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Short Film Competition 2 | 2019

Netherlands, France, Belgium, 2018 / 15′ / vo sub. it.

Everything is different but nothing has changed. A journey through a sunken labyrinth of dreams and memories.

Israel, 2019 / 4’45” / vo sott. it.

Through moving interviews, Bear With Me reveals the many difficulties common to those who cross borders to be with their loved ones. However, despite these difficulties, challenges and sacrifices, the film is about love.

UK, 2019 / 4’09” / international preview

An improvised stop-motion film about a woman who explores her psyche through its manifestations as sequences of identical but increasingly smaller rooms inhabited by multiples of herself.

Poland, 2018 / 4′ / vo sub. it.

You are overreacting is a hand-drawn animation that attempts to ask questions about the place of women in modern reality. The film is (unfortunately) inspired by everyday life, statements of public figures, and the media.

Germany, 2018 / 6’34” / vo sub. it. / italian preview

They had a normal father-daughter relationship. One day she told him she was leaving for a wedding in Denmark. But it was a lie. A few months later she was beginning her new life. As the wife of a jihadist living in Syria.

England, 2019 / 6’30” / italian preview

One day, a humble fisherman catches an enchanted fish. Can it help him and his wife improve their fate? The Flounder is an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Fisherman and His Wife,” with animations painted by Elizabeth Hobbs and an original score by composer Carola Bauckholt.

Switzerland, 2018 / 3’40”

In a veritable pyrotechnic display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of picturesque embarrassing and terribly disturbing selfies have been arranged into a unique composition of short films. The individual photos, artistically reworked, are consolidated to form a horrifying sneer that eclipses the abyss of human existence.

Croatia, 2018 / 15′

People are waiting for someone special. This someone is born – an adult in a suit and tie. Everyone follows him and cheers for his theatrical but absolutely useless performance. In the middle of a performance he makes a mistake and the people who have adored him so far leave. Left alone, he meets a woman made for him. The theatrical performances continue…