Muestra Reflexiva / Reflexive Shortfilms
En esta muestra estamos invitados a mirar al interior de los realizadores para ser testigos de primera mano de las motivaciones que detonan el ejercicio creador de cada autor.
Deseos, frustraciones, temores, identidades de género, autorreconocimiento y autoaceptación, son los temas recurrentes en las películas aquí presentadas. Este tipo de propuestas pueden ser vistas como acciones de catarsis para conjurar demonios personales y liberar taras acumuladas durante años y experiencias de vida.
Aparentemente pueden ser reflexiones individuales o íntimas, pero por tratarse de cuestiones propias del ser humano estas reflexiones encuentran eco e identificación en el espectador.
Pearls
The song "Pni'nim" (“Pearls” in Hebrew) by the artist Daniela Spector is a multi-dimensional piece: about a dream, a memory, and departure. Elusive and fluid, time functions as the fourth element, allowing the transitioning between the other dimensions. The music video tries to capture time, not by stopping it, rather than placing the character on the timeline, emphasizing its constant flow. Idan Barzilay - Israel.
Finity Calling
In search of his boundaries, a boy violates the strict social rules inside the room. When the fragile equilibrium in the group is broken, the results are explosive. Jasper Kuipers - Netherlands.
INVISIBLE
Eva lives a normal life until the technologic company Network puts on a sale the new product "B- Blue", an augmented reality glasses that threatens to end all human contact and interaction as we know it. From this moment, Eva has to deal with advertising harassment and the feeling of being completely ignored by everyone around her. Paola Tejera - Spain.
TellTale
A man who holds too many secrets goes to confess to a sacred tree... Fu Yang - United States.
Echoes
ECHOES tells the story of a factory depressed worker who suffers an episode of dissociation. Diana Acién Manzorro - Spain.
The Crossing
'The Crossing' follows a Tibetan refugee as they attempt the dangerous trek across the Himalayas and explores what drove them to make this life-altering decision. Chris Shaw - United Kingdom.
ON
In our age of attention scarcity, ‘On’ explores just where our gaze is falling. Take a curious and playful glimpse into both the connectedness and enduring loneliness of the modern condition, through this intimate and unexamined lens. Jelena Sinik - Australia.
Machini
By necessity and especially by the force of the machine we have become sleepwalking beings beings deprived of God, the damned of the earth and test subjects over the black market of history test subjects of the machine. Frank Mukunday, Tétshim - The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Home
An hybrid animated short film based on a true story about a man who travels the world to find home. Taking the audience through his journey from never having a home, to finding one in the ones he loves. lillian Atkins - United Kingdom.
The Dogs I’ve Met Throughout My Life
A tribute to the dogs that impact our life. Inez Skilling - United Kingdom.
The Killing of the Oppressed Tyrant
Identity crises of a leader of a revolution realizing he is the person he is fighting against. Represents the duality in human condition where if someone’s put in a certain situation he can embrace either the role of the oppressor or the oppressed. Doriana Re - United Kingdom.
Phryné et Nyx
The daily life of two prostitutes. Johnny Video - Mexico.
PATCHWORK
Patchwork is the story of Loly, a 60 year old woman who needs a liver transplant. Loly is housewife, artist, cheff, psycologist and mother. The story is told by a the donor who gave his/her liver to her. How many organs does it need to be replaced to stop being yourself and becoming someonelse?. Maria Manero Muro - Spain.
Oh Crow! Oh Crow!
The crow thought the world was only darkness and shadows. But that was until a strange wind brought him a red feather, and his journey began. Oh Crow! Oh Crow! is a Native American tale from the Oji-Cree, of the strange feeling of growing up and becoming yourself. Pierre Garcia-Rennes - Canada.
Moist
Tears are soft fountain, when my tears flow,may add some moisture to the world. Chao Ming Lee - Taiwan.
Contact
The instinctive need for the contact has created an addictive relationship, what helps to keep up the endless washing cycle. Mari Kivi - Estonia.
Antarctic
A seal and a pinguin's trip from New-Zealand to Antarctica. Paola de Sousa - France.
Five
The starting point is a nursery rhyme about a carefree community in which everything runs according to fixed rules. But this community gets out of hand as two dare to break out of the structures. Peter Kaboth - Germany.
Iktamuli
The film depicts thoughts and feelings of a mother with her so-called mentally disabled son. While she moves with him through everyday life, her ambivalent feelings, her struggles to accept him as he is, get into her way. The story is told as an associative montage of scenes, following feelings and experiences of the mother, as we listen to her inner monologue. - Anne-Christine Plate - Germany.
Five minutes to sea
The mother issues her decree: before you get back in the water, you have to take a break and sit quietly for five minutes. For the little girl, these five minutes are an ocean of boredom that stretches on forever and ever. She starts to watch the other bathers and how they spend their five minutes. Natalia Mirzoyan - Russian Federation.
Urbanality
In a society driven by growth and development we don't often take time to appreciate this wild, wonderful world we occupy. Getting stuck in the daily grind is all too easy, but sometimes all that’s needed to open our eyes is a helping hand. Through the journey of that helping hand, ”Urbanality" explores the isolation of our modern environment, the resistance we have to change, and the beauty of going with the flow. The city folk are about to get a wake-up call. But, will they stop and listen? Evan McInnes -
Daughter
Should you hide your pain? Close yourself inside your inner world, full of longing for your father’s love and its displays? Or should you understand and forgive before it is too late?. Daria Kashcheeva - Czech Republic.
Pet Planet
Pet Planet is the best toy you've never had! Once unpacked and switched on, it forms an entire living world. Take good care of it and witness the rise of civilizations right on your tabletop. Nothing could ever go wrong. Ratimir Rakuljic - Croatia.
Monolog
How can a person, who is trapped as the only non-speaker in a world where sentences no longer be heard, surrendered to the pieces of dialogue that are poured out, go on? Selin Akalın - Turkey.
I Want A Sun In My Pocket
I Want A Sun In My Pocket is a landscape of feelings experienced by the inhabitants of one building. Loneliness, unworthiness, and a soothing encounter with the sun are in the midst of their inner battle. Laui Laessa - Costa Rica.
Florian
Every day, a bearded man must complete a strange and difficult ritual to prepare himself for the day ahead. Keshav Abrol, Lucas Londoño-Clayton, Pavel Loparev, Alicia Velasco - Spain.
AHEAD
A short story about living with and as a headless person. Ala Nunu Leszynska - United Kingdom.
Clara’s World
Young mouseling, upon hearing the tale of a wonderful Granary full of seeds, where mice live without worries, leaves his home in the burrows to find this wondrous place... Irina Tarasova - Belarus.
Dustbin
‘Koodedaan’ is a story told from a sweeper’s perspective who tries his best to keep the neighborhood clean but is ultimately drowned by the carelessness and unawareness of the citizens. Danish Kelkar - India.