EUROPE
Script: Merle Kröger, Philip Scheffner
Assistant Director: Pascal Capitolin, João Carvalho
Cinematography: Volker Sattel
Sound Recording: Tristan Pontécaille
Sound Design & Mix: Simon Bastian
Producers: Caroline Kirberg, Merle Kröger
Produced by pong film
Spanish Premiere
A bus stop, a square, a few blocks on a suburban road. Zohra Hamadi, metal rods down her spine, gets off the bus. She walks upright, finally able to breathe easily. But Europe only grants her a few days of respite. Zohra Hamadi decides to reach out to the future. EUROPE – a story of forced fiction.
FOOTNOTE
Producers: Shengze Zhu, Zhengfan Yang
Sound Recordists: Zhengfan Yang, Shengze Zhu
Re-recording Mixer: Aymeric Dupas
Colorist: Vivian Bao
Audio: Broadcastify
Production: Burn The Film
Spanish Premiere
An audio-visual portrait of a neighborhood in the city of Chicago. Life presents itself in two contradictory ways: as seen through the windows of an apartment filmed over the course of three years – peaceful, mundane, ambiguous; and as told through the local police scanner recorded during the last year of the Trump administration, also the first year of the ongoing pandemic – violent, tragic, absurd. From here, a neighborhood is observed, a city is echoed, and a country is footnoted.
AMERICAN JOURNAL (Journal d’Amerique)
Music: Martin Wheeler
Archive Consultant: Rick Prelinger
Production: Michel Klein, Jérôme Dopffer
Audio Mixing: Mélissa Petitjean
Color Grading: Serge Antony
Archive Digitalization: Rick Prelinger, Skip Prelinger
Spanish Premiere
Think of America, I told myself.
The cities, the homes, the people, the arrivals, the departures, the children coming and leaving, death, life, movement, speech.
Think of the deep sigh inside of all things alive in America. Bend down. And pick up what others let go to waste from life.
So the wind won’t blow it all away.
KIND HEARTS
Cinematography: Olivia Rochette
Editing: Dieter Diependaele
Sound: Lennert De Taeye Nina de Vroome
Sound Editing: Ingrid Simon
Production: Rasmus Van Heddeghem, Ruben Desiere
Cast: Billie Meeussen, Lucas Roefmans, Romane Van Damme, Charlotte Meyntjens, Rana Hamzaoui, Gaspard Renier, Victoria De Man
Spanish Premiere
Billie and Lucas, a young Brussels couple, both leave for university facing a year rife with change. Visions of the future, doubts about relationships and the expectations of adult life make up the main material for their conversations with friends and each other. Kind Hearts paints a candid portrait of the formative but also uncertain facets of every (first) love.
STRIKING LAND (Terra que marca)
Sound Design: Paulo Lima
Mix: Tiago Matos
Color Correction: Andreia Bertini
Produced by Oublaum Filmes, Etnograf Filmes, Raul Domingues in association with Terratreme Filmes
With: Maria Alice Sousa, Manuel Jesus, Duro, Joaquim Sousa, Manuel Carpalhoso, José Silva, António Sousa, Luís Mil Homens, Manuel Carlos, Luís Carpalhoso, Edmundo Lisboa, Maria Alice Domingues, Maria Sousa, Isaura Domingues, Adelino Sousa, Abílio Domingues, Fernando Carpalhoso, Daniela Sousa, Bianca, Bruna, Eva and Leonor
Spanish Premiere
It is told that in the past, two wrongdoers came to serve their sentence of taking care of an uninhabited and fallow land. Their sentence was passed from generation to generation and was inherited by the men who work it. A barefoot woman is tilling the land and is surprised by a leaf.