INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
SECOND EDITION
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2021
FICTION 24'16 ''
Ange-Marie is a 45-year-old fisherman living in Corsica. He lives with his brother and his old mother in a secluded place where women are scarce. One day, returning from fishing, Ange-Marie finds himself alone on the "cow beach" and sees three beautiful bathers. The image of these women then haunts him and draws him to the sea.
FICTION 17'29 ''
A boy meets another boy. A few hours later the world ends.
FICTION 16 '
Times are a bit hard for Fabio, a young Roman musician and for the people around him. Everything seems suspended as everyone struggles to keep their dreams, desires, relationships and usual problems afloat. Someone, however, manages to remind him of the value of the things he loves the most.
FICTION 14'56 ''
A small port town in the Japanese countryside: Saori, a hairdresser, dreams of big city life in Tokyo. Yokochin, a reluctant rapper, seeks his voice. Kyoko, a femme fatale DJ, is obsessed with her 1960s radio show. One fateful night will change their lives.
DOCUMENTARY 13'59 ''
The combination of fictional and documentary elements make BABA a surreal portrait of a light-hearted Turkish immigrant.
FICTION 20'24 ''
A man finds his stolen bicycle which now belongs to a stranger. In his attempts to retrieve it, he struggles to remain human.
FICTION 25'30 ''
Somewhere in Europe, somewhere in Poland lives Pawel, a simple man who works on a small river ferry near his village. One day he notices someone swimming across the river. Finally, there is someone with whom Pawel can talk.
EXPERIMENTAL 1'23 ''
The virtual me as a shadow of the self. Spatial boundaries dissolve, I am everywhere and yet nowhere. How do you find your balance with the virtual world when corporeality is almost irrelevant here?
EXPERIMENTAL 10 '
The short shows the evolution of the director, from her childhood to the moment in which she decides she no longer wants to be a human being, a political and provocative resolution.
FICTION 11'19 ''
Vittoria, twenty years old and the continuous search for herself. A voracious, ravenous, daring girl who embodies the distress of many young people in the era of the new. The girl's concerns are contrasted by a more attentive, intimate look made up of questions and considerations typical of those who seem to have understood the difficult task of finding their place in the world.
FICTION 9'59 ''
Alice works at a gas station. He no longer plays and has buried his fire for music deep inside. On a hot summer day, her old music teacher shows up to her. Alice then begins to wonder if she has run out of fuel for too long.
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