PIIF 21/22 SCREENING PROGRAM

FRIDAY 6:30pm BLOCK

First Screening Block - DEC, 9

PRESS(ED)

SENNE DRIESEN | BELGIUM (09:36 min)

Every single day the same infinite struggles. We are trapped in our repetitive work pattern. A dead end street with no way out, what kind of valuable work do we do?

PRESS(ED) is a silent film with live music. A nostalgic trip that makes us aware of the monotonous industrialization.

PLAYBACK

POUYA AGHELIZADEH | IRAN (13:13 min)

In quarantine, after a complicated game of husband and wife, the man disguises himself as the woman and begins the experience of living like her.

MY DAD'S AN ALIEN!

ELIN GRÖNBLOM | FINLAND (15:00 min)

A 9-year old girl gets a visit from her dad from out of space, but he is followed by an Alien hunter and the only way for the girl to save him, is if her mom starts to believe her.

THE TEARS YOU LEFT WITH ME

THIBAUT BUCCELLATO | FRANCE (12:00 min)

Disney is a trans girl and just arrived in Paris for a casting. She is supposed to crash at Thomas’ place, a guy she met online.

THE WIND'S SCENT

TOMMASO BANTI | ITALY (09:44 min)

Locked in his apartment in Turin, during the first Covid Quarantine, a young student tries to find comfort and happiness in his memories of Home, Family and Childhood.

THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'M DOING THIS

SORINA GAJEWSKI | GERMANY (14:00 min)

Matthias and Cosmo go to an extended family party and have something to say to his mother Gunde. But next to the hustle and bustle, encroaching aunts and Gunde's dominant behaviour, it doesn't come to that. Instead, they are asked to deliver a cake to family friends on their way home. Shortly thereafter, they are faced with closed doors. While they wait and night falls, they playfully try to get closer. But their unspoken fears and opposing ideas of family and the future collide.

ON YOUR BEHALF

ANA GARCIA RICO | UNITED KINGDOM (16:27 min)

We all have pet peeves which irritate us. They may seem like insignificant things, but who of us has never muttered the phrase ‘I could kill them’? Ava goes one step further and puts these thoughts into action.

ONE SHOT

CHRISTOPHER L. MILLER | UNITED STATES (19:03 min)

Waiting for a mark to come out from hiding, a hit man forms an emotional attachment to the lady across the way, watching her from his window.

GRANDMA, MEET MARY.

KAIRE RUSS | ESTONIA (18:44 min)

The middle-aged perfectionist Virve has done everything so that her mothers 80. birthday party would be traditionally perfect. But with no warning her niece brings a surprise guest - her same sex partner.

FRIDAY 8:30pm BLOCK

First Screening Block - DEC, 9

FADE INTO YOU

DAVID M. HELMAN | UNITED STATES (07:18 min)

A narrative music video for the band American Football.

ORANGES

GIANMARCO ALESSANDRI | UNITED STATES (04:16 min)

An intense, in-depth, introspective, mind-boggling, look, at what truly goes through Giulia’s brain while she has to wait on her man. The world is changing, and real gents are now missing.

THERE IS EXACTLY ENOUGH TIME

OSKAR SALOMONOWITZ | AUSTRIA (02:00 min)

Oskar Salomonowitz, the 12-year-old son of filmmakers Anja Salomonowitz and Virgil Widrich, had drawn 206 frames of a flip book when he died in an accident. Using the remaining blank sheets, his father continued drawing the film. *228 festival screenings, winner of 67 international film awards!

THE MOURNING BIRD

GEORGE SOMNER | UNITED KINGDOM (15:00 min)

The Mourning Bird is a coming of age story that takes an intimate look into a 13 year old boys first encounter with grief.

ELLIE

FERNANDO BONELLI | SPAIN (19:00 min)

Interior. Night. Sarah rushes inside the hospital where she works. She brings someone who's been wounded. How far would you go for someone you care for?

HALTER EGO

NIKODEM RAUTSZKO | FRANCE (14:59 min)

Jozé is caretaker in a fitness room located in a Parisian suburb. While he is about to close the room and pick up his daughter, he is confronted to Franck, an imposing athlete who refuses to leave.

ARCHIBALD'S SYNDROME

DANIEL PEREZ | FRANCE (19:15 min)

Archibald is born with some curious curse : he can't make a move without everyone around doing the same. Now grown man, he robs by despair a bank and, there, meets Indiana, a young woman who always escaped every form of control...

DON’T FENCE ME IN

MARY ELAINE EVANS | UNITED STATES (35:00 min)

DON’T FENCE ME IN is a daredevil documentary recounting the delightful adventures of Virginia Shumaker, a groundbreaking twenty-one year old woman from small-town Ohio, who in 1941 and ’42, became the of the first modern woman to ride coast-to-coast across America on a horse.

SATURDAY 9:00am BLOCK

SECOND Screening Block - DEC, 10

The Cloaked Ream "Tunnel 23"

Marisa Cohen, Peter Issac Alexander | US (23:00 min)

Environmental collapse and a toxic environment have placed a great deal of attention on the upcoming mission to Mars. Chief scientist Dr. Ruby Holloway confides in Thrace Commander Metis, revealing her concerns that something nefarious is brewing aboard the Thrace space station and on Earth.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

MACIEJ JANKOWSKI | POLAND (26:00 min)

Obese boy Wojtek is not only lacking self-confidence, but is also ashamed of his mother Dorothy, who is in charge of a run-down grocery store. One day, in order to make her change, Wojtek rebels against his mom.

THE FIRST LOSS OF MY LIFE

João Victor Boechat Gomide, Marcelo Tannure | BRAZIL (16:00 min)

The animation is a free adaptation of a story narrated by Dora Diamant, Franz Kafka's last companion, who lived with him in Berlin for a few months. When the writer was taking a walk in the Berlin Botanical Garden, near the house where they lived, he encountered a girl who had lost her doll…

THE GREAT CONJUNCTION

KAROLINA SMOLOVA | UK (15:00 min)

The Great Conjunction tells a story about an ageing astronomer, Kenneth, who plans to watch the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter but his plans get turned upside down when his teenage grand daughter shows up on the doorstep of his house. What was meant to be an enchanting night of watching the universe turns into a night of shocking discovery that changes Kenneth's life forever.

IF YOU LOVE, YOU MUST LEAVE

JOSEPH ROZÉ, PABLO COTTEN | FRANCE (24:00 min)

Lucien, in his twenties, is going his last day of a film shoot in the heat of summer. It's his first experience on a movie set, and when Adèle, who plays opposite him in the film, asks him to kiss her during a scene, he becomes confused. How can he avoid getting lost between the game and reality?

IN THE UPPER ROOM

ALEXANDER GRATZER | AUSTRIA (08:00 min)

Every season a young mole visits his blind grandfather, who lives deep underground in a comfortably decorated burrow. As the two grow older their relationship becomes more intense and important questions arise.

LARVAE

ALESSANDRO ROTA | ITALY (30:00 min)

Turin, 1909. Cesare Lombroso, the world-famous founder of the School of Criminal Anthropology, arrives at the isolated mansion of Lazar, an elderly illusionist. Lombroso, attracted to Spiritualism, challenges Lazar: to prove that the supernatural exists and that it may be the cause of a heinous crime.

SATURDAY 11:30am BLOCK

SECOND Screening Block - DEC, 10

HUSH

EMILIE BECK | NORWY (20:00 min)

In public 12-year-old Martin seems like a normal smiling boy, but at home he faces uncertainty, and at times a harsh reality. With an alcoholic father, and a mother who barely manages to handle the situation, Martin is forced to do what it takes to keep the family together.
Hush is a short about loyalty, fear and about growing up way too fast.

AN AMBUSH IN SUSPENSE

SIMON QUEHEILLARD | FRANCE (17:00 min)

Objects and a character enter in a row of brutal crashes generated by falling trees cut by a chainsaw.

KOLD

MARLEY HASSELBACH | DENMARK (18:07 min)

Louise has spent her live struggling with her hereditary heart condition, being coddled by everyone around her. But when she spots Magnus swimming naked in the Copenhagen canals mid-winter, she finally finds someone who does not coddle her, but rather challenges her to push her boundaries. Their relationship intensifies as they struggle to trust one another. Things take a dramatic turn when Magnus invites Louise to his favourite winter swimming spot, unaware of her condition and Louise's destructive drive to escape her limits.

SALOON

JEFFREY WISNIEWSKI | US (15:35 min)

In a dystopian universe populated with both harsh truths and contradictions, a grieving, directionless all-American cowboy maladaptively self-destructs, harming everything and everyone in his wake.

ATARAXIA

Haley Seppa | US (15:00 min)

A film about how we find ourselves in the midst of trauma. Ataraxia is a film about 32-year-old female-bodied, queer identified photographer, Mickey, who, due to experiences with trauma and rape as a teenager, has built her adult life around making “safe” choices and hiding behind the lens of her camera. Until she meets Olivia, a 30 year old “straight” woman who pushes Mickey’s understanding on what it means to actually live and not just to survive.

SOMETIME ELSE

JAMES CLEAVE | UK (15:00 min)

A therapist attempts to navigate a young man's toxic relationship issues with his ex-girlfriend using state-of-the-art virtual reality technology. But is his memory reliable?

THE FINAL MASTERPIECE

PATRICK HANSER | BRAZIL (14:31 min)

SATURDAY 1:50pm BLOCK

SECOND Screening Block - DEC, 10

KALINA

ANASTASIA ANDREEVNA SOLONEVICH | UKRAINE (05:26 min)

"Kalina" is a musical short film about a girl who is forced to flee the city. Not having time to leave her home, she falls into the jaws of two bandits. A cold mind and ability to make decisions will lead her to an unexpected outcome.

MUM IS POURING RAIN

HUGO DE FAUCOMPRET | FRANCE (29:35 min)

Jane is looking forward to spending Christmas with her Mom but she is sent unknowingly to her Grandma’s instead. The holidays turn out to be quite an adventure as Jane meets new friends: Cloclo, the gigantic hobo who lives in the forest, and Sonia and Leon, two local kids. As she learns to open herself to others, Jane will inspire her mother the necessary strength to get back on her feet.

AITCH - LEARNING CURVE

KC LOCKE | UK (2:42 min)

Music Video.

ANXIETY OVERCOME

PHILIPPE HAMELLE | LUXEMBOURG (17:30 min)

After winning a hard battle against depression, Oliver now suffers from insurmountable and inexplicable fear. After much reluctance, he finally consults with a psychotherapist hoping to find the diagnosis and answers he needs. It's the beginning of an unexpected and extraordinary journey for him.

MIRAGE

ARTHUR FANGET FANGET | FRANCE (8:18 min)

While caught in the crossfire of an argument between his parents, Jackson uses music to escape from his current reality.

THE LAST DAY OF PATRIARCHY

Olmo Omerzu | CZECH REPUBLIC (15:00 min)

This night will most likely be Ivo’s last, and he knows it. Behind the doors of the hospital room, his family members and friends are waiting. Ivo asks his grandson if he could see his pregnant girlfriend´s breasts. In the hallway, the old physician’s wish becomes a public affair. How will the family solve such a delicate situation? And is this truly Ivo’s last wish?

GLAISTIG

ABBEY SPACIL | US (15:00 min)

Anna is an immigrant actress determined to succeed, even if it means contorting herself to fit Hollywood’s misogynistic standards. While preparing for a job interview we find her nearly unrecognizable and succumbing to the all consuming trauma, when she revisits a feminist poem that thrusts her into a wild and fantastical journey of total self reclamation.

HOW COULD I NOT LOVE YOU ?

PLUME FABRE | FRANCE (27:25 min)

While Peru is in the process of qualifying for the World Cup, Diego joins his cousin in France. By his side, he discovers the peruvian community in Paris where he tries to breack through as a tattoo artist.

DEAD DREAM FALLING

Craig Murray | FRANCE (12:21 min)

Can a soul come alive without being both haunted and carried by a primal rip that keeps it torn between the irrepressible quest for a certain form of completeness and the equally incoercible feeling of being deprived of it forever ?

SATURDAY 4:20pm BLOCK

SECOND Screening Block - DEC, 10

FROM THAT MOMENT

PATRICIA MENDONÇA TEBET | BRAZIL (07:00 min)

From that Moment is a film about a trip to the past, where the main character, through recordings made in super 8 films and audio messages from her family, comes into contact with her memories, her uncle's messages, and revisits her story while reframe an episode from your childhood.

THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL

BEN PROUDFOOT | US (22:00 min)

She is one of the greatest living women’s basketball player. 3 national trophies. Scored the first basket in women's Olympic basketball at the ‘76 Olympics. Drafted to the NBA. But have you ever heard of Lucy Harris?

ENTROPY

NATAN PORTNOY | ISRAEL (03:29 min)

The word entropy simply means unpredictability or the gradual descent into disorder.
This is the entropy of a relationship in the chaotic retrospect of a colored memory.
When everything is over, are we left alone with the memories of our loved ones or is it that those same memories are what keep us from being alone?

NOTHING BUT FLOWERS

Eddy Mathias | BRAZIL (24:07 min)

After an mysterious event locked down all people at home, Fernanda need to deal with the changes of the reality and her internal questions in this new world.

STUCKMANN GMBH & CO. KG

CHARIF OUNIS | GERMANY (05:00 min)

Young CEO Jens Stuckmann likes to have fun with his colleagues. In a job interview with a new applicant this takes some unexpected turns.

A LITTLE STOWAWAY

Ksheetij Saini | Czech Republic (13:33 min)

Elle, a young woman in her 20s, performs a practised ritual with a wooden box when her mother asks her to assist with preparations on the sale of their family’s business to a prospective buyer. As she walks the grounds of their medieval estate she recalls vivid memories of her brother and the close dynamic between them.

ALA KACHUU - TAKE AND RUN

MARIA BRENDLE | Switzerland (38:26 min)

Sezim (19) wants to fulfil 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 for a way out.

SPAWN OF LOVE

Ajas Isajev | GERMANY (19:25 min)

In a therapy session, a couple digs for the roots of their relationship and realizes what fruit a seemingly insignificant encounter can bear.

CLOTHESLINED

PATRICK CHEMALI | LEBANON (09:04 min)

A chronicle of the life of an average Lebanese family across decades, illustrated through what is witnessed on their clothesline.

CLOSED TO THE LIGHT

NICOLA PIOVESAN| ITALY (10:00 min)

The film freezes in time the terrible tragedy of an execution that took place in Italy in the summer of 1944, to the detriment of innocent peasants. An articulated long shot in which everything is still and everything changes.

PRESENT:

SATURDAY 7pm SCHOOL’S SCREENING

SCHOOL’s SCREENING BLOCK - DEC, 10

MY OTHER NAME IS LUIZA (FAAP)

Ana Luísa Hartmann| BRAZIL (30:35 min)

Ana Luiza Parisi é atriz e performer. Resiste para sobreviver no Brasil, fazendo bicos de diarista e palhaça de trânsito. Ela é entrevistada por Ana Luísa Hartmann, diretora e atriz, que, encantada por sua presença, deseja incorporá-la como personagem. Para tanto, Hartmann propõe jogos de cena que desfazem a persona social de Luiza, revelando uma qualidade trágica que modifica a trajetória de ambas.

HOW LONG LASTS THE TOUCH (FAAP)

ISABELLA CINTRA| BRAZIL (18:39 min)

In an essay on grief, we go through the memories and affections of the brothers Alex and Clara who have lost their mother. Textures, nostalgia, missing and pain. How long lasts the touch of someone who's gone?

YUTA (FAAP)

Matheus Malburg| BRAZIL (15:00 min)

Matias and Franco, two Argentinians who are passionate about football, come to Brazil on a ride to follow the team they love: Chacarita Juniors. In "Yuta", after suffering violence and police abuse, both decide to strike back at the aggressors, even if it can means the end of their lives.

ADHURA (PFS)

Arjun Lal| CZECH REPUBLIC (19:00 min)

After numerous failed attempts to contact his hearing-impaired mother back in the village, Shahid, a Muslim drummer in a wedding band, is informed through his village’s neighbour that his mother has lost her mobile. Since video calling was the only way he could talk to his mother, Shahid decides to buy her a new mobile. He goes back to his band master to be allowed to perform in the wedding function before leaving the next day.