TWENTY-SEVEN
Alice is 27 years old. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?
France, Hungary 2023 / 10:38 / Director: Flóra Anna Buda
AQUERONTE
On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other. Some of the travellers wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellow travellers or contemplate the scenery. Some others chat, perhaps to liven up the voyage and speed up time. The journey on the waters seems to expand, the destination shore is postponed, the magnitude of space is blurred. Motion itself is perhaps the only certainty.
Spain 2023 / 26:00 / Director: Manuel Muñoz Rivas
DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS
Sun-starved teenagers go on a dreamy trip to the Balearic islands in the pursuit of light and warmth. They must absorb it and act as vessels in order to transport it back to their heavily clouded kingdom.
Spain 2022 / 23:34 / Director: Christian Avilés
FLORES DEL OTRO PATIO
In the Colombian Caribbean, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to criticise the disastrous exploitation by the country’s largest coal mine.
Switzerland, Colombia 2022 / 15:46 / Director: Jorge Cadena
HARDLY WORKING
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.
Austria, Germany 2022 / 20:33 / Director: Total Refusal, LEMONADE FILMS