Lacan Palestine
Mike Hoolboom
Canada
2012 | 1:10:00

La fondation de l'état palestinien a une histoire longue et difficile, caracterisée par un combat continuel pour le droit d'exister. Cet essai cinématographique, entièrement composé de found-footage matériel, esquisse l'histoire d'un pays sans territoire et ses relations douloureuses avec son voisin Israel. Des scènes épiques issues des reportages, iconic news footage des moments historiques, la carte toujours changeante d'Israel, art vidéo de Velcrow Ripper, Elle Flanders et Dani Leventhal, mais aussi des enregistrements personnels de la survie au quotidien sont combinés avec les réflections psychoanalytiques du cinéaste Mike Cartmell, basées sur sa douloureuse histoire personnelle. En tant qu'enfant adopté il s'étonne comment on peut devenir quelqu'un et comment une société peut émerger des individus ; il compare le fonctionnement d'une société complexe avec celui d'une formation de jazz de John Coltrane dans laquelle cinq super-egos parviennent à atteindre l'harmonie. Dans la vue sur la Palestine de Mike Hoolboom, l'amour et la violence existe côte à côte, tout naturellement.

The Child of the Sun
Anacbanua
Christopher Gozum
Philippines
2009 | 1:44:00

A middle class and Western-educated poet (Umaanlong) returns to the Pangasinan region, the land of his birth and his ancestors from which he was uprooted for a very long time. He is sick with a lingering physical, mental and spiritual illness. He meets the Musia (Muse) who takes care of him during his illness. The Musia performs a series of rituals that identifies the cause of the Umaanlong’s disease and appeases the ancestral and nature spirits inhabiting sacred spaces in Pangasinan’s physical landscape. While in half-sleep, the Umaanlong’s soul leaves his diseased body. The soul flight transports the Umaanlong to places and time zones in Pangasinan’s landscape and history where he undergoes cosmic immersion, a deep and intense spiritual experience for chosen people like him where the self gets absorbed in the universe.

Smothered
Gesmoored
Mieke Daneels
Belgique
2011 | 1:13:00

In Gesmoord (Smothered), a traumatised young mother of three drives away with her kids without any real destination in mind. She creates a new world for herself and her children. They spend days playing games and hanging out. It’s their world, where the youngest son can wear pretty dresses without giving it a second thought, eat waffles for dinner, brush their teeth in the pool, swim with clothes on, see dinosaurs everywhere, all far from the ‘dangerous outside world’. But although she lost her lover, she wants the sun back in her garden, even when the flowers are dead. She lets him go and embraces their love in her heart so she can live again.
This low-budget production stars the director, her partner and their three children.

Deserteur glorieux
Glorios Deserter
Gabriele Neudecker
Autriche
2012 | 1:20:00

Retour sur l'histoire des personnages, qui ne voulent pas faire la guerre pendant le 2e Guerre mondiale en Autriche paysane.