Playtime: ca. 120 Min. from 12 years
Venue: Kinopolis Cinema 1 Time: 3:00 PM Date: Saturday, 03/16

International Competition 6

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 6

Ivania

Miguel repairs an old camera and when taking a test photo, a woman inexplicably appears in the image. Little by little Miguel finds himself invaded by her presence.

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The Parade

The misadventures of a group of high school students in Athens during the national military parade.

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Everybody’s Gotta Love Sometimes

Recovering from an abusive past, a Burmese guy named Phyo is looking for love in Paris. He discovers the excitement of a freedom to dance by the Seine river.

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Prison is Cool

A white supremacist looks back on his time in prison, seeking to make amends.

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Where do Ants sleep at Night

When a worker ant gets lost from the horde, it will keep walking until it finds a nest or dies.

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Xiaohui he ta de niu

To stop his grandpa from selling the calf, Xiaohui, a nine-year-old boy, tries every possible way to hide his two cows in the mountains.

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