FATHER FIGURE

Bibi Fadlalla

Netherlands / 2019, 25 min

What does it mean to be young, black and gay in today’s world? Guilliano is the founding father of The Kiki House of Angels, a vogue dance community in Rotterdam. Most of its members are young black gay men who experience racism and marginalization in everyday life. This filmic, poetic collage expresses their personal stories by combining verité scenes with vogue dance sequences, graphic interludes and intimate interviews.

QUEBRAMAR (BREAKWATER)

Cris Lyra

Brazil / 2019, 25 min

A group of young lesbians from São Paulo go on a trip to a remote beach. While they wait for New Year's Eve, they build a safe and pleasant environment through music and friendship. They take care of themselves, they own their bodies and their memories and they feel free.

XIAO XIAN

Jiajie Yu Yan

Spain / 2019, 17 min

Xiao Xian is in charge of finishing a dress. Her mother has decided that she is going to take care of it that night, and she obeys, as usual. Sheng Xia, her best friend, shows up at her house to convince her to go partying. Xiao Xian accepts, but she cannot imagine what will end up happening that night.

THE UNINHABITABLE ONES

Anderson Bardot

Brazil / 2020, 25 min

A brazilian contemporary dance company is about to debut The Uninhabitable Ones, its newest performance that addresses black homosexuality as its theme.
Running parallel to the rehearsals, the choreographer builds a friendship with Pedro, a black boy who doesn’t identify himself as a boy.

1 Bottle o'wine

Anne Isensee

Germany / 2020, 5 min

Normally, you would drink a bottle of wine with your friends or family. Assuming you drink at all. But during the Corona confinement, nothing is normal. So a young animator drinks the bottle alone by herself and animates a movie.

Recitative

Shir Handelsman

Israel / 2019, 5 min

An opera singer stands on a lifting platform reaching to the sky and sings a Martyr's wish for redemption. His fantasy spectacle creates a counterpoint between human voice and mechanical sounds of other platforms moving in space. The music, taken from one of J.S Bach's cantatas, is the Recitative Movement which describes the ascension of Christ and expresses the desire to become one with God.

MEMBRANE

Max Philipp Schmid

Germany / 2019, 14 min

Has the catastrophe already happened or is it about to? Two men and a woman sit in their bunker-like apartments, as if they were in a waiting room. Overwhelmed by the flood of media information and guidebook words of wisdom, they seek stability in the piano play of the educated middle-class and Far-eastern self-optimization techniques. Their passive bewilderment turns into frenzied activism. Now something has to happen! But nothing does.

ALL INCLUSIVE

Corina Schwingruber Ilić

Switzerland / 2018, 10 min

Under the spell of mass entertainment at high sea.

ALONE

Siyeon Kim

South Korea / 2019, 3 min

A city seems to be packed with particles of dust, an ethereal hallucination in a virtual world. Departing from the boundless universe of data, we set foot on one of the narrow streets of Seoul. It feels even smaller than a dot.

Postcards from the end of the World

Konstantinos Antonopoulos

Greece / 2019, 23 min

Trapped in a seemingly dull family vacation, Dimitra, Dimitris and their two daughters will have to find a way out of a secluded island in the Mediterranean, when confronted with the unexpected end of the world.

ISOLATIONSHIP

Sarah May Handler

Austria / 2020, 4 min

A young woman retires from the world. Solitude allows her to completely unwind. By withdrawing socially she experiences serenity - in contrast to her loved ones...

MATERNITÉ

Natali Ilchuk

Ukraine, France / 2019, 17 min

A film about the fatigue of a mother of two kids who lives constantly in a state of physical and emotional exhaustion.

CIRCULATION

Oleksiy Radynski

Ukraine / 2020, 11 min

Three-years-long observation of Kyiv's moving landscape, condensed into 10 minutes of screen time.

SAVE ME, DOCTOR!

Dmytro Hreshko

Ukraine / 2019, 19 min

SAVE ME, DOCTOR! tells a story of an ambulance crew that works in Kyiv during on New Year's Eve. The film revolves around three main characters — a doctor, a paramedic and a driver, as well as their patients, whom they encounter during the work shift.

UNTIL IT TURNS BLACK

Anastasiia Falileieva

Ukraine / 2019, 7 min

When the truth hurts and nothing can be changed, it seems like escape to the world of dreams is the only way out. Fantasy could relieve the pain, but is that a magic pill?

THE CARPET

Natasha Kyselova

Ukraine / 2019, 20 min

Tolik is a teenager, who lives with his mother in a front line village. Each day she askes him to clean on the carpet, but Tolik doesn't care: he and his friends have a buiseness — they sale a fish. Besides, he fals in love with a young woman and helps her with a baby. There through all of the vital difficulties, nobody notices how the war comes...

DOCKING

Trevor Anderson

USA / 2019, 4 min

Trevor reflects on his fear of dating.

FINDING URANUS

Ivan Li

Canada / 2019,7 min

A coming of age sci-fi animation about things that are lost and found.

COLDSORE

Caitlin McCarthy

UK / 2019, 2 min

♡ one girl's quest for a viral infection ♡

THE PLUNGE

Simon Ryninks

UK / 2019, 10 min

After a night of passion Emily tells Jay that she’d like to use a strap-on. Scared of losing a girl he has a connection with, Jay reluctantly agrees.

SEXY SWEDISH ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM SPACE: XXX

Jack Henry Robbins

US / 2019, 11 min

Smith Smitherton's Conscious Cinema introduces a new film, SEXY SWEDISH ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM SPACE: XXX.

FUCK YOU

Anette Sidor

Sweden / 2018, 15 min

Alice is together with Johannes but she doesn't have enough space to be herself. On a night out with friends, she steals a strap-on and challenges her boyfriend's thoughts about girls.

I LOVE LOTUS

Patricia Ramos Hernández

Cuba / 2019, 18 min

Leo is young and inexperienced. He works as a security guard of a condom store. During his night shift, he will meet several characters and fall in love with Indira. A story of love and initiation in a forgotten corner of Havana.

SEXUAL INTERCOURSE

Marie Luise Lehner

Austia / 2019, 21 min

Anton gets confused when he visits Thea at home the first time. They recently had great sex. But now it seems weird that Paula is also hanging out half naked at the apartment and that she knows all about that night with Thea. What does she mean with "Geh Vau", he asks. "Fucking," answers Paula. When he´s ready to head out for a concert of the feminist punk band Schapka! Thea would prefer to stay at home with the handsome young man.

AUTOS FANTASTICOS

Barney Elliott

Peru / 2019, 8 min

When a father accompanies his son to a used car lot and insists on buying a reliable automobile, he is telepathically seduced by a Rosa — a pink limousine — to buy it instead. It turns out that Rosa is not the only car on the lot that has got a mind of its own...

MARCY LEARNS SOMETHING NEW

Julia Kennelly

USA / 2019, 16 min

Feeling run down by the usual cycle of self-improvement programs, a widow tries going to a dominatrix workshop. Inspired by success in the class, she meets a younger man online and embarks on a first dominant experience with him.

ELECTRIC SWAN

Konstantina Kotzamani

France, Greece / 2019, 39 min

Buildings are not supposed to move. But on Avenida Libertador 2050 , a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they'll fall - the ones who live beneath are afraid they'll drown.

ЮНАК [JUˈNɅK]

Georgi Stamenov

Bulgaria / 2019, 8 min

Юнак без рана не може.
А brave fellow is bound to have wounds.

STAY AWAKE, BE READY

Pham Thien An

Vietnam / 2019, 14 min

A motorbike crash happening before the street stalls on a street corner was embedded in the mysterious story of three young men.

HUNTSVILLE STATION

Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone

USA / 2020, 13 min

Every weekday, dozens of inmates are released on parole from Huntsville State Penitentiary, the largest prison release centre in Texas. With a bus ticket voucher and a $100 release cheque, most of them take in their first moments out of prison with phone calls, cigarettes and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. In this pivotal moment between incarceration and freedom, a myriad of complicated emotions arise before the bus arrives to take them home. A tender observation.

SUPPORTER

Sergey Nayda

Ukraine / 2019, 7 min

By delivering cultural values from other dimension the courier-soldier finds himself in Ukrainian reality.

SURROGATE

Stas Santimov

Ukraine / 2020, 6 min

A man destroys the nest of an unknown creepy creature. But it's not the most horrible creature he will meet tonight.

TILIA

Tetiana Usova

Ukraine / 2020, 18 min

Can we trust our memory? When almost all the photos are long lost, only the tilia blossom keeps the memories of your close one.

KACHALKA

Gar O’Rourke

Ireland, Ukraine / 2019, 9 min

(OUT OF COMPETITION)

A cinematic portrait of Kyiv’s Soviet scrap metal ‘Kachalka' gym — the world's most hardcore gym.

METAWORK

Vasyl Lyah

Ukraine / 2019, 25 min

Ihor works from home in a taxi answering service. He seems to be imprisoned in his room in a depressing apartment block opposite the pompous Orthodox cathedral. To escape the hopelessness, Ihor tries to interpret his precarious daily life as creatively as possible. Growing sunflowers on his balcony and creating rotoscoping animation on an out-of-date black&white printer become important rituals of resistance.

CIRQUE

Max Ksjonda

Ukraine / 2019, 11 min

9-year-old Svetka, a curious schoolgirl, is on the way to the local circus with her mother. She notices things that adults do not pay attention to whatsoever. Overwhelmed by her observations, Svetka loses her interest in the circus itself, while her mother enjoys it like a child.

BÉTON AMER

Chloé Simonin, Margot Lançon

Switzerland, Greece / 2019, 16 min

At dawn, a group of friends meet on the rooftop of a school in Athens. It's their ritual. As it overlooks the city, this place is symbolic and it will be theirs until the next morning.
The film tells the story of a group of teenagers wandering on the peripheries. They will cross a place kept under surveillance: Hellinikon. For six decades, Hellinikon was the only airport in Athens and it also hosted the Olympic Games infrastructure. Since then, weeds have invaded the ruins of sports facilities. As if sedimented, all the marks of its past are still inscribed in Hellinikon. Before the site is razed and transformed, before its memory disappears, the youths decide to get in it.

CONCRETE FORMS OF RESISTANCE

Nick Jordan

Lebanon, UK / 2019, 27 min

Filmed in Tripoli, Lebanon, Concrete Forms of Resistance is a documentary centred upon the city’s abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. The film presents layered themes of progress and crisis, material and memory, contrasting the Utopian vision of the original plans with the realities of religious conflict, regional instability and rising inequalities.

A PASSAGE

Felix Kalmenson, Rouzbeh Akhbari

Armenia / 2019, 17 min

‘A Passage’ is a film which tackles the political economy and social ecology of border infrastructures in Southern Armenia. By focusing on two significant events that illustrate the dominant political shifts in the region, ‘A Passage’ looks at how processes of rapid militarization and neoliberalization have restructured these borders. These two events include the recent erasure of the historic Yerevan-Baku Railway; and the upcoming construction of an industrial Free Economic Zone (FEZ) planned precisely where the removed train infrastructure was housed. The film stitches together various contested sites of the region including Meghri’s abandoned airport, a functioning Soviet-era Copper and Molybdenum mine, a 16th century church the abandoned Karchivan and Meghri train stations and an abandoned rail tunnel that bridges the geopolitical boundary of Nakhchivan and Armenia.

WE WAITED UNTIL NIGHTFALL

Wendy V. Muñiz, Guillermo Zouain

Dominican Republic / 2019, 18 min

We waited until nightfall revisits repurposed cinemas through hunting images and sounds that trace the practices of belonging still embodied in the theaters’ remains.

CONCRETE AND UNCLEAR

Lera Malchenko, Oleksandr Hants

Ukraine / 2019, 31 min

In the center of city Dnipro, Ukraine, during the 50 years abandoned hotel ‘PARUS’ (SAIL) is existing. It had to become the symbol of the grandiosity of Dnipropetrovsk as the homeland of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. However, it has never been opened — the construction stopped on the eve of collapse of the Soviet Union.

From the 2000 the PARUS is being depicted like a finished building on calendars, in memes, in art-projects and visualizations. For a lot of people in Dnipro it is already the symbol of the city, although it is unfinished.

TRADITION

Soso Bliadze

Germany, Georgia / 2019, 22 min

Two German tourists, Christian(32) and Daniel(35) are visiting Georgia as a tourists. They are searching for a food in a village and suddenly they are invited on a Georgian wedding. Their real adventures starts here.

THE BITE

Pedro Neves Marques

Portugal / 2019, 26 min

Between a house in the Atlantic forest and a genetically-modified mosquito factory near São Paulo, a polyamorous, non-binary relationship struggles to survive an epidemic spreading across Brazil.

MATRIOCHKAS

Bérangère McNeese

Belgium / 2019, 24 min

Anna is 16, lives with her young mother. It's the end of a summer defined by her mom's flings and conquests, but during which Anna begins to discover her own sexuality. As Anna learns she's pregnant, she finds support where she least expects it.

ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK

Lasse Linder

Switzerland / 2019, 18 min

He calls himself „Catman“. Christian lives with his two cats Marmelade and Katjuscha. They are inseparable. As he is yearning to become a father, he decides to fertilize his beloved cat Marmelade by an exquisite tomcat from abroad. “All Cats Are Grey In The Dark” is a melodrama that portrays an unconventional relationship between animal and human.

KIDS

Michael Frei

Switzerland / 2019, 9 min

An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal?

EAU VIVE

Lucia Martinez Garcia

Switzerland / 2019, 16 min

Between parties and swimming in the river, Lou gives up over the summer and sails in her reconfigured environment. At the slightest moments of comfort, the weariness of a territory that has become too familiar is superimposed on it. Melancholic, she thinks of another place she'd like to go.

STILL WORKING

Julietta Korbel

Switzerland / 2019, 17 min

In an abandoned factory destined to be demolished, Pavel’s routine, the guardian, is disturbed by the arrival of a young engineer who discovers an unusual electric activity, a running turbine. Pavel will be faced with the imminent disappearance of the factory and with the end of his universe…

RED ANTS BITE

Elene Naveriani

Switzerland / 2019, 23 min

Obinna and Afame are two Nigerians stranded in Tbilisi. Their journey through the city will reveal the complexity of their emotional and social ties in a country that wants them to disappear.

HORIZON

Anya Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka

Switzerland / 2019, 7 min

An unremarkable random 70’s newsreel from the artists’ hometown in the soviet Siberia forms the substrate for a relentless exploration of the representational and narratological technics: without ever collapsing into a ‘story’ or abstraction, horizōn recants the relationship between analog and digital, surface and reference, sense and experience, past and present.

HOW TO DISAPPEAR

Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf

Austria / 2020, 21 min

Is it possible to desert in a shooter game? Along this question, "How to Disappear" reflects on war and game, discipline and disobedience. For the history of defiance is as old as the history of war - and yet the act of desertion goes beyond the game's space of action.

YANDERE

William Laboury

France / 2019, 21 min

Maïko is Tommy’s tiny holographic girlfriend. Her love for him knows no bounds. But when Tommy breaks up with her for another girl, a real one, Maïko experiences an intense new feeling and discovers the taste of her tears. Those tears will transform her flesh and give her a taste for blood…

KASITERIT

Riar Rizaldi

Indonesia / 2019, 18 min

Natasha, a solar-powered A.I. voice machine, traces its genealogy and the truth of its origin. This investigation leads Natasha to meet its ancestor: the inorganic tin extracted from Bangka Island.

ON A MOUNTAIN

Pier-Luc Latulippe

Canada / 2019, 12 min

Returning from a party, as the day dawns, two young men cross a rich neighborhood, discussing its architecture with its facades without imperfections and their own desires.

SH_T HAPPENS

Michaela Mihalyi, David Štumpf

Czech Republic / 2019, 13 min

An apartment building full of self-centred inhabitants: an utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife, a widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol... While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard-to-resolve triangle, seeking absurd and…

ELI

Nate Milton

USA / 2019, 11 min

A true story from the realms of high strangeness, magical thinking, and manic delusion.

AND THEN THE BEAR

Agnès Patron

France / 2019, 14 min

That very night, houses will burn. Men and women will tremble. Hordes of children will come together and howl as they dance alone on the ashes like wild bears. It only takes one shout to wake them all from their slumber!

STORY

Jolanta Bankowska

Poland / 2019, 4 min

Story' is a reflection about modern man in the age of omnipresent technology. Looking through stories - a popular function in many social media platforms - we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them. Action takes place during one day and it's told by short, often (auto)ironic scenes, where virtual world sinks to reality.

ANIMALS

Tue Sanggaard

Denmark / 2019, 6 min

Losing all sense of rationality, they go wild in order to ensure their own survival.

APFELMUS

Alexander Gratzer

Austria / 2019, 7 min

While two uniformed guards divulge themselves as spineless beings, animals carry on philosophical dialogues about important existential issues. At the same time the solution to one of the most essential problems is apparent: you just have to wash, peel, cut, and mash it. The apple.

WOOD CHILD AND HIDDEN FOREST MOTHER

Stephen Irwin

UK / 2019, 9 min

Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill. In a deceptively colourful and childish graphic style, Irwin evokes a bleak universe. A forest provides the backdrop for a surreal rite of passage: the male hunter becomes female, and he sacrifices his own body as food for the forest children.

CHICKEN OF THE DEAD

Julien David

France / 2019, 10 min

Bernard Lepique is the head of Quasi, a firm specializing in manufacturing chickens that are half-organic, half-antibiotic. During the launch of his new chicken range, nothing goes as planned.

THE LONELY ORBIT

Benjamin Morard, Frederic Siegel

Switzerland / 2019, 10 min

Leaving for his dream job, a satellite technician keeps solitude at bay by constantly texting with his old friends. After neglecting his duties a satellite leaves its orbit which causes the worlds network to collapse.

BLIND VAYSHA

Theodore Ushev

Canada / 2016, 8 min

The tale of a girl who could see the past and the future simultaneously and respectively with each eye, but never the present.

TOWER BAWHER

Theodore Ushev

Canada / 2006, 3 min

A salute to Russian constructivist art.

TZARITZA

Theodore Ushev

Canada / 2007, 7 min

This animated short by Theodore Ushev combines warmth, humour and magic in a story about a young girl who misses her grandmother. When Lili finds a tzaritza (magic shell) along the seashore, she hatches a plan to bring her Grandma from Bulgaria to Montreal to make her father happy.

GLORIA VICTORIA

Theodore Ushev

Canada / 2013, 7 min

Recycling elements of surrealism and cubism, this animated short by Theodore Ushev focuses on the relationship between art and war. Propelled by the exalting "invasion" theme from Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony (No. 7), the film presents imagery of combat fronts and massacres, leading us from Dresden to Guernica, from the Spanish Civil War to Star Wars. It is at once a symphony that serves the war machine, that stirs the masses, and art that mourns the dead, voices its outrage and calls for peace.

BLOOD MANIFESTO

Theodore Ushev

Canada / 2016, 2 min

Director Theodore Ushev uses his own blood to animate struggles with injustice in the world.

LIPSETT DIARIES

Theodore Ushev

Canada / 2010, 14 min

A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49.

THE PHYSICS OF SORROW

Theodore Ushev

Canada / 2019, 27 min

A saga of childhood reveries and adult regrets that is also the first-ever fully animated film using encaustic painting.

MICHAEL S., RE-COLLECTED

Steven Swirko

Austria / 2019, 3 min

Michael Schneider is a passionate cinéaste. No love in his life has been as enduring as his love for the movies. Ever since he was a teenager he has been collecting Super 8mm versions of films of all sorts: features, commercial, old newsreels - he’s got it all. While his private life fell victim to his passion, his collection is growing bigger and bigger every day. Now, for the first time, Michael has to ask himself, if the choices he made will keep him happy.

DARKROOM

Billy Roisz

Austria / 2013, 13 min

Glimpses of the lit interiors of a cinema, rural construction and a residential building flash in a black space, and create a desolate world of borders where the inner and the outer meet.

CINEMA CRISTAL

Mariles Pöschl, Farnaz Jurabchian

Austria, Iran / 2013, 14 min

Laleh Zar — a street located in the city centre of Tehran, formerly home to many cinemas, and often seen as a symbol for the modernisation of Iran — is today characterised by a multitude of luminous elements, which are offered for sale alongside the street. The flow of images through light — cinema — seems to have broken apart into a variety of different light sources after the changes that the Iranian revolution has brought about.

WE WAITED UNTIL NIGHTFALL

Wendy V. Muñiz, Guillermo Zouain

Dominican Republic / 2019, 18 min

We waited until nightfall revisits repurposed cinemas through hunting images and sounds that trace the practices of belonging still embodied in the theaters’ remains.

SAMEDI CINEMA

Mamadou Dia

Senegal / 2016, 12 min

In a small town in the north of Senegal two young avid cinephiles, Baba and Sembene, are desperate to see a movie on the big screen of their local cinema before it closes its door forever.

A PROPOSAL TO PROJECT IN SCOPE

Viktoria Schmid

Austria, Lithuania / 2020, 8 min

A self-built screen amid an expansive green landscape. On it dance silhouettes of the surrounding trees and bushes. A natural cinema – without a darkened cinema hall, without artificial light and without film. From various camera positions, Viktoria Schmid portrays her screen, installed in the sculpture park of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, as a moving image within a moving image.