Present Moment
/ Přítomný okamžik (orig.)
Jan Šípek / The Czech Republic / 6 min
A film poem. A minimalist reflection on whether inner states are transferable by the film medium.
Konev Smeltery
/ Koněv (orig.)
Jan Šípek / The Czech Republic / 18 min
Documentary film about Konev smeltery in Kladno, Czech Republic. During the communist period the Konev smeltery in Kladno produced "peace steel", which was meant to be poured down the throats of imperialists.
Eastern Avenue
/ Eastern Avenue (orig.)
Peter Mettler / Canada / 87 min
An exploration of intuition, using film as a kind of audio-visual improvisation. The structure and innate "story" of the film were formed by the chronology of experiences and perceptions that emerged from a journey to Berlin, Portugal and Switzerland.
Scissere
/ Scissere (orig.)
Peter Mettler / Canada / 83 min
While deploying a seemingly inexhaustible repertoire of optical effects, Scissere renders the experiences of a mental patient who wanders outside his institutional confines for the first time in many years. He imagines himself inside the sensibilities of three people he randomly spots at a bus station.
Citizen Havel
/ Občan Havel (orig.)
Miroslav Janek , Pavel Koutecký / The Czech Republic / 120 min
Begun in 1992 and stemming from a chain of historical events all wedded to the person of Václav Havel, director Pavel Koutecký set out to render a portrait of the first president of Czech Republic.
Comeback
/ Comeback (orig.)
Maximilian Plettau / Germany / 79 min
As compact and unaffected as its pugilist protag, "Comeback" follows Germany's former light-heavyweight champ Juergen "the Rock" Hartenstein on a quixotic quest to re-enter the ring after three years off.
Portrait of a wedding day (detail)
/ Portrait of a Wedding Day (detail) (orig.)
Alix Didrich / France / 7 min
Portrait of a wedding day (detail)
Picture of Light
/ Picture of Light (orig.)
Peter Mettler / Canada / 83 min
An hallucinatory tale which documents a filmmaker’s journey to Canada’s arctic in search of the Northern Lights.
Daughter of Chorolque
/ Daughter of Chorolque (orig.)
Misun Park / Bolivia, South Korea / 84 min
Emancipation for women in a Bolivian mining village - the right to go into the depths of the earth to work alongside men.
Three Men and a Fish Pond
/ Three Men and a Fish Pond (orig.)
Maris Maskalans , Laila Pakalniņa / Latvia / 52 min
Three elderly country bachelors idle away their time amidst semi-wild nature, closer to birds and pond fish than to humans.
