Competition Programs | International Competition 1
Zhovten. Kinoman Hall

September 5 | 20:00

September 8 | 14:00

Running Time 91 min.

  • Lola the Living Potato
    Leonid Shmelkov

    France, Russia | 17:18 | 2018

    The little Lola’s family is forced to leave for good from their’s old house, with which much is connected. It happens that the time comes to part the things that you love so much, and Lola will get it easy because she has become older.

     
  • The Extremely Little Red Riding Hood
    Bahij Jaroudi

    Lebanon | 04:14 | 2018

    The story of a uniquely challenged little girl dealing with a day filled with perils, uncertainty, and loneliness.

     
  • EMBRACES & the touch of skin
    Sara Koppel

    Denmark | 02:42 | 2019

    “EMBRACES & the touch of skin” is an animated poem about the vital need for embraces and contact with other beings.

  • Memorable
    Bruno Collet

    France | 12:02 | 2019

    Recently, Louis, painter, and his wife Michelle are experiencing strange events. Their world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furniture, objects, people lose their realism. They are destructuring, sometimes disintegrating…

  • Lights out
    Jakub Baniak

    Poland | 05:17 | 2019

    Film asks one simple question - what may happen when lights go out? 

  • Hounds
    Ido Shapira, Amit Cohen

    Israel | 05:47 | 2018 

    The life of a dog, trained to act as human, changes when a pack of Hounds gathers around his house.

  • The Gospel According to Tauba and Primal
    Márcia Deretti, Márcio Júnior

    Brazil | 11:35 | 2018 

    "The Gospel According to Tauba and Primal" is part of the rebellion of the Tauba character with the violence and urban chaos of the metropolis where he lives. As an alternative, he creates and realizes the project of an ideal city, a fortress-city robot. Moved by envy, Primal develops its own version of the robot-city of Tauba. The short is an allegory about the contemporary confrontation between two antagonistic perspectives on life and society, where issues such as radicalism, inability to dialogue and segregation of the world divided by walls are exposed.

  • SELFIES
    Claudius Gentinetta

    Switzerland | 03:40 | 2018

    In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

  • Food Chain
    Liis Kokk, Mari Kivi

    Estonia | 08:30 | 2018

    This is a film about making food and consuming it. The producing part itself is not always as clean as we hope, yet we turn the blind eye as long as the end product looks desirable enough. The film plays with the fantasy of making food and about the satisfaction we get when having delicious products.

  • The Dream Report
    Jack O'Shea

    Ireland | 07:10 | 2019

    A deadpan sci-fi interweaving moments of familiar routine with esoteric messages from deep space.

     
  • Towels
    Prawta Annez

    United Kingdom | 04:46 | 2018

    Territory can be found in many different forms, from boarders to fences, and in summer - even towels. When boundaries are crossed on a beach, two strangers become enemies and war breaks out.

  • There Were Four of Us
    Cassie Shao

    China, United States | 06:47 | 2019

    In a room, there are four people.

     
  • Master of light
    Stefan Vogt

    Germany | 01:40 | 2019

    Friendship can even happen in absence.