Films
- Before I Die / Antes De Mi Muerte, 14
In a small island of Lake Victoria, Kenya, fishermen believe that they are entitled to everything. Meanwhile, women and girls are forced to carry the weight of their silence. In a close journey through her childhood memories, a young woman decides to tell her story to lighten her burden and find hope...
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- Love Story / Opowieść o miłości, 39
The love story of a Jewish girl and a Pole during the World War II. Romantic moments, the hell of war and chilling events. Bogdan Jastrzębski – Righteous Among the Nations, returns to the times of the War, when he fell in love with the only one, the Jewish girl – Krystyna Geisler, for his whole life. First dates, shy kisses, the drama of the Jews in the Częstochowa ghetto and a daring rescue action on the streets of Częstochowa, under the watchful eye of the Germans, which was the only way to save the life of the beloved woman. And then they lived happily ever after. This film is a combination of a classic documentary and a hand-drawn animation. Animation by Łukasz Rusinek.
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- Maalbeek, 16
Survivor but amnesiac of the attack at Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing image of an over-mediatised event of which she has no memory.
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- Weeks of sand, months of ash, years of dust / Semanas de areia, meses de cinza, anos de pó, 20
Through the form of a personal yet distant essay film, “Weeks of sand, months of ash, years of dust” introduces Macao, a former Portuguese colony handed over back to China in 1999. Having partly grown up in Macao, the filmmaker revisits the learned history of this territory from a Portuguese perspective, addressing post-imperial forms of disavowed political affect alongside the progressing dementia of her own mother.
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- Shānzhài Screens, 23
Shenzhen at night, copyist painters recount their daily lives and their craft. Their acts shift alternately between an artistic and blue-collar imagery, from new technology to classical techniques. Here, another history of painting is being drawn.
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