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.
La Surrealita – Cine Infantil 2022
