Everything Is Relative / Alt er relativt (orig.)

"Everything is Relative" is a kaleidoscopic fusion of documentary sequences, archive material and tableau's of human beings. It seeks to portray how our reactions to challenges in life are relative to the conditions that guide our individual lives.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Portrait of a wedding day (detail)

/ Portrait of a Wedding Day (detail) (orig.)

Alix Didrich / France / 7 min

Portrait of a wedding day (detail)

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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.

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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.

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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.