CORTI IN CONCORSO – PROGRAMMA 6

As if it could di Ada Güvenir, 2023, Belgium - 13'

After realizing her plant isn't growing as it should, Olive leaves her home and goes on a quest to find new grounds to let her plant re-root. Soon after she embarks on the journey, she comes to realize she has to do a lot more before she can reach her goal, or at least that's what she thinks...

Canard di Elie CHAPUIS, 2023, Switzerland - 9' 4''

Vladimir and Olga raise ducks on a small isolated farm in the countryside. They hope for a child, but this expectation soon turns into a nightmare.

FIERCE di Antoine de Bujadoux,Asghar Safar, 2023, France - 8'

Franco's dictatorship, Spain, 1945. Manolo, a famous bullfighter has to leave the country to find safety for his family. Before he leaves, he has one last fight to take up.

M. L’espérance di Chantale Boulianne, 2024, Canada - 9'

A storm is brewing next door. Mr. L'espérance hopes to breathe a little sweetness into her life by making her a gift. As he works, the old man is assailed by a flood of resurfacing memories. Images and sounds jostle in his head, deconstructing and amalgamating to form never-before-seen images. He relives snatches of his childhood as a sailor's son.

Her Dress for the Final di Martina Mestrovic, 2023, Croatia - 8' 45''

One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.

Octopus Banana Hotchpotch di Milanka Fabjancic, 2023, Slovenia - 7' 40''

A lively and dynamic journey through the lives of best friends, soulmates Mila and Mara. Two quite different life paths join in a wonderful adventure over many decades, enriched and driven by sisterly love.

The Garden of Heart di Olivér Hegyi, 2022, Hungary - 10' 32''

A young aspiring painter with low self-esteem is in his last round of interviews at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. While waiting for his interview, his demons appear to him in the form of garden pests.

The other one di Adèle Pion, 2023, Belgium - 5' 48''

A man has built his nest in the wasteland opposite my house. I see him regularly, I watch him, does he see me too? I question my relationship with him, my shame, my powerlessness. Is a meeting possible?

W lesie sa ludzie di Szymon Ruczynski, 2023, Poland - 10'

A lonely man limps down the road. A truck drives up to him. Several armed men jump out of it. They capture the limping man and transport him to the forest. The only witnesses of the scene are people from a nearby village. Since 2021, situations like these are commonplace on the Polish-Belarussian border of the EU, which is the scene of an ongoing refugee crisis. An animated documentary whose creator happens to live in a town by the border.

Thirty Tears Old di Daniel Shanni, 2023, Israel - 11' 58''

Petel and Billabong arrive at a party in south Tel-Aviv. When all topics of conversation are exhausted and the embarrassing silences become unbearable, a board game is brought out, which arouses dormant violence.

TO BIRD OR NOT TO BIRD di Martín Romero, 2023, Spain - 9'

To bird or not to bird, that is the question. A critical and kaleidoscopic view of the current world told through the tragicomic and grotesque experiences of some birds.

Wild Tale di Aline Quertain, 2023, Belgium - 16'

In the middle of a boreal forest, a lonely feline meets a small bird. These two beings that nature opposes surprise and attract each other. A relationship of friendship tinged with suspicion arises between them.

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