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All Her Dying Lovers
Available until June 24
A nurse, a Nazi and a fish: this is the incredible tale of a young Czech woman who, in the face of Nazi occupation, trumps the invaders with her unique form of resistance. Her story is given an animated retelling that explores the collision of history, truth and myth-making.
| Runtime: | 6 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Germany | | Czech Republic | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Czech | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | https://annabennerstudio.com/All-Her-Dying-Lovers | | Director(s): | Anna Benner | | Eluned Zoe Aiano | Producer(s): | Linda Dedková | | Anna Benner | | Martin Hulovec | Composer: | Raphael Tschernuth | Sound: | Michal Krajczok | | Vojtech Knot |
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The Chimney Swift
Available until June 24
Based on a meticulously detailed letter, the hard-knock lives of young 19th century chimney sweeps are uncovered in this exquisite animation, which masterfully articulates the finer points of preparing children as young as four for a life of hard labour up the flues of the bourgeoisie.
| Runtime: | 5 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Germany | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | https://www.fabianfred.com/chimney/ | | Director(s): | Frédéric Schuld | Producer(s): | Fabian Driehorst | Executive Producer(s): | Fabian Driehorst | Editor(s): | Frédéric Schuld | Writer(s): | Frédéric Schuld | | Fabian Driehorst | Composer: | Frédéric Schuld | Sound: | Alex Müller-Welt |
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Comfort Zone
Available until June 24
Brigitte lives with a mysterious, invisible presence: her 21-year-old son, who has shut himself in his bedroom for the past three years. Communicating only via WhatsApp, mother and son are locked in a codependent waiting game. Will his door ever open again, or will it have to be forced?
| Runtime: | 24 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Germany | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | German | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | http://www.jonasegert.de/komfortzone | | Director(s): | Jonas Egert | Producer(s): | Emilia Möbus | Editor(s): | Julia Furch | | Stefan Strüber | Writer(s): | Jonas Egert | | Julia Furch | Cinematography: | Felix Riedelsheimer | Composer: | Pablo Jókay | Sound: | Tobias Rehm | | Moritz Müller-Preißer |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: The Forum
Available until June 24
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the most powerful leaders and thinkers on the planet gather, astonishing conversations unfold between the likes of Al Gore, Jair Bolsonaro and Greta Thunberg during an event with so much at stake.
| Runtime: | 92 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Germany | | Switzerland | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | German | | English | | Swiss German | | French | | Spanish | | Indonesian | | Chinese | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Politics & Political Intrigue | Website: | https://theforum-film.de/en/ | | Director(s): | Marcus Vetter | Producer(s): | Christian Beetz | | Georg Tschurtschenthaler | | Caroline Schaper | Executive Producer(s): | Julie Goldman | | Chris Clements | Editor(s): | Marcus Vetter | | André Nier | | Ana R. Fernandes | | Michele Gentile | Writer(s): | Christian Beetz | | Georg Tschurtschenthaler | Cinematography: | Georg Zengerling | Composer: | Marcel Vaid |
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Hong Kong Moments
Available until June 24
As pro-democracy protestors battle armed police in the streets of Hong Kong, ordinary citizens take sides. Cameras follow a cop, a paramedic, a tea shop owner and politicians as their city—an outlier of both western and Chinese power—quakes in crisis.
| Runtime: | 90 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Hong Kong | | Germany | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Cantonese | | English | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | Activism | | East Asia | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Director(s): | Bing Zhou | Producer(s): | Bing Zhou | | Christian Beetz | Executive Producer(s): | Ricky Choy | | Tuan Lam | Editor(s): | Jeff Kwok | Cinematography: | Wade John Muller | | Xue Ming | | Barry Chung | | Lin Qian Xia | | Christopher Tang | | Sida Wang | | Key Jamjan Chen | | Yi Bing Quan | Composer: | Sonic Lee | Sound: | Saturday Chu | | Lam Yun Kwan | | Fun Yiu Ton | | Ben |
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Just a Guy
Available until June 24
Eva, Sarah and filmmaker Shoko Hara all corresponded with Richard Ramirez, a notorious California serial killer and rapist, during his incarceration in the 1980s and ’90s. Using an ever-shifting, self-erasing claymation style, Just a Guy expresses their transgressive affection and attraction without judgment, and shows the destigmatizing and charitable potential of human interaction.
| Runtime: | 15 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Germany | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Shoko Hara | Producer(s): | Stefan Michel | Editor(s): | Tobias Wilhelmer | Writer(s): | Simon Thummet | Composer: | Chiara Strickland | Sound: | Marc Fragstein | | Luis Schöffend |
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Mein Vietnam
Available until June 24
Living in limbo for 30 years—physically in Germany but virtually in Vietnam via constant Skyping and karaoke chatrooms—a couple is torn on where to call home when a storm destroys their house in Vietnam that held the promise of their eventual return.
| Runtime: | 70 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Germany | | Austria | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Vietnamese | | German | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | World Showcase | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Science & Technology | | South & Central Asia | | Western Europe | Website: | http://coronado-film.com/mein-vietnam_.html | | Director(s): | Tim Ellrich | | Thi Hien Mai | Producer(s): | Leopold Pape | Editor(s): | Tobias Wilhelmer | Writer(s): | Tim Ellrich | Cinematography: | Tim Ellrich | Sound: | Leopold Pape | | Tim Ellrich | | Marco Schnebel | | Volker Armbruster |
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Merry Christmas, Yiwu
Available until June 24
In a surreal Chinese city where 600 factories manufacture Christmas decorations year-round, workers’ daily routines and personal dramas unfold, all set against a society at the intersection of communism and globalism.
| Runtime: | 94 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Serbia | | France | | Germany | | Belgium | | Qatar | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Mandarin | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | World Showcase | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | East Asia | | Labour & Working People | | Director(s): | Mladen Kovacevic | Producer(s): | Iva Plemic Divjak | | Mario Adamson | | Ruth Reid | Editor(s): | Jelena Maksimovic | Cinematography: | Marko Milovanovic | Composer: | Olof Dreijer | Sound: | Patrik Strömdahl |
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Nightvision Shorts Program: Pleasure Prison
Available until June 24
A collection of films that indulge in erotic explorations of disability and desire, feeding tube food fantasies, sex work and taboo attractions (according to law, religion and public opinion), set in prisons of the mind and body.
| Runtime: | 84 | Copyright: | 2020 | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Program Category: | Nightvision |
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The Wall of Shadows
Available until June 24
Desperate to earn money for their son’s education, a Nepalese Sherpa family breaks taboo and accompanies a western expedition on a holy mountain, wrestling with punishing conditions and their own religious beliefs along the way.
| Runtime: | 94 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Poland | | Germany | | Switzerland | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Nepali | | Ghunsa Dialect (Tibetan) | | English | | Russian | | Polish | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | International Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Labour & Working People | | Religion & Spirituality | | South & Central Asia | | Director(s): | Eliza Kubarska | Producer(s): | Monika Braid | | Umit Uludag | | Kaspar Winkler | Executive Producer(s): | Sabine Bubeck-Paaz | | Agnieszka Balicka | Editor(s): | Barbara Toennieshen | Writer(s): | Eliza Kubarska | | Piotr Rosolowski | Cinematography: | Piotr Rosolowski | Composer: | Marcel Vaid | Sound: | Franciszek Kozlowski | | Zofia Morus |
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Wood
Available until June 6
A crack team of spies infiltrate a global syndicate operating in remote Russian forests, Chinese factories and Romanian mills to expose illegal timber trading. Hidden cameras capture the pace of human greed and natural destruction in this white-knuckle enviro-thriller.
| Runtime: | 95 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Austria | | Germany | | Romania | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Romanian | | German | | Spanish | | Russian | | Chinese | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Director(s): | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Michaela Kirst | | Ebba Sinzinger | Producer(s): | Vincent Lucassen | | Ebba Sinzinger | | Thomas Tielsch | | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Adrian Sitaru | Executive Producer(s): | Vincent Lucassen | Editor(s): | Andrea Wagner | | Roland Sto¨ttinger | Writer(s): | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Michaela Kirst | | Ebba Sinzinger | Cinematography: | Lukas Gnaiger | | Jakub Bejnarowicz | | Jo¨rg Burger | | Attila Boa | | Jerzy Palacz | Sound: | Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson | | Claus Benischke | | Nora Czamler | | Andreas Pils | | Peter Rösner | | Simon Bastian |
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World Showcase Shorts Program 2
Available until June 24
A collection of exceptional stories from around the world including Oil & Water, Umbilical, Flame, The Chimney Swift, At the Bottom of the Sea, and When I Write It.
| Runtime: | 65 | Copyright: | 2020 | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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World Showcase Shorts Program 4
Available until June 24
A collection of exceptional stories from around the world including In the Shadow of the Pines, At the River, êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines, Run for His Life and Comfort Zone.
| Runtime: | 62 | Copyright: | 2020 | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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World Showcase Shorts Program 6
Available until June 24
A collection of exceptional stories from around the world including Oil & Water, Umbilical, Flame, The Chimney Swift, At the Bottom of the Sea, and When I Write It.
| Runtime: | 63 | Copyright: | 2020 | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Program Category: | World Showcase |
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