International Competition 2

Competition

International Competition 2

How do we face truth in a repressed world? Complicated human emotions are explored in five stories with extremely delicate themes, such as sex, body, trauma, and family. People who dance like crazy. People who search for utopia. People who alter their bodies. People who dig up buried trauma. Feel the contradictions and paradoxes of the society we live in. A program that showcases absurdity and destruction and healing. (MONNO Kazue, TOCHKA)

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2023 | France | 0:10:38

Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?

Flóra Anna BUDA

Box Cutters

2023 | France, Netherlands,South Africa | 0:08:24

A young woman recalls a day when she was attacked by three men on her way home, but daily life must resume its course.

Naomi Van NIEKERK

Margarethe 89

2023 | France | 0:18:36

Leipzig, 1989. Margarethe, a young punk opposed to the East German regime, is detained in a psychiatric hospital. She dreams of breaking out to join the man she loves - a punk musician named Heinrich. Though the regime’s days may well be numbered, the Stasi informants are more present than ever.