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.

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.

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.

Rise

Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca

Brazil, USA, Canada / 2019, 20 min

In the underground spaces of the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) new subway extension, a group of poets, rappers, singers, and musicians negotiate their status as both first- and second-generation Torontonians as well as settlers living on borrowed Indigenous land. Featuring participants from R.I.S.E. (Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere) EDUTAINMENT—an event that takes place weekly in Toronto’s suburban community centres—the film RISE adopts the concept of “Edutainment” as a tool for the film’s structure and script.

Acadiana

Yannick Nolin, Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau

Canada / 2018, 10 min

The city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It’s just another day, in America.

Skip Day

Patrick Bresnan

USA / 2018, 17 min

For seniors in Pahokee, a small, mainly African-American industrial town on Florida's Lake Okeechoboee, the Monday after prom is 'Skip Day.' Dozens of the students, miss their lessons, driving 60 miles to hang out and ponder their futures on the windy dunes of the Atlantic shoreline.

The Rabbit Hunt

Patrick Bresnan

USA / 2017, 12 min

Every weekend, seventeen year old Chris and his family hunt rabbits during sugarcane field burning and harvesting in the Florida Everglades.