Shorts New Talents Competition: Live-action 4
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5th Lux HallApollo Kino Plaza
Screening080516 / Shorts New Talents võistlusprogramm: lühifilm 4
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French Touch explores the lingering impact of neocolonial structures inherited, among other things, from what is known as ‘FrançAfrique’ (French-African diplomatic relations).
After her grandfather's death, Ebba watches a VHS of him carving a willow flute. Her patience ends before the video does, but a question takes hold: how do you make… things? Pulled into an algorithmic rabbit hole, she can no longer distinguish what she has lived from what she has only scrolled past. Workers hands, magic cars, children with fidgeting fingers who never learned to hold a spoon. Nobody knows. Nobody needs to.
In 2021, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long kills 6 Asian women in massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia as a way to suppress his uncontrollable sexual desire. Dutch-Japanese filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus writes letters to the young murderer to find out what his killings have to do with her sexual life. What do our racial fetishes tell us about our hidden human desires?
There's a disease going around, a disorder of inner liquids. Five separate instances are tied together through what is blue, rather than what is not - from which, a woman in distress that lurks around a subway station, and two girls sharing an intimate moment, whilst being watched.
Far from proving anything spiritual, it proves that the body is, alas, and all too much, just a body.
Candela has a monotonous life in an inland town. During the town festival, she accidentally runs over her nephew's dog, but decides not to confess. Instead, she invents a legend about a dog pilgrimage to a sacred tree and invites him to join her in the search. Slowly, the lies begin to consume her.