{"id":9867,"date":"2021-09-10T09:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moscowshorts.com\/ru\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:16:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:16:02","slug":"august-2021-moscow-shorts-official-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moscowshorts.com\/ru\/august-2021-moscow-shorts-official-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2021 \u2013 Moscow Shorts Official Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NARRATIVE SELECTION   |  AUGUST 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

10 Eggs <\/strong>(2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Rositsa Trayanova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: Issa, a 30-year-old African man holding a bag of eggs, gets on a busy tram in Sofia, Bulgaria. Seemingly unfriendly and rude, his only wish is to protect the eggs in his bag so that he can take them to his family that lives in a refugee camp. He goes as far as to almost pushing an elderly woman to take the free seat, repeating over and over to anyone who approaches to be careful, because there are eggs in the bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Andrey Svetlov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 20:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: “Friend” is a movie about two warring school students. One of them dreams of a new smartphone, the other of a simple friendship. By chance, they find themselves in a common predicament from which they will have to get out. It’s a rich, day-long story spiced with chases, childish adventurism and light humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Moema Umann<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 03:28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In frozen Alaska, a child wonders about distance, solitude and boredom.  PANDEMOS created by Diego Medvedocky and Luis Aguer.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Sean Bernardini<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 07:49<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A young man, locked in a mysterious abandoned building, has a strange encounter with a bouncy ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a Riverside (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: M. FURKAN DA\u015eB\u0130LEK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 13:33<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: While a civilian group with a woman who is about to give birth were running away from Serbian genocide to the safe zone with a sizzling radio in their bag, with the dog barking they heard, they understand that they are not at the riverside, but at the side of another thing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2081 <\/strong>(2021)  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Antoine Sottiaux<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 15:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In the year 2081, AI and IT are abolished. A man, downcast by his life, revives his daughter in the form of an android, but his ex-wife who has become an inspector discovers them.       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Special (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: NELSON JIM\u00c9NEZ ORTIZ DE ZARATE , JUAN MANUEL “DARTAGNAN” ZAVALLA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: In the midst of a pandemic, an isolated man in an old apartment works on a model that he cannot finish while suffering from the disorders of a little-known disease called \u201cmisophonia\u201d. Trying to escape the external pressures and the internal conflict in his head, he decides to ask for a “Menu of the day” which, on the contrary, will bring him unexpected consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walk a Mile (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Judith Cowley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Synopsis: Grumpy old Russ (Jeffrey Thomas) lives next door to a noisy family, whom he hates.  But when something happens to his neighbours, he changes his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PLAY FOR EVERYONE (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ivan Petukhov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 19:57<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: 5 members of a 3rd rate marching band goes off for a gig.  They are driving along a rough road in the Moscow region, in a hopelessly tattered old minibus.  They exchange glances with one another, each musician clearly battered by life. Not one of them suspects that this mundane trip for some extra cash will unexpectedly force each and everyone one of them to reconnect with their essence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ink Ocean (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ivan Sosnin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 17:22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The young sailor Sasha travels the world and sends letters to his father from every town where the ship stops. However, all his letters remain unanswered for years. Sasha hasn’t seen his father since childhood, he doesn’t have his phone number, only his mailing address. One-way letters had become a kind of ritual for him. Once, returning home from a voyage, the sailor finds a letter in his mailbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summertime, Summertime (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Kevin Chen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 16:16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In the summer of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Qin Huai, who will soon be 10 years old, accidentally learns that his good friend He Zhijie’s father is seriously sick. He Zhijie\u2019s family is poor and couldn\u2019t afford the treatment fee. In order to help his friend, Qin Huai asks his parents for the money of selling their apartment as his birthday present. However, Qin Huai fails. As a result, Qin Huai and He Zhijie have a serious conflict.  At the end of the summer, Qin Huai and his family move out of the old town. He decides to give his cherished World Cup football to He Zhijie as a gift of farewell and apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the circuit (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Olivier van Malderghem<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 14:46<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Every weekend, Anne and Jeff go to the Mettet motorcycle circuit. A racing pilot, Jeff is training. Anne takes his lap times. Occasionally, at the Au Circuit caf\u00e9, she negotiates bitterly on the phone the lending of the motorbike. Anne’s gaze then meets that of Jacques, a client who, like his sidekick Ren\u00e9 is \u00ab part of the furniture \u00bb. They never exchange a word. One day, Jacques sets off. He joins Anne at the bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bright Fire (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Zoe Zou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: Two young cousins find a wonderland outside of their unstable families, without knowing the friendship they have will eventually comes to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

Duration: 11:20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A father living in war-torn Iraq protects his daughter from violent fanatics, using the innocent game of hide-and-seek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number 10 (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Florence Bamba<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 13:42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: AWA is a young french girl originally from Senegal. She’s a law student who practices soccer regularly with her neighbor friends. But her passion is not at everyone’s taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A world free of crisis (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ted Hardy-Carnac<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 26:58<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Emilie is struggling in life. After numerous unsuccessful interviews, the lively but clumsy 30 year-old finds herself under a great deal of social pressure and fears to lose her home. Naturally she has high hopes when she is called in for a new interview, but in this future society that plays by slightly different rules, nothing goes as planned\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On my way (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Bertrand Basset<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: Granny died today. After years of marriage, Hubert is alone for the first time, tired and diminished. This toilet roll is always too far. L\u00e9onie his grand daughter comes in order to help him. Oppressed by the adults fussing around the best idea is maybe this old good whiskey bottle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: No\u00e9mie Merlant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 25:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: While trying to save her family from a return to the street, Shakira, a young gypsie woman, meets Marius, a member of a robber gang…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brussels-Beirut (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Thibaut Wohlfahrt, Samir Youssef<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 27:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: After living in Europe for several years, Ziad returns to visit his family in his North Lebanon hometown at the Syrian border. When he arrives, the tension is palpable. Ziad tries to reconnect with his family despite a threat eating away at the inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Amir Karagic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 29:59<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Set in present day Amsterdam we follow Marwan, a timid coffee shop owner who is forced to face the truth about who he thinks he is when his reckless business partner and girlfriend’s abusive ex back him into a corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White Heterosexual Male (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Gleb Ross<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 15:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The director from the “old guard”, Konstantin, comes to the studio to discuss the shooting of his film. A team of motley producers imposed by the censorship committee awaits him in the meeting room. A film about ordinary guys and traditional values does not meet the agenda, and Kostya finds himself in the crossfire of tolerant wishes and gender remarks from producers. A real fire of passions flares up, and then Kostya loses his temper in the literal and figurative sense of the word … <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galoshes over L@boutins  or not a childish startup (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Aleksandr Razbash Aleksandrovich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: While mom and her friend Olya are busy trying on the dresses from the internet boutique, Silanty and Alisia are torturing an old sport shoe in the garden. Since their mom hasn\u2019t bought them a new toy as there was no money. The courier from the internet boutique decides to save the sport shoe and offers to buy it for two hundred and fifty rubles as a joke.   Sudden easy money triggers the business spirit in the kids. And next thing you know they sell their father\u2019s ski shoe to the courier.  To kill the time the courier plays along offering to buy the pair of the shoes. And after the box for it. The kids produce everything as if out of nowhere.  Who knows how everything would have turned out, if mom\u2019s friend Olya, who was almost ready to snatch the dress from under their mom\u2019s nose, hadn\u2019t notice the disappearance of her new Louboutin shoes.   The deal between Silanty and the courier falls through. The furious mother shows her kids the other side of the slippery slope of the business game.  But each of them has their own toy in mind, and each wants to get what they want.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Director: Valeriya Semenchukova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 17:53<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Dan has unusual power to wake people up from coma and illegally making money on it. But this time something went wrong…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flowers for you (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ignat Bagirov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 12:46<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Melancholy and touching story about the single woman. The quagmire of her life changes in one moment and everything makes sense again, when a courier with the flowers appears on the doorstep of her apartment. And then she puts on a dress, puts on her lips and cleans the apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s Cold (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Danil Ivanov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: It wants to be a good police officer, but it’s very cold in Russia. In the Russian hinterland, two police officers are sent on a mission. The task before them is quite simple, but the peculiarities of the local climate create a serious obstacle to its implementation.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Carla Di Bonito<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 11:15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: At the turning of the century, single mother Luzinete, a cocaine addict and dealer in Salvador, Brazil finds out she is also HIV positive. Through a keyhole  we are then invited to enter her world and more precisely,  to follow her last living hours filled with substance abuse, solitude and deceit. The story glimpses at the unbroken bond between Nete, our main character and her sister Cee and the love she shares with her only son Raphael. Sent to prison a couple of times Nete\u2019s world is colourful but equally deceiving, slippery and dangerous. Despite her constant attempts to better herself, her friendship choices were not the wisest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O MIA BAMBINA CARA (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Seraina Scherini<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 18:14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Linda and her mother are going on a spontanous holiday-trip to the south. But their leave isn\u2018t unburdenend as they wish. The absence of the father is causing a gap between them, which they can not overcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whistle, Whistle, No Division (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Dengfeng Pan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 20:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Easun escaped from his orphanage, planning to find the bridge he kept seeing in his flashbacks and thus proving the father in his visions truly exist. On his way, Easun encountered with Beibei, who had just moved to the city with his mother and was expecting some new friends. Knowing that Beibei knew about the bridge, Easun invited him to join his journey. Beibei soon find out he was followed by a strange man after Easun slip away. Beibei thus hurried back towards home. Despite that Beibei knew nothing about it, that this is the first time he met his father, a soldier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep Blue (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Wayne Tan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 06:26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis Novak, a young man with depression living his final moments, must make a decision that will change his perspective on life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

windows, a view on Giancarlo De Carlo (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Davide Catena<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 05:23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: windows, a view on Giancarlo De Carlo was born from the experience gained after a stay of a few years at the colleges of Urbino, one of the many architectural complexes of Giancarlo De Carlo that from the sixties to the nineties went to outline the modern identity of the city. The colleges are developed according to a clustered floor plan that allows its guests and visitors to be able to observe the structure, and what happens inside, through multiple points of view, often leading to a lack of privacy. The work thus aims to investigate, in an experimental way, the relationship between architecture and the everyday life of its inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real World (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Mathew Panayiotou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 15:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Real World is a science fiction post-apocalyptic film following a young boy named Jules (13) attempting to live a normal life after an environmental apocalypse. Following catastrophic hot weather all over the globe, society has burnt down \u2013 the rich escaped to Mars, while the poor perished.   An expert at hide and seek, Jules has managed to escape the fires and find safe hiding spots. Now, Jules is the lone survivor. He spends his time scavenging for food, and he has grand plans to rebuild society \u2013 planting seeds and searching for other survivors.  This is until he finds a mysterious pair of virtual reality goggles and meets Valarie (14), who too has a pair. Valarie spends her time frolicking in a virtual reality world of luscious trees, beaches, and mountains – Utopia. The headset is Valarie\u2019s escape from a bleak existence, and Jules joins Valarie in her adventures. It\u2019s peaceful and rejuvenating, but it\u2019s addictive. Overtime, it dawns on Jules that he is living in blissful ignorance, and his duty lies in rebuilding the real world, in its current, decrepit state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Xinyi HONG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 22:12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Lin is an eight-year-old girl who lives with her grandma after the divorce of her parents. She suffers from loneliness. One night, she decides to flee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Firecracker Story (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Zhizi Hao<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: An 8-year-old boy searching for fireworks on a Chinese New Year\u2019s Eve, after the firework ban is introduced in this southern Chinese town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Haonan WANG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 24:59<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The happy prairie family falls apart when the father is murdered by a poacher. The young son struggles to bring his mother back to reality from her delusions caused by pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White Horses, Silver Mine (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ziyi JIN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: In a small Mexican village, an unexpected car is going to take a little boy\u2019s beloved uncle away, who has been his father\u2019s secret lover for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wedding (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Haigang DU<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 21:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: On their wedding day, the poor young couple lose their wedding ring. The film gradually shows how lonely and helpless the couple are while they coping with the mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Yu ZHANG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: In an isolated island, the retired policeman Guodong finally finds Bingyuan, the murderer of his daughter. What he doesn’t expect is that Bingyuan is now the priest of a church and the father of an orphan girl, Hong. Facing the priest’s redemption, the police falls into struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I Lay Dying (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Zheng’an Zhang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: Meng Nan, a thirty-year-old woman, has been living alone for a long time to recover from the childhood trauma of her father beating her. After learning about her father’s death, she returns to her home on Qilin Street to keep vigil. Surrounded by relatives who relentlessly chat about the past, Meng Nan feels lost and confused, having no idea how to comfort her mom. In that night, her father soul comes back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOW SOON IS NOW? (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ella Mosseri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 14:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A visual poem about a wishy washy relationship, the yearning to childhood and a choir of girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CASE \u211612 (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Valeria Boldyreva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 22:56<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The story of the wife of Vyacheslav Molotov who was a Russian revolutionist, Soviet political, state and party figure, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR in 1930-1941, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1939-1949 and 1953-1956. The film is about love, friendship, devotion, human helplessness before the doom and Moloch of great historical processes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Lil Estonia (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Taavi Arus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: Helmed by SoundCloud and radio-DJ Siim Nestor, something new is happening in Estonian music. Something not seen in a long time, much less heard. A new wave. New characters. A new Estonia. Lil Estonia! An anatomy of a generation in Estonia in 2020.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Ahmed Khaled Deiab<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 08:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Among the flying dust, rubble, and loud equipment sound, Nathan Doss, the artist, is working on his new piece of art. Can any beauty spring out of the womb of this chaos?      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Viv Li<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 15:54<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A wistful but witty account of a trip to Beijing by an art student who has been abroad for ten years. Her stay with her family mercilessly exposes how uprooted she has become by her life abroad.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Kate\u0159ina Kun\u010dick\u00e1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 03:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Michal is a 14-year-old boy full of love, determination, optimism and passion for sport. Most of all, he loves hockey. He has cerebral palsy, but that doesn’t stop him from going after his dream. Sport has become a part of his daily life. Thanks to his efforts, perseverance and vision to be an active para hockey player, he will make full use of his potential, his disease does not worsen and he believes that one day he could be at least partially self-sufficient in adulthood. Despite his disability, Michael’s life is rich and full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Douglas Vuncannon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 24:50<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Yellow, squeaky, buttery. Corn. A film about food aversion, growing up, and the dangers lurking in your own backyard, NIBLETS is a profile of erstwhile skronk-rock star Anne Gomez, an attorney working in indigent criminal defense.  One advance viewer commented, “it’s funny, it’s poignant, it’s well-shot, it’s surprising in places, the viewer gets a feel for this person, [and] it touches on some big topics in a sly way.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sky Pulled Over Our Eyes (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Alexey Sizov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 16:28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Anton\u2019s Right Here is the name of a charity supporting people with autism, founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2013. Improbable as it may sound, it has an eponymous orchestra comprised of people with autism spectrum disorders. They play music at the intersection of jazz, rock, and electronics \u2013 often called spiritual free jazz. The orchestra\u2019s performances fall onto the audience like a wave. It rings, rattles, makes noise, fills everything around with energy. Our film is an attempt to put music on pause and look at how it is born. To observe the musicians themselves – aflutter with excitement, beautiful. To see what friendship, emotions, and silence sound like. Music is present everywhere. First filling the hall and then breaking out into the street, into the city, towards people \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing Through (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Inshallah P Montero<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 11:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Ana Mandillo has a condition where her pupils take in too much light and so she has created her own little playground to help her control the light around her environment. This film is an intimate glimpse of a woman\u2019s relationship with light and her own lightness of being. We follow her character through the gaze of the filmmaker and discover how Ana sees the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Al Tabbab (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Khalifa Al – Mana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 07:14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Al Tabbab is the story of a boy and his father, accompanied with their goat, on an old dhow sailing to a secret ritual site where they perform an ancient offering ritual in order to harvest pearls from a mysterious Sea Monster.  On this journey, the boy sets sail determined to impress his father and make him proud.  But searching for pearls is no easy task and with the odds against him, the boy struggles with his father\u2019s demands and he can\u2019t help but feel like he\u2019s a big disappointment. But when the Sea Monster prefers the boys pet goat to the usual offerings, the boy must perform a gallant rescue in order to save his friend from certain death and to show his father that he\u2019s ready to be his own man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulp Fishin’ (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Susan Shulman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 03:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Pandemic animation inspired. Combining high-energy abstract visual underwater world vignettes. This film combines some humanoids interacting with saturated coloured sea creatures from my oil paintings with fish singing, swimming and some aquatic beings wearing masks with surf style music. Very upbeat.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soft Rain (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Sacha Goedegebure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 07:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A man suffering from depression is caught in a sudden downpour of pink, fluffy balls. At a crowded bus stop, a cheerful looking woman offers him an umbrella, and together they enjoy the soft rain.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legend Has It (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Lainey Davidson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: Every girl at summer camp knows the legend of the Creature of Camp Calawaga… But is it just a story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: Maya Manor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: A short animated film that tells the story of a mother and a daughter that are cooking pasta together. It may seem like a simple day-to-day activity, but through the daughter’s unique point of view we can feel the magic and experience the beauty of the small details of an otherwise normal activity. The film celebrates the daughter’s imagination by exploring shapes, movements, and the daughter’s ability to view them as a rich and exciting new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Director: JUAN MEDINA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: On his first day of work as a miner, Martin, a cocky teenager will learn the importance of rituals and respect for ancestors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

THE SYSTEM IS YOU (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Mathias Max Herrmann<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 29:57<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Monologues in  Crisis. Three generations talk about their fears and their utopian visions. A youth hostel is about to be sold. A situation shortly before the tipping point, in which one’s own fears suddenly coincide with other people’s experiences of crises. Memories emerge and the house community begins to develop imaginary worlds. Visions of the future are born that try to resist the mechanics of an ongoing historiography.  Does history become more tangible in a crisis? In a situation of uncertainty, is it easier to develop utopias during creative processes? Against the background of the perceived lack of opportunities, this group is struggling for answers – with very different strategies.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Las partes que faltan (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: I\u00f1aki Dubourg:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 13:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Someone awakes in the middle of the night, unsettled by images of a distant journey. He’s uncertain about what happened. The faces of people from a small town blend into one over the years. Their actions are vague, aimless. Dreams, recollections and stories converge. There is a lost dog, a pigeon keeper and a soccer match. Maybe what happened is just an excuse to rekindle something that lies deep in the chest, something that was left unfinished.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detektive Thumb and The Infinity House (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Preston King<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 05:53<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A detective is eaten alive by a house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V=(4\/3) \u03c0r^3 (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ruiqi LU<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 19:48<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In the winter, a ballerina tripped over two glass beads whilst dancing and then gave birth to a baby whose eyes are marbles. When the baby grows up, two children took her eyes by mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children’s Corner (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Haotian Guan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 22:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PLANET PINK \/ PANOPTICON1 (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Francesca Fini<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Synopsis: PLANET PINK \/ PANOPTICON 1 (2021) A video by  Francesca Fini  music by Adeline Yeo (HP) – https:\/\/clic.ly\/adelineyeohp  My Panopticon is an ideal landscape where the waste of humanity accumulates, the bundled and forgotten things that contain their memory. A dump of hopes, passions, and relics of a creative and devouring civilization. Memory then becomes ballast, poison, and detritus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in silence (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Duration: 18:59<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Lonely people wander the empty Saint-Petersburg trying to seize the last pieces of something dear they used to have: music, the loved one, memories\u2026  We have all faced or will definitely face the absolute absence of something warm coming hometown once. The place of birth and childhood suddenly become almost empty for us. The void only. You want to scream and only silence in return.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Director: C\u00e9sar D\u00edaz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 03:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Blinded by anger, a father kills the family dog, only to found out that the real dangers lie within ourselves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

radioAugust – lullaby (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Max Zhrivodkin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 03:31<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il costume di Valdrada (Valdrada’s fancy dress) (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Silvia Autorino<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 03:15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Freely inspired by the Valdrada story from Italo Calvino in the “Invisible Cities”, the video work aims to lead towards an emblematic reflection on the reality of the individual and his appearance. In the Calvinian tale, Marco Polo tells of a city located above a lake, named Valdrada, in whose reflection what happens inside the houses is reflected. The reflected image << now increases the value of things, now it denies it >>. From reading this suggestive text, the idea arises of representing, through digital means, a vision of the city of Valdrada detached from reality, leaving the viewer with a disorienting perception of what is observed. We immerse ourselves in the reflection of the lake that dresses the bodies of the dancers with light, blending with objects from a common interior. We will never see, if not for a moment, the real Valdrada. What is reflected on the screen is what you want to be seen, not what belongs to those bodies that move through the object pouring their limbs. Through their reflected image they shape and reconstruct their deep emotions and actions as they please. This feeling of disorientation wants to bring back the reflection of the use of the image of today. Ours is a society of the image, everyone creates a deceptive alter ego of themselves through ultra advanced devices and means. Our true perception of ourselves and of reality is projected into something else. The vision of the video-work “Valdrada\u2019s fancy dress” brings us back to an occult and deceptive reality that is reflected in our daily life, a world full of images that distorts the reality of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Color Your Mind (2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Axel Werner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Duration: 04:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Free yourself, explore creative imagination, let your ideas be infectious, and help others to unleash their powers. Fantasy traveling always brings back freedom as a souvenir.   In 1871, an oppressed worker escapes her foreman into the realm of fantasy. Her creativity inspires her companions. Together they overcome their tormentor and free his spirit as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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