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Her Scents of Pu Er
Anna-Claria Ostasenko Bogdanoff (France) Duration: 17' 02" In a masked world where smelling, touching and tasting are almost forbidden, our senses diminish. Nevertheless, some are able to escape through the scent of a cup of tea, like Master Tseng. First woman to be...
Inquisitors
Mart Raukas (Estonia) Duration: 1 06' 05" A female academic uses her intelligence and charm to infiltrate a Dominican monastery’s secret library. Her goal is to track down and “cancel” a collection of eugenic materials, hidden in the monastery's library. The more the...
Night Ride From Los Angeles
Martin Gerigk (Germany) Duration: 5' 00" ‘Night Ride from LA’ is based on a real car ride at night from downtown LA to the desert near Palm Springs a few years ago. The footage was taken from the car by continually shooting single long exposure photos to document the...
LOVE-LIGHTS
Acàcio de Almeida & Marie Carré (Portugal) Duration: 1 07' 00" The evocation of light, which was the raw material with which the Man of Light worked all his life, in cinema, leads him to other reflections on the mysterious nature of light; in a pilgrimage that...
Permission to Land
Martin Gerigk (Germany) Duration: 3' 10" War. Fragility. Instruction Abidance. Intuition. Digitalization. Dichotomous decision paths. What would we do if we were given the freedom to direct possibilities? [button...
Routine Seasons
Paul Ballerini (Canada) Duration: 15' 18" Gabriella’s mother suffered a stroke that left her half-paralyzed and unable to care for herself. For the last ten years, Gabriella has been mostly unable to leave her home. Routine Seasons explores how the love and sacrifice...
Scenes, Overheard
Parlour Collective (United Kingdom) Duration: 19' 32" A series of scenes mis-heard between the town and the surrounding landscape, creates an odd dialogue that drifts between the two. Scenes, Overheard weaves together a series of impressions mis-heard between...
Sirens
Ilaria Di Carlo (Germany) Duration: 13' 23" Monolithic power plants; billowing columns of smoke; the backdrop of a red sun. Sirens captures Germany’s coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us...
Isolated People
Jun Wang (China) Duration: 1 46' 35" A pandemic suddenly came, Wang Yang lost her only relatives, she wanted to die, She was saved by the construction worker Jia Xiusheng. Wang Yang accidentally broke into the life of the construction worker Jia Xiusheng who is...
THE FLAME – The Art and the History of Lampworking
Emanuel Toffolo (Italy) Duration: 59' 00" New York, Corning Museum of Glass; Eric Goldsmith admires the collection of masterpieces realized over 4000 years ago by using lampworking technique. He wonders about the evolution its evolution and about the developments that...