Xale bu Reer

d’Abdou Kharid Ndiaye

Senegal / 2017, 19 min

A young boy from an affluent family has the experience of a lifetime after his first day of school. When his father does not come to pick him up, he simply walks off. He gets lost and wanders without direction through the noise and chaos of a poverty-stricken metropolis. Unexpectedly, the boy receives help from an old scrap metal collector and a gang of street children. A striking portrait of Dakar, with elements of a fairytale.

Ordur de Momar

Talla Kandji

Senegal / 2018, 15 min

The life of a debt collector Kader turns upside down when he loses a bag full of money. The bag belongs to his boss. While looking for the lost possession, he discovers a huge Dakar landfill, Mbeubeuss. In this dramatic and somehow enchanted place, Kader meets Gnilane, a scavenger who tries to recycle the trash.

My Beloved Co-wife

d’Angèle Diabang

Senegal / 2015, 26 min

Two new co-wives are alone in a house. They don’t want to talk to each other; at the same time, the voices of two other women tell us about their own experiences of polygamy. This film is an essay that mixes visual elements of fiction and documentary sound excerpts.

Boxing Girl

Iman Djionne

Senegal / 2016, 25 min

After getting hit by a motorbike, Adama, a bored 17-year-old hairdresser, finds boxing gloves. But when she puts them on, she gets mysteriously carried away on a journey all over the city of Dakar. Mentally and physically put to the test, she will have to fight her demons to face the ultimate fight…

A perfect me, A perfect you

Dina Bukva

UK, Austria / 2018, 5 min

Susie and Lucy are friends since five years. They met each other over Ofelia. Ofelia is fabulous. She is a fashion-lover, influencer and on Instagram Ofelia describes herself as the perfect combination of sexy and cute. Susie and Lucy are really good friends but their friendship is also followed by jealousy and small tragedies. Ofelia is becoming a closer friend to Lucy, Susie wants more Instagram-Likes and the same Gucci pullover that Ofelia has.

Mirage My Bros / Miragem Meus Putos

Diogo Baldaia

Portugal / 2017, 24 min

An elemenary school class without a teacher, a contract signing with a giant football club and a new year's eve party. Three tales tinged with aspiration and the desire to escape express a look into a youth absorbed by the power of dreams and the harshness of reality.

The Animal

Sebastian Kass

Norway / 2018, 25 min

Siri, 15, receives a call from child protection services who have heard that she might be facing problems in her family. A visit is planned at her house on Saturday. Siri has two days to regain control over her life and give the illusion of a healthy and happy family environment.

All These Creatures

Charles Williams

Australia / 2018, 13 min

An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.

Basses

Félix Imbert

France / 2018, 23 min

It is the end of summer, 6pm. Logan is meeting his best friend who is being let out of a psychiatric ward. Theo has been treated there for 2 weeks after an accident. Before Theo’s mum arrives, the two boys run away to the biggest rave party of their lives. Logan thinks that Theo has changed, a truth he can feel but refuses to acknowledge. The two boys continue their escape through the mountains, to a party that remains out of reach.

Brooklyn Breeze

Alex Budovsky

USA / 2017, 4 min

It is a visual journey through different parts of Brooklyn, some of the iconic spots and others not often seen by the visitors, based on a tune recorded by New York based Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra.

Nö!

Christian Kaufmann

Germany / 2018, 5 min

A hiker arrives at a shielded cliff by the rocky whites of a rough coast. Here is where he starts building his new home, but wind and weather keep beating his back and his house over and over. Driven by his stubborn optimism, he takes up the fight against the windy circumstances.

The calves

Bela Bulgakova

Germany / 2019, 11 min

A cow adopts an orphaned baby rhino, and together with her native calf they live a peaceful life. One day a mother cow disappears and the calves go on a trip to find her. One morning an interesting smell brings them to a village, where a human girl picks deliciously looking carrots.

Lainela

Luis Enrique Cortez Castillo

Mexico / 2018, 4 min

Lainela, a city girl have to move like every day in her car to the school, but one day her car breaks down and she needs to use another transport alternative to arrive to her destination. This journey changes the perspective of her surroundings and she is confront in a chaotic world with a lot of social and environmental problems.

Things Don’t Have Rights

Nicolai Troshinsky

United Kingdom / 2018, 5 min

Unlike humans, things don't have rights. By abusing objects in these films we hope to demonstrate the realities of abusing humans.

Turbopera

Antoine Marchand

France / 2018, 2 min

In a fish merchant's store, once night has fallen, two soloists perform, with great emotion, La Traviata by Verdi, offering us a highly stylish choreography.

Coucouleurs / Colorbird

Oana Lacroix

Switzerland / 2018, 6 min

In a large forest where single-coloured birds live, everyone has found his place in a tree that looks like him. But what happens when a bird has two colours?

White Crow / Bijela Vrana

Miran Miosic

Croatia / 2018, 9 min

Little White Crow is not the perfect match in the flock of black crows. On the contrary she is often laughed at and bullied. But when flock environment goes through turbulent changes, little White Crow helps them find a better place to live.

Fire in Cardboard City

Phil Brough

New Zealand / 2017, 9 min

Cardboard City is on Fire! The worst thing that could possibly happen has happened. Only Fire Chief John McCard and his trusty deputies to save the citizens of Cardboard City from annihilation.

A fox drawing a mysterious image. A tiger which is now extinct, pacing around in its cage. Rocks falling to the sound of the pumping bass. A wooden rod that tells the way. Will we dare to jump?

Q&A after the screening

Stick Climbing

Daniel Zimmermann

Austria, Switzerland / 2010, 14 min

A contemplative walk leads to a bizarre climbing tour. From the perspective of the climber we experience a seemingly impossible ascent.

Symphony No. 42

Réka Bucsi

Hungary / 2010, 10 min

Forty-seven brief but vivid vignettes about the paradoxical nature of our world, seamlessly intertwine perplexing scenes of poetical absurdism with the ironic, the grotesque, and the beautiful.

Le Tigre de Tasmanie

Vergine Keaton

France / 2018, 14 min

A Tasmanian tiger wanders around in his zoo enclosure. A glacier is slowly melting. Facing its predicted disappearance, nature exerts its fury, bursts over the frame and resists its extinction by transformation.

Step by Step

Ossama Mohammed

Syria / 1978, 23 min

In a rolling area of Syria, the villagers live their everyday life, in toil and poverty. Trapped between the hardships of farming, religious and political ideologies, they barely survive. Their children are the only ones that are still full of hope. They imagine their future lives and picture themselves as doctors or engineers.

Hopptornet

Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck

Sweden / 2016, 17 min

On a 10-meter high diving tower, fear of taking the jump is pitted against the personal loss that would arise if you didn't dare. What do we look like when we hesitate and when we make a decision? What does it look like when we overcome our fear?

Hiwa

Jacqueline Lentzou

Greece / 2017, 11 min

In Jay’s dream, Athens’ sun is so weak, you can look straight at it, without getting blind.

Release short films! During the Short Rave program, shorts films will move from the conventional cinema halls to Closer, turning the screening into a mini-party where music becomes the star of the picture. No seats, only you and the dance floor: you can dance, sit by the bar or lie directly on the floor. In a nutshell, everything above restraint is permitted!

Q&A after the screening

Take Me Please

Olivér Hegyi

Hungary / 2018, 14 min

In this examination of a breakup of a relationship, a boy tries to come to terms with his new life and subsequent experiences.

Acid Rain

Tomek Popakul

Poland / 2019, 26 min

Somewhere in the Eastern Europe. Young runs away from her depressing hometown. Her early enthusiasm about the hitch-hike falls when she finds herself in the city outskirts in the middle of the night. At the bridge she meets a figure balancing unsafely on the guardrail. That’s how she meets Skinny – a kind of unstable weirdo. Skinny lives in a camping van, which he uses to run his not-so-legal job errands. Together with him, she sets on a journey with no destination. As the ride continues a particular affection grows between the two of them.

Fest

Nikita Diakur

Germany / 2018, 3 min

Puppets on strings rave, eat and fly.

I-Occupy

Lorenzo Lodovichi

Italy / 2018, 3 min

A political manifestation is unfolding. At one point a Molotov is thrown to the cops. It's a clash. Camilla helps a wounded among the protesters, climbs into the ambulance, crosses the security barrier and immediately gets out of the running vehicle to find herself in front of a mysterious palace.

Octanne

Jeron Braxton

USA / 2017, 6 min

A man must race thru hell and back to get what he wants.

Q&A after the screening

Entropia

Flóra Anna Buda

Hungary / 2018, 10 min

Three women, three lives in parallel worlds, until the moment a fly causes a bug in the system. The universe collapses, sex is in the air, bras are overrated and the stars twinkle! In the animated film Entropia by Hungarian artist Flóra Anna Buda, colours explode and sensually unleash new possibilities: Thanks to the fly, all that is abstract comes to life and sexuality plays an integral role.

Mr. Mare

Luca Toth

Hungary, France / 2019, 20 min

Fifty-year-old Boris, balding and big-bellied, is madly in love with the young and beautiful Cezar. He leads a clandestine life entirely devoted to he who is both his progenitor and the object of his affection. Everything shifts dramatically the day when Cezar, who is unaware of Boris's existence, brings a woman back to their love nest.

Adorable

Cheng-Hsu Chung

United Kingdom / 2018, 6 min

A short film that directly gazes at lives and the society with observation and imagination. It is queer and it is here.

Bay of Plenty

Milva Stutz

Switzerland / 2018, 12 min

The tiny island in the ocean becomes a meeting place for two strange yellow figures. They shake their bums and stretch their breasts, sexual characteristics shift, dissolve, re-grow. A continuous transformation that also seems to produce new creatures.

Récit de Soi

Géraldine Charpentier

Belgium / 2018, 5 min

While non-binary representations are rare, Lou talks about their relationship to gender, clothes, and other markers.

Reach the Sky

Shaun Brodie

Canada / 2018, 6 min

On the open road, three queer friends in three queer cars are separated by an unexpected queer fork in the road. Reach the Sky is a stop-motion short with heart, fantasy, and a lot of yarn.

Slug Life

Sophie Koko Gate

United Kingdom / 2018, 6 min

Tanya has finally created the perfect partner, a beautiful giant slug.

Q&A after the screening

It is a competition program of short films telling the stories of ordinary people who were able to change their lives and discover their potential.

Zhenya

Dana Masliuk

Ukraine / 2019, 7 min

There is a lot of people in the world, and someone who is important for you will definitely be by your side," Zhenya says. He is 20 years old, he lives in Kyiv and finds creative relief in writing. Zhenya also has cerebral palsy because of a small mistake made while at childbirth. Zhenya can easily tell what despair is. Besides, he is great at making potato dishes and has a very contagious laugh. Well, he can tell his story by himself.

Star for Anton

Kateryna Strelchenko

Ukraine / 2018, 6 min

Anton Dubishin is a "special" guy, as he calls himself. He has a severe genetic disorder, spinal muscular atrophy, which leaves him no opportunity for a fulfilling life: he cannot move and depends on others completely. His life is a daily, every-minute struggle.
But Anton keeps his tail up, as he wants to do good for society. He constantly proves that disability is not a doom: he collects help and passes it to the militia, visits military hospitals, investigative insulators, drug treatment centers, schools, and cultural centers. He dreams that the attitude towards people with special needs in our country will change. His motto is "No obstacle is invincible." Sometimes, at sleepless nights, he looks to the sky and sees the one and only star. It is special for him because opens new worlds before him, where there is no place for desolation and despair.

New Max’s Heart

Orest Smilyanets

Ukraine / 2019, 3 min

In the summer of 2016, a Ukrainian Maksym Grekov went through a heart transplantation surgery in Minsk. How did his life change? To tell about it, we made a mini-movie.

93

Dmytro Dzhulay

Ukraine / 2019, 8 min

He survived Holodomor famine, World War II, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Eight years ago, he lost his wife with whom he had lived for half a century. He is on his own, but he does not give up.

Bubble Wrap

Nikita Kozlov

Ukraine / 2019, 4 min

The story of a girl bumping into walls

People's Museum of Avdiivka

Piotr Armianovski

Ukraine / 2018, 6 min

There is a People’s museum in Eastern Ukrainian city Avdiivka. Its father is a coal-factory, its brother is an alcoholic. The museum likes fresh air and brings people together. It dreamed to prevent a war over the whole world, but couldn't save even the closest ones. However, people of Avdiivka make museum again – a place where the strangest ideas come to life.

The Reason

Anton Shynkarenko

Ukraine / 2019, 3 min

Paralympic swimmer break through all circumstances on the way to medals.

High on board

Daria Mitiuk

France / 2017, 11 min

Being a bipolar, is it possible to pass the limits posed by the illness and reach your dream?

Where is the lymph?

Oleksander Yevtushenko

Ukraine / 2018, 9 min

The story of a blind 13-year-old boy who fell in love with the heroine of the movie Amelie. His thoughts are constantly about hеr, wherever he is. He constantly sends her letters, but has not yet received a response.

For Those Over 60

Kyrylo Korol

Ukraine / 2019, 11 min

An old man Andriy accepts a challenge on the path to meet his lovely granddaughter again.

Vinishko

Oleh Sydoryaka

Ukraine / 2019, 15 min

The plot is based on the story about a girl, who, having failed in art-projects gets a job in leading law firm. She by all the means tries to fit in new cruel and tough world of business, to achieve a fast success by following advices of quirky development coach. However her illusions of quick success are broken, she faces meanness and guile, and has to choose - to accept her defeat or at last to take responsibility for her own life.

A Strong Beat

Oleksandr Portian

Ukraine / 2018, 14 min

For Julia Landau from Slavutych an organ is a space where she can travel infinitely. To go this route, she is ready to go to music school in Kyiv and rehearse in the church through the whole night before a concert. Thanks to Julia in Slavutych now also is an organ. But not everyone is ready for such music.

Human

Vlad Zinovyev

Ukraine / 2019, 3 min

There is no limitations of human being for moving.

Hurry to live

Timur Gorenich

Ukraine / 2018, 3 min

Hurry to live. Motivational film. The story of a guy who lost his hand and got out of depression, who was able to change his life with the help of willpower and sport. The story of the man who ran the marophones, finished on the hurdles and became a professional coach and a famous athlete, without having his hands.

Through the Darkness

Heorhii Herasymiuk

Ukraine / 2019, 15 min

Oleksandr is a cheerful young father and husband who cares his family. Soon he experiences the eye injury, which forces doctors to conclude that he will get blind without recovery. However, Oleksandr fails to accept the diagnosis and doesn’t give up.

A Dream

Anton Shyrokov

Ukraine / 2019, 11 min

Young woman tries to devote her time for a lifelong passion despite of the problems and everyday routine. The society and personal insecurities demand to choose stability over desires.

Second Life

Andrii Statev

Ukraine / 2019, 4 min

Oleksandr Maisternko is a car painter whose life is miserable. The job with harmful working conditions, addictions, and problems in family surround him every day. Once Oleksandr realizes that such life is his personal choice, he decides to drastically change everything.

Denys Shymanskiy

Anton Vanchak

Ukraine / 2019, 5 min

Denys is a sculptor who tries to do his favorite thing, passing difficult parts of his job and overcoming difficulties. He tells of his way to becoming a sculptor, an attitude to art and reflects on the meaning of life

Q&A after the screening

Plus One / Plus jeden

Myro Klochko

Czech Republic / 2019, 23 min

Happy newlyweds Ida and Jura are expecting a child. Ida suddenly finds out that the child will be special. She is unsure of how Jura will react when he learns the news, or what life with an extraordinary child will bring.

Mia donna

Pavlo Ostrikov

Ukraine / 2018, 16 min

The life of forty-six-year-old Oksana changes when her husband Tolik turns into a seven-year-old boy. Doctors are powerless and nobody can turn him back.

Unavailable

Nikon Romanchenko

Ukraine / 2018, 27 min

Lyuba works at a confectionery factory in a small town in the West. Her son is in the war zone in the East of the country and there is no connection with him. Lyuba goes in search of his son in an unfamiliar territory.

Facade Colour: Blue

Oleksiy Radynski

Ukraine / 2019, 22 min

Florian Yuriev is an architect, artist, luthier, theorist and poet. Approaching his 90th anniversary, he’s compelled to master one more occupation — the one that’s entirely new for him. In order to protect his architectural opus magnum from being absorbed by a nearby shopping mall, Florian joins the fight against mayhem unleashed on the city by the property developers.

17°33′22″ W, Pointe des Almadies, Dakar, Senegal, the westernmost point of Africa. It is here that KISSF begins the journey throughout this magical and yet unknown continent with the retrospective of three prominent Senegalese directors: ‘the father of African cinema’ Ousmane Sembène, one of the winners of the 1st World Black Arts Festival Ababar Samb-Makharam and the holder of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival Joseph Gaï Ramaka.

Q&A after the screening

Borrom Sarret

Ousmane Sembène

Senegal / 1963, 20 min

Often considered to be the first authentic African film, ‘Borom Sarret’ tells the story of an impoverished cart driver working in Dakar. When he does not receive payment for his labor, the cart driver is left feeling disenchanted.

Et la neige n’était plus

Ababar Samb Makharam

Senegal / 1965, 22 min

After winning a scholarship to study in France, a young Senegalese man returns home and questions his experience and his future, with honesty, courage and humor.

Ainsi Soit-il

Joseph Gaï Ramaka

Senegal / 1997, 33 min

A foreign doctor discovers the “heart of darkness” in the Wolof village where he works, when a mentally ill child he befriends becomes the scapegoat for “bad spirits.”

1989 is known as the year that changed the world. Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall collapsed. Thirty years ago, Eastern Europe was shaken by the democratic revolution, which became the point of non-return. "When my neighbors build democracy" are five stories about Revolutions of 1989 and their main participants, who started the deconstruction of the communist system.

Q&A after the screening

The Christmas Gift

Bogdan Muresanu

Romania / 2018, 23 min

On 20th of December, 1989, a few days after Ceausescu's bloody repression in Timisoara, a father’s quiet evening turns to sheer ordeal as he finds out that his little son has mailed a wish letter to Santa. As the kid understood, his father’s desire was to see Ceausescu dead.

From Solidarity to Freedom

Krystyna Mokrosińska

Poland / 37 min

Based on archival materials, the history of Poland's path to freedom, from Yalta to "Solidarity", the fall of communism, and joining the EU.

Babovka

Demet Derelioglu Aran

Czech Republic / 2018, 8 min

Eva struggles to communicate her son but he becomes more distant day by day. One day she goes to his room when he left, and she realizes that her son is the one of the demonstrators against communism. Through behavior changes on her son, on an autumn day Eva learns that the communist regime has fallen, and the velvet revolution has just begun in Czechoslovakia

Stremt 89

Anda Puscas

Romania / 2012, 13 min

The road through Stremt ends in a mountain wall. Still, in 1989, people were eagerly awaiting army tanks, terrorists and glory. Today, partly forgotten and partly imagined, the past is crystal clear.

Freedom

Mircea Bobina

Moldova / 2018, 4 min

People are unhappy with their leaders and want to break free. When a change is made, they are supposed to get back their freedom: but somehow, they don’t.

Flatworld

Daniel Greaves

UK / 1997, 28 min

Matt Phlatt, along with his pet cat Geoff and his fish, Chips live in a world where everyone is "flat".

Ponpon

Fabien Drouet

France / 1999, 5 min

A dog rushes out of a house. He crosses the road in front of a truck. Helpless and about to be knocked over, Ponpon sees his life pass before his eyes.

The Tram No. 9 Goes On

Stepan Koval

Ukraine / 2002, 11 min

A morning tram over-occupied with passengers, but more and more people are trying to get in there.

Milk

Igor Kovalyov

USA / 2005, 15 min

Milk is a short film about a boy discovering his father’s affair. The story is told from the boy’s perspective and it unfolds in a dark and disturbing manner and brings out the child’s depressing childhood experience.

Over Time

Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, Damien Ferrie

France / 2004, 5 min

A lone, spotlighted puppet raises a trumpet to his lips, playing a klezmer-like solo. A man has died. But the trumpeter and his friends don't realize that their creator has passed away.

The Traveller

Johan Pollefoort

Belgium / 2007, 6 min

The traveller cries: "Woe betide those who are happy with their lot".

Feral

Daniel Sousa

USA / 2012, 13 min

A wild child, raised by wolves, is forced to reconnect with humanity and conform to a society he can barely comprehend.

Women’s Letters

Augusto Zanovello

France / 2013, 11 min

On the battle fields of the First World War, the nurse Simon patches up the shattered faces of the infantrymen with love letters. These words from beloved women have the power to heal the wounds of these paper soldiers.

Late Season

Daniela Leitner

Austria / 2017, 7 min

A long-married couple seem to have lost their affections for one another. One day at the beach, after falling asleep, something incredible happens with them — something that re-kindles their long lost romantic feelings.

Cyclists

Veljko Popovic

Croatia / 2018, 7 min

The cycling season is nearing its grand finale. During the final race, the two men in the lead are competing for more than the Grand Trophy; they are fi ghting for the affection of a lady and fulfilment of their erotic fantasies. Meanwhile, the small port town prepares for the arrival of a large ocean liner and its dashing captain.

Merlot

Marta Gennari, Giulia Martinelli

Italy / 2016, 6 min

In a blue fairy-tale forest, a grumpy granny loses a bottle of wine. This event will give rise to a crescendo of linked events.

Is it your dream to get the long-cherished "accepted" from the program department of a film festival? Or maybe your life goal is to organize your own festival? Here is your chance. Representatives of four film festivals will happily tell about ins and outs of their work and give you a glimpse behind the scenes of the world of film industry.

Grab your notebook and meet our speakers:

* Doris Bauer - executive director of VIS Vienna Shorts
* Curtis Voloschuk - Program Officer, Vancouver IFF
* Saskia Volker - director, curator, program director Berlinale Shorts, Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Solothurn Filmdays
* Janis-Ramak Guy - Chief Editor of Goree Island Cinema

Free entrance.
Language — English.

The future is female. So we believe, as well as the directors of the pictures, which you can watch on April 17th in the FEM RIOT program on # KISFF2019. Yes, they have something to say not only on the screen.

The conversation about feminist movies is a great opportunity to learn about the process of making an experimental feminist film and to take part in discussion with the creators of the films - Ulrika Bandera (JUCK) and Flora Anna Buda (animated film ENTROPIA).

Free entrance.
Language — English.

At KISFF, we believe there is never enough of animation, especially if it is Hungarian animation. To prove our point, we invited three Hungarian filmmakers who had a good time traveling to film festivals around the world, and on April 20 in Kyiv cinema will wait for you on the Saturday Brunch by # KISFF2019.

Our guests are Lutsa Tot (director of the film "Dr. Mare"), Flora Anna Buda (director of the film "Entropy"), Oliver Gedi (director of the film "Take me please") will introduce you to the process of creating an animated short film - from the pageboard stage to the final screening.

All the guests at Saturday Brunch with Hungarian animators will enjoy free fresh coffee and pastries.
The event is organized with the support of CITY-ZEN Cafe & Bar.

Free entrance.
Language - English.

How it feels for two wives to live under the same roof? What is poligamy about? How not to get lost in chaotic streets of Dakar? What can you find in its landfill? And why do Africans need wise men? And after all: is life in Senegal so different from ours?

Q&A after the screening

Xale bu Reer

d’Abdou Kharid Ndiaye

Senegal / 2017, 19 min

A young boy from an affluent family has the experience of a lifetime after his first day of school. When his father does not come to pick him up, he simply walks off. He gets lost and wanders without direction through the noise and chaos of a poverty-stricken metropolis. Unexpectedly, the boy receives help from an old scrap metal collector and a gang of street children. A striking portrait of Dakar, with elements of a fairytale.

Ordur de Momar

Talla Kandji

Senegal / 2018, 15 min

The life of a debt collector Kader turns upside down when he loses a bag full of money. The bag belongs to his boss. While looking for the lost possession, he discovers a huge Dakar landfill, Mbeubeuss. In this dramatic and somehow enchanted place, Kader meets Gnilane, a scavenger who tries to recycle the trash.

Un air de Kora

d’Angèle Diabang

Senegal / 2015, 26 min

Two new co-wives are alone in a house. They don’t want to talk to each other; at the same time, the voices of two other women tell us about their own experiences of polygamy. This film is an essay that mixes visual elements of fiction and documentary sound excerpts.

Boxing Girl

Iman Djionne

Senegal / 2016, 25 min

After getting hit by a motorbike, Adama, a bored 17-year-old hairdresser, finds boxing gloves. But when she puts them on, she gets mysteriously carried away on a journey all over the city of Dakar. Mentally and physically put to the test, she will have to fight her demons to face the ultimate fight…

Q&A after the screening

This Magnificent Cake!

Marc James Roels & Emma De Swaef

Belgium / 2018, 44 min

An anthology film set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century telling the stories of 5 different characters: a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a failed businessman on an expedition, a lost porter and a young army deserter.

Pura Vida

Nata Metlukh

Estonia / 2018, 9 min

Four flawed friends travel to tropics where things go wrong.

Take Me Please

Olivér Hegyi

Hungary / 2018, 14 min

In this examination of a breakup of a relationship, a boy tries to come to terms with his new life and subsequent experiences.

Deep Love

Nikita Liskov

Ukraine / 2019, 13 min

Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine

Under the Rib Cage

Bruno Tondeur

France / 2018, 13 min

Pierrot has a wound that won't heal.
It's the story of a guy who's about to die... maybe.

Q&A after the screening

DEATHLESS, I CRY IN MY DREAMS

August Aabo

Denmark / 2019, 29 min

A young woman must, through life & death, dream & reality and sorrow & joy choose between a big bag of money and the memory of her deceased friend. Tears and sorrow don’t affect her in her awaken life, and she must find out why she cannot cry in reality, but only in her dreams.

Deep Love

Mykyta Lyskov

Ukraine / 2019, 13 min

Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine

They say: sign the petition.
They offer: create an NGO.
They assure: this is not Paris, we are all off city in May.
Petitions don't work, NGOs follow the red tape, and precisely no one cares, especially in May.
Today, only artistic resistance, tomorrow is a r...

I Signed the Petition

Mahdi Fleifel

United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland / 2018, 11 min

Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyses, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel.

3 Stolen Cameras

Filmmakers Collective

Sweden / 2017, 18 min

The members of video activist group Equipe Media, from Western Sahara, fight to keep their cameras. This is a story about breaking an absolute censorship with unique footage from an area where the Moroccan authorities have managed to implement a near total media blockade.

White Riot: London

Rubika Shah

United Kingdom / 2017, 9 min

In 1977, immigration divides Britain. What happens when a punk fanzine challenges the status quo?

KG

Cynthia Madansky

Greece / 2019, 11 min

KG ruminates through performance and a portrait of Athens, on excerpts from poems in a book of poetry by Katerina Gogou entitled Three Clicks Left. Super 8mm, 10 min. Performer, Kleoni Manousakis Music, Zeena Parkins

Raw and Cooked / Roh und Gekocht

Rainer Binz, Thomas Leboeg

Germany / 2018, 11 min

The G20 summit held in Hamburg in 2017 provided the opportunity for this film based on reduction, in which image and sound interact as equals. Field audio recordings were edited in an essayistic way and shift between documentation and abstraction.

Primeiro Ato

Matheus Parizi

Brazil / 2018, 20 min

"Stop the world, I want to get off". Two theatre students try to convince their colleagues to leave their classroom and join them in the protests against the dismantling of culture policies that take over Brazil.

Q&A after the screening

Crocodile

Kateryna Gornostai

Ukraine / 2018, 24 min

Crocodile is a game for a big company. The host shows a word only with the help of gestures. Who guesses it chooses the one who leads the game next. Anya comes up with a difficult word for Lisa. This New Year’s Eve turns into a test of their friendship.

Kama-Loka

Yaroslav Korotkov

Ukraine / 2018, 31 min

A lonely girl is coming back home from a cinema.

In Joy

Maryna Roshchyna

Ukraine / 2018, 27 min

Kate is a young lonely mother. She falls in love with a fellow but does not have the courage to tell him that she has a son. As their relationship develops rapidly the revelation becomes more complicated. The choice between her personal life and responsibility for her son arises.

Paper or Plastic

Nata Metlukh

USA / 2019, 8 min

An immigrant comes to the first-world country to paint a mural on the tallest tower. He tries to adapt to the new reality, but xenophobia and odd rules force him to go back.

60 Elephants. Episodes of a Theory

Sasha Pirker

Austria / 2018, 22 min

In 60 Elephants, Michael Klein and Sasha Pirker portray the thoughts and work of Yona Friedman, a ninety-five-year-old French architect and humanist who was awarded the Friedrich Kiesler prize in 2018. Friedman developed visions of an improvisation-capable, mobile architecture for a migrating global society as early as the 1950s and 1960s. His remarks on the current refugee issue, which are presented in the film, reveal his considerate and unagitated way of thinking oriented on social needs and their sensible fulfillment.

Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: The ZAD

Oliver Ressler

Austria / 2017, 37 min

The film on the ZAD focuses on Europe’s largest autonomous territory, located close to Nantes in France. The ZAD (zone to defend) emerged from the struggle against a new airport. In 2012 the French state's attempt to evict the zone was fiercely resisted by more than 40,000 people. The police have not set foot there since. Today 250 people in 60 collectives live permanently at the ZAD occupying the wetlands, fields and forests. The ZAD is a successful example of the way resistance and the creation of alternatives need to happen at the same time. While people take back control over their lives with self organized bakeries, workshops, a brewery, medicinal herb gardens, a rap studio, weekly newspaper and a library, they hinder the construction of an unnecessary, ecologically disastrous airport project. The film is built around a group discussion with activists living at the ZAD.
“Everything's coming together while everything's falling apart: The ZAD” is part of Oliver Ressler’s ongoing project “Everything's coming together while everything's falling apart” that follows the struggles against a fossil fuel-dependent economy.

Kofi and Lartey

Sasha Rainbow

France, Ghana, UK / 2018, 20 min

Agbogbloshie has been dubbed one of the most toxic places on earth, but dig a little deeper and it's filled with wonderful people and their beautiful stories. Here we meet Kofi and Lartey, two inseparable young boys who when given the tools to tell their own stories begin to dream of a life beyond the electronic waste dump.

Skies are not just blue

Lysandre Cosse-Tremblay

Canada / 2018, 26 min

Yara, A. and brothers Monib & Tariq claim their identities as Muslims from diverse backgrounds by negotiating a space in the LGBTQ+ community and reflecting on their personal beliefs and experiences.

Four Quartets

Marco Alessi

UK / 2018, 11 min

Over the course of a night out in a queer club, Raf struggles to find his place among the crowd. Moving to the film’s rhythmic pulse and the intoxicating music in the queer club, we dance with Raf and cast off all inhibitions.

Yulia & Juliet

Zara Dwinger

Netherlands / 2018, 12 min

Yulia & Juliet is contemporary love story based on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Yulia and Juliet, both 16, are locked up in a closed juvenile detention centre. Despite their circumstances, they feel like they can take on anything together. They’re in love with each other. Nothing can hurt them when they’re together. But then Juliet is released. Her time in the institution is over. Yulia doesn’t know what to do. She can’t live without Juliet. When they see each other again, they look at each other with love in their eyes. Then everything goes black.

Welcome to the Ball

Adam Vincent Wright

USA / 2018, 5 min

A child learns sign language in hopes of making a new friend.

Haus

Joseph Amenta

Canada / 2018, 15 min

A displaced queer boy finds refuge in his city's underground Kiki Ballroom scene.

Johnny

Jérome Casanova

France / 2018, 26 min

Johnny is an alchoolic, Johnny is fatalistic, Johnny is tormented, Johnny isn’t able to behave, Johnny is impetuous, Johnny is moody, Johnny believes in nothing, Johnny is footloose, Johnny isn’t brave. But Aurélien doesn’t care because first and foremost Johnny is radiant.

Q&A after the screening