Young Directors Competition 1
01 Deep Water
Director(s)
Anna DUDKO
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Ukraine
Length: 06' 00''
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A lonely chubby marmaid is keen on peeking at people through the water pipelines using magic. One day she falls in love with a man and, blinded by passion, comes into his apartment to satisfy her burning desires.
02 Love in the Time of Corona
Director(s)
Ágnes SZUCHER
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Hungary, Romania
Length: 04' 58''
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Five young interviewees tell stories about their hardships with their partners during the lockdown.
03 Blue Fear
Director(s)
Lola HALIFA-LEGRAND, Marie JACOTEY
Film info
Year of production: 2020
Country of production: France
Length: 09' 51''
Synopsis
A couple on the roads of Provence. Nils is driving Flora to his parents for the first time when they get ambushed. Whilst she’s made prisoner, he flees. During a night in the pinewood, she has to face her doubts.
04 Oh, Whose Is The Rye
Director(s)
Anna SHVEIGOLZ
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Russia
Length: 06' 14''
Synopsis
The events of the film take place two hundred years ago, when flowers were taller than houses and witches turned their daughters-in-law into poplars. The Cossack has gone to war not knowing that, when he returns, nothing will be the same.
05 I Want To Be Bored
Director(s)
Magda KREPS
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: United Kingdom
Length: 04' 00''
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I Want To Be Bored is a hand-drawn short film, visualising a wandering mind during the experience of doing absolutely nothing.
06 Supper
Director(s)
Dániel BÁRÁNY
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 14' 49''
Synopsis
During a dysfunctional family dinner, oppressed family members battle their oppressors. The battle for domination leads to a monstrous outcome.
07 Sisters
Director(s)
Andrea SZELESOVÁ
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Czech Republic
Length: 11' 22''
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The Big Sister—a person of colossal size—is trapped in sand in a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on her resentful little sister.
08 age-mates
Director(s)
Milán MUCSI
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 02' 10''
Synopsis
We get a glimpse into the life of a family on a Sunday afternoon. Grandma, grandpa and their grandchild talk about what respect and acceptance means to them while making lunch.
09 Room
Director(s)
Yujing CHEN
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: United Kingdom
Length: 01' 44''
Synopsis
I experienced a life of self-isolation in my room. Anger, sadness, happiness, and all emotions became one with me. In this lonely room, I enjoyed my wild imagination...
10 Sisiphescu
Director(s)
Maria Simina DIMANCEA
Film info
Year of production: 2020
Country of production: Romania
Length: 01' 03''
Synopsis
Modern adaptation of the myth of Sisyphus, Sisipescu tells the story of an old man who tries to carry his new armchair to the last floor of the apartment complex that he lives in.
11 Resting Fog
Director(s)
Nikolett FÁBIÁN
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 05' 12''
Synopsis
An experimental animation short that takes place in a fictional, secluded sanatorium in the light from the setting sun's last rays. Through associative imagery, the short introduces the process of reliving memories and the disintegration of those.
12 Untitleded
Director(s)
Mau Sum LAM
Ho Yi WONG
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Hong Kong
Length: 01' 00''
Synopsis
Untitleded is a minimalist attempt to reimagine brushstrokes, splashes and dashes on a white canvas. Over the course of one minute, the black dot expands into an entirely different dimension that is made of energy, chaos and fun - and then quickly collapses back into what it was before - a black dot on a white canvas.
13 Goodbye Jérome!
Director(s)
Gabrielle SELNET, Adam SILLARD, Chloé FARR
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: France
Length: 07' 44''
Synopsis
Having just arrived in paradise, Jérôme sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colourful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.