While the sky is being cut, we bloom - Leipzig

EL CANTO DE LAS MOSCAS III

Ana Maria Vallejo

Alemania/Colombia

15:33

2021

Do murderers sleep? The purple color of a dark night, the sound of the marimba with its sweet music is mistaken for fear. The long day of war is over, but the war continues. The film translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945-2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian artists. The archival images, the artists' memories, and the recurring use of animated loops bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and construct a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain. 

RESIDENTES (THE CITIZENS)

Yameli Gómez Jiménez

GERMANY

20:00

2020

At Chicago's O'Hare airport, Ana Laura says goodbye to her children and promises to return as soon as her immigration problems are resolved. In a neighbourhood in Charlestone, South Carolina, marshals and ICE agents arrive at Jesus' home with only a photo of his driver's licence. After being led out of his home in handcuffs, he faces a lengthy process. Despite being undocumented, both have been model 'citizens' in the US for more than 10 years: contributing to the country, the community, paying taxes. But their efforts went unrecognised because they were undocumented.

PRASINA / DUST

Filip Markovinović

Serbia

09:19

2022

A short experimental film created by combining personal archives and found footage. The film takes us through dreamy spaces of memory and forgotten moments from childhood.

A10K: ESPECTÁCULO ROTATIVO

Mayra Morán

Chile/España

06:38

2021

An audiovisual proposal that intertwines material of an event occurred on October 2, 2020, in the context of the protests in Chile, and the words of Nona Fernández, invoking questions about the course that draws us.

Grandma´s recipe

Daniela Miranda

Chile

11:00 min

2022

Cooking and memory come together in this short story that introduces us to the story of Ofelia Moreno, an activist who dedicated 40 years of her life to seek truth and justice for her family executed by the Chilean civil-military dictatorship, while cooking delicious gnocchi with tomato sauce (let the sauce boil!). Accompanied by an original soundtrack and landscapes of Santiago in the 80's.

BLACK CHALK / TIZA NEGRA

Julieta Tetelbaum 

Inglaterra/Argentina

07:56

2022

Black Chalk' is a film about the intimacy of a woman with Down's Syndrome who writes with black chalk a list of daily activities to organise her life. It's the story of a non-industrialised-healthy body.

ÉTICA PARA PERDER EL RUMBO: CARTILLA (IN)MORAL

Andrea Grain Hayton

Mexico

12:48

2021

After the republishing of the “Moral Book“(Alfonso Reyes, 1952) by the actual Presidency of Mexico, a text without relevance for the current century and with no inclusion of women nor non-masculine groups, a group of women poets made a ludic re-writing of some of its sections as a feminist manifesto, embracing our voices in this patriarchal society. Later, this video poem was made, as an urgent exercise against the violent treatment that the Mexican State has decided to give us, the women as citizens. This is a reunion of visions in Spanish, English and Spanglish.

84

Daniel Cortés

Colombia

13:22

2020

Today in Colombia, the last peace agreement shatters to pieces and violence takes over the country. Two films shot in 1984, lost for more than thirty years, come to light together. 84 drags the viewer between fiction and documentary through this cursed reels, into a divided country, between cities and countryside, condemned by a dark omen of repetition and death.

I DON´T LOVE BERLIN 

Alex Ríos

Alemania/Colombia

12:31 min

2020

An exciting journey through the false illusion of freedom, conscience and ecology in one of the most important capitals of Europe. Revealing the colonial, racist and extractivist context. The film is the result of research conducted by the director together with migrants in the streets of Berlin, in search of information about colonialism, migration and the current relations of Berlin and Germany with the countries of the global south. 

LOOP

Pablo Polledri

Spain

08:00 min

2021

In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.

Noise, to expand the spectrum

JUST A SHOW

Mustapha Benghernaout & Mohamed Taher Shawki

Argelia

02:00 min

2021

Dentro de un plan de medios dirigido a un grupo inconsciente de destinatarios, los datos cambian y las prioridades se formulan de otra manera.

FANTASMAGORÍA

Juan Francisco González

Chile

13:45 min 

2022

En medio del desierto de Atacama, se encuentran los vestigios de la última industria del nitrato, mientras los habitantes son testigos de la quiebra de una industria situada en el lugar más árido de la Tierra.

FACTORY

Azar Mansoori 

Irán

07:00 min

2021

“Factory” es la historia de un hombre que vive en una ciudad cuyos habitantes tienen una soga de la muerte colgando sobre sus cabezas. La soga se acerca cada día más al cuello de la gente. El hombre descubre la verdad sobre la soga y su conexión con la “fábrica” de la ciudad, un secreto que cambia el curso de su vida..

NO ES UN JUEGO / IS NOT A GAME

Lucas Olivares

Argentina

04:45 min

2021

En varias fotos, María Salazar describe una de las protestas frente al juzgado penal Nº 1 de la ciudad de Corrientes, Argentina; donde sortea el cerco policial junto a su primo y su sobrino. Entre risas y reflexiones, su voz traza un diálogo donde cuestiona el accionar de las fuerzas, al tiempo que reclama contra la absolución del asesino de su hermana.

AT EACH NIGHT

Marie-Josée Tremblay

Canadá

03:15 min

2020

Vivir con las consecuencias de una violación.

LADY IN THE STREET

226 Kastra, Stephy Pro

Camerún

00:59 min

2020

Lady in the street” describe la importancia de las mujeres como agentes encubiertas en un contexto local donde el terrorismo y la corrupción quebrantan todos los derechos humanos.

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GLORIA

Diego Felipe Cortés, Daniela Briceño, Blanca Castellar

Colombia

13:50 min

2022

Gloria, cansada, se mueve lentamente entre sus pensamientos, el espejo, el sifón y la luz del baño. Entre dolores y placeres, lo que lleva dentro crece sin poder contenerse más.

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PÉRDIDAS/VERLÜSTE

Sara Alvarado, Lorena Díez, Andrea Mora y Claudia Puche

Colombia

01:51 min

2022

Pérdidas/Verlüste es una animación que surgió desde la lejanía, en Alemania. Refleja la diversidad de historias que se entrelazan en los territorios de Colombia, donde las ausencias adquieren múltiples matices y las separaciones se convierten en un continuo dolor que se transforma con el paso de los acontecimientos. Esta es una historia compartida por muchos, pero única para sus protagonistas.

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ALLEN, ZONA DE SACRIFICIO

Alejo Estrabou

14:33

Argentina

2020

Allen es un pueblo de Río Negro, Patagonia argentina, con una economía centenaria ligada a la fruticultura, es el mayor exportador de peras del país. En 2013 comenzaron a hacer fracking en la zona, los vecinos se opusieron y lograron una ordenanza antifracking, que es derogada a los tres meses por el tribunal superior de justicia de Río Negro.

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TO HEAT THE STONE/CALENTAR LA PIEDRA

Alejandra Alarcón

Colombia/Germany

09:14 min

2022

Hace un siglo, el etnólogo Konrad Theodor Preuss exploró Colombia y descubrió la extinta cultura Pueblo Escultor. Transportó ilegalmente artefactos al Museum für Völkerkunde de Berlín, encarnando la visión occidental del coleccionismo. La iniciativa “To heat the stone” pretende unir virtualmente las esculturas, cuestionando el pasado colonial de Alemania y reavivando su significado espiritual, haciéndose eco del deseo de retorno ancestral.

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CAGES

Grace Amjad

Francia

06:00 min

2023

Lo que hoy es un parque temático para niños y familias tiene una oscura historia que pocos conocen. El Jardin d’Acclimatation fue durante muchos años un zoológico humano.

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FISH FARMING

 

Alexandra Bouge 

France

3:03

2020

An audiovisual work on human violence against animals, plants and the environment.

#NORMADEGENEROBINARIA: NIÑAS

Bernardita Ojeda Salas, Cristián Freire Azzarelli

Chile

02:47

2021

¿Qué comportamientos y actividades se consideran apropiados para las niñas en la escuela? Pensar que no es apropiado que las niñas griten fuerte o hagan actividades que se consideran para niños; asumir que ellas son las cuidadoras y deben ser más responsables por considerarse.

SODOMA, LA MUJER DE LA LUNA

Juliana Zuluaga

Colombia

15:06 min

2023

Una noche me reúno con mis amigos para construir fantasías sexuales colectivas mientras nos emborrachamos. La cámara rota entre todas nosotras entre conversaciones y risas. A medida que avanza la noche se produce un giro inesperado en el que cobra vida el personaje de un recuerdo de infancia.

TRAVESIAS TECNOGÉNERO

Ale Álvarez

Colombia

07:57 min

2023

Diferentes dispositivos transmediales, plásticos y performáticos atravesados por una serie de tecnologías que posibilitan procesos de (de)construcción del género a partir de objetos, sustancias y artificios que al momento de ser encarnados e incorporados por las subjetividades trans-travestis vinculadas al proceso, nos llaman a percibir vías alternas para el encuentro con el placer y el deseo.

ENTRE LAS SOMBRAS ARDEN MUNDOS

Ismael Garcia Ramírez

Colombia

19:28 min

2022

Cansada de su vida con su marido, una mujer decide abandonar su casa para pasar una noche de euforia con su hijo y un grupo de amigos.

The imagined light

THE GREAT CONECTION

Christen Bach

GERMANY

05:00 min

2022

As a fiber optic cable suddenly appears at the bottom of the ocean the mythological creatures gather to debate: Will this be their salvation? Or will the teeth of this thing cause nothing but tears?

CHAO CARBÓN

Ladislao Palma Irarrázaval, Sebastián Fernandez Palumbo

Chile

23:21 min

2022

Mr. Aes Gener is a greedy mega-entrepreneur in the energy business. Through his story we get into the dirty business he has done in Chile and the world with coal, while we see, through archival footage, the damage to people and nature of this obsolete and polluting fossil fuel.

ICHTHUS

Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

Ucrania

01:00

2022

“Ichthus” es una metáfora de la vida humana inspirada en la observación de los peces, cuyo signo es símbolo de salud y fe.

MISSION SPLENDID CRADLE

Joel Caetano

Brasil

04:00 min

2021

En el futuro el gobierno es totalitario. Nuestro líder es una cabeza inmortal en un frasco de conservación cibernética.

DRAWN FROM MEMORY

Pouria Kazemi

Iran

06:45 min

2021

When I was 9 my father took me to see a public execution in Iran. This film is an effort to re-create and re-capture that brutal memory.

SOMEWHERE IN THE GARDEN

Anastasiia Martyniuk

Ucrania

03:29 min

2023

Nuestro mundo es un hermoso jardín de colores increíbles, y es entendible que cualquiera pueda olvidarse de los monstruos que aquí pueden vivir.

HAIL COAT

Florentino Vargas

Colombia

04:45

2023

Mistakes diary 

I. time it's a constant wound 

II. tenderness soon turns into resignation 

III sighs are vanished in silence 

IV a withered flower is not a gift

MOTHERS

Pablo Rivera

Colombia

11:50

2023

Jonatan Sandoval, ahora conocido como Demonia y madre de house of Yeguazas, regresa a su pueblo natal para acercarse a su madre Doña Griselda y reflexionar sobre ser MADRE. A través de una carta abierta, Demonia aborda  los sentimientos que le ha dejado a ella ese rol, reflexionará sobre lo que significa el baile, el voguing, la religión, la comunidad disidente y lo que supuso para ella vivir en Barbosa (Santander).

PIROPO(CATCALL)

Marta Delas

Spain

03:33 min

2023

Videoclip for the song "Piropo", which recalls the experience of women and catcalling.

REAL LOVE

Simón Hernández 

Colombia

08:27

2022

After a significant event in her life, Catalina Azuero, a fashion designer, decides to change her name to Diamantina Arcoíris and start anew. This leads her to initiate an experiment in social fashion in Barrio Santa Fe, where she collaborates with prostitutes, transsexuals, thieves, and 'bazuqueros' to develop a clothing brand that facilitates them to transform themselves and create distinctive fashion items.

ALIENS FROM THE SKY

Katina Bitsicas

Sudáfrica

12:16 min

2022

Despite ongoing efforts to tackle police corruption in South Africa, it remains rife and adversely affects the country economically, socially and politically. The buying and selling of sex services and all related activities are criminalized in South Africa.

MEMÓRIAS DO FOGO

Rita de Cássia Melo Santos, Leandro Olímpio, Irineu Cruzeiro Neto

Brazil

08:00

2022

For many of the Indigenous people, the fire can not always be dominated. Going through a history marked by fascination, greed, destruction and revolt, the fire associates itself in all the world's oppressed people fights. What is left when everything turns into ash?

KPAIMA

Norma Delia Robles Carrillo, Luis Manuel Hernández Rodríguez

México

12:30

2020

Norma is transforming the paradigms of her family and her pueblo by deciding to migrate to get a university education. After overcoming linguistic, economic and racial limits, she seeks to become a social worker to ensure access to education for her sisters and the women of her village.

ADENTRO DE LA TIERRA

Katalin Egely

Argentina

03:44

2018

Three symbolic animals of the Andean cosmology guides us through the three mental states of the three worlds. Visually, as well as in the music, the ancient meets the contemporary on the animated tapestry, in order to create something relevant to the present day.