International Competition: And what remains is the maze (Repeat Screening)
Friday, 21 January 2022
Image: North Pole, Marija Apcevska, 2021
They had no words but to conceive their longing silently. Tethered by reality of others, men searching for passing love, a teenager fails to recognise herself, a mother-to-be is in despair at her community and a child's mind runs wild in quarantine. Today may look like tomorrow, but it's not the same.
Curated by Qila Gill
Fireflies
Léo Bittencourt
19'
2021
Brazil
The night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Parque do Flamengo while the city of Rio de Janeiro falls asleep.
North Pole
Marija Apcevska
15'
2021
Macedonia,the former Yugoslav Republic of
Misty field, crowded locker room. Margo belongs to neither. Maybe if she loses her virginity, she will finally find her place.
Sër Bi
Moly Kane
20'
2021
France
Tomorrow, Zuzana is getting married.
Now each minute counts to erase her past and become the woman she’s expected to be.
August Sky
Jasmin Tenucci
16'
2021
Brazil
As the Amazon burns for the seventeenth day, a nurse in Sao Paulo finds herself drawn to a neo-Pentecostal church.
The Fourth Wall
Mahboobeh Kalaee
10'
2021
Iran
Home and family, relationships, desires, wishes and everything is summarized in a kitchen. The stuttering boy is alone there, playing with his imagination.