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This showcase of short documentary seeks to highlight subject matters less frequently seen in independent documentary cinema and focused on subject matter from international sources. Among the unique topics explored are mockumentaries about a newly married couple living in Australia, markets in Brazil, contact with the dead, bullfighting, millers in The Netherlands, prostitution in Australia, and many other surprises...
Al Alimon Directed by Coline Beuvelet France
Pierre Alachinsky a belgian painter finds his friend alberto gironella in Mexico. Together they are devoted to a pictorial duel around the topic of bullfighting
LOS INDIVIDUOS Made in Spain Directed by Kai Adams Germany
About labourers in Spain brought in from other countries to work
Driven by Wind Directed by Janna DekkerThe Netherlands
The miller Henk Borst lived and worked for more than 50 years in the watermill "Woudaap", which was built in 1651. Henk was 72 years old, but refused to retire from his job as a miller. He died unexpectedly because of a heart attack.He was one of the last full-time millers. Nowadays the waterlevel in the Netherlands is regulated by computers.
Iron Curtain Afterparty Directed by Michael Schmacke
A story from the nation that invented the car. And its scary result.
Happy Together Now Directed by Joachim Aust
In this mockumentary, Louise and Robert just got married and are living in Brisbane Australia. Louise who originally came from England experiences the everyday life in a new country as a young married woman. The future will have unexpected surprises for her in store.
Free Market (feira livre) Directed by Isaac Chueke
The products services and dialogues and the funniest stories of a typical free market in Rio de Janeiro
COLD HANDS (KALTE HÄNDE) Directed by Undine Siepker Germany
An agile young girl takes us by the end and shows us into her everyday world of an dissecting room in an open and lightheardeted wat. Professionality interplays with honesty brutality and simple heartedness and challenges us to approach a taboo subject. The Contact with the dead.
Revolving Door Directed by David Beesley Australia
In every city around the world a ‘red light’ district exists – in Melbourne we have St Kilda. As Gillian’s story unfolds, we discover that she is working in appalling conditions, is confronted by ever-present risk and danger whilst constantly being harassed by the police, community and even the clients she services.
Ungebrochen (Unbroken) Directed by Jolanka Hoehn Germany
Optimistic short film portrait about a former GDR citizen and his social as well as occupational development after the fall of the wall
Drei Mal Angst Teil Il Miriam (Three Times Fear) Directed by Isabelle Schmidt Germany
Miriams life is not like she wants it to be. She would like people to approch her but when they do, Miriam reachs in a defensive and aggressive way. This results in vicious circle of isoluation where she is offended and victim at the same time. Mmiriam talks about her fear of critcism of exclusion and self exclusion of closeness and failure in her life
Walks on the Wild Retreat Directed by Miriam Chnaiderman
José Agrippino de Paula, a writer, motion-picture, director, playwright from the 60s/70s, presently living in Embu/SP, receives a super-8 camera equal to one he used on his films. On the expectancy that he would film, his work is retrieved. At the meeting with Jorge Bodanzky, director of photography of “Hitler, Terceiro Mundo”( Hitler, Third World) a José Agrippino’s motion-picuture, it is portrayed an effervescent Brazilian moment.
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