7+
Documentary
60 min
These films all share a focus on human experiences and relationships within specific, often intimate settings. They explore themes of memory, belonging, and the passage of time, each in unique contexts. Play is present in these films through the lens of deep connection between people and their environments. Whether they portray family dynamics, the impact of historical spaces on children, the challenges of Alzheimer's, or the quiet life of an individual, these films have in common that they take a close look and transform the views towards small elements of the daily life.
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THE HEDGEHOG
Yann les Jours, 2024, FR, 20'
***World Premiere***
Three years during summertime the filmmaker visits his family and observes the garden, its occupants, by day and by night, in their various tasks; their interactions, their reflections, their relationships. The filmmaker has been one of these occupants for a very long time. Today a regular and privileged visitor, he is content to accompany this microcosm, to document it. His delicate city-dweller hands that hold the camera are bitten by those same mosquitoes that ignore the tanned skin of his grandfather's calves. In this garden, the fruits ripen and rot, old age does its work and the generations jostle.
WAKING UP IN SILENCE
Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi, 2023, UA, 19'
Ukrainian children are confronted with their past as they explore their new home in Germany: a former Wehrmacht military barracks. The film shows a fleeting moment - the first summer of the Ukrainian children in Germany. A state of transit - far away from home, but not yet having arrived anywhere. We were interested in the children's view of the historically charged buildings that are their temporary home.
A_BIOGRAPHY
Alexander Schellow, 2017, FR, 7'
For years the filmmaker visits a woman in a clinic where she is staying. The woman suffers from Alzheimer’s, she has lost her capacity to remember. Filmmaker becomes some kind of a proximate other to her, and she to him. How can a person suffering from Alzheimer's still tell their own life? In the common room of an Alzheimer's clinic, music from the radio mixes with the low volume clatter of the steps, the door movements or the quiet click of a light switch. The acoustic landscape triggers the dancing of an old lady in a wheelchair. She "remembers".
SEAS
Marta Terehova, 2024, LV, 14'
On a side of a road, there is a garden with small colourful churches and houses in a courtyard in Vecumnieki. Who is this man and what is the source of his energy? A story about Juris, his family and loneliness, his eternal hope and loving life, as well as the heritage that will be left behind him.
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