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Tungrus (India) by Rishi Chandna
Tungrus (pronounced: toongroos) is a short documentary that observes a week in the peculiar lives of a middle-class suburban Mumbai household. What was once a home like a million others in the city, turns topsy-turvy when the eccentric patriarch brings home a baby chick for his cats to play with,...
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Time Capsule (United States) by Lauren Loesberg
A documentary created from home video footage from 1997-2005, set to the reading of a letter written for a time capsule found twelve years later.
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The Dream Machine (France) by Michael William West
A woman experiments with a Dream Machine, hoping to escape trouble. Within the light and dark of the machine, violent emotions awaken.
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Autumn (Russia) by Daria Elkonina
A train is roaring. A girl wades through the tall grass and a man crosses the river. What happened? Did it happen?
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In Ashes (Norway) by Kjetil Engh Aasen
The life of Inger and her son Jonas is turned upside down when the man they thought they knew is suspected of unspeakable crimes against children. As painful questions arise, Inger realizes her son is slowly pulling away from her. Inger struggles to find a way back to her son, while at the same t...
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Shooting Crows (2018, Switzerland) by Christine Hürzeler
A park in the fog. Crows flap and caw in the sky. A homeless man sleeps between the trees. Now and then a crow is shot: as a deterrent. The crows rally after every shot. A woman disappears. The police gather evidence. What is really going on? Are reality and imagination slowly blurring?
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Trap (2019, Turkey) Seyid Çolak
Five fishermen live on an island. Their ordinary life start to change with the unknown disappearance of one of them. Also a wolf comes to the island. The Wolf tries to open his own living space. These happenings cause a growing tension between friends.
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Exam on the Edge of Time (Turkey) by İlkay Nişancı
While people hadn't even buried their deceased, they fell into the anxiety of exams after earthquake in Hatay. While the students see the university exam as a way out of this city where they have lost all their memories, the teachers unwittingly build their own utopia. In this period of civil ina...
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Kev (2018, Belgium) by Clémence Hébert
Kevin is a child who runs away, breaks things, cannot speak, has a partly cut-off ear. The type of autism he suffers from is said to be so severe that most institutions refuse to care for him. The filmmaker has been visiting him regularly with her video camera since he was 14 years old; now he is...
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Pacific (2019, Lebanon) Angie Obeid
Whenever I walk through the dark reddish hallways to reach my apartment, whenever I would look out of my windows and dive into that expended view of the city of Brussels, unusual feelings would emerge... until the day I read an article about my building PACIFIC, entitled "the suicide tower".
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Myth (Australia) by Oliver Whitehouse
An interpolation of the myth of Meng Po (孟婆), the Chinese deity of forgetfulness who lives in the tenth version of Hell. Drawing inspiration from experimental asian cinema, in MYTH, ancient folklore collides with historical events and personal narratives to form a lamentation for the ways we reco...
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Georgie (United States) by Jennie Butler
An ex-mobster reflects on life, love, and loss after spending 32 years in prison.
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Lunch Break (Belgium) by Reinout Jan Swinnen, Bram Van Rompaey
Joe is a crane operator. This crane is made for lifting heavy things, Joe is not. He's an overweight middle-aged man stuck in a daily routine, in a confined space high up in the sky. Nothing much excites Joe, except for this one thing, this one moment which shines a dim light on his otherwise du...
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I Killed You a Dozen Times (Belgium) by Kris De Meester
I killed you a dozen times, but you won’t go away. Maybe it’s because you’ve killed me first. Out in the cold, on a strange new globe.
"I Killed You a Dozen Times" immerses viewers in a captivating exploration of the aftermath of a traumatic breakup. The protagonist, driven to erase the other... -
Fragments (United Kingdom) by Mélodie Roulaud
A portrait of trans non-binary artist Fleur Bloemsma, short film Fragments takes an introspective journey into their understanding and experience of their own body, and the meanders of their mind. Directed by French filmmaker and photographer Mélodie Roulaud, the film interrogates the language us...
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The Discoverer of the Discoverers (Norway) by C. S. Nicholson
A family in West Africa tells the story of how their ancestor discovered the European explorers — to a European film crew. We get to see how this encounter is still remembered ritually. But do all the claims about the historic event bear a closer look? And to which degree can we trust the filmmak...
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Kissing Ralph (United States) by Daniel Lewinstein
Kissing Ralph explores the anxiety of intimacy, from the point-of-view of an alien struggling to participate in human rituals of love, sex, and family life.
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It will hurt (Germany) by Dasha Altukhova
This poetic documentary follows a Japanese art of rope, Shibari. I reflect on the physical and emotional forms of pain. The film provides an intimate glimpse into the journey from the confrontation with pain to deal with it and finding its new meanings. Ultimately, it offers a window into the tra...
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Generation (UK) by Riccardo Fusetti
A brief journey through the human experience as seen by the eyes of an Artificial Intelligence.
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The Path of a Memory (Belgium) by Katerina Indesteege
Growling mountains, trees full of fruits, giggles, whispers and tears. The past is still present in the mind of the daydreamer. Documentary meets fiction when the filmmaker fantasizes about her mother's memories. How could her life have looked like in a country far from here, in times of a dictat...
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Inside You (Ukraine) by Erik Sémashkin
A grape gets eaten. He then begins a long and perilous journey within the human body.
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Moteur Synchrone (Belgium) by Jamie Lee
Imagine a world where the simplest of pleasures are not longer part of our freedom. From living to maintain the materials that mainstream culture has inflicted on our wants and needs, to the complete extinction of the human ability for critical thinking. Leading to the disconnection humans have w...
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Poor Boy Long Way From Home (Belgium) by Jonas Hollevoet
A cowboy strands in a small bar after a fight with his ex. In the search for oneself, he is soon immersed in the jungle of drunkenness, loneliness and sadness.
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Where Do We Go From Here (Italy) by Antonello Schioppa
Synopsis: A woman's lifeless body is lying on a room's floor. A shocked man is staring at it. Beyond the closed door, someone is quietly trying to get in: he's a 9 years old child. These three are a family. Or what's left. Running time: 00:19:50.
Selections/awards: Sulmona Int Short FF (Best Ab...