Short and Medium-Length Competitions
What does it mean to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel? Two Palestinians debate the question, after one of them signs a petition demanding the cancellation of a Radiohead concert.
I Signed the Petition
- Mahdi Fleifel
- 2018
- United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland
- s.t. English
- 11 min
International Feature Competition
Consisting mainly of archival footage, this film looks back on 30 years of Irish history alongside the personal story of a son trying to understand his father.
Canadian Feature Competition
Switching between fiction and documentary, self-portrait and poetic essay, Impetus is a meditation on creativity, everyday poetry and the beauty of human contact.
Impetus
- Jennifer Alleyn
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 95 min
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
Portrait of elderly residents of the coastal town Ushimado, Inland Sea is a poetic, melancholy look at a culture, era and community on the verge of disappearing.
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
A hybrid project – film, photography, sociology, philosophy – that takes an original look at something underrepresented in most films.
Interchange
- Melanie Shatzky, Brian M. Cassidy
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 61 min
The State of the World
A haunting, meditative exploration of an Australian island and its detention centre for asylum-seekers, capturing human beings trapped in an arcane and brutal system.
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
- Gabrielle Brady
- 2018
- Germany, United Kingdom, Australia
- s.t. English
- 94 min