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Produced by: Jelena Goldbach; Director of
Photography: Matthias Pilz; Editor: Anja
Siemens; Production Design: Ivana Škrabalo;
Costume Design: Martina Franić; Sound
Design: Sebastian Morsch and Raoul Brand;
Original Score: Bernd Schurer; Main Cast:
Iman Alibalić (Selma,Younger Sister), Esma
Alić (Azra, Oldersister), Mirela Lambić
(Mother), Mario Knezović (Soldier)
Wall (Hungary)
Written and Directed by Simon Szabo
Tampere Short Film Nominee
Laci is a 16-year-old gypsy boy who lives off
casual jobs. One day, he gets picked up from
the streets, along with a small group of workers,
for a construction job. He has to participate in
the completion of a wall that surrounds a series
of tenement buildings. The film follows the
various stages of the construction as Laci helps
out the other workers. In the end, Laci is asked
to complete the work. He now takes his first
look beyond the wall, which holds an unusual
revelation for him.
Produced by: Julia Berkes; Director of
Photography and Editor: Albert Czomba;
Production and Costume Design: Judit
Sinkovics; Sound Design: Alex Hunyadi;
Original Score: Ekaros Ekaros; Main Cast:
Sandor Toth (Laci)
The Chimera of M. (UK)
Directed by Sebastian Buerkner
Rotterdam Short Film Nominee
Entering the already unfamiliar virtual space of
a stereoscopic digital animation, viewers find
themselves behind the eyes of an unseen and
distinctly unreliable protagonist, so evasive
that he and his motives can hardly be identified.
Arriving by train in a town where he once lived,
he moves through the old haunts seemingly
attempting to re-engage with two abandoned
relationships, one with a man and one with a
woman. Yet, he frequently appears to become
more engaged with quotidian objects, made
hallucinatory by close scrutiny. The very
fractured and expressive manifestation of the
three-dimensional space in this stereoscopic
film, combined with the protagonist’s point of
view, puts the viewers inside these contorted
relationships. The pounding and intimate
interactions of the characters have to be endured
by being pushed through each situation, locked
into the identity of someone who refuses to
participate, or maybe even to be.
Written by: Sebastian Buerkner and John
Mosely; Sound Design: Gernot Fuhrmann;
Animation: Sebastian Buerkner, Peter Caires,
Timothy Divall and Natalie Rose Young; Main
Cast: Micheal Grime (M.), James French (Male
Voice), Martina Schmucker (Female Voice).
Taprobana (Portugal/Denmark/Sao Tome
and Principe/Sri Lanka)
Written and Directed by Gabriel Abrantes
Berlin Short Film Nominee
Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese
Renaissance poet, struggles creatively while
engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic and
drug-addled lifestyle. The film follows the
poet and his lover Dinamene as he writes
Wall
The Chimera of M.
