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CHECK OUR FULL SCREENING PROGRAMME THAT TOOK PLACE AT CFF 2019
15.03.19
DAY 1
17:00 –
22:30
SLOT 1
17:00 –
22:30
Dead Birds
Johnny Kenton
A failing teenage badminton player at a Catholic Girls School is visited by a Saint – who agrees to help her if she'll complete three tasks for him. Dead Birds is a twisted Super Natural Black Comedy about competitive mother daughter relationships, losing your religion and learning how far you'd go to get what you want. MORE
A Young Girl
Jeannice Adriaansens
A grieving elderly and rather confused farmer is slowly losing touch with reality. After the sudden death of her husband she has to face numerous challenges in her daily life. Also there is financial turmoil and the upcoming auction of her farm. Can her son Geert save both, his mother and the farm? MORE
Amina, My Sister
Patrick Bodenham
The personal story of a family of Rohingya refugees from persecution in Myanmar into the world's newest and largest refugee camp. MORE
Exile and Belonging: Stories of Migrants from Around the World
Christina MacGillivray
Exile and Belonging showcases the unique stories of migrants, shedding light on the diversity of individual experience of migrants from around the world. The film uses the voices of real people paired with animation to protect the identities of those who remain undocumented. Each story highlights the diversity of the migration experience, yet the stories are unified by the uniquely human audacity to imagine a better life. Exile and Belonging was created with Hari Kondabolu, recently honored by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for his ability to unite people of all backgrounds and beliefs in laughter, while raising awareness about social justice and equality. The New York Times called Kondabolu one of the most necessary political comedians working today….” Last, the United Nations Human Rights Office created this film with the belief that through conversation with those we perceive as different, by listening to their experiences as individuals, we recognize that we share a universal human longing to belong and to live with dignity. We have far more in common than that which divides us, a critical reminder in today’s divisive atmosphere. MORE
Nina
Maria Winther Olsen
NINA' is a Faroese-Danish low-budget feature film about the aspiring author Nina who moves to the remote island country Faroe Islands together with her boyfriend William. He is set to start his new job as a doctor. Nina meanwhile, is pregnant with their first child and is initially awestruck by the the magnificent Faroese nature. The young couple's life seemingly couldn't be more idyllic. But things are rarely how they appear. William works long hours at the hospital and Nina begins to feel increasingly isolated in the tiny village, surrounded by the tall mountains and endless ocean. Nina then discovers the mysterious old Faroese myth of the Seal Woman, and her fascination with it grows to an obsession. She finds comfort in the company of the handsome local priest, Fríði, and suddenly Nina can see connections forming between the myth, her own life and the burning feeling of loneliness. The lines between reality, dreams and the characters in her novel become increasingly blurred, until her mind threatens to cave in. MORE
Little Manifesto Against Solemn Cinema
Roberto Porta
A trivial story about two people that meet at a party and spend the night together, told in the most pretentious, most poetic, but above all, most solemn possible ways. MORE
La Perla After Maria
Clari del Pilar Lewis
Maria was the most damaging hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in almost 100 years. The storm hit the island early on Wednesday September 20th leaving everyone without electric power, water, and communication for weeks. Three months later, people from La Perla remember the worst event of their lives and recall finding the courage to go on, led by a newfound community bond. La Perla is the historical, famous/infamous small “barrio” outside the walls of Old San Juan. This film is a reflection on the tenderness of life, and the healing power of collective unity and kindness in the face of tragedy. A visual poem dedicated to the people of La Perla and the archipelago of Puerto Rico. MORE
Amistosa
Valerie Schwarz
Amistosa is an animated nature documentary that observes a quiet, happy, rainforest town and its residents. MORE
Lowland Kids
Sandra Winther
As climate change erases the Louisiana coast, the last two teenagers on Isle de Jean Charles fight to stay on an island that's been their family home for generations. MORE
Failing Up
Jacqueline S Goss
“Failing Up” describes career advancement despite bad decisions, bankruptcies, and intellectual mediocrity. In this short film, the Manhattan real estate holdings of the King of Failing Up are catalogued and synced to a soundtrack that suggests how it feels to be one of his subjects. Whip pans, zooms, lens twists, and bursts of stop-frame animation transform eight minutes of borrowed audio from “Home Alone 2” (a film that features a cameo of the current U.S. President) into a political work of slapstique concrete. MORE
Among Wolves
Shawn Convey
The Wolves are no ordinary biker club as revealed in this gorgeously shot, surprisingly intimate portrait of trauma and survival. Still struggling from the aftermath of the Bosnian War, this multi-ethnic club organizes charity for their small mountain town and defends the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the frontline. It’s out there, with the horses, they confront their past and reclaim that territory as a space for healing. MORE
16.03.19
DAY 2
16:30 –
22:00
SLOT 1
16:30 –
22:00
Roar
Nikolaj Storgaard Mortensen
In the not-too-distant future, Lars and Mille are trying to start a family and seek treatment at a fertility clinic. Here they are offered genetically engineered super-sperm that will produce a flawless female child. Mille is dragged towards the new cynical world. This brave new world does not favour the ordinary man who is about to be extinct. Lars has to put up a fight for both becoming a father and for an even bigger cause. MORE
FlyTrap
Connor Bland
Charles falls into a germaphobic hysteria living under the unsanitary habits of his roommate. Narrated by the protagonist, we witness his petty yet paranoid reality unfold as he delivers a confession email to his unreliable advisor, Mr. Waters.' MORE
Man of Circles
Victor Chaos
For Jakob only one thing is an absolute certainty: The book he is writing is going to change everything. But the pressure is overwhelming. And now, where his lost love, Laura, suddenly returns in his life, his perception of everything changes. The question is, can she end the circle? MORE
Nini
Yingzong Xin
Cici's good friend Nini was taken away. At midnight ,Nine returned to her friend and tried to tell here something. MORE
What Remains
Chiara Fleischhacker
At the end of her wedding day, the bride Elaha has locked herself in the bathroom with her two closest friends to insert an artificial hymen inside her. But now Elaha is hesitating. The clock is ticking and the bathroom seems to be getting smaller and smaller. MORE
We Are Thankful
Joshua Magor
Siyabonga (english title: We Are Thankful), named after the film’s main character Siyabonga Majola, is a docufiction film set in the KwaZulu Natal region of modern day South Africa. It makes use of footage from both the narrative and documentary tradition. In the film we follow Siyabonga, a young man making plays in the township of Mpophomeni. One day he hears the surprising news that a movie is to be made in a nearby town and makes it his mission to be a part of the film. From conspiring with a maid to steal wifi from the umlungus (white people) so he can write an email to the film producers, to rebuffing a friend’s urgent plea for him to improve his luck by making use of witchcraft, Siyabonga’s journey takes him down many surprising paths that lead him to a meeting with the film’s director. Here we observe the conversation that caused the film we are watching to come into existence. A film based on real events, re-enacted by those who lived through them, we follow this extraordinary man as he does all he can to try and improve his life and take control of his fortune. Siyabonga’s past echoes in his present in much the same way that South Africa’s own history seems to have left an indelible mark on the people and places of the film. Time moves differently in such spaces. Places never confined to just the here and now, but rather some kind of eternal memory. MORE
Tomatic
Christophe Saber
Three best friends, Jimmy, Samy and Sofi, have the trailblazing idea: to turn a chocolate dispenser into a pot-vending machine. Also, there’s a dog in the film. MORE
Dias del Mar (Seadays)
Sebastian Salfate
At the same time, the documentary tries to problematize the idea of the Salt Flat as a symbolic reference of the bilateral tension between Chile and Bolivia, evoking a sensation of absence and reminiscence, as a sea suspended in time. This accompanied by the military celebration of the Day of the Sea (Bolivian claim for a sea exit), presents a dichotomy between the content of the photography that every character takes and its symbolic charge. MORE
Shy Guys
Fredric Lehne
Two strangers (2016 Tony winner Reed Birney and newcomer Blake DeLong) bring the laughs as they confront and resolve one of the most insidious scourges afflicting mankind – while standing at public urinals with their willies out. The first film by ubiquitous character actor Fredric Lehne. MORE
The Call
Anca Damian
A phone call, a bathroom and a woman are at the intersection of the worlds. MORE
Unforgivable
Giosue Petrone
Imperdonabile is the story of Alice and Emmanuel, two people on opposing sides during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. It reveals what happens when the person who nearly destroyed your life confronts you and asks for forgiveness. MORE
Where The Light Is
Nikolaj Fremming
A young girl trapped in a cycle of nightmares feels that she must save the world in order to break out. For most children around the age of ten, the world starts to loose its innocence. They begin to understand that it can be a very cruel place indeed. At the same time they are naïve enough to think that they can change this all by themselves. With everything that is happening in the world right now, this is a powerful starting point for a drama. MORE
Volar (Flying)
Bertha Gaztelumendi
This film gathers nine survivors of gender violence, among whom there is an architect, a university professor, a cleaning lady and a student. They all share a weekend in the countryside, in the heart of the Basque Country. That is where we gather their testimonies, their conversations on their past of violence as well as a message of hope and their experience overcoming what they had gone through. MORE