Azar Saiyar
Sweden, Finland
2016 / 0:07:30

We used to believe that being left-handed could lead to criminality, stupidity, and immoral behaviour. So we tried to educate our children not to use that hand. History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails is a short film on the history of taming the left hand and on the culture of cultivating the bodies that do not fit.

Laura Marie Wayne
Canada, Cuba
2015 /0:25:00

Most of Us Don’t Live There is a memoir, both visually stunning and heartbreakingly sincere; a young woman wanders the landscapes of her childhood and explores a life coloured by bipolar depression. Set in the powerful Canadian Rockies, the film draws a link between nature and the human mind and calls for a re-visioning of what we understand as mental illness.

Federico Molentino, Juan Manuel Ferraro
Argentina
2015 / 0:26:00

Tierra del Fuego contents a present time full of polarities, antipodes, extremes. Its landscapes, its vegetation and a contrasted city which si constantly moving forward, compose the surface to project images of selk´nam community, in which the past and the present coexist in the same narrative time. Through a technique called mapping (images or videos projection in 3D surfaces such as buildings or objects) and film editing, the story articulates originary ceremonies and contemporary behaviours, which generates a third new vision from usual situations. Extremes invites to reflect that, in the end,we all form one human being..

Natasha De Betak
India
2015 / 0:25:15

Natasha De Betak has been filming a Holy man Nagnath Baba since last five years who has been on a hunger strike to save the sacred river Ganga. Year after year, his body crumbles. He is haunted by both dreams and nightmares. His sacred existence takes surreal shape. Life continues to flow around his body; temple, prayers, rituals… Then one day his hunger strike reaches climax and he dies. Expressionism and poetry meet to create a sublime journey of an unusual soul.