Selection 2016

Céline Devaux | 2015 | 13′ 47” | France

Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions and don’t listen to his answers, they give advice but don’t follow it, they stroke him and slap him, but it’s ok, it is the Sunday lunch.

Simon Cartwright | 2015 |11′ | UK

Glen is barely a man. In a desperate attempt to tap into his masculinity he attends a primal scream therapy session, surrounded by wailing men he cannot even make a sound.

Mayan Engelman | 2014 | 03′ 54” | Israel

Israel and Palestine, two entities competing over their one beating heart. Will they both survive?

Phuong Mai Nguyen | 2015 | 11′ 54” | France

Hugo’s mother is back home.
The following day, when Hugo wakes up, he finds black feathers all over his house.

Simon Scheiber | 2015 | 11′ 20” | Netherlands/Austria

The tale of a lighthouse keeper’s surprising discovery that pulls him out of his monotonous, daily routine and takes him onto a journey into uncharted territory.

Simon Schnellmann | 2015 | 3” | Germany

Five short sequences about life are linked together by a black point.

Andreas Kessler & Lea Najjar | 2015 | 5′ 13” | Germany

MADAMA BUTTERFLY is a string puppet movie about a fiery opera performance with tragic consequences.

Pengpeng Du | 2015 | 4′ 26” | China

Life is liberty in a CAGE. CAGE represents a situation that is filled with a lot of constraints, or a habit or an addiction that is hard to get rid of. This project is to present a Chinese cultural and traditional visual style to audiences.

Igor Kovalyov | 2015 | 19′ 45” | Russia

«Before Love» questions solitude, misunderstanding and disunity in our life.

Heta Okkonen | 2015 | 1′ 27” | Finland

When the alarm goes off she gets up and starts her day.

Minha Kim | 2015 | 7′ 24” | UK

On the verge of becoming a woman, Sora is woken by a nightmare and decides to follow a group of men into the city in the hope of finding her mom.

Yajun Shi | 2015 | 1’ | USA

Inspired by that idea we chose to show the destruction of caused by natural forces on earth. The piece shows the inter relation between the city and the holder of the city.

Frederic Siegel | 2015 | 5′ | Switzerland

On his way to work, Ruben is haunted by obsessive-compulsive thoughts.

Matei Branea | 2015 | 14’50” | Romania

Omulan is traveling through space in search of God. A profoundly balkanik but simultaneously universal story filled with strange critters, sex and alcohol.

Eleonora Marinoni & Elice Meng | 2015 | 12’ 55 |France

In the heart of a group of birds, the indignant Moann feels her body changing.
In a society where the greatest concern is the size and ambition of one’s wings, nihilist Ciobeck tries to protect her.
But how can one survive in a barren land, populated by imprisoned-mind people?

Rupert Höller | 2015 | 5′ 12” | Austria

Four years ago, Slobodan’s son Rocky passed away. Since then, Slobodan has been visiting his grave twice a day to tell him news about his life and bring him chocolates.

Laura Hermanides | 2015 | 26′ 39” | Netherlands

The fifteen-year-old Julius is sent to a special program for a behavioral change, because of his extreme provocations at school.

Marco Huertas | 2016 | 28” |Spain/Madagascar/Norway

Three children struggle to get 56 kg of rice: the cost of going to school in Soavinarivo, a small village isolated in the Madagascar inland.

Hossein Jehani | 2015 | 24′ | Australia

With Shengal now in ruins, the Yazidi’s of Shengal have either died during the ISIS conquest, been captured or placed in internal displaced camps, waiting to return home.

Giovanna Carla Gia Balestra  | 2015 | 14′ 50” | Germany

A global initiative about clitoris awareness made with the mission to normalize & facilitate, the first parent / child conversation
about Clitoris & Clitoris Awareness.

Simon Pax McDowell | 2015 | 15′ 6” | UK

Valentina lives in an isolated mental health institution in Latvia. This documentary gives us a brief glimpse into her life there: We explore her relationships with her brother, husband and closest friend, who live there too.

Federico Telerman & Nicolas Uboldi | 2015 | 19′ 26” | Italy – Argentina

Photographic Museum of Humanity is the first online museum dedicated to photography. Every year its team of photographers and filmmakers travels across South America to spread the project and explore the relationship among photography, cultures and contemporary society.

Rita Bakacs | 2015 | 30′ | Germany

Tagelöhner Syndrom observes the daily routine at an official daylabourers’ office in Berlin Neukölln. Every morning at half past four, federal employment agent Schröder shows up with a jug of coffee in the window between his office and the waiting room.

Tommaso Stingo | 2015 | 26′ 18” | Italy

The story of a middle-aged Ecuadorian squatter who makes his living from selling ice lollies in the suburban areas of Milan.

Momoko Seto | 2016 | 29′ | France

Kyabakura is a type of hostess club in Japan, inspired by French cabaret. There exists an ambiguous relationship between the clients, the men, and the hostesses, that should never materialize into a sexual relationship…

Philipp Käßbohrer | 2014 | 5′ | Germany

Music by: Sizarr

Jorge G. Camarena | 2015 | 5′ 9” | Mexico

Music by: Porter

Alice Saey | 2015 | 3′ 23” |France/Netherlands

Music by: Shaking Godspeed

Aurora Gossé | 2015 | 3′ 49” | Norway

Music by: Anja

Piet Baumgartner | 2015 | 5′ | Switzerland

Music by: Rio Wolta