UWPG Film Festival - International Program
October 21st 5:30pm
CONEY
Dir. Mathilde Hiis
Synopsis: A short film about rabbits seen in a anthropological perspective.
Runtime: 1min 31sec
Norway, SE
LAUFEN LURNEN
Dir. Lucas Dülligen
Synopsis: As a child, we live in a carefree timelessness. But this, too, passes, and the person who grows up is increasingly confronted with temporal limitations.
Runtime: 5min
Cologne, DE
ON CLOUD NINE
Dir. Agnė Girsaitė
Synopsis: Elzė and Silvija recently broke up. The girls spend their last evening together because Silvija is moving out. Elzė idealizes Silvija and their relationship, so she tries to hold her back. Eventually, Elzė realizes that sometimes the end of a relationship can teach more than the relationship itself.
Runtime: 12min 57sec
Vilnius, LT
ODE TO THE 20’s
Dir. Cynthia Lecona Cárdenas
Synopsis: Ode to the 20s is a documentary essay based on the personal experiences and thoughts of a 20 year old girl who leaves her hometown for the first time. It reflects on our capacity to encounter inspiration in everyday life; facing the roughness that oftentimes is characterized by adulthood and the expectations on the future that we start to build up as we grow old.
Runtime: 15min 15sec
Guadalajara, MX
PROGRAM
Dir. Peter Varnai
Synopsis: In the near future, consumerism's swelling greed will go so far as cracking. Smiling, winking, teeth-flashing faces with brands and slogans have been blowing up the bubble of illusions. These commercials used for pushing around the fantasy of persons will melt from screens and the optimism that they planted in our collective subconscious gave birth to a dense negative dimension of leftovers; Program is an animated short film taking place here.
Program is a surreal embodiment of violent consumerism, proposing an extract from a speculative future.
Runtime: 1min 26sec
Vienna, AT
SALTWATER
Dir. Declan McKenna
Synopsis: As a relationship reaches a turning point, one person's fragile understanding of control begins to haunt their dreams.
Runtime: 7min 22sec
Maryland, USA
THE ANNIVERSARY
Dir. Anna Honcharova
Synopsis: The main character is celebrating her wedding anniversary. Glasses are filled with wine, and festive plates are filled with stew. This is the first anniversary without a loved one - the joint dinner was prevented by the war. A woman keeps the memory of her husband in memories - the only precious things that have survived.
Runtime: 5min 25sec
Kyiv, UA
YUTA
Dir. Matheus Malburg
Synopsis: Matias and Franco, two Argentinians who are passionate about football, come to Brazil on a ride to follow the team they love: Chacarita Juniors. In “Yuta”, after suffering violence and police abuse, they both decide to strike back at the aggressors, even if it means the end of their lives.
Runtime: 14min 55sec
São Paulo, BR