba on his journey through Cuba and the resulting collaboration with Cuban artists, the music and rhythms are documented by the film Avenues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ANIMATION SELECTION   |   MAY 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ruth & Nick: A Confectionery Tale (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Carter Rostron<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 06:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: This stop-motion animated short tells the bittersweet story of Nick, a piece of candy who falls in love with a girl who seems out of reach.  This film was made by 15-year-old Carter Rostron of Kansas City, using cardboard, construction paper, and a bunch of candy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dream (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Tyson Wei<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 06:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: “Dream” is a short five-minute stop motion animation. There are four characters in the short film. The protagonist is a ten-year-old Tibetan boy named Dorji.The short film mainly tells the story of Dorji chasing the dream of skateboarding with the help of several others.        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Has a Hill\/ Case of NAGASAKI (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Musashi Yoshihara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 07:48<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Taking place in NAGASAKI pref. the story unravels itself around the hill in the city. With a long history of being a port of trade,  the land holds a unique culture mixed with Dutch and Chinese. Even under gloomy rain,  the dragon dance beckons to follow it downhill,  as the city starts to get lively along with the rhythm of raindrops.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off the Rails (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Bel Holborow, Isabelle Coury<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 04:01<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Besties Bonbon and Cookie are hustling to catch the last train of the day in a foreign Russian city. When Cookie disappears, Bonbon is swept up in a chaotic odyssey on a mission to find her friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Elevated Ground (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Aleksandra Ferentc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 02:10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In the old soviet building a dog and his owner got separated by the shaky elevator and the dog ended up in the dangerous situation, it is now for the owner to stay calm and save his friend… or is it all the way around?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

unsheltered (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Brian C O’Malley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 06:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A young boy tragically loses both his parents and is forced to grow up fast, learning from his nomadic experiences how to be independent and build his own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symfaunic (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Erin Bergin, Darby Kate Snyder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 07:37<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A young faun challenges the harmony of her forest glade when her new taste in music clashes with her brother’s teachings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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EXPERIMENTAL SELECTION   |   MAY 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Responsible Tourism (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Sergey Arutunyan, Konstantin Gurlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 10:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: We invite you to travel to Lake Baikal together with Evgeniy Romantsov, an actor and a responsible tourist who will show in detail how to behave in a natural area, how to avoid unnecessary waste, how to stay overnight without harming the surrounding flora and fauna, and much more!  All these important principles can and should be applied not only while staying in a national park or reserve, but in any place where you come into contact with nature,  for example, in a city park, a beach or a forest next to a summer countryhouse.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHIRAL (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Najeeb Odayapurath<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 06:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: During troubling times, when there is nobody else to support, our inner self is supposed to be with us. But what will happen if our inner-self, rather than being supportive, betrays us and make us more frightened. Chiral is a visual narration of such a clash within and Explores the assymetric relationship of the self with it’s mirror image. Towards the end, it reaches a point where it’s difficult to distinguish Who is betraying whom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

deleve (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Roma Glova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 02:15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: teenage girl makes selfie when strange things start happening<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking For You (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Caroline CORBASSON<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 10:28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Bull-Mastiffs in a Corner Kitchen (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Paul Chambers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 12:51<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A man looks back on his younger years and relives some of the moments that led him into his troubles with addiction in later life,  he looks backwards with a mature wisdom that flows as poetry, an old head looking through young eyes, or a young mind looking forward to a rocky future, drug abuse and alcohol, spiralling behaviour and a loss of control. A true story featuring people with lived experience of addiction, toxic masculinity and false idols. A punk film with an authentic poetry that runs as an autobiographical stream of consciousness.  Young and older Sam (played by himself) battle to control the narrative over their past and their future, can we change our fate if we become aware of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cake (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Dhari Alhudaib<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Kuwait<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 08:01<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yooha (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Tatiana Chernoguzova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 10:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The guy named Yooha meets an ethereal fairytale creature combing his hair on the riverbank. Struck by the beauty he takes the magic comb. But heathen spirits will not forgive the theft easily. How long will it take Yooha to reckon for his weakness?  The fashion film is based on the tatar folklore myths and the Gabdulla Tukay\u2019s \u201cSu Anasy\u201d fairy tale.  The number of Tatars in the world is estimated at about 8 million.  In connection with globalization, small peoples face the problem of the disappearance of national identity and the threat of loss of cultural diversity.  Fashion is a part of culture, which means that everything that happens in it now, in the future, is the same cultural heritage as the ancient national costumes of different peoples.  There is no future without the past. Keep traditions. Find your own path.  __  The fashion film is part of a project to popularize the national Tatar fashion https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/your.yool\/ Your yool* project \u2014 visual research about national Tatar fashion. We speak the language of designers, stylists and painters.  *\u00abYool\u00bb in Tatar language means \u00abroad\u00bb, \u00abway\u00bb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANIETI\u00c9, and the Sky will be there (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Teymour Tehrani<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 03:47<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In this intimate and lyrical portrait of fine artist Anieti\u00e9, he exposes his soul while carrying us through the emotional struggles a person of color must ascend when fighting to find their own free consciousness.  “ANIETI\u00c9, and the Sky will be there” is a result of an artistic collaboration between Berlin based German\/Iranian filmmaker Teymour Tehrani and British artist Anieti\u00e9, author of the poem, and also playing the lead role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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MUSIC VIDEO SELECTION   |   MAY 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

2020 (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Katya Telegina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 05:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The video project “2020” is an attempt to understand and feel what is happening in 2020 through the art forms of dance and video. The film is the result of a collaboration between prima ballerina Diana Vishneva, choreographer Pavel Glukhov and director Katya Telegina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try Try (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Brian Luff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 04:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Winner, Best Animated Short, Europe Film Festival, April 2021, Finalist, Best Music Video, Sweden Film Awards, April 2021. Also an Official Selection for the Rome Music Video Awards 2021. This is both a short film and an animated video for Rachel McGoye’s “Try Try” – taken from the album Beautiful Disaster. Directed by Brian Luff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schmerzt\u00f6ter (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Yannick Benavides<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 07:12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Schmerzt\u00f6ter – german for “pain killer” – is a music video commissioned by the german band “Fil der Protagonist” and depicts a toxic relationship between a man and a woman that first passes through a dramatic and bipolar daydreamlike reflection of the man and escalates in a cheesecream-smearing orgy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OIO (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Lukasz Zablocki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 03:07<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Hip hop music video shot entirely on fpv drone. Trippy, psychedelic motif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Astronauts (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Pauline Moreau<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 05:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Jade has only one dream, she wants to travel into space. Unfortunately, she is condemned to work into a hotel corrupted by religion and where people practice obscurantic and extremist cults. Witness of sordid acts, she tries in vain to save a young enrolled woman. She will end up putting her own life in danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A NA GORE MAK (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: ROMAN HOLODENKO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 02:31<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOOKS TO THE FIRE (Music video) (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Marina Zharova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 04:49<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Full of longing for a woman, a young man loses himself in a dream world. His fantasy begins to take more and more power over him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colors: White (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: AK Srikanth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 14:59<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: \u2018Colors\u2019 is a trilogy of short films created by AK Srikanth (the Writer and Director), and performed by Savitha Sastry. \u2018Colors\u2019 refers to the three colours of the Indian national flag, and the trilogy is a series that juxtaposes the life of a woman today, with the visions that the founding fathers had when India got its independence.   The color white in the Indian national flag stands for peace and truth. \u2018Colors: White\u2019 the dance film is an examination of a woman who dares to stand true to her beliefs, and pursues it despite the varied reactions around her. In doing so, she finally finds her peace. The story is a poetic representation of Savitha\u2019s own life, of how she broke loose from the rigid confines of traditional Bharatanatyam, and found her own path \u2013 that of completely changing the narrative structure of the content of Bharatanatyam performances without compromising on the technical aspects of the dance form. The narrative is applicable to one and all \u2013 the act of breaking the box and stepping out, is one of courage, resilience and self-belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monamour – Just Like This (ft. Jana) (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: ALEKSANDR SEROV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 05:57<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Hi! Whatever happens in our lives we should dance with this lyrical song. This video is a fantasy about crazy life in Russia in near future. Including main problems in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucidvox – My Little Star (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Egor Sheremetyev<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 04:59<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: This music video is about psychoanalytic support which is shown through the images of children and adults. In childhood the main character lost her mother who was the closest person for her. And then she has spent her entire life trying to overcome the consequences of this loss. Her world changed dramatically due to the tragedy. Now she is an actress who has panic attacks before going on stage and everything around her turns into fear images that attack her and bring her to exhaustion. But suddenly a little girl appears supporting and taking her care. The members of the group act as friends forming a sort of brotherhood where one helps the other. With them she understands that she is not alone. There is no more fear and the play begins. The childish self ceases to dominate the adult. The little girl sees that everything is fine with the main character and gradually removes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stereocobra x Nasha Tanya- Sepia (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Matveeva Anna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 05:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: It is a story of an adult couple who moved to a new house. After a while mysterious light artifacts appear during the night and wake up the woman. This contact becomes a great revelation for her& She  decides to follow the light and use such opportunity, despite loosing her previous life. When the main character finds out that his beloved is missing, he tries to find her with every available method. During his search the light gives him a hint where to look, and in that place characters only have time to say goodbye.   Every viewer decides for himself what was that light. Possibly it is somehow connected with alines or maybe it is our own heroes trying to speak with each other from a different world. But from now on, she must make a choice, go after the light to other worlds, or leave everything as before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother Earth (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Pratheek Shetty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 03:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A music video celebrating the beauty of nature, and co-existence. We humans are not the only species on this planet, we are just one among millions and millions of species, and we all need to live in harmony for our own survival. With music by Grammy Award Winner Ricky Kej, “Mother Earth” is directed by Pratheek Shetty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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