EunJu Ara Choi

‘Happy Ending’ is a poetic documentary animation based on an anonymous online testimony of a Korean prostitute. She is forced to feel pleasure as her job is believed to have to feel and enjoy it regardless of her will. She is suffered for her stigma. However, she explores her body and desire to abolish society’s prejudices against people with prostitutes.

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0:04:45

Julie Annlie

Marie spends her day drying sheets. Suddenly, she’s in the middle of the great unknown alongside a young man, to confront her greatest fear: herself.

Denmark

0:25:00

Christine Jezior

Perfect pictures are given to us every day: The optimal body, the optimal nutrition, the optimal life – everything within reach. All we have to do is make an effort and show some discipline – so the message.
Self-tuning is necessary to belong to.
And caution: don't show any weakness.

Germany

0:06:00

Monty Scholz

Moritz tells us why his last relationship ended and how it did.

Germany

0:08:16

Rain Kencana

Two brothers embark on a soulful journey through their own world of childhood memories in Anatolia. They dance between this world and the beyond and reveal a dark secret.

Germany

0:13:29

Lynne Sachs

In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The shack had no running water or electricity. While there, she shot 16mm film with her Beaulieu camera, recorded sounds with her cassette recorder and kept a journal.

In 2018, Barbara began her own process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her Duneshack images, sounds and writing to filmmaker Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with the material.

“While editing the film, the words on the screen came to me in a dream. I was really trying to figure out a way to talk to the experience of solitude that Barbara had had, how to be there with her somehow through the time that we would all share together watching her and the film.  My text is a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces at once.” — Lynne Sachs

United States

0:14:00

Nikola Duravcevic

Alone in New York, Somali rideshare driver Abdi begins his nightshift with the news of a tragedy back home. The faces in the backseat change as he wrestles, unable to connect, with whether the unthinkable can be true—until a vision provides the clarity he seeks. Poetic and lyrical, BROOKLYN PARK is a modern-day immigrant tale that explores alienation, grief, and transcendence.

United States

0:14:49

Ryoji Yamada

A young boy lives in peace und protected in a cave world. His life changes rapidly when his mom doesn't come home and he is forced to seek after her.

Germany

0:07:07