International competition
2020 programThe self-portrait of a man torn between two languages and two cities, an essay in comparative town planning, a critical history of United States’ imperialism in South America, a eulogy to...
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This brief film is part of an ongoing project, Kafka for Kids, a series, supposedly for television, based on The Metamorphosis. Like in The Dust Chanel (FID 2016), it will mix animation, live action,...
En savoir +As we all know, one of the traits of a statuary is the transmission and the inscription in a future we think of as being unlimited, as unusable as stone. Reality shows that the vagaries of History...
En savoir +The story takes place at the edge of, on the surface and sometimes bellow the waters of a great lake in Laos. France helps her mother in keeping the family business afloat. Mr Wong, a Chinese...
En savoir +Gyres are gigantic ocean currents that carry all kinds of objects across oceans. When they leave the vortex of the gyre, some of these items eventually wash up on the shore, where “beachcombers”...
En savoir +A young woman at the wheel wipes a small tear off her face. She’s on her way to a hamlet nested up in the mountain. In the background, a romantic pop song. It’s winter, the icy wind blows. The...
En savoir +To begin with, N. P. is the title of a Banana Yoshimoto novel published in 1990. Riddles unfold around another eponymous text, a collection of short stories written in English, this time, by Sarao...
En savoir +Few challenges are harder to rise to for a young filmmaker, making her first feature film, than the one Carolina Moscoso set herself: to make a film based on the rape she was the victim of eight...
En savoir +The film opens with the word “us” in italics, for everyone to define for themselves. The sole mission of Northern Range, like any authentically political film, is to seek and invent this...
En savoir +A terrified young woman is staring at a disturbing monstrosity, a kind of Pagan spirit that has sprung out of a river. Such is the opening scene of Pajeú, named after the creature, a fantastic...
En savoir +Río Turbio is the name of a mining town located in Argentine Patagonia. Where women are forbidden to go down the wells because of the bad luck they would bring to it. Witchcraft stories whose...
En savoir +A field: flowers – yellow – insects. A woman’s face appears in close-up, staring at the camera, to the sound of a baroque song celebrating Orpheus, the trees and the stones. With charcoal, the...
En savoir +As a director with a highly acclaimed filmography (Hasta el sol tiene manchas, FID 2012, Cómprame un Revólver, Directors’ Fortnight 2018), Julio Hernández Cordón has lost nothing of his...
En savoir +To begin with, Anna, was a young woman who used to be a drug addict, and pregnant now. underground film-maker Alberto Grifi and renowned actor Massimo Sarchielli met her in Rome’s Piazza Navona on...
En savoir +“Between Popocatépetl and Ixtaccihuatl, one day before the war. Maria, forced to marry a bandit, escapes her fate and runs away into the woods in the company of El Toro. Rosario, in love with an...
En savoir +Let’s embark upon a journey to discover two collective housing projects. One in Kharkiv, Ukraine, from the early days of the Soviet era in 1930; the other, in the suburbs of Rotterdam, in the...
En savoir +« Nothing grows here, neither the mockery of the poor nor the big laughter of power ». A text is woven all through the film, picked up in the evocative power of words as they concentrate on the...
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