The programme is a collection of the best fiction films. The sequence is arranged in such a way as to create a sense of contrast or swing between conventionality and exploration. To emphasise the contrast and variety of forms within the fiction short film, the programme concludes with animation POST LIFE (DEATH) by Louis Fraser.
SARA
by Ariana Andrade Castro
(17:00, Peru)
A lonely and curious 9-year-old girl discovers that her father, a truck driver who travels the country transporting fruit, is carrying more than just goods.
THE INTERRUPTION
by Asreen Zangana
(19:25, US)
The Interruption is a recontextualized telling of a story of a woman scorned… It is about a mother who is made to feel and look foolish as she deals with the reality that she may be the only one who sees and hears the strange man in the corner of their dining room belting out an operatic performance, during a normally unremarkable family dinner. It is a layering sleuth of mystery and chaos, as the mother cooks the family a dinner that turns out to be the same dinner they eat every night, but on this night an uninvited guest unravels the house of cards.
GUM
by Belal Albader
(10:00, Saudi Arabia)
Award winning short film about a child with Down syndrome who falls in love for the first time in his life and begins a journey of new emotions he never knew existed, this forces him to make decisions he was not ready to take.
A QUESTION OF WINTER
by Jiang Tan
(15:00, China)
Loss of Innocence or the
Birth of Tragedy?
Madee is a 10 year-old child who has been growing up in Thailand. Winter, herself barely more than a girl, is visiting from China. They meet when Winter visits the shop where Madee is selling tourist souvenirs.
Set in the idyllic and lush Thai countryside, is this just what it seems, a story of friendship and tenderness?
Or is it something darker? Why, after all, does Winter come at all? Is she on a summer vacation or is she carrying a burden she must finally leave behind?
What Winter can carry in her hands is far outweighed by what she must carry in her heart.
MY ENDLESS ECLIPSE
by Bijan Aarabi
(14:25, Canada, Iran)
A transgender woman has hidden her gender identity all her life. To escape a forced marriage, she is forced to flee her country. But she falls into the hands of human traffickers.
THE UNIVERSAL TEMPLE
by Bertrand Normand
(15:41, France)
Travel-weary architect Lambert comes to an island to meet a certain Platonov, whom he intends to help build a Universal Temple of Brotherhood. Yet, no one welcomes him upon his arrival on the island. As he searches for the elusive figure who has made him travel across the world, an unsettling reality threatens to engulf him and make him lose his way, perhaps forever.
POST LIFE (DEATH)
by Louis Fraser
(3:00, Germany)
‘Ginger’, seeking sanctuary in a bathroom from a house party is intruded upon by a resident creature, whose slippery words push him to breaking point.
All XII NoFilter Kino programmes
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Fiction Swing
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Tamed Algorithms
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Through Sounds of Sirens
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Under Pressure
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