Clarice(2024)

Seco Estudo de Cavalos(pt)

In this videoart, the creator uses mixed media animation as they read a Clarice Lispector short story. Drawing a comparison with her own life experiences, she questions what it means to be a lesbian. Excluded from every aspect of the patriarchal life, she creates her own identity through her loved ones, relying on the precursors of the lesbofeminist movement.

The Passion According to G.H.(pt)

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door on it. But the sight of the dying insect provokes a mystical crisis.

Clandestina Felicidade(pt)

Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town.

Ode à Imagem(pt)

Quem Sou Eu?(pt)

Teresa is a black woman who suffers a racist insult from her boss, affected by the comment, she is unable to go to work. While Teresa remembers her past, a cockroach emerges from the bottom of her closet. From that moment on, Teresa will rethink her decisions and the things she left behind.

Clarice Lispector: A Descoberta do Mundo(pt)

Documentary essay made from several cuts of interviews with Clarice Lispector and her family and friends in a visual poetic seam of adapted excerpts from her work.

Veeran(ta)

Kumaran has had a troubled childhood after getting hit by lightning, comes back to his village to fight evil elements and provide hope through indigenous deities.

Cranberry Juice(de)

Suffering from unexplained vaginal pain, a frustrated acting student goes to a string of doctors, convinced that she is going to find a specialist who will figure out what’s wrong with her.

Vagabond(de)

Lukas wanders through Vienna. In a random bar at night he meets other wanderers and strays. But what is colourful in the moonlight, in the morning never is.

Karumegangal Kalaiginrana(ta)

Two fathers, from different age groups, are on a quest to mend things with their children, while a son goes after his father to redeem himself.

Atlantis(de)

Lene and Timo have retreated to a house by the sea. Here it feels as if the world consists of the two of them only. But something unspoken clouds their time together.

God Is A Beetle(de)

After studying graphic design, Aline is reluctantly starting her practical training as an art teacher. When her boyfriend leaves her on top of that, she runs off to live with her parents in the countryside. In this moment of crisis, she encounters a Catholic priest who is able to talk about faith outside of religion. Aline is intrigued, but remains critical.

Ulilang Anghel(tl)

Everybody Wants To Be Loved(de)

Ina is a therapist, the mother of a rebellious teenage girl, and a partner to a man who has always put his own career first. She puts everyone’s needs ahead of her own until one hot summer day, when her self-centered mother celebrates her 70th birthday, something happens that will change everything.

Les enfants de Charlotte(fr)

Charlotte is satisfied. She is in the process of experiencing a promotion in the company where she works as a senior executive. Everything would be fine if Charlotte didn't have a sister, a mother of three who left without leaving an address a few years ago. Since then, it is Yvonne, the mother of the two young women, who took care of raising Pierre, Louise and Antoine. However, one fine day, Antoine's father appears...

A Summer in Crete(de)

Isabel Burger would normally consider herself lucky. An unexpected inheritance takes Isabel, a trained chef, to Crete, where her German father left her a country house complete with its own olive grove. If only her failed startup in Munich and the resulting financial woes hadn’t led to the recent opening of insolvency proceedings against her. Isabel’s insolvency administrator gives her four weeks to sell her house on Crete as best she can and use the proceeds to pay off her creditors.

Hidden Wounds(en)

The impact of lingering trauma on an ex-serviceman, triggered by sounds of everyday life.

So Long Daddy, See You in Hell(de)

Fourteen-year-old Jeanne has lived in a farm commune since she was two years old. Her mother and father live in city communes and rarely visit. This is one of the commandments given by Otto, who rules the commune: children are to grow up without parents. Knowing nothing else, Jeanne enjoys her outdoor life, surrounded by lots of other children, until she falls in love with 16-year-old Jean and her childhood paradise begins to fall apart.

The Battleship Island(ko)

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.