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Short film theme program "Space and Time"#24

October 19, 18:00 | Puschkino 1

international short film program on the theme of “Space and Time
Online available 15 - 30 October

A Study of Empathy

Director: Hilke Rönnfeldt
Feature Film/ Dänemark 2023/ 14:35 min
Synopsis:

Dana wants to show empathy. Penelope wants to explore empathy. Penelope’s artistic experiment unfolds and Dana’s feelings get mixed up.

JAN

Director: Febe Van Avermaet
Animation/ Belgien 2023/ 05:05 min
Synopsis:

Jan, a 48-year-old, neurotic, socially inept man, tries to find peace during a chaotic train journey.
He escapes into a dream about geese.

Drijf

Director: Levi Stoops
Animation/ Belgien 2023/ 14:59 min
Synopsis:

Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea. In the endless expanse of the ocean, they are trapped together on a small tree trunk. Not understanding each other’s desires and limitations, the fight for their survival and the survival of their relationship becomes a bloody mess. Will our castaways manage to evolve as they try to return to shore, or will they lose a piece of themselves along the way?

Misaligned

Director: Marta Magnuska
Animation/ Polen 2022/ 07:00 min
Synopsis:

The woman and the man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, several flies circle around a lamp. Gradually, we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and the elements observed, while the rhythm of their universes accelerates. The microcosms shown seem to interact rhythmically and belong to a cosmic order.

ZwischenZeit

Director: Theresa Rehe
Feature Film/ Deutschland 2023/ 14:51 min
Synopsis:

After several years of sparse contact, father and daughter try to rediscover their once strong connection, so that the farewell will not be their last encounter.

La saison pourpre

Director: Clémence Bouchereau
Animation/ Frankreich 2023/ 09:40 min
Synopsis:

On the edge of a mangrove, a group of girls live to the rhythm of the climate and the wild geese around them. They see themselves living and growing up at different ages. Over time, tensions and rivalries arise.

Whatever moves is alive

Director: Noémie Marsily
Animation/ Belgien 2022/ 11:05 min
Synopsis:

While snails wander across the kitchen floor, Noémie draws her self-portrait, moving and fragmented, on the border between the intimate and the hustle and bustle of the world.

Wander to Wonder

Director: Nina Gantz
Animation/ Belgien 2023/ 13:20 min
Synopsis:

Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature human actors who appear in a children’s television series from the 1980s called ‘Wander to Wonder’. After the show’s creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and their growing hunger, they shoot increasingly strange episodes for their fans.

Hymn of the Plague

Director: Philipp Ivanov, Alexander Epikhov, Dimitri Gorbaty
Feature Film/ Deutschland 2024/ 13:30 min
Synopsis:

In an old Soviet recording studio, a group of musicians attempt to record a composition based on Pushkin’s play ‘A Feast in Times of Plague’. A strange and frightening phenomenon is disturbing the musicians – be it the ghosts of the past or an echo of a war. Nobody notices what is happening around them until the end.

Her Own Truth

Director: Agnieszka Kruczek
Animation/ Polen 2023/ 09:50 min
Synopsis:

In 1981, we left Poland for a short visit to Germany. My grandmother was desperate, she said she would never see us again. And in fact, due to unforeseen events, we stayed much longer than we thought. But eventually we were to return to Poland for Christmas…
It’s a story about families torn apart, longing and loneliness. And how we are sometimes simply left to our fate.

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