Short and Medium-Length Competitions
The filmmaker asks her grandparents about their love story, which triumphed over convention and intolerance. Filmed with an iPhone, this is a playful, poetic and political essay.
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
In this film, we meet writer and theatrical director Oriza Hirata and his company. More than a portrait of the artist, this atypical film raises timeless questions: where does the ancient need to “play” come from?
Theatre 1
- Kazuhiro Soda
- 2012
- Japan, United States
- s.t. English
- 172 min
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
We are no longer in the creative world of Oriza Hirata but his relationship with the world around him analyzing the paradoxes and challenges facing society in the 21st century.
Theatre 2
- Kazuhiro Soda
- 2012
- Japan, United States, France
- s.t. English
- 170 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Testimonials from Pakistani paramedics and televised re-enactments of violent incidents come together in an exploration of a society’s traumas and its fascination with staged violence.
This Shaking Keeps Me Steady
- Shehrezad Maher
- 2018
- Pakistan, United States
- s.t. English
- 60 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
The forests of Michoacán, Mexico, have become the preserve of narco-capitalism. Victor Arroyo’s observational video essay testifies to the extreme violence now commonplace in the region.
Time Is Out of Joint
- Victor Arroyo
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec), Mexico
- s.t. English
- 25 min
Maria Augusta Ramos: Exposing the System
As gripping as any fictional thriller, The Trial follows the daily twists and turns of the trial that led to the impeachment of Dilma Rousse, Brazil’s first democratically elected woman president.
The Trial
- Maria Augusta Ramos
- 2018
- Brazil, Netherlands, Germany
- s.t. English
- 139 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through a portrait of talented Anishinaabe dancer and musician Joshua DePerry, who brings together tradition and modernity, Chrisann Hessing delivers an inspiring, hopeful film.