MOTORCYCLIST’S HAPPINESS WON’T FIT INTO HIS SUIT
There he sits proudly on his beautiful motorbike which he would never let anyone use. He is certain that he alone can explore the jungle. This is a playful re-enactment with reversed roles that takes aim at the hubris of the colonial conquerors.
Mexico 2021 / 9:56 / Director: Gabriel Herrera / Producer: Susana Bernal
BOOBS
A surrealist journey through a woman’s love-hate relationship with her breasts, her body, her femininity.
Canada 2021 / 7:25 / Director: Marie Valade / Producer: Marie Valade
FACUNDA
Marta moves into her great-aunt Facunda’s house in La Solana, a town in Ciudad Real, along with a filming crew, determined to record her day to day. However, Facunda has a mission: the film’s unremitting boycott.
Spain 2020 / 17:00 / Director: Marta Romero / Producer: Mayca Sanz
I DREAMED I WAS ALIVE
Santiago de Chile, 2012. When she goes back to classes, 17-year-old Alexandra does not want to face neither the failure of a year of mobilization nor her early pregnancy. A teenage mum in the grip of a postpartum depression, she sees her dreams fading away.
Chile 2021 / 29:06 / Director: Eymeraude Cordon Le Beurier / Producer: Sebastián González
CONTRAINDRE
We are all prisoners of a nationality, a social condition, a gender, a skin color, to which the police and state repression force us to resign ourselves. This film tells how the bodies suffer under the blows, the constraint and the humiliation.
France 2020 / 11:12 / Director: Galdric Fleury, Antoine Fontaine
BREAKING GROUND
After another incident with her husband, an abused woman seeks old adventures from her neighbours’ house where she decides to change the course of her life.
Rwanda 2020 / 13:09 / Director: Inès Girihirwe / Producer: Ishimwe Karemangingo Samuel, Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo