Competition Programs | International Competition: Reapers
MEGOGO

7-11.09

The program will be available September 7-11 online on MEGOGO

Something big, evil and uncontrollable is coming. Its inevitability deprives you of sleep and fear. You look around to find out the truth. The pages of a history book - factual and fictional - come to life under your skin and echo in your heart.

Running time 70 min.

  • Letter to a pig
    Tal Kantor

    France, Israel | 16:47 | 2021

    A Holocaust survivor writes, after the war, a thank-you letter to a pig that saved his life. After his testimony in a classroom, a young student dreams a tragic version of his story. Beyond her personal vision, the film also explores the themes of collective trauma, vengeance, human evil and compassion.

  • Borscht with Pretzel
    Anna Ring

    Germany | 08:13 | 2022

    The film "Borscht with Preztel" deals with post-Soviet Jewish migration to Germany. The immigration group of the former Soviet Union is the largest in Germany, but in the majority society hardly anything is known about them, instead stereotypes and prejudices are attributed to them, which leaves little space for the real stories of the Soviet immigrants and they remain invisible.

  • Recipes for Baking Bread
    Sara Nesteruk

    United Kingdom | 05:30 | 2021

    A series of five short films exploring stories from Holodomor, starvations in Ukraine in 1932–33, brought about through Soviet collectivisation of farms.

  • Mundus
    Geyllen Qinsky

    United States | 03:44 | 2022

    A world of photosynthetic animals, a world of transferring consciousness, and a world of projected images. What is your perfect world?

     

  • Soft Tissue
    Cliona Noonan

    Ireland | 08:30 | 2021

    A father takes desperate measures in the hopes of saving his son, but his actions soon become a distraction from what matters to him most.

  • A Journey with my Dad
    Mor Israeli

    Israel | 10:30 | 2022

    For the first time, Tamar (5 years old), accompanies her dad in a hotel where vacationers look a bit strange... Through the eyes of the child then begins a journey tinged with surrealism. Tamar will eventually discover the hidden story of her father, a part of his life that she does not know.

  • FLOWING HOME
    Sandra Desmazières

    France | 15:00 | 2021

    Two sisters grow up in Vietnam and are separated by the war between North and South. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Thao, in her teens, must leave the country with her uncle. Her sister Saoi Maï, only a little older, remains with their parents, hoping they will soon be reunited. But their separation will last nearly 20 years, and the letters they exchange are their only way to connect and relieve their loneliness.