Films

• Adela34'
  Adela

  Production: France 2013

  Adela is travelling by train with her children. She's telling the story of moving: in the last year they have moved sixteen times. Currently they are living in a neighbourhood of cardboard houses. Their everyday life: preparing food, chastening, riding the bike, dancing outside. Everything is so ordinary, until the police come. That is when you need to take as much as you can carry. Adela isn't cheerful anymore. Her face is strained, she keeps telling the kids to hold hands. Adela and her family are Romanians. They live in France.

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Avril Besson
• Arefi, das Hirte8'

  Arefi, das Hirte / Arefi, the Sheperd
  Production: Iran / Germany 2013

  Dasht-e Kavir – the Great Salt desert in Iran. There probably are not many places on Earth where survival is as difficult. There is a man living in Dasht-e-Kavir, struggling with its nature and, simultaneously fascinated by its beauty. Mohammad Arefi, a humble shepherd, has had a bond with the desert since his childhood, and through his family's history – for generations. The film's director came across his protagonist while travelling through Iran. This meeting bore fruit to a film portrayal of a man who takes care of his herd of sheep and goats every day, far away from his family – as have the inhabitants of these lands for centuries.

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Daniel Asadi Faezi
• Forget9'

  Forget
  Production: Portugal 2013

  In Brazil, which from 1964-85 was governed by one military dictatorship after another, members of radical student movements were imprisoned and tortured. The opponents of the regimes had their teeth broken, fingers cut off, were electrocuted. One of the torture victims is Brazil’s current president, Dilma Rousseff. Most people who experienced the persecution can not get rid of the traumatic memories. This short documentary, made with the use of black and white photos, shows the suffering, despair, and nightmares of its animated protagonist, one of many. Despair, suffering, and nightmares define her life. We see her outdoors and in the house, where she lives with her loneliness and her only companion, a dog she named Lamarca.

  

   

  

   

  

   

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  Authors:

  • Xando Geddes
• FUROR17'

  FUROR
  Production: Belgium 2013

  A young man is sitting in the woods. He is alone. He talks about fights. About how the forest carries the sound of PK machine guns. About “rolling” with gun in hand, because you can't just stand up and run without being a moving target for your enemies. About holy Mary Jane, dearest mary jane. He role-plays rolling, shooting, smoking weed. The boy is in a trance-like state, western man might say: like in a computer game. The boy is Serge, a young actor with the past of a child-soldier – one of over 117 thousand in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Somewhere in a Belgian forest Serge gives accounts, role-plays, and revives his past for the benefit of passive receivers.

  

   

  

   

  

   

  

   

  

   

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  Authors:

  • Salomé Laloux-Bard
• O rządach miłości13'

  O rządach miłości
  Production: Poland 2013

  An animated, personal, and philosophical documentary. Mariusz – the film's protagonist and narrator – tells a simple story: about himself, about others, about visions, about dreams, about mood changes. Adela Kaczmarek follows Mariusz's words and drawings. He has been mentally ill for many years. Through his drawings and his tale we discover this man's world – in both its difficult-to-penetrate aspect of what we call illness, and its universal aspect.

  

   

  

   

  

   

  

   

  

   

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  Authors:

  • Adela Kaczmarek
• Stay the Same14'

  Stay the Same
  Production: UK 2013

  Recording footage for this experimental documentary took place over the course of a year: every day at the same time in the same place. Stay the Same talks about our relation to time and the need to capture the feeling, the experience, the emotion. Without any words or changing the camera angle, the film goes from darkness to light, shows seasons and emotions. Never-ending change is the only thing that is constant. It broadens the boundaries of the form, creating a part of film poetry, showing beauty and pain present in every day. Director Sam Firth came to one and the same place at the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland every day at the same hour, and for ten minutes filmed her self-portrait. The film is an accumulation of these moments, accompanied by Fraya Thomse's score made especially for the film.

  
   

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  Authors:

  • Sam Firth