GRANDMAMAUNTSISTERCAT
This film, created from Polish educational archive material, tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.
Netherlands, Poland 2024 / 23:26 /
Director/Producer: Zuza Banasińska
THE ELECTRIC KISS
This dystopian fiction is fashioned from the remnants of cinema’s past. Drawing on excerpts from obscure sci-fi films, it imagines a world not unlike our own, where people plug their brains into a network that connects the whole of human consciousness. While cyberpunk imagery draped in VHS textures alternates with passages of prismatic visual noise, a man in a VR headset subjects himself to a mysterious procedure.
Austria 2024 / 18:00 / Director: Rainer Kohlberger
PENA’S SPECIAL HAULING
Pena has been a truck driver for five decades. Recently his memory is failing, which causes him a few problems here and there. Finally the law enforcement have caught up with him as well. Luckily he has friends and family who support him during his journey as a hauler who drives only on weekends.
Finland 2024 / 11:42 / Director/Producer: Anssi Kasitonni
FOR HERE AM I SITTING IN A TIN CAN FAR ABOVE THE WORLD
A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney. A major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market and tens of thousands of people are cryogenized waiting for a better future. Are they suspended or falling into the void? What strange relationship do we have with the future?
France 2024 / 18:35 / Director: Gala Hernández López / Producer: Quentin Brayer, Yannick Beauquis, Gala Hernández López, Don Quichotte Films
BAIT
R is a chronic over-thinker. R’s head is tired of overworking. So the head runs away. Until then, R could never escape from the merrygo-round of overthinking.
United States 2023 / 5:52 / Director: Nancy-Bleu Hwang
DISSOLUTION
A woman is forced to confront her elderly husband’s physical deterioration when they meet to sign their divorce papers.
United States, Australia 2024 / 14:54 / Director: Anthony Saxe / Producer: Thomas Lopez