“Their Bodies Don’t Tremble When They Rise from the Water,” dir. Esteban Cruz Orozco. Colombia, 2022, 15 min.
"The Altar", dir. Moe Myat May Zarchi. Myanmar, 2022, 10 min.
"A Woman in Macueni", dir. Daria Belova, Valeri Aluskina. Germany, 2023, 14 min.
“Taste Life”, dir. Léo-Antonin Lutinier. France, 2023, 25 min.
"The Eyeball Person", dir. Yuri Muraoka. Japan, 2023, 12 min.
"Don't Cry, Gabriel", dir. Mathilde Chavanne. France, 2023, 24 min.
Synopsis:
A buddhist fable-like story about the guilt of a childhood incident of killing an ant while washing hands in the sink. Animated through photographic sequences painted with golds and grays, the Zen-like visuals sweep into one another with whispering monologues and glitching noises reflecting the realms of cosmos, power, guilt, prayers, and existence.
* Festival selection: Oberhauzen, Hamburg, Vienna Shorts.
Synopsis:
Kenya, Africa. A man works in a quarry. His wife is imprisoned in Makueni women’s prison. When he arrives there from his village, he is not allowed to see her. An encounter with an unfamiliar woman helps him in a mystical way.
* Festival selection: Berlinale Shorts, Vienna Shorts and others.
Synopsis:
This film is about gazes and goodbyes. An attempt to weave images with words and to weave a poem with images. I realize that living is suffering to see that Nemu, the one of my daughters, squirms with the struggle and sunflowers squirm to try to bloom.
* Festival selection: Oberhauzen, Encounters (Bristol) and others.
Synopsis:
They open the doors and appear: their whistles roam through the rails that run across the town. The dogs rise. The kids turn out their cigarettes. They’ve arrived and now, all is still.
* Festival selection: FICUNAM, Bogoshorts, Intermediaciones Medellin and others.
Synopsis:
An anarchist leap through the flabby, bourgeois everyday life of Paris.
* Grand Prix, Festival International de Contis; Jury Prize, Les Nuits Med (France).
Synopsis:
Gabriel is bad, the world is bad, everything’s bad. Hopefully, sometimes, lost souls attract each other. Thus Margot embarks in Garbiel’s night.
* Festival selection: Semaine de la Critique, Cannes.