Wednesday 18:00-20:00
International competition
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NO GIFT
France/ 13:52/fiction
Synopsis: Kathy promises her son a father for his birthday, but they’re in for a long wait.
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HANGING
United States/5:40/animation
Synopsis: An abstracted animated documentary based off of Nick LeDonne’s personal struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts after a near attempted hanging in November 2014. His feelings of depression are personified through a dark luring fog and a loving mother desperately trying to keep her son alive.
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Blueberry Spirits
Latvia/12:40/documentary
Synopsis: Blueberry Spirits is a poetic documentary about a Roma family that spends its summers in the Latvian forests, picking berries to make a living. While harvesting the fruits of the forest, they reflect on their identity as a group by sharing ghost stories.
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Confident
Brazil/12:27/experimental
Synopsis: This is me.
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I have a Brother
Russia/28:43/fiction
Synopsis: Oleg’s normal life collapses when his younger brother kills their father. Now he has to decide what is stronger – his despise of the murdered of strong family ties.
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Grandma Loleng
Philippines/8:24/animation
Synopsis: A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng – a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma Loleng’s landscape of memories, only to unearth her innermost secrets and wartime experiences.
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Cold fish
New Zland/25:00/fiction
Synopsis: Rex is an old man who plans to commit suicide at the beach when Adam appears. This malevolent 11-year-old does not want to save the old man.
