Competitive sections
BEAUTIFUL MEN / BEAUTIFUL MEN
NICOLAS KEPPENS – 2023 / NETHERLAND, BELGIUM
BEAUTIFUL MEN / BEAUTIFUL MEN
NICOLAS KEPPENS – 2023 / NETHERLAND, BELGIUM
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
SCENIC VIEW / SCENIC VIEW
MAIJA BLÅFIELD – 2023 / FINLAND
SCENIC VIEW / SCENIC VIEW
MAIJA BLÅFIELD – 2023 / FINLAND
Finland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest has become so rare that it feels fictional. Is it now the enchanted forest? Is a commercial forest real? As nature documentaries are staged, are they fiction? Scenic View is a film about how we look at a forest landscape and the reality.
THE WAITING / THE WAITING
VOLKER SCHLECHT – 2023 / GERMANY
THE WAITING / THE WAITING
VOLKER SCHLECHT – 2023 / GERMANY
Mysterious deaths occur all over the planet and have a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does it all have to do with us?
Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.
LA LINEA DEL TERMINATORE / THE ENDER’S LINE
GABRIELE BIASI – 2023 / ITALY
LA LINEA DEL TERMINATORE / THE ENDER’S LINE
GABRIELE BIASI – 2023 / ITALY
The Ender’s Line is the story Fernanda Gonzalez’s escape from Buenos Aires to Italy. Weaving archive footage from space explorations with personal family videos of Fernanda, the film focuses on her emotional journey, as she struggles with the guilt of leaving her loved ones behind.
INTELLIGENCE / INTELLIGENCE
COSME CASTRO, JEANNE FRENKEL – 2023 / FRANCE
INTELLIGENCE / INTELLIGENCE
COSME CASTRO, JEANNE FRENKEL – 2023 / FRANCE
Pascal Rivière works for the newspaper Mistral. One day, he discovers his death notice in the classified ads section. It’s in writing, it’s official that Pascal will die at 45.
MATTO UND MATTA / MATTO AND MATTA
BIANCA CADERAS, KERSTIN ZEMP – 2023 / SWITZERLAND
MATTO UND MATTA / MATTO AND MATTA
BIANCA CADERAS, KERSTIN ZEMP – 2023 / SWITZERLAND
In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind-bending rooms at their transient hotel, deepest desires are fulfilled and surpassed, but this comes at a price.