PROGRAMME OF THE 36TH MESSAGE TO MAN FILM FESTIVAL

International Competition: Documentary films

The International Competition is a complex, cohesive composition. The films in the programme speak and argue in a multitude of dialects and cinematic languages, yet their conversation echoes with common conflicts and wounds. The Festival’s main competition is always a portrait of its time. Read more

Todo es carcel / Letters from an Inner Exile

Los vencedores / The Victors

No arreglen ni limpien mi habitación, a mí me gusta como está / Don’t Tidy or Clean My Room, I like It as It Is

Arina

To Use a Mountain

Una Película de Miedo / A Scary Movie

Σμιλεμένες ψυχές / Sculpted Souls

Shalom

International Competition: Short Documentary films

Sunday

Another Earth

Conveyor

Portales

Slet 1988

Status “B”

Tripalium

La Langue de leurs rêves / The Language of Their Dreams

International Competition: Short Feature films

Near Light

The Wind, One Brilliant Day

City of Owls

İki Laborantın Yorgun Saatleri / The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants

An Ordinary Day

A Solidão dos Lagartos / Loneliness of Lizards

Assis, pas bouger! / Sit and Stay!

International Competition: Short animation

Dieu est timide / God Is Shy

Vagabundo / Vagabond

Mu Ying Shi / Nursing Room

Hugs

Final Party

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Drained

El Cuerpo De Cristo / Corpus Christi

Gherking

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National Competition

Documentary cinema is currently facing yet another crisis. The credit of trust once extended to it is now being called in, though it remains unclear how. Generated images, boundless video archives on social media, and every kind of recording endlessly expand the boundaries of what may count as “documentary.” We saw as much in the submissions. Read more

Hair Curlers on a Bald Man

The Wind Blows Wherever It Wants

It’s Time to Come Home

If I’m Not a Realist

Women’s Circle

The Logger

Mother

Maternal Dreams

Make Films

A Point for Quitting

Before the Sun

Kidnappers

The Adventures of Mosaics on Ground and Under

Stay with Me a Little Longer

Chicks

Hideaway

Outpost

Chuuraa

Me Too (Make Films)

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IN SILICO Experimental Short Film Competition

The 16th edition of Message to Man’s experimental film competition once again offers a collection of subjective remarks on the human being, memory, consciousness, and the world. The programme seems to split roughly in half: introspective films, which look for questions and answers inside the author’s head, and extraspective ones, which take their questions and answers to the world outside. But the line between intro- and extraspection is not always clear, and the optic through which the author conveys their experience to us can scale without limit in whatever direction interests them. Read more