Fiction Programme

This year, the relevance of narratives, including short films, is determined by the relationship between people. The risks of dehumanization are higher than ever. In this regard, the 2023 festival program includes works with acute questions and conflicts that are accompanied by confrontation, exploitation, and alienation. At the same time, almost every film in the program represents a separate dimension of the wonder. Something supreme and beyond rational explanation surrounds the characters and becomes part of their everyday life. Something supernatural can appear in the form of a fabulous animal or a mysterious Soviet officer, a ghost, phantoms, genetic engineering or the apocalypse. Man’s search for his place and purpose on earth in relation to a higher order is the very core of the program.

The total length of the films is 112 minutes.

THE RAT

Baimukhamedov Zhantemir (Kazakhstan, 29 min; 2022)

This is true story that happened during the Collaps of the Soviet Union in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Prisoner is a guitar player released from jail. He setled in the room of closed plant.

WINNERS

Dániel Füzes (Hungary, 16 min; 2022)

Ádám and his friend Bálint, are teenagers living on the violent outskirts of Budapest, where physical strength is the difference between boy and man. When a friend of theirs gets beaten up and they decide to get revenge, Adam is forced to face the fact that being a man means something much more.

THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF COMRADE KULIAKOV

Lucas Abrahão (Estonia, 20 min; 2021)

Two low-ranking USSR officers are sent to occupied Estonia on a mission to track down a Captain who apparently went insane after discovering a mysterious radio signal coming from the middle of nowhere.

TUKTUKI

Ritoban Roy Burman (India, 21 min; 2021)

An upper middle class woman lives with her daughter and her domestic workers. After one of the workers die, she begins to feel a strange uneasiness – and isn’t sure if the murmurs are personal or paranormal.

SURVIVERS

Carlos Gómez-Trigo (Spain, 7 min; 2020)

Natural selection says that only those who adapt will survive. What if humans have become stupid? < Website >

TEO

Eduardo Bunster & Belén Abarza (Chile, 18 min; 2021)

A couple goes to design their first child to a gene-editing clinic, hoping that the kid will have the successful and happy life that has eluded them. < Website >

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