OUT OF CRIMES

directed by Peter ZUO

Miner Junpo’s daughter is seriously ill and in urgent need of treatment. As a result, Junpo searches for the mine owner Liangui, demanding for the compensation of his work injury. Liangui had already prepared money for Junpo, but eventually uses the money to help out Director Qin. In desperate, Junpo kidnaps Liangui’s daughter.

THE FIFTH SUN

directed by Cristiana Pecci and Matteo Maggi

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Is travelling a form of vagrancy? Or is it more of an inner journey completing you at the end of the road? This is one of the questions pondered on this documentary about the Wanderlust: the irresistible desire to wander the world.
The directors decide to follow Panu, a Finnish traveler, in a road trip from Finland to Australia to witness a full sun eclipse. Unexpectedly, something goes wrong.
“The Fifth Sun” is a glimpse into a lifestyle where your whole life fits into a backpack, shaping your ideas about freedom.

JUDITH HOTEL

directed by Charlotte Le Bon

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Have you ever dreamed of going to sleep and never wake up? Rémi has. Eight years of insomnia have made his life a living hell. By booking a room at the Judith Hotel, a very popular establishment, he is giving himself the opportunity for a new start.

INTO MY LIFE

directed by Sarah Keeling, G. Remington, I. Hucikova

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Growing up in 60’s and 70’s Brooklyn, Cassandra Bromfield’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera. A schoolteacher with many creative talents, Cassandra’s mom documented the exuberance of her neighborhood’s public spaces: the lively pool, the packed playground, and the graffitied handball court. Children and teenagers gleefully performed in front of her Bolex. Cassandra still lives in the same place, working as a creative fashion designer during the day, and as a filmmaker at night.

COSMOS OBSCURA

directed by Kate Balsley and Irina Escalante Chernova

In Cosmos Obscura, the universe is at once known and unknowable. New patterns, rhythms and metaphors are born from old ones. Familiar celestial bodies are refracted into strange and unusual forms. The visuals were created from photographs taken from the Voyager II spacecraft. Photographs of the planets and their moons were abstracted and animated in order to create various patterns, rhythms and images.

AND THE MOON STANDS STILL

directed by Yulia Ruditskaya

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The presence of the moon affects all under its glow. The film explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance. 

OUT OF CRIMES

directed by Peter ZUO

Miner Junpo’s daughter is seriously ill and in urgent need of treatment. As a result, Junpo searches for the mine owner Liangui, demanding for the compensation of his work injury. Liangui had already prepared money for Junpo, but eventually uses the money to help out Director Qin. In desperate, Junpo kidnaps Liangui’s daughter.

DENA RASSAM for TATTOO

directed by Farhad Delaram

The young Iranian woman had not been expecting this kind of examination. She only wanted to renew her driver’s license. However, when the officials noticed a scar on her wrist and her tattoo, they began looking at her with suspicion. Suddenly she is trapped, forced to answer personal questions and exposed to insinuations. The camera captures the growing uneasiness with clinical precision.