MARCH, 17
ART-GALLERY “Ў”
Säen
Maryna Miliushchanka (Germany, 7 min)
A girl lives quietly with her grandmother in a small shabby house, until a chain of dramatic events forces her to question her tranquil world.
HOMESICK
Hila Einy, Yoav Aluf, Noy Bar (Israel, 7 min)
A crisis in a young woman’s life forces her to return to her parents’ home. Her reappearance shakes the delicate balance in the family nest.
RIOT
Ternier (France, 13 min)
A young black man is killed in an altercation with a vigilant neighboor and the police. An indignant crowd gathered together. The feeling of injustice is high. A group isolates itself. Emotion engenders riot …. In the absence of words, can the body take its revenge?
HARLS
Kenzie Sutton (USA, 3 min)
A guy named Harls keeps getting reincarnated.
BELOW 0
Jonathan Gómez, Itai Hagage (Costa Rica, 5 min)
A weatherman narrates his experience on the Arctic through a voice recording device, on how his life is bound to nature, physically and spiritually.
GUMAMEL
Juan Carlos Romero (Canada, 2 min)
Masculine fragility can take several shapes and forms.
BYE BYE, COMRADE
Tianlin Xu (Germany, 13 min)
Taotao is 10 years old as the esteemed comrade General Kuang passes away. Now, through the declared national mourning, her political correctness is put to the test. We follow the young Tao Tao through her initial loneliness and her subsequent struggle to be with the collective as she finds herself under unbearable pressure when all the children in her classroom start crying over a man they have never met. When eventually Taotao succeeds in acting like, what is considered, a normal pupil, the grown-ups manage to confuse her yet again. The story is based on the childhood experiences of Chinese director Tianlin Xu.