SOMNOROȘII (2023)
Regie: Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
Țară: Romania
Durată: 15:28
Titi receives a video call from his mother, who works in Italy. The young man says nonsensical things and ends up questioning her about her new pair of earrings. Sorin, Titi’s confidant and only friend, witnesses the entire conversation, displaying an attraction towards Titi. One night, as the two of them waste time together, Titi calls his mother in the middle of the night, trying to uncover the truth about her supposed Italian lover.
HARDLY WORKING (2022)
Regie: Total Refusal / Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Țară: Austria
Durată: 20:29
“Hardly Working” sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
MY NEIGHBOUR ABDI (2022)
Regie: Douwe Dijkstra
Țară: Țările de Jos
Durata: 28:34
How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, they embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.
CHERRIES (2022)
Regie: Vytautas KATKUS Țară: Lituania Durată: 15m
A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is in no hurry to finish the cherry job though, as he tries to catch up with his son. The cherries remain in the background.
TAKE YOU DOWN (2023)
Regie: Jonathan Salmon
Țară: SUA
Durată: 4:26
Who’s really in charge of the motion in the ocean?