Recommended for ages 14 and up
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CN: Thematization of suicidal thoughts
Four empathetic documentary views on the present: A kid shoots their perception of the world on a cellphone camera, in Cuba a youth processes their intricate daily life by way of a royal drama, a young filmmaker interprets the signs of the city and discovers practices of resistance, an elder woman wants to record stones’ age, a boy is interested in the big bang.
Four moments in the present which the cinema expands into fantasies and imaginaries, into the attempt to understand how it became, how it is, into the desire after how it could be. (Sebastian Markt)
Lisandro lives in the mountains of Argentina. In hasty, sometimes chaotic, always poignant snapshots, he films himself and his world: A close-up of his dog’s fur, bushes in the night, his parent’s kitchen, his sister, an old teddy bear. His thoughts jump from one to another, too. From the most mundane to existential questions and open a new view of the world: “What if I am the only human alive, and I’m imagining all of this?”
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Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Federico Luis, Rita Pauls
In a Cuban town, Vismán, a young man obsessed with historical fantasies, takes refuge in them to explore the complexity of his family ties and social environment. Tasked with sole care for his disabled father, he endeavors to breathe life into his epic narrative, THE REIGN OF ANTOINE, confronting daily adversities and seeking an escape in a crumbling world.
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Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: José Luis Jiménez Gómez
What does it mean to read a city? Boris
Dewjatkin undertakes forays through the city as a multi-layered space of signs,
based on his own youth in Berlin. Graffiti becomes a symbol of a form of
appropriation that resists the dominant practices of order. The city museum,
which the film celebrates, is the counter-model to the state museum and its
division of public space and historical memory. An ode to the chaotic obstinacy
of the city's inhabitants.
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Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Boris Dewjatkin
An alert, childlike gaze that is interested in everything: Tardigrades and trees, fire, the universe and the Big Bang: he takes everything as it is, everything is important. An age-wise view of stones that knows about their crystalline structures and tries to measure the temporal dimensions of their existence. A small boy and an older woman share their view of the world, the radio reports on the war and the things of life are miraculously placed in a new relationship between microscopic beings and the age of the universe.
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Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Ann Carolin Renninger
