Harvey, Janice Nadeau, Canada, 2023, 9’04’’
Harvey takes place during the first few days of spring, that time of year when kids are eager to see the snow melt and to cast off their winter coats, which suddenly seem way too warm. For ur eponymous protagonist, though, this spring will mark him forever - because this is the spring when his father passes away.
Echo, Sang Joon Kim, Republic of Korea, 2022, 17’15’’
Echo is a story about young brothers, living in an apartment in a newly developed city near Seoul, Korea in the 90’s. The brothers’ every morning starts to get disrupted by a strange man across the apartment yelling “yaho”. They start their own little investigation to find out the motifs of the man, after hearing the rumor that this strange man is a cannibal.
Crab, Piotr Chmielewski, Poland, 2022, 8’42’’
In this film we are taking a perspective of the crab and through his eyes and ears we are able to discover worlds that he lives in. Animals are our silent companions; they have witnessed the greatest achievements and most horrible failures of humankind. They live their lives parallel to ours – they are our food, our tools or, in the best case, we just don’t notice them. What will happen if we try to take their perspective? How events that we all know from history lessons may look like through the eyes of the animals who witnessed it?
Aaaah !, Osman Cerfon, France, 2022, 4’40’’
Aaaah! is a cry of pain, surprise, fear, joy, songs, grumbling, laughter, anger… Aaaah! is the expression with which children, these primary and innocent beings, experience life in a community, framed by the whistles of adults.
The sleeplessness of Jutka, Maria Görlich-Opyd, Poland, 2023, 17’20’’
Jutka is a rebelious seven-year-old whose world fell apart when she was closed in the Łódz ghetto. Now she wants to get her childhood back. When a monstrous Minotaur begins hunting children in her neighbourhood, she must follow the advice of her grandfather in order to escape.
Shackle, Ainslie Henderson, United Kingdom, 2022, 9’54’’
Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.
Pig, Jorn Leeuwerink, Netherlands, 2022, 8’16’’
A big group of animals makes itself dependent on a power grid, hooked onto the socket-shaped snout of a single sleeping pig... How long will that last?
