Competition Programs | International Competition: The Garden of Heart
Verse

04.10 | 16:00

05.10 | 19:00

18+

Stories about a person's inner world, which bursts out with psychedelic visions, bizarre screams, gorgeous flowers, and turns into a long sleepless night.

Running time 85 min.

  • Aaaah!
    Osman Cerfon

    France | 04:41 | 2022

    Aaaah! is a cry of pain, surprise, fear, joy, songs, grumbling, laughter, anger… Aaaah! is the expression with which children, these primary and innocent beings, experience life in a community, framed by the whistles of adults.

  • Well Wishes My Love, Your Love
    Gabriel Gabriel Garble

    Malaysia, Sweden | 09:06 | 2022

    Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from an immense loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion would then expose the prosthetic limb to a mélange of textures and materials, whilst documenting the whole process. As the moon inches closer and closer towards the sun, the boy sees something unusual reflected on the water's surface...

  • Whatever moves is alive
    Noémie Marsily

    Belgium | 11:05 | 2022

    While slugs wander across the kitchen floor, Noémie draws up her sel-portrait, shifting and fragmented, on the edge between the intimate and the hubbub of the world.

  • The Garden of Heart
    Olivér Hegyi

    Hungary | 10:32 | 2022

    Dániel Juhász, a young aspiring painter with low self-esteem, is in his last round of interviews at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. While waiting for his interview, his demons appear to him in the form of garden pests.

  • 27
    Flóra Anna Buda

    France | 10:38 | 2023

    Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?

  • So the butterfly died in that summer
    Ziyue Wang

    China | 13:21 | 2022

    The story is about a girl who remembers her adolescence from the first perspective, remembering her beloved teacher who died unexpectedly and the time that has passed. She recalls the stories she experienced at the end of the summer when she was fifteen years old.

  • Sleepless nights
    Janis Aussel

    France | 10:43 | 2023

    Sleepless nights. Sensations, emotions that we don't understand. The search for meaning, the hope of a rest that does not come. Those who suffer from sleep disorders confide in us their questioning and their fatigue, the relentlessness to understand, sometimes in vain, this body that does not sleep.

  • All the flesh of the world
    Jeanne Ruelle

    Belgium | 07:54 | 2022

    In 2009 a trawler was sunk by the weight of giant jellyfish caught in its nets. But is that really what happened?