The International Competition program presents a diverse range of short films from various locations and genres. The category embodies the desire to explore new and innovative approaches to filmmaking.
November 18, 18:40
Zhovten Cinema, Hegemon hall
Konstantinovskaya St, 26
Screening duration: 77 min
Trigger and content warnings: blood, open cuts
The films are screened in OV with Ukrainian and English subtitles
RED EARS
Paul Drey
Germany / 2023, 30 min
13 years after his civil service in a hospital in Thiès, Senegal, Paul challenges his memories and traumas. With old video footage, interviews and animations he questions his role as a volunteer within the German system of development aid.
TWENTYTИƎWT
Max Hattler
Hong Kong / 2023, 7 min
Shot entirely from an apartment on the 36th floor of a high-rise building, the images in this experimental animation survey large parts of Hong Kong’s cityscape, drawing attention to the individual lives hidden inside its buildings - together alone, collectively sequestered. Initially recorded in 2020 and completed in 2023 with the advantage of critical distance, TWENTYTИƎWT / 二〇二〇 attempts to encapsulate the darkness, confinement, and uncertainty of the year 2020.
SERAFINA
Noa Epars, Anna Simonetti
Switzerland / 2022, 10 min
An orthodox heroine riding a motorcycle. Young people breaking the monotony of a country life through stunt riding. A meeting on a Western backdrop between two worlds that everything opposes except their very reason for being: passion.
THE SEVENTH SHIFT
Nataliya Ilchuk
Ukraine / 2023, 15 min
"The Seventh Shift" is an independently produced film about a woman who manages to maintain her integrity by avoiding the paradigms imposed by the social conditions of existence, focusing instead on the world beyond material dimension with its many limitations.
SCENIC VIEW
Maija Blåfield
Finland / 2022, 15 min
Finland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest has become so rare that it feels fictional. Is it now the enchanted forest? Is a commercial forest real? As nature documentaries are staged, are they fiction? «Scenic View» is a film about how we look at a forest landscape and the reality.