Running Category: Experimental Short
Urbanimatio
Hardi Volmer & Urmas Jiemees, Estonia, 2016, 8′
This film is a poetic portrayal of the evolution and devolution, ageing yet also constant regeneration of an anonymous citysphere. Its only companion and support is the music, which draws its rhythmic structures from the surrounding buildings and architectonic cadences. It makes visible by magic the dynamics of the coexistence of stone, concrete, wood and metal.
Running Category: Boundaries
La Casa Ena
Orencio Boix Larrey, Spain, 2016, 20′
Walking through the house can be like strolling through an exhibition. La Casa Ena was the home of the anarcho-syndicalist artist Ramón Acín, and it is today an empty dwelling, a set of ruins or an immense tragedy without an author: the screen as a room.
Running Category: Experimental Short
The Divine Way
Ilaria Di Carlo, Germany, 2018, 15′
“The path to paradise begins in hell”. — Dante Alighieri
Loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Divine Way takes us on a woman’s epic descent through an endless labyrinth of staircases. As this protagonist journeys deeper, the staircases mutate, trapping and pulling her deeper into this dangerous landscape while guiding us through more than fifty magnificent locations.
Running Category: Fiction Short
Tshweesh
Feyrouz Serhal, Germany/Lebanon/Qatar/Spain, 2017, 26′
The football World Cup kicks off today and the people of Beirut are eager for the big awaited event. Despite the day’s seemingly normal unfolding, the signal of the first match seems to be disrupted by strange audio waves. The frustration in the air increases, giving way to a bigger live event.
Running Category: Fiction Short
Angels Alone
Sebastian Tiew, UK, 2018, 10′
Angels Alone describes a prison set in the year 2035, where prisoners are rehabilitated through virtual and simulated realities. It proposes the creation of a third space to facilitate a rehabilitation program inspired by models of open-world role play games, simulation training and virtual therapies.
Running Category: Fiction Short
The Destruction of Memory
Tim Slade, US, 2016, 85′
Over the past century, cultural destruction has wrought catastrophic results across the globe. This war against culture is not over, it’s been steadily increasing. In Syria and Iraq, the “‘cradle of civilization”’, millennia of culture are being destroyed. The push to protect, salvage and rebuild has moved in step with the destruction. Based on the book of the same name by Robert Bevan, The Destruction of Memory tells the whole story.
