All Films in Competition

Liz and Beaux are a sister and brother, trapped in a closet as punishment by an alcoholic mother, but escape means they must face a far more nefarious world outside the doors of the closet.

1985. Tehran. Iran-Iraq war. For ‘Marmar’ it is another ordinary afternoon at the grandparents’. The echo of ‘Death to America’ chants from the morning school assembly mixes with ‘The voice of America’; grandad’s favourite radio program. Marmar is waiting for granny to make her a dress exactly the same as the glamorous American Popstar; Bright red. No straps.

Roderick looks at the vastness of the universe but only sees the futility of his efforts.
A film about the void we inhabit and how to stay sane in the face of it.

A group of tired playground visitors meet at night for a last contest.

A study on stains of reality. Moving images are visual representations of impulses, in relation to soundtrack, which is based on mixed up field recordings.

A classic study of a hand, drawn with charcoal on canvas, starts moving. It is a reflection and amazement about what we feel, sense, form, realize and effect and about who we are. A calm and touching film that leaves a lot of space to trace one’s own thoughts, in a certain way archaic but also aesthetic and virtuoso.

The yellow flower is the first sparkle of a lifecycle.
Animation Music Video

A shy girl obsessed with ketchup has to get out of her comfort zone when she runs out of her beloved ketchup.