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CHECK OUR FULL SCREENING PROGRAMME THAT TOOK PLACE AT CFF 2018
03.03.18
DAY 1
19:00 –
22:00
SLOT 1
19:00 –
22:00
Franconia
Jacco Kliesch
FRANCONIA – A cinematic loveletter dedicated to Franconia and to life. Last summer I went on a filmic journey in my homeland. I met new people and old friends, went to places I had never been before and came back with a new way of seeing things. MORE
Small Steps
Philip Staal
After a young woman suffers a miscarriage, she tries to continue her day as if nothing had happened. MORE
Stellar
Laura Højberg Kunov
In a numb city, citizens – as square as their surroundings – are on another dull and trivial day, infiltrated by a colorful organism that takes us on an amazing, mind opening journey towards a luminous pulsating core. MORE
Maria
Catarina Neves Ricci
Maria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning while at night she works as a prostitute in the streets of downtown Porto. José, her lover and most faithful client, is still around but he can no longer give this 60 year old woman what she has always desired the most. In a raw and intimate portrayal, Maria reveals how love and growing old can hit like. MORE
Vali
Helvetica
After a wild night VALI decides the time is right to settle a score with her lover … MORE
Cycologic
Emilia Stålhammar, Veronica Pålsson, Elsa Lövdin
When one's traveling the streets of Kampala one does not only face a chaotic and dangerous traffic environment but also struggles to go through endless queues, pollutions, motorcyclists and cars attacking you from every angle which is a energy-consuming dilemma. Politicians seems to have given up but there are a few people who strives to show that there are alternative ways of movements. The urban planner Amanda Ngabirano's biggest dream is to have a cycling lane in her city. An impossible task, according to most people, but not according to Amanda. MORE
Buoyancy
Simon Valentin
During a swim test for the danish elite team, 15 year old Sara realizes that she is about to loose everything she has fought for since early childhood. Her future depends on her immediate action. But can she make up for her failure in one last important act? MORE
Wild Beasts
Sverre Kvamme
In the middle of the winter in Northern-Norway and surrounded by a wild group of kids, a young boy’s impulses are affected by his attraction to his best friend. MORE
A Christmas Carol
Luca Vecchi
For Nicholas, a respected family man, Christmas Eve suddenly becomes a reckoning. Who will be the hit man responsible for such an inauspicious task? Besides not having any kind of kinship, the killer seems to have fatherly behaviours towards the victim. MORE
Short Distance
Giovanni Pierangeli
A short-tempered running coach is granted temporary custody of his athletic younger brother from a juvenile correctional facility. MORE
Shepherd of Souls
Anna Nørskov henriksen, Ingrid Høgh Rasmussen
When a fetus is left on the street, the catholic man Tống Phước Phúc recieves a phone call. He drives into the night pick up a little box with the fetus. Tống Phước Phúc has created a cemetery for fetuses in Nha Trang in Vietnam, where thousands of fetuses have been buried – it is his mission to give them peace. Additionally, Phúc encourages women who are pregnant outside a marriage to live with him under the pregnancy instead of having an abortion. Shepherd of Souls portrays a single man’s different ethical actions and view on life, focusing on his perception of souls. MORE
04.03.18
DAY 2
19:00 –
22:00
SLOT 1
19:00 –
22:00
Solace
Katarzyna Płazińska
A father, mother, and child lead their life in a distant, as if suspended in time, landscape. The prairie breathes its natural rhythm just like the family does. The child, she wanders around the land's confined infinity. What seems like an innocent exploration becomes a confrontational awakening. MORE
It Is Safe Now
Yama Rauf
An Afghan asylum seeker seeks refuge in Europe and becomes isolated in an almost man-abandoned camp in the country. He is safe from the war, but what is freedom when living in a cage? MORE
Angels, They Say
Miriam Hitchcock
This three-minute, stop-motion animation, uses handmade drawings and cut paper to create an enigmatic world, inhabited by the familiar and the extraordinary. Interweaving voices recite excerpts from Rainer Maria Rilke’s First Duino Elegy, a wistful accompaniment to a lyrical meditation on mortality. MORE
Renard Rouge
Leonard Rääf
Julie Renard, a young girl with a discrete passion for photography, lives on the Swedish countryside together with her wacky family. Three goofy brothers, a confused father who wishes he was French and a mother who's not often around. It's the summer of 98', and Julie follows her brothers into the woods. After losing them, she stumbles upon a stranger with a gun. Luckily the stranger is the vivid Elsa, roughly her age with a BB-gun. They spend the next 24 hours together, defining the years of their youth and getting to know each other well enough to make decisions that will last forever. MORE
Think Of Something Blue
de mars
Think of something blue is based on a Dutch Poem by Martijn den Ouden. It portrays a man, dealing with loneliness and mourning, comforted by memories of his loved one. MORE
La Vita Rosa
Anton Iversen
Marcs hopeless journey towards true love takes an unexpected turn when he meets his best friends new girlfriend Dianna. MORE
Saint Hubert
Jules Comes
During a large-scale search in East Belgium’s oldest nature park, the authorities clash with a local forester. The confrontation goes from bad to worse as the forester protects this area with heart and soul and takes measures against the intruders. MORE
The Desolate One
Daniel Boocock
A mythic and elusive figure is hunted by an enemy deep into the wilderness MORE
The Geneva Convention
Benoit Martin
As Hakim is waiting for the bus after class, he is caught in a vendetta between teenagers. He is not exactly keen to get into a fight, but how can he possibly avoid an awaited confrontation? MORE
La Manzana
Henry Disotuar
Danilo, a ten years old introvert boy is on the verge of moving out of Cuba with his young mother. When he gets a green appel, a somewhat rare fruit type in the country, the boy grabs what might be his last chance to impress his classmates. La Manzana (The Apple), is an intimate look into the world of a teenager and his hopeless attempt to say farewell to everything and everyone he’s ever known. His depart cannot go unnoticed. He wants and will be missed! MORE
But Wait There's More
Mike Mildon
A socially awkward Jehovah's Witness is forced to confront his shortcomings as a salesman when he knocks on the door of a washed-up infomercial spokesman. MORE