Competition Programs | International Competition 1
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  • Wildebeest
    Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips

    Belgium | 2017 | 19:08

    Going on a safari is a dream for many. For middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns into a horribly real adventure when they get left behind in the wilderness.

  • A cup of tea in the rainy weather
    Peter Tomadze

    Georgia | 2018 | 02:02

    Mother is making a cup of tea in the rainy weather.

  • Death of a Father
    Somnath Pal

    India | 2017 | 10:16

    When Babu's father passes away, he is caught in a web of age-old rituals and social formalities. As he looks for opportunities to cope with the loss of his father, death ends up being just another mundane routine for Babu.

  • Muteum
    Aggie Pak Yee Lee

    Estonia | 2017 | 04:10

    In an Art Muzeum, we better learn well, from outer to inner, from deep to very deep, serious and sincerely.

     
  • Pura Vida
    Nata Metlukh

    Estonia | 2018 | 09:35

    Four friends travel to tropics where things go wrong.

     
  • The Velvet Underground Played at My High School
    Robert Pietri, Tony Jannelli

    USA | 2017 | 08:00

    This animated documentary is the story of the Velvet Underground's disastrous first public performance. While on stage for merely 20 minutes, The Velvet Underground performed three songs: 'There She Goes', 'Venus in Furs', and 'Heroin'. The Summit High School audience responded with, as a band member recalled in 1983, a 'murmur of surprise that greeted the appearance' that 'increased to a roar of disbelief as the band started to play' which'swelled to a mighty howl of outrage and bewilderment...' Half the audience walked out.

  • Fuse
    Shadi Adib

    Germany | 2018 | 07:18

    A mousetrap snaps shut, a market place awakens. A group of men heatedly discuss how to kill the animal in the little box. 
    One after the other, they try to trump each other’s sadistic fantasies, and even a stranger’s suggestion to let the creature loose, turns out to be a sick manipulation. But as the macabre game unfolds and spirals out of control, both victim and tormentor suffer the same fate. 

  • Count Your Curses
    Lorène Yavo

    Belgium | 2017 | 08:30

    In a town where supernatural beings are part of everyday life, two roommates face a recurring problem: their house spirit was devoured by an unknown creature overnight. They go on their way to find a replacement spirit and a solution to their pest problem.

  • Between Us Two
    Wei Keong Tan

    Japan, Singapore, USA | 2017 | 05:03

    A gay son talks to his dead mother.

  • Hybrids
    Florian Brauch, Matthieu Pujol, Kim Tailhades, Yohan Thireau, Romain Thirion

    France | 2017 | 06:22

    When marine wildlife has to adapt to the pollution surrounding it, the rules of survival change...

     
  • Love He Said
    Ines Sedan

    France | 2018 | 05:40

    1973, San Francisco. Charles Bukowski, underground poet and punk ahead of his time, reads his poem LOVE in front of a wild audience who came to listen to the trash poet’s provocations. But that day, instead of the punk, they found a broken man hungry for love.

  • RAPIN*
    Gustaf Holtenäs

    Sweden | 2017 | 03:39

    Swedish singer/songwriter Jenny Wilson doesn't pull any punches on new album Exorcism, detailing her first-hand experience of a harrowing sexual assault and its aftermath.