❗ Trigger/content warning: sex, nudity, gunshots
Additional screening: 15 September / 18:00 / Anschlag hall та 16 September / 19:40 / Anschlag hall
The International Competition presents a diverse range of short films from various locations and genres. This category embodies our festival's desire to explore new and innovative approaches to filmmaking.
AN ODD TURN
Director: Francisco Lezama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 22
Buenos Aires, 2019. Lucrecia, who works as a museum security guard, foresees a sharp rise in the dollar’s value with her pendulum. When she suddenly loses her job, she receives an unexpected severance payment and falls in love with the employee of a currency exchange office.
Dreams like paper boats
Director: Samuel Suffren
Country: Haiti
Duration: 19
Edouard has been living in Port-au-Prince with just his daughter Zara for five years. Since his wife left, his daughter and him have only received a cassette from her, and that was a long time ago. After years of absence, what can we expect from a distant love?
SAUNA DAY
Director: Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash
Country: Estonia
Duration: 13
Sauna Day invites you into the world of Southern Estonian men who go to the dark-intimate space of a smoke sauna after a hard day's work. Beneath their tough exteriors lies a desire for connection, veiled in secrecy.
perfectly a strangeness
Director: Alison McAlpine
Country: Canada
Duration: 15
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.
Titanic, suitable version for Iranian families
Director: Farnoosh Samadi
Country: France
Duration: 15
Titanic, broadcasting suitable version for Iranian families, with fantastic visuals and everlasting sound for the first time from Iranian national TV.