❗ Trigger/content warning: suicide attempt, drug use
Every story has its own melody, and in this program, those melodies take center stage. From quirky tales of love that comes suddenly to bizarre adventures of singing animals taveling through space, these films seamlessly blend storytelling with music. Let the rhythm and lyrics carry you through a variety of emotions, as each short film sings its story straight to your heart.
ZOOPTICON
Director: Thies Mynther, Jon Frickey, Sandra Trostel
Country: Germany
Duration: 19
Imagine you are the only being in the universe floating through outer space, all on your own. This is the predicament of the Zoopticon, a spaceship with a face, filled with artifacts of life and culture from Earth. It’s also the perspective of five mutated singing animals who don’t know of each other’s existence - and that they are all on the Zoopticon, just rooms apart. When they finally encounter each other, they realize they are all living souvenirs from a mysterious planet called Earth, and have been shot into space as part of a theme park for an interstellar audience. They decide to emancipate themselves.
YOUR BURNED WORDS
Director: Noë Simondi, Jules Duclos
Country: France
Duration: 4
Ninho a young trans man, meets his family for dinner, not long after coming out to them. They get progressively more hostile and anxiety inducing, as they dismiss Ninho’s choices and he starts to spiral in a negativity bubble from wich he can’t escape. As he tells the story of his evening to his friends, they attempt to get him out of this dark mindset.
DON'T CRY GABRIEL
Director: Mathilde Chavanne
Country: France
Duration: 24
Gabriel is not good, the world is not good, everything is not good. Hopefully, sometimes, lost souls attract each other. Thus Margot embarks with Gabriel's on this night.
STRANGER
Director: Jehnny Beth, Iris Chassaigne
Country: France
Duration: 19
For the past 548 days, A has been absent from her own life, unable to feel anything. One night, J appears and takes her along with her, looking for ways to make her heart beat again. Stranger is a musical tale, the story of an awakening.
THE GREAT CONNECTION
Director: Christen Bach
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Denmark
Duration: 5
As a fiber optic cable suddenly appears at the bottom of the ocean the mythological creatures gather to debate: Will this be their salvation? Or will the teeth of this thing cause nothing but tears?