"A theft in a park, a mysterious safe in an old apartment, things falling from the sky and healing mushrooms in envelopes on the backs of pigeons - these are just some of the fragments that are scattered in densely populated cities, gathered in stories told aloud or whispered. We won't find them on news portals, but filmmakers invite us to take a look at experiences, real or fictional - it's not so important, but from them colorful maps of cities are created." - Mantė Valiūnaitė, compiler of competition programs.
MOVIES
Montsouris Park / Montsouris Park
Dir. Guil Sela / feature / France / 2024 / 14 min.
On a sunny autumn day, Jacques and Natan are in Monsuri Park looking for interesting people for a documentary they are making. Their attention is drawn to two friends who have an unexpected moment.
She stays / She Stays
Dir. Marinthia Gutiérrez / feature / Mexico / 2024 / 10 min.
In the center of nighttime Tijuana, Laura awaits a confrontation with fate.
Eucalyptus / The Eucalyptus
Dir. Ignacio Ragone & Nicolás Suárez / documentary / Argentina / 2023 / 19 min.
A home movie in the ruins of modernity. From modernist architecture to tarot cards, from film history to noise pollution, from treasure hunting to home furnishings. It is a cinematic stream of consciousness, where it is enough to mention a place, an event, an object or a small adventure and the whole world opens up. And not alone...
Bad For a Moment / Bad For a Moment
Dir. Daniel Soares / feature / Portugal / 2024 / 15 min.
When a company event takes a turn for the worse, the owner of an architectural studio finds himself confronted with a lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying.
Kawauso / Kawauso
Dir. Akihito Izuhara / animation / Japan / 2023 / 15 min.
Kawauso means Japanese river otter. One day the girl meets a Japanese river otter. They try to talk, but it doesn't work very well. This is because the Japanese river otter is already extinct and can no longer communicate with the girl.
Mushrooms / Shrooms
Dir. Jorge Jácome / feature, documentary, experimental / Portugal / 2023 / 18 min.
Scientists are experimenting with the benefits of the "magic mushroom" psilocybin in treating depression. In Lisbon, Dan, a young Venezuelan, collects mushrooms in the forest and, like a modern-day Robin Hood, sends carrier pigeons around the city to those in need.