FIDMarseille Spotlight

Long Distance
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Long Distance
Israel / 2015 / 15 minutes / NR / dir. Yotam Ben-David
  • 4 months ago
A long walk through paths and roads, through the relationships and distances between people. Two distant lovers, two homes falling apart and one forgotten birthday.
Remains (Hisha’arut)
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Remains (Hisha’arut)
Israel / 2013 / 32 minutes / MA / dir. Yotam Ben-David
  • 4 months ago
Itamar and Thomas share a bed, walls, an apartment and electricity bills. Thomas commands, manages, and criticizes; Itamar is silent and listens. Between the apartment walls, frustration and...
Fantasy Sentences (Phantasiesätze)
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Fantasy Sentences (Phantasiesätze)
Germany, Denmark / 2017 / 17 minutes / NR / dir. Dane Komljen
  • 4 months ago
Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of...

Shorts

Nightfall
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Nightfall
Thailand, Singapore / 2016 / 15 minutes / NR / dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen
  • 3 weeks ago
A day in the life of a nameless woman as she wanders around Singapore. Part documentary, part video essay, NIGHTFALL is a fictionalised account of the time an author spent during a residency...
The Last Small Village
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The Last Small Village
China / 2017 / 12 minutes / NR / dir. Pavel Tavares
  • 4 weeks ago
A day with the Yao people, living their work, rituals and routine in the early Spring. The culture and the contrast between the ancient and the modern in the rice terraces of Longji, China.
Alexander
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Alexander
Russia / 2017 / 11 minutes / NR / dir. Pavel Tavares
  • 4 weeks ago
A poetic interpretation of the life of Alexander, an orthodox priest who started a group of Christian motorcyclists and who currently struggles in all areas of his life: expelled from the ch...
Greenland
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Greenland
Isreal / 2014 / 17 minutes / NR / dir. Oren Gerner
  • 5 months ago
Oren (27) comes to his parents' house to pack his belongings before moving with his girlfriend to their new apartment. During this day, out of seemingly simple interactions, the family dynam...
World Wide Woven Bodies
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World Wide Woven Bodies
Norway / 2016 / 16 minutes / MA / dir. Truls Krane Meby
  • 6 months ago
At the end of the 90s the internet comes to the north of Norway and coincides with the blossoming sexuality of young Mads (12). The introduction of porn into his life complicates his relatio...
Route To Cape Town
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Route To Cape Town
Germany / 2005 / 5.4 minutes / NR / dir. Wolfgang Lehmann
  • 6 months ago
A short poem in black and white, in tones and shades, something secretive, something dark and sad lies within. It is filmed from inside a moving vehicle but in the very movement itself lies ...
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Locarno Channel

Features

Notes From Unknown Maladies
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Notes From Unknown Maladies
Philippines / 2018 / 62 minutes / NR
dir. Liryc Paolo Dela Cruz
A 94-year-old Concepcion has been suffering from nervous breakdown for the past 50 years. She chooses to live alone and is haunted by random memories of the past: a memory of a nation and other life’s mysteries...
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Traces Of Garden
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Traces Of Garden
Sweden / 2016 / 71 minutes / NR
dir. Wolfgang Lehmann
This work focuses on time of seeing and the colors, shapes and the transitions of images. The power of the moving image is that it speaks to us directly without the mediation of words.
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The Solitude
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The Solitude
Venezuela, Italy, Canada / 2017 / 89 minutes / NR
dir. Jorge Thielen Armand
Capturing the life of real people amidst the Venezuelan crisis, La Soledad is the story of José, a young father who discovers that the dilapidated mansion he occupies will soon be demolished. Desperate to save ...
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Agencia Highlights

Coup De Grâce
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Coup De Grâce
Portugal / 2017 / 25 minutes / NR
dir. Salomé Lamas
Leonor returns from a trip on a day where her dad wasn’t expecting her. In twenty-four hours they will live a crescendoing hallucinated reality, led by Francisco’s unsettling state of apparent normality.
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Cidade Pequena (Small Town)
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Cidade Pequena (Small Town)
Portugal / 2016 / 19 minutes / NR
dir. Diogo Costa Amarante
One day, the child Frederico learns from his teacher that bodies are made up of a head, trunk and limbs and that people die when their hearts stop. That night, he can’t sleep. He wakes his mother up several tim...
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Bunker
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Bunker
Portugal / 2015 / 30 minutes / NR
dir. Sandro Aguilar
A young girl spending time with her parents (a swinger couple) in a camping site meets an emotionally unstable recruit and becomes fascinated by his special powers. He falls in love with her, but he soon finds ...
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Retrospectives