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CHECK OUR FULL SCREENING PROGRAMME THAT TOOK PLACE AT SFF 2018
20.06.18
DAY 1
21:30 –
00:00
SLOT 1
21:30 –
00:00
Clearing
Margo Mot
Gust, an imaginative ten-year-old boy goes to meet his stepmother’s family for the first time. He is the only child other than his baby brother, who gets all the attention whilst Gust gets left behind to occupy himself with his imagination. At the family meeting Gust meets his aunt Vera. Just like Gust, Vera experiences the meeting from a distance and soon it becomes clear that she doesn’t function like the rest of the family. Though she tries hard to be accepted in the same way as her younger and more successful sister Nathalie. The adults treat Vera like a child but with his fanciful and unprejudiced view, Gust gets interested and fascinated by her. When Vera desperately runs away after yet another incident, Gust decides to follow her into the woods, where he finds her standing in a lake. They become aware of each other and the connection they share and decide to wait in the woods together as the family party carries on without them. MORE
Scent of the Stars
Francesco Felli
Nino, out of the madhouse after thirty years, finds himself incapable of living otherwise. Just as Adriano, a hospital doctor, shot home from his wife and also unable to find the courage to face life. They all will find the meaning of small things again MORE
Yia Yia: A Portrait
Greg Sego
Between 1939 and 1945, an estimated 40.5 million Europeans were uprooted and displaced… This is the story of 1 of them. "Yia Yia: A Portrait" documents the life and times of "Yia Yia" Mary Vorgia, as told by herself. From a youth spent in the sleepy mountains of Peloponnesus, to her sudden exodus to a land called Manhattan, Yia Yia reflects upon her life's journey, one both familiar and unique. For before she was Yia Yia, or even Mary, she was Maria, one of the millions of mid-20th century Europeans to have had their lives interrupted by the encroaching forces of World War II. What follows is one woman's odyssey, spanning much time and many places, to reclaim her lost innocence, heal an enduring trauma, and grow a family of her own. (English, 20 min.) MORE
Heimlich
Kostas Bakouris
Heimlich is homely. Paris lives in an unhomely home. Serena wants a home, in a place you wouldn’t exactly call Paris. They drink. They talk. They merge. In water, beer and memory. A frog leaps. Strange. Stranger. Unhomely. Unheimlich. Stranger than home. MORE
KCPK – The End
Loïc Andrieu
The cinematic video is capturing a teenage girl's worst nightmare through adolescent angst, bathed in underlying sexual tension, and depicts the inevitable end of youth and purity. MORE
Personas Non Grata
Alvin Adadevoh, Amber Lee
An international performance art group changes the lives of their members and audience through their radical underground shows. Personas Non Grata is a proof of concept for the feature length documentary Academia Non Grata. MORE
fiSOlofia
Nicola Palmeri
Three retired friends love to talk in a bar in their country. They do not talk about politics, sports or local gossip but are questioning on philosophical themes that will bring them to life in an animated way. The flashbacks of a more erudite narrator than others will open up surreal moments that trigger these new questions. Between doubts and certainties, between faith and reason, friends will reflect on the fundamental questions of existence. MORE
Little Fiel
Irina Patkanian
Artist Fiel dos Santos grew up during the 16-year-long civil war in his home country of Mozambique. The only one of his family to never have shot a gun, today he makes art out of guns to commemorate the lives lost. MORE
Reflections
Florent Agostini
In a society close to our own, where the poor take an important role in the equilibrium of the community, Leria, a young woman in need is passing a job interview. MORE