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Fiction 2022

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Neon Phantom

by Leonardo Martinelli 20’ Brazil  

A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.

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Brutalia, days of labour

by Manolis Mavris Fiction 25’ Greece

Perfectly identical girls in military uniforms, work day and night. A matriarchal and oligarchic society. What would happen if we replaced bees with humans? Anna observes the universe of her hive. Not being able to consent to the violence that surrounds her, she will have to make a radical decision.

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Dad’s Sneakers

by Olha Zhurba 19’ I Ukraine

n immersive insight into the last hours of 13-year-old Sasha’s life in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care. He is one of the luckiest – an American family finally adopted him. Today he will move to another country forever but there’s something that doesn’t let him go.

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Rehearsal

by Michael Omonua 15’ Nigeria

How do you stage a miracle healing? Boundaries dissolve between church and theatre, faith and credibility.

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Decent People

by Maxime Roy 30’ France

IManon, 30 years old and 8 months pregnant, is a struggling singer. Consumed by her administrative issues and under financial pressure, her relationship with Ludo crumbles and they don’t prepare for the birth of their child.

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Nesting

by Siiri Halko 20’ Finland

Nesting is a story about Veikka (20), who is about to leave his work place, a construction site owned by Kari (50), to start a new life in the big city. Veikka thinks the goodbyes will go smoothly, but a rare situation appears: there’s a baby in the crane. The surprising problem is an annoyance at first, but in the end it allows communication between the employees in a way that has been difficult in the past.

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The last ferry from grass island

by Linhan Zhang 14’ Hong Kong

 A Hong Kong hitman retires as a fisherman on the peaceful Grass Island. One day, his Chinese apprentice shows up, tasked to kill him before the last ferry departs.

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Trap

by Anastasia Veber 20’ Russian Federation

Young Sasha loves and hates his sister at the same time. She is a troublemaker. That is why he carefully avoids mentioning her even in an ordinary conversation with a policeman on the street. Moreover, Sasha has his own life. He tries to win the girl from his authoritative classmate in Olympic reserve school. The conflict turns from a trifle into a disaster. This situation is a trap for everyone involved.

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Dawn

by Leonor Noivo 28’  Portugal

Faced with her mother's disappearance, Isabel finds in the reconstruction of her gestures a possible explanation for her escape.

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You Go Girl!

by Shariffa Ali 11’ United States

Audrey, a New York City comedian who can make a joke of any situation, faces a staggering challenge in the beautiful mountains of Oregon. Can this city woman overcome her fears and rise?

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Claude Libre

by Thomas Buisson 18’ France

Claude, sixty-five years old, ride on her motorcycle, scratching Bingos and living on fake checks. For the village, it can’t last any longer. The old lady must settle down or disappear.

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Blue has no dimensions

by Ágata de Pinho 20’ Portugal

Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of existence. A masterful debut film from director-writer Ágata de Pinho, whose performance leads her character from trauma to catharsis in the most beautiful way.

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Three meetings of the extraordinary committee

 by Jones 18’ United Kingdom

When the citizens of the small farming village of Dobre vote for a mythical creature, democracy comes face to face with reality.

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Khadiga

by Morad Mostafa Egypt 20’ Egypt

Khadiga, young mother of 16 lives alone with her baby after her husband left for work in a remote city; in an ordinary day she makes her way through the hustle of Cairo streets to do some visits where she feels uncomfortable with the surroundings.

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We're not animals 

by Noé Debré  16’ France

Igor is totaly depressed since his ex girlfriend, Marie, became an Instagram celebrity thanks to an activist group about female orgasm. Igor thinks it’s intentional strategy to keep him from finding someone else. He persuates his friend Arnaud to came at Marie’s to sort it out.

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Maidenhood

 by Xochitl Enriquez Mendoza 15' Mexico

Catalina submits to the tradition of her people, “La Baláhna”, to demonstrate her purity and worth as a woman to her beloved, but her body betrays her and she fails to demonstrate her chastity. What future awaits Catalina in the face of a syncretic love that rejects her?

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The Criminals

by Serhat Karaaslan  24’

France I Romania I Turkey

Late at night in a small Turkish town, a young couple tries to find a hotel room to spend the night together. They are rejected from all hotels for not having a marriage certificate. Once they believe they’ve found a trick to use, the situation gets out of hand.

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Masquerade

by Olive Nwosu 14’ Nigeria I United States

Seeking healing, a woman must return to Lagos, the city of her birth.

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Heltzear

by Mikel Gurrea 18’ Spain

In Basque language the verb heldu has a polysemic meaning. It can be ‘to hold’, ‘to grow’ or ‘to arrive’. The declined form heltzear means ‘about to’ all of those things. San Sebastián in the year 2000. The Basque Conflict is active. As she writes a letter to her absent brother, Sara, a fifteen-year-old climber, trains for the most difficult climb of her life.

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Umbilical

by Elpida Stathatou 13’ Greece

The story of a young woman's struggle to separate from her religious and superstitious upbringing. As she battles her traumatic past she discovers exactly how far she will go to reconcile her internalised doubts.

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Fish Fingers

by Lars Mulle 8’ Switzerland

Summer is over and it's hard to let go..

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She

by Emil Dam Seidel 8’  Experimental Sweden   

Caught in a room the protagonist, Clarice, unfolds a vision of her own identity through a mirror interrogator. SHE is a cinematic adaptation of a solo dance performance with the same name. The original performance work was created and performed by Dorotea Saykaly and premiered at 5éme Salle at Place des Arts in Montréal, Quebec in 2019. Inspired by The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, the solo revolved around identity and doubt. Manifested through movement, distortion and an interview with a phantom interrogator, the original work proposed looking at a questioning body through a female lens. The cinematic adaptation of the original performance work arose during the first COVID lockdown in 2020 as a collaboration between Dorotea Saykaly and film director Emil Dam Seidel.

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Moon

by Zoé Pelchat 15’ Canada

Babz Dubreuil, a lonely ex-convict, works as a cook in a brunch restaurant. Under the encouragements of a colleague, she finds the courage to ask an attractive customer on a date. It might be the beginning of redemption.

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Shush Tony

by Marion Harlez Citti 29’ France

 

Alice and Tony keep on splitting again and again. Alice has come to rehearse with her theatre group in their country house. But Tony arrives unexpectedly and things go south. He takes up all the space. The garden becomes the stage where tensions, friendship, influence and break-up play out.

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Tundra

by José Luis Aparicio 30’ Cuba

Walfrido Larduet, a lonely electrical inspector, dreams of the Red Woman, whose image persists and becomes an obsession. Something tells him she is near. Over the course of a day, Walfrido will follow her trail as he travels through the suburbs of an infested city.

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Tiger

by François Bierry 12’ France

 It's the story of a tiger who goes to conquer the love of his life. It's the story of a tiger to whom his buddy must absolutely say something. It's the tragi-comedy of a paper tiger.

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When night meets dawn

by Andreea Cristina Bortun 19’ Romania

A teenage boy goes looking for his new friend on the hot streets of an eerie city.  As the blue night falls, a sensual journey begins. Nature around him becomes exotic and the exotic becomes erotic. In the illuminating dawn he discovers he’s not like the rest

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Kellys

by Javier Fesser 2’ Spain

There are things that are hidden even from your best friend

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Headwind

by Jon Vatne 12’ Norway

On a windswept cliff Birgit (54) fights a battle against wind turbines and for her marriage against the policeman Trond who has come to remove her. With knitting, chocolate cake and a will of steel, she challenges her husband to an unexpected duel.

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An Invitation

by Yeung Tung, Hao Zhao 12’ China

An 8-year-old boy reluctantly visits his divorced father in Hong Kong, who wants him to become a Hong Kong citizen. They both keep secretive intentions and find it difficult to ask what they want from each other.

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Sunday Morning

by Bruno Ribeiro 25’ Brazil

 

Gabriela is a young black pianist who will perform at her first major recital. However, a dream about her dead mother destabilizes Gabriela's mind and heart, putting her presentation at risk. From a series of strange encounters over the course of a day, Gabriela will go on a journey of reconciliation with her memories and her mother.

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Αfter a room

by Naomi Pacifique 22’ Netherlands

Nights are long inside Naomi and Ram’s room. Tonight, they’ve invited Marina over and their messy space is under scrutiny. Exploring intimacy as personal playground, skin as intimate map, Naomi’s docile body is coming lose amidst the tension inside a room she continues knowing and unknowing. The small expressive child inside her is itching to ring its giggle through the night, before day breaks..

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Action

by Benoît Monney 6’ Switzerland   

On a film set, there are always unforeseen events. Some days, it's all there is. And sometimes it's even worse.

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Colony Collapse Disorder

by Amos Hozman 15’ Israel

Between forest and city, two ambiguous lovers' journey to preserve their togetherness.

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The Infantas

by Andrea Herrera Catalá 13’ Spain

 A preteen of Dominican origin is ready to fight for the first time when her mother forces her to be the princess in a carnival float.

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The distance of Time

by Carlos Ormeño Palma 19’ Peru

In a Peruvian city corroded by an eternal and indifferent winter, a young androgynous man with indigenous roots reaches the depths of abandonment as his lover tries to survive an unknown disease and his memories fade into oblivion and sorrow.

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Censor of dreams  

by Leo Berne, Raphaël Rodriguez 18’ France

Every night, The Censor and his team moderate Yoko’s dreams. Tonight nothing happens as planned.

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See You Garbage!

by Romain Dumont 17’ Canada

 

For Christmas, three garbage collectors, Élie, Nino and Belz, are surprised to be received for dinner at the house of the Prime Minister and the First Lady. They go there, enthusiastic and candid, without suspecting that on the menu, they have a painful series of disappointments and manipulations in store for them. See You Garbage! is a dramatic comedy that resembles a revolutionary tale, which attempts to explore the encounter between the well-coated contempt of the political class and a sudden awareness of its people.

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