9.11.2023, 20:30, Maxx 5
EN UT + Q&A
10.11.2023, 22:00, Maxx 2
EN UT + Q&A
The latest trends in international filmmaking: our competition programmes present recent short films from around the world. The best works will be honoured with prizes at the Award Ceremony on Sunday.
Shrooms
Jorge Jácome / Portugal 2023 / 18' / DCP / colour / Portuguese / Exp/Fic/Doc
The Lovers
Carolina Sandvik / Sweden 2023 / 12' / DCP / colour / no dialogue / Ani
A man and a woman are having a romantic dinner at a restaurant. Suddenly the skin on the man’s face begins to fall off. A stop motion horror film and unromantic comedy about a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.
Alpha Kings
Faye Tsakas/Enrique Pedráza-Botero / USA 2022 / 15' / DCP / colour / English / Doc
From a rented mansion in suburban Texas, a group of young men sell a hyperbolic, alpha-male version of themselves on the internet. Through the course of one night, the film explores the dichotomy between these online personas and their private selves, drawing on themes of desire, masculinity, sexuality, power, and performance.
Return to Youth
Mel Sangyi Zhao / China 2022 / 16'56" / DCP / colour / Chinese / Fic
Bing, a feisty former dancer in her 50s, rejects an opportunity to have a vagina rejuvenation surgery but then goes on to deal with the feelings unearthed by this proposal. At the same time, an encounter with a young man and an alluring party organized by her girlfriends make her reconsider pleasure and joy.
Marungka tjalatjunu
Derik Lynch/Matthew Thorne / Australia 2023 / 25' / DCP / colour / English / Fic/Doc
The film follows a Yankunytjatjara man's road trip back to the country for spiritual healing, as memories from his childhood return. A journey from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide, back home to his remote Anangu Community on sacred Inma ground. Inma is a traditional form of storytelling using the visual, verbal, and physical.