International Competition

An experimental documentary animation in the traditional Japanese technique of sending secret messages called aburidashi, the film depicts a change of the director’s perspective over a period of ten years.…

Air currents flow in and out over the Earth. The subterranean landscape shelters Italian and Cuban explorers from invasions and disasters. Survival in the inner atmosphere teaches us to reduce…

“In the midst of a personal and work crisis, I begin to film everything obsessively: my parents, grandparents, children, friends and lovers, myself and psychotherapy. Some footage is consensual, some…

Researching at the Eye Filmmuseum archive, Paula Albuquerque found a piece of religious/medical propaganda from the 1950s. Shot in Suriname, the original footage was meant to show the supporting role…

Sofía Peypoch returns to the site of her kidnapping. Amid the darkness and silence, her hands search underground for traces of a buried memory. Others replicate this chimerical gesture. The…

Theory and practice meet the noise of reality in a portrait of Romanian avant-garde composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram, whose driving ambition was to provoke a revolution in sound.…

In the summer of 1928, Jean Epstein set off from Paris to discover the Ushant Island, where he set up his film studio and made his first film with the…

Mike returns home after time away. He tries to find his place within the social structures of his family and friends. The mining landscape of Genk provides unusual openings. Set…

In the sunset of the second industrial revolution, men and women who make ships and airplanes with their hands face the collapse of industry in a small region in Southern…

Gil works in construction, goes to his mother’s bar and has love dates with Kátia. On a day like so many others, Gil is missing. A story of love, lost…

Suite Canadienne, by Ludmilla Chiriaeff, broadcast nationally on Quebec television in 1958, shows ballet dancers disguised as peasants, traversing a fantasised colonial rural scene. From this obscure document springs a…

The film tells a tale of love, loss and betrayal. Deploying Brechtian techniques of distancing and playing with the idea of suspended disbelief, the story centres around Lori, a female…

After 30 years of failed efforts, Tahel (Rachel at birth) finally persuades her sister Tzipora to leave Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital and move in with her. Together, the two sisters challenge…