International Shorts 2

Words and pictures cover the pages. An estate is cleaned out, books are leafed through and dissected. Binders are removed and memories emerge. The book's cycle resembles that of humans, pages turn into pulp that is reused for several purposes. 22-minute existential meditation.

A psychedelic fever’s dream in black and white or as if someone's forgotten sketchpad has come to life and taken steroids. Strokes become faces that become stories, in a film with an intense and unique sound image and an impressive animation technique.

A man returns to his childhood home to find it infested with termites. Slowly he realizes that his childhood is being eaten away and that life is not forever. A meditative study in the dead tracks of nostalgia. Beautifully filmed on 16mm.

Sitting on his father's safe lap, five-year-old Jacobo is even allowed to drive the car. But security is conditional in a violence-marinated Colombia. From a child's perspective, questions of life and death are dealt with as they spend their last day together.

In an interpretation of Eugenio Montale's poem Avevamo studiato per l'aldilà, a nightmarish flashback is given. Ominous sound impressions: a mirror that breaks. We are in a society engrained of violence and silence. Voice-over by Wim Wenders.

Like the waves of the dark blue sea, the streets of Kabul were filled with women wearing the Chadari during the Taliban regime. But how many tears and emotions were hidden behind the clothes? The film narrates one of many experiences when a young woman is forced to wear the Chadari.

Before and after. The contrast is depicted through sculptors who before the war made religious statues and now create obstacles for tanks. Everyone is doing what they can "after the end of the war". Pictures, sounds, and music in a beautiful and at the same time terrible mosaic.