NARRATIVE SELECTION | JUNE 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Sometime we all will be happy (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Ekaterina Saunina<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 24:54<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: The ginger-haired girl Masha has been special since childhood. Her mother did not approve her strange behavior and their relationship went wrong. Now Masha is in high school, and her mother works as a cleaner in the same school. Masha wants to be friends with cool classmates, but the girls don’t like the gloomy cleaning lady and start bullying her. Masha needs to choose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The long therapy is inevitable (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Julia Gorbachevskya<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 12:23<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Trying to save the marriage and keep his peace of mind, Alexey is forced to use a mental therapy. During the regular healing session, a stranger interferes in it and tries to bring out psychologist into the open. Everyone suddenly realizes that the long therapy is inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Gone Boy (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Eva Eisner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 19:42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Two detectives are investigating the disappearance of a man, when new details turn up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The School Bus (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Ramazan K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Turkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 14:01<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Nebahat, a teacher in her 20s, has just been appointed to a rural village school in Anatolia. She realizes that her students are struggling to arrive at school, hitchhiking tractors, using whatever means they can find. She asks the Ministry of Education for a shuttle, but without a driver, the vehicle is useless. So, she decides to be the bus driver for her students but she does not know how to drive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ARRIVING NOW (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Diana Belova<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 11:12<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Prejudice is the main theme of this ironic and a story Umid, a native of Uzbekistan, came to Russia to work to help his family. At night, the taxi driver decides to take the last call and goes for the client to the public housing district. At the address of the call, Umid notices skinheads, did they call a taxi?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Feeling Through (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Doug Roland<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 18:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Feeling Through, the first film to star a DeafBlind actor, is a coming of age story that follows Tereek, a teen wandering the streets of New York, desperate for a place to crash when he encounters Artie, a DeafBlind man in need of help getting home. From an awkward meeting between strangers emerges an intimate bond, and a journey that forever changes Tereek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
VOW (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Nikolay Flotskiy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 15:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Being left alone, the woman recalls the fragments of the passing day that has connected her with a man for evermore. \u00abI want to run away, I\u2019m afraid of them, Indians, music, why am I here, touching, light, destroyed world, loveless\u00bb. Wanting to drown out the feelings flickering inside, she presses the horn of the car with all her might, imagining the first bright day of her nascent life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anton Chekhov’s “The Proposal” (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Theo Coumbis<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 29:12<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: \u201cThe Proposal\u201d is an eponymous adaptation of Anton Chekhov\u2019s widely popular one-act play, considered by many to be the funniest ever written. Prone to anxiety and hypochondria, Ivan Vasilyevich Lomov (Kenneth Puna Matepi), the long-time neighbor of Stepan Stepanovich Chubukov (Theo Coumbis), has come to propose marriage to Chubukov\u2019s daughter, Natalia Stepanovna (Olga Kalashnikova). When the hospitable yet stubborn Natalia enters the room, Lomov becomes a nervous wreck. In his effort to put forward a proposal, he goes on a tangent which leads to a tremendous argument over land ownership. Will Natalia and Ivan ever marry? And what will their wedded life be like? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Edge (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Mikhail Ponomarev<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 25:37<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Street artist and the green police officer are seeking justice for the unfairly accused man. But their common purpose will face the fact: law and justice are not the equal matter. And one of the them has to cross the edge\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paradise (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Luis Arroyo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 13:42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: A young woman aged by the weight of memory goes about her routine activities within the walls of her small apartment. When the mysterious disappearance of a baby unleashes drama in her building, she, lost in thought, continues with her daily life accompanied by a newborn that she tries to pamper and calm. Paradise opens a small doorway to the troubled mind of a ghost at the precise moment when she decides to departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BLACKOUT (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Kan YAMAMOTO<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 29:50<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: The video was posted on Twitter. The video captured the moment a person vanished. In order to capture this phenomenon on camera, the director Hayashi and his cameraman Yoshikawa, of Gossip Video Topics Company visit the vanishing man, Toru Urao. Toru Urao had recently lost his job due to the effects of the coronavirus, and is struggling to survive on unemployment insurance and benefits. Director Hayashi offers to pay Toru Urao a large sum of money to allow them to shoot the moment he vanishes. Toru Urao agreed to let them film his hardships and challenges to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nSTUDENT SELECTION | JUNE 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Lonis (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Jeremy Artis<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 08:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: “Lonis” is a short film drama that takes place within the Greek Orthodox community of Melbourne. Lonis goes to the house he grew up just after his father’s funeral to deal with his traumatic childhood and burn down the place where he was being sexually abused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lion Blanket (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Sofia Afonasina<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Estonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 14:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Berta’s sister Helena has gone missing and there is little hope of finding her. Berta visits the morgue, where she views several bodies, each with her own tragic story. How can Helena be one of them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shepherd’s Crossroad (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Yuchen Gao<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: China<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 04:59<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: A dying Catholic Father\u2019s last confession about a decision he made in his early ages when he was confronted with a widow\u2019s plead for help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Round Three (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Shahar Shamay<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Israel<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 19:54<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Ofira is a newly retired art teacher, who, for the first time in her life, will put herself outside her comfortable routine. She decides to revive an old dream – becoming a painter. Ofira turns to Hizki, her old friend from art school, who\u2019s a curator at a successful gallery. Uncertain, and with little to no support from her husband, Ofira stands in front of the white canvas, not only to paint her first painting in 40 years, but also the rest of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Portray a State (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: WU Chia-Yun<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: A young screenwriter finds herself in a slump. Still dealing with the pain of losing her mother, she had hoped to find catharsis through writing, but her abstruse screenplay is received negatively by the producer, flooding her subconscious with self-doubt. In the end, facing the producer\u2019s final ultimatum, she makes a decision she cannot turn back from\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blackout (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Reza Didar<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 11:16<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: A young brother and sister are taking care of their father who is sick at his home. Electric power officer comes to disconnect the power for not paying the bill. the pulmotor needs electric power. They have to save their father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u611b<\/strong>.LOVE (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Rhea Yi Zhang<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: China<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 03:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: A man lives a boring life day after day. He walks the same way to work each day, eats breakfast, lunch and dinner in the same restaurant, listens to the same news broadcast channel; sleeps, wakes up, brushes his teeth, goes out, and goes home at the precise time. Until one day, he finds a gorgeous rose on the side of the road. The long-lost light appears in his eyes, and he takes the rose home, plants her in the garden, and cares for her. Everyone passing by praises his rose, because of this most beautiful rose in the world, he becomes the darling of the spotlights. He loves his rose more and more, which turns his world into a colorful paradise. Till the earth could no longer nourish his rose, he decides to nourish her with his own blood and flesh. They grow up together into one, and gradually becomes a huge monstrous flower. Finally, this flower cannot support its own weight, and collapses into a shattered ruin. And this ruin is quickly forgotten by the world. One morning, a little girl passes by and finds a small rose growing out of the ruin. She takes the rose home and plants him in a flowerpot by the window under the sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Come here (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Marieke Elzerman<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 26:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Sam is a shy young woman who works as a dog caretaker at the animal shelter in Ostend. Her colleague Koen is a dog behavioural therapist and teaches people about the upbringing of dogs. Sam prefers to stay with the animals and is fully committed to the daily chores at the shelter. But when Sam meets a nervous young woman who struggles with the upbringing of her dog, she decides to help her in her own way. Come here is a sensory portrait of a burgeoning friendship in sound, gesture and movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selina (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Greta Benkelmann<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 24:52<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Selina wants to get away from her broken circumstances. Her boyfriend Nico takes her on a joyride that ends prematurely. The abyss of their young love is unearthed. When Selina meets Katharina, she increasingly recognizes Katharina\u2019s pain as her own and Selina must ask herself: What does love have to endure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I Am (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Jerry Hoffmaann<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 25:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: One day, the withdrawn No\u00e9 finds a motionless android in the forest, takes it with her and reactivates it. It’s the beginning of a strange relationship. Far too late, No\u00e9 realizes that the android is about to copy her personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BA HAM – together (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Shahab Habibi<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 28:47<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: The political refugee Pouya never knows who is an enemy and who a friend, but when the political situation in his homeland comes to a head, he must take a risk and be willing to trust in order to finally bring his wife Nikta to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Silent Zone (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Caren Wuhrer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 28:50<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Alice, uncommunicative and electrohypersensitive, lives in seclusion in a dead zone deep in the Northern German forest. But then her hermitage is suddenly disturbed by the sex worker Lucia, who settles on the border of Alice’s safe space with her lovemobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LIKE IN THE MOVIES (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Maria Ivanova<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 13:04<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: After finding several dead bodies in a hotel room, the maid behaves very strangely. She photographs the details of the murders and sends them to someone, signing each one with the name of a famous movie. Did she kill all these people or is she using the situation to show who the vermin really are? All of the characters are from completely different social classes and clearly demonstrate a person’s indifference to each other because of society’s assessment of their “importance”. But the main question is who will eventually get the right to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Route_in (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Nikos Pavlineris<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Greece<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 12:22<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Christina, Selini, Vasso and Kostas are four young people who are overwhelmed by a routine that hurts them. What happens when they realize they have no time for themselves?Are they trying to escape from the situation that is hurting them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I Have Dreamed Carthage (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Cyril Nehm\u00e9<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 24:22<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Maia, a young opera singer, is on stage for her first performance. As she starts singing the main aria from “Dido and Aeneas”, she finds herself struck with an epiphany moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life Stream (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: HAO-TAI WANG<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 13:02<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: One day, Hong-Yu watched NaNa’s live stream as usual, and knew that NaNa was about to hold a fan meeting. Day after day, Hong-Yu was more immersed in NaNa’s live stream and social media, and wanted to become the type that NaNa likes. Doing exercises, talking with neighbor, all of these make Hong Yu more confident to meet NaNa. At the fan meeting, faced with NaNa’s lateness, Hong-Yu was incompatible with other fans, and decided to leave. Unexpectedly, this move led to an unpredictable result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Gate (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Kino Jin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 04:16<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: The Gate is a four-minute 2D animation. Genderless children are raised inside the walls of a rigid city. At the age of 12, the children are forced to become \u201cadults,\u201d and give up their emotions and memories. When they become adults, their faces are hidden by masks, and they lose their individuality. A child, K-12012, and their friend, J-12606, accidentally discover a unique device in the library, which reveals the history of their city and allows them to escape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\nDOCUMENTARY SELECTION | JUNE 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Gone through the Fire – A portrait of an artist in the sign of the times (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Isabella Simonian<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 15:05<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Being an artist in a time when mankind is passing a bottleneck and many artists feel threatened in their livelihoods. For Jeff Beer, a multiple talent in contemporary art, this crisis means, on the one hand, a path that leads to the core. On the other hand, a struggle with his existence as a freelance artist. Subtitle languages available: English Russian French Spanish Chinese <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Starlight in the Ruins (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: LIN,HUAN-WEN<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 24:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: A building with fifty years of history was once a popular spot in the memory of the locals, but now it is considered to be the cancer of the city because of its shabby exterior and the interior that looks like a ruin. When it was going to be rebuilt due to urban renewal, \u201cEscape Plan X,\u201d a group of young graffiti artists, sneaked in this twelve-story ruined building. For them, it is a rarely seen wonderful space to create art. They are now planning to challenge themselves to create something they have never thought of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last Day Today (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Nelson Liu Yihong<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Singapore<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 21:03<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Denny and Ivy run the largest movie poster business in Southeast Asia. Their retail store in Esplanade, a landmark building in Marina Bay Singapore, has a history of 16 years. In 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 has severely hit the retail industry. However, the online shopping trend that has emerged as a result has provided them with new ideas. Seeing the improvement of online business, they decided not to renew the contract with Esplanade to reduce operating costs in order to survive this difficult period. What\u2019s waiting for them was the last day of business. Moving away everything they had accumulated for 16 years, and finally bid farewell to the physical store they built by themselves. In those last days, they remembered all the past events that had happened here. The unforgettable and dumbfounded memories that allowed them to grow up came to their mind on the last day. The influx of new and old customers, friends and former employees that came to say goodbye, kept them busy the whole day. Their last day at Esplanade was spent perfectly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
CRISTINA ZENATO and the REEF SHARK CONNECTION (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Jason Perryman<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 07:07<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Short film examining Cristina Zenato\u2019s close relationship diving with reef sharks, doing \u2018relaxed state’, petting of them and removing their fishing hooks, a relationship based on love and passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is not seen (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Paulo Abreu<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Portugal<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 23:24<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Documentary film shot in two of the Azores islands, Pico and Faial, between 2015 and 2016. The idea of this film happened by accident. Going back to the footage of a location scouting from a previous project, canceled years before, another hidden film was found. The power of Nature and the role of chance in the creative process build a narrative about life, friendship, cinema and the influence of the unexpected in artistic creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TANAKA’S DIARY (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Filip Jacobson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 21:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: A story about the Japanese tourists on a trip in Europe in 1970 told by 8mm footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crescendo (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Ryan Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 16:47<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Having to immigrate to the U.S. from South Korea with a widowed mother and two siblings as a teenager, a songwriter Gretchen Lee has a struggling childhood trying to pursue her dream \u2013 music. While doing her internship at a music post production house, she finds that she has hearing problems. After going through many ear surgeries, she only realizes that she is going deaf. \u201cCrescendo\u201d is a 16-minute documentary that follows her travel in which she demonstrates gratitude for her ability to write & play music despite hearing loss. It explores the connection between sound, music, mind, and the body as she takes her instruments to go on a road trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American Muscle Cars (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Tanner James Gordon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 03:37<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: An intimate portrait into the life of a self taught mechanic from Iowa and his love for his American Muscle Car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Church in Chelsea (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Tassos Rigopoulos<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 22:24<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: The little-known story of St. Eleftherios Greek Orthodox Church founded in 1918 in Chelsea, New York City, as told by its priest and some of its longstanding parishioners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nEXPERIMENTAL SELECTION | JUNE 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
DREAMS OF EMBRACES (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: GULSEN AYBABA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Turkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 19:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Abandoned by his mother as a child, the writer Toprak Karasu receives a letter from his mother. She writes that she left him a house as an inheritance. Toprak wants to sell the house and settle his debts, but a\u0442 unexpected meeting completely disrupts all his life plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
darkness within darkness (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Chia-Yun Wu<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 06:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: The work is a paper made video composed of digital image and physical material that delves into the essence of moving image. It divided the digital video into the film ratio of 24-frame-per-second. Through the transforming process in printing and scanning, the re-composed video is in between movement and stillness, virtual and concrete, digital and material. The contrasts have thus been related to the Oriental philosophy of Taoism, “one body with two sides” (Yin and Yang). With the video, I was trying to visualize the abstract natural law which denies description. Tao is empty yet inexhaustible, hidden but always present, a way of life yet not a locatable truth. darkness within darkness seeks, in the same way, to be comprises of the very contrast between the established (material) and the abstract (digital) through revealing the invisible time in image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Champagne (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Christopher Gribbin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 01:41<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Exploring back to the place you might not want to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Camiseta’s (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Ger\u00f3nimo Gassmann<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 02:49<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: When we think about what defines us, we usually look inside and leave the surface aside. Without realizing it, this aspect is the consequence of all our internal earthquakes. This film tries to reflect that process of introspection through a body and three spaces and what it means to be in that shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FEAST (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Li Yongzheng<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Hong Kong<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 13:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Xinjiang is off-limits to Western journalists and directors. This may be the first time you’ve seen Xinjiang. This is a dual-screen experimental short film. It records that during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the director and team drove more than 3,000 kilometers and trekked through different landforms such as deserts, canyons, grasslands, and Gobi. They came to Xinjiang, China, and had dinner with the Uyghur people in the desert gorge. The director has been paying attention to the living conditions of the minority people in the border areas of China since 2006. In such a harsh period of time, the artist reached out through concrete actions, hoping to fill some gaps and show some hope. Through the special design of this film, every detail is composed of a tight structure like music notes. This work also has a diffusive but inseparable relationship with the horrific memory of the worldwide social restrictions and even lockdowns, the Black Death in Florence, and the Spanish flu. “Everything is annihilated in the fire. This annihilation makes this work even more intriguing. It points to the depths of the social history and will trigger endless reveries about the future.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What matters most (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Ksenia Osipava<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Belarus<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 07:56<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Welcome to the analytical TV program that highlights most important and sharp topics of the modern world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“STRIKING NIGHT” (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director: Marco Savatteri<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Country: Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duration: 11:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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