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...
Focus on Avant-Garde/sixpackfilm presents
Films by Peter Tscherkassky
Shorts
Hiwa
Greece / 2017 / 11 minutes / NR / dir. Jacqueline Lentzou
In Jay’s dream, Athens’ sun is so weak, you can look straight at it, without getting blind.
The Rivers Of Babylon
China / 2019 / 25 minutes / NR / dir. Yan Zhou
19-year-old Lily returns to her seaside hometown Beihai, a city neighboring Vietnam. The unexpected sudden arrival of a level-eight typhoon named “Mountain Spirit” delays her departure from ...
Gelem
Israel / 2014 / 12 minutes / NR / dir. Alon Sahar
Three soldiers are following orders as they have to reconstruct a suicide of a now deceased soldier: Yosef the MP interrogates, Buzi the company commander testifies, and a young unseen soldi...
Deer Boy
Poland, Belgium, Croatia / 2017 / 15 minutes / NR / dir. Katarzyna Gondek
Deer Boy is a story about a hunter’s son,
who was born with antlers, and about how each man kills the thing he loves.
Fat Boy Never Slim
Thailand / 2016 / 14 minutes / NR / dir. Sorayos Prapapan
Two fat schoolboys don’t want to serve in the military when they turn 21. They'd prefer to take the territorial defence course instead. But if they want to get in, they will have to pass a p...
A Souvenir From Switzerland
Thailand / 2015 / 13 minutes / NR / dir. Sorayos Prapapan
A film director Sorayos Prapapan who is invited to a film festival in Switzerland meets a filmmaker friend who had left Afghanistan in order to look for asylum. What starts of as a casual di...
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Features
The Shadow
Argentina / 2015 / 72 minutes / NR
dir. Javier Olivera
An audiovisual essay about memory, cinema, the father figure and its shadow.
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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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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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