by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | First expressions
Pablo Cruz Villalba (Mexico) Duration: 29′ 56″ “Las Frias Sobras” follows the lives of a young couple and their baby in a gridlocked megalopolis. Mutual suspicions of infidelity, the alienating routine and insolvency are resolved in a dynamic...
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | First expressions
Mona Rossi (France) Duration: 36′ 00″ “Oh Janey the years have robbed me. Yes, the years have robbed me of you.” 1877-1912. Real and imaginary correspondence between Calamity Jane, the Far West heroine, and Janey, the child she had to abandon....
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | First expressions
Seyed Morteza Sabzeghaba (Islamic Republic of Iran) Duration: 12′ 23″ Ardalan, a young slightly deaf man, is working in a movie theater as janitor and operator. He wishes to play in movie and watch himself on the screen. View...
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | First expressions
Kate Voet (Belgium) Duration: 13′ 49″ Ana attempts to untangle the painful memories of the night when her marriage began to crumble. Unable to speak, she starts writing. Her diary becomes a letter to her husband about their growing alienation, set in a...
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | First expressions
Kateryna Tatarchuk (Ukraine) Duration: 2′ 53″ Two characters in the story are a 16-year-old girl and her father, who works at a slaughterhouse. One of the main goals for me was to make the essence of father ambiguous. He is compassionate and empathetic,...
