Competition programme №2

France | 2016 | 12 min
Camilo Restrepo

To keep a promise she made to her dying mother, a young woman goes off in search of her father, a womanizer she has never met. Along the way, she soon learns that he is dead. But that doesn't change her plans, she still intends to find him. Carried by the spell-binding rhythm of the maloya, a ritual chant from Reunion Island, «Cilaos» explores the deep, murky ties that bind the dead and the living.

Germany | 2017 | 14 min
Alex Gerbaulet & Mareike Bernien

«Depth of field» examines the abysmal depth of three racially motivated crimes, committed between 2000 and 2005 by the far-right terrorist group «National Socialist Underground» (NSU) in Nuremberg, Germany. With its image axis repeatedly tilting, the film orbits as it observes, contextualizing the scenes of the crimes in terms of their surroundings, and showing how they are used and re-used today.

Morocco | 2016 | 12 min
Lois Patiño

In the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. From night ́s abstraction, light returns its dimension to space and their volume to bodies.

Brazil | 2016 | 23 min
Jonathas de Andrade

Fishermen from a village on the northeast coast of Brazil enact a ritual of embracing the fish that they have caught. The affectionate gesture that accompanies the passage of death is a testament to a relationship between species that is imbued with strength, violence and domination. This film has been made with a group of fishermen of Piaçabuçu and Coruripe, by the river São Francisco and the sea, Northeast of Brazil.

Germany | 2017 | 30 min
Бернд Лютцелер

Somewhere in the dreary nooks of Mumbai's film industry, «Camera Threat» explores the ambivalent relationship this film city has with the moving image. Seated on a casting couch, two actors are getting stuck in impromptu conversations on the side effects of a world that no longer bothers to tell facts from fiction.