Playtime: ca. 120 Min. from 12 years
Venue: Kinopolis Cinema 1 Time: 8:30 PM Date: Thursday, 03/14

International Competition 2

Office workers in China try to break out of their monotonous, grey daily routine by breaking into dance (WHERE DO ANTS SLEEP AT NIGHT). A nuclear family in Indonesia gets carried away in a shrill musical number designed to encourage the last childless couple to procreate (BASRI AND SALMA IN A NEVER-ENDING COMEDY). And a Swiss dance group’s autonomy is taken away from them when they have to dance to someone else’s tune to the point of complete submission (SYNCOPE).

Film dances playfully across language barriers and geographical borders, giving us a captivating insight into the diversity of human existence – from the innermost emotions of the soul to mundane everyday life. This becomes evident in the 49 films from 29 countries of the International Competition programme.  We share similar dreams, longings and fears, and we begin to understand how much we are alike and united in our desire to understand and express the human condition with all the tools available to us. Both the body and the voice become instruments in the search for human connection and our place in this world.

International Competition 2

La Ultima Ascensión

Rowin, a 22-year-old fisherman from Banda Abou (Curaçao) has little luck catching fish at his fishing spot. One day, he encounters a mysterious young man.

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George

Momentarily distracted from his existential crisis by the enigmatic Kiyoni, 30-year-old George is suddenly forced to confront his past, in a desperate attempt to process.

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Merci pour votre patience!

From a fixed point of view, we witness a tense bus ride in Brussels, when Samuel – a Congolese immigrant – gets on to voice his discontent with Europe.

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Les crochets

A young man finds himself in bed with a companion for the first time while he faces the biggest challenge of his existence... understand how to undo a bra.

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Sparare alle Angurie

Federico is on holiday with his father and brother in a summer residence in Sardinia.

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A Calling . From The Desert . To The Sea

To avert a predetermined fate, twelve-year-old Yasmin and her older sister Ahlam escape beyond the boundaries set by their father, defying an enemy that lies within.

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