CORTI IN CONCORSO – PROGRAMMA 2

A Night at the Rest Area di Saki Muramoto, 2024, Japan - 11' 34''

At a midnight highway rest area, the weary travelers each quietly relax their minds. A brief moment spent with complete strangers is lonely yet somehow comforting.

Aaaah! di Osman CERFON, 2023, France - 4' 41''

Aaaah! is a cry of pain, surprise, fear, joy, songs, grumbling, laughter, anger… Aaaah! is the expression with which children, these primary and innocent beings, experience life in a community, framed by the whistles of adults.

Beautiful Men di Nicolas KEPPENS, 2023, France - 18' 53''

Three bald brothers travel to Istanbul to have a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.

Four Chambers to the Heart di Kostas IOANNIDIS, Johan GRIMONPREZ, 2023, Belgium - 9' 3''

Palermo 1624. While in quarantine due to the plague, 94 year old master painter Sofonisba Anguissola, a worldwide renowned artist at the time but later consigned to obscurity, writes her final letters to her pupil and Flemish master-in-the-making Anton Van Dyck.

Grenfell Adrift on an Iceberg di John Hollands, 2024, Canada - 10'

An ahistorial retelling of Doctor Wilfred Grenfell's adventure lost at sea on an iceberg. Retold through an expressionistic blend of live action photography and avant-garde animation, Wilfred Grenfell's thrilling autobiographical account of his adventures adrift on the ice with a team of sled dogs becomes a phantasmagoric nightmare as Grenfell confronts his heroic legacy and his faith in what he fears may be his final moments.

Human ressources di Trinidad PLASS, Titouan TILLIER, Isaac WENZEK, 2023, France - 3' 29''

Andy, followed by a friend filming the scene, goes to his recycling appointment. Wanda, the secretary of the company, welcomes him. We follow Andy through the whole process, until his last seconds of life.

Introduction to Film Studies di Géza M. Tóth, 2023, Hungary - 10' 36''

Film genre examples displayed with a few animated matchsticks for taking serious theoretical approaches by exploring the narrative implications of the cinema and develop skills and knowledge of in-depth analysis of film texts. Or just for fun.

Luna Rossa di Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn, 2024, France - 33'' 38'

"Despite the surveillance cameras and security checks at the airport, a group of activists succeed in carrying out their diabolical plan."

MIMT di Ted Wiggin, 2024, USA - 3' 58''

To give a snake an orange

Nabu di Joanna Rusinek, 2023, Poland - 6'

Nabu lives with her brother in a little village, somewhere beyond the seas. One day the village comes under attack and burns to the ground. The children lose sight of one another in the commotion. The following day Nabu embarks on a journey, clutching her brother’s toy monkey close to her heart, full of hope to find him. Her uneasy journey is interrupted by some soldiers guarding invisible borders. Against all odds, she finds herself on a boat among other refugees, but the tiny girl is soon swept overboard by a giant wave. Nabu floats on the surface, slowly embraced by darkness. On the shore, not one sunbather notices that a tiny toy monkey has been washed up by the waves.

Oliver the Giant di Júlia Lantos, 2023, Hungary - 8' 14''

Oliver, the giant lives on a little planet. In his perception, the whole world is his playground, where he can do what he wants. While he is living his trivial life, the little humans become preoccupied with another matter of greatest importance: building a sun clock so they can connect with the universe. This fully disturbs Oliver's life. Starting with the growling sound of the universe, the appearance of a big shadow, he recognize his own pettiness, feels doomed, and throws himself into space.

On the way di Stefano Poggioni, Pietro Elisei, 2024, Italia - 4' 40''

Cosa significa lasciare la propria casa e dirigersi verso mete sconosciute? Cosa si prova a farsi trascinare da un flusso incontrollabile? Milioni di persone in Africa ogni anno lasciano le proprie case per cercare un futuro migliore. Spesso si fermano nei paesi vicini, spesso, troppo spesso, raggiungono le coste libiche e tentano il viaggio in mare. Ma a quel punto non si può tornare indietro, si può solo andare avanti.

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