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
Elouan Le Bars (France) Duration: 24′ 31″ A company sets up management sessions using virtual reality. Employees talk about their dreams, aspirations and difficulties in a fictitious world. The real space slowly merges with the digital environment, until...
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | First expressions
Jan-David Bol (Switzerland) Duration: 6′ 24″ Oscar’s late. In the surrounding skyscrapers hands are shaken and contracts are signed. That’s the last thing he needs right now. Where do these damned snails come from? View film...
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
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...
