Taste of Love

Could it be sweet, sour, bitter or even salty? A girl embarks on an aromatic journey of love, stimulating her taste buds to the point of climax. With all senses, she explores the various forms love can take on. Love is as diverse as our sense of taste.

Kastaars (Rascals)

What if your window is your portal to the outside world? Would you want it to be cleaned or would you cover it? Do you have a choice? Hidden in our own world and our illusions about out there, 'Kastaars' is about seeing and being seen.

Under the Canopy of Trees

The film takes place in a Belarusian village. The protagonist Mironych hears that the local businessman Lvovich is going to cut down the forest near the village. Mironych knows how important this forest is to the local people. So he tries to solve this conflict in an unusual way: he builds a stage and arranges a celebration day for the whole village. Maybe all together they can change Lvovichs mind…

How Flowers Never Became a Food Group

Distorted and glitched images of flowers suggest failure and disillusion about romanticism, oscillating between the possible and the impossible. Psychedelic colors and their intensity add to the fragmented and playful rhythm, where the uncanny makes the video feel like found footage of a diary. This work is the result of a collaboration between video artist Charlotte Clermont and experimental musician Alain Lefebvre.

Haussmann in the Tropics

This story revolves around a city's most luxurious mansion near the sea. It is a glimpse of a specific class in China, a microcosm of the real environment, a developing city section. Young people can hardly afford to buy a house without the financial backing of their parents. At the same time, there are numbers of coveted locations vacant. The buildings themselves do not decay. However when weeds become the most active organisms in the vacant rooms, how does the unequal environment of human existence affect human beings?

The Autonomous Era

2010 in Hong Kong: together with some friends Lok actively participated in social movements using online radio broadcasting as a medium to spread their ideas. Four years later, Lok is now an organizer of various social movements. With a new identity and more experience, Lok recalls the old days when he participated in the “Umbrella Movement”. “The imaginary doesn’t reflect reality. It’s the reality of the reflection.” (Jean-Luc Godard, La Chinoise) This film is a cinematic thesis analyzing the organizational problems, which deeply affected Hong Kong’s social movements during these years, from a perspective of a social movement organizer.

Fragmentos del Rey desmembrado

The suicide of a young man who claimed to be God is the beginning of three episodic stories, each revealing part of his past. The different characters orbit around the young suicidal completing an elliptical narrative. “Fragmentos del Rey desmembrado” (“fragments of the dismembered king”) opens two lines of interpretation: a mythical and a rational.

La Nuit Je Danse avec la Mort

Jack is having a party with some friends. Exhausted, he decides to take a psychedelic drug. With a lighter mind, he enjoys the moment, his belly rejecting his visceral anguish as the evening progresses. But then he is confronted with great anxiety, which he cannot get rid of.

The Next Stop is Happiness Where This Bus Terminates

Holly, an adventurous young girl, is on route to her dream destination “Happiness”. Complications arise when the not so understanding ticket inspector calls her bluff because she does not have the golden ticket.

Lo Dulce de la Vida

Ana, a 7-year-old girl, tries to understand and unwind at her grandfather’s funeral despite her mother’s efforts to keep her apart.

Ananta Yatra (The Eternal Journey)

An old woman in her 70s is struck by an earthquake resulting in a journey towards eternity. She arrives near a meadow by a riverbank. She needs a calf to cross the river where she believes she can find her salvation. Then, she is confronted by a vision out of her past life, where she and her grandson are tending after a herd of cows.

Olbrzym (The Gentle Giant)

The main protagonist of Olbrzym (“the gentle giant”) is going to participate in a poetry contest. To gather up the courage to come out on the stage, he collects the memories from the entire life and fights his own demons. It's a film about a tiny step for mankind and one giant leap for a man.

Baozha!

A young guardian angel must overcome her gaming distractions to protect a mortal being, a hapless old grandmother, from an untimely death.

Leave With Me

“Leave with me” is an animation about a little schoolgirl whose imagination has taken over her world. Mocked by her classmates and belittled by her teachers, her world becomes twisted and the people in it turn into alien beings. Something is amiss in her surroundings, however, and she must find it and confront it.

7000 Miles

7000 Miles is a narrative of lessons on character, identity, and independence presented towards high school students generally, and specifically those unsure and anxious about their futures.

Un Día en el Parque

A monologue by a grandfather who explains to his grandchild how things used to be ... or maybe how they are now.

Niofar

Niofar tells the story of a French girl who went to get to know Senegal and its inhabitants in the hope integrating. The film is a visual poem on the meeting: "I" versus "you", "he" who is a stranger, but the three blend into "us". In Wolof, “Niofar” means "to be together". It is an ode to sharing and cultural exchange.

Ici, personne ne meurt

Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something, others realized there was nothing to be found. Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich, others die in the process. But some say that nobody dies here.

It is my Fault

After the compression of the spiritual world by the force of regulation, a series of emotions such as introspection, violence, self-destruction and untangling follows. This work utilizes the inherent approach of digital media to deconstruct, to form the subliminal synesthesia visually and to create a fictional experience for the mind.

Vacuum

The film is set in a world where the government is trying to control all five of the human senses so that they can ultimately control the population. This particular film focuses on the sense of smell. The story follows Antoine, who uses his innate skills in perfumery to escape his harsh reality.

19 Maggio 2012, Mirandola (MO). Ultima Proiezione

In 2012 in Emilian lowland (Italy) the population was not prepared for an earthquake and it hits them seriously. It destroys many houses and took several lives. Old city centers of many towns around Bologna and Modena were damaged. In the epicenter lies Mirandola, a small medieval city with a castle and remains of the old city walls. Television news-teams report amply and cameras invade the streets looking for dramatic stories among needy people without a home. Several years later we came back, not looking for the big scoop, but to view places that have been at a standstill since the earthquake and others changing in the wake of reconstruction.

Der Schatten

Die Erde dreht sich nicht mehr. Auf ihrer ewigen Schattenseite richtet sich eine Familie auf ihr nahes Ende ein, als ein Schimmer von Veränderung die Verschanzten erreicht.

Marvin und Lena

Ein Dokumentarfilm über einen Jungen mit Down-Syndrom und seine beste Freundin.

Rico

Ein kleiner Junge klingelt an der Haustür eines Einfamilienhauses…

Seven Cigarettes Away from Home

Lexa ist 16, fast fertig mit der Schule und voller Ideen für ihre Zukunft. Doch diese Gedanken sind wirr…

Three Ghosts Slept Here

Geheimnisvolle Wandzeichnungen und Gegenstände erwachen zum Leben, als eine schwarze Linie sich durch das alte Gemäuer zieht und mal gespenstische, mal lustige Bilder hinterlässt.

WAS WIR WISSEN

Zoe, Tomke und Bruno wollen herausfinden was sie einander bedeuten und was sie sich selbst bedeuten.

Artist Talk

Artist Talk portraitiert die in Erfurt lebende Malerin Korinna Grafos (Bela Brillowska).

Invasion of Maple Street

Eigentlich sieht die kleine Straße in dem amerikanischen Vorort ganz normal aus. Doch dann taucht ein Mann mit Hut, Anzug und Uhr auf. Seltsame Dinge passieren in der Maple Street.

NINO

Man braucht Mut, Dinge zu ändern, die Gelassenheit einiges hinzunehmen und die Weisheit, beides voneinander zu unterscheiden. Genau vor dieser Prüfung stehen zwei vollkommen unterschiedliche Jungen, deren Wege sich im Laufe eines Tages kreuzen.

OSTKAKTUS

Eine aberwitzige Aneinanderreihung von Zufällen prägt die Geschichte zweier Verliebter, einer Punkband und ihrer Vertrauten.

Aus Klein wird Groß

Ohne Hilfe werden Hunderte von Seesternen sterben, die von der nächtlichen Flut an den Strand geschwemmt wurden. Nach einem Essay von Manoj Parik (Japan).

Das Fundbüro

Wie verliert man Zeit und wie kann man sie wiederbekommen?

FUCK WHITE TEARS

Ein Film über einen Film, den ich nicht machen kann weil ich weiß bin. Und über jahrhundertealte Grenzen und Machtverhältnisse in Südafrika zwanzig Jahre nach der Apartheit.

She Saved Herself

Mina leidet unter Depressionen und versucht einen Ausweg aus ihrer Situation zu finden, um sich selbst zu retten.

Un’inestinguibile sete

Eine kleine dramatische Geschichte über ein Skelett, das nicht Wasser trinken wollte, sondern BLUT!!!

We Are Watching You

Einen unterhaltsamen, aber dennoch kritischen Blick auf den Alltag in der Informationsgesellschaft.

Millimeterle

Measuring their power and proving themselves is part of boy’s everyday life. Even for the 13-year old gentle-natured Yannik. Until his best friends raising sexual curiosity suddenly puts him in a threatening situation. Where is the line between game and reality, and what happens if that line is crossed?

At the Edge of the World

Not far from Dalnye Zelentsy, at the end of the world, lives Nikolay Eliseev, the warden of Kandalaksha Nature Reserve, who has been working here for more than forty years. He has accumulated a lot of interesting stories over the many years doing this job. He shares some of them with us.

Barsaati (Our Share of the Sky)

On a cold night, two men encounter their sleepless thoughts. Familiar fears kindle new words in their faces. The film witnesses them talking between the noise living in buildings and the silence of the sky.

Drakskogen (The Dragon Forest)

Give an 8-year-old boy a couple of papers, colors and a stop-motion-camera, and see how fantasy arises …

Ruah

Nine characters, four stories, one situation. How to act while knowing that something big, something irreversible, something that you can't run away from or fight against, is going to happen. Something bigger than anything humans have ever experienced.

Girl In The Mirror

Aufgrund von Sozialen Medien wie Snapchat und Instagram fällt es Prinzessin C. schwer, sich selbst zu akzeptieren. Sie folgt dem Gruppenzwang ihrer Generation und bemüht sich, in das unerreichbare Schönheitsideal unserer Gesellschaft hineinzupassen, stets begleitet von den perfekten Illusionen des Internets.

Im Rhythmus der Lügen

Hektor kämpft sich durch einen Urwald an Konventionen und sozialen Normen, um zu seinem Schwarm Nina zu gelangen.

Nahe Kepler

Nach einer einjährigen Projektarbeit auf einem fernen Planeten erlebt der Raumfahrer Jo auf dem Weg zurück zur Erde einen holprigen interplanetaren Zwischenfall.