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With the Sparks programmes, we hope to spark a passion for the medium of short film. Featuring highlights from this year’s competition submissions, the selection offers an excellent introduction to the world of shorts, showcasing a diverse film culture beyond the usual mainstream and YouTube videos.
The eight curated programmes presented here are the result of a comprehensive audiovisual enquiry into the vast territory of the Andean nations: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Los Estados Andinos offers a panorama of the political, social, cultural, and artistic scene of these seven countries, exploring the idiosyncrasies and traditions of each as well as their collective identity and common grounds.
Commemorative practices, reflections on identity, family relationships, and borders in both the geographical and mental sense – these are four weighty and highly complex themes in a country like Israel. The shorts in the Country in Focus explore the past and present of this still young nation, illuminating the historic premises of its existence, the ubiquitous conflicts on multiple fronts, the militarization of everyday life, and family relationships within this context.
Kurdwin Ayub is one of Austrian cinema’s most interesting voices. Her distinct cinematic style has been recognizable from her earliest works through her most recent film, «Sonne», and it continues to evolve. In her works, she addresses gender roles, identity and migration, patriarchal structures, youth culture, and the fast pace of our time – always in an authentic and personal manner. Both playful and analytical, Ayub and her films resist pigeonholing.
The Industry Events offer a platform for networking among film professionals, for discussing theoretical concepts, and for information and education about creative methods and aesthetic trends.
Rarely do we act out norms and ideals as publicly and directly as in relation to our bodies. Social media serve as channels to manifest these norms, but at the same time, they also offer people an opportunity for performative self-expression and empowerment. Free Your Mind, Free Your Body shows four films with protagonists who resist the principles of a patriarchal society sometimes more, sometimes less actively, thus freeing not just their bodies but also their identities from repressive norms.
The Sunday screening is followed by a conversation on body and gender norms in the context of traditional social structures in the Andean nations.
Son of Sodom Theo Montoya / Colombia 2020 / 15' / DCP / colour / Spanish / Doc
«In August 2017, I chose Camilo Najar, known as Son of Sodom in the social networks, to be the main character of my first feature film. That casting revolved around his life, his sexuality, the future he saw for himself, and drugs. A week later, aged 21, he died from a heroin overdose. Who was Son of Sodom?»
Axel (23) is saving money for a sex change operation to become Alexa. Bastian (24) has to deal with his drag alter ego, Anna Balmanica. Alfonso (22), a young student from a poor neighbourhood, wants to change his social status. «SNAP» is a reflection about the body, the city, and the segregation that affects them. A story built through fragments of everyday life that the characters share on Snapchat.
The Foreign Body Héctor Silva Núñez / Venezuela 2018 / 18'20" / DCP / colour / Spanish / Fic
Jairo is a young native man from Venezuela who was born without nipples. Distanced from the customs of his people, he explores a male ideal to belong to in the city.
In the Colombian coffee region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous transwomen from the Emberá tribes. In their unique world, magic, dream, and performance coexist, creating a universe in which documentary and fiction merge.
LGBTQI+ people live dangerously in Latin America. A patriarchal culture shaped by Catholicism has very rigid ideas of gender roles based on biological sex. Or does it? Some countries have passed progressive legislation, such as a law that allows trans people to easily change their first name. Colombia is one of the most progressive Latin American countries when it comes to the rights of LGBTQI+ people. In 2011, it passed a law banning sex-based discrimination, and same-sex marriage was legalized in 2016. By comparison, the latter only happened in Switzerland in 2022. Everyday reality, however, shows a very different picture. Together with Mexico and Honduras, Colombia is responsible for 90% of fatal violence against LGBTQI+ people in Latin America. Across the continent, an average of four people die for their sexual identity every day.
The programme Free Your Mind, Free Your Body tackles the issue of self-determination – over one’s own body as well as one’s gender identity. In a culture where the reality of many people’s lives is different from the rights they theoretically have, their freedom lies not in protection by the state but in the life choice to break social norms. Rarely do we act out norms and ideals as publicly and directly as in relation to our bodies. Social media serve as channels to manifest these norms, but at the same time, they offer an opportunity for performative self-expression and empowerment.
Free Your Mind, Free Your Body shows four films with protagonists who resist the ideas of a patriarchal society sometimes more, sometimes less actively, thus freeing not only their bodies but also their identities from repressive norms. In the first film we – posthumously – meet Camilo Naja, who was known as «Son of Sodom» in the queer scene of the Colombian city of Medellín and on social media. Openly, he talks about his life, his sexuality, his drug use, and about not being afraid of dying. He is, however, very much afraid of a life and an identity without a future. «SNAP» explores the potential of social media (specifically Snapchat) to ponder the connections between gender, sex, body, identity, and performativity. The protagonist of «The Foreign Body» does not correspond to the physical ideal of a macho society. His striving for normalization collides with his self-image. And «Aribada» blurs dream and reality, fiction and documentary, the magical and the mythical, exploring a futuristic world where «trans» is the adjective of the hour.
Les Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur représentent le plus important festival de courts métrages en Suisse. Chaque mois de novembre, Winterthour se transforme en métropole du court métrage pendant six jours.
Tout le monde trouve son compte dans les programmes soigneusement concoctés par nos curatrices et curateurs sur des thématiques ou des événements actuels et brûlants. Les blocs des compétitions donnent une bonne vue d’ensemble du paysage cinématographique actuel, alors que les installations, performances et autres événements spéciaux montrent au public la diversité des formes audiovisuelles. Le programme d’événements allie concerts, lectures et bien plus encore, complétant ainsi l’expérience du festival.
Le court métrage n’est pas juste un film «court». C’est une forme d’art à part entière à laquelle nous consacrons chaque année un festival.
Il existe des courts métrages de tous genres et de toutes longueurs. Grâce à des voies de production facilitées, il permet de capter rapidement une époque et de l’illustrer. Il divertit, surprend, analyse lasociété, exprime une opinion politique ou donne un aperçu de mondes étrangers.
Nous rassemblons nos courts métrages pour créer des programmes thématiques ou des sections – comme nos compétitions – et nous les projetons dans un ordre bien précis. Pour apprécier le court métrage, il suffit d’être curieux, d’avoir envie de faire des découvertes et de se laisser surprendre.
Compétitions
Des courts métrages actuels du monde entier. Les œuvres les plus prometteuses seront récompensées le dimanche soir.
Hors Concours
Des courts métrages actuels zurichois, suisses et internationaux diffusés en dehors de nos compétitions.
Grand Focus
Une analyse en images d’une région, d’un phénomène social ou d’une tendance artistique.
Focus sur un pays
Une analyse des œuvres cinématographiques d’un pays, en adoptant une perspective historique et contemporaine.
Focus sur une personne
L’œuvre d’un·e cinéaste est mise sur le devant de la scène.
Programmes spéciaux
Des programmes de courts métrages sur des thématiques brûlantes, ou simplement divertissantes.
Programmes familiaux
Des courts métrages pour les jeunes dès 6 ans et toute la famille.
Expanded Cinema
Des installations, des performances et des expositions qui font découvrir au public des formes de cinéma inhabituelles.
Programme d’événements
Des concerts, des soirées, des lectures et de nombreux autres événements qui complètent l’expérience du festival.
Discussions et podiums
Des discussions et des tables rondes animées durant lesquelles l'art du cinéma ou des thématiques précises sont approfondis.
Industry Events
Un large éventail d’événements d’information, de formation et de réseautage.
