Competition Programs | International Competition: Hidden Desires
UNIT.Verse | B.12

05.10 | 16:00

06.10 | 19:00

18+

Honest stories about 50 shades of love, each of which has its own maximum pain threshold and acceptable limits. 

Running time 85 min.

  • Above the clouds
    Vivien Hárshegyi

    Hungary | 13:32 | 2022

    A young girl suddenly finds herself in love again. When she comes to realize this, she has to run away. A vortex takes her down to her past, where she has the opportunity to free her heart if she reinterpret the hell of her first love experience.

  • Love Me True
    Inés Sedan

    France | 07:40 | 2023

    Laurence is desperately looking for love. Advised by a friend, she connects to online dating sites to find her soulmate. She becomes addicted to her phone and to a toxic man.

     
  • Hidden Desires
    Guido Depaoli

    Argentina | 09:13 | 2022

    Stories of men who, in their search for other men, fall into traps, reflections of their own loneliness.

     
  • FURRIE
    Lucie Grannec

    France | 08:36 | 2022

    A dolphin in free relationship with fifteen inflatable animals, a fox crazy in love with a cereal mascot, a band of animals adept at firearms… Different portraits, existing, of members of the Furry community, lovers and enthusiasts of anthropomorphic animals.

  • MISALIGNED
    Marta Magnuska

    Poland | 07:00 | 2022

    The woman and the man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, several flies are circling a lamp. Gradually we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and observed elements as the rhythm of their universes accelerates. The microcosms shown seem to interact rhythmically and belong to some cosmic order.

  • E6-D7
    Eno Swinnen

    Belgium | 16:00 | 2023

    E6-D7 is a science fiction drama about a lonely machine who finds a kind of love in his advanced android successor. Can he handle loving someone who makes him obsolete?

  • Sweet Like Lemons
    Jenny Jokela

    United Kingdom | 05:31 | 2023

    Sweet Like Lemons is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.

     
  • Amok
    Balázs Turai

    Hungary | 14:17 | 2022

    After losing his fiancée and his good looks in a freak accident, Clyde must confront his inner demon.

  • Our Love is Immortal
    Ender Yildizhan

    Turkey | 03:32 | 2023

    A little boy worries about his parents' relationship in a dystopian future. When his father sings to him a song about what he and his mother have accomplished in this world and how they survived, the little boy's self-confidence will be restored and he will begin to look to the future with hope.