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International Competition
Short Films
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Saturday 7, April 2018 / 8 pm
ACUDkino
Berlin / Germany
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Farmoosh Samadi
Iran
2017 | 0:14:28
On her way back from work a woman witnesses something happening in the
bus and she has to decide if she reveals it or not. |
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Ondes noires |
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Ismael Joffroy Chandoutis
France
2017 | 0:20:00
In an ultra-connected society where electromagnetic waves have invaded
almost every space, three people suffering from electromagnetic
hypersensitivity talk about survival in a world that seems
increasingly inaccessible to them.
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Hairat |
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Jessica Beshir
Ethiopia, Mexiko, USA
2017 | 0:07:00
At night, outside the walls of the Ethiopian city of Harar, Yussuf
Mume Saleh gets together with a group of spotted hyenas.
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Circle |
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Jayisha Patel
Great Britain, India, Canada
2017 | 0:13:00
Present-day India. Three men sit at the edge of a field smoking. A
woman is crouched in the field working. Another is cleaning the floor
in the house. Two young women are shucking peas. One of them tells her
sister about her rape and who she blames. It’s her own grandmother’s
fault. The fire blazes away out in the field.
In dense situations and images, documentary filmmaker Jayisha Patel
follows the women of this house on the village’s edge. She provides a
glimpse into the cycle of violence, an insight that is directly
connected to the women who experience sexual violence first hand. The
daughter is to be married off, all of the details are already worked
out. Will there be any escape from this cycle? The daughter speaks.
She can name what happened to her. It could be a sort of beginning.
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I have Nothing to Say |
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Ying Liang
Taiiwan
2017 | 0:25:30
A trip to Taiwan has molded a Chinese mother after she met with her
exiled daughter from Hong Kong. This short film is directed by Ying
Liang, who was the director of the Best Live Action Short Film awarded
by the Golden Horse Awards in 2016. According to his personal
experience in living in exile, he tells a moving story of a mother and
her daughter, and the secrets hidden behind the mother, subtly
depicting the political dilemma of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.
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Permanent Resident |
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GERMAN PREMIERE |
Nicole Midori Woodford
Singapur
2017 | 0:20:00
A woman, her son and her mother reside near a quarry named "Little
Guilin" after a famous landmark in China. She pretends to be a buyer
who views condominiums, stealing from each family that resides in
them. Glimpsing the quarry through various homes, her obsession
culminates in an excursion to Guilin.
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Aprile 7 - 9, 2018
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.
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