Official Selection 2024
Animation
From the ultimate lunch table to confronting holiday resorts and a young punk in East Germany, the short films in the Animation programme challenge the boundaries of identity, creativity and comfort with fearless imagination. Expect an expressive collision of kaleidoscopic memories, tested friendships, escalating thoughts, and the role of a lifetime.
MARGARETHE 89
Dir: Lucas Malbrun
Leipzig, 1989. Margarethe, a young punk opposed to the East German regime, is detained and dreaming of breaking out to join the man she loves. Though the regime's days may well be numbered, the Stasi informants are more present than ever.
THE ROLE
Dir: Paolo Chianta
An animated short film about breakfast and one man blowing the role of a lifetime. A brother and sister approach a diner cook to play their father in an upcoming movie about his life. Their father was very, very famous. The diner cook is not famous. He must try harder…
SWEET LIKE LEMONS
Dir: Jenny Jokela
A visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.
MAKING MOUNTAINS
Dir: Sammi Duong
A chaotic stream of consciousness, expressing the escalating thoughts and feelings of a person navigating the difficulties of explaining her anxious mind.
THE MIRACLE
Dir: Nienke Deutz
Exploring a holiday resort after checking in late, Irma quickly comes to realise that everything there is designed to facilitate families. She fully immerses herself in the world of the all-inclusive resort, but how do you relate to a place that constantly confronts you with the things you don’t have?
VIEWFINDER
Dir: Nate Milton
A kaleidoscope of memories to remind us that we’re all living different facets of the same experience.
GIRLS IN REAL LIFE SITUATIONS
Dir: Ofre Sparrow Vaknin
Sam, Lexi and Jane spend the first day of Eighth Grade plotting a scheme to get the ultimate lunch table. Their plans unravel when Katy, a preppy, sixth-grade TikTok influencer, beats them to the coveted spot.
27
Dir: Flóra Anna Buda
Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating, she still lives with her parents and dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?
PEEPING MOM
Dir: Francis Canitrot
Eli, fifty, takes care of his mother. Intrusive and lustful, the old lady is nostalgic about her wild youth - and completely obsessed with sex.
Official Programme 2024
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