FIDMarseille Spotlight
Long Distance
Israel / 2015 / 15 minutes / NR / dir. Yotam Ben-David
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)
Israel / 2013 / 32 minutes / MA / dir. Yotam Ben-David
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)
Germany, Denmark / 2017 / 17 minutes / NR / dir. Dane Komljen
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
Tottori
Italy / 2015 / 6 minutes / NR / dir. Luca Ferri
In Tottori, Japan, the smallest desert place in the world, where Hiroshi Teshigahara directed his film "Woman in the Dunes" (1964) every year more than two million people come to visit the ...
Colombi
Italy / 2016 / 21 minutes / NR / dir. Luca Ferri
A couple of lovers spends together a century of life, while trends, objects and films decline towards the horror. They are obsessed with the octagonal knobs of coffee pots and anonymous desi...
Ab ovo
Italy / 2017 / 25 minutes / NR / dir. Luca Ferri
In a desert and hostile paradise, between mountains of sand and solitary camels in perpetual journey, life is renewed with a promise of love in the shade of a lone tree. Adam and Eve have a ...
Nightfall
Thailand, Singapore / 2016 / 15 minutes / NR / dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen
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
China / 2017 / 12 minutes / NR / dir. Pavel Tavares
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
Russia / 2017 / 11 minutes / NR / dir. Pavel Tavares
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...
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Features
The Missing Sun
US / 2017 / 79 minutes / NR
dir. Brennan Vance
After a solar flare powers down her remote community, Alma discovers her husband Terry comatose. Suspecting he is having an out-of-body affair with an ex-lover, Alma attempts to bring him back to reality with h...
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Here In Lisbon
Portugal, Canada / 2015 / 88 minutes / NR
dir. Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes, and Marie Losier
Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city y...
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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)
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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