In a football metaphor about KISFF, the Festival Hits program is the Champions League. We have prepared a star selection for the best films that took the first awards at the most honorable world festivals. Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance, and prizes of a number of leading film events is another proof of the championship of the Festival Hits program.

FEST

Nikita Diakur

Germany / 2018, 4 min

Puppets on strings rave, eat and fly.

SKIN

Guy Nattiv

United States / 2018, 21 min

A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

Bonobo

Zoel Aeschbacher

Switzerland / 2018, 18 min

When the elevator of their public housing breaks down, the fates of Felix, a disabled pensioner, Ana, a single mother struggling with her move and Seydou, a young man passionate about dance intertwine towards an explosive ending where their limits will be tested.

Weightlifter

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

Ukraine / 2018, 30 min

At first sight, this is a story of a true price of a victory.

In a football metaphor about KISFF, the Festival Hits program is the Champions League. We have prepared a star selection for the best films that took the first awards at the most honorable world festivals. Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance, and prizes of a number of leading film events is another proof of the championship of the Festival Hits program.

Fauve

Jeremy Comte

Canada / 2018, 16 min

Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer...

All Inclusive

Corina Schwingruber Ilić

Switzerland / 2018, 10 min

Under the spell of mass entertainment at high sea.

SWATTED

Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

France / 2018, 11 min

Online players describe their struggles with "swatting", a life-threatening cyber-harassment phenomenon that looms over them whenever they play. The events take shape through youtube videos and wireframe images from a video game.

Freedom of Movement

Nina Fischer, Maroan el Sani

Germany, Italy / 2018, 30 min

Evoking the Olympic marathon from Rome 1960, in which the Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila conquered the African continent’s first gold medal, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend and a symbol of the Africa that was freeing itself of colonialism, Fischer & el Sani have recontextualised amidst Rome’s controversial rationalist architecture, a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to their freedom of movement.
Fischer & el Sani are examining the complexity of ideological, political and architectural implications of Bikila‘s 1960‘s Olympic gold medal run to this day.

Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year

Jacqueline Lentzou

Greece / 2018, 23 min

New Year's eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no-one.