On My Mind
Dir. Martin Strange-Hansen & Kim Magnusson / Denmark / 18 min
Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It’s a question of life, death and karaoke.
THE LINEUP
Approximate rating: R. Themes in this year's program include end of life, incarceration, kidnapping and violence against women, racial trauma, and murder.
Please Hold
Dir. K.D. Dávila & Levin Menekse / USA / 19 min
In the not-so-distant future, Mateo is arrested by a police drone without explanation. Finding himself locked in a fully automated jail with no means of recourse, Mateo realizes he’s fallen through some kind of crack in the system. To get out alive he’ll have to go head-to-head with the labyrinthine, computerized bureaucracy of the privatized American justice system, in search of an actual human being who can set things right.
The Dress
Tadeusz Łysiak & Maciej Ślesicki / Poland / 30 min
Lust, sexuality and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel. That is until she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver, who soon becomes the object of her fantasies.
The Long Goodbye
Aneil Karia & Riz Ahmed / UK & Netherlands / 12 min
Riz and his family are in the middle of preparing a wedding celebration when the events unfolding in the outside world arrive suddenly on their doorstep. The result is a devastating and visceral feat of filmmaking, and a poignant poetic cry from the heart.
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
Maria Brendle & Nadine Lüchinger / Kyrgyzstan & Switzerland / 38 min
Sezim, 19 years old, wants to fulfill her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she gets kidnapped by a group of young men and taken to the hinterland. There, she’s forced to marry a stranger. If she refuses the marriage, she is threatened with social stigmatization and exclusion. Torn between her desire for freedom and the constraints of Kyrgyz culture, Sezim desperately seeks a way out.
