The film contains scenes of abuse and sexual assault.

MOTORCYCLIST'S HAPPINESS WON'T FIT INTO HIS SUIT | AL MOTOCICLISTA NO LE CABE LA FELICIDAD EN EL TRAJE

Gabriel Herrera

Mexico | 2021, 10 min

There he sits proudly on his beautiful motorbike which he would never loan to anyone. He is certain that he alone can explore the jungle. A playful re-enactment with reversed roles that takes aim at the hubris of the colonial conquerors.

MAALBEEK

Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

France | 2020, 16 min

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.

MOON | LUNE

Zoé Pelchat

Canada | 2020, 16 min

Babz Dubreuil, a lonely but endearing ex-convict, works as a cook in a suburban brunch restaurant. Despite her civilized conduct, she struggles to regain her place in society. Under the encouragement of an outrageous colleague, she finds the courage to ask an attractive customer to go on a date with her. It might be the beginning of redemption.

BEST POSSIBLE LIFE | MAAILMAN ONNELLISIN KANSA

Ville Hakonen, Jussi Sandhu

Finland | 2020, 13 min

The United Nations has selected Finland as the happiest country in the world twice in a row. Finns are still very skeptical about this recognition – we tend to see ourselves as melancholic, pessimistic and dreary. Is this really the best possible life? This poetic documentary plows deep into the nation’s soul and visits places where these Nordic people can be found at their happiest.

ORDERS

Aleix Pitarch

Spain | 2020, 30 min

April 2004. It's Friday, peak time. Somewhere in America, a phone rings. A voice on the other side of the line speaks: someone has reported a theft.

GLORY TO MSTYSLAV

Maryna Nikolcheva, Maksym Vasyanovych

Ukraine / 2020, 28 min

Mstyslav was a street musician. He reckoned Christ was a gay and considered a friendship between a man and a woman impossible. This film is a last memory of him, the evidence of his courage, dignity and deep vulnerability.

RUINS IN REVERSE

Olena Newkryta

Ukraine / 2020, 25 min

Shot in the steppe-like landscape of southern Ukraine, the short film follows the transformation process of a vacant Soviet residential building. Built according to a standardized Soviet master plan, its layout is slowly being dismantled by individuals, who create new architectures from the extracted modules. Thus, the traces of private biographies and vestiges of past ideologies inscribed into the physical remnants, continue to circulate in the community and find their ways into new constructions.
Ruins in Reverse addresses this process of appropriation and utilization as a form of material engagement with the past as well as an act of self-empowerment. Considering on the one hand, the Soviet infrastructures and belief systems which continue to affect the everyday life; on the other hand, the massive political upheavals and privatization processes at the beginning of the 90s, the film raises questions on how individuals as well as communities deal with such asynchronicities, how they navigate between the socialist and capitalist ruins and which forms of reflection and interaction emerge.

SIMILAR IMAGE

Lera Malchenko, Oleksandr Hants (fantastic little splash)

Ukraine / 2020, 9 min

On the beach or in the forest, when you close your eyes, you hear the sound of water, wind, rustle leaves, insects. You can still hear the motorboat, ringtone, highway, drone buzzing, plant. When you just listen, the sounds mix; gently comes that all this nature is not the first or the second, it is the canvas, including you. But as soon as you open your eyes, you notice order everywhere. Human ordered the world more and more rapidly, until he found himself in the forest — unpredictable and magical * • It seems if you go deeper, you will have to expose yourself to danger and disappear * it also seems that this disappearance is not about absence, but about another form of presence.: *

SENSITIVE MATERIAL

Nataliya Ilchuk

Ukraine | 2021, 26 min

The film's starting point is a collection of randomly filmed instants of happiness and an accidentally captured audio recording. In a painful conversation, fifty-year-old Lilia speaks of her mental trauma as a result of her parents' constant disputes during her childhood, while her mother justifies the lack of love by the strict frames of a totalitarian society.

GOD'S DAUGHTER DANCES | 신의 딸은 춤을 춘다

Byun Sungbin

South Korea | 2020, 25 min

A transgender female dancer, Shin-mi, gets a call from the Military Manpower Administration, to attend for the Military Service Examination. Shin-mi, with everything in readiness, takes her steps to the Military Manpower Administration.

MY OWN LANDSCAPES

Antoine Chapon

France | 2020, 19 min

Before going to war, a former military game designer made video game scenarios that prepared soldiers for cultural shocks, and that healed trauma. Once back from war, his relationship with his identity, with life, and with the video game, changed.

EYES AND HORNS | 아이즈앤혼즈

Im Chaerin

South Korea, Germany | 2021, 6 min

The exploration of masculinity begins with the Minotaur, a mythical creature the artist Picasso used to portray himself in his etching print series. The Minotaur goes through a violent struggle between being male and female. Finally, the lines blur, and the boundaries of sexes disappear.

THE KILLING OF ČÁHCERÁVGA

Miracle Workers Collective

Finland | 2020, 29 min

Miracle Workers Collective’s film work The Killing of Čáhcerávga (2020) is a collision of five different short films that, together, tell a disjointed, communal narrative. Employing a call-and-response strategy, the film expresses a politicised dialogue around indigeneity, movement, and migration in contemporary Europe. The collective share an interest in exploring the potentiality in disciplinary disobedience. Travelling through dreamscapes, lonely snowy plains, absurdist capitalist underwaters, greenhouse gardens, and desert landscapes, the film stretches into a practice of impossible spatial rules, strange dialogue practices, and inconclusive, unresolved scenic endings.

HOMO DEUS. DIVINE HUMAN

Julia Deglina

Ukraine | 2021, 19 min

After rave Nazar and Ulya climb on the roof to have sex, and notice a guy about to jump down. They save guy who is under psychotropic drug. Ulya insists on not leaving guy in such a state, Nazar is forced to agree. They spend the day caring for the guy. What supposed to be one-time sex and suicide turn into friendship…

SOON AFTER MIDNIGHT

Dmytro Koval

Ukraine | 2021, 29 min

A young guy from the generation of dreamers tries to escape from obsessive thoughts and goes for a walk along the deserted streets of small fictional town. Strange things happen to him while walking and the reality of what is happening starts to give in to doubt more and more. Where is this journey leading him? To what depths of the city and himself is the main character ready to descend?

SAD PORTRAITS

Vitalii Kikot

Ukraine | 2021, 30 min

Love triangle between a cashier and two security guards of a small supermarket in a provincial town.

THE MOON

Tomek Popakul

Poland | 2020, 12 min

On the one hand, it’s the apocalypse, and on the other, it feels like any other day. Something bizarre is throbbing on an invisible layer.

THE NIPPLE WHISPERER

Jan van Dyck

Belgium | 2021, 15 min

Maurice Sanders has a gift. He’s a nipple whisperer. Once he was known as “Magic Sandy”. But that was years ago, before Doris, a famous model and Sander’s muse, fell ill. Now, after more than a decade, Doris wants to meet Maurice again.

THE CRIMINALS

Serhat Karaaslan

France, Romania, Turkey | 2021, 24 min

Late at night in a small Turkish town, a young couple tries to find a hotel room to spend the night together.

WILD MINDS

Hannah Elbke

Denmark | 2021, 30 min

15-year-old Daniel does not feel at ease among his peers, even though he tries to fit in, he dreams of a new beginning with his father in the city. Daniel's mother, Bella, works at his school, and is the exact opposite of Daniel, she takes up space, has a loud laugh, and is more intense than most, for better or worse. When Daniel tells his mother that he wants to move, it takes a toll on her and he has to take care of her once more. An incident in which Bella's atypical nature is tested and puts things in perspective. Perhaps vulnerability is also a strength.