73 COWS
Alex Lockwood / 20’/ ENG
73 Cows is the story of Jay Wilde, a beef farmer who battles with his conscience every time he takes his cows to slaughter. Feeling trapped within an industry he no longer believes in, Jay knows he must make a change and do what no other farmer from the UK has ever done before.
SOMEWHERE
Melody Boulissière 5’/ FRA
A young traveler, obsessed by consumer fever, finds himself discontent with the chaotic routine of mass tourism. He finally feels the need to slow down and, finding his way to the mountains, looks elsewhere.
CINEMARI
CINEMARI by Julian Civiero / 30' /I TA ENG
This documentary follows a cinematic journey rural Italy. In the 1940s and 50s in Abruzzo, long before television arrived in small villages, the Cinemari were the men who brought outdoor cinema, ‘il cinema in piazza’, to the village festivals..
CIRCUIT
Delia Hess / 9'/ CH
On a small planet, caught up in their own little private universe, the inhabitants perform their poetically sur-real actions, which repeat themselves in an endless loop. That they are all part of a complex little ecosystem, which can only function if each of them plays his or her role, is something they are unaware of.
UNA CASA
Agnese Làpos /7’/ CH
Locked in her house, a woman wonders how people live. She goes through her photo archives in search of an answer. Una Casa is a visual essay on the buildings we call houses, homes. It is about how they are constructed and taken over as refuge in times of uncertainty.
QUE VIVA
QUE VIVA by Giulia Savorani / 1’ 27’’/ ITA
¡Que viva is a short animation on the theme of bullfighting, in which looks and faces are like shotguns or like a bullfighter. A reflection on the fight and the act of seeing, the encounter between the victim and the viewer's gaze through bullfighting, seen both as a ritual sacrifice and as a cruel struggle. The images mix hand paintings on glass and analogically modified frames from Sergej Ejzenstejn’s Que viva Mexico!
IN A NUTSHELL
Fabio Friedli / 5’ / CH
From a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse. An attempt to capture the world in a nutshell.
LE CERCLE VIDE
Stephanie Roland / 19’/ FRA
The experimental documentary portrays a space object and its fall into the darkness of a space cemetery. A woman scientist reveals her attachment to this object and the absence of images documenting this mysterious place. As a reverse sci-fi journey, this essay mixes real and fictional archives to guide us, like a stalker, to the outskirts of an invisible place.
SOPRAVVISSUTI ALL’HOMO SAPIENS
Paolo Rossi /19’ / ITA
A film about a species of wild animals that survived in the mountains of the Ligurian Apennines during the expansion of rural civilization. Man cut trees, created pastures, hunted wild animals, and sold their furs: civilization has always developed at the expense of forests.
THE CHURCH OF ETHYOPIA
Jeremy Seifert /10’/ USA
Over the past century, farming and the needs of a growing population have replaced nearly all of Ethiopia’s old growth forests with agricultural fields. This film tells the story of the country’s Church Forests, pockets of lush biodiversity that are protected by hundreds of churches scattered like emerald pearls across a brown sea of farm fields.
ALL COME FROM DUST
Younes Ben Slimane / 9’/ TUN
Loop of edgeless bend. You were its doom, he was its bloom. You were its tomb, he was its womb. For Heaven and Hell, were words made of
WIFI RIDER
WIFI RIDER by Roxy Rezvany / 12’ / ENG
A young Palestinian turns to the internet as he struggles to shape his identity under the pressures of life in East Jerusalem and creating a whole new world as the 'Wifi Rider'. Iimmersed in a world where Western popstars preach self-love and unity, and where he can forget the exclusion he faces in everyday life. In this 16mm documentary film, we discover the origins of his life as the ‘Wifi Rider’, and how he channels his frustrations into art and fashion on the internet.
S.A.D.
Guilherme Gonçalves Acuna Gehr / 4:35 / ITA BRA
Ecstasy, Fear, Sublime. Three chapters of an adventure in cosmic space that separates two parallel universes: reality and imagination. A child who dreams to be an astronaut on a summer afternoon. The fantasy will transform the family summer holiday into a spaceship flight. But on the road to destiny, danger looms, and only a fragment of meteorite clenched in a small fist can sublimate all fear.
Glove
Glove / by Alexa Lim Haas and Bernardo Britto / Animation / 5’
The true story of a glove that’s been floating forever in space since 1965.
Guaxuma
Nara Normande / Animation / 14’
Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.
I gotta look good for the apocalypse
Ayce Kartal / 5’ / experimental
March 2020. After China, the whole planet locks itself in. Our world, which we call “real”, is drained of what used to be its substance, and forms of digital life multiply, like these couples whose avatars share a common life in a virtual universe. But what if the crisis we are actually experiencing is not a pandemic, but an accelerated derealization of our lives?
Sentience
Elliott J. Spencer / 8’30’’ / documentary
Sentience is a short art documentary filmed in China. It takes us to two opposed locations in a span of twenty-four hours. Guanxi's scenic mountainous region being one, and the other Yangshou's raucous, touristy West Street sector. The former brims with a quiet, almost hypnotic majesty that can only be appreciated during the day, while the latter roars with an overwhelming assemblage of both human, and mechanised fury, that is at its most palpable come nightfall.
Belongings / by Carol Silverman / VR experience / 20’
Every day, across the world, survivors are left with the possessions of a loved one who has passed away, a lifetime of objects holding their secrets. What if sorting through those objects revealed a person different from the one you knew?
After my mother’s death, among her things, I found photographs and documents that revealed a past she had kept secret my whole life. In “Belongings,” the things she left me step forward to tell her story.
Replacements / by Jonathan Hagard / VR experience /
"Replacements" depicts a Javanese family routinely observing their neighborhood day after day, generation after generation, replacement after replacement. Inspired by people and places that truly exist, they are witnesses of this congested metropolis's urban, environmental, political, and cultural transformations from about 1980 to 2020.