O FUMO DO FOGO Portugal, Ukraine, Belgium, Hungary | 2023 | 22 min How to find the words to describe war, remoteness, or fear in a language other than yours? Through classes of Portuguese and pages of an old abecedary, the film director is trying to translate the complex and painful feelings derived from uprooting […]
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SONNENHOF
Switzerland, Netherlands | 2023 | 23 min Tatjana, the filmmaker, leaves to study abroad and her parents, Dijana and Andreas, find themselves all alone in their large house. Below the surface of a well-to-do, quiet life immersed in the placid Swiss landscape, we perceive the mother’s anxiety and subtle melancholy. The emptiness left by her […]
WILD FLOWERS
DIVLJE CVIJEĆE Croatia, Spain | 2023 | 11 min The cursor moves about a digital map, getting far from the coast to cross an apparently endless sea of an artificial blue. The mouse is feverishly looking for a landing place; its anxious movements evoke the uncertainty of a sudden escape, the displacement of exile. Thirty […]
BLUE
FREE ENTRY Cuba, Belgium | 2023 | 17 min Signs, shapes, writings, abstract and figurative images alternate in this variation on blue directed by Violena Ampudia. The film director welcomed women who have experienced post-partum depression in a cyanotype laboratory. She asked them to transfer hidden desires, forbidden thoughts, and profound fears on the printed […]
