The festival schedule and programmes of the 10th edition
This year we have generally moved away from the conventional sections of the programmes. Instead of a fiction, animation, video art programme, we tried to play on the field of metacinema and create new narratives through the existing ones. For instance, “Unfiltered Distopias” programme has been maturing for many years. It so happened that our festival found itself at the crossroads of two distopias, two systems, different spectacles. In either of them we exist at the same time and simultaneously there is no place for us there. This programme of films is built as a transition from one supposedly absolute socio-political system to another. The finale is left open. In the words of either Fredric Jameson or Slavoj Žižek: “It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism…”
The camera and human gaze interact in a divine comedy of total voyeurism and control. The Schrodinger’s Cat includes some of the best fiction, experimental films and video art of this year. The programme is a kind of metafilm. Each of the five short films in the programme is a sequential piece through which a new narrative unfolds.
The widespread application of neural network capabilities in the field of visual imagery has generated heated social, ethical, and legal debates. Undoubtedly, artificial intelligence will influence the history of visual contemporary art and independent cinema. It has already happened. We will illustrate it vividly in Art & Neuro-Dreams.
The next collection is perhaps one of the most philosophical (ontological) selections of films in this year’s festival. Shakespeare’s “to be” pervades every film in the meta-narrative Words, Silence, and Sand. The familiar world is destroyed. Words are lost. The silence of the universe becomes more eloquent than words. Montage operates on purpose and genuineness.
In addition, we have prepared a number of national collections, a section on gender issues, and the special programmes that you can expierence below.
SCHEDULE
BERLIN |
HELSINKI |
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ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics |
Kitchen Lab Tarvo |
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March 21 |
March 22 |
April 7 |
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Easy Love & Fun | 7pm | Art & Neuro-Dreams | 7 pm | Mars and Venus Tango | 3 pm |
Unfiltered Dystopias | 8.25pm | ||||
Schrodinger’s cat | 9.55pm | ||||
VILNIUS |
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CreateCulture Space |
Skalvija Cinema Center |
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April 24 |
April 25 |
April 26 |
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Lithuanian | 6.30pm | A Yellow Sparrow Sat on a Branch | 7 pm | Silent Spiral | 7 pm |
Belarusian | 8 pm |
FILM PROGRAMMES

A Head In The Clouds
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A Yellow Sparrow Sat on a Branch …
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Art & Neuro-Dreams
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Belarusian Films
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Easy Love & Fun …
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Lithuanian Films
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Mars and Venus Tango
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Puppets’ Apocalypse
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Schrodinger’s Cat
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Silent Spiral
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Unfiltered Distopias
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Words, Silence, And Sand
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