Anastasia Veber Through a masterfully crafted montage, fragments of the lives of young people, seemingly stuck in a controlling and oppressive society emerge. The carefully and minimally constructed narrative is used to draw us cinematically into a feeling of both ecstasy, resistance and hopelessness all at once. The forceful last scene puts us in a vortex of energy, leaving us no choice but to become a part of this world, by transporting us to an empowering communal feeling through the camera's eye - produced by desires to imagine, trust and resist together.
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Exalted MarsMars exalté
Jean-Sébastien Chauvin
By FlávioBy Flávio
Pedro Cabeleira
StarfuckersStarfuckers
Antonio Marziale
Bird in the PeninsulaBird in the Peninsula
Atsushi Wada
Memories from the Eastern FrontAmintiri de pe Frontul de Est
Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncã
DirndlschuldDirndlschuld
Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg
A Story for 2 TrumpetsHistoire pour 2 Trompettes
Amandine Meyer
It's Raining Frogs OutsideAmpangabagat nin talakba ha likol