FIDMarseille Spotlight
Hearths (Foyers)
France / 2018 / 18 minutes / NR / dir. Paul Heintz
A slow movement through a residential neighborhood, with empty streets, plain facades, as though artificial. A man recounts his story about the first time, attraction, desire, dizziness of t...
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Bosnia, Herzegovina, Italy / 2018 / 44 minutes / NR / dir. Gaetano Liberti
Solitude has a fragile rhythm; once it is disturbed, connections come loose, new ones are forged and inner maps need to be redrawn. A reclusive cartographer briefly engages in a dialogue wit...
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.
Focus on Avant-Garde/sixpackfilm presents
Films by Peter Tscherkassky & Maria Lassnig & Lukas Marxt
Shorts
Parades
France, Switzerland / 2017 / 26 minutes / NR / dir. Sarah Arnold
Faced with the injustices of this world, Margot has lost all hope in the future. Giving up on politics, she decides to entrust her fate to the Dardu, a legendary carp that supposedly predict...
Events In A Cloud Chamber
India / 2016 / 20 minutes / NR / dir. Ashim Ahluwalia
In 1969, Akbar Padamsee, one of the pioneers of Modern Indian painting, made a visionary
16mm film called Events In A Cloud Chamber. This was one of the only Indian experimental films ever ...
Fifteen
Belgium, Egypt / 2017 / 10 minutes / NR / dir. Sameh Alaa
On a hot summer day, a taciturn teen boy makes his way through the hustle of Cairo — with a baby in tow. His arrival at a hospital reveals the turmoil beneath his muted expression, in this s...
The Future Is Bright
US / 2017 / 10 minutes / NR / dir. Courtney Faye Powell
In 1979, a local newscaster prepares to cover an anti-KKK protest in Greensboro, NC, and realizes that she may never be ready for the events to come.
Homeland
Belgium / 2016 / 14 minutes / NR / dir. Sam Peeters
Right-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. It is most popular in quiet neighborhoods where people are shielded from different cultures and lifestyles. In this uns...
Hector Malot: The Last Day Of The Year
Greece / 2018 / 23 minutes / NR / dir. Jacqueline Lentzou
New Year’s Eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no-one: while walking on a desert, she gets to know that she is sick. She pretends she does not care. Has she ...
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Locarno Channel
Features
The Last Land
Paraguay, Chile, Netherlands, Qatar / 2016 / 77 minutes / NR
dir. Pablo Lamar
Stripping narrative down to its bare bones, Pablo Lamar’s debut feature is an elegant entry in the slow cinema canon. After an elderly man helps an ailing woman take her last bite of food, he undertakes prepara...
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Notes From A Journey
United Kingdom / 2019 / 72 minutes / NR
dir. Daniel & Clara
The eerie atmospheres of the winter landscapes are evoked through fragments of field recordings and footage, hinting at something hidden beyond the surface of the image – an unseen mystery that burrows in the u...
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Excursions
US / 2016 / 79 minutes / NR
dir. Daniel Martinico
In the hopes of revitalizing their marriage, a husband and wife retreat to a remote cabin getaway with some longtime friends. Their pleasant interaction quickly assumes a relentless intensity as they push one a...
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Visions du Reel Channel
Agencia Highlights
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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Radiator IP Selects
Fifteen
Belgium, Egypt / 2017 / 10 minutes / NR / dir. Sameh Alaa
On a hot summer day, a taciturn teen boy makes his way through the hustle of Cairo — with a baby in tow. His arrival at a hospital reveals the turmoil beneath his muted expression, in this s...
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.
Routine
Albania, Kosovo / 2018 / 14 minutes / NR / dir. Bekim Guri
After the death of Alban’s brothers in the fire that burnt down their home, the entire family suffers from a shock, mental disorder and extreme poverty. Of all the family members, Alban has ...