23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

As If It Could

Ada Güvenir

Belgium

2023, 13'

When a plant isn’t growing well, you have to try to move it to a different location so that it gets more sun. This metaphor is the basis for an animation about the concept of borders and integration and what is needed for successful re-planting.

International Competition

INFO

PREMIERE TYPE

National

ORIGINAL TITLE

As If It Could

LANGUAGE

No Dialogue

SCRIPT

Ada Güvenir

SOUND

Arne Nuyts

EDITING

Ada Güvenir

PRODUCER

Brecht Van Elslande

PRODUCTION

Animal Tank

SALES

ShortsFit

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SAME SECTION MOVIES

International Competition

27

A film that illustrates (and animates) the exact notion of being 20-something and adrift in a chaotic world. To escape the daily drudgery at her parents’ house, Alice goes to a party. When she gets back, she has a bicycle accident that changes her perspective.

Flóra Anna Buda

France / Hungary

2023, 11'

International Competition

512×512

An exploration of how images composed by Artificial Intelligence can become an object of fascination, especially when we try to use them to excavate an obsession.

2023, 21'

International Competition

78 Days

It’s 1999 and NATO has invested against Serbia during the Kosovo War. But the protagonists are teenagers who deal with the threat of bombs by creating their own diary through home videos, concentrating on the things that make them still innocent, putting off the hardships of the world: mysterious boys, first kisses and intimate disappointments that mean they’re growing up too, whatever happens out there.

Emilija Gašić

2024, 85'

International Competition

ADE(On a Sunday)

Ade and Abu sneak out of Sunday school to go for a swim. When they are chased away from the water, they try a more adult liquid: their first sips of alcohol, as Ade sees his father do. The mischief will be discovered.

2023, 17'

International Competition

An odd turn

An Argentinian girl works as a guard in a museum in Buenos Aires. To pass the tedious nights, she decides to predict the future. Between the movements of the dollar, an indemnity and a new job, what happens is a new infatuation.

Francisco Lezama

Argentina / France

2024, 23'

International Competition

Bolero

At first, the story seems to have an if not predictable, at least classic vein, in which someone who doesn’t fit in where they used to live now has to spend time there. However, some sketches of confrontation are diluted in what becomes a literal dance of increasing hypnotic force that captures everyone’s attention, impulses, and feelings.

Nans Laborde-Jourdàa

2023, 17'

International Competition

Butterfly

We take the idea of a butterfly that flaps its wings and everything changes, and that’s exactly what happens in this painting-turned-cinema. A butterfly arrives and upsets all the daily harmony of these beings who live around a fountain in a garden.

Croatia / Denmark

2024, 8'

International Competition

Bye Bye Turtle

A girl runs away from home after her mother’s death. A woman, after years away from the region she grew up in, returns to give her father a present. The two meet along the way, helping each other along on their path.

Selin Öksüzoğlu

2024, 25'

International Competition

Christmas, Every Day

Two twins, still very young, already have a super popular footprint on social media. Their experiments with make-up and clothes are seen by countless people. The venture is supported by their parents. Anything goes when every day is Christmas.

2024, 14'

International Competition

City of Wind

Coming-of-age stories are film classics. In this one, Ze is a 17-year-old with a regimented life and several responsibilities on his shoulders, including high school, family obligations and the atypical responsibility of being the shaman of his town in Mongolia, which adds certain spiritual restrictions to his life. But when he meets Maralaa, his world opens up to new possibilities, sensations and desires.

Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir

France / Mongolia / Portugal / Netherlands / Germany / Qatar

2023, 103'

International Competition

Diamond Himalaya

A fascinating dive into a particular niche of the Internet that revolves around luxury items, in particular the Birkin bag, which the Hermès brand makes a difficult item to acquire due to its exorbitant price that discourages its purchase. Thus the desire for consumerism is generated.

2023, 23'

International Competition

Dolomite and Ash

Dina is a Russian film director dedicated to the history and present of Russia. Her latest project includes German sound designer Johan, whose grandfather disappeared during World War II in the USSR. Their journey through Soviet forced labour camps becomes a partnership that spills over into love. Dina (and the director Toma Selivanova) seek, through their artistic work, to question national traumas that still haunt the country.

Toma Selivanova

Russian Federation

2024, 90'

International Competition

Flower Show

A metaphor for the female condition that presents women as cultivated flowers that are expected to maintain a pre-established system. Until the seed of something can shake up the status quo.

2024, 9'

International Competition

Grandmamauntsistercat

Zuza Banasinska used materials from the Polish Educational Archive to talk about the female condition as something fantastic and mythical, seen through the eyes of a child. The most remarkable editing work in a film full of ingenious ideas.

Zuza Banasinska

Poland / Netherlands

2024, 23'

International Competition

Green Eyes

The myth of Pygmalion has a new interpretation here. A man who has lost his wife has only his memories and some videotapes that help him remember every detail about her. He wants, of course, to recreate her in all her glory. And now all he’s missing are her green eyes.

2023, 30'

International Competition

In Praise of Slowness

Tangier is a city undergoing rapid transformation. In this film, the focus is on traditional jobs that are becoming obsolete, the slow moments and gestures that are losing their place in a modern, bustling city.

United Kingdom / Italy

2023, 17'

International Competition

Jabal

The Promised Land is less a real place and more an eternal promise. This is a quest on which three friends embark, where the destination is a Palestinian community in the middle of the United States.

Jordan / United States

2023, 20'

International Competition

Like a Cloud

A mother of two, a kindergarten teacher, gets an extra job: voicing a character in an animated film. This step out of everyday life leads to an encounter with a person who opens the door to a beautiful dream, whether it comes true or not.

Christine Grulois

2023, 29'

International Competition

Look On the Bright Side

It’s a journey that’s made through the commanding editing work of a director with a master’s hand. Here, the journey takes us from the ore that is used in the component parts of our technology to what the technology itself then provides us with, in all its splendour of light.

2023, 17'

International Competition

Love, Your Neighbour

Amid the pandemic, we visited the neighbours of a community full of gates where the only way to meet is through closed gates, intercoms or a WhatsApp group. A cheeky look at what makes us afraid of the other.

Jethro Westraad

South Africa / Hungary / Portugal / Belgium

2023, 8'